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America's Family Secret

More than 100 U.S. leaders – lawmakers, presidents, governors and justices – have slaveholding ancestors, a Reuters examination found. Few are willing to talk about their ties to America's “original sin”

By TOM LASSETER, LAWRENCE DELEVINGNE, MAKINI BRICE, DONNA BRYSON, NICHOLAS P. BROWN and TOM BERGIN Filed June 27, 2023, 10 a.m. GMT

WASHINGTON

A chiseled block of sandstone in the U.S. Capitol’s visitor center serves as a reminder that the home of the nation’s Congress was built in part by enslaved Black people. A bronze plaque says the stone, originally part of the building’s exterior, “commemorates their important role in building the Capitol.”

Many lawmakers need look no further than their own family histories to find a much more personal connection to slavery in America, a brutal system of oppression that resulted in the deadliest conflict in U.S. history.

In researching the genealogies of America’s political elite, a Reuters examination found that a fifth of the nation’s congressmen, living presidents, Supreme Court justices and governors are direct descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people.

Among 536 members of the last sitting Congress, Reuters determined at least 100 descend from slaveholders. Of that group, more than a quarter of the Senate – 28 members – can trace their families to at least one slaveholder.

Those lawmakers from the 117th session of Congress are Democrats and Republicans alike. They include some of the most influential politicians in America: Republican senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton and James Lankford, and Democrats Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan.

In addition, President Joe Biden and every living former U.S. president – except Donald Trump – are direct descendants of slaveholders: Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and – through his white mother’s side – Barack Obama. Trump’s ancestors came to America after slavery was abolished.

Two of the nine sitting U.S. Supreme Court justices – Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch – also have direct ancestors who enslaved people.

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Books I’ve Read: 2006-2020

Alexie, Sherman - Flight

Anderson, Joan - A Second Journey

                         - An Unfinished Marriage

                         - A Walk on the Beach

                         - A Year By The Sea

Anshaw, Carol - Carry the One

Auden, W.H. - The Selected Poems of W.H. Auden

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice

Bach, Richard - Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Bear, Donald R - Words Their Way

Berg, Elizabeth - Open House

Bly, Nellie - Ten Days in a Madhouse

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451

                       - The Martian Chronicles

Brooks, David - The Road to Character

Brooks, Geraldine - Caleb’s Crossing

Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code

Bryson, Bill - The Lost Continent

Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden

Buscaglia, Leo - Bus 9 to Paradise

                        - Living, Loving & Learning

                        - Personhood

                        - Seven Stories of Christmas Love

Byrne, Rhonda - The Secret

Carlson, Richard - Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

Carson, Rachel - The Sense of Wonder

                         - Silent Spring

Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote

Cherry, Lynne - The Greek Kapok Tree

Chopin, Karen - The Awakening

Clurman, Harold - The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre & the 30s

Coelho, Paulo -  Adultery

                          The Alchemist

Conklin, Tara - The Last Romantics

Conroy, Pat - Beach Music

                   - The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son

                   - The Great Santini

                   - The Lords of Discipline

                   - The Prince of Tides

                   - The Water is Wide

Corelli, Marie - A Romance of Two Worlds

Delderfield, R.F. - To Serve Them All My Days

Dempsey, Janet - Washington’s Last Contonment: High Time for a Peace

Dewey, John - Experience and Education

Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol

                            - Great Expectations

                            - A Tale of Two Cities

Didion, Joan - The Year of Magical Thinking

Disraeli, Benjamin - Sybil

Doctorow, E.L. - Andrew’s Brain

                        - Ragtime

Doerr, Anthony - All the Light We Cannot See

Dreiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie

Dyer, Wayne - Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

                    - The Power of Intention

                    - Your Erroneous Zones

Edwards, Kim - The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

Ellis, Joseph J. - His Excellency: George Washington

Ellison, Ralph - The Invisible Man

Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Essays and Lectures

Felkner, Donald W. - Building Positive Self Concepts

Fergus, Jim - One Thousand White Women

Flynn, Gillian - Gone Girl

Follett, Ken - Pillars of the Earth

Frank, Anne - The Diary of a Young Girl

Freud, Sigmund - The Interpretation of Dreams

Frey, James - A Million Little Pieces

Fromm, Erich - The Art of Loving

                      - Escape from Freedom

Fulghum, Robert - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Fuller, Alexandra - Leaving Before the Rains Come

Garield, David - The Actors Studion: A Player’s Place

Gates, Melinda - The Moment of Lift

Gibran, Kahlil - The Prophet

Gilbert, Elizabeth - Eat, Pray, Love

                           - The Last American Man

                           - The Signature of All Things

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader - My Own Words

Girzone, Joseph F, - Joshua

                              - Joshua and the Children

Gladwell, Malcom - Blink

                             - David and Goliath

                             - Outliers

                             - The Tipping Point

                             - Talking to Strangers

Glass, Julia - Three Junes

Goodall, Jane - Reason for Hope

Goodwin, Doris Kearnes - Team of Rivals

Graham, Steve - Best Practices in Writing Instruction

Gray, John - Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Groom, Winston - Forrest Gump

Gruen, Sarah - Water for Elephants

Hannah, Kristin - The Great Alone

                         - The Nightingale

Harvey, Stephanie and Anne Goudvis - Strategies That Work

Hawkins, Paula - The Girl on the Train

Hedges, Chris - Empire of Illusion

Hellman, Lillian - Maybe

                        - Pentimento

Hemingway - Ernest - A Moveable Feast

Hendrix, Harville - Getting the Love You Want

Hesse, Hermann - Demian

                           - Narcissus and Goldmund

                           - Peter Camenzind

                           - Siddhartha

                           - Steppenwolf

Hilderbrand, Elin - The Beach Club

Hitchens, Christopher - God is Not Great

Hoffman, Abbie - Soon to be a Major Motion Picture

                         - Steal This Book

Holt, John - How Children Fail

                 - How Children Learn

                - Learning All the Time

                - Never Too Late

Hopkins, Joseph - The American Transcendentalist

Horney, Karen - Feminine Psychology

                       - Neurosis and Human Growth

                       - The Neurotic Personality of Our Time

                       - New Ways in Psychoanalysis

                       - Our Inner Conflicts

                       - Self Analysis

Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner

Hoover, John J, Leonard M. Baca, Janette K. Klingner - Why Do English Learners Struggle with Reading?

Janouch, Gustav - Conversations with Kafka

Jefferson, Thomas - Crusade Against Ignorance

Jong, Erica - Fear of Dying

Joyce, Rachel - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

                      - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Kafka, Franz - Amerika

                     - Metamophosis

                     - The Trial    

Kallos, Stephanie - Broken For You  

Kazantzakis, Nikos - Zorba the Greek

Keaton, Diane - Then Again

Kelly, Martha Hall - The Lilac Girls

Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algernon

King, Steven - On Writing

Kornfield, Jack - Bringing Home the Dharma

Kraft, Herbert - The Indians of Lenapehoking - The Lenape or Delaware Indians: The Original People of NJ, Southeastern New York State, Eastern Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware and Parts of Western Connecticut

Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Lacayo, Richard - Native Son

Lamott, Anne - Bird by Bird

                        Word by Word

L’Engle, Madeleine - A Wrinkle in Time

Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Namesake

Lappe, Frances Moore - Diet for a Small Planet

Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird

Lems, Kristin et al  - Building Literacy with English Language Learners

Lewis, Sinclair - Main Street

London, Jack - The Call of the Wild

Lowry, Lois - The Giver

Mander, Jerry - Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

Marks, John D. - The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind         Control

Martel, Yann - Life of Pi

Maslow, Abraham - The Farther Reaches of Human Nature

                             - Motivation and Personality

                             - Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences

                            - Toward a Psychology of Being                            

Maugham. W. Somerset - Of Human Bondage

                                       - Christmas Holiday

Maurier, Daphne du - Rebecca

Mayes, Frances - Under the Tuscan Sun

Mayle, Peter - A Year in Provence

McCourt, Frank - Angela’s Ashes

                         - Teacher man

McCullough, David - 1776

                               - Brave Companions

McEwan, Ian - Atonement

                     - Saturday

McLaughlin, Emma - The Nanny Diaries

McLuhan, Marshall - Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

Meissner, Susan - The Fall of Marigolds

Millman, Dan - Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Moehringer, J.R. - The Tender Bar

Moon, Elizabeth - The Speed of Dark

Moriarty, Liane - The Husband’s Sister

                        - The Last Anniversary

                        - What Alice Forgot

Mortenson, Greg - Three Cups of Tea

Moyes, Jo Jo - One Plus One

                      - Me Before You

Ng, Celeste - Little Fires Everywhere

Neill, A.S. - Summerhill

Noah, Trevor - Born a Crime

O’Dell, Scott - Island of the Blue Dolphins

Offerman, Nick - Gumption

O’Neill, Eugene - Long Day’s Journey Into Night

                           A Touch of the Poet

Orwell, George - Animal Farm

Owens, Delia - Where the Crawdads Sing

Paulus, Trina - Hope for the Flowers

Pausch, Randy - The Last Lecture

Patchett, Ann - The Dutch House

Peck, Scott M. - The Road Less Traveled

                        - The Road Less Traveled and Beyond

Paterson, Katherine - Bridge to Teribithia

Picoult, Jodi - My Sister’s Keeper

Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Puzo, Mario - The Godfather

Quindlen, Anna - Black and Blue

Radish, Kris - Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral

Redfield, James - The Celestine Prophecy

Rickert, Mary - The Memory Garden

Rogers, Carl - On Becoming a Person

Ruiz, Miguel - The Fifth Agreement

                    - The Four Agreements

                    - The Mastery of Love

Rum, Etaf - A Woman is No Man

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - The Little Prince

Salinger, J.D. - Catcher in the Rye

Schumacher, E.F. - Small is Beautiful

Sebold, Alice - The Almost Moon

                      - The Lovely Bones

Shaffer, Mary Ann and Anne Barrows - The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Shakespeare, William - Alls Well That Ends Well

                                  - Much Ado About Nothing

                                  - Romeo and Juliet

                                  - The Sonnets

                                  - The Taming of the Shrew

                                  - Twelfth Night

                                  - Two Gentlemen of Verona

Sides, Hampton - Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree

Skinner, B.F. - About Behaviorism

Smith, Betty - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley - The Velvet Room

Spinelli, Jerry - Loser

Spolin, Viola - Improvisation for the Theater

Stanislavski, Constantin - An Actor Prepares

Stedman, M.L. - The Light Between Oceans

Steinbeck, John - Travels with Charley

Steiner, Peter - The Terrorist

Stockett, Kathryn - The Help

Strayer, Cheryl - Wild

Streatfeild, Dominic - Brainwash

Strout, Elizabeth - My Name is Lucy Barton

                           - Olive, Again

                           - Olive Kitteridge

Tartt, Donna - The Goldfinch

Taylor, Kathleen - Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control

Thomas, Matthew - We Are Not Ourselves

Thoreau, Henry David - Walden

Tolle, Eckhart - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

                     - The Power of Now

Towles, Amor - A Gentleman in Moscow

                      - Rules of Civility

Tracey, Diane and Lesley Morrow - Lenses on Reading

Traub, Nina - Recipe for Reading

Tzu, Lao - Tao Te Ching

United States Congress - Project MKULTRA, the CIA’s program of research in behavioral modification: Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the … Congress, first session, August 3, 1977

Van Allsburg, Chris - Just a Dream

                               - Polar Express

                               - Sweet Dreams

                               - Stranger

                               - Two Bad Ants

Walker, Alice - The Color Purple

Waller, Robert James - Bridges of Madison County

Warren, Elizabeth - A Fighting Chance

Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited

Weir, Andy - The Martian

Weinstein, Harvey M. - Father, Son and CIA

Welles, Rebecca - The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

Westover, Tara - Educated

White, E.B. - Charlotte’s Web

Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorien Gray

Wolfe, Tom - I Am Charlotte Simmons

Wolitzer, Meg - The Female Persuasion

Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway

Zevin, Gabrielle - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Zusak, Marcus - The Book Thief

[allbestnet]

Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set by Wizards RPG Team

Clean Code by Robert C. Martin

How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns

No More Mr Nice Guy by Robert A. Glover

Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition by Thomas H. Cormen

Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe

Player’s Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons) by Wizards RPG Team

C Programming Language, 2nd Edition by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford

Three Felonies A Day by Harvey Silverglate

Design Patterns by Erich Gamma

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared M. Diamond

Code Complete by Steve McConnell

The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing by Taylor Larimore

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas

Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker

The Demon Haunted World by

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

She Comes First by Ian Kerner

Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide by Eric Freeman

The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

A Manual for Creating Atheists by Peter Boghossian

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

How to Prove It by Daniel J. Velleman

The Flavor Bible by Karen Page, Andrew Dornenburg

Models: Attract Women Through Honesty by Mark Manson

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

C++ Primer (5th Edition) by Stanley B. Lippman

A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss

Batman Vol. 1: The Court of Owls (The New 52) by Scott Snyder

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook by Matthew McKay

A Random Walk down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig

Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski Ph.D.

