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If you unexpectedly lost your job tomorrow, would you be prepared to cope with the consequences?
Losing your job can be debilitating. If you are facing an unplanned career transition, you may be dealing with the loss of identity associated with your former position. There is often a period of shock followed by mourning and even depression.
Let the American Geophysical Union (AGU) be a resource for you. We offer a wide array of resources for members and nonmembers alike. Whether you are currently unemployed or want to be prepared for the unexpected, AGU’s unemployment resources will reduce the impact of any workforce displacement.
It is important that job seekers stay engaged. AGU can help facilitate the transition back into the workforce. With a community of more than 60,000 professionals in the Earth and space sciences, AGU is a key tool in the job seeker’s toolbox. Here are five steps to take after losing a job, along with AGU resources to help you.
1. Stay Current
Stay up to date in your field by reading AGU’s open access articles in GeoHealth, Earth and Space Science, Earth’s Future, and Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. In addition, all AGU articles published in 1997 and after are open access 24 months after online publication.
Stay current with the latest news in Earth and space science with Eos.org and Eos Buzz alerts. Keeping engaged will help you stay relevant so that you can provide meaningful contributions during an interview or a networking meeting.
2. Make Yourself Visible
AGU members seeking employment are encouraged to create a profile on the Career Center job board. Creating a profile will allow you to search and respond to job listings, upload and instantly transfer your resumé to recruiters and hiring managers, and set up notifications when jobs meet your search criteria. In addition, creating a profile that includes your CV or resumé will allow our participating recruiters to find you by searching our job seeker database.
Students may be disproportionally hard hit by increased competition for employment. Gaining practical experience through internships or even temporary contractor positions can boost your skills and get your foot in the door. Internships and contracted positions give you experience, allow you to demonstrate your capabilities, and allow you to try out an organization’s work environment. AGU connects students with internships and other employment opportunities via the Career Center job board.
3. Expand Your Network
Networking is vital to the job hunt. AGU meetings and conferences are great venues for connecting with new professional contacts or reconnecting with previously forged ones.
If you plan to attend Fall Meeting, make sure to stop by AGU’s Recruiters Row, a vibrant part of the Exhibit Hall, where you can interview with prospective employers and network with company representatives. In addition, in the AGU Career Center, you can gain essential job search skills, have your resumé reviewed, or practice interviewing.
Being active in the AGU community by attending Fall Meeting can help grow professional networks and increase opportunities to discover available positions. For virtual opportunities, join the AGU group on LinkedIn and take part in discussions on the AGU Connect-β platform.
4. Hone Your Professional Skills
AGU Webinars broadcast live each Thursday at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time at no cost. AGU Webinars provide useful skills and training for Earth and space scientists. Topics include career development, science communication, and science policy. Every third Thursday features a professional development topic. Webinar recordings are posted online approximately 1 week after the initial broadcast. See webinars.agu.org for a list of upcoming and archived topics.
AGU’s On the Job blog features career advice and workforce guidance to geoscience students, early-career scientists, and established professionals interested in pursuing professional enrichment. You can also visit Eos Career Tools & Resources for a collection of job search and professional development advice articles curated by the Eos editorial team.
5. Ask for Help
One of the most intensive resources AGU offers is the Job Seekers Group, where currently unemployed members virtually meet each week to discuss strategies that will help them find and secure that fulfilling position. During each meeting, time is allocated to discuss the progress and struggles of each member and to share suggestions for overcoming barriers. If you are interested in joining, email [email protected].
AGU is here for you and committed to supporting our members during tumultuous times. With a vibrant, helpful, and well-connected Earth and space science community and an array of career resources, we can help you minimize the impact of a job loss and secure a new position.
If you find yourself facing unemployment, remember to utilize our resources to help get you back on your feet. For a full listing of unemployment resources, visit unemployed.agu.org.
—Leslie Marasco (email: [email protected]), AGU Student Programs Coordinator; David Harwell, AGU Talent Pool Director; and Nathaniel Janick, AGU Career Services Coordinator
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“Youths” Jump Couple at DC Metro Station in Latest Knock-Out Style Beating (VIDEO)
A DC couple was brutally beaten at a Metro station in Washington DC after watching a movie Saturday night.
Police are looking for several youths in a spree of recent Metro beatings.
The youths sucker-punched the couple and kicked their faces.
This is the fourth such attack in the last month on Metro passengers.
The media has mostly covered up this story.
The young couple said they would have likely found another way home if they would have heard about the number of recent beatings.
FOX 5 DC reported:
Two more victims have come forward in another violent attack at a Metro station. It is the latest in a string of violent assaults happening in the transit system.
“I don’t know exactly what was happening,” said one of the victims. “I heard my girlfriend screaming.”
It was 15 seconds of terror for a D.C. couple after they were attacked by a group of teenagers on Metro.
“I think there were about ten kids who were just all attacking us,” said the girlfriend.
It was 9:30 p.m. Saturday night on January 2. The couple was waiting for a train at the Metro Center stop after spending a night at the movies. They were sitting on a bench when he was sucker-punched from behind and suffered a loss of vision.
“It all happened very quickly, and then they were just hitting us both in the face and head,” said the female victim.
They said the attack was unprovoked.
“We literally said nothing to them,” said the boyfriend.
The male victim had two black swollen eyes, welts on his head and bruised wrists from shielding his face. His girlfriend was left bleeding with a split lip.
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(Jackson, Mississippi) – Governor Phil Bryant signed House Bill 1213 into law, effective July 1, 2017, recognizing and legitimizing the role and responsibilities of Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteers in Mississippi.
CASA Mississippi, Inc. is a non-profit organization that advocates for the best interests of abused and neglected children through the development and support of court sanctioned, community-based programs which provide trained and supervised volunteers. There are currently local CASA programs serving 6 of 82 counties in Mississippi, with interest in developing programs in several additional countries in the near future.
Without intervention, the odds are stacked against children in foster care. A child with a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer, however, will leave the foster care system two-and-a-half months earlier, on average, compared to a child without a CASA volunteer. Studies show children with a CASA volunteer receive more services that are critical to their well-being than children without an advocate, and those children are more likely to achieve educational success.
“The needs of Mississippi’s children coming into care are more complicated than ever before, and life in foster care can be chaotic,” said Mary Largent Purvis, Executive Director for CASA Mississippi. “Every child deserves the support of caring, consistent adult, with the training to help them heal and thrive.”
CASA Mississippi is a member of the National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association (National CASA), a nationwide network of programs in nearly 1,000 communities. At the heart of the movement are nearly 77,000 highly trained volunteers who advocate for the best interests of more than 250,000 of America’s children who have been abused or neglected. In Mississippi, there are over 300 volunteer advocates fighting for the best interests of over 900 children but thousands more children need the care and support of a CASA volunteer.
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Zitner Candy Corp., the nearly 100-year-old North Philadelphia producer of chocolate-covered Easter eggs, filed for bankruptcy protection in a bid to restructure what the company’s lawyer called “a real big overhang of secured debt.”
“The company, operationally, is very stable,” Albert A. Ciardi III, Zitner’s lawyer in the April 13 bankruptcy filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, said Monday.
Zitner’s biggest chunk of debt is $4.6 million in secured debt owed to Bryn Mawr Trust. In a junior position is $1.7 million to $1.8 million owed to Lava Funding LLC, according to a court filing. “The cash flow of the company just doesn’t support the large secured debt that was put on it,” Ciardi said.
The largest unsecured creditor is Kenneth R. Schuster, who joined Evan Prochniak and Sam Sherman to buy the company in 2010. Schuster’s unsecured claim is $486,000.
Prochniak, described at the time of the purchase as a real estate lawyer in Media, and his wife, Jaime, filed for personal bankruptcy on the same day as the Zitner filing.
Schuster and Prochniak, who were among the partners in a company that applied for a medical marijuana dispensary permit for Zitner’s location at 17th and West Clearfield Streets, did not respond to requests for comment. That company, Philagrow, did not get a license.
Zitner, which employs 20, according to a court filing, was founded in 1920 and is among the Philadelphia region’s fabled sweet-tooth brands such as Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews, Asher’s Chocolates, and Tastykake.
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American businessman and former two-time presidential candidate Ross Perot visited Fort Benning troops Friday.
The billionaire and 1953 graduate of the Naval Academy spoke Friday during the Combat Leader Speaker Program, a quarterly event in which military dignitaries are invited to address Fort Benning commanders, cadre, students and trainees. Perot addressed more than 300 officers and noncommissioned officers at the National Infantry Museum to cap his one-day visit, which included greeting wounded warriors, attending a U.S. Army Ranger School graduation and speaking at a re-enlistment ceremony for 27 Soldiers.
“The sacrifices they make are incredible and they don’t even blink,” said Perot of the Soldiers. “I wish every American was made of that same strength.”
Perot, an honorary member of the 75th Ranger Regiment and an honorary Green Beret, spoke to the CLSP attendees about the roots of the U.S. military and the necessity of appreciating everyday freedoms.
“Our ancestors in the American Revolution were on fire to be free,” Perot said. “A free country needs tough people. History teaches us when you are not free and can’t practice the religion of your choice, you will pay a high price.”
MG Michael Ferriter, Fort Benning’s commanding general, said Perot’s relationship with the Infantry post goes back to 1983 when Perot was awarded the Doughboy Award for his impact on the Infantry force.
“He has been a backer of the U.S. Army, the Infantry, the Airborne and Special Forces,” Ferriter said. “He believes and teaches everyone that if you want to be successful, it’s about leadership, discipline, commitment and duty — his life has been one of action in that regard.”
Perot served four years on a destroyer and an aircraft carrier before resigning his commission to pursue a career in technology. Perot continued to serve the military in a civilian capacity and was presented numerous awards for his efforts to support the military and prisoners of war. Perot said his desire to help POWs and those missing in action was sparked during the Vietnam War.
“When the POWs were being brutally treated in Vietnam, I had this lovely lady come to my office one day with this little baby boy in her arms and she said, ‘My name is Bonnie Singleton and this little boy doesn’t know if his daddy is dead or alive. Could you do anything to find out if he is in fact a prisoner of war?’” Perot said. “It gave me great insight into the sacrifices they made for us. I couldn’t wait to meet the men when they came home. I was overwhelmed by their strength, character, integrity and the fact that they weren’t broken after all that torture, after living in boxes for five years in isolation, after being hung from ceilings.”
Perot was awarded the Medal of Distinguished Public Service — the highest civilian award presented by the Department of Defense — for his efforts to help POWs.
Perot’s other awards include the Sylvanus Thayer Award presented by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; the Eisenhower Award in recognition of his support for the U.S. armed forces; the Jefferson Award for public service and the Patrick Henry Award presented by the National Guard Association of the United States.
Perot ran as an independent candidate in the 1992 presidential election and as a Reform Party candidate in 1996.
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Gananoque: Cliff Shinju Byrnes and his students invite you to exhibit at the Carveth Care Centre, 338 Herbert Street in Gananoque. Each year Ottawa Chapter members go to Gananoque on the Sunday in time to set up for an afternoon viewing open to the public between 1:00 and 3:00 pm. For more information, please contact Cliff at email@example.com.
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HAVE A GOOD LAUGH, FOLKS !!
Intelligence comes in so many different forms. Humor is, to me, a coping strategy, intellectually and emotionally. We may laugh at different things but some jokes are practically universal and may say more about man than many sciences. How come that a fart is such great entertainment in all corners of the world? My extensive travelling as a Social Anthropologist has made it possible to drily observe the reactions to this specific bodily function, ranging from embarassment accompanied by mirth to collapsing with laughter.
Social codes and implicit meanings may have a great impact on what is considered correct to joke about. Still, the unexpected or totally absurd catches us off guard and we globally laugh at serious, frightening things as if our lives depended on it! And it does...
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"Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.”
”By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean.”
- Mark Twain
- ”Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
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”Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes.”
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”The conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking”.
” Why is it when we talk to God we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?”
”Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other”
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I've been completely submerged in design work as of late so the kitchen has been Hubby's territory for the past couple of days. That means no "sinful" treats are getting made and photographed. I call Hubby my "personal chef" because he makes dinner every night, and culinary creations are always amazingly delicious as well as very healthy. He's a Type 2 diabetic and I have high cholesterol so he's really good about cooking foods that are good for us. The food is so delicious you'd never know it.
So the "yummy" things I have to share today come from my design world where I can design and paint all the "sinful" treats I want and not worry at all whether it's healthy or not.
Like these scrumptious looking maraschino cherries on Keds sneakers (click on the image to see it larger):
Or the decadent goodness of this calorie-free chocolate candy (click on images to see larger):
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Mixed bag from McGuinn's immediate post-Byrds career
The only constant fixture in the Byrds’ line-up, McGuinn was thus able to satisfy a myriad of musical cravings, which is perhaps why his solo career never produced the kind of intensely personal masterpiece that his ex-bandmates Gene Clark and David Crosby did with No Other and If I Could Only Remember My Name respectively. Nevertheless, his eponymous 1973 debut is intermittently brilliant, not least “My New Woman”, a smeared-harmony offcut from that year’s ill-fated Byrds reunion (Chris Hillman, Crosby and Clark guest) and the perfectly-feathered “Bag Full Of Money”. Elsewhere, Dylan and Bruce Johnston help ring the changes from folk and gospel to space-rock and surf. However, the disappointing 1974 follow-up, Peace On You, suggests a distracted muse.
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Cook County, IL – A corrupt cop by the name of Richard Fiorito has avoided charges after falsely arresting over 130 people for drunk driving. A recent investigation has uncovered that Fiorito was protected by state’s attorney Anita Alvarez, who is notorious for letting police off the hook. During that investigation, some old cases of Fiorito’s had shown vast corruption.
For six years, Fiorito was running a scheme in which he falsely arrested people on DUI charges so he could get overtime pay for the resulting court appearance.
In most of the cases, Fiorito would stop drivers on suspicion of driving drunk and would give them a field sobriety test, and he would fail them whether they passed or not, in many cases lying about his encounters with the victims and making up details about their behavior.
It was also suggested by some of the victims that Fiorito unfairly targetted the LGBT community, and would hunt for victims in a part of town where gay people often spent their time. Some victims reported that he used homophobic slurs while he was arresting them.
“He intends to be dual motivated,” attorney Jon Erickson said after the first dashcam surfaced. “One, for the money, and two, to target gays and lesbians.”
For years, Fiorito would arrest at least one person each day for drunk driving on average and was called a hero by both Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists.
Eventually, Fiorito slipped up and dash camera footage was able to prove that he lied about at least one of his DUI arrests. However, he was not fired for the offense but was just reassigned to desk duty. After further investigation, the attorney’s office was forced to drop charges against more than 130 people who were arrested for drunk driving.
After the full scope of his corruption was revealed, Fiorito resigned, but state’s attorney Anita Alvarez never pressed charges against him, despite claiming that her office was investigating the officer for over a year. Sadly, Fiorito has found himself in the 96 percent of cops, who have committed a crime, even on video, and will not be prosecuted.
Alvarez will soon be up for re-election, and many of the victims in this case are hoping that she loses.
One victim, James Dean, told reporters, “Anita Alvarez, she’s part of the system. She certainly proved to me that she’s not on the right side of the law. If she gets re-elected, then we’re just in for more of the same corruption.”
“I’m hoping that Foxx gets elected, because she understands how the system has been used against particularly people of color. Hopefully, she can be a catalyst for change,” he added, speaking of the candidate competing with Alvarez in the election.
Sadly, there are officers just like Fiorito in every police department across the country, officers who are willing to put innocent people in jail so they can get a fatter paycheck.
John Vibes is an author and researcher who organizes a number of large events including the Free Your Mind Conference. He also has a publishing company where he offers a censorship free platform for both fiction and non-fiction writers. You can contact him and stay connected to his work at his Facebook page. You can purchase his books, or get your own book published at his website www.JohnVibes.com.
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Last month Robert-Jan returned from the impressive Hautlence VORTEX presentation, that took place at the Hautlence headquarters and brought me back the new Invictus 03 for a review. I only knew the watch from the first model, the Invictus ‘Morphos’ that was designed by Guillaume Tetu together with the famous sportsman & artist Éric Cantona. But I only had seen and handled that model briefly during the presentation last year. The ‘Morphos’ with its bright blue wings on the dial is a real eye catcher, but a bit too flashy to my liking.
The new INVICTUS 03 is in fact the same watch, but with a complete different look, due to the DLC coated case and the open worked honey comb dial.
Hautlence INVICTUS 03
The honey comb dial, almost a trade mark of Hautlence, was first seen on their titanium HLti01. It gives the watch a more high tech image, what I like a lot for a sport watch. And a sport watch it is, in every aspect! Since 2004, the year the brand was found, Hautlence makes their calibers In House. That was Hautlence’s philosophy since the brand was established and since the first HL models were presented. Of course an aspire like that, also has its downside, especially for younger collectors and that’s the price. Last year Hautlence changed their original idea of using only In House produced calibers and decided to launch the friendly priced ‘Destination’, a watch that was powered with a modificated automatic Soprod A10 caliber. Following that concept, the INVICTUS was designed and powered with a skeletonised Dubois Dépraz chronograph on a Soprod A10 base caliber, that is partially visible through the opening in the right part of the dial.
One can actually look deep into the movement. The triple date window is very clear and Hautlence choose to show every other date, to make it look less cramped. (The date in the picture above is the 24th). It was Hautlence’s aim to come up with a more affordable sports watch, build to take with you to the gym, games, rally’s or where ever your action takes you.
The Invictus 03 is a time piece that doesn’t need to be treated with care. It can withstand a rougher and sporty life style easily. The DLC coating is extremely durable and can not be compared to PVD coatings that do come off at the edges easily. When the trend for black watches started and Panerai was the for runner, their watches were the first ones that were PVD coated. After some years a certain wear on the sides was visible. Which is no problem in the case of Panerai, since it gave the watches a nice worn and vintage look. But when the black is meant to stay on, ADLC or DLC (Diamond Like Carbon) is the way to go, it has proven its quality. The Hautlence ‘Destination’ model for instance, is available with a DLC coating and also many other brands are using DLC for their coatings, when durability is required.
I have been wearing the INVICTUS 03 for almost a month and when I received the watch I was a wondering how it would fit my 18cm wrist. After all the case is 42 x 49mm, so not a small watch. But as the ‘Destination’ series and the ‘HL ‘series, the case of the Invictus is TV shaped; the width is wider, than its height and that makes all the difference. It made the watch fit surprisingly well on my wrist. Since 7 years I am wearing a white gold HL-05 myself. A watch that is a bit smaller than the INVICTUS, but due to the heavy weight of its 18K case, the watch moves easier on the wrist than the INVICTUS. To let the INVICTUS sit well and stable on the wrist, it is not necessary to strap it on as tight, as I do with the gold HL05.
Add the light weight of the titanium case to the comfortable horizontal shape of the watchcase and it becomes clear that the INVICTUS 03 is a large, but very comfortable watch, that wears in many cases a lot easier and is less bulky, than round 45 and 47mm sports watches watches are. Compared to the traditional, smaller build HL series, where I am used to, the fit feels as good, although the height of the Invictus case is somewhat higher than the HL series, due to the chronograph complication, that needs a bit more height. I am convinced that Hautlence managed to make a really good case for the INVICTUS and I am sure we will see this case coming back in future collections more often, and may be with other complications.
The INVICTUS 03 comes with a thick black horn back crocodile leather strap with orange topstitching, matching the orange used on the dial for the markers and the hands and a steel deployent clasp, that is very easily to adjust.
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Home > Holistic Education > Food and Nutrition
Food and Nutrition
- The syllabus aims for Food and Nutrition are
- To develop students’ understanding of the principles and concept of a balanced diet in meal planning.
- To develop students’ understanding of the relationship between nutrition and health.
- To develop students’ understanding of the importance of making informed food choices regarding a healthy diet.
- To develop students’ understanding of the principles of food science.
- To equip students with the knowledge of the scientific principles underlying food preparation, processing and safety.
Subject content & Assessment
Written Paper Component - To test students’ knowledge of theory and practice in accordance with assessment objectives.
Format of written paper:
- Section A: Short-answer type questions
- Section B: Structured type questions
- Section C: Open-ended type questions (essay)
Coursework Component - To test students’ ability to apply a range of process skills, such as the ability to synthesise knowledge and evaluate the outcome of a completed task.
Coursework Folio Part A
Students will be given a task question where they need to analyse, plan and carry out research in which they ask questions and examine issues, gather, record, collate, interpret and evaluate data.
Coursework Folio Part B
Students are required to construct an experiment. Students are required to select and use appropriate methods/techniques to produce and conclude the results of their experiment.
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On this first Monday after the time change, I'm feeling a sense of overwhelm. It could be leftover exhaustion from the time change. (Though, with a toddler who doesn't care about clocks, that part is probably all in my head.) It might have been the 3-1/2 hour council meeting last Thursday, the minutes I have to review and the letters I have to write. It may be the gelato that needs churning or the quilting I need to do this week.
Yes, that's probably it. That's probably also why, as I try to gather my thoughts and launch into this week, my brain offers me less introspection and more of a to-do list. I'm sure I'll get things sorted eventually; I just hope it doesn't take me till Friday to do it.
That said, here's a writing update: zip. Yes, as you may have gathered from that partial to-do list, I didn't get a whole lot of writing done this past week. I did take the time to research some publications. The next step is to actually write and send to said publications. Plus, two weeks have flown by, and I find myself faced with another Shadowland deadline tomorrow. Since I haven't even gotten as far as writing a title for it, this should be interesting.
All that says one thing to me. I need to get off the Internet and back to work!
Happy Monday and happy writing.