A History of God by Karen Armstrong

The Art of Game Design by Jesse Schell

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Time Management for System Administrators by Thomas A. Limoncelli

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Ender’s Game (The Ender Quintet) by Orson Scott Card

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches by Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks

The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko

Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff

Command and Control by Eric Schlosser

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

The World Of Ice And Fire by George R. R. Martin

Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman

A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine

Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz

Head First Java, 2nd Edition by Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates

Effective Java (2nd Edition) by Joshua Bloch

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

The Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin

The Mind Illuminated by Ph.D.) Culadasa (John Yates

Rise of the Warrior Cop by Radley Balko

Ready Player One: A Novel by Ernest Cline

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondō

Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky

The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive) by Brandon Sanderson

Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited by Steve Krug

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K Vaughan

The Practice of System and Network Administration, Second Edition by Thomas A. Limoncelli

A People’s History of The United States 1492- Present by Howard Zinn

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

The Problem of Political Authority by Michael Huemer

The Baby Owner’s Manual by Louis Borgenicht M.D., Joe Borgenicht

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker

On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee

Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin

Old Man’s War by John Scalzi

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Everyone Poops by Taro Gomi

What’s the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank

Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden

The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook by Edmund Bourne PhD

How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren

Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning

Elements of Style by William; White, E. B. Strunk

Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

On Killing by Dave Grossman

On the Historicity of Jesus by Richard Carrier

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck

What Every BODY is Saying by Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins

HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites by Jon Duckett

[nerdmars]

MUSIC / HIP-HOP PARTNER The Stereotypes earned this The veteran songwriting team co-wrote Bruno Mars’ biggest hits and helped open the doors for Asian-Americans in the music industry. Now the world is finally showing the love. By BRYSON KANE RUSSELL Photographer GRAHAM WALZER Ray Romulus and Jonathan Yip were playing Halo 3 when they got the call that would change their careers forever. For a moment, they questioned whether they should even pick up. "It was an intense game," says Yip, laughing when he recalls the memory. "We were talking hella shit to these little kids with our headsets on." But when Romulus took the call, the voice on the other end opened with a question that made him quickly forget about his deathmatch score:

"Do you want to get your pockets fat?"

They did. A few days later, Yip and Romulus, who along with Jeremy Reeves and Ray Charles McCullough II (known as "Charm") make up the songwriting and production team The Stereotypes, were flying out to record with Diddy's girl group Danity Kane on the set of MTV's Making the Band. DK's second album was coming up. They had style, a TV show, and Diddy's impeccable marketing skills. All Puff needed now to complete the package was a guaranteed hit single. It was 2007, and The Stereotypes had the sound that was about to deliver it for him.

Nearly a decade later, The Stereotypes would get another call. This one was more eagerly received. The songwriting work had hit a lull in recent years and calls for new jobs were slowing down. There had been times when the group wondered if they could afford to return from their holiday breaks. Plus, the call was from an old friend: Bruno Mars.

The group had met Mars as a fellow emerging songwriter in the pre-Danity Kane days, and they had hit it off immediately. After "Damaged" made it to number ten on the charts, The Stereotypes suddenly found themselves with new opportunities in the studio. They shared their newfound access with their friend Bruno, bringing him to every session they could. Then Bruno Mars became, well, Bruno Mars. He took off into the heavens, their paths naturally diverged. They remained friends, but it had been more than six years since they last worked together on music.

Now Mars had a new record he was working on, and it was missing something. He’d been exchanging tracks with The Stereotypes for a little while through email, and the latest beat that they had sent sparked something in him. He wanted to get in the studio. On Monday, if possible.

A year and a half after that call, The Stereotypes were out of the studio and into their suit jackets. It was January 28th, 2018, and the team was onstage accepting a Song of the Year Grammy for their work on Bruno Mars' 24K Magic, having earned co-writing credits for the title track, "Finesse", and the world-conquering "That’s What I Like." It's an incredible leap forward for a group who told the L.A. Times that until recently, lack of work had raised the possibility of early retirement. It almost makes you believe that years of tireless dedication to your craft and support for your team might actually pay off. Speaking to Romulus and Yip over the phone not long after their win, Romulus tells me that "it's bigger than music" for The Stereotypes. He credits their songwriting success to the real love they have for their teammates and collaborators, and over the course of our conversation, it becomes clear that the group's humility and openness have led them to many opportunities – and a few challenges. But after ten-plus years in the game, it's these defining character traits that, along with their now-undeniable talent, have brought The Stereotypes to the next level. It's impossible to say they didn't earn it.

Let me be the latest to say congratulations on the Grammy win. Has the high worn off yet? 

RAY ROMULUS: Thank you. Every time I see a new person who hasn't said it, it starts all over again. 

JONATHAN YIP: We’ve been through a lot together, which I think makes this moment a lot sweeter, because we're still together, and we’re able to be on this cool wave right now.

Going and struggling through all the other stuff together has definitely helped us appreciate this high together. A rollercoaster is definitely the summing up of we’re we’re at.

How did that rollercoaster begin?

YIP: Me and Jeremy met randomly at a Sacramento Guitar Center that he happened to be working at. I was living in L.A., working at Interscope records. So I would come home for dentist appointments or holidays or whatever. And one trip, I stopped at Guitar Center to buy some gear, and he overheard me say that I worked at Interscope. He came up to me and was like “yo, I got tracks. How do I get them to you?" And I was like "play some for me."

So he played some stuff for me right then and there, on one of the keyboards. I was impressed, so I was like, “Let’s keep in touch. Let’s try to work together.” So for years we would work together over the phone, and whenever we were in town. Until 2007, when I was like “if you want to make this work, you gotta just move to L.A.” And he did.

A couple years before that is when we met Ray though. He was working at Def Jam in NY, and he ended up signing the first act that we had signed to us. 

ROMULUS: I wasn’t even thinking about taking the meeting, because it was my first week, and I was still trying to get my office set up. But I was like “whatever, just let them up.”

And in walks in Jon, the artist, and the manager. Jon showcases the artist to me, and I'm like "that's dope." I called in L.A. [Reid] and L.A. signs him to a deal on the spot. That started off our relationship. I would fly back and forth from L.A to NY [to work on the record]. It was an unorthodox relationship between a label and the artist, because I would be producing with them.

So fast forward to 2007, and I called John up, and said “hey dude, I’m no longer at Def Jam. What do you think about me moving out to L.A. and us teaming up and me being a part of the production team? So I move out June of '07, and its crazy because Jeremy just moved to LA at the same time. So we teamed up in that summer of '07 and worked tirelessly just creating everyday, until six months later when we landed our first hit, which was Danity Kane’s "Damaged." 

YIP: I had a condo, and the "studio" was actually Ray’s bedroom, because when he first moved down, he stayed with me. He would wake up, we would go to the gym, he would go back to his room and would work on music there. And since it was a condo, we couldn't really work like crazy hours, so we had to really use our time wisely and just work from 12 to 7, because when people got home from work, no one wanted to hear our bass through the walls.

Ray, what made you want to move across the country to join this group?

ROMULUS: Even working with [Jonathan and Jeremy] at Def Jam as their A&R, I just thought they were very high character people. I liked their vibe, just how they worked so hard to try to make things happen. I was like “that’s the kind of energy I want to be around. So that’s why I called Jon and said “hey dude, I think we are all likeminded and working towards the same goals. If we teamed up together, we could make this happen."

YIP: When we first met, we pretty much clicked right away. Like, we immediately started hanging out, and it was cool. I’d been down to go to NY to take a trip or whatever - Ray wasn’t even in NYC, and he let me stay at his place. For us to meet at the record label or whatever, to become such cool friends that quick - that was big to me. That meant a lot. What Ray says, "character."

ROMULUS: And that’s why it works. Because honestly it’s bigger than music for us. These are like my family members. Even when we work with Bruno or whatever, the reason that’s its so easy to make the music is because we’re friends. When we’re in the studio together, it feels like we’re not really working. How did you end up producing for Danity Kane?

ROMULUS: We were actually courting a gentleman to possibly manage us, so we sent him a song. He goes “I’ll show you I can make things happen for you”, so he sends the song to Puff. Literally like 2 weeks later, called us back “Hey. Puff loves the song. He wants to fly you out to Miami and cut it on the show of Making the Band.”

YIP: I just remember jumping up and down. That record in itself ultimately helped us move out of the condo and into our own studio space.

ROMULUS: It was like full circle, because my first industry job was working for Puff, I was his intern for two years. Ended up running the marathon with him, just so I could build a relationship with him. I moved on into getting my A&R job with Def jam. When that moment happened, when we flew down to Miami, Puff was like “What the hell are you doing here?” I’m like “yo, I produced the song!”

After Danity Kane, you started working with a lot of different artists, but one that shows up over and over again is Far East Movement. What's your connection with them? 

YIP: When I was working at Interscope, they were interning there. So we would see them walking around the halls, and we would be like “what’s up”. It was hard to not notice each other, we were literally the only Asian guys in the building. So we were like “oh, this is dope. What do you do? What do you do?” and so on. And they were like, we make music! We’re rappers!" So we were like, “ok, let’s work.”

One day, they invited us out to one of their shows. So me and Ray went out. And we noticed, because they were kinda rapping more backpack hip-hop at the time, they had this set where they started rapping over like Daft Punk, and all these EDM records. And the energy was crazy, their stage presence has always been crazy. After that, we were like “hm, maybe there’s something there.”

Fast forward a little bit, we’re in the studio with Bruno actually, and we’re working on this record, and he starts [singing the the hook to] “Girls. On. The. Dance. Floor.” So we create this record called “Girls on the Dancefloor” and then I’m talking to Ray, and I’m like “maybe we should give this to Far East Movement. Their hustle is crazy, stage performance, all the things like that.” He’s like “let’s do it.” So we called them up, and they were down, so they laid down their verses. And shit, the song started picking up and playing like crazy out here in L.A.

ROMULUS: And you gotta let him know that we were rapping on the second verse.