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Did the page load quickly? We review the best desktop, mobile and web apps and services out there, in addition to useful tips and guides for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS and Windows Phone. solved More CPU per process Can't find your answer ? Top dmex Posts: 1127 Location: Australia Re: Select max cpu usage for process Quote #2 Thu Mar 05, 2015 12:22 pm Absol wrote:select the maximum CPU usage for process.Define "Select check my blog
Go to Control Panel. You have less precision (can only limit to certain percentages), but this is a more natural operation than trying to periodically suspend and resume process threads. We appreciate your feedback. Normally, when you first install software, the first few instances of it running will overload your CPU, memory and disk usage as your system adjusts to it being on the PC. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4326293/setting-maximum-cpu-usage-per-process-in-windows
Here's How To Resolve This Problem Uh Oh! share|improve this answer edited Apr 15 '11 at 15:20 community wiki 2 revsJanus Troelsen add a comment| up vote -8 down vote Open Task Manager. share|improve this answer edited Dec 1 '10 at 16:12 answered Dec 1 '10 at 16:06 Michael Levy 9,403114172 add a comment| up vote 15 down vote BES: http://mion.faireal.net/BES/ It's maintained and Download BES, Battle Encoder Shirase For WindowsAdvertisement Advertisement Do You Like This Post?
Any ideas? 6 answers Last reply Dec 22, 2012 More about limiting usage process jinksyDec 17, 2012, 3:12 AM Why not use Task Scheduler and set it as as a background You can now select how much of the CPU's capabilities you want to allocate to the process you selected to limit. Top TETYYS Posts: 451 OS: Win 7 x64 Re: Select max cpu usage for process Quote #9 Thu Mar 12, 2015 8:39 am And it will not work, you are Cpu Rate Limits In Windows Server 2012 When the process puts heavy load on CPU for a long time, CPU overheats and computer shuts down.
Right click on the process you want more CPU usage and select the Priority level you want. Bes Cpu Limiter click " go to details" now detail tab will show up right click the particular process and choose "set affinity" and choose the cores which you allow the particular process to Is it possible to limit the CPU used by each user or application to a maximum of 10% or something? http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-limit-cpu-usage-of-a-process-in-windows/ Microsoft Customer Support Microsoft Community Forums Windows Server TechCenter Sign in United States (English) Brasil (Português)Česká republika (Čeština)Deutschland (Deutsch)España (Español)France (Français)Indonesia (Bahasa)Italia (Italiano)România (Română)Türkiye (Türkçe)Россия (Русский)ישראל (עברית)المملكة العربية السعودية (العربية)ไทย (ไทย)대한민국
Press CTRL+Alt+Del and go to the Processes tab. click site Good suggestion though! A counter example for Sard's theorem in the case C^1 How to increment line counter for line beginning replacements by AWK/...? Open the Advanced settings for Power Options in Windows 10. Limit Cpu Usage Windows Server 2012
Click the Target button on the app's main screen. solved CPU Usage high, no process seen. I don't know if they ever kept it up to date. http://howtobackup.net/cpu-usage/limit-cpu-usage-per-application-windows-7.php windows-7 windows cpu share|improve this question edited Oct 11 '12 at 14:25 Tom Wijsman 46.4k19148230 asked Nov 24 '10 at 12:35 nimcap 5414820 3 Is renting out 3 hours of
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Community Additions ADD Show: Inherited Protected Print Export (0) Print Export (0) Share IN THIS ARTICLE Is this page helpful? I have a feeling the programs you are using were only designed for one core, thus unable to use the other 7 threads. You’ll need to look at these settings for each plan to maximize the impact. Process Tamer Windows 10 The BES is the unique performing a % cpu limiter.
If not, you’ll want to look at alternatives to accomplish the same thing on your Windows 10 computer. The others can't possibly help because it's already set to Idle priority. Change Your Power Options Power options can cause issues with system performance in general. More about the author jason3456Aug 23, 2013, 4:55 PM thx, seems stupid that chrome will only use 1core.
CPU Usage of a process drops to 2% after 10 seconds idle? JamesNT"If you have to ask about various operating system limits, you're probably doing something wrong." -Raymond Chen Tuesday, November 15, 2011 7:56 PM Reply | Quote 0 Sign in to vote Top dmex Posts: 1127 Location: Australia Re: Select max cpu usage for process Quote #7 Sun Mar 08, 2015 11:42 pm Absol wrote:Is it possible to make the process of As far as I can tell it won't let me set priorities.
Tweet Recommended For You Create CPU Usage Rules And Keep Application Usage In Defined Range With Process Tamer Average CPU Cycles: Check Average CPU Usage For Any Windows Process Counters: Track How can I monitor the progress of a slow upgrade? If you’re still having issues with your CPU maxing out, we recommend contacting Microsoft tech support for them to get into some advanced level troubleshooting to fix the issue permanently. share|improve this answer answered Apr 28 '15 at 22:13 angorsaxon 24125 add a comment| up vote 1 down vote Another very convenient way to set the affinity of a certain executable
Get the answer Derf321Dec 20, 2012, 10:11 AM Anyone have an idea? Details There are two ways of limiting CPU usage in a system Hard and Soft; in hard quota management the system will ensure that processes only utilizes the amount of CPU share|improve this answer edited Mar 1 at 22:18 techraf 3,488101327 answered Mar 1 at 21:16 Zeppi Ta Leli II 411 You can also adjust cooling policy there passive mode Of course the processing speed will slow down proportionally if you limit the CPU usage, but it should be much better than crashing because of heat or (in the worst scenario)
Windows 70Limit CPU consumption of 15 processes on windows? CpuRateLimit is the maximum percent of CPU usage in a time interval so it can only take values between 0 and 100. For users on older PCs, it can render a computer useless. It says: Now here comes the drawback.
http://threadmaster.tripod.com/ share|improve this answer edited Mar 16 at 14:21 Willi Mentzel 142111 answered Dec 23 '13 at 13:16 John 412 add a comment| up vote 3 down vote In windows 10, Is there any programs I can schedule to run at login and silently limit it in the background? it sounds like that is wat is happening or at least it makes sense but when i set the affinity CPU 0 - 7 are all checked off. Not the answer you're looking for?
Collatz Conjecture (3n+1) variant Is it possible to get a professor position without having had any fellowships in grad school? I found the program BES, but you have to re-configure which process to target every time you log in. Practically all laptops and Windows itself have built in mechanisms for dynamically adjusting processor speed to match load.
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Although it is really not a crucial part of your back country camping gear, a machete is something you may consider packing according to where you stand going. It is actually a very versatile tool from the wilderness. You may cut a trail http://buckeye4locals.com/lifestyle/stay-safe-hiking-new-skyline-regional-park-trails-buckeye-az/, hack bamboo and vines for shelter, cut coconuts for water, chop firewood, as well as utilize it as protection against wild animals.
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Camping is definitely a fun time, but there might also be uninvited guests in your campsite. Who are these guests? Bugs! This is certainly their environment and they like camping, too. Ensure you have bugged repellent along with you to share with them to remain at their own personal campsite or perhaps to go visit other campers who weren't as prepared as you may were.
A Frisbee provides excellent support under paper plates, and will stay away from the usual camping spillage and drops! Grab as most of them as you have around your property or yard, or pick up a couple of in your local dollar-type store. They conveniently stack for quick, space-saving packing and so are tremendously helpful with little one's meals.
To prevent blistered and chapped feet on your camping trip, bring a bar of soap along! Prior to any lengthy walk, rub the soap in to the heals of the socks which will minimize friction, thus reducing soreness. Maintain the soap in the bank for the quick dose whenever your feet start feeling beat-up or blistered.
Ask a park ranger or possibly a tour guide to inform you about all of the places to look into while you are camping. This is a great idea so that you know you are receiving the most from your camping experience, you don't wish to require a camping trip and neglect an exciting experience.
When traveling in your camping destination, intend on stopping and having a meal when you're near the campground, but before you truly arrive. Being well fed before arriving will ease frustrations when the campground is full, or if perhaps it will take longer to acquire your gear setup. Use this break to go over your plans and also to remind all of the best way to remain safe!
When you are camping along with the weather conditions are starting to rise significantly, tale the coolers that you may have with you and put them somewhere from the shade. It will help to keep them covered with some form of tarp. This will maintain the temperature within the cooler from rising too much.
When preparing for the camping trip, people often fail to bring enough clothes. Understand that you will have no washing facilities, and you need to consider exactly how the weather can require certain specific attire at the same time sometimes. You usually need to be prepared, so pack accordingly.
Usually do not forget your cooking supplies. You need pots, pans, utensils and dishes cooking on and eat with. Be sure that you double-check to ensure that you may have packed these supplies before you leave your house. You may not have to get all set up and ready to cook the initial meal and find that you have left your pot in the home.
Never hike alone. It may sound juvenile, but always employ the buddy system. It might be easy to go missing or turned around naturally. You can slip and hurt yourself. In instances like these, it is best to have somebody along. Even if you have your cellphone handy, you may find it doesn't get reception in the woods.
Before going out to visit camping, compile a checklist of things that you just plan to bring. It's especially important to create a checklist if you will certainly be traveling a distance towards the campgrounds. Pack several days before your camping trip should certainly happen and look off your list while you experience things.
Make sure you choose a sleeping bag that is right for where you will certainly be camping. Sleeping bags created from lightweight material are optimal for warmer climates. By contrast, you should select a heavy sleeping bag if you are planning to camp in the cold area. Make sure your sleeping bag fits you well, hugs your system and enables you to retain heat.
Pack carefully and efficiently. Produce a supply checklist for your personal trip and view off each item as it's being packed. If you are planning deep into the bush or backcountry where emergency supplies and services are inaccessible, then you really need to be sure to have medical material and related equipment.
Ever since the tent is amongst the most critical aspects of your camping trip, make sure the main one you will get is suitable. Work out how most people are coming in the trip so you can get a large enough tent. Also, ensure that the tent you receive prevents moisture from getting inside.
Your tent should be kept dry and well ventilated. Absence of ventilation might cause condensation to produce if you sweat and breathe. You may get up wet without adequate ventilation. Make sure to get a tent containing vents or windows which can be opened to prevent moisture from transforming into a problem.
It's smart to maintain hygiene when camping. Things like washcloths, sponges, bowls, biodegradable soaps, toothbrushes, toothpaste, baking soda, floss, and water that is clean can help you stay clean during your trip. You can also use hand sanitizer, rubbing alcohol, and cotton balls on non-sensitive areas. Don't use anything with fragrances simply because they can attract bugs.
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As with most books in the Bible, there are different schools of thought regarding the book of Revelation. Since my recent group study of the book I must say that I have drastically changed my beliefs regarding this book. I now have a difficult time applying the book to futuristic events that will effect Christians. If you get the time frame wrong regarding this book it definitely skews the interpretation.
The other disturbing thing about Revelation is the number of "biblical experts" who try to interpret its symbolism to be one hundred percent locked in while they pinpoint the exact date and time of when events will occur. Jesus told us the no one will know the hour and date of his coming (Mark 13:32) so people who continue to try to nail it down when all events will take place are in direct contradiction to his teachings. We are to be ready, but not to be preoccupied with accelerating events to speed up his arrival.
If you follow the belief that is most popular today it is that the book is written around 95 A.D. But if you believe it was written between 60 and 90 AD that drastically changes the interpretation. Here's why.
John addresses his letter to the seven churches. There was only a short window of time when there actually were exactly seven churches (the ones mentioned in the letters). Any earlier then only a few existed. Any later and then less that that number existed.
John starts off by stating the time is near. Thousands of years later people think it applies to us. If the time is near, and this prophecy wasn't sealed up as in the prophetic book of Daniel, then there is a sense or urgency.
John was addressing the persecution of Christians happening at that time and there are specifics that apply to the symbolism that relate to the different locations of the churches and who was in rule in their regions at that time. So, for instance, the reference to the Beast, may refer to the Emporer Domitian who persecuted Christians. (It was actually his nickname during that time.) The mark of the beast may refer to the mark people had to wear in order to sell in the market place. If they didn't comply and express their loyalty, they wouldn't receive the mark which meant they couldn't sell. Not selling meant hunger and poverty. Today's interpretation of Revelation and the Beast make him more the anti-Christ and people are always trying to figure out exactly who that anti-Christ is. Adolph Hitler, Obama, you name it. I've heard it all.
Why was Revelation written with so much imagry and symbolism? Why didn't God just give direct instruction to John? What possible purpose could the crypticness serve?
Here's a guess on my part. The only means of communication John had to warn these churches was through letters. And his purpose was to warn them about coming tribulation and looming destruction. If he had been straight forward without the coded symbols and the letters had fallen into the wrong hands, the bearer, the churches, and John could have been arrested and executed. As it was, he put forth these documents to both encourage the churches to hold fast to the true teachings of Christ, to resist the onslaught of pagan beliefs they were surrounded by, and to impress upon them the importance of following Christ's teachings without becoming luke warm or distorting them which was already taking place among some of these bodies of believers.
Here we go again.I said this before, the Bible is not a novel. When you piece together a cohesive storyline you are forcing jigsaw puzzle pieces together that do not fit and yet Christians do it all the time.
I am not going into a detailed break down of the book. But I do want to address the Left Behind series. Some Christians have been sucked into this series hook, line and sinker. These stories are literally scaring the hell out of people. I think it's way off the mark. A couple of writers let their imaginations run wild. It touts the popular and unbiblical teaching of the rapture based on just a few verses of scripture such as 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and 1 Corinthians 15:50-54, then the mash it all together with all the apocalyptic events in Revelation. One of the reasons people are being suck is is because of the Christian desire to see their faithfulness to God rewarded while everyone else's avoidance of him gets their just rewards. Who doesn't want to feel vindicated and yet this angry vengeful God and warrior Christ, seem at odds with what we know about the God/Jesus we see in the gospels. Somethings not right here.
Again, we have to look at the primary filter of our biblical understanding through the lens of Jesus. I am presently going through the gospels to see more on what Jesus has to say about everything, including judgment and his coming again. Will it be this bloody battle scene such as we see in Revelation where the blood runs as deep as a horses bridle? Knowing Jesus' character and that he reflects the true nature of God, I have to say I question it. I will know more in the coming months. I invite you to dig for yourself, just be sure to keep what you study in the context of the time and the audience for whom it was written.
What can can take away from Revelation is this. First, we should never let our culture water down Jesus' teachings. That we should be ready to meet Christ when he does come but we should live every day in complete devotion to his teachings. That we should share this good news by being a reflection of Christ to everyone we come in contact with.
If you want to listen to the podcasts from A Place to Talk where we just finished a study of Revelation, there are recordings of these sessions. It's a very interactive church so lots of dialogue. This is the intro http://aplacetotalk.net/weeklytalks/page/2/. I think the second podcast in the series may talk about the time frame. The things about these discussions any time we have them is that we don't feel we have to say we have nailed it down. We leave conclusions open ended.In many ways I feel that's healthier.
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http://through-dark-glass.blogspot.com/2015/09/my-revelation-about-book-of-revelations.html
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[artist id="3187077"]Justin Bieber[/artist] fans better start saving up now, because the pop star is set on taking over retail stores around the country. In addition to his line of dolls and nail polish, the teen sensation is joining the league of celebrities who have ventured into the fragrance scene with his debut scent called My World.
According to WWD, Bieber is teaming up with Etoile Nation Beauty to create wristbands and dog tags infused with a unisex fragrance. The scent is embedded into the accessories through a patented resin technology that is designed to hold the scent for up to one year. The My World collection will feature four different designs including Icon, Energy, Tour and Web and will hit Wal-Mart stores beginning on Black Friday (November 26).
Bieber told the fashion news service that he's been involved in developing the scent. "They actually brought me a bunch of stuff to smell today," he said. "One of them smelled too young, too fruity. One was really good."
When asked what scents he likes most on the ladies, Justin replied, "I actually like the Britney Spears perfume on girls. It smells good."
Priced at $10, the fragrance is described as having "a combination of top notes of bergamot, lychee and pomegranate, a heart of cedar glimmers and a drydown of musk."
"This Justin Bieber juggernaut is never going to end," Etoile Nation Beauty president Michael Ferrara told WWD. "Justin is a total grassroots phenomenon."
With the affordable cost, Ferrara said that the collection's allure partially resides in the line's easy accessibility "to stack, mix and match, trade and take the scent on the go."
In addition to his fragrance collection, Bieber recently announced via Twitter that he would be releasing his acoustic LP on November 23.
Will you be picking up a Bieber's fragrance-infused wristband or dog tag? Tell us in the comments below!
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http://www.mtv.com/news/1650741/justin-bieber-to-launch-my-world-unisex-fragrance/
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Tag Archives: Pokertek
- Baccarat More Popular Than Blackjack
March 21, 2014
Baccarat is more popular than Blackjack, but why? Lou White answers that question by taking a look at the gambling mecca of Macau.
- Lou White, Co Founder of PokerTek, on the Introduction of PokerPro Electronic Poker Tables at PokerStars Live in Macau
November 16, 2013
Lou White is the co-founder of PokerTek ventures, a business that specializes in developing products for gaming and amusement industries.
- PokerStars Gain a Yes Vote From Ray Lesniak; Pull Out Of The Skrill Loyalty Program; Ink a Deal With PokerTek and Release 2014 Macau Cup Schedule
October 17, 2013
PokerStars have gained the support of State Senator Ray Lesniak in their bid to obtain a gaming license in New Jersey.
- RESULTS: WMS Industries, PokerTek, Pinnacle, Tropicana, Ameristar Casinos
May 3, 2012
Financial results from WMS Industries, PokerTek, Pinnacle Entertainment, Tropicana Entertainment Inc. and Ameristar Casinos.
- Q2 report cards: Unibet Group, Pinnacle Entertainment, PokerTek
August 10, 2011
Q2 2011 reports cards from Unibet Group, Pinnacle Entertainment and PokerTek.
- Pokertek sets its sights on Europe
January 20, 2010
Pokertek announces intentions to expand its influence into Europe and beyond
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Shock breaking news as the leader, Enoch Mugumbo, of the impoverished state, Mumbojumbo land, formerly Tiptonia, has been ousted in a military backed coup. Mugumbo has remained in office since gaining independence from Dudley North in 1980. During his tenure, thousands of Tiptonians have fallen into disused coal mines or committed suicide by repeatedly slicing themselves up with machetes.
Democracy, but not as we know it
Allegations of electoral fraud have been rampant over Mugumbo's 37 year tenure. Mugumbo's 'Darky Party' have consistently obtained over 120% of the electoral vote. Suspicions were raised when in 1990 Mugumbo's 'Darky Party' secured the election the day before the poll.
In 1980, Mugumbo seized the white-owned ferret farms. His intention, he said, was to redistribute the land between the rural poor. Instead, he gave the farms to his cronies with the last name of Mugumbo. Predictably, his lazy and mostly dozy supporters had no idea how to run a ferret farm and this once profitable enterprise collapsed into a pile of detritus and ferret shit. Inflation became rampant and the once stable. 'Mumbojumbo dollar' spiralled into a cycle of impending doom.
The king is dead, long live the queen
The final straw came in the guise of his much younger wife, Mrs Mugumbo. At 106, Mr Mugumbo wanted a seamless transition of power to his wife. Even the dimmest of his countrymen could see that the Dictatorship was to become a family business. But of course, this how the '
West Midlands' has always been run without the white folk. The military forces backed by the opposition party under the tutelage of Mr Ipod Mugumbo-Mugumbo (no relation), ousted the ailing president and forced him into retirement. Colonel Teapot Despot-Mugumbo seized power and was expected to return the 'democratic process' over to the opposition leader Mr Ipod Mugumbo-Mugumbo, however, in a press conference today the wily Colonel expressed the view that the initial stabilisation period was likely to last 100 years. In the interim, the Colonel will form a government composed of lackeys and family members. From now on the Colonel will be addressed as all highest god above all other gods etc, etc, etc.
Don't give a shit cos da got no oil or gold
The international community has expressed relief in public. But in private realise, tis business as usual. As for Mr Mugumbo, unlike his impoverished populace, he can live in opulence in a grand house while people starve. Perhaps, one day, when his bodyguard is out carousing and raping, a sound citizen will come out the bush and shoot him. Although, in fairness, tis likely the final 'report' will come from someone close, like the people he trusts the most, his bodyguard- unless the grim reaper takes him first.
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Aoife & Gary are engaged!
To say that my heart is full up of love after this weekend is an understatement. I could not be any happier for my beautiful sister…it is such a treat to see her so excited and full of the most wonderful kind of anticipation.
G-Dawg did so well and took her away to a lovely hill by the sea and a fancy hotel and they managed to keep it a secret for over 24 hours! Although I must admit I totally knew it was going to happen and all day on Saturday I was on edge…every text message, phone call and ring of the doorbell had my heart leaping out of my chest. She is a cruel sister for making me wait like that all weekend but I didn’t dare ask her.
Congratulations sister and soon to be brother-in-law! xoxo
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Byron band makes onto Falls Festival line-up
BYRON Bay teen folk-pop band Potato Potato has been selected to join the line-up for Byron's first Falls Music and Arts Festival.
And now the festival organisers are calling on other local performers to get in on the act.
Potato Potato, which made its festival debut in 2011 at the Mullumbimby Music Festival and released its first EP in August, has been announced this morning alongside DJ Anna Lunoe, Canadian indie band Born Ruffians, Cub Sport, Lunatics on Pogosticks, DJ Questlove from The Roots, Touch Sensitive, Tyler Touche, and Wave Racer.
Festival organisers have also announced the lead performers for its comedy line-up. Tickling the funny-bones of festival-goers will be Amos Gill, Dave Callan, David Quirk, Michael Hing, Nath Valvo, Lindsay Webb, Mark McConville, and Ronny Chieng along with local comics Ellen Briggs, Greg Sullivan, Mandy Nolan, Nick Penn, Paul McMahon.