YIP: Oh, and we’re rapping on the second verse! Cuz we were writing this, and were like, we might as well stay on this. And since I knew people over at Interscope already, I took it over to Martin Kirsenbaum, who I knew for years from working there, and I was like “yo I want to play you these artists, named Far East Movement.”

And he was like, “oh, I’ve heard of them!” Because he was hearing it on the radio. So he was like “I definitely want to meet them.” So we finally took them in, they met with Martin, he took us to meet with Jimmy Iovine at his house…and shit, it was crazy. That night was crazy. Jimmy Iovine was pitching us. Because Far East Movement was signed to us, so that was our group, so when we went to Jimmy Iovine’s house, he was literally pitching us, which was so crazy because its like “This is Jimmy Iovine. He’s pitching us to not go anywhere else but here.

ROMULUS: It was also big too, because at the time, we were always getting the stipulation that Asian-Americans couldn’t make it in music, couldn’t make it big. So for us to have Jimmy Iovine going “yo, you guys need to be here [on Interscope]” was huge.

YIP: Whenever I’m asked what my proudest moment is in my career, to me it’s always having been a part of breaking Far East Movement. Because, as an Asian-American, to be in front of the camera, and being the star, let alone being behind the camera, or behind the boards, there’s not just too many Asians in the industry. And so for us to be a part of the first Asian-Americans to break through and have a number #1 on Hot 100 was just incredible to us.

You've been friends with Bruno Mars for a long time, but there was a period of distance. Were you staying in touch?

YIP: He’d be doing the Superbowl, we’d hit him up and be like “you killed that!” ROMULUS: Then we’d hit him up the next year and be like “you killed that Superbowl, again!” (laughs)

YIP: Summer of 2016…actually even before that. 2015. Were would be talking, and he would be like “send me some beats!” So we were sending him stuff and he’d be like “oh this is tight, I’m going to try something.” Then we wouldn’t hear from him, and he’d be like “send me some more stuff!” Yo, we still haven’t gotten in [the studio]. And he’s like “we’ll get in, we’ll get in, don’t worry.” Time passes, and now it’s summer 2016 and I hit him up. I don’t even want to hit him about music, I just want to see how he’s doing, because we haven’t spoken in a while.

He’s like, “well actually I need another song.” And he was like “I need this tempo, this key, all this other stuff.” So we sent him over something. And he was like “yo, I think this could work. Why don’t you guys come into the studio on Monday?" And it was a Saturday we were talking on the phone. So we go over on Monday and it was like no time had passed. Immediately for the first two hours, it’s like we’re catching up, joking, talking about the past few years, what’s been going on. And we work on track and that track ends up being “24K Magic”. And that was the first one we did together.

Where does the sound of a track like "Finesse" come from? 

YIP: From Bruno. The first thing he did when we came in the studio, he was playing some of the other tracks from the record, and he was like “I want to bring the feeling back of when I was going to school dances. And how everyone was having fun and dancing, and didn’t any worries.” So when it came time to do “Finesse,” he was like “Let’s do a Nu Jack Swing song. And we we like “let’s do it.

With 2 Grammy awards under your belt, what’s next for The Stereotypes?

ROMULUS: Tunes brother, tunes. We’ve been working with Meghan Trainor, Goldlink, Foster the People…we’ve got one that just came out with Foster the People. Normani.

YIP: We’re working with this girl named Destiny Rogers. She’s incredible, she just turned 18. She plays multiple instruments, guitar, piano, she writes. I think we’re getting close to something really special with her. Experience in general, it definitely gave us the know-how to know how to not do the wrong thing again. How to handle a different situation when it presents itself to us. I think we’ve always had taste and we’ve always had ears, the “gut” that we choose stuff from. Experience just helps with that.

You’ve worked with so many diverse artists and sounds. Is there something that unites everything The Stereotypes create? 

ROMULUS: Our makeup of our group is so diverse as it is, our backgrounds and our upbringings are so different that when we come together, it’s like you can kind of feel all of our tastes and all of our interests in one. We have a four-tiered system for filtering, where nothing really goes out until all four of us like it. Our tastes are all different - and yet they’re somehow also the same. When it goes through all four of us, it has this sound that just like has a little bit of everything influencing it. 

[detempsentemps17]

Chemistry Study Links

On the topic of supercirculars, I’ve been putting together a list of resources for further reading for Chemistry. 

Work through these problems

https://nrich.maths.org/6463

Read through this taking notes

http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/foundation.html

Keep up to date on the on goings in chemistry

https://www.chemistryworld.com/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/matter_energy/chemistry/

Molecule of the month (check monthly)

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/thyroxine/thyroxineh.htm

Khan Academy course on Aromatic Chemistry

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/organic-chemistry/aromatic-compounds

Read through topic summaries

https://www.myheplus.com/post-16/subjects/chemistry

MOOC course to work through

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/discovering-science-atmospheric-chemistry?utm_campaign=Courses+feed&utm_medium=courses-feed&utm_source=courses-feed

Exploring everyday chemistry MOOC Starts June 29th

Quelques articles sur les sciences

https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/

https://www.pourlascience.fr/

https://www.pourlascience.fr/

Climate change research

https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/files/posters/Pyle1.pdf

Specific readings

Looking at glassy water

https://phys.org/news/2008-01-scientists-mystery-glassy.html

Looking at NMR spectra

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/program-that-automatically-interprets-nmr-spectra-is-boon-for-structure-elucidation/4011467.article

Chemists during Coronavirus

https://www.chemistryworld.com/coronavirus/chemists-amid-coronavirus-helen-sharman/4011498.article

Graphene and superconductivity

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160216090342.htm

Superconductivity and Hydrogen

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-superconductivity-hydrogen-fault.html

Soft read on general applications

https://www.toppr.com/guides/chemistry/some-basic-concepts-of-chemistry/importance-and-scope-of-chemistry/

http://howardchem.com/the-industrial-applications-of-chemistry/

Microplastics

https://www.kemira.com/insights/reducing-microplastic-pollution-with-the-help-of-chemistry/

http://internationalmarinedebrisconference.org/index.php/the-chemistry-of-plastic-marine-debris/

Things to Watch

Documentary on water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE2wZ1farPU

Organic chemistry Lecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH_ICMgGR98

Re-reads

https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/the-weirdness-of-water/4011260.article

Feyman’s Lectures (physics links)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/tuva-richard-feynman/?from=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2Fapps%2Ftools%2Ftuva%2Findex.html#!1-physical-law

Advanced

Advanced (water)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5940466/pdf/JCPSA6-000148-184102_1.pdf

Graphene and nanowires

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-48022-6

Chemistry Reading List

 The Fontana History of Chemistry by William Brock -

 Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements by Hugh by Philip Ball

 Molecules: A Very Short Introduction by Philip Ball -

 Organic Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction by Graham Patrick -

 Crystallography: A Very Short Introduction by A.M Glazer -

 Molecules at an Exhibition (The Science of Everyday Life) by John Emsle -

 The New Chemistry by Nina Hall

 Nature’s Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements by J. Emsley -

 Why Chemical Reactions Happen by James Keeler and Peter Wothers

 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson -

 How to Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O’Hare -

 The Periodic Table by Primo Levi -

 Molecules by P.W Atkins (Scientific American)

[rabbitcruiser]

Sparks Street, Ottawa (No. 1)

Sparks Street (French: Rue Sparks) is a pedestrian mall in Ottawa. It was a main street in Ottawa that was converted into an outdoor pedestrian street in 1967, making it the earliest such street or mall in Canada.

Sparks runs from Elgin Street in the east to Bronson Avenue. The Sparks Street Mall, that contains a number of outdoor restaurants and also a number of works of art and fountains, only runs from Elgin to Bank Street.  The pedestrian-only portion continues for another two blocks westward, with the final two blocks west of Lyon Street being a regular road and merges into Bronson Avenue going south.

The mall and most of the buildings on the south side are owned and operated by the National Capital Commission.  Buildings on the north side of the mall were expropriated by the Government of Canada in 1973 and are currently operated by Public Works and Government Services Canada. 

Located one block south of Wellington Street (the home of the Parliament of Canada), Sparks Street is one of Ottawa's more historic streets with a number of heritage buildings. The street is named after Nicholas Sparks, the farmer who, early in the mid-nineteenth century, cut a path through the woods on his holding that would eventually become the street. 

When Ottawa was selected as Canada's capital, the area became even more important as the street became home to a number of government offices and homes for parliamentarians.  One of these was Thomas D'Arcy McGee who, in 1868, was assassinated outside his home at the corner of Sparks and Metcalfe.  The street also became Ottawa's commercial hub in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was home to a number of the city's banks and the lumber companies of the Ottawa Valley, as well as "the best shops, hotels, dining rooms, and theatres." It once contained the Murphy-Gamble (later Simpson's), Morgan's, C.Ross, and Bryson-Graham's department stores.

The peak of the street was in the early twentieth century when a number of Beaux-Arts buildings that still stand were erected. At the time, the eastern end of Sparks Street continued across the Rideau Canal on Sappers Bridge. Where the War Memorial and Confederation Square stands today, was the Russell House hotel, and Ottawa's old Post Office. The square was built in the 1930s.

As the city expanded, the downtown became less centralized and commerce spread to neighbouring streets. Government ministries, requiring larger offices, also went elsewhere. In 1959, the street's streetcar line was closed.

Starting in 1960 the street was closed to traffic in the summers in an attempt to improve commerce. This plan was modelled on Toledo, Ohio, which along with Kalamazoo were the first North American cities to close downtown streets in an attempt to recapture customers. The success of these temporary summer closings convinced the city to close the street permanently to vehicles in 1967.Although initially successful, the mall began to decline in the 1970s.Urban planning professor David Gordon, of Queen's University, blames the growth of suburban shopping malls. Another major problem was the growth of high rise government offices with internal concourses in the area. Gordan and Bray wrote that Sparks became "an isolated island of pedestrian-friendly space in a traffic-dominated district" in a 2003 report. Additionally, the Government of Canada is a major landlord on the street, its buildings presenting a "blank face" to the street, and discouraging shops from investing in the area long-term.

Today, the pedestrian mall is open year-round and extends from Elgin to Kent Streets. While the mall is quite busy during weekdays, it is only lightly used during weekends. The National Capital Commission remains committed to operating and improving the mall. The street's landscaping has been updated. The Commission was successful in bringing the CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre to a location on the mall and is seeking to increase business and activity by increasing the number of residences nearby. However, the CBC development has been criticized as "just another low-cost, banal building" which was designed poorly and has not brought more life to the street. Councillor Diane Holmes called it "the biggest disappointment," and "a whole block of deadness."

Source: Wikipedia 

[rooseelyy-blog]

The Songs of New Year’s Eve

     Nobody thought it would be, but sunshine’s back, but nothing wouldn’t really care because it creates no noise. The sound of the humming wind was more than enough to still-feel the lights of Christmas left in the shady dust of your winter coat hanging at the back of your room door.

      It was a chilly Saturday morning when I wake up through the noises created by muffler-less motorcycles on which its owners intentionally removes it to create annoyingly loud sound because of the Philippine tradition of creating kick-ups to celebrate the upcoming change of the calender’s numbers--I thought its better than firecrackers whistling and piercing your eardrums--but so I did, and I’m not one of those strangers so eager to join the fun in building extravagant noises.

      I went out of bed, heard it squish through its oldness, and my pillows wanting to splash its way into organization. I pressed click on my laptop to pop open the cool sound of Windows 8 premiering its desktop. I tapped my mouse to hear another sound of ticks of the button, and I thought I was in one of the best applications to play music, Spotify. Before that day, I was able to create a playlist readied for the sensation of ending 2016. 2016 Favorites was its title, the songs that accompanied me through good and hard times in the year, and I finally was grateful enough to play them again at the last day of the year. I heard that click of my mouse again to play open the first song.

     I was surprised when I heard that song again . . . “This is Richard Marx.” I heard the lyrics flowing into the ambiance of my eardrums as I sang along with, “Wherever you go, whatever you do . . .”

     Through the cantillate of Mr. Marx, I also listened to the great voices of these people several years older than me. Daniel Bedingfield, Haley Reinheart, Chad, Syd Matters, Rick Price, Kenny Rogers, David Gates, Joshua Kadison, Luther Vandross, Karen and Richard Carpenters, Whitney Houston, Bruno Mars, Ariel Rivera, Dingdong Avanzado, Martin Nievera, De Barge, Nina, David Pomerance, Dionne Warwick, Dixie Chicks, Owl City, Journey, Arnel Pineda, Peabo Bryson, Bryan Adams, Toto, James Ingram, Barry Manilow, Adele, Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge, Noel Cabangon, Patti Austin, Graham Russel & Russell Hitchcock’s Air Supply, Michael Bolton, Sarah Geronimo, Silent Sanctuary, Boyce Avenue, Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Anne Murray, South Border, Steve Perry, Brian McKnight, Restless Heart, The Fray, Florante, and Christopher Cross.

     All through the sounds of the afternoon sun, our family went to the funeral of my auntie’s mother. I mean, we’re not really that attached to her, nor I knew the person really well, we were just there to sympathize, plus it was my uncle’s birthday (the auntie’s husband) and we went around with a little bit of silent celebration.

     My dad yelled the car to drift away from home to soundness of Muntinlupa’s highway. I heard my dad once again stopped and parked to lead off the engine as we went down to hear voices of familiar people, and thought they were my relatives. 

      As I enter the viewing room, I sensed people having whispering conversations through the sad-strange afternoon wherein the sounds of few firecrackers and car engines from afar where starting to spread around the country. 

     I thought the music was over, but it was never was. I talked to my cousins just to hear my own voice and theirs. It was way cooler than I expected it to be and I have no idea if it was safe to say that even we were inside a funeral hall, I was having fun, we were drawing to slap playing cards on the table and the loudness of it pushes through the plastic stands. The laughter was the most valuable moment, we were having fun despite the bluntness around us, the those laughter was respectfully respected because I thought that dead people deserves to see smiles on the people he or she left.

    Back to the quietly loud place I’ve always thought of, my home, and I heard the clock sounded its tick-tocks as if it was telling me that it was the last hour of the year and I should be setting up myself to start the year great.

    I clamped my foot upstairs to our roof with my whispering laptop to suit the mood with the continuity of the same playlist I was playing earlier that morning. I played the song, and sang along. I heard myself talking through the mind, trying to reminisce the sounds of my year and how many ups and downs I’ve attained. I mostly found my year challenging with all the dancing music playing through the echos of my life that came so unhealthy with a lot of people taking a step back from my life, but at the same time, a lot of new ones started knocking into my threshold.

     As far as I can remember, I sensed fireworks sounding in front of me.

     All of those sounds I heard meant that 2016 had ended and 2017 was right in front of me, ready to play the next few songs I’m so eager to hear. Fireworks flying high and exploding at the sky, the noise of the motorcycles wrecking their engines, the horn of the cars that was never been so good on anybody’s eardrums, the banging of anything into a metal I heard from afar, plus the sounds I continued playing, but altogether, I thought they were all very nice. I’ve been living in the same culture every year, but it was the first time I’ve ever thought that those noise were somehow revealed to be beautiful when I heard some sensation tickling down the floor.

     Rain. 

     It was raining in the middle of New Year and its sound was always been music to my ears, and I loved every single bit of the entrance of 2017. I love the hearing, and songs and hums those raindrops were trying to deliver on my ears were all just enough to bring myself into peacefulness.

     Then I thought . . . the next song of my year had started.

[renoxa]

Come insidestore – New Name, New Place and New Edit for 2019

Fans of Future and Found, and their stylish products and clever everyday ideas, might be interested to know that they have rebranded as insidestore. The new name is a wink and a nod towards the role that insidestore’s team play as industry insiders – seeking out the best designers and makers in the world to curate an approachable but design-led edit of must-have interior products. But it also comes as the brand launch their new first floor apartment space, ‘our place’, and prepare to debut their own-brand collection, ‘inside edit’, for 2019.

Who, What, Where, When?

Founded in 2012 by Andrea Bates, a former buyer at Heal’s and Paperchase, the brand has gone from strength to strength ever since, moving into their current converted factory building a stone’s throw from Tufnell Park station in 2014. The premises were expanded in summer 2017 to incorporate a pavement adjacent shop space, a dedicated interior design studio and alfresco courtyard with coffee hatch.

The latest expansion sees the insidestore take over another floor of the building to launch our place: a relaxed, informal styling of their product edit in a ‘liveable’ apartment setting. This new space is reflective of insidestore’s  relaxed approach to interior design, which frequently takes them inside their customers homes, and they are delighted to now be able to welcome their customers in return into their own styled space, designed to inspire real home decor ideas.

The space features a bespoke kitchen by GIQ Design, Muuto 70/70 dining table, HAY Mags soft family sofa, Fest Kate family sofa, shelving and desk configuration by String, and artwork by Gail Bryson and Gayle Mansfield.

“We’re real people selling to real people so our style is relaxed and unpretentious. Homes should be designed to be lived in and loved in equal measures. And whilst we love a design classic, we embrace that most homes are made up of a mix so we reflect that in our approach” – says Andrea.

‘our place’ will initially be open to the public Friday – Sunday, and will also be available as a venue for workshops, masterclasses and local community events, as well as a location space for bloggers, stylists and photographers seeking a  contemporary, easily adaptable, home environment within easy reach of  central London. And there will be coffee. Don’t forget the coffee.

insidestore, 225-225a Brecknock Road, Tufnell Park, London N19 5AA

Photographs by Kangan Arora

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May 16,2018: Obituaries

Ruth Graham, 92

Mrs. Ruth Long Graham, age 92 of Wilkesboro, passed away Thursday, May 10, 2018 at State Employees Credit Union Hospice Home in Yadkinville.

           Mrs. Graham was born in Asheville on September 8, 1925 to Clyde S and Allie V. Long.

She graduated Candler High School and Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Atlanta. She started her nursing career at Aston Parks Hospital in Asheville.

           She married James Graham of Inman, SC.  In 1954 she moved to Wilkes where Mr. Graham was a teacher at Millers Creek High  School. She was employed at Wilkes Regional Hospital for 41 years and retired as the Director of Nursing.  She was very instrumental in establishing the Chapel at the hospital. She was also recognized and honored by the Hospital Auxiliary for her work and service to the people of Wilkes County.  She was active in the North Carolina Nurses Association where she was a lifetime member as well as the American Nurses Association. She was a member of Home Health Board, First Baptist Church of North Wilkesboro where she served as a Deacon, Assistant Clerk, and served on the Library Committee, Homebound Committee and Benevolence Committee.

           Funeral services were held  May 15,   at First Baptist Church of North Wilkesboro with Dr. Bert Young and Dr. Nelson Granade officiating.  Burial was in Mountlawn Memorial Park.  

           In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband; James Graham, three sisters; Dorothy Clontz, Mary Long, Betty Thornburg and two brothers; Wesley Long and Clyde Long and longtime friend; Dr. William L. Bundy.

           She is survived by a son; Jimmy Graham and wife Diane of Huntersville and several nieces and nephews.

           A special thanks to Carolyn Garcia, loving friend and caregiver.

           Memorials may be made to Fred C. Hubbard Scholarship Fund - Wilkes Community College, 1328 S. Collegiate Drive, Wilkesboro, NC 28697.

  Ruby Tingler,  83

Ruby Scott Tingler, age 83, of North Wilkesboro, passed away Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at her home. She was born May 12, 1934 in Pike County, Kentucky to Wade and Betty Keen Scott. She attended Wayside Baptist Church in Taylorsville. Mrs. Tingler was preceded in death by her parents; her husband of 41 years, Ronnalee "Ronnie" Tingler; son, Leslie Scott Hamilton; and sister, Shirley Chavez.

           Surviving are her daughters, Linda Fair and Court Taylor of Baltimore, Maryland, Penny Matthews and husband Kevin of Ocean City, Maryland, Debra Hicks and husband Randy of White Wood, Virginia; grandchildren, Jennifer Gobble and husband Robert, Amanda Gietka and husband Brian, Nathan Hicks and Benjamin Hicks; great grandchildren, Chloe Gietka, Mia Gietka, Jackson Gobble; brother, Earl Scott of Vansant, Virginia; and sisters, Loretta Stanley of North Wilkesboro, Bea St. Clair and husband Leon of Grundy, Virginia.

           Funeral service was held   May 11, at Miller Funeral Chapel with Rev. Sammy Kiser officiating. Entombment followed in Mountlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum.   In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Wake Forest Baptist Health Hospice, 126 Executive Drive, Suite 110, Wilkesboro, NC 28697.

           Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements        

           Pallbearers will be Leon St. Clair, Steve Stanley, Larry Starnes, Randy Scott, Joel Dobson and Mike Scott.

 Reba" Hartzog, 87

Mrs. Reba Elizabeth "Lib" Hartzog, age 87, passed away at her home on Green Acres Mill Road, Millers Creek, NC on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 after a lengthy illness. She was born to Grover Cleveland and Mary Ellen "Molly" Norris on April 27, 1931 and grew up in the Fleetwood Community of Ashe County in a close-knit loving family of ten siblings.

           Lib was an immaculate housekeeper, a great cook, an avid gardener and she took great pride in her home and meticulously landscaped yard. She had that infectious "Norris" personality that never meets a stranger and her quick-wit always left a smile on your face. She will be greatly missed by her family and her neighbors in Green Acres. Lib was a member of Liberty Grove Baptist Church in Ashe County.

           Funeral services were held   May 12, at Reins Sturdivant Chapel with Rev. John Elledge officiating. Entombment will be in Mt. Lawn Memorial Park Mausoleum

           Lib was preceded in death by her husband, William Thomas "Bill" Hartzog, a daughter, Sherry Lynn Hartzog, a niece, Mary Beth Ross, and seven siblings, Howard Norris, G.C. Norris, Jr. (Jack), Allie Norris, Bruce Norris, James Norris (Jim), Lucy Waugh, Ruby Wagoner and Ruth Crumpler.        

           She is survived by two siblings, Paul Norris of Lansing, NC and Helen Ross of Elizabethton, TN. One niece, Debbie Shepherd of Millers Creek and seven nephews, Dannie Norris of Wilkesboro, Marty Norris of Lansing, Ronnie Norris of Todd, David and Jackie Norris of Boone, Bill Norris of Hickory and Mark Ross of Jefferson City, TN, many great nieces and nephews, great-great nieces and nephews are left to honor her memory, along with her best friend and caregiver, Judy Horton.

           Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Liberty Grove Baptist Church 3289 Liberty Grove Church Road, Fleetwood, NC 28626

 Lucy Sheets, 84

Mrs. Lucy Jane Pierce Jones Sheets, 84, of Wilkesboro, passed away on Tuesday, May 8, 2018.

           Lucy was born on Saturday, May 27, 1933 in Alleghany County to the late Robert Alexandria Pierce and Stella Elizabeth Crouse Pierce.