The festival, which sold out several weeks ago, is now looking for "experimental and quirky performers poets, writers, clowns, installation artists, comedians, cabaret performers, circus performers, dancers and puppeteers" to give 10-minute performances in the festival's village area.
Anyone interested in applying to perform at the festival should email email@example.com with a description of their act, a biography, one or two images of the act or previous work and links to a video of their work. Phone 0405 407 565 for more information about the performances and the application process.
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https://www.northernstar.com.au/news/byron-band-makes-falls-festival-line-/2063313/
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5 October – 3 November 2012
29 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3PB
Open Tuesday – Friday, 11am – 6pm, Saturday, 12 – 6pm
David Brian Smith is one of a few interesting painters represented by Carl Freedman – including, for example Michael Fullerton and Ivan Seal – all of whom draw on the conventions, genres and histories of painting in their contemporary practice. Smith is a young British painter who currently has a solo show at Freedman’s new gallery space in Hoxton, which showcases his technical ability and evolving style as a painter and offers further insight into his somewhat hallucinatory vision and underlying autobiographical and art historical references. The exhibition brings together recent work, medium scale paintings where a figure or figures are situated in psychedelic and symbolic landscapes, alluding to spiritual or heightened emotional interiors. A range of references spring to mind: Henri Rousseau, William Blake and the polychromatic visionary paintings of Samuel Palmer, and on from there through to the mid-20th century and the peculiarly British surrealist landscape paintings of artists like Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland. Smith is the third generation of a family of farmers in Shropshire and the motif of the shepherd tending his flock has been a recurring image in his work during recent years. Based on a black and white photograph from the 1930s reproduced in the Sunday Express, a copy of which his mother found under the carpet of the house they moved to in 2006 when his family reluctantly left the farm following the death of his father and the subsequent financial hardship of farm trading, the image has poignant autobiographical association for the artist which he often revisits. Other paintings are based on a 1912 photograph of his great-grandfather, a colonial explorer, which build upon the familial, patriarchal theme of the work. Painting on herringbone linen, chosen for its associations with rural life – tweed, flat caps etc. – Smith allows the underlining herringbone pattern to disrupt and fragment the reading of the image, often asserting the pattern by painting it over final composition, creating a collaged effect and generating a dizzying, altered condition of perception, skilfully handled. A nice show by a young artist to watch.
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http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/news/hobsons-choice-david-brian-smith-goodwill-and-the-unknown-man-at-carl-freedman-gallery/
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Devialet's Core Infinity Upgrade
Devialet are very different from most hi-fi manufacturers. Most of these companies, once they have developed a completely revolutionary digital interface and networking system, would slap a new model name on the product and sell it for a bunch more money.
Devialet, on the other hand, have offered the upgrade to all of their existing customers, as part of their commitment to those that have purchased their products.
The Core Infinity upgrade is a controller board completely designed for the Expert Pro series of Devialet products, offering the promise of improved integration of high-quality music sources in the future, via simple software updates.
Out of the box, the upgrade will feature:
Plans for the future include:
All seamlessly integrated into the existing Devialet System. We really have to congratulate Devialet on their choice to take the higher road on this, and really looking after their customers.
You can view our range of Devialet products on our website here: Devialet Products
Watch Crighton unbox them on our Youtube channel - you can subscribe to our channel if you want to see more.
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As some, most or nearly all sane people wait for Jesus’ return, or at least some sort of heavenly or other-worldly intervention to save said sane people from the non-stop lunacy of these modern times, there are, at least, comforting signs (for some) that the madness may end soon – not at the hands of Jesus, God, the Holy Spirit, the Angels and Archangels or any other cosmos good, but at the hands of the demonic circus loose among us and ruling about every aspect of our lives.
US Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers Back on 24-Hour Alert – www.defenseone.com
Nice! At least the 24/7/365 surveillance state will come to an end; banksters and their government stooges robbing and pillaging the poor and middle class will be residing in the nether world, mandatory “everything” at the hands of colossal corporate a-holes running this country into the ground will cease and those responsible for the poisons passed off as food, geo-engineering of the skies and other activities that makes the demons proud will be soundly rewarded in Gehenna. How many are concerned that their presence at the pearly gates or some derivative thereof may be requested soon is in question as most travelers seem more concerned with the inane.
Consider the latest demonic activity among the ruling class:
VP Pence Makes History – First Sitting VP To Personally Visit Minot Nuclear Missile Base – Reportedly Tells Crews – If the Order Comes – Launch! – via halturnerradioshow.com
“We are entering a very dangerous time, and I have come here personally to tell you that you may receive a Launch Order in the near future. I want you to know that we have planned for all contingencies, but it is possible that things may escalate beyond what we believe will take place. If you receive a properly formatted launch order, you launch. Don’t waste time trying to confirm the order, because it is not standard operating procedure for you to delay like that. If you get a launch order, carry it out.”
There are 9 circles of Hell, according to the first part of Dante’s Divine Comedy – Dante’s Inferno. It isn’t too grand to say that Hollywood perverts; liars, cheats, frauds, or anyone taking advantage of the poor, less fortunate, children and elderly, have their place solidified in any of Dante’s descriptive circles.
The final Circles of Hell, the 8th and 9th, Fraud and Treachery, will nicely house the politicians.
Dorothy L. Sayers writes that the Malebolge (the 8th Circle) is, “the image of the City in corruption: the progressive disintegration of every social relationship, personal and public. Sexuality, ecclesiastical and civil office, language, ownership, counsel, authority, psychic influence, and material interdependence – all the media of the community’s interchange are perverted and falsified”.
…Corrupt politicians, who made money by trafficking in public offices (the political analogue of the simoniacs), are immersed in a lake of boiling pitch, which represents the sticky fingers and dark secrets of their corrupt deals. They are guarded by demons called the Malebranche (“Evil Claws”), who tear them to pieces with claws and grappling hooks if they catch them above the surface of the pitch.
The demons provide some savage and satirical black comedy – in the last line of Canto XXI, the sign for their march is provided by a fart: “and he had made a trumpet of his ass”.
In one of his most recent posts, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, details Washington’s latest barbarity that foreign-funded NGOs in Russia are collecting Russian DNA samples from all over Russia for the US Government. Just what the Washington demons have in mind is documented in Dr. Roberts article, with nicely appointed sources.
And for further justification for these SOB’s to their appointed circles, we have this:
The U.S. government has spent a staggering $1.46 trillion on wars abroad since September 11, 2001, according to the Department of Defense’s (DoD) periodical “Cost of War” report. As International Business Times reports, this amounts to $250 million a day for 16 years consecutively. – via antimedia.org
Thinking only for a brief moment of the good that $250 million spent each day on our poor, sick, elderly, and the many other ills of our nation rather than on wars that in 16 years have brought us nothing but more wars and the end of lives of fellow Americans and innocents abroad might be enough for Dante to create a 10th circle of Hell for these monsters. Then again, what eternal karma awaits these monsters, only the gods know – it may be a bit more than the “trumpet of his ass”.
Thankfully, there are heavenly sounds for those of us still here – we provide a bit of them…
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concerto Nr 5 – Op 73 (II Adagio un poco mosso – III Allegro)
Lang Lang, Pianist
Photo credit (front page): Sandro Botticelli [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credit (angel): http://www.flickr.com/photos/22325431@NO5
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https://dispatchesfromtheasylum.com/2017/11/01/abandon-all-hope-ye-who-enter-here/
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Media services business PA Group has launched a qualification in media management for staff who have completed the company’s internal training programme.
Accredited by the awarding body NCFE, it is believed to be the first of its kind in the media industry.
The certificate is designed to give PA staff the opportunity to extend their skills in managing people and operations in the media business. Six managers have been awarded the certificate and it will now be rolled out to other managers as part of an ongoing commitment to training.
Rebecca Buck, head of HR, said: “This development provides our team leaders and managers with the practical tools and techniques to enhance their effectiveness with their teams which ultimately has a positive impact on the bottom line.”
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https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/managers-at-pa-group-to-study-for-media-management-qualification/
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Cardiff University: Architectural Studies (Master of Architecture - MArch)
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|Department||Welsh School of Architecture View department profile|
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At the Welsh School of Architecture, we provide a fully accredited route to becoming a professional architect in the UK. This MArch programme is the second stage (Part 2) of this route and is intended for those who wish to continue their education towards becoming a qualified architect. The course is approved by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Architects Registration Board (ARB). If you do not already have a Part 1 qualification, please take a look at our BSc Architectural Studies.
Our MArch is a two year programme which is studied on a full-time basis. It is unique in that in the first year of study, you will predominantly be based in an architectural practice, undertaking a combination of practice-based and academic work. In your second year, you will be based in the School of Architecture’s new studio for graduate students at Friary House, in Cardiff city centre. This is within 5-10 minutes’ walk of our other site, Bute Building.
Throughout the course, we explore the full range of skills required to be an architect and enable you to develop your personal and professional experience. To prepare you for the demands of the architectural profession, we build on and extend your existing knowledge to include the design of more complex buildings and the demands of urban design. We also study the professional and legal aspects of an architect’s work. We also encourage you to pursue knowledge in a specialist area through a written dissertation project.
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For entry requirements see http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught/courses/course/master-of-architecture-march.
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Welsh School of Architecture
The Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University is one of the top-ranked schools of architecture in the UK. Established in 1920, we attract postgraduate students from around the world who benefit from the unique experience of studying and living in the friendly and welcoming capital city of Wales.
Through our research and teaching we seek to create a built environment that enhances people’s lives without destroying the planet for future generations. We collaborate with universities, industry and architectural practices across the world to maximise our student learning experience and the ...
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I'm a full-scale housekeeping/animal sitter. I love to lavish attention on animals; as they are my passion in life. I can keep a clean home for you also.
As a 24-hour house/pet sitter, I go over to the client's home and take care of the pets in the comfort of their own home. I walk, play, feed, etc. the pet. If for some reason the client wants me to just go and check on the pet, I would go over approx. 3-4 times a day and check on the pet and the house. Some of my clients' pets take medicine. Being a nurse, I have given shots and different medicines. I charge by the day - $40.00. I hope I have answered some of your questions. If I can be of any further assistance, please feel free to call or e-mail me. Lisa Marler
I'll take care of dog and cats only. I'll walk dogs. I'll also help feed and give your pet water, and if you need, I'll watch your house.
I am a freelance worker seeking a paid-daily work in a variety of venues that is legitimate and worthwhile. I have experience in events, data entry and administrative work. I am a pet lover and would like to help those who need help.
Are you going away and can't take your pet? I can take care of them like my own. Just bring their food and favorite toy.
I`m very affectionate and loving to my animals as well as others.
I do extras such as pet sitting. and organizing clothing...paper work if needed.
I truly enjoy being around animals. While most pet sitters do the typical feeding and watering, I will go the extra mile to ensure your pets are happy! If that means walking them, playing with their favorite toy, belly rubs, consider it done. Your pets will be taken are of with the same love and compassion I feel for my own.
I do housecleaning for private homes. I clean homes, vacuum, dust, make beds, clean bathrooms, wash windows inside, do dishes, and walk your pet. This will be after June 20, 2015.
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Today's playlist is fairly eclectic and decidedly untwang-y. But sometimes you have to shake it up, yannow?
1. Sure Sure -- "Koreatown" has a catchy beat reminiscent of early aughts indie rock but an intensity that keeps the song up-to-date.
2. Dresage -- "Center" is a trip-hop track with some serious soul.
3. Garden City -- "Toward the Pain" takes a pop song and strips it to its essentials. The harmonies are beautiful and the careful guitar work add a warmth to the song.
4. Raincity Blue -- "Tell Me" is a rock'n'soul number that makes a song about getting stuck in a rut into an awesome dance number.
5. Rare Monk -- "Power" has a distinctive Brit-pop groove that'll stick with you for a long time.
6. No Drinks For Jimmy -- "Little Girl" is a classic bar band rocker refracted through the hazy light of an amber beer glass.
7. Sebastian Janoski -- "Toy" is a gently defiant push against an inconstant lover.
8. Sondags -- "Haunted Paradise" is a quirky number that channels early millennial ennui and 50s rock'n'roll.
9. Amy Rosalyn -- "Precipice" is resolute as it furls into a powerful crescendo, but it's Rosalyn's voice that's the true engine to this song.
10. Ponytails -- "Pieces" is a slushy foot-tapper that both revels and wallows in being the dumper rather than the dumpee.
Like my playlists? I'll make one for you! Subscribe to my Patreon or drop a tip in my Ko-fi cup (no account required!)
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I’m here to send word from the Transom Story Workshop in Woods Hole, MA. I’ve just completed a nine-week storytelling residency in new-public radio storytelling with eight other students spanning the map from Marfa, TX to Helsinki, Finland. If you’re thinking about taking the turn into audio storytelling, the folks who run Atlantic Public Media/Transom are the people you want to work alongside. It's a soup-to-nuts program: you'll do everything from getting nitty-gritty with gear to pitching Ira Glass (The Man Himself, which is not as intimidating as it sounds) — but most importantly, we lived, learned, and incubated ideas side-by-side in an environment most-collaborative. We even took the row boat out onto the high seas and lived to tell the tale.
Here’s the good news: Transom offers spring/falls sessions of this nine-week course, but they also offer a week-long traveling workshop series throughout the summer. If you’re curious about the application or trying to figure out if the experience would be a good one for you, please do e-mail me. Atlantic Public Media is full of the best kind of people, doing some seriously great work.
And if you find yourself on the Cape this summer, call me up! See you out there. I have a half-baked idea of trying to recreate Thoreau's Cape Cod walk this summer with binaural mics and a kayak (if I can get my paws on both those things).
- Robin Miniter (2016)
An avid adventure seeker and vagabonding storyteller, Robin Miniter came to OHMA with a B.A. from Marist College and a critical eye turned to the experience of female bodies in motion. As a Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Scholar to India, Robin took to the pitches with her cleats and camera, as she chased the rise of women’s rugby across the subcontinent. Robin is currently pursuing her Certificate in Documentary Arts from Duke University and working with Atlantic Public Media/WCAI this summer to do some producing for them.
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Why blame me? I warned all mayors I’d kill them including Parojinog – Duterte
President Rodrigo Duterte said nobody should take the blame for the killing of Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog.
Duterte said that he gave “fair warning” to Parojinog and thousands of other mayors wthat they would be killed if they continued with their illegal drug operations.
“I’m sure Parojinog was there and everybody. So wala tayong sisihan. There’s really no remorse for you and for me. Fair warning, I told you. Do not (destroy my country),” said Duterte in a speech.
Duterte called all mayors to a closed door meeting in Malacanang last January – no military or police – where he told them: “Do not play with me or suffer the consequences.”
Duterte said that Parojinog and mayors should have realized that he was not bluffing given that as much as 600 had died in his war on drugs and crime in 23 years as Davao City mayor.
Aside from Parojinog, Duterte recalled that retired police general Vicente Loot was among the mayors in the room (he is the incumbent mayor of Daanbantayan, Cebu).
“General Loot — your general before was also there. And I pointed out to him, ‘There’s one idiot general here who has been at it’. I said, ‘You better shape up because you will suffer the consequences’,” said Duterte.
He repeated his order to the police to “shoot them dead” preferably in the heart or in the head because “that’s the end of the problem.”
“Because if we’ll just arrest them with the money billions of it, they can always go out, have the best lawyers and that is why all these years, the country has always been on the edge when confronted with cousins of senators and the mayors,” he said.
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What a wonderfully lazy, relaxing, and restful couple of weeks I have had! I mean we're talking the don't wake up until 11:00, don't get out of my pj's until 2:00, and don't really leave the house unless entirely necessary kind of relaxing. Y'all. I love it. And I'm thinking that after one more week of this laying around bliss, I will be ready to hang up the worthlessness and start facing civilization again. Yikes. Could be a rude awakening.
I have managed to make a new best friend amongst the laziness, however. It's name is Dutch Blitz, and it's pretty much the most insanely addicting card game ever.
It's basically a group version of the game Speed, another super fast-paced but wonderful card challenge. I had never heard of Dutch Blitz before this week, and apparently you can only buy it at one specialty game story in the city, but I've already introduced it to pretty much everyone I know, and they're all hooked too. I've been meaning to head to the mall to pick up my own set...I'm just worried that as soon as I do, I will be pestering everyone around me to play at all hours. We shall see!
Guess what else I did from the comfort of my own couch the other night? Signed my life away for the next four months, that's what! By that I'm referring to my decision to just do it, and register for the Country Music Half-Marathon in Nashville this April. Running a half has always been a life goal of mine, and since the stress fracture hindrance of the past couple of months seems to be healed, I decided to go for it. I have concerns, yes. Such as the threat of another injury popping up during training...or the very real possibility of getting totally burned out by the time I build up to 8 or 9 miles...or the complete physical and mental breakdown mid-run one day in which I will have to just plop down on the curb and cry for awhile.
But no, I'm going to be positive throughout this experience, and I will hopefully overcome the challenge. My roomie signed on with me, so that will be encouraging. Plus I spent hours the other day formulating my own customized training schedule on a beautifully-organized and color-coded Excel spreadsheet, and we all know how much I love following regimented plans! I'm sure I'll be providing lots of updates on the victories, failures, and pain involved in the whole process, so get excited! Nash-vegas, here I come!
I also wanted to share a new daily devotional I've started for 2010. I was hoping to find a more Scripture-based book to use this year, and after a couple hours (literally) of milling through the Christian bookstore last week, I finally found one I've definitely enjoyed so far. It's called Solo, and it's based on the the Message, a version of the Bible rewritten in a more readable style. Each day there is a passage from the Message, accompanied by a page of thought-provoking questions and prayers to help you dig deeper into the Scripture. While the entire Bible is not included in the book, it is organized chronologically, and I am excited to encounter new stories and passages that I have not before read. I'm hopeful and ready for what God has in store for me through these quiet times, and I will definitely be sharing my favorites!
Well it's time to go don my onesie, which makes for the most comfortable sleep EVER by the way, and get to sleep before 2 am for once this break. The family is back to work tomorrow, so I'll be the only lazy bum still warming the couch, but unfortunately I have to wake up super early for an unwisely-scheduled dentist appointment in the morning. Ew. And brr...it's gonna be like 15 degrees...
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
A Short & Silly Toby Video!
Summer has officially arrived at the Lazy Vegan! And (thankfully) it is nice & cool! The garden is booming and Wasabi had a big adventure and visited it...she loved munching on some oregano and dill! The donkeys got a nice long walk in and the pups did what they do best...lounged! Got some cute fawns on the critter cam, and one raccoon (if it is the same one) seems to be getting a bit annoyed at the presence of the camera. I've noticed that only the raccoons really seem to look like they absolutely notice that the camera is there!
Fresh from the garden!
Don't knock it before you try it...zukes sauted in liquid aminos with nutritional yeast - yum!
Toby has the "trembles" now in his hindquarters (much like Solo got in his golden years), so he likes to rest with a heating pad.
Mama deer with fawns!
The donkeys head home!
This tool is called a "Wonder Bar". I'm wondering why!
Chasing the house rabbit!
Raccoon keeps on going!
Raccoon: "there's that camera AGAIN!"
Very Young Fawn!
Where is that crazy rabbit?
Bravo celebrates the Summer Solstice with a floral headdress!
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|INDEX > Nuclear splicing and RNA processing|
22.3 Nuclear splicing proceeds through a lariat
|Key terms defined in this section|
|Lariat is an intermediate in RNA splicing
in which a circular structure with a tail is created by a 5´-2´
The mechanism of splicing has been characterized in vitro, using systems in which introns can be removed from RNA precursors. Nuclear extracts can splice purified RNA precursors, which shows that the action of splicing is not linked to the process of transcription. Splicing is also independent of modification of RNA, and can occur to RNAs that are neither capped nor polyadenylated.
Figure 22.6 Splicing occurs in two stages, in which the 5¢F exon is separated and then is joined to the 3¢F exon.
The stages of splicing in vitro are illustrated in the pathway of Figure 22.6. We discuss the reaction in terms of the individual RNA species that can be identified, but we should remember that in vivo the species containing exons are not released as free molecules, but remain held together by the splicing apparatus (for review see Sharp, 1994).
In the first stage, a cut is made at the 5′ splice site, separating the left exon and the right intron-exon molecule. The left exon takes the form of a linear molecule. The right intron-exon molecule forms a lariat, in which the 5′ terminus generated at the end of the intron becomes linked by a 5′¡V2′ bond to a base within the intron. The target base is an A in a sequence that is called the branch site (Reed and Maniatis, 1985).
In the second stage, cutting at the 3′ splice site releases the free intron in lariat form, while the right exon is ligated (spliced) to the left exon. The cleavage and ligation reactions are shown separately in the figure for illustrative purposes, but actually occur as one coordinated transfer.
The lariat is then "debranched" to give a linear excised intron, which is rapidly degraded.
The sequences needed for splicing are the short consensus sequences at the 5′ and 3′ splice sites and at the branch site. Together with the knowledge that most of the sequence of an intron can be deleted without impeding splicing, this indicates that there is no demand for specific conformation in the intron (or exon).
The branch site provides the means by which the 3′ splice site is identified. The branch site in yeast is highly conserved, and has the consensus sequence UACUAAC. The branch site in higher eukaryotes is not well conserved, but has a preference for purines or pyrimidines at each position and retains the target A nucleotide (see Figure 22.6) (Zhuang et al., 1989).
The branch site lies 18¡V40 nucleotides upstream of the 3′ splice site. Mutations or deletions of the branch site in yeast prevent splicing. In higher eukaryotes, the relaxed constraints in its sequence result in the ability to use related sequences in the vicinity when the authentic branch is deleted. Proximity to the 3′ splice site appears to be important, since the cryptic site is always close to the authentic site. When a cryptic branch sequence is used in this manner, splicing otherwise appears to be normal; and the exons give the same products as wild type. The role of the branch site therefore is to identify the nearest 3′ splice site as the target for connection to the 5′ splice site (Reed and Maniatis, 1986).