           Lucy is preceded in death by her parents; husbands, Monty Jones and Odell Sheet; brothers, Bobby Dean Pierce, Jack Pierce; sister, Susie Woodel; daughter in law Darlene Jones and grandson Andy Wilcox.

           Those left to cherish Lucy's memory are sons, Tommy Jones of North Wilkesboro, Ray Jones of Boomer, Kyle Jones ( Shirley) of Traphill, Donnie Jones of North Wilkesboro; daughters, Susan Jones of North Wilkesboro, Carolyn Poteat ( Ernest) of Ronda, Ann Call of Wilkesboro; sister, Grace Williams of Sparta; brothers, Dale Pierce (Brenda) of Roaring River, Curley James Pierce (Sarah) of North Wilkesboro, John Robert Pierce of Traphill; 20 grandchildren, 46 great grandchildren; and 7 great great grandchildren.

            The funeral service was held on   May 12,   at the Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes chapel in Moravian Falls with Pastor Eddie Lyles   officiating.

Burial  followed the funeral at The Jones Family Cemetery.

           Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes has the honor of serving the Jones Family.

 Ray Reins, Sr., 81

Ray Clinton "Shane" Reins, Sr., age 81, of Wilkesboro, passed away Monday, May 7, 2018 at NC State Veterans Home in Black Mountain. He was born January 12, 1937 in Wilkes County to Jessie Vance and Vera Adams Reins. Mr. Reins was a US Army Veteran. Mr. Reins was active in classic cars and stock car racing; and was one of the founders of Baby Grand Racing. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Lelia "Julene" Reeves Reins; brother, James Reins; and sister, Annie Craven.

           Surviving are his children, Shane Allen Reins of Wilkesboro, Lisa Reins Stone of Clemmons, Clinton Reins and wife Angela of Wilkesboro, Jennie Reins of Massachusetts; brother, J.V. Reins and wife Ina of Wilkesboro; sisters, Mary Church and husband Bob, Emma Byrd all of Wilkesboro, Joyce Phillips and husband Darrell of Hickory; grandchildren, Magan Stone, Shaina Reins, Matthew Reins, Camille Stanton, Rowen Stanton, Jordan Reins, Brooklyn Reins, Hailey Walker and Hannah Walker; great grandchild, Knox Johnson and many nieces and nephews.

           Funeral service was held   May 10,   at Miller Funeral Chapel with Rev. Victor Church and Rev. Robert Duncan officiating. Entombment with military honors by Veterans of Foreign Wars Honor Guard Post 1142 followed in Scenic Memorial Gardens Mausoleum.  . Memorials may be made to Catherine H. Barber Memorial Homeless Shelter, 86  Sparta Road, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659 or the donor's choice. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements

 Dwight Triplett, 88

Mr. Dwight Elton Triplett, age 83 of Wilkesboro passed away Sunday, May 6, 2018 at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home in Winston-Salem.

           Funeral services were held  May 9,   at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Ferguson with Pastor Michael Johnson and Rev. Sherrill Wellborn officiating.  Burial was in the church cemetery.  

           Mr. Triplett was born October 6, 1934 in Wilkes County to Ira Wilbur and Flossie Barnette Triplett.  He was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church and served in the United States Army.

           In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister; Jewel Eller and a brother; Dale Triplett.

           He is survived by his wife; Linda Rea Shepherd Triplett of the home and daughter; Sara Hole and husband Anthony of Clemmons and grandson; Nicholas Hole.

           In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Mt. Zion Baptist Church Building Fund, PO Box 7, Ferguson, NC 28624 or American Kidney Foundation, 6110  Executive Blvd., Suite 1010, Rockville, MD 20852.

 James Holloway

Mr. James Vestal Holloway better known as J Bug passed away Sunday, May 6, 2018, at Forsyth Medical Center.

           Graveside services were held  May 11,   at Christian Home Baptist Church with Rev. Greg Hall officiating.   .

           Mr. Holloway was born April 13, 1953 in Wilkes County to Vestal Tyre and Pearl Marie Bouchelle Holloway. He was a truck driver for Kewaunee Scientific and a member of Christian Home Baptist Church.

           He was preceded in death by his parents.

           Mr. Holloway is survived by his wife; Cindy Reep Holloway of the home, two sons; Jamie Holloway and wife Melissa of Hays, Matthew Dowell of Charlotte, two grandchildren; Bryson and Brylee, two sisters; Judy Adams of Millers Creek and Emma Tedder of Mocksville, two nephews; David Adams and wife Lisa and Derek Cornett and wife Tonia, two great nephews; Parker Adams and Carter Cornett and his faithful companion, his buddy Woody.  

  Sylvia Cranor, 79

Sylvia Lou Segraves Cranor, 79 of North Wilkesboro, wife of Hugh A. Cranor, III died May 6, 2018 at her home.

           Funeral service was held   May 9,   at First Baptist Church of North Wilkesboro with Dr. Bert Young officiating.     The service concluded at the Davis Memorial Baptist Church Cemetery.

           Mrs. Cranor was born in Wilkes County to Archie Gilbert Segraves and Chloe Church Segraves.  She graduated form Wilkes Central High School, then attended Draughn's Business College in Winston-Salem and later graduated from Clevenger Business College in Wilkesboro.

           Mrs. Cranor retired from Wilkes Paint and Glass Company, where she worked as office manager for over 37 years.

           Mrs. Cranor was a long-time member of First Baptist Church of North Wilkesboro and a member of the Euzelean Sunday School Class and the Sloan Circle.  She was active in many areas of her church and volunteered for several different ministries.

           After retiring, Mrs. Cranor took a training course at Hospice and became a Hospice volunteer for several years.  She also volunteered at the Wilkes Ministry of H.O.P.E. where she interviewed clients who came for help.  She loved this ministry a lot.

           Mrs. Cranor was also a volunteer for the Samaritan Kitchen of Wilkes where she enjoyed driving and delivering meals to clients.

           In 2006, Mrs. Cranor received the Governor's Award for Outstanding Service in North Carolina.

           She was a long-time member of the Victorian Belles Group and so enjoyed their monthly outings.

           Mrs. Cranor was preceded in death by her parents.  Surviving are her husband of nearly 60 years, Hugh A. Cranor, III and a daughter, Virginia "Ginger" Chloe Edmiston and her fiance', Bobby Johnson.  She is also survived by a very special cousin, Melody Hoyle and husband, Ernie as well as her precious dog, Baby of 15 years.

           Pallbearers were be Dwayne Billings, Tim Billings, David Billings, Ronnie Billings, Noial Handy and Rev. John Triplett.

           In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church of North Wilkesboro, PO Box 458, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659.

Wayne Earl Barnes, age 64

 Wayne Earl Barnes, age 64, of Millers Creek, passed away Friday, May 4, 2018 at Iredell Memorial Hospital in Statesville after a lengthy battle with Muscular Dystrophy. He was born August 6, 1953 in Heidelberg, Germany where his late father, SFC (ret) Ray Von Barnes and family was serving in the United States Army. He was a graduate of Methodist University, received his B.A. degree in Fayetteville, N.C. He was reared in a military family through High School and experienced many different communities. Mr. Barnes was preceded in death by his parents; Ray Von and Rosa Ann Barnes; and his only sister, Sheila Barnes Balboa.

           After college Wayne moved to the Elkin/Wilkesboro area and involved himself in the Educational School System. He also served as a bus driver for 20 years at C.B. Eller, Ronda-Clingman Elementary Schools, East Wilkes High School, and East Wilkes Middle School. He was acknowledged for his service to Education via honors and awards including served on the NCAE Board of Directors, Support Person of the Year, NCAE President of the local chapter, as  well as a member of the board of directors of the Educational Support Professionals Association NC-ESPA. He was involved in the Angel Food Ministry Program in Elkin for Five years. Mr. Barnes served on the board for ECHO (Homeless Shelter). He helped in getting Grace Clinic started in Elkin. In 1995 he traveled with the Western UMC Conference to La Paz Bolivia on a mission trip to distribute medical supplies.                          Surviving are his wife, Claudene Johnston Barnes; five nieces; five nephews; four great nephews; five great nieces; two sisters in law and their spouses; one brother-in-law and spouse; father-in law; and his best buddy, Patch.

           Graveside service will be held 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at Mountlawn Memorial Park Cemetery with Dr. Will G. Barnes, Chaplain, Colonel, United States Army officiating. The family will receive friends at Miller Funeral Service from 12:00 until 1:00 on Wednesday, prior to the service. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.  

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A nine-minute liberal arts education

John Fee shares what he characterizes as "formidable quotations" at the Capable Men website. I came upon it and its resources by accident and am so pleased I did.

Reading these quotations is about as close is possible to obtaining a liberal arts education in less than ten minutes. That is indeed "formidable." Well-done, John Fee!

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“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” — Douglas Adams

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly — in you.” — Bill Bryson

“When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard' – I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'” — Sydney Harris

“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.” — Alfred D. Souza

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” — Winston Churchill

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” — Christopher McCandless

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'” — Mary Anne Radmacher

“Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.” — Carl Sagan

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” — Stephen Roberts

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle

“ ‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say I’m bored.” — Louis C.K.

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” — Robert A. Heinlein

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” — Hunter S. Thompson

“Remember how long you’ve been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn’t use them. At some point you have to recognise what world it is that you belong to; what power rules it and from what source you spring; that there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don’t use it to free yourself it will be gone and you will never return.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” — Maurice Switzer

“I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man’s word should be as good as his bond; that character — not wealth or power or position — is of supreme worth.” — John D. Rockefeller (Jr.)

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch!” — Edgar Mitchell

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.” — Billy Graham

“To be sick, or to suffer, is inevitable – but to become bitter and vindictive in sickness and suffering, and to surrender to irrationality, supposing yourself the innocent and virtuous victim of the evil intentions of the world, is not inevitable. The appropriate answer to the question, Why me? is the other question, Why not me?” — Michael Scott Moore

“Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.” — Bill McGlashen

“If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you’re going to die. So they’ll talk. They’ll gloat. They’ll watch you squirm. They’ll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.” — Terry Pratchett

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions. Their lives a mimicry. Their passions a quotation.” — Oscar Wilde

“Travel, my friend. See the world, or at least some bits of it. And don’t wait because you don’t know what’s down the road. It’s not the “big” moments you’ll remember — standing under the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty. It’ll be the little moments — watching her squeeze into a doorway in Florence trying to stay out of the rain, smelling a giant flower in Belize, or having the sunlight catch her as she walks down some side street in New York City you’ll never get back to. That’s where your life happens, and those are the things you’ll keep close — those few seconds that nobody else saw. Those are yours and yours only.” — JamesJax

“They’re in front of us, they’re in back of us. They’re on our left and on our right. They can’t get away now.” — Chesty Puller, Battle of the Chosin Reservior

“All men dream, but not equally; those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible.” — T.E. Lawrence

“Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.” – Translation: “I will either find a way, or make one.” — Hannibal

“To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When students cheat on exams it’s because our school system value grades more than students value learning.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” — Mark Twain

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” — Earl Nightingale

“Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.” — Ray Bradbury

“Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What’s closer to nature’s heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed?” — Marcus Aurelius

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” — Carl Sagan

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Your future self is watching you right now through memories.” — Unknown

“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.” — Pliny the Younger

“Inanimate matter, born from exploding stars billions of years ago, can come together in a form that has the capacity to question its own existence.” — Unknown

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” — Paulo Coelho

“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.” — Azar Nafisi

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could do. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you are willing at look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.” — Yogi Bhajan

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” — Plato, The Republic

“It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but we care more about their opinion than our own.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” — Isaac Asmiov

“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.” — Erich Fromm

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John Fee is the founder of Capable Men. John served five years in the British army, with a tour of duty in Afghanistan before eventually departing the forces to begin a career in the private security sector. John attended several private protection courses dealing with security strategy, close-quarters combat training, firearms and advanced driving. This new profession took him worldwide Including the protection of government assets in South America, VIP tasks on the Côte d'Azur and security work within the French Alps. His interests include global affairs, philosophy, hiking, sports, and fitness.