The bond that forms the lariat goes from the 5′ position of the invariant G that was at the 5′ end of the intron to the 2′ position of the invariant A in the branch site. This corresponds to the third A residue in the yeast UACUAAC box.
Figure 22.7 Nuclear splicing occurs by two transesterification reactions in which a free OH end attacks a phosphodiester bond.
The chemical reactions proceed by transesterification: a bond is in effect transferred from one location to another. Figure 22.7 shows that the first step is a nucleophilic attack by the 2′¡VOH of the invariant A of the UACUAAC sequence on the 5′ splice site. In the second step, the free 3′¡VOH of the exon that was released by the first reaction now attacks the bond at the 3′ splice site. Note that the number of phosphodiester bonds is conserved. There were originally two 5′¡V3′ bonds at the exon-intron splice sites; one has been replaced by the 5′¡V3′ bond between the exons, and the other has been replaced by the 5′¡V2′ bond that forms the lariat (for review see Weiner, 1993).
|Sharp, P.A. (1994). Split genes and RNA splicing. Cell 77, 805-815.|
|Weiner, A. (1993). mRNA splicing and autocatalytic introns: distant cousins or the products of chemical determinism. Cell 72, 161-164.|
|Reed, R. and Maniatis, T. (1985). Intron sequences involved in lariat formation during pre-mRNA splicing. Cell 41, 95-105.|
|Reed, R. and Maniatis, T. (1986). A role for exon sequences and splice-site proximity in splice-site selection. Cell 46, 681-690.|
|Zhuang, Y. A., Goldstein, A. M., and Weiner, A. M. (1989). UACUAAC is the preferred branch site for mammalian mRNA splicing. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 86, 2752-2756.|
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I found a great deal on Russell Stover chocolate truffles and made this box so I could "share the wealth". I was inspired by a box of truffles I saw at Target - they wanted $7 for it and it wasn't that cute! I came up with this box and I like it much better. You can't see it in the picture but the bottom of the box is chocolate chip cs.
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Rob Ford has claimed he is a ‘spendaphobe’ Share on WhatsApp 16 reader comments
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has dodged questions about whether he is homophobic, claiming to be a “spendaphobe” instead.
Mayor Rob Ford recently returned from a two-month stint in rehab, following revelations that he had been caught smoking crack cocaine, drink-driving and injecting heroin during his term of office.
In his first week back at work, he has refused to join a standing ovation to praise the organisers of WorldPride Toronto, and voted against a council proposal to help homeless LGBT teens.
Ford was the only person on the entirety of Toronto City Council to vote against the proposal, leading it to pass with 37 in favour, and 1 against.
Asked whether he’s actively homophobic this week, he replied: “I’m a spendaphobe, that’s what I am.
“Let’s talk about how much money I’ve saved the taxpayers and I got subways built. And I contracted out garbage. You don’t want to talk about that, do you?
Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, the only openly gay member of the council, said previously: “The mayor is homophobic. He’s consistent.
“He’s done everything he can to demonstrate this is a community he doesn’t care about.
“He has done everything he can to destroy his relationships with the LGBT community.”
The council has voted to transfer some of Ford’s powers to the city’s Deputy Mayor, but he refuses to stand down from his post, and they do not have the authority to force him to do so.
Ford is currently running for re-election, with a ballot set for October 27, 2014.
Recent polling has Ford on 21%, trailing former councillor Olivia Chow, and former Progressive Conservative leader John Tory.
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President Prokopis Pavlopoulos (r) and the head of the Hellenic Bank Association, Nikos Karamouzis.
All property auctions are gradually being transferred to the online platform. Already 1,341 auctions – mainly by banks, and a few by individuals – have been transferred to the electronic system.
The curtain on physical auctions at courts will officially fall on February 28, after which all foreclosed assets will have to be auctioned online.
To facilitate the transfer, a special clause in the omnibus law at the start of the year requires that parties calling auctions must inform the judicial authorities about the change in the way the process will be implemented (from the courthouse to the online platform) within 20 days of the sale, instead of three months.
The government’s aim is to see through the complete shift to online auctions within the first quarter of the year, or at least to bring the bulk of them to the electronic platform.
The issue of auctions was discussed on Tuesday between President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and the head of the Hellenic Bank Association, Nikos Karamouzis, with the latter stating that foreclosures are the last tool banks use. “It is not pleasant for us, but this way we also send a message to strategic defaulters,” Karamouzis said.
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Why Is India The Perfect Location For Your Business?
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The Indian Government is committed to pursue economic growth and steps such as the “Make in India”, “Digital India” “Skill India” and “Smart Cities” and various business friendly reforms have significantly created a positive business environment in the country.
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With over 1.2 billion people, of whom 572 million are under the age of 24, India is currently the country with the biggest youth population in the world. With rising incomes and a greater exposure to Western lifestyles the Indian population will want various products and services. Both of these developments are likely to unleash a substantial shift in consumer spending and consumption patterns over the next two decades.
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After Carl's last record came and went we went into lockdown mode for a bit of a rethink. Actually, that makes it sound all cool but really we just sort of gave up with a disgusted shrug.
However, you can't keep musicians from trying to flog their wares in front of the whole world, so the label was reborn as a digital-only affair, in keeping with the style of the time.
(The whole notion of Ableton DJs buying vinyl just to convert it to mp3s gives me the heebie-jeebies. Both formats have horrible compromises. Why not just get the mp3 (or even better, flac or wav) directly and cut out the middleman? I guarantee you it will sound better.)
To test the waters, I put together this EP which was made up of odds and ends lying around. You've got the Obligatory Angry Electro Number ("Self-Destruct"), the Obligatory Tweaky Acid Track ("Arctic Dak" - an anagram of... wait for it... Acid Track), a synthypoppy number (Love Robot) which someone on a mailing list once called "Kraftwerk with a boner" - I love that!!, and finally Something With A Funky Breakbeat In It Because That's What I Do.
Despite all that, I really like this release.
This also has the distinction of being the first (and so far only) release of mine that was pirated. Go pirates!
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WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential hopeful and real estate mogul Donald Trump is calling for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" following deadly terror attacks involving Islamic extremists in California and France.
"Without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension," Trump said in a statement emailed to reporters on Monday.
"Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine. Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life," he continued.
Corey Lewandowski, Trump's campaign manager, told The Associated Press that the ban would apply to "everybody," including Muslims seeking tourist visas. Last month, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), one of Trump's rivals for the GOP presidential nomination, introduced a similar proposal that would prevent refugees from obtaining tourist and immigration visas if they are from one of about 30 countries with a "significant jihadist movement."
Trump's call to bar Muslim immigration into the U.S. is just the latest in a series of anti-Islamic statements. He previously suggested shuttering certain mosques in the U.S. and claimed he saw footage of American Muslims cheering after the 9/11 attacks -- footage that no television network has been able to dig up.
There is some evidence that such anti-Muslim rhetoric has support among GOP primary voters. According to Public Policy Polling, which has regularly polled voters on their attitudes toward Muslims, a significant portion of GOP primary voters in North Carolina believe Islam should be outright illegal in the United States.
Over and over again, Trump's outlandish statements have pressured Republican candidates and party leaders to respond. Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus will likely face calls to do so ahead of a scheduled fundraiser with Trump in New York City this week.
On Monday, Trump touted his new proposal on his favorite medium -- Twitter.
"Just put out a very important policy statement on the extraordinary influx of hatred & danger coming into our country," he wrote. "We must be vigilant!"
Other Republican presidential candidates condemned Trump for his plan:
Syed Farook, one of the suspected shooters in last week's attack in San Bernardino, California, was an American citizen. The other suspect is his wife, Tashfeen Malik, who reportedly pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State on social media. Malik entered the U.S. on a K-1 "fianceé visa."
Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, the shooter who allegedly killed four Marines earlier this year in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was also a naturalized U.S. citizen. In an address to the nation Sunday night, President Barack Obama cited the Chattanooga shooting as an act of terrorism.
"But just as it is the responsibility of Muslims around the world to root out misguided ideas that lead to radicalization, it is the responsibility of all Americans -- of every faith -- to reject discrimination," Obama said. "It is our responsibility to reject religious tests on who we admit into this country. It's our responsibility to reject proposals that Muslim-Americans should somehow be treated differently."
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Sensory impressions, shared experiences, the joy of discovery – the Lähde! parks invite you to experience art and nature!
Sensory impressions, shared experiences, the joy of discovery – the Lähde! parks invite you to experience art and nature! The ideas regarding an environment that supports wellbeing, collected using inclusive, artistic methods from people recovering from psychiatric problems and intellectually disabled people are at the core of the Lähde! park concept. The first Lähde! park is will be built in Suvantola, in the municipality of Ii on the riverside area behind the health centre and will be expanded to also cover the
interior public spaces of the nearby buildings. The obstacle-free design of the park facilitates access to the nature, artworks and activities.The Lähde! park concept includes the physical environment that supports welfare and utilises art and plans for functional programming, piloting and guidelines for the mobilisation. The concept development is carried out as multi-professional cooperation between Oulunkaari joint authority, the technical sector of the municipality of Ii and specialists from the field of arts.
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Finally sensing what direction the wind is blowing in, Top Rank boss Bob Arum has officially flip-flopped on the subject of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. meeting in a potential superfight.
In the weeks following Pacquiao’s less-than-stellar victory over Juan Manuel Marquez in the pair’s third official showdown, Arum went on a one-man crusade peddling the benefits of a fourth match-up. Despite the fact that absolutely nobody -- including people in the Filipino champion’s own camp -- wanted a fourth bout between Pacquiao and Marquez, Arum seemed adamant.
It was obvious to everyone, really, that his longtime hatred of Mayweather was clouding his judgment – making him a legitimate obstacle in the path of the only boxing match anyone wants to see in May of 2012. Disgruntled Pacquiao conditioning coach, Alex Ariza, said this much in a series of interviews, we reported on Opposing Views.
Now, however, it appears as though Arum is finally changing his tune. Realizing that nobody is buying his phony tales of the public demanding a fourth Pacquiao versus Marquez battle over a Pacquiao versus Mayweather dream fight, he told media this past weekend that he was “optimistic” that the latter match would get made.
Then again, when pressed for a committal, Arum refused to offer it.
"I'm not confident about anything. I just think that the public wants that fight," said Arum, as recounted by The Ring. "Certainly, we at Top Rank want that fight. Manny wants that fight, and I believe that Floyd wants that fight. So, why wouldn't I be optimistic?"
By now, everyone knows that the single biggest impediment when it comes to a Pacquiao versus Mayweather showdown is Arum. As the middleman in all past negotiations, Arum wielded the power to both make demands for, and then pass along the other side’s demands to, his client, Pacquiao. The fact that Pacquiao didn’t seem to know the things that Arum was telling the media, coupled with Freddie Roach being completely out of the loop as it pertains to Mayweather’s demands, tells you everything you need to know.
On the bright side, Arum’s latest flip-flop indicates that he realizes the fans will hold his feet to the fire on this one. No more lying yesterday and telling the truth today for the Top Rank boss, not when boxing afficianados from all over are paying attention.
Pacquiao versus Mayweather will happen, no matter what. There is too much momentum for the match now. It will happen. Regardless of whether it happens with Arum or despite of him, it will, undoubtedly, happen.
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The Greatest Showman Original Motion Picture Soundtrack şahane albümü olan
Keala Settle The Greatest Showman Ensemble . Album's primary genre is
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|Respondent ID:||4907573406 (Collector: 87370504)|
|Date of feedback:||12/08/2016 - 12/08/2016|
| A resident:||Yes |
|A worker:||Yes |
|A business owner:||No |
|A land owner:||No |
|Organisation:||No - Individual.|
|Gender and Age Group:||Male / 16-24|
|How did you hear about the consultation?|| Word of mouth |
How important do you think the following benefits of the crossings are for Suffolk?
- The redevelopment of the island as an area for high tech investment and enterprise
- Continued investment in the Waterfront, Marina and the Port
- The regeneration of the southern section of the town including business investment, housing development and community services
- Less congestion in Ipswich and on the A14 and improved journey times
- Increased connectivity between the southeast and southwest of Ipswich
- More route options and improving safety for walking and cycling
|Ipswich Waterfront Investment:||Very important|
|A14 and Ipswich congestion:||No feeling either way|
|South East and South West connectivity:||Important|
|Rat-run Route Options and Safety:||Not important|
Which of the following impacts are important in determining your support for the crossings?
Ipswich Ltd note: We notice no option for air pollution
|Visual appearance/design quality:||Not important|
|Land use and/or property:||Very important|
|Disruption during construction:||Important|
|Other (please specify):|
The crossings would deliver reductions in traffic on many local roads; however it is likely that some local roads surrounding the crossings would experience an increase in traffic. In priority order, please choose the three issues that would concern you the most if traffic increased on your road.
|Biggest concern:||Access to local services|
|Second biggest concern:||Congestion|
|Third biggest concern:||Noise|
Now choose the three traffic management measures you think we should consider to manage the potential impacts of traffic increases if they were to occur on your road.
|Most important:||Junction changes|
|Second most important:||Parking changes/restrictions|
|Third most important:||Night time ban for HGVs|
East to West travel
- How often do you currently travel between the east and west of Ipswich?
- How do you most commonly currently travel between the east and west of Ipswich?
- What is the main reason you currently travel between the east and west of Ipswich?
- Which of the following statements best describe your current travel between the east and west of Ipswich?
- Would you like to be added to our consultation database to be updated about the project and future opportunities to have your say?
|How often East-West travel:||Every day|
|Method of Transport:||Motorcyclist |
|Main reason of travel:||Commuting |
|Current travel experience:||There is some congestion or delays|
|Keep me updated:||No / Agree to continue with survey|
Do you have any further comments or concerns about the location and/or operation of the crossings?
|Comments:||The concern is that a crossing over the new cut would would have little impact on through traffic. A swing bridge upgrade would reduce the efficency of the lock and a crossing outside the log would have to be a lifting bridge or a large amount of trade would be lost in the dock. Also my concern is for the Ipswich sea cadets who could be heavily negatively impacted by the proposals|
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At the end of the year, there are always a bunch of retrospective articles on the presidency. This year, history has been kind to Barack Obama. Like, really kind. The stories all list Obama's signal accomplishments achieved against persistent, unreasoning, and sometimes angry opposition.
Obama's performance as the first Black president is like the career of the first African American in Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson. Robinson had to put up with the same kind of treatment on the job that Republicans have inflicted on Obama.
The fans booed Robinson and hurled racial epithets. They threw things at him in the field. Opposing players tried to injure him on the bases. Through it all, Robinson kept his cool by following his manager's advice never to let his detractors see him get angry.
Robinson responded to the pressure by becoming a rookie sensation, winning batting titles, and becoming the National League MVP. He was the first major league star to concentrate on stealing bases and scoring runs, rather than hitting home runs.
That sounds to me a lot like what Barack Obama has been doing. As the first black president, he has taken a lot of abuse from the press and Republicans. Not a single Republican voted for the Affordable Care Act, which had been proposed by the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative think tank, and implemented by Mitt Romney, the Republican governor of Massachusetts.
There is one major difference between Obama and Robinson. Robinson had to spend several years in the Negro Leagues and started his rookie season with the Brooklyn Dodgers when he was 28. Failing health forced him to retire at age 37 after only 10 years in the league.
Barack Obama, on the other hand, became president in 2009 at the relatively young age of 47. When he leaves office, Obama will still be in the prime of life at 55. The thought of Obama being active after his presidency must be truly frightening for Republicans. The man they couldn't beat may be spending the rest of his life beating them.
I think that would be a fitting end to his story.
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Syracuse Children's Chorus performing 'Celtic Traditions' March 10
CAMILLUS -- The Syracuse Children's Chorus, under the direction of artistic director Stephanie Mowery and assistant director, Marcia DeMartini, continues its 31st concert season with "Celtic Traditions." Join the chorus as they welcome the Kinlough Academy of Irish Dance for a celebration of Celtic music on Saturday, March 10 at 2 p.m. at West Genesee High School, located at 5201 W. Genesee St.
Set sail on a musical voyage to Ireland, Scotland and Wales for "Celtic Traditions," a concert invoking the spirit of time-honored culture and customs. Accompanied by pianist Sabine Krantz, the Syracuse Children's Chorus will share the stage with the Kinlough Academy of Irish Dance from Oswego, directed by Siobhan Smith Rodrigues, TCRG, and transport you to the Emerald Isle during a spectacular performance of Celtic music and dance that is perfect for young lads and lassies. Musical selections will include traditional Scottish, Irish, and Welsh folk songs such as "In Praise of Isla," (Lee Kesselman), "Sally Gardens," (Benjamin Britten), "As I Went with Tom to Tywyn," (Nigel Jones), and "Irish Lullaby," (Mark Sirett) accompanied by an instrumental ensemble and bagpipes.
Advance sale prices for individual tickets are $15 for adults and $13 for children and seniors in general admission seating and $19 for adults and $17 for children and seniors in priority seating. Group rates are available. Tickets will also be available at the door the day of the concert for $18 for adults and $16 for children and seniors in general admission seating only. For more information or to purchase tickets contact the Syracuse Children's Chorus office at 478-0582, by e-mail at SCCInfo@SyracuseChildrensChorus.org, or visit their website at:
This concert is made possible with funds from Geddes Federal Savings. The Syracuse Children's 2011-2012 concert season is sponsored in part by Driver's Village.
The Syracuse Children's Chorus creates collaborative experiences in which young people share their joy of singing, develop their sense of beauty and deepen their commitment to excellence through choral music education and performance. For over 30 years, choristers have contributed to the development of the American choral tradition, performing from Carnegie Hall to China, from London to Los Angeles, serving as Central New York's musical ambassadors to the world. Founded at Syracuse University in 1981 by Barbara M. Tagg, the Chorus is recognized for musical excellence and as a model for performance-based choral music education. The Chorus received the ASCAP Chorus America/ASCAP award for Adventurous Programming in both 2002 and 2007.
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Muralist, painter, sculptor, and installation artist Kenny Scharf is best known for his fantastical, large-scale paintings of anthropomorphic animals and imagined creatures, as in Viva Mare Viva Mar (2011). Though Scharf’s brightly colored imagery is generally playful, he has remarked that darker themes exist beneath the surface of his works, visible upon closer inspection. Scharf was a part of the 1980s East Village Art movement, along with his good friend and fellow street artist Keith Haring. The artist says he has been influenced by all 20th-century art movements, including Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, the latter reflected in his appropriation of cartoon characters from television shows like the Flintstones and Jetsons and his humorous depiction of snack food in Maple Glazed Donut Over Fertile Landscape (2011). Scharf’s oftentimes dense and frenetic compositions also echo a Baroque sensibility.
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Logitech has just dropped us word of an upgrade to its G25 steering wheel controller called the G27. It's pretty much the same thing, except for a few improvements to the original design.
Firstly, the G27 has six buttons on the face of the wheel, compared to the G25's six. They're user-programmable, so you can make them do whatever you like. Then there's the gear system - the G27 has a diagonal-cut (helical) gearbox, as opposed to the G25's straight-cut spur gears.
The G27 also has taller standoffs for the cluth and brake pedals, as well as horizontal adjustability, and a stiffer centering spring on the gear shifter with a "positive gear engagement feel". Lastly, there's ten new LEDs that can be used by game developers to convey non-essential info to the player.
The G27 costs £330, so it's for serious racers only, and it works with the PC, PS2, and PS3. It'll be available in September.
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The Salvation Army is launching initiatives from culinary to construction
Hope Harbor Culinary Arts
At age 6, Barry Crall was in the kitchen making pancakes.
“They say you’re born to be a chef, and I guess I was,” he said. Crall trained under three chefs before becoming one in 1985 and has worked in the restaurant business ever since. He cooked at family-owned restaurants and published recipes in Northern California Fine Dining, and now is the chef instructor at The Salvation Army Lodi Hope Harbor Culinary Arts Program.
Since the program’s first session in January 2008, 106 students have graduated, 90 percent of whom are currently working—74 percent are working in the restaurant industry.
The 86-bed Hope Harbor Family Service Center opened in 2005. Crall—a graduate of the Stockton Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC)—took the lead of the job skills training program after an advisory board member recognized the kitchen’s potential.
The Army contracted with a local college chef instructor, who mentored Crall for the first year, and helped to adapt a four-year curriculum into a 16-week course. A residential program, the culinary arts program accepts 10 students per session from area ARCs and other sobriety programs. The $5,000 per student cost is generated by grants, foundations and private funding.
The course includes academics, hands-on training, visits to food service operations and one-on-one mentoring by industry professionals to prepare students to be a prep or line cook. Each student finishes the class with a ServSafe certificate and a portfolio that details the course and includes pictures of his or her work.
“We joke that we want these students to pay taxes, because we want them to be productive members of society,” Crall said. “They come out trained as entry-level prep cooks, who could cook a breakfast line with ease.”
One graduate—despite a history dotted with prison, narcotics and violence—landed a full-time job as a chef at a local senior citizens social club. He cooks a hot lunch there every day.
Lodi’s Wine and Roses has hired nine of Crall’s students, and others work at local golf and country clubs. Crall said employers are now approaching him looking for chefs.
“With a new job skill, they don’t need to turn back to what they’ve known before,” Crall said. “That’s my ministry.”
Anne’s House Soaps
Any skill can be put to work for good, and that includes soap making.
That’s what one volunteer found out through The Salvation Army PROMISE (Partnership to Rescue Our Minors from Sexual Exploitation) Program to combat sex trafficking of children through awareness, prevention, intervention and service delivery.
The unique model began in Chicago in 2005 and has since trained over 20,000 first responders in five major cities in the use of a commercial sexual exploitation of children curriculum developed through a $1 million Department of Justice grant; launched an anti-trafficking prevention education curriculum, TraffickED, in Chicago high schools and middle schools; launched hotel and law enforcement training sessions, HALT, with various convention bureaus throughout Illinois; and operated Anne’s House, a long-term trauma-based residential home for young women recovering from sex trafficking.
“The volunteer happens to be a soap maker, and we asked her what specifically she would want to do to help our efforts,”said Frank Massolini, PROMISE program director and founder of Anne’s House. “As a result, she started with training the young ladies in making hand soap.”
That was in 2013, and Anne’s House Soap has to date sold approximately $17,000 worth of product.
Volunteers from a local church banded together to host the monthly soap making activities, creating fragrances and settling molds together with the Anne’s House young women. The more than 3,000 bars of soap they create annually are packaged and sold at boutiques, fair trade shows and online.
“It is a form of therapy as the young women are in a beautiful environment in a church cafeteria with the spiritual involvement of mentors; it’s transformative in making something,”Massolini said. “Maybe for the first time in their lives, they are learning how to produce a product and becoming part of the legitimate economic system not apart from it. For anybody who wants to learn and participate in this country’s wonderful free enterprise system, if you think of a product, and produce it and market it, you can create something and run a business. That’s a whole awakening to them.”
In addition to the mixing and molding, Massolini said the young women are involved in the business side, helping to make decisions on buying, pricing, tax ramifications and marketing. They also determine how to spend the profits, to date having purchased backpacks and school supplies, an overnight trip to Six Flags Great America and a Wii video game console for the house.
“If you know how to run a soap business, someday you can run IBM,”Massolini said. “Plus they like when the revenue comes in.”
GreenWorks Landscape Management
The Salvation Army Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Command discovered in 2010 it was spending a substantial amount of money on paying an outside contractor to maintain its own properties. Donnie Freeman, social enterprise manager for the command, opted to start an in-house landscape management company, using workers hired from the nearby Carr P. Collins Social Service Center. Some of these men were recovering from addiction, some were veterans, but all were homeless, unemployed and hard-pressed to find work elsewhere.
“The workers are overcoming many barriers to employment, including the very fact that they are homeless,” Freeman said. “Some have had issues with drug and alcohol abuse, and even though they’ve completed treatment, the stigma remains.”
Freeman brought on Burton Niles, an experienced landscaper and irrigator, to train each employee in lawn and plant care, proper equipment usage, safety and irrigation. Niles organized two crews of 12 workers, and with donations from local advisory board members, aims to springboard the employees into other full-time work.
“By working on a landscaping crew and proving they are reliable, they become eligible to receive letters of recommendation and assistance in attaining full-time employment,” Freeman said.
Ernst, who has worked as an account generator for Socially Responsible Landscape Management since October 2013, said the program has allowed him to ease back into the workforce at a pace he’s comfortable with.
“I’ve had great responsibilities in my life,” he said. “I can’t get back into that right now. I need to do something that I can feel good about that still makes me a little bit of money, but I need to work a different pace and focus on what’s important, which is my recovery.”
In April 2013, the program gained permission to carry out work for entities other than The Salvation Army. The company has since increased its workload to maintaining 55 properties, including 16 commercial properties. One of the crews recently landscaped, designed and installed a complete irrigation system for The Salvation Army’s Christmas and Disaster Warehouse. Since the business started, 12 men, including Kevin Kirby, have left to go into other full-time work.
“When I got out of jail, I didn’t have any money,” Kirby said. “I didn’t have any money until I went to The Salvation Army and went through that program. In those three months I was in the program, I was able to do what I needed to do once I got out. If I could’ve worked more hours, I would have.”
A new program at The Salvation Army’s Aurora (Colo.) Corps is helping graduates of the local Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) learn employable skills and make a living.
In just 30 days, participants learn construction basics including safety and carpentry tools (a set of which they’ll get to keep upon graduating), as well as professional skills, such as the importance of attendance and punctuality. The goal is to help every student get a job in construction after they graduate. The “pre-apprentice program” even helps them create resumes and secure job interviews.
“We open the door—they just have to step through,” said Robert McElreavey, boot camp instructor for the Colorado Construction Institute (CCI), who leads the new program.
Although it’s a pilot program for the corps, the CCI leads similar camps throughout the Denver Metro area, he said. The CCI’s partnership with the Home Builders Association of Metro Denver helps provide a pathway to employment for any graduate interested in the homebuilding industry.
According to McElreavey, 98 percent of students find jobs following graduation.
Steve Holmes, a recent graduate of the Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) in Denver, likes those odds. A certified crane operator, Holmes grew “sick of fighting addiction” and worried his drinking would have irreversible effects if he didn’t take action.
“I was driving $100,000 trucks at 70 miles an hour. If I would have made a wrong turn because I still wasn’t right from the night before, I could cause a little damage,” he said, sarcastically.
“If this is the first step [toward that goal], then why not?” he said.
Two of Holmes’ ARC program mates are also taking part in the construction school. The men’s tuition—$3,000 for the four-week program—and bus passes to get to and from the center were donated by the Regional Transportation District, according to Aurora Corps Officer Lt. Tanya Pemberton. The other four students attend the program on scholarships from the Arapahoe/Douglas Works! Workforce Center.
Aurora’s 4.7 percent unemployment rate outpaces the statewide rate of 4.2 percent. Moreover, “there were no bridging programs for the ARC” that offered recent graduates a way to gain employable skills and qualify for jobs that pay a livable wage, outside of fast food restaurants, Tanya Pemberton said.
“We provide lunch for them, and once a week I go and eat with them,” she said. “I give the ARC guys a ride home when I can. I look at it as a ministry opportunity.”
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STATE OF MINNESOTA
IN COURT OF APPEALS
Defenders of Wildlife; Sierra Club, North Star Chapter;
Humane Society of the United States; Friends of Animals
and Their Environment; Help Our Wolves Live; Minnesota
Wolf Alliance; and the Animal Protection Institute,
Jesse Ventura, in his capacity as Governor
of the State of Minnesota,
Filed July 31, 2001
Concurring specially, Harten, Judge
Ramsey County District Court
File No. C600007325
Brian B. O’Neill, Richard A. Duncan, Elizabeth H. Schmiesing, Chad M. Oldfather, Faegre & Benson, L.L.P., 2200 Wells Fargo Center, 90 South Seventh Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402-3901 (for appellants)
Mike Hatch, Attorney General, David P. Iverson, Assistant Attorney General, Joan M. Eichhorst, Assistant Attorney General, 525 Park Street, Suite 500, St. Paul, MN 55103 (for respondent)
Considered and decided by Toussaint, Chief Judge, Randall, Judge, and Harten, Judge.
S Y L L A B U S
2000 Minn. Laws ch. 463 does not violate the single-subject requirement of Minn. Const. art. IV, § 17. The term "natural resources" is rationally related to the different topics in the bill, including the wolf management plan.
O P I N I O N
R. A. RANDALL, Judge
Appellants challenge the constitutionality of 2000 Minn. Laws ch. 463, arguing that it violates the single-subject requirement of Minn. Const. art. IV, § 17 and was the product of impermissible legislative logrolling. We find that chapter 463 does not violate the single-subject requirement of the constitution. Affirmed.
The gray wolf (timber wolf), once listed as an endangered species by the federal government, was reclassified as a "threatened" species in 1978. As the wolf population continued to increase, the federal government began a process to remove the wolf from its list of protected species. The federal government will turn wolf management over to the state of Minnesota once Minnesota has designed an acceptable wolf-management plan. While not without controversy, a wolf-management plan was eventually enacted in 2000. The federal government has not yet formally passed on Minnesota's wolf management plan (WMP). At this time the federal government still classifies the wolf as "threatened."
The history of Minnesota's WMP is an integral part of appellants' legal argument. Appellants claim the legislative process is part of the proof that the WMP violates the "single subject" provision. In March 1999, a wolf-management plan was introduced into the Minnesota House of Representatives and assigned to its Agriculture Policy Committee, which then referred the bill to the Environment and Natural Resources Policy Committee. The house later passed a plan, which appellants characterize as "less protective" of the wolves, recommended by the latter committee. The bill then went to the Minnesota Senate where it passed through the Environment and Natural Resources Committee, Rules and Administration Committee, Agriculture and Rural Development Committee, and Crime Prevention Committee, the latter of which restored what appellants characterize as "more-protective" measures for the wolf. But the bill was amended on the senate floor to remove the "protective" measures and consequently tabled by the bill's sponsor. No stand-alone, wolf-management plan was passed.
In February 2000, a lottery bill was introduced in the house and assigned to its Environment and Natural Resources Policy Committee and in the senate by the Environment and Natural Resources Committee. It did not pass as a stand-alone bill. Meanwhile, a license bill was introduced in the house and referred to its Environment and Natural Resources Finance Committee and the Ways and Means Committee.
In March 2000, a "less-protective" wolf-management plan was introduced in the house and senate and referred to the house's Agricultural Policy Committee and the senate's Environment and Natural Resources Committee. After much activity, the senate passed a "more-protective" plan, but the house rejected it. The house, in turn, passed a "less-protective" bill. A committee was formed to reconcile the differences, but no compromise was attained and no stand-alone, wolf-management bill was passed. Around this time, an omnibus-supplemental-appropriations bill was making its way through the legislature. The senate's version contained provisions from the February 2000 lottery bill while the house's version did not.
In April 2000, the license bill was introduced in the senate after passing through the house. By special order, the senate amended the license bill to include a wolf-management plan, similar to the "less protective" one proposed by the house in earlier sessions, and lottery provisions the senate had placed in its March 2000 omnibus bill. Then, in May 2000, Governor Ventura signed 2000 Minn. Laws ch. 463, entitled:
An act relating to natural resources; requiring certain reports; modifying duties of citizen oversight committees; modifying certain license fees; providing for wolf management; modifying use of lighted fishing lures; modifying disposition of payments in lieu of sales tax for lottery tickets; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 1998, sections 3.737, subdivision 1; 97A.055, subdivisions 4 and 4a; 97A.331, by adding a subdivision; 97A.475, subdivisions 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, and 20; 97A.485, subdivision 12; 97B.645; 97B.671, subdivision 3, and by adding a subdivision; 97C.335, as amended; and 297A.44; subdivision 1; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, Ch. 97B.
Thereafter, appellants filed a complaint in district court challenging the constitutionality of the portion of this act pertaining to wolf management in Minnesota, arguing that it violates the single-subject requirement of Minn. Const. art. IV, § 17. Appellants claim the WMP was a product of impermissible "logrolling" and that chapter 463 embraces more than a single subject. Appellants moved for summary judgment. Respondent moved to dismiss pursuant to Minn. R. Civ. P. 12.02(e) for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. The district court considered matters outside the bare pleadings, thus converting the proceedings into cross motions for summary judgment. The district court denied appellants' motion for summary judgment and granted respondent's. This appeal followed.
Does 2000 Minn. Laws ch. 463 violate the single-subject requirement of Minn. Const. art. IV, § 17?
What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
Men would die from a great loneliness of spirit,
For whatever happens to the beasts,
Soon happens to man.
All things are connected.
Maureen Greeley, Wolf 115 (1996) (quoting Chief Seattle).
Generally, in reviewing cases dismissed pursuant to Minn. R. Civ. P. 12.02(e), the only question before this court is whether the complaint sets forth a legally sufficient claim for relief. Elzie v. Commissioner of Pub. Safety, 298 N.W.2d 29, 32 (Minn. 1980). But when the district court considers matters outside the pleadings, "the motion to dismiss shall be treated as one for summary judgment." Fabio v. Bellomo, 504 N.W.2d 758, 761 (Minn. 1993) (citing Minn. R. Civ. P. 12.02). Here, the district court considered matters outside the pleadings in making its decision and thus, the granting of the motion to dismiss shall be treated as a grant of summary judgment.
Appellants challenge the constitutionality of chapter 463 by arguing that it violates Minn. Const. art. IV §17, which requires that "no laws shall embrace more than one subject." "In evaluating challenges to the constitutionality of statutes, this court recognizes that the interpretation of statutes is a question of law." In re Billie, 494 N.W.2d 877, 881 (Minn. 1993) (citation omitted). Accordingly, this court "is not bound by the [district] court's conclusions." Id. (quotation omitted). Minnesota statutes are presumed constitutional and are declared unconstitutional only "with extreme caution and only when absolutely necessary." In re Haggerty, 448 N.W.2d 363, 364 (Minn. 1989) (citation omitted). A necessary prerequisite for a finding of unconstitutionality is the challenging party's demonstration beyond a reasonable doubt of a violation of some provision of the Minnesota Constitution. Id.
A. Single Subject
Appellants argue that 2000 Minn. Laws ch. 463 impermissibly embraces more than one subject. The purpose of the single-subject provision is to ensure that the legislature separately reviews and considers each law, thereby diminishing the possibility that matters that are wholly unrelated with a law's subject are not included with the primary law. State v. Cassidy, 22 Minn. 312, 322 (1875). Minnesota courts have traditionally construed the constitutional single-subject provision broadly to afford appropriate deference to the Minnesota legislature. "The common thread which runs through the various sections" need only be a "mere filament." Blanch v. Suburban Hennepin Reg’l Park Dist., 449 N.W.2d 150, 155 (Minn. 1989).
Historically, Minnesota courts have rarely invalidated laws for a violation of the single-subject requirement. Because of the requisite deference each branch of government affords the other in management of its internal affairs, there have been a limited number of challenges to legislation based on a claim of an article IV, § 17 violation. In the past few decades, the Minnesota Supreme Court has been called on to examine this issue only a handful of times. There is only one recent case, Associated Builders and Contractors v. Ventura, 610 N.W.2d 293, 304 (Minn. 2000), where the Minnesota Supreme Court threw out legislation based solely on the "single subject" provision. Although violations of the single-subject requirement are rarely found, the supreme court has recognized limitations on the interpretation of the single-subject provision. Id. at 303 (severing wage amendment provision holding that not severing "would push the mere filament to a mere figment").
The supreme court noted that recent cases prior to Associated took "a different approach" to analyzing challenges to statutes based on section 17. Id. at 301. In State ex. rel. Mattson v. Kiedrowski, 391 N.W.2d 777, 778, 783 (Minn. 1986), the bill was challenged as separation of powers and single-subject violations. The court invalidated the bill under the separation of powers doctrine and did not reach the single-subject challenge, but Justice Yetka in a concurring opinion
warn[ed] the legislature that if it does hereafter enact legislation similar to [the challenged bill], which clearly violates Minn. Const. art. IV, § 17, we will not hesitate to strike it down regardless of the consequences to the legislature, the public, or the courts generally.
Id. at 785 (Yetka, J., concurring specially). The challenged bill in Kiedrowski, unlike our bill at issue, included vastly dissimilar provisions ranging from "provisions relating to agricultural land, a council of Asian-Pacific Minnesotans and the establishment of a recycling program." Associated, 610 N.W.2d at 301 (citing Kiedrowski, 391 N.W.2d at 784 (Yetka, J., concurring specially)). In Blanch, the challenged bill provision on obtaining land to develop parks in an act entitled "relating to the organization and operation of the state government" did "indeed [contain] a mere filament" and was upheld. Associated, 610 N.W.2d at 302 (citing Blanch, 449 N.W.2d at 154-55). Justice Yetka again, in Blanch, put the legislature on "full notice of the consequences of overstepping constitutional limitations in its drafting of omnibus bills." 499 N.W.2d at 155 (Yetka, J., concurring specially).
Next, an omnibus fiscal bill provision that exempted certain Metrodome property from taxation with a title that included the word "taxation" was upheld. Metropolitan Sports Facilities Comm’n v. County of Hennepin, 478 N.W.2d 487, 491 (Minn. 1991). But the court in Associated carefully noted "while the bill could have been more consistent with the single subject requirement, it was enacted prior to the Blanch warning." Associated, 610 N.W.2d at 302 (citing Metropolitan, 478 N.W.2d at 490).
In Masters v. Commissioner, Minnesota Dep't of Natural Resources, 604 N.W.2d 134 (Minn. App. 2000), the 48-page bill covered the areas of environment, natural resources, and agriculture. This court noted:
Unlike the statute involved in Associated Builders, [the challenged bill] is not overbroad. The areas of environment, natural resources, and agriculture are closely related to one another and constitute one subject.
Id. at 138.
In Associated, the cornerstone of appellants' argument today, the supreme court found that an amendment on prevailing wage law in a bill, which had remaining subjects that included taxation and government operations, was a violation of the single-subject requirement. Associated, 610 N.W.2d at 304. The court noted that if it were to uphold the amendment on wage law, which had no connection to the other subjects and required that the wages be paid regardless of whether the project was publicly funded or not, "would push the mere filament to a mere figment." Id. at 303.
In examining the facts in Associated, first we note that the struck-down provision of the bill in Associated was merely one section in a total bill spanning 247 pages. That bill included 16 articles; a variety of subjects such as property-tax reform, special taxes, income-tax refunds, waste-management taxes; and was entitled in part "[a]n act relating to the financing and operation of state and local government." Id. at 297 (quotation omitted). The title contained no reference to labor, wages, or any word that would suggest the presence of the challenged provision.
In contrast, chapter 463, the natural resources bill at issue, spans less than ten pages; the title includes the phrases "natural resources" and "providing for wolf management" by name; and covers only seven topics: the submission of annual reports on revenue from monies spent and credited to the game and fish fund from game license surcharges and waterfowl, salmon, pheasant and turkey stamps; the modification of duties of the oversight committees established to review the aforementioned reports and recommend management and use of the money in the game and fish fund; the modification of certain license fees for various hunting, sporting, and fishing activities; the modification of the use of lighted fishing lures; the deposit of revenues into the game and fish fund and the natural resources fund; a one-time appropriation of money from the general fund to the commissioner of natural resources for fish and wildlife management; and the wolf management plan.
We conclude this is not the type of "garbage" bill Justice Yetka referenced in his warnings. See Kiedrowski, 391 N.W.2d at 785 (Yetka, J., concurring specially) (warning practice of placing wholly unrelated bills into one bill is impermissible logrolling). Chapter 463 does not contain an overly broad range of subjects wholly unrelated to each other. We agree with appellants' position that the supreme court in Associated warned against stretching the definition of "mere filament." However, we easily conclude that chapter 463 is not the bill that pushes the definition of a mere filament to a "mere figment."
B. Impermissible Logrolling
Appellants argue that the addition of the wolf provision to chapter 463 was the product of impermissible logrolling. We disagree. Logrolling is defined as the "combination of different measures, dissimilar in character * * * united together * * * compelling the requisite support to secure their passage." Cassidy, 22 Minn. at 322. The single-subject provision
requires that the legislature not fold into larger, more popular bills, wholly unrelated and potentially unpopular provisions that may not pass as a stand-alone bill. The purpose of preventing logrolling is to preclude unrelated subjects from appearing in a popular bill, not to eliminate unpopular provisions in a bill that genuinely encompasses one general subject.
Associated, 610 N.W.2d at 303 (emphasis added).
To support their argument, appellants detail the bill's history through the legislature and the different committees responsible for working on the wolf-management plan. Respondent argues that this court need not look at the bill's legislative history to determine germaneness. We disagree with respondent and acknowledge that legislative history may provide evidentiary support of single-subject violations. Appellants first argue that the wolf-management plan went through policy committees as a policy provision and was passed only after being put through a finance committee to support their argument that the WMP is wholly unrelated to the other provisions of chapter 463. We simply note that the fact that the bill passed through different committees, and eventually went through a finance committee rather than a policy committee before its passage is not determinative. Each branch of the legislature may name its own committees and decide what topics and what bills those committees deal with and discuss. That is their prerogative.
Appellants next argue that the wolf-management provision that was passed was given little consideration. From the record before us, we simply have to find that is not the case. Unlike Associated, 610 N.W.2d at 304, where the bill "had no companion bill in the senate [and] received little consideration in the house committee hearings," in the present case, there were companion bills in previous sessions detailing different versions of a WMP. As highlighted in appellants' own index, the WMP received considerable public and legislative attention, including, but not limited to, several major articles in daily newspapers.
Appellants argue that the wolf-management provision was the product of impermissible logrolling, meaning the provision was wholly unrelated to the other provisions of chapter 463. Appellants claim that this contentious and controversial bill went through various policy committees and could not pass as a "stand-alone" bill. They point out that it passed only when the wolf provision, similar to the one the house had passed in previous sessions, and a lottery provision that failed to pass in the senate's appropriations bill, were attached to a popular licensing bill. We understand appellants' argument, but the fact that a controversial bill could not pass as a stand-alone bill, while not irrelevant, is not conclusive proof of impermissible logrolling. If the historical nature of legislation was such that every single provision of a larger bill had to be able to pass both houses of the legislature and obtain the governor's signature on its own merits, little if any legislation would ever be signed into law. (This is not the forum to debate whether this would be a good thing or a bad thing.) For example, bonding bills, appropriations bills, spending bills, tax bills, and bills affecting policy in sensitive areas of government such as labor, education, health, and welfare often run 50, 100, 200, or more pages, containing dozens to perhaps a few hundred individual provisions, some more popular than others.
The practice of bundling controversial, volatile provisions with germane and less-controversial laws is not impermissible logrolling. Rather, it is the nature of the democratic process where you have major and minor political parties, partisan politics, and an independent executive branch. The negotiations and the constant give and take are historical, purely legal, and purely permissible; there is no impermissible logrolling provided that the independent provisions in a bill ultimately signed into law are not so wholly unrelated to each other that not even a common thread can be found. See Id. at 303 (stating purpose of prohibiting logrolling is to "preclude unrelated subjects from appearing in a popular bill" (emphasis added)).