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Big night out for construction’s favourite firms

The Top Ten winners of the Construction Enquirer Awards gathered in Birmingham on Tuesday night to celebrate their success.

More than 10,000 votes were cast by Enquirer readers for their favourite companies to work with and do business with.

Companies polling the highest number of votes among the Top Ten winners in each category were also presented with a special prize.

The big winners on the night were:

Best Client to Work With (Public and Private) – SCAPE

Best Main Contractor to Work For (Over £250m) – WILLMOTT DIXON

Best Main Contractor to Work For (£50m – £250m) – SHAYLOR

Best Main Contractor to Work For (Under £50m) – JARVIS

Best Specialist Contractor to Work For (Over 25m) – BRIGGS & FORRESTER

Best Specialist Contractor to Work For (Under £25m) – SCITECH

Best Main Contractor to Work With (Over £250m) – SISK

Best Main Contractor to Work With (£50m – £250m) – CADDICK

Best Main Contractor to Work With (Under £50m) – COLMORE TANG

Best Specialist Contractor to Work With (Over £25m) – VITAL ENERGI

Best Specialist Contractor to Work With (Under £25m) – SMD

Best Construction Supplier to Work With (Over £25m) – VP GROUNDFORCE

Best Construction Supplier to Work With (Under £25m) – BRYSON PRODUCTS

The crowd was entertained by TV architect George Clarke and raised more than £4,000 for his charity to encourage more young people into condtruction

Aaron Morby, Editor of the Enquirer said: “It was fantastic to see the industry come together to  celebrate construction’s favourite firms.

“More than 10,000 of our readers voted in these awards making them a true reflection of which firms are doing business in the right way and keeping their staff and suppliers happy.”

The full list of winners is:

Best Client to Work With (Public and Private)

Argent

Berkeley Group

Dyson

Jaguar Land Rover

Kemira Chemicals UK

Highways England

Land Securities

North West Construction Hub

Rotherham Metropolitan Council

Scape

Best Main Contractor to Work For (Over £250m)

Ferrovial Agroman UK

Graham Construction

ISG

J Murphy

Laing O’Rourke

McLaren Construction

Morgan Sindall

Sisk

Taylor Woodrow

Willmott Dixon

Best Main Contractor to Work For (£50m – £250m)

8Build

Barhale

Beard Construction

Farrans

FM Conway

McNicholas Construction

Raymond Brown Construction

Novus Property Solutions

Shaylor Group

Speller Metcalfe

Best Main Contractor to Work For (Under £50m)

Carillion Highways Maintenance M40

Colmore Tang

Colorado Group

GPC74

Hightown Group

Jarvis Contracting

Jenner Contractors

PiLON

Torsion Group

VolkerWessels UK

Best Specialist Contractor to Work For (Over 25m)   

Astins

BAM Ritchies

Briggs Amasco

Briggs & Forrester

Carey Group

McGee

NG Bailey

Severfield

Vital Energi

Watkins                                                                                    

Best Specialist Contractor to Work For (Under £25m)

Aarsleff Ground Engineering

Ardmac

Builders Beams

Clarke Facades

Hazelwood Carpentry Contractors

PHD Modular Access

Scitech Engineering

SMD

Taylor’s Hoists

VolkerLaser

Best Main Contractor to Work With (Over £250m)

Balfour Beatty

BAM Construction

BAM Nuttall

Graham Construction

Kier

Laing O’Rourke

Lendlease

Sisk

Skanska

Willmott Dixon

Best Main Contractor to Work With (£50m – £250m)

Bardsley

Barhale

Clugston Construction

Caddick Construction

Farrans

McNicholas Construction

North Midland

Shaylor Group

Speller Metcalfe

Watkin Jones

Best Main Contractor to Work With (Under £50m)

AE Yates

Cheetham Hill

Colmore Tang

Jarvis Contracting

Manton Building Contractors

PiLON

Torsion Group

VolkerWessels UK

Warden Construction

Wildgoose Construction                                          

Best Specialist Contractor to Work With (Over £25m)

Briggs Amasco

Carey Group

J Reddington

Keltbray

Lakesmere

McGee

NG Bailey

Prater

TClarke

Vital Energi

Best Specialist Contractor to Work With (Under £25m)          

A1 Flue Systems

Bauer Technologies

Bracknell Roofing

G&H Group

GKR Scaffolding

M&J Group

MVS Group

SMD

Style Partitions

Tiger Scaffolding

Best Construction Supplier to Work With (Over £25m)

FP McCann

Hudson Contract Services

JCB

Mabey

Marley Eternit

Metsec

PERI

SIG

Tarmac

VP Groundforce

Construction Supplier to Work With (Under £25m)

Basestone

Biosite Systems

Bryson Products

Constructionarium

One Way resourcing

Purpol Marketing

PSP Aluminium

Safewise

TD Construction Testing

Visual 5D

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Books I’ve Read: 2006-2019

Alexie, Sherman - Flight

Anderson, Joan - A Second Journey

                          - An Unfinished Marriage

                          - A Walk on the Beach

                          - A Year By The Sea

Anshaw, Carol - Carry the One

Auden, W.H. - The Selected Poems of W.H. Auden

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice

Bach, Richard - Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Bear, Donald R - Words Their Way

Berg, Elizabeth - Open House

Bly, Nellie - Ten Days in a Madhouse

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451

                        - The Martian Chronicles

Brooks, David - The Road to Character

Brooks, Geraldine - Caleb’s Crossing

Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code

Bryson, Bill - The Lost Continent

Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden

Buscaglia, Leo - Bus 9 to Paradise

                         - Living, Loving & Learning

                         - Personhood

                         - Seven Stories of Christmas Love

Byrne, Rhonda - The Secret

Carlson, Richard - Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

Carson, Rachel - The Sense of Wonder

                          - Silent Spring

Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote

Cherry, Lynne - The Greek Kapok Tree

Chopin, Karen - The Awakening

Clurman, Harold - The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre & the 30s

Coelho, Paulo -  Adultery

                           The Alchemist

Conklin, Tara - The Last Romantics

Conroy, Pat - Beach Music

                    - The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son

                    - The Great Santini

                    - The Lords of Discipline

                    - The Prince of Tides

                    - The Water is Wide

Corelli, Marie - A Romance of Two Worlds

Delderfield, R.F. - To Serve Them All My Days

Dempsey, Janet - Washington’s Last Contonment: High Time for a Peace

Dewey, John - Experience and Education

Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol

                             - Great Expectations

                             - A Tale of Two Cities

Didion, Joan - The Year of Magical Thinking

Disraeli, Benjamin - Sybil

Doctorow, E.L. - Andrew’s Brain

                         - Ragtime

Doerr, Anthony - All the Light We Cannot See

Dreiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie 

Dyer, Wayne - Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

                     - The Power of Intention

                     - Your Erroneous Zones

Edwards, Kim - The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

Ellis, Joseph J. - His Excellency: George Washington

Ellison, Ralph - The Invisible Man

Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Essays and Lectures

Felkner, Donald W. - Building Positive Self Concepts

Fergus, Jim - One Thousand White Women

Flynn, Gillian - Gone Girl

Follett, Ken - Pillars of the Earth

Frank, Anne - The Diary of a Young Girl

Freud, Sigmund - The Interpretation of Dreams

Frey, James - A Million Little Pieces

Fromm, Erich - The Art of Loving

                       - Escape from Freedom

Fulghum, Robert - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Fuller, Alexandra - Leaving Before the Rains Come

Garield, David - The Actors Studion: A Player’s Place

Gates, Melinda - The Moment of Lift

Gibran, Kahlil - The Prophet

Gilbert, Elizabeth - Eat, Pray, Love

                            - The Last American Man

                            - The Signature of All Things

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader - My Own Words

Girzone, Joseph F, - Joshua

                               - Joshua and the Children

Gladwell, Malcom - Blink

                              - David and Goliath

                              - Outliers

                              - The Tipping Point

                              - Talking to Strangers

Glass, Julia - Three Junes

Goodall, Jane - Reason for Hope

Goodwin, Doris Kearnes - Team of Rivals

Graham, Steve - Best Practices in Writing Instruction

Gray, John - Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Groom, Winston - Forrest Gump

Gruen, Sarah - Water for Elephants

Hannah, Kristin - The Great Alone

                          - The Nightingale

Harvey, Stephanie and Anne Goudvis - Strategies That Work

Hawkins, Paula - The Girl on the Train

Hedges, Chris - Empire of Illusion

Hellman, Lillian - Maybe

                         - Pentimento

Hemingway - Ernest - A Moveable Feast

Hendrix, Harville - Getting the Love You Want

Hesse, Hermann - Demian

                            - Narcissus and Goldmund

                            - Peter Camenzind

                            - Siddhartha

                            - Steppenwolf

Hilderbrand, Elin - The Beach Club

Hitchens, Christopher - God is Not Great

Hoffman, Abbie - Soon to be a Major Motion Picture 

                          - Steal This Book

Holt, John - How Children Fail

                  - How Children Learn

                 - Learning All the Time

                 - Never Too Late

Hopkins, Joseph - The American Transcendentalist

Horney, Karen - Feminine Psychology

                        - Neurosis and Human Growth

                        - The Neurotic Personality of Our Time

                        - New Ways in Psychoanalysis

                        - Our Inner Conflicts

                        - Self Analysis

Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner

Hoover, John J, Leonard M. Baca, Janette K. Klingner - Why Do English Learners Struggle with Reading?

Janouch, Gustav - Conversations with Kafka

Jefferson, Thomas - Crusade Against Ignorance

Jong, Erica - Fear of Dying

Joyce, Rachel - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

                       - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Kafka, Franz - Amerika

                      - Metamophosis

                      - The Trial     

Kallos, Stephanie - Broken For You  

Kazantzakis, Nikos - Zorba the Greek

Keaton, Diane - Then Again

Kelly, Martha Hall - The Lilac Girls

Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algernon

King, Steven - On Writing

Kornfield, Jack - Bringing Home the Dharma

Kraft, Herbert - The Indians of Lenapehoking - The Lenape or Delaware Indians: The Original People of NJ, Southeastern New York State, Eastern Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware and Parts of Western Connecticut

Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Lacayo, Richard - Native Son

Lamott, Anne - Bird by Bird

                         Word by Word

L’Engle, Madeleine - A Wrinkle in Time

Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Namesake

Lappe, Frances Moore - Diet for a Small Planet

Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird

Lems, Kristin et al  - Building Literacy with English Language Learners

Lewis, Sinclair - Main Street

London, Jack - The Call of the Wild

Lowry, Lois - The Giver

Mander, Jerry - Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

Marks, John D. - The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind         Control

Martel, Yann - Life of Pi

Maslow, Abraham - The Farther Reaches of Human Nature

                              - Motivation and Personality

                              - Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences

                             - Toward a Psychology of Being                            

Maugham. W. Somerset - Of Human Bondage

                                        - Christmas Holiday

Maurier, Daphne du - Rebecca

Mayes, Frances - Under the Tuscan Sun

Mayle, Peter - A Year in Provence

McCourt, Frank - Angela’s Ashes

                          - Teacher man

McCullough, David - 1776

                                - Brave Companions

McEwan, Ian - Atonement

                      - Saturday

McLaughlin, Emma - The Nanny Diaries

McLuhan, Marshall - Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

Meissner, Susan - The Fall of Marigolds

Millman, Dan - Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Moehringer, J.R. - The Tender Bar

Moon, Elizabeth - The Speed of Dark

Moriarty, Liane - The Husband’s Sister

                         - The Last Anniversary

                         - What Alice Forgot

Mortenson, Greg - Three Cups of Tea

Moyes, Jo Jo - One Plus One

                       - Me Before You 

Ng, Celeste - Little Fires Everywhere

Neill, A.S. - Summerhill

Noah, Trevor - Born a Crime

O’Dell, Scott - Island of the Blue Dolphins

Offerman, Nick - Gumption

O’Neill, Eugene - Long Day’s Journey Into Night

                            A Touch of the Poet

Orwell, George - Animal Farm

Owens, Delia - Where the Crawdads Sing

Paulus, Trina - Hope for the Flowers

Pausch, Randy - The Last Lecture

Patchett, Ann - The Dutch House

Peck, Scott M. - The Road Less Traveled

                         - The Road Less Traveled and Beyond

Paterson, Katherine - Bridge to Teribithia

Picoult, Jodi - My Sister’s Keeper

Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Puzo, Mario - The Godfather

Quindlen, Anna - Black and Blue

Radish, Kris - Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral

Redfield, James - The Celestine Prophecy

Rickert, Mary - The Memory Garden

Rogers, Carl - On Becoming a Person

Ruiz, Miguel - The Fifth Agreement

                     - The Four Agreements

                     - The Mastery of Love

Rum, Etaf - A Woman is No Man

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - The Little Prince

Salinger, J.D. - Catcher in the Rye

Schumacher, E.F. - Small is Beautiful

Sebold, Alice - The Almost Moon

                       - The Lovely Bones

Shaffer, Mary Ann and Anne Barrows - The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Shakespeare, William - Alls Well That Ends Well

                                   - Much Ado About Nothing

                                   - Romeo and Juliet

                                   - The Sonnets

                                   - The Taming of the Shrew

                                   - Twelfth Night

                                   - Two Gentlemen of Verona

Sides, Hampton - Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree

Skinner, B.F. - About Behaviorism

Smith, Betty - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley - The Velvet Room

Spinelli, Jerry - Loser

Spolin, Viola - Improvisation for the Theater

Stanislavski, Constantin - An Actor Prepares

Stedman, M.L. - The Light Between Oceans

Steinbeck, John - Travels with Charley

Steiner, Peter - The Terrorist

Stockett, Kathryn - The Help

Strayer, Cheryl - Wild

Streatfeild, Dominic - Brainwash

Strout, Elizabeth - My Name is Lucy Barton

Tartt, Donna - The Goldfinch

Taylor, Kathleen - Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control

Thomas, Matthew - We Are Not Ourselves

Thoreau, Henry David - Walden

Tolle, Eckhart - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

                      - The Power of Now

Towles, Amor - A Gentleman in Moscow

                       - Rules of Civility

Tracey, Diane and Lesley Morrow - Lenses on Reading

Traub, Nina - Recipe for Reading

Tzu, Lao - Tao Te Ching

United States Congress - Project MKULTRA, the CIA's program of research in behavioral modification: Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the ... Congress, first session, August 3, 1977

Van Allsburg, Chris - Just a Dream

                                - Polar Express

                                - Sweet Dreams

                                - Stranger

                                - Two Bad Ants

Walker, Alice - The Color Purple

Waller, Robert James - Bridges of Madison County

Warren, Elizabeth - A Fighting Chance

Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited

Weir, Andy - The Martian

Weinstein, Harvey M. - Father, Son and CIA

Welles, Rebecca - The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

Westover, Tara - Educated

White, E.B. - Charlotte’s Web

Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorien Gray

Wolfe, Tom - I Am Charlotte Simmons

Wolitzer, Meg - The Female Persuasion

Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway

Zevin, Gabrielle - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Zusak, Marcus - The Book Thief

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Big night out for construction’s favourite firms

The Top Ten winners of the Construction Enquirer Awards gathered in Birmingham on Tuesday night to celebrate their success.

More than 10,000 votes were cast by Enquirer readers for their favourite companies to work with and do business with.

Companies polling the highest number of votes among the Top Ten winners in each category were also presented with a special prize.

The big winners on the night were:

Best Client to Work With (Public and Private) – SCAPE

Best Main Contractor to Work For (Over £250m) – WILLMOTT DIXON

Best Main Contractor to Work For (£50m – £250m) – SHAYLOR

Best Main Contractor to Work For (Under £50m) – JARVIS

Best Specialist Contractor to Work For (Over 25m) – BRIGGS & FORRESTER

Best Specialist Contractor to Work For (Under £25m) – SCITECH

Best Main Contractor to Work With (Over £250m) – SISK

Best Main Contractor to Work With (£50m – £250m) – CADDICK

Best Main Contractor to Work With (Under £50m) – COLMORE TANG

Best Specialist Contractor to Work With (Over £25m) – VITAL ENERGI

Best Specialist Contractor to Work With (Under £25m) – SMD

Best Construction Supplier to Work With (Over £25m) – VP GROUNDFORCE

Best Construction Supplier to Work With (Under £25m) – BRYSON PRODUCTS

The crowd was entertained by TV architect George Clarke and raised more than £4,000 for his charity to encourage more young people into condtruction

Aaron Morby, Editor of the Enquirer said: “It was fantastic to see the industry come together to  celebrate construction’s favourite firms.

“More than 10,000 of our readers voted in these awards making them a true reflection of which firms are doing business in the right way and keeping their staff and suppliers happy.”

The full list of winners is:

Best Client to Work With (Public and Private)

Argent

Berkeley Group

Dyson

Jaguar Land Rover

Kemira Chemicals UK

Highways England

Land Securities

North West Construction Hub

Rotherham Metropolitan Council

Scape

Best Main Contractor to Work For (Over £250m)

Ferrovial Agroman UK

Graham Construction

ISG

J Murphy

Laing O’Rourke

McLaren Construction

Morgan Sindall

Sisk

Taylor Woodrow

Willmott Dixon

Best Main Contractor to Work For (£50m – £250m)

8Build

Barhale

Beard Construction

Farrans

FM Conway

McNicholas Construction

Raymond Brown Construction

Novus Property Solutions

Shaylor Group

Speller Metcalfe

Best Main Contractor to Work For (Under £50m)

Carillion Highways Maintenance M40

Colmore Tang

Colorado Group

GPC74

Hightown Group

Jarvis Contracting

Jenner Contractors

PiLON

Torsion Group

VolkerWessels UK

Best Specialist Contractor to Work For (Over 25m)   

Astins

BAM Ritchies

Briggs Amasco

Briggs & Forrester

Carey Group

McGee

NG Bailey

Severfield

Vital Energi

Watkins                                                                                    

Best Specialist Contractor to Work For (Under £25m)

Aarsleff Ground Engineering

Ardmac

Builders Beams

Clarke Facades

Hazelwood Carpentry Contractors

PHD Modular Access

Scitech Engineering

SMD

Taylor’s Hoists

VolkerLaser

Best Main Contractor to Work With (Over £250m)

Balfour Beatty

BAM Construction

BAM Nuttall

Graham Construction

Kier

Laing O’Rourke

Lendlease

Sisk

Skanska

Willmott Dixon

Best Main Contractor to Work With (£50m – £250m)

Bardsley

Barhale

Clugston Construction

Caddick Construction

Farrans

McNicholas Construction

North Midland

Shaylor Group

Speller Metcalfe

Watkin Jones

Best Main Contractor to Work With (Under £50m)

AE Yates

Cheetham Hill

Colmore Tang

Jarvis Contracting

Manton Building Contractors

PiLON

Torsion Group

VolkerWessels UK

Warden Construction

Wildgoose Construction                                          

Best Specialist Contractor to Work With (Over £25m)

Briggs Amasco

Carey Group

J Reddington

Keltbray

Lakesmere

McGee

NG Bailey

Prater

TClarke

Vital Energi

Best Specialist Contractor to Work With (Under £25m)          

A1 Flue Systems

Bauer Technologies

Bracknell Roofing

G&H Group

GKR Scaffolding

M&J Group

MVS Group

SMD

Style Partitions

Tiger Scaffolding

Best Construction Supplier to Work With (Over £25m)

FP McCann

Hudson Contract Services

JCB

Mabey

Marley Eternit

Metsec

PERI

SIG

Tarmac

VP Groundforce

Construction Supplier to Work With (Under £25m)

Basestone

Biosite Systems

Bryson Products

Constructionarium

One Way resourcing

Purpol Marketing

PSP Aluminium

Safewise

TD Construction Testing

Visual 5D

from Construction Enquirer http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2017/10/11/big-night-out-for-constructions-favourite-firms/

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Travelers Championship live stream: Tee times, TV coverage, and how to watch Sunday's Round 4 online

Jordan Spieth can join Tiger Woods as the only players of the modern era to get 10 wins before their 24th birthday.

The Travelers Championship is set up for one its best Sundays ever with Jordan Spieth taking the 54-hole lead into the final round. Spieth has led the Travelers since the front nine of his first round on Thursday, which featured five birdies in his first eight holes. He’s lost the lead at points within his subsequent two rounds, but at the end of each, the name on top remained the same.

Spieth was one of the big pre-tourney announcements that gave this event a massive boost. The Travelers carries a rep as a tournament that is aggressive in promoting itself and trying to get better, and as one that the players love. But it’s also the week after the U.S. Open, a time when many of the top players, who do not want for money, prefer to take a week break. This year, however, the Travelers landed Spieth along with Rory McIlroy for the first time. They were just a couple of the big headliners in a field that became one of the strongest of the PGA Tour regular season.

Now their hard work in hustling to build a strong field has paid off on the weekend. For the second straight day, they will get one of their prize catches playing in the final group and in the lead. This has looked like Spieth’s tournament from the get-go and while there have been a few hiccup stretches, he keeps figuring out a way to get around this TPC River Highlands course in the red and in solo first.

Jordan Spieth leads by 2. With win this week, he would join Tiger Woods as only players in modern era with 10 #PGATour wins before age 24.

— Justin Ray (@JustinRayGC) June 24, 2017

This is not just a nice boost for the Travelers, but it also brings some juice to the PGA Tour schedule. Anytime we can get one of its marquee stars on the lead on a Sunday, the interest is going to spike. It does not matter that it’s the week after a major when some might want to take a breather from golf. Spieth playing alongside Boo Weekley, another higher profile personality, is a nice win for the Tour and the Travelers.

The tee sheet is back to normal for the final round, with twosomes rolling off No. 1 throughout the day. Saturday’s third round featured a condensed two-hour window of groups of three off split tees. Spieth and Boo will go right at 2 p.m. ET, setting up a finish on CBS at 6 p.m. Here are your media options for Sunday at TPC River Highlands.