The WMP may be unpopular with certain members of the public and the legislature. However, popularity is not the test. For instance, in years of projected budget deficits because of declining monetary resources, increases in income, property, and sales taxes are and have been a part of Minnesota's past, and other states as well. Such bills, even if good public policy, do not rank high in popularity contests.
We conclude that the WMP of chapter 463 is one of seven simple provisions dealing with identifiable aspects of natural resources. Chapter 463 is less than ten pages, contrasted with the 247-page bill in Associated, and chapter 463 is not unclear as to the relationship between its title and its individual provisions.
This case is not about "good wolf" versus "bad wolf."
Through the centuries, we have projected onto the wolf
the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
Maureen Greeley, Wolf 11 (1996) (quoting Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men (1979)). This is not a case where if appellants prevail, an unjustly-maligned animal will now be deemed a courageous and dignified animal. It is not the case where if respondent prevails, a courageous and dignified animal will now be stripped of its nobility. The inherent dignity of all wildlife does not depend on legal rhetoric or the arcane logic of the judiciary. The wolf is, has been, and will continue to be.
Finally, in appellate review, we do not sit as a "super-conference committee" to determine whether the bill passed was questionable legislation. We do not sit as a super-conference committee and rewrite bills or toss them aside. Appellants' argument that this is questionable legislation remains. Appellants can continue to argue that WMP will not stand federal scrutiny and thus, ultimately, Minnesota may have no wolf-management plan of its own. Appellants can continue to lobby and fight for a better bill or repeal or modification of chapter 463.
Our decision today has nothing to do with the merits of chapter 463; we speak simply to the method of its passage. Whether the WMP is good public policy does not frame our review. Rather, our review, under the four corners of Minn. Const. art. IV, § 17, is limited to whether the Minnesota House of Representatives, the Minnesota Senate, and Governor Ventura passed and signed this bill in such a fashion that it is now the law. We conclude that they did, and it is. Appellants have not met their burden of demonstrating beyond a reasonable doubt that 2000 Minn. Laws ch. 463 violates the single-subject requirement of Minn. Const. art. IV § 17.
D E C I S I O N
The district court properly held that chapter 463 does not violate the single-subject requirement of Minn. Const. art. IV, § 17.
HARTEN, Judge (concurring specially)
I concur in the result.
Dated: July 24, 2001 ______________________________________
James C. Harten
Appellants are not alleging a violation of the title requirement in chapter 463. We mention the title because it presents words and phrases suggesting the common thread among the provisions.
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If you are a country music fan in the Salt Lake City area, you may already be familiar with this week's lunch date. "Intern Kate" can be found on the Keith Stubbs' Show on 101.5 the Eagle in the mornings.
Current location: Salt Lake City
Occupation: Personal Assistant and budding radio personality
Lunchables location: Ruth's Diner in Emigration Canyon
How we know each other: Kate and I met each other via Twitter of all crazy places. Until our lunch date we had never met in person, but had exchanged several Twitters and emails. Now we are regular texting buddies and plan to get together for some fun single girl adventures soon!
Question #1- Favorite past-time
"Radio! Getting to go to concerts, country dancing, or just hanging out at the station!"
Kate is new to radio. If you think being on-air radio talent makes you rich and famous, guess again. Radio stations are all operated on shoestring budgets. But that hasn't kept Kate, a darling 30-something, from taking a leap of faith into pursuing what she loves. Believe it or not she is an unpaid intern, and is working there because she loves it. (She also has a full-time job as a personal assistant to a local businesswoman.) You can do Kate a favor and help her be even better at her internship by following @1015theeagle on Twitter! (She runs the account.)
Question #2- Passions!
No surprise here. The sweet and sensitive Kate says that she is passionate about her friends and family, and helping them out. She says it keeps her up at night worrying about other people's struggles. (Sounds like she's a wonderful friend to have!)
Oh and radio!
Question #3- What is your favorite memory?
"Spending time with my step-sisters. We would put on dance concerts for our parents, tape it, and watch it over and over again!"
Question #4- What defines you?
Kate took a very long pause and thought this one over before answering.
"Very spontaneous, something crazy, and taking road trips."
The next question is "give me 5 words that define your dating life." But here's what you need to know about Kate first. Not unlike some people I know, she's in her 30s, sick of dating, and yet hasn't given up all hope yet. She's recently started dating a great guy, and has even more recently begun referring to him as her boyfriend. It is all still so new to her I can't blame her for not knowing which answers to give. Kate with a Boyfriend answers? Or the Other Kate who is in her 30s and finds dating impossible?
After some debate, she went with Other Kate.
"Before I decided to let him be my boyfriend..."
2. Willing to give someone a chance
5. Not superficial/very in-depth
And the best answer ever? "I once went to Canada for a first date [with a guy she met online]. Try explaining to Border Patrol that you don't know the guy's last name."
Question 6- Why aren't you married yet?
She busts up laughing. And keeps laughing.
"Because I haven't said yes!"
Now for the fun question- name as many types of cheese as you can think of in 1 minute-
Bleu, string, gorgonzola, goat, cottage, mozzarella, smoked, sharp, cream, and pepper jack!
What I want to tell you about Kate-
Asking a girl I had never met before out to lunch was a little intimidating. Like I said before, we had only communicated a few times via Twitter. (We're both "Due Westies.") We also exchanged a few emails regarding social media tips. No big deal. A few weeks ago she left a comment on my blog, which lead me to her blog, which lead me to the real her. As soon as I read her blog, Kiss Me Kate, I knew we would get along. I've struggled a lot in Utah to find a single female friend who had never been married before, and has the same ideals and ambitions as me. In DC (and other places I have lived) this was never a problem for me. In Utah its ridiculously difficult to find!
Within just a few minutes of sitting down to eat (ooh, almost forgot- at the time we were both on the HCG diet. instead of moral support, we both completely encouraged each other to cheat. it was fun.) we were opening right up and talking about how hard it is to maintain our ideals and standards sometimes. We were both thrilled to discover a kindred spirit who understands the difficulties and challenges of the over-30 LDS dating world.
She is genuine and down to earth, and equally funny and adventurous. I tested her when she said she likes crazy adventures and road trips. (I was only half joking, and mostly serious.) We had known each other less than 30 minutes when I asked her if she wanted to take the gay bus to Wendover to see a Joan Jett concert. I knew we'd be great friends when she actually considered it for a minute, and then realized she had plans with her boyfriend. And then suggested I meet her boyfriend so that we could convince him to do some crazy things with us!
She's the real deal. If her awesome boyfriend doesn't step up to the plate (no rush, it is still a new relationship and all), I will personally go on a mission to find her the perfect man, if for no other reason than to get her off the playing field so that I can have a chance!
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After the gold embossing was done I smooshed Distress Inks squeezed lemonade, dusty concord & peacock feathers--drying after each color. I bought Michaels Ebony spray mist for splatters, but this time I held my breath & misted with it as well. Totally changed the look of the panel--so fun! I used a spellbinder die for the scallops & gold heat embossed the side of the card to match the images.
My much loved W&W hello die is stacked 3 high & brushed with gold WOS which I got months ago & had not opened. Finished off with PPP gold metallic sequins which I just got--best $3 purchase ever! I'm also entering SSS Monday, SSS Wednesday, CropStop, HLS Anything Goes with Dies, Stamplorations Theme & Sketch & Word Art Wednesday.
Fritz & I are planning several walks today as our temps are supposed to be in the 80s instead of the 90s. Could even turn on the oven, so better get the apple/zucchini bread made I've been putting off. Thanks so much for taking time to stop by.
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LIVERPOOL are considering a move for Real Madrid superstar Luis Figo after the Portuguese international offered his services to the European champions.
However, manager Rafa Benitez still needs convincing to swoop for the 32-year-old.
Figo's representatives contacted Anfield officials after the right midfielder was told he was surplus to requirements at the Bernabeu.
Figo is keen to move to the Premiership, but the reaction thus far hasn't been as enthusiastic as he'd hoped.
He's also in talks with Marseille. Although Figo wouldn't command a huge transfer fee, his wages would certainly be a significant factor.
Benitez is also concerned about how hungry the player would be to make a major impact at Anfield as he enters the twilight years of an illustrious career.
Liverpool will sign a right-sided midfielder during their brief closed season and Figo is one of numerous options.
"I have been linked with Liverpool and Manchester United. Almost every player would like to play for either of those teams and I am no different," said Figo.
"I have always said that the Premiership is a competition I would like to play in one day and that's not changed. But I have a family to think about, too, and it's important that I make the right final decision for them.
"The Premiership has improved so much over the last few years and many of the world's best players are signing for clubs in England.
"It's very different to the Spanish League, but I am sure that I will be able to adapt to it if I ever moved there."
Talks will continue with Dutchman Bolo Zenden, who is also available on a free transfer.
The deals nearest completion so far are the much publicised swoop for Villarreal keeper Jose Reina for #6m, and the purchase of Albacete's 20-year-old winger Mark Gonzalez, most likely on an initial year loan while he recovers from cruciate knee surgery.
Benitez will make another effort to lure Southampton's Peter Crouch this week. Anfield officials have privately confirmed a #5m bid put to the Saints was Liverpool's.
The Spanish boss will look elsewhere if Southampton chairman Rupert Lowe continues to inflate Crouch's value to around #7m.
Meanwhile, Benitez has been honoured by the Spanish region of Extremadura.
Both Benitez and his assistant Pako Ayesteran are to be presented with the title 'Special Ambassador' for the county where they began their senior coaching careers.
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Eating intuitively is always a direct response to your physical needs. When you've had an exhausting day, you may not feel hungry- so don't eat. Your body may prefer the nourishment of sleep. Learn to recognize intuitive cues from your body and trust your private intuitive voice.
It's good to learn about what's healthy but your body responds to food in a completely unique way from every else! This means, what fills me up may not satisfy you, or what your friend eats may cause bloat in your stomach.
Intuitive eating is a relaxed flexible attitude that's tuned into your body's needs.
Dieting doesn't work long term. 95% of people who diet gain back more weight than they loss. Why keep doing something that makes you feel badly about yourself and doesn't work?
Be bold. Think like Steve Jobs and get results you want!
Isn't it time for long-term satisfaction with your body and yourself?
It's not what you're eating, it's what's eating you.
Am I Really Hungry? gives you answers.
It's not expensive or time consuming. It's about you.
Am I Really Hungry? frees your mind from trying to control your body by showing you how to stay in sync with yourself.
You can be in control of your eating.
"This feels like the biggest break through with food I’ve ever had. By getting permission to listen to my intuition about food and the significance of so much food tasting so bad to me – I am turning down dinners and drinks in ways I never would have thought possible before." Angela, Washington DC
Fine Tuning is a simple book that can be opened to any page for a sound bite of insight. It works like an oracle. Hold it in your hand, think of a question and open.
This book is full of quotes and insights designed to open your mind.
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Robots work using a combination of electronics, computer programming and mechanics called mechatronics. Electricity is key to the functioning of these robots.
Usually, a robot is made up of 5 distinct components that mimic the human body, which are:
- a body structure
- a ‘muscle’ system – motors and a means of moving the robot
- a number of electronic sensors
- a source of energy – a battery
- a computer ‘brain’ – a means of controlling the electrical systems.
Robots are designed for many different purposes, usually for the repetitive jobs or those that are extremely dangerous or difficult for humans to do. In this way, humans can extend their senses and actions using robots.
Robots such as MARVIN (which stands for Mobile Autonomous Robotic Vehicle for Indoor Navigation) have ultrasound and infrared sensors that allow them to detect distance, as well as touch and sound sensors. The electrical properties of the sensors change when there is a change in the physical conditions that they can detect. Find out more in the article Sensing robots.
Search and rescue robots being developed by Dale Carnegie and his team at Victoria University have sensors capable of detecting heat using thermal imaging, gases, such as carbon dioxide and also movement.
How do robots respond?
All robots operate by making a series of electrical decisions based on the information the sensors receive.
The robot doesn’t have a brain to make these decisions like humans do but instead relies on its microprocessor (computer) to analyse the signals from the sensors and send response signals to electrical circuits or electronic components that control the flow of electric charges to various parts of the robot.
These electrical responses (decisions) change what the robot is doing. A complex robot may have hundreds of decisions to make.
The robot's computer is programmed to control everything attached to its circuitry. To enable the robot to move or respond, the computer switches on the different motors or components as required. To change the way the robot behaves, you simply write a new program into its computer.
Can robots have emotions?
Robots that are designed for specific tasks have to be taught how to do these tasks – they have to have computer programs that will allow them to react to many different types of situation and actually learn from them, such as avoiding an object after having collided with it.
Dale Carnegie and his team have equipped MARVIN, a security robot, with a set of emotions to help MARVIN survive in situations that otherwise it might find itself stuck in. MARVIN uses its sensors to determine where it is and the obstacles that may get in its way. It is programmed to feel ‘frustration’ when it is stuck somewhere. When this happens, its movements become more aggressive. Is this like human intelligence, which is the ability to react to and respond to a situation in the most appropriate way, even when you've never encountered it before?
Most robots have a lot of these types of built-in electronic circuits that make decisions and responses. When they have a series of more complex electronic circuits, they can perform multiple functions such as moving, sensing and receiving, and sending information.
Research by the Mechatronics Group at Victoria University is leading to the development of robots that will be fully autonomous with no need for human intervention.
Nature of science
Scientists work collaboratively with technologists to research, design and build technological appliances based on basic science principles. The principles of electrical circuits, computer programming and mechanics are brought together in novel ways to design robots with varying functions and also to create robots that can be autonomous.
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Forest Ranger, Reception Range
Office of the Wildlife Warden
Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Ooty.
Tourist Information Centre
Government of Tamil Nadu
Bangalore City Railway Station
STD code- 0423
Located in the thick forests of the northern Nilgiris, Mudumalai is famous for its wildlife sanctuary. It is noted among one of the most important wildlife sanctuaries of India. Nestled amidst the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu, Mudumalai is a part of the greater Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. The range of wildlife is the same as in Bandipur (another famous sanctuary near it) but the Mudumalai has two features which makes it different from its neighbor-the Moyar river, and proximity to the Nilgiri mountain ranges which give it wider access to varied wildlife including elephants and gaurs.
The main attraction in Mudumalai is Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary. The sanctuary was set up in 1932 and since then has emerged as an important wildlife conservation park of India. Evergreen forests, grasslands, swamps and a wide variety of wildlife are the main characteristics of this park. Wildlife here includes Indian elephants, Gaur, tigers, panthers, deer, wild boar and monitor lizards. The sanctuary also abounds with civets, antelopes, langurs and macaques.
You can enjoy jungle safari on the vehicles of the Forest Department. While on way you can spot herds of elephants and spotted dear, the sambar that pricks its ears, langurs jumping from one tree to another and many exotic varieties of birds including black woodpecker, parakeets, barbets, mynas, cuckoos, Malabar trogon, Malabar gray hornbill, crested hawk eagle, and crested serpent eagle. You can also enjoy elephant ride to even explore the area inaccessible by vehicles.
Hotels in Mudumalai
You can easily find an accommodation within the Mudumalai Reserve. There are plenty of Forest Department lodges taking care of your accommodation needs. The other famous resorts nearby are The Jungle Retreat, Monarch Safari Park, Blue Valley Jungle Resorts, Green park Resorts, Mountain Rest House, Bamboo Banks Farm Guest House and many more.
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A lot of my followers are not going to enjoy this post and I understand their outrage. But this is where I am today, this is how I feel. Me, the one in the trenches, who day after day not only sees but feels the pain of those in poverty and living life without health care and hope.
I do not agree with defunding Planned Parenthood. I know, I can see the look on your face.. and I get it, I do. I am pro-life, I swear it-- but as one of my main role models, Nancy Alcorn (founder of Mercy Ministries), urges Christians to not picket and whine about abortion clinics, instead, she says, start giving the girls alternative options (give them your resources to relieve their fear, babysit, provide transportation, fund organizations like Mercy) [please note that comment has nothing to do with prayer, I believe intercessory prayer can change things and is not vain, what is vain is yelling at a girl as her whole life crumbles down around her]
At my internship, I work hand and hand with Planned Parenthood, quite often. They provide my clients with health services that otherwise would leave them vulnerable to a very harsh world. Sometimes I wonder if the world takes better care of the hurting then we [those who know the hope of the Lord] do. I mean at least they are trying... we might not [actually I know we don't] agree with their tactics but they are trying to help. A majority of us 'church goers' close our eyes and choose to ignore the harshness of reality. [please also note none of the Christians I associate with are these people, don't think this is directed at you at all]
This post really has nothing to do with abortions exactly, since the money being taken away does not go towards that service offered, but I figure the title would catch some new readers in. It's just I am struggling with the fact if I am compromising in my appreciation on Planned Parenthood. But... I just, I know they are well intended. Those opposed to them say they have no respect for human life as they allow for abortions, but on the other hand they do care about human life, that's why they do it... they care about the hurting, confused girl in front of them. In their eyes, they are doing what is best. Do I agree with it? No. Do I grieve enough for those lost lives that God had plans for? Most definitely not. But I don't want to see how much worse things will get for my girls if they lose the benefits of receiving free services to health care, STD testing, birth control, parenting workshops, and counseling.
However, at the same time, I am limiting God with that belief. I am assuming that He will not provide a better service, or transformation for these girls instead. And I know transformation is possible, but not everyone chooses that so... is it okay to settle for rooting on the world's version of "help", while keeping in prayer that the girls will choose the freedom in Christ offered? I believe we have to meet people where they are at- and if that is handing out free condoms and clean needles [different organization] I think so be it. The world will always be fallen. We gotta do what we can, you can't ask someone to stop living a risky lifestyle until they expereince the love of Christ and choose obedience as a response to His faithfulness.
My thoughts then? Let's start focusing on giving people the opportunity to expereince God's goodness. Let's get out there in those trenches [wherever you feel lead to, this is not an exhaustible list of places] let's start healing, let's start SHOWING the good news along with preaching it. If Planned Parenthood's defunding is an answered cry from so many faithful, faithful children of God, so be it-- let it be then. But let's not leave the lost, lost. We have to replace that system, with something that works, something Godly... and please don't read this post and think your are not capable of bringing change, because you are.
First, get on board with God, learn what it is to be loved for just being you. Realize you were created on and for a purpose. Begin to dream and partner with God, as He begins to show you places in your life that need to be lined up with His word and be obedient [that also means you have to make the choice to read his word]. Refocus your thinking from what you can't do, to how great God is and what you two can do together and then do it. He promises He will be with you every step of the way.
Whether you agree with my thoughts or not, let's agree that it is a broken world out there. No one, and no agency is perfect. We are all striving to make up for an original sin that none of us can reverse. We are stuck on this side of heaven, desperately seeking and creating what we think are the 'right ways' and 'most effective treatments' for our own pain and grief. Even those who have found forgiveness, healing, deliverance and joy in Christ, continue to fall, continue to sin, we're all wrong, we're all imperfect. We'll only know true peace in heaven and at that point I'll know if my support of Planned Parenthood was wrong or not.
Opposing veiwpoints can be found here: Christian Post and Planned Parenthood
Rochester, NY statistics can be found here: Skip to the last page and be shocked, check out these numbers and although sketchy website this is fact.
Healing for Abortions can be found here: messymiracles.org , Mercy Ministries and Forgiven & set free
God's grace can be found: anywhere you decided to turn to Him.
Answers to all this craziness found in your prayers and listening to God's calling for your life.
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from the Iowa District Court for Black Hawk County, Linda M.
defendant appeals his convictions for domestic abuse assault
with intent to cause serious injury and domestic abuse
assault causing bodily injury.
Nicholas T. Larson, of Larson Law Office, P.L.L.C., Osage,
J. Miller, Attorney General, and Kyle P. Hanson and Tyler J.
Buller, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee.
Considered by Vaitheswaran, P.J., and Potterfield and
found Eric Sallis guilty of domestic abuse assault with
intent to cause serious injury, in violation of Iowa Code
section 708.2A(2)(c) (2016), and domestic abuse assault
causing bodily injury, in violation of section 708.2A(2)(b).
The district court sentenced Sallis to two years'
incarceration. Sallis appeals his convictions, contending the
district court committed evidentiary error and there is
insufficient evidence to support the convictions.
approximately one o'clock in the morning on January 31,
2016, Kavina Walker went to the Waterloo Police Department to
report she had been assaulted by her live-in boyfriend,
Sallis. Walker was panicking, upset, mad, and crying. Walker
reported Sallis hit her and then kicked her when she fell to
the ground. Walker told the interviewing officers she was in
pain and needed to go to the hospital. An officer took
photographs of Walker's injuries, which included
significant swelling to the side of her face consistent with
her report. The Waterloo Fire Department transported Walker
to a local hospital for treatment of her injuries. On the
same night, Walker's sister, Quinnisha Hodges, provided a
statement to the police. She told the officer she witnessed
Sallis kick Walker when Walker was lying on the ground. She
also stated she chased Sallis away from the scene.
Hodges' interview with the police was recorded.
different story emerged at trial. Walker testified she spent
much of the day in question drinking to celebrate her
birthday. She testified that late on the night of the 30th
she picked up Sallis and they drove around while drinking.
She testified they then drove to her cousin's house to
"sit there and drink." According to Walker's
testimony, there were a number of people at the house already
drinking by the time she and Sallis arrived. Walker testified
she was at the party for only fifteen to thirty minutes. Upon
leaving the party, Walker testified, she was attacked by a
pedestrian who happened to be walking by her cousin's
house when she exited the house. The assault only ended when
Hodges came out of the house and interrupted the fight.