Sunday’s final-round coverage

Television:

1 to 2:30 p.m. ET — Golf Channel

3 to 6 p.m. — CBS

Online streams:

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. — Featured Groups coverage (PGA Tour Live subscription required)

1 to 6 p.m. — PGA Tour Live featured holes coverage (No subscription required)

1 to 2:30 p.m. — Golf Channel simulcast stream

2:30 to 6 p.m. — PGA Tour Live/CBS simulcast stream

Radio:

1 to 6 p.m. — PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 92/208 and streamed here)

TEE TIMES

Here’s the full tee sheet for Sunday’s final round (all times ET):

8:15 a.m.: Joel Dahmen, Robert Streb

8:24 a.m.: Greg Chalmers, Kevin Tway

8:33 a.m.: Hudson Swafford, Kyle Stanley

8:42 a.m.: Jonas Blixt, Geoff Ogilvy

8:51 a.m.: Rod Pampling, Rory McIlroy

9:00 a.m.: Emiliano Grillo, J.J. Henry

9:09 a.m.: Tim Wilkinson, Retief Goosen

9:18 a.m.: Wesley Bryan, Nick Watney

9:27 a.m.: Kevin Na, Michael Kim

9:36 a.m.: Vaughn Taylor, Brandt Snedeker

9:45 a.m.: Brad Fritsch, Tom Hoge

9:54 a.m.: Ricky Barnes, William McGirt

10:03 a.m.: Adam Hadwin, Patton Kizzire

10:12 a.m.: Ben An, Ryan Palmer

10:21 a.m.: Kevin Streelman, Fabian Gomez

10:30 a.m.: Mackenzie Hughes, Mark Hubbard

10:40 a.m.: Daniel Summerhays, Bud Cauley

10:50 a.m.: Beau Hossler, Graham DeLaet

11:00 a.m.: Jim Furyk, Grayson Murray

11:10 a.m.: Anirban Lahiri, Smylie Kaufman

11:20 a.m.: Hunter Mahan, Johnson Wagner

11:30 a.m.: Brett Stegmaier, Will MacKenzie

11:40 a.m.: Russell Knox, Tony Finau

11:50 a.m.: Troy Merritt, Matt Every

12 p.m.: Bryce Molder, Chase Seiffert

12:10 p.m.: Xander Schauffele, Padraig Harrington

12:20 p.m.: Rick Lamb, Morgan Hoffmann

12:30 p.m.: Brendan Steele, Patrick Reed

12:40 p.m.: Brian Harman, Ryan Brehm

12:50 p.m.: Marc Leishman, Bryson DeChambeau

1:00 p.m.: Chez Reavie, Patrick Rodgers

1:10 p.m.: Webb Simpson, Charley Hoffman

1:20 p.m.: Danny Lee, Jason Kokrak

1:30 p.m.: David Hearn, Keegan Bradley

1:40 p.m.: David Lingmerth, Paul Casey

1:50 p.m.: Daniel Berger, C.T. Pan

2 p.m.: Jordan Spieth, Boo Weekley

[jaigeddes]

Last chance for tickets to celebrate best in construction

There are only a handful of tables left with just one week remaining to book your tickets for this year’s Construction Enquirer Awards.

The awards take place on Tuesday October 10 and will be hosted by TV architect George Clarke and top comedian Seann Walsh.

The event takes place alongside UK Construction Week in Birmingham.

The Top Ten winners were chosen after more than 10,000 votes were cast by the industry.

Being voted for by your peers makes an Enquirer Top Ten place a unique badge of honour – awarded to construction companies by construction people.

The industry has spoken and chosen its best places to work at and the best companies to do business with.

Winning contractors, clients and suppliers have been backed in their thousands by staff and their supply chains.

Tickets are now on sale for the event which is the perfect chance to say thank you to the staff and suppliers who have helped win these prizes.

Enquirer editor Aaron Morby said:“It will be great to see all the winners on the night and tables are booking up fast as firms rightly reward their staff with a top night out.”

A raft of big-name sponsors are already backing the awards.

On board so far are Engage, Torsion Group, JLT, Hadley Group, Screwfix, Cemex, Laing O’Rourke and Velux.

Further sponsorship opportunities are available to associate your brand with awards which are engaging the whole of construction.

To discuss sponsorship packages please email Lucy Stott

Tickets for the awards night cost £250 or £2,500 for a table of ten.

To book your places please click here

The full list of winners is:

Best Client to Work With (Public and Private)

Argent

Berkeley Group

Dyson

Jaguar Land Rover

Kemira Chemicals UK

Highways England

Land Securities

North West Construction Hub

Rotherham Metropolitan Council

Scape

Best Main Contractor to Work For (Over £250m)

Ferrovial Agroman UK

Graham Construction

ISG

J Murphy

Laing O’Rourke

McLaren Construction

Morgan Sindall

Sisk

Taylor Woodrow

Willmott Dixon

Best Main Contractor to Work For (£50m – £250m)

8Build

Barhale

Beard Construction

Farrans

FM Conway

McNicholas Construction

Raymond Brown Construction

Novus Property Solutions

Shaylor Group

Speller Metcalfe

Best Main Contractor to Work For (Under £50m)

Carillion Highways Maintenance M40

Colmore Tang

Colorado Group

GPC74

Hightown Group

Jarvis Contracting

Jenner Contractors

PiLON

Torsion Group

VolkerWessels UK

Best Specialist Contractor to Work For (Over 25m)   

Astins

BAM Ritchies

Briggs Amasco

Briggs & Forrester

Carey Group

McGee

NG Bailey

Severfield

Vital Energi

Watkins                                                                                    

Best Specialist Contractor to Work For (Under £25m)

Aarsleff Ground Engineering

Ardmac

Builders Beams

Clarke Facades

Hazelwood Carpentry Contractors

PHD Modular Access

Scitech Engineering

SMD

Taylor’s Hoists

VolkerLaser

Best Main Contractor to Work With (Over £250m)

Balfour Beatty

BAM Construction

BAM Nuttall

Graham Construction

Kier

Laing O’Rourke

Lendlease

Sisk

Skanska

Willmott Dixon

Best Main Contractor to Work With (£50m – £250m)

Bardsley

Barhale

Clugston Construction

Caddick Construction

Farrans

McNicholas Construction

North Midland

Shaylor Group

Speller Metcalfe

Watkin Jones

Best Main Contractor to Work With (Under £50m)

AE Yates

Cheetham Hill

Colmore Tang

Jarvis Contracting

Manton Building Contractors

PiLON

Torsion Group

VolkerWessels UK

Warden Construction

Wildgoose Construction                                          

Best Specialist Contractor to Work With (Over £25m)

Briggs Amasco

Carey Group

J Reddington

Keltbray

Lakesmere

McGee

NG Bailey

Prater

TClarke

Vital Energi

Best Specialist Contractor to Work With (Under £25m)          

A1 Flue Systems

Bauer Technologies

Bracknell Roofing

G&H Group

GKR Scaffolding

M&J Group

MVS Group

SMD

Style Partitions

Tiger Scaffolding

Best Construction Supplier to Work With (Over £25m)

FP McCann

Hudson Contract Services

JCB

Mabey

Marley Eternit

Metsec

PERI

SIG

Tarmac

VP Groundforce

Construction Supplier to Work With (Under £25m)

Basestone

Biosite Systems

Bryson Products

Constructionarium

One Way resourcing

Purpol Marketing

PSP Aluminium

Safewise

TD Construction Testing

Visual 5D

[ndbasilica]

Last chance for tickets to celebrate best in construction

There are only a handful of tables left with just one week remaining to book your tickets for this year’s Construction Enquirer Awards.

The awards take place on Tuesday October 10 and will be hosted by TV architect George Clarke and top comedian Seann Walsh.

The event takes place alongside UK Construction Week in Birmingham.

The Top Ten winners were chosen after more than 10,000 votes were cast by the industry.

Being voted for by your peers makes an Enquirer Top Ten place a unique badge of honour – awarded to construction companies by construction people.

The industry has spoken and chosen its best places to work at and the best companies to do business with.

Winning contractors, clients and suppliers have been backed in their thousands by staff and their supply chains.

Tickets are now on sale for the event which is the perfect chance to say thank you to the staff and suppliers who have helped win these prizes.

Enquirer editor Aaron Morby said:“It will be great to see all the winners on the night and tables are booking up fast as firms rightly reward their staff with a top night out.”

A raft of big-name sponsors are already backing the awards.

On board so far are Engage, Torsion Group, JLT, Hadley Group, Screwfix, Cemex, Laing O’Rourke and Velux.

Further sponsorship opportunities are available to associate your brand with awards which are engaging the whole of construction.

To discuss sponsorship packages please email Lucy Stott

Tickets for the awards night cost £250 or £2,500 for a table of ten.

To book your places please click here

The full list of winners is:

Best Client to Work With (Public and Private)

Argent

Berkeley Group

Dyson

Jaguar Land Rover

Kemira Chemicals UK

Highways England

Land Securities

North West Construction Hub

Rotherham Metropolitan Council

Scape

Best Main Contractor to Work For (Over £250m)

Ferrovial Agroman UK

Graham Construction

ISG

J Murphy

Laing O’Rourke

McLaren Construction

Morgan Sindall

Sisk

Taylor Woodrow

Willmott Dixon

Best Main Contractor to Work For (£50m – £250m)

8Build

Barhale

Beard Construction

Farrans

FM Conway

McNicholas Construction

Raymond Brown Construction

Novus Property Solutions

Shaylor Group

Speller Metcalfe

Best Main Contractor to Work For (Under £50m)

Carillion Highways Maintenance M40

Colmore Tang

Colorado Group

GPC74

Hightown Group

Jarvis Contracting

Jenner Contractors

PiLON

Torsion Group

VolkerWessels UK

Best Specialist Contractor to Work For (Over 25m)   

Astins

BAM Ritchies

Briggs Amasco

Briggs & Forrester

Carey Group

McGee

NG Bailey

Severfield

Vital Energi

Watkins                                                                                    

Best Specialist Contractor to Work For (Under £25m)

Aarsleff Ground Engineering

Ardmac

Builders Beams

Clarke Facades

Hazelwood Carpentry Contractors

PHD Modular Access

Scitech Engineering

SMD

Taylor’s Hoists

VolkerLaser

Best Main Contractor to Work With (Over £250m)

Balfour Beatty

BAM Construction

BAM Nuttall

Graham Construction

Kier

Laing O’Rourke

Lendlease

Sisk

Skanska

Willmott Dixon

Best Main Contractor to Work With (£50m – £250m)

Bardsley

Barhale

Clugston Construction

Caddick Construction

Farrans

McNicholas Construction

North Midland

Shaylor Group

Speller Metcalfe

Watkin Jones

Best Main Contractor to Work With (Under £50m)

AE Yates

Cheetham Hill

Colmore Tang

Jarvis Contracting

Manton Building Contractors

PiLON

Torsion Group

VolkerWessels UK

Warden Construction

Wildgoose Construction                                          

Best Specialist Contractor to Work With (Over £25m)

Briggs Amasco

Carey Group

J Reddington

Keltbray

Lakesmere

McGee

NG Bailey

Prater

TClarke

Vital Energi

Best Specialist Contractor to Work With (Under £25m)          

A1 Flue Systems

Bauer Technologies

Bracknell Roofing

G&H Group

GKR Scaffolding

M&J Group

MVS Group

SMD

Style Partitions

Tiger Scaffolding

Best Construction Supplier to Work With (Over £25m)

FP McCann

Hudson Contract Services

JCB

Mabey

Marley Eternit

Metsec

PERI

SIG

Tarmac

VP Groundforce

Construction Supplier to Work With (Under £25m)

Basestone

Biosite Systems

Bryson Products

Constructionarium

One Way resourcing

Purpol Marketing

PSP Aluminium

Safewise

TD Construction Testing

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