Walker testified she told the police Sallis attacked her only
because she was mad at Sallis after the two exchanged words
regarding Walker's ex-boyfriend, who was expected to
arrive at the party.
testified he and Walker drove to Walker's cousin's
house but he left after only a few minutes and walked to his
sister's house. He testified he left the party to avoid a
confrontation with Walker's ex-boyfriend, who was
expected to arrive at the party. He testified Walker was at
the party when he left and he did not assault Walker.
testified she had no recollection of the events on the night
in question because she was too intoxicated. At trial, Hodges
testified she was drunk when she went to the police station
and could not recall her statements to the police. The
recorded interview was then played for Hodges outside the
presence of the jury to refresh her recollection. Hodges then
testified viewing the video did not refresh her recollection
of the interview. The district court then allowed the video
to be played for the jury as a recorded recollection.
State's case consisted of the testimony of the officers
who interviewed Walker and Hodges at the police station on
the night in question and the video of Hodges' interview.
Waterloo Police Department Sergeant Matt McGeough testified
he was present at the police station when he heard a violent
pounding at the back door. When he opened the door, he
encountered Walker. Walker was "pretty distraught and
very emotionally upset, saying she had just been
assaulted." McGeough testified he interviewed Walker.
Officer Walter was present during the interview. Both
McGeough and Walter testified, over counsel's hearsay
objections, that Walker reported Sallis had hit and kicked
her. The defendant also interposed a hearsay objection to
Officer Brownell's testimony regarding the same subject.
argues the district court erred in allowing the officers to
testify regarding the statements Walker made during her
police interview. Specifically, he contends the testimony was
hearsay. We review hearsay claims for correction of
errors at law. See State v. Smith, 876 N.W.2d 180,
184 (Iowa 2016). Whether a statement constitutes hearsay is a
legal issue, "leaving the trial court no discretion on
whether to admit or deny admission of the statement."
Id. However, we give deference to the factual
findings of the district court and uphold those findings if
they are supported by substantial evidence. See State v.
Long, 628 N.W.2d 440, 447 (Iowa 2001).
is a statement the declarant does not make while testifying
at the current trial or hearing and which is offered into
evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted.
See Iowa R. Evid. 5.801. As a general rule, hearsay
is inadmissible unless an exception applies. See
Iowa R. Evid. 5.802. One such exception to the general rule
is the "excited utterance" exception, which allows
for the admission of "[a] statement relating to a
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“There’s no truth to that,” Trillo told Spin.ph. “That's an absolute lie and a big-time rumor that people are just trying to cook up. We are very, very happy with what we are doing now in the team.
"We love Sonny.”
The James Cook University alumnus is averaging just 7.7 points on 33 percent shooting from the field, and 6.5 rebounds in the PBA Philippine Cup - way below his double-double averages of 11.6 points and 10 rebounds last season, the first for the Aces in the post-Tim Cone era.
In an 88-86 win over Petron on Friday, Thoss was just three-of-10 from the field, missing several point-blank attempts.
Trillo, however, said Thoss’ ongoing struggle this season is understandable, considering the 2004 fifth overall pick hardly joined the team’s offseason practice due to his commitment with the Smart Gilas 2.0 national team that won the William Jones Cup crown and placed fourth in the Fiba Asia Cup on Tokyo, Japan.
And since the Aces added a slew of new faces like point guard JV Casio, Dondon Hontiveros, Raphael Reyes, Eddie Laure, Nic Belasco, and just recently, this season’s No. 2 overall rookie pick Calvin Abueva, Thoss needs more games to get used to his new teammates, Trillo said.
“Every player goes through that (struggle). James Yap went through that last season under coach Tim (Cone), but he came back strong after that and even won a championship,” added Trillo.
Trillo also said the 6-7 Fil-German was bothered by a bum stomach in one game. And if he had struggled in the others, it was not because of lack of effort, he added.
“I like Sonny’s effort in his last two games. His effort will eventually benefit the team. We’re very pleased with his defense. You just can’t ask for anything more from Sonny," Trillo said.
"But again, you just can’t keep changing guys because you can’t develop a sense of trust.”
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Instead of lots of text today, I'm going to share lots of pictures. Here's what we've been up to!
This sign is outside our elevator...can you spot the problem?
Working on the abs and obliques...Jason wants to get one of these machines (coincidentally, these are for training skiers...apparently, you're supposed to stand on the black cushion and balance as you slide from side to side...one of the many ways the folks at KKI adapt other types of equipment to fit their needs).
A little aquatherapy
While we spent the first week at KKI, Savannah was with Danny and Gail. She spent a lot of time working on puzzles.
She helped with yard work...it was unseasonably warm last week.
And got some good quality time with Grandma.
When she returned to Baltimore, she was SO excited to go to the aquarium!
Not the best picture of us...
A day away with Mimi and Aunt Debbie...at the American Girls store!
Very excited about her new puppy.
Port Discovery Children's Museum
Play date with an East Coast friend!
Lunch at KKI
KKI has a great area with toys for kids...including a playroom with free childcare (for children over 3 years old)
Savannah wanted to go on the historic ships in the harbor, so off we went. It's MUCH colder this week!
After the boats, we went to the top of Baltimore's World Trade Center. We're a long way from home!
Tomorrow is Jason's last PT session at KKI. He'll get his home program information and we'll schedule our next visit. We're also hoping to get in a morning visit to the aquarium. We fly back to CA on Saturday morning!
Hope you all are well!
Lots of love,
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ANKARA (Sarzameen News)- Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif met Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim in the capital of Turkey where they discussed mutual ties between the two countries.
The Turkish leadership expressed best wishes for Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. Turkish Prime Minister Yildirim said that his country appreciates the sacrifices made by Pakistan in war against terrorism, adding that both countries have meaningful relations.
He acknowledged that Pakistan made the highest number of sacrifices to fight terrorism in their region, requesting the international community to realise the sacrifices of over 60,000 thousand Pakistanis. Turkey supports Pakistan’s stance in Afghanistan security, he further stated.
Khawaja Asif talked about the regional security, trade and matters of mutual interest with the Turkish leadership. The meeting was also attended by their Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
He embarked on a one-day official visit to Turkey on Tuesday to discuss the US policy review regarding Afghanistan and South Asia, apart from US President Donald Trump s allegations of safe havens in Pakistan.
Earlier on his arrival, Pakistan’s Ambassador to Turkey Syrus Qazi and Turkish officials greeted him at the airport.
The two sides would review bilateral relations and regional issues, including in Afghanistan, grave human rights violations in Occupied Kashmir, atrocities against Rohingya Muslims and other issues of common concern.
Earlier, Asif had called on Iranian President Dr. Hassan Rouhani and discussed strengthening of brotherly relations between the two countries rooted in common history, culture and people to people ties and reaffirmed the mutual desire to strengthen bilateral cooperation.
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[from the Memphis (Tenn.) appeal-advance, April 27, 1893.]
A monument to their memory unveiled at Vicksburg, Mississippi, April 25, 1893.
Exercises on the occasion, with Addresses by Lieut.-General Stephen D. Lee, and ex-governor M. F. Lowry.
While the South was still bleeding and impoverished, and at a time when the horrors of war were still fresh in the memories of all, the patriotic women of Vicksburg organized the Confederate Cemetery Association, and securing a largenally recruited by large arrivals by steamers from Natchez, Greenville and points along the river.
The day having been declared a holiday, the entire population of the city was out to receive the visitors, and the streets were thronged.
Ex-Governor Lowry, State Treasurer Evans and Auditor Stone, arrived by the early train from Jackson, and were received with a salute by the artillery, and with unbounded enthusiasm, both being very popular here.
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LATH GALVANIZING SPECIFICATIONS IN BUILDING CODES
Corrosion protection of metals including lathing for cement plaster (stucco) is governed by building codes. Corrosion protection is prescribed as galvanization.
The following outlines the standards and requirements for galvanization that are now in effect in the US states that have adopted the IBC and IRC codes:
In Table 2507.2 titled “Lath, Plastering Materials and Accessories”, the International Building Code (IBC) cites ASTM C847 – Metal Lath; ASTM C933 – Welded Wire lath; and ASTM C1032 – Woven wire plaster base. In Table 2511.1 titled “Installation of Plaster Construction”, the IBC cites ASTM C1063 – Lathing and furring (cement plaster)
Similarly, the International Residence Code (IRC) cites the same ASTM standards in section R702.2.2 – Cement plaster.
In C1063 in paragraph 6.4, the requirement for wire is ‘Wire – as specified in Specification A641, with a Class 1 zinc-coated (galvanized), soft-temper steel.’
ASTM standard A641 is “Standard Specification for Zinc-Coated (Galvanized) Carbon Steel Wire”. In the standard, the various minimum zinc coating requirements are given for Class 1 coatings by wire size.
In C1063 in paragraph 6.2.3, the requirements for sheet steel items is : ‘Steel – Specification A653 and shall have a G60 coating’.
Standard A653 is a specification for steel sheet, zinc coated (galvanized) or zinc-iron alloy-coated (galv-annealed) by the hot-dip process.
Further in C847 for metal lath in paragraph 3.1, the requirement is ‘Galvanized metal lath shall have a G60 coating in accordance with Specification A653′.
ZINC REQUIREMENT FOR LATH
Specifications for stucco reinforcing lath are as follows:
Lath Type: Welded & Woven Wire
Zinc Coating Requirement: ASTM Class 1
Lath Type: Expanded Metal
Zinc Coating Requirement: G60
The building code specification recognizes that the principal long-term condition for corrosion protection is achieved by full stucco embedment of the stucco metal base.
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[This work called «Humans» was started many years ago. In 20-25 years
it turned to a manuscript consisting of over 3.000 pages in several languages.
It was an attempt to describe human «parameters» from «outside». A question
«What is Humans?» is a correct idea about this work]
According to my work, the political power in human society whether
in a form of governments, religious authority or any other form is programmed
in our genetic code. Of course, the governments are the most "evil"
phenomenon of the human society (and history). But if we could fight it
- we had to fight it from within, in our genes, and this is impossible.
To comfort ourselves we need an idea that we can fight governments or even
eliminate the governmental power (Anarchism). However, such an illusion
is an instinct itself.
The structure of human society from that point of view looks like that:
1) Government - the most inhuman social force.
2) Chaos and anarchy - almost as evil as the government. In spite of
its evil nature the government is in control over the most destructive
instincts and tendencies of the human society, preventing its self-destruction
and freezing on a primitive level.
3) Technological progress stays between them. If not the governmental
mobilization of all human resources that pushes it, that progress would
be impossible. Without it and its tools the self-destructive instincts
and tendencies should not threat the very basic of human existence. In
other words, on one hand diminishing the self-destructive forces of the
society, government on the other hand is making the same forces more and
more destructive by pushing ahead the technical progress.
4) There is a strange hidden "conspiracy" on genetical level
between the social chaos - and the government. The same genetically programmed
instincts, which erect the government, are responsible for the "mayhem"
instincts as well. It is very similar to the criminals-government eternal
war, which on another level is not a war but cooperation.
5) Old nations like Jews, Armenians, Iranians, etc. - have something
to do with that mechanism spiritually, metaphysically and genetically.
However, the same mechanism, which erects the above-mentioned tandem (government-anarchy),
prevents a single force (nation, religion, etc.) to take over the world,
the global power (in a non-esoterically defined way). In politically, religiously,
etc. divided world - and because of other reasons - Jews or any other single
force would never be able to control unilaterally human kind on global
scale. Genetically programmed mechanisms prevent mankind from becoming
one country or one nation or race.
6) The same mechanism is responsible for existing types of social personalities.
Like psychological types (phlegmatic, choleric...) they are complementary
"particles" of "human society engine". They are dozens
of genetically programmed types of personalities; each type has its own
percentage in the society. Social type is given to each human being genetically,
by birth. If even one of social types was destroyed (even if that type
historically, geographically and by other means is programmed to be only
1 per cent of the society), that society, that nation is under a threat
of extinction. Some types (not all of them) can be self-reprogrammed into
a limited number of other types in case of war, natural and other disasters.
7) One of these types is a special "governmental" type: a
social type, which associates with genetically defined people, who become
politicians or members of the government. Maybe in future science will
find out that such a type has one additional chromosome or something like
that. Not because of the educational or ideological, or psychological development
but by genes such people have distorted moral, ethical, and other special
attitudes, which "normal" people do not have. On the opposite
spectrum of social life - in the criminal elite, terrorist and rebel organizations
(or in nationalist-separatists' leadership) are the same types as in the
government. That's why anarchists, communists, Zionists, fascists are not
better or even worse then traditional governments. Another type - a type
of an entrepreneur (busyness type) - is very close to the "governmental"
type. Both of these types correspond to material wealth, prosperity and
social success. They have an option to convert in each other under extreme
8) There are approximately 80 social types in human society.
1) This world (the world of humans) is ruled by Chaos: laws of coincidences.
Individually, socially, historically - chaotical movements, processes,
or appearances cover and define just anything in this world. They have
an eternal impact on everyday life of every human - as well as on destiny
in general. On primitive level these laws are called "good" or
"bad" luck, curse, destiny, fate, or Parkas in ancient mythology.
They award some people in society and punish some others. One is considered
as "lucky", when another one as "unlucky". Why? Because
for different people Chaos works differently. It always socially "motivated"
2) For people, whose way of thinking is directed against evil, - rules
of chaos are devastating. In other words, they are punished by these rules.
If you started just thinking (without even manifesting your thoughts through
words) that the government is shit, everything is corrupted, justice does
not exist even on paper, all respected and successful people are con artists,
liars, fraud masters, bastards or fools, - rules of Chaos starting to punish
you immediately. In an unknown, metaphysical way people begin to avoid
you as if they could read your thoughts, you're loosing your work, your
wife insists on separation, and your friends are avoiding you. You're finding
yourself in a tragic situation, in misery, isolation, and desperation.
It happens even with people, whose social and psychological type prevents
them from displaying their thoughts and attitudes in their behavior, or
emotions, or tone. Nothing have been changed in you since you started thinking
critically towards socially powerful things, but in a mysterious way you
instantly experience devastating consequences. People with sick imagination
(or very young people, or primitive individuals) have a tendency to think
that they are persecuting by the government or another powerful force.
In reality on that level they are not persecuted yet, they just receive
a "mark", a "black mark", which socially will further
point on them for all types of the governing social elements as people
who must be persecuted.
3) If your criticism manifests itself on a higher level (not just thoughts),
and directed against injustice, violence, governmental fraud and inhumanity,
intolerance, corporate conspiracy, etc. - everything happens faster and
4) Facing that situation, people of the "governmental type"
would rather put that devastating effect on society's shoulders, fighting
back with violence, organizing a terrorist (or revolutionary) network,
which in a deeper sense is an "anti-government". An "anti-government"
is the same as the government, only with an opposite sign (plus-minus).
5) People of the "innocent type", who have no abilities to
manipulate others or take violent, offensive (aggressive) steps, will never
managed that situation and will become victims of the system's oppression.
6) There are some mysterious and complicated dependencies between "innocent"
social types - and creativity, talent, originality. The overage of the
talented, creative people among "innocent" social types is much
higher then among "busyness-governmental" and "executive"
types. The most of the geniuses of the past in art, music, literature,
science, philosophy were victims of their societies and died in misery
and surrounded by ignorance. If you belong to an "innocent" social
type - you will be prevented from a "good" employment in your
domain or from an employment at all: no matter how good you are, even if
you're a unique high-level professional. In the most serious cases the
government itself restricts talented people from their professions.
7) People of the "non-innocent" social types mostly succeeding
in material life not only because the have more aggressive, offensive,
double-standards' approach, but also because laws of chaos (coincidences)
work for them differently then for "innocent" types. If gambling,
such "non-innocent" social types win much more often then "innocent"
types even without cheating. In telemarketing, gambling, on stock markets,
in road accidents, in sport, etc. they are always in a better position
because the rules of coincidences work in favor of them.
8) "Rules of chaos" (coincidences, chaotic movements) somehow
define, whom to do a favor, from the genetical code. Their most punitive
approach is towards a rare social type (maybe 0,05% of the society), which
fights injustice and evil with passion without having any profit from it,
only troubles. This is the most non-compromised, non-corrupted social type.
That type is always a victim of coincidences. When people of that type
are in a hurry, a metro train always delayed. When they going shopping,
the product they need is not in the store. A wooden wall falls on them,
a bicyclist hits them, their desk brakes destroying their computer, and
so on. They injure themselves more often then other people. They never
or in exceptionally rare occasions win. People call them "absent-minded",
but that can not explain a systematic bad luck, which such people have.
Author's Note: I wrote these chapters in general
about 20-25 years ago, in different time, country, and system. Now, in
1999-2000, when I started to work for Montreal's THE GAZETTE in telemarketing,
I found a solid prove for some of these chapters' statements. If something
appears frequently - we call it coincidental, if something appears systematically,
we call it "systematical". Right? Wrong! When in telemarketing
you're sitting in front of the computer seeing 5-6 exclusively Italian
names on the screen, one after another one - how should we call it? All
calls are computer-generated. I believe that the telemarketing software
picks up the names (telephone numbers) occasionally, coincidentally. What
then if 10 or even 20 Italian names (different areas, municipalities, streets!)
appear without a break?! As a rule every employee has 2-4 answering machines
during one shift (4 hours). Then what if one day you have 10-15, another
day 10 again, and 16 on next day? I know then that I am very smart in telemarketing.
I'm flexible, I can change my tone, my style according to whom I am speaking
with. I declare the same formula not more then in 40% of calls. I can rapidly
express all kind of objectives to convince a potential client. If I hear
"I have no time to read THE GAZETTE", I response with "then
our newspaper in for you, because it made possible for people like you
to see a list of articles from its front page - adn choose to save time".
But comparing to my co-workers I have, for example, an enormous number
of disconnects. I just saying "Hello!.. - before hearing a busy signal
(a disconnect). Or I say "Hi! I am calling on behalf..." - and
I am disconnected. Or I've said "Hi! This is the Gazette newspaper
calling", and then I have an immediate response like "Thank you,
but I'm not interested. Bye!", or "Not interested" (disconnects),
or even "Bye!" only! Too often people are screaming on me before
I even said anything! Sometimes I hear threats, humiliate sounds, meowing
or barking before I even said a word! When people around me speak to a
number of anglophone, in the same time I speak only to francophones, when
I speak to anglophone, they are already subscribed to the (English) newspaper!
I can hear what and how people around me speak. Some of them, especially,
Russian-speaking, declare a steady formula - as robots, with no flexibility,
with no exclusions. And they still have sells! And me - with my flexible
methods - I have no sells or very few sells comparing to many of them.
Why is that happens? Is that a conspiracy against me, or maybe I'm sitting
in a wrong place, or my salesperson's number is "bad"? I know
the answer: it is because I belong to an "unlucky" social type.
And my social type is a very rare one. And most of the others belong to
different social types - which are more "lucky"...
9) Rules of chaos are programmed to work in that way to preserve injustice,
keep it on a high level, prevent people, who are fighting injustice, from
any real impact on human society. They also prevent intruders from denouncing
the most fundamental (for that generation) secrets of nature and society.
That's why everyone who went too far ahead of his (her) generation in any
area - had a tragic end. Geniuses, evil-fighters and freedom seekers are
suppressed not only by the regimes, but by the rules of coincidences, too!
Their works are normally ignored, forgotten or even forbidden. The basic
rule says: SOCIETY MUST STAY AWAY FROM ANY CHANGES! Knowledge, the level
of the technical progress is changing, but the society remains the same,
with the same principles and prevalence of injustice. The most talented
people are suppressed because they might change the society a bit in their
generation. Later, after 2-3 generations, the above-human mechanism of
the supernatural force, which rules the human world, adjusts to geniuses'
discoveries, and adjusts the same social mechanisms to stop any impact
of geniuses' works.
10) People will never be allowed to: a) stop social injustice b) know
about the center of planet Earth, extremes of Universe and human nature
c) find out secrets of universal law of chaotic movements (processes, appearances,
etc.), light, time, and other dimensions. Anyone who will try too hard
to find out these extremes, will be destroyed.
1) As I described in a number of previous chapters, social injustice
is needed to prevent people from understanding of "above-social",
universal injustice, which can lead to concentration on out-social things,
what can damage society's functionality; prevention of basic changes is
needed to destroy chances for society to evolve in something else.
2) Human beings are a stream of energy, or a movement through time.
It is a kind of a "computer program" but on a higher level and
much more complicated/sophisticated. That's why by rapid changes it can
be corrupted and self-destroyed.
3) Disintegration of society without fight for justice is guaranteed.
That's why the up-human force allows that fight to go and produces a small
number of passionate "evil" (injustice) fighters as one of the
smallest group (social type). In the same time injustice can not be defeated
or even considerably reduced: then the "program" will be corrupted.
This is the reason why "saints" are always just few, and why
they are never successful. They are sacrificed on behalf of the society
as a whole.
4) Elimination of necessary number of fighters for justice and accumulation
of lie, injustice and corruption above an extreme level also leads to disintegration
of society, and threats to the very existence of the mankind.
5) In the past, when humans were depending from outside systems (nature,
wild animals, hardship of getting food, etc.) the Mechanism was a little
bit different then now. After extending technical progress on such a level
that it can supply enough resources to fed up and cover all human population
the rules of the game are strict:
a) because the very existence of humans depends on the presence of
all social types, including the tinniest and "week", societies
must provide at least minimum survival for the most threatened and extincting;
in past centuries it was a wide diversity between representatives of such
groups in wealth, social status, ect, when now they almost exclusively
belong to the most deprived and socially depressed group of population,
living in poverty, under physical and mental tortures;
b) countries like India, Pakistan, Bangla-Desh, and others, where tenth
and tenth of million of people are treated more worse then cattle, are
self (and not only self: intra and contra) destructive; they are threat
to the whole human world, threat of a real danger of destruction; with
their nuclier arsenal and madness they can easily destroy the whole civilization;
c) other countries, in Europe and North America (plus Australia and
New Zeland), in spite of still remaining gap in human treatment between
them - and south countries, took course for neo-feudalism and deprivation
citizens of their rights. If minimum wages give not even a chance to subsist,
welfare was abolished, Medicare becomes inaccessible for the poor: it is
a new era of slavery, which, combined with the technical progress and computerization
(mathematization of human world), will lead to such a horrible consequences,
which can not be predicted.
The program "humanity" is already altered. The world around
us has been already corrupted. However, it was corrupted not from the "justice"
and "goodness" platform, but from an opposite category. And it
leaves no exit, no even a chance to be saved...
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Nine-year-old baseball enthusiast, Jake, battles Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. When he surprised everyone with a wish for a mancave, Cardinals Wives for Wishes and Make-A-Wish Missouri came together to pull off an epic Cardinals-themed wish reveal. The highlight was when Jake's favorite player, Kolten Wong, surprised him in the dugout. In Jake's words, it was "the best day ever!"
The St. Louis Cardinals and Make-A-Wish Missouri really knocked this one out of the park!
video production by: bottledmotion / gaadt productions
We had such a high-energy weekend filming our favorite MC and party-rocker Jody Rhew doing what he does best - bringing people together!
With the power of positivity, he moved, motivated, and controlled the crowd in a way we've never seen. If you have a chance to attend one of his parties, do NOT hesitate. It’ll be an experience you’ll never forget.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to finally share with you bottledmotion's brand new, super amazing demo reel!
This journey has taken us to so many locations and filled our lives with amazing people. We're grateful for everyone who's let us share their story so far. YOU keep us inspired, and we can't do it without you.
Here's to the future. Cheers!
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Fit Flavors is a dedicated team who believes that helping people achieve their goals through the meals they prepare. It's been an amazing opportunity working with Jillian, Chef Tucker and the entire team. They are so passionate about what they do and observing it second hand has been a real treat. We are HUGE fans of the meals and even bigger fans of their snacks :) Learn more at: fit-flavors.com
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Angela Merkel calls for special EU summit on refugees: report
German chancellor faces potential government collapse over internal migration row.
Angela Merkel is pushing for a special summit on refugee policy ahead of this month’s European Council, German newspaper BILD reported Sunday.
The German chancellor is under pressure from her Bavarian interior minister, Horst Seehofer, to find a compromise over his proposed plan to stop some refugees at the German border, a measure her party opposes.
Merkel, who reiterated Saturday that the refugee crisis needs a “European solution,” has invited her Greek, Italian and Austrian counterparts to discuss strategies on migration, BILD reported.
It is unclear if Spain and the Balkan countries will also be in attendance at the special summit, which BILD reported is likely to take place the weekend of June 23-24, just days ahead of the planned European Council summit in Brussels.
Seehofer, who reportedly refused Merkel’s call to wait until the European summit to find a solution, is due to seek approval on Monday from CSU party leadership for his plan to turn away migrants at Germany’s borders, according to reports. If Seehofer implements the measure, it could force Merkel to fire him, spelling the end of the decades-long alliance between her Christian Democrats and her Bavarian sister party.
In an interview with BILD am Sonntag, Seehofer claimed it was not his intention to break apart the coalition or bring down the government. “No one in the CSU has an interest in toppling the chancellor,” he said. “We want to finally have a sustainable solution for turning back refugees at our borders.”
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Former member, State Council of the University of California Alumni Association
University of California Statewide Citizens’ Committee
President, University of California Alumni Association (Ventura County Chapter) – 1970
University of California Scholarship Committee (1970 to 1974)
University of California School of Law Alumni Association
Marymont School (Santa Barbara) – former member of Advisory Board
Washington School P.T.A. (Ventura)
Guest Lecturer on Politics, Finance, Law, Planning and Environmental Problems at University and College level (graduate and undergraduate programs)
Miscellaneous Political Activities:
Delegate to State Democratic Conventions
Co-chairman for California Assembly Candidate, 17th A.D. (1966)
Chairman, Lawyers Committee for Muskie (1972 Presidential Primary).
Member, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties; Democratic Central Committee
California Delegate to the Democratic National Mini-Convention in Kansas City (1974)
California Delegate the Democratic National Convention in Memphis (1978)
California Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York City (1980)
Coordinator, 1976 Western States Democratic Campaign Committee (principal states of concern being Hawaii and California)
Western States Co-Chairman, Carter for President Campaign (1976 and 1980)
California State Representative, Advisory Committee to President Carter
Patron, Democratic Century Club
Planning and Environmental Groups & Related Organizations
Member, International Board of Director’s, Rural Education & Development (READ)
Member, Social Venture Network (SVN)
Southern California Planning Congress
Regional Plan Association of Southern California (former member, Board of Directors)
Planning and Conservation League
Council for Planning and Conservation
Environmental Coalition of Ventura County (formerly, General Counsel)
Sierra Club (formerly, Ventura County Chairman of Los Padres Chapter Legal Committee)
Citizens to Preserve the Ojai (formerly General Counsel)
Save San Francisco Bay Association
Save the Redwoods League
Friends of the River
Community Environmental Council of Santa Barbara
Las Positas (Santa Barbara) Park Foundation, Trustee
American River Natural History Association
Founder, Californians Against Waste
Counties of Ventura and Santa Barbara
Chairman, Ventura Planning Commission, 1971 to 1974.
Chairman, City of Ventura Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee (CPAC)
Chairman, Economics and Demographics Sub-Committee.
HUD Community Development Committee (Annual Arrangement Program), 1971 to 1974.
Chairman, City of Ventura Committee to Revise General Plan, 1971 to 1973.
Member, Citizens Advisory Committee
for the Redevelopment of Downtown Ventura.
Delegate to the 1970 League of California Cities Convention.
Chairman, City of Ventura Subdivision Committee, 1971.
Member, City of Ventura Housing Coordinating Committee, 1970.
Member, City of Ventura Street Name Committee, 1970-72.
Member, City of Ventura Industrial Committee, 1971.
Regional Plan Association of Southern California (RPA)
Member, Board of Directors, 1971 to 1974
Ventura Port District:
General Counsel (December, 1972 to July, 1974).
Miscellaneous Affiliations, Awards and Activities (past and present)
Listed in various editions of “Who’s Who” (National, Regional and State).
1971 Recipient of the Distinguished Service Award presented to Ventura’s Outstanding Citizen.
1969 Ventura County Law Day Chairman.
Coach in Ventura Youth Basketball Association League.
Sponsor, Eagle Scout Recognition Program, Boy Scouts of America
Greater Ventura Chamber of Commerce; Vice President, 1974
Member, Board of Directors, 1973-1975; Chairman, Visitor’s and Convention Bureau
and member of several other Chamber committees
Ventura Trade Club
Oxnard Chamber of Commerce
Oxnard Trade Club (Board of Directors, 1970-71)
Navy League of the United States.
Patron, Ventura Concert Series Association.
Ventura County 4-H Sponsors Club.
Ventura Marina Association.
VOTER (Venturan’s Organized to Encourage Registration).
Venturan’s in Action: One of original incorporators and directors
of “VIA”, an umbrella organization designed to assist the following groups: Ventura Youth Employment Service; Ventura Free Clinic; Ventura Hot Line; Horizon of Ventura; Catacombs Associated
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Side 1 shows the Forest Service Roads trails and singletrack of the Santa Ana Mountains (the Trabuco District of the Cleveland National Forest. It covers from the edge of Chino Hills State Park to Lake Elsinore & includes a detailed map of Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park & O'Neill Regional Park. Roads & freeways show routes to the trailheads of the Santa Anas.
Side 2 shows Chino Hills State Park in shaded relief with fireroads & singletrack throughout the park. Back in 1992 when I started mountain biking at Chino Hills there was no map of the State Park - so I drew my own. The same applies to the Santa Ana Mountains.
Close up side 2 showing Irvine Lake area roads & trails
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Amendment to Schedule Entry D-5 and D-10 of MVAT Act (Nandurbar Municipal Council-Extension of Date)
Madam Cama Road, Hutatma Rajguru Chowk, Mantralaya
Mumbai 400 032, dated the 30th December 2016
No. VAT. 1516/ CR-157/Taxation-1— In pursuance of the powers conferred by clause (a) of entry 5 of Schedule ‘D’ appended to the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 (Mah. IX of 2005), the Government of Maharashtra, hereby notifies with effect from the date 1st January 2017 the area and the period as shown in column (2) and column (3) respectively of the Schedule appended herewith, to be area and period covered for the purpose of clause (a) of the said entry 5, namely :—
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By order and the name of the Governor of Maharashtra,
R. D. BHAGAT,
Deputy Secretary to Government.
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03:46 Her kinky asshole gets a cock she always wanted This submissive wife is equally keen to gag on her man’s massive shaft as much as she’s ready to have him pound her tight ass.
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09:10 Slutty thin blonde gaped and skewered by a cock Reading session is cut short when the guys gets the need to spread and ruin this lovely teen amateur’s puckered anal orifice.
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Hunterrr & Dilliwaali Zaalim Girlfriend First Week Performance
Film on totality in 1 week had failed to impress the audience over the box office. The total occupation of the film till its first week end stands at dull figures. On the other hand Hunterrr is one movie with some better response and figures as compared between both films. The film is based on adult comedy along with some adult level scenes. The film did not gained audience attention too much but still went up decent in first week with some favorable reviews from viewers.
It seems this month have been a home for small budget movies one by one every week. Total seventh day box office collection of Hunterrr is 0.60 crore making its total of 1 week to be 9.41 crores including the first weekend income of 5.78 crores and that of Dilliwaali Zaalim Girlfriend is 0.12 crore* aggregating its first week total to stand at 2.28 crores* including 1st weekend collection of 1.63 crores within.
We all know that both these flicks before the release had low public excitement and after the release the first week has now showed average results related to them. Hence both these are expected to shut down soon from screens
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We all know a thing or two about oil and resin from our favourite herbasious green plant.
I know some about Aroma Therapy and medicinal quality essential oils.
There is a store called Sage see www.sagenatural.com that produce and supply these rich pure oils to their clients and us customers. I have several dozens of them. I presently have a large collection of essential oils and use them daily in my diffusers with tea light candles burning beneath. Also mix them in pure almond oil for massage therapy. My first three purchased books from author Valerie Ann Worwood, best selling author of The Fragrant Pharmacy, explain all the uses and benefits of the various oils and how to blend a variety of oils together for greater health.
The Fragrant Mind
The Complete Book Of Essential Oils & Aromatherapy and
Fragrant Sensuality Aromantics and Natures Essential Oils.
But after reading those publications, I felt a greater need of the knowledge and so I felt compelled to dive in deeper, into the subject.
I added more reference material to my growing library. Next was The Compete Incense Book, this shares information on the actual plants and where they originated in the Middle East before Christ. We all remember the gifts of incense to the new born child King? Frankenscense and Mirrh. But what are they, where did they come from...?
Aroma Therapy For Lovers is another small publication, that actually came in a gift box with three samples of oils to use with your partner in the 'love nest'.
Eventually I discovered these next books which were brought into the reading light,
National Geographic Desk Reference to Nature's Medicine by Steven Foster and Rebecca L. Johnston
and I also enjoyed reading
Western Herbs According To Traditional Chinese Medicine A Practitioners Guide, written by Thomas Avery Garran.
Some oils can make you feel more relaxed, while others give you energy and sharper mind. Cleared thinking paths.
Aroma Therapy is a good subject to learn about and discover which oils may be to your liking & body chemistry, making you feel better, help you sleep more fully restful, clear up problems on your skin. Even make your hair healthy. Many many uses, besides feeling-smelling great, & looking swell.
Happy to help others learn about these incredibly beneficial and pure oils and natures healing ~ health benefits.
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Flowers and Gifts for San Ramon, CA
Kremp Florist offers quality flowers, plants, edible gifts, and more for residents of San Ramon, CA. A family owned company, Kremp.com offers same day delivery options. In the business for over fifty years, Kremp Florist will bring quality gifts into the homes of your friends and family members.
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Help Put Cloth Diapers in the Record Books
Cloth diapers have come a long way in past 10 years, and it’s time to stand up and be noticed. Celebrate Earth Day, by joining the North American and International cloth diaper communityon April 23rd, 2011 at 9AM PDT (11:00AM TN time)to set the Guinness world record for the most cloth diapers changed simultaneously.
There are many ways to participate so please take a few minutes to explore the site to find a location near you or offer to host a location of your own. The more babies participating the better, so every cloth diapered bum counts. Can’t attend an event near you? Consider getting involved in your local cloth diaper community by learning more about organizations like the RDIA and RDA.
We can’t wait to put cloth diapers into the record books!
Green Pixie Baby is proud to be hosting this event at our Franklin, TN location. 117 Third Avenue North (within the Shop Around the Corner). Please see our Facebook page for all the details and to RSVP if you plan to attend. http://www.facebook.com/greenpixiebaby
Help us spread the word about cloth diapers!!
Wishing you a day full of love and peace,
A blog for cloth diapering Mammas. Doing our best for our babies and our Mother Earth.
- Green Pixie Baby
- Franklin, TN, United States
- Hello my name is Marie. I have four healthy, beautiful children. When our latest blessing joined our lives in November 2008 we decided to do the best thing for her and our planet. We went the cloth diapering route. During our search for cloth diapers we found limited availability in our area. We knew that we were not the only family facing this dilemma. Together we decided that we were going to help bring the green trend of cloth diapering to Franklin, TN. So here we are! We specialize in American made cloth diapers and baby products. Spreading the love of cloth diaper fluff and American made stuff one baby at a time. www.greenpixiebaby.com won’t you join us in saving our planet and parenting green?
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So we already have our Belle:
Hermione Granger Emma Watson!
The question is, who should play the Beast? Idk what they'll do about his "beast"/ugly stage, but let's assume we're casting our ideal for him in hot human form.
Also, who should be Gaston?
The story is set in France but I am assuming that they will all have American or British accents just bc when do we ever see accuracy in that kind of thing?
My top picks:
Jamie Dornan for the beast. No, not clean shaven and with a fake American accent Christian Grey—scruffy, sexy, and Irish-accented like the Fall (and yes, he plays a creepy evil murderer in that, but he's a good looking guy!). I know that the story is not set in Ireland, so maybe he would have to pretend to have some other accent. Idk.
Chris Hemsworth for Gaston. Large and meatheaded-looking, but charming.
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Thank goodness for radio. The BBC drama I've just heard was so brilliant that it inspired me to revive this undead blog.
Louise Monaghan's one-off play is entitled, The Man Inside the Radio Is My Dad. It is inspired by Storybook Dads - a charity that works to help prisoners stay in contact with their families.
It's funny, touching and uplifting with superb performances by the three female protagonists - Chloe, her mum and her nan. Nan's favourite television programme is called "Pointless". This play for voices is anything but.
So click here. Stop looking. Start listening. (Tip: have a tissue handy.)
Margaret Thatcher has passed into history.
How should she be remembered?
Through her encounter with Diana Gould (1926-2011).
Mrs Gould exposed the real Margaret Thatcher.
Belligerent, disdainful, hectoring, bullying, intransigent.
All things that should be consigned to history.
“Where there is discord, may we bring harmony...”
These words of St. Francis of Assisi were cited by Margaret Thatcher on the steps of Number 10 Downing Street on Friday 4th May 1979 – the day she took office as the first female prime minister of Great Britain. Mrs Thatcher went on to add some thoughts of her own: “and to all the British people – howsoever they voted – may I say this. Now that the Election is over, may we get together and strive to serve and strengthen the country of which we’re so proud to be a part.”(1)
This is indicative of a paradox that runs right through Thatcher’s long and eventful period in power.
Those who laud her achievements urge her detractors to accept that, whilst they might not have agreed with her politics, she should be admired as a great patriot with a “lion-hearted love for this country”. That was how David Cameron characterised her on the day she died. He chose to deliver his eulogy on the spot from where his predecessor addressed the media back in 1979. Nevertheless, at the same time as praising the person he regarded as “saving” the country, Cameron added: “We can’t deny that Lady Thatcher divided opinion.” He insisted, however, that Thatcher “has her well-earned place in history and the enduring respect and gratitude of the British people.”(2)
It is characteristic of Mr Cameron that he should deliver such a contradictory statement. If Thatcher “divided opinion” how can “the British people” be of one mind? And if she loved Britain so much, how could Thatcher encourage a climate in which some Britons prospered and thrived at the expense of others?
This continues to pose a problem now that she is dead. How should she be memorialised? Bear in mind that a statue erected in her lifetime has already been decapitated by an irate “patriot”.(3)
An early opportunity to test the public mood will come during the ceremony leading to her cremation. Whilst she will not be given a state funeral, she will be accorded a military procession to St Paul’s Cathedral. During that parade all manner of socialists, former miners, Irish nationalists, Argentines, anti-Apartheid veterans, LGBT campaigners and others might seek to pay their final respects in ways that will subvert David Cameron’s confident assertion regarding Thatcher’s “place in history and the enduring respect and gratitude of the British people.”
Once the funeral is over thoughts will turn to a more permanent commemoration. At that point the Iron Lady will be transmogrified into bronze. The obvious place to site such a memorial is Parliament Square.(5) There she can surmount a pedestal alongside the petrified Churchill and generate an interesting dialogue with the statues of two South Africans, Jan Smuts and Nelson Mandela.
Thatcher’s opposition to international sanctions against Apartheid South Africa – plus her hostility to German reunification – are reminders that differences of opinion over her legacy are not confined to England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. In each of these areas one can cite a litany of issues that remain contentious today, from the North-South divide in England to the piloting of the Poll Tax in Scotland, the decimation of the industrial communities of South Wales and her administration’s secret negotiations with the IRA in stark contrast to Thatcher’s publicly stated position.
It seems inevitable that an official memorial to Lady Thatcher will be erected in the not-too-distant future. All too often such commemorations pretend to be natural occurrences that are universally supported. That lie will be impossible to sustain in this particular instance. A literal Iron Lady will confirm an observation made by Kirk Savage: “Public monuments do not arise as if by natural law to celebrate the deserving; they are built by people with sufficient power to marshal (or impose) public consent to their erection.”(4)
Waves of attacks will be unleashed on any tangible memorial to Thatcher. These will be dismissed as vandalism or accepted as iconoclasm depending on one’s point of view. But the daubs of paint or attempts at decapitation will confirm one thing. Mrs Thatcher achieved much, but by her own measure she failed in at least one regard. She came to office urging Britons to “get together” and help her “bring harmony”. Yet her enduring legacy is division and discord.
And that’s something that even David Cameron cannot deny.
(1) Margaret Thatcher, “Remarks on becoming Prime Minister (St Francis’s prayer)”, 04/05/1979, http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=104078
(2) Steven Swinford & James Kirkup, “Margaret Thatcher: Iron Lady who made a nation on its knees stand tall”, Daily Telegraph, 08/04/2013, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/9980285/Margaret-Thatcher-Iron-Lady-who-made-a-nation-on-its-knees-stand-tall.html
(3) The perpetrator was Paul Kelleher, a thirty-seven year old theatre producer. His justified his actions by claiming that the attack was in protest against global capitalism. See Stuart Burch, On Stage at the Theatre of State: The Monuments and Memorials in Parliament Square, London (A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Nottingham Trent University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, March 2003), pp. 350-351.
(4) Kirk Savage, “The politics of memory: Black emancipation and the Civil War monument”, in John R Gillis (ed.), Commemorations: the politics of national identity, Princeton University Press, 1994, p. 135.
(5) This was something that I called for a decade ago: “An image of Margaret Thatcher in the sacred yet so vulnerable domain of Parliament Square would infuse it with ‘living power’. For the statue, taking its rightful place alongside Churchill, would be finely posited between veneration and disdain and then, in the fullness of time, between neglect and ignorance.” Burch, On Stage at the Theatre of State, 2003, p. 351.
Marc Quinn, The Creation of History (2012)
On Thursday 4th August 2011 officers of the Metropolitan Police Service stopped a taxi on Ferry Lane in Tottenham Hale, London. Its occupant – Mark Duggan – was subsequently shot dead in uncertain circumstances.
This single incident gave rise to a spate of riots across England. The worst scenes took place in the capital. A defining image of that summer of violence is a photograph taken by the Turkish born photojournalist, Kerim Okten.
It shows a man in a grey tracksuit and trainers. The skin on his hands is covered by black gloves. His face is veiled by a mask such that only his eyes are visible: they gaze fixedly at the camera lens. Framing that stare are the orange flames and choking black smoke of a burning vehicle.
Various versions of this iconic scene are available online. They differ in all sorts of major and minor ways. Some depict the main protagonist in alternative poses; others show bystanders looking on at the searing shell of the car.
Text invariably accompanies the picture wherever it appears. A front page headline such as “The battle for London” turns this masked celebrity into a capital warrior. Replace that caption with something like “Yob rule” and our battle-scarred warrior becomes a mindless hoodlum. His slow, purposeful steps and cold stare do indeed make this lord of misrule appear above the law.
The rights to Okten’s image have now been acquired by the British artist Marc Quinn. He has used it as the inspiration for a variety of artworks including paintings, a sculpture and even a tapestry. The latter has been entitled The Creation of History (2012) and exists in an edition of five.
The title chose by Quinn reflects his belief that the 2011 riots constitute “a piece of contemporary history”. The artist is quick to add, however, that this history – like every past event – is “a complex story and raises as many questions as it [does] answers. Is this man a politically motivated rioter? A looter? What is in his pocket? And rucksack? More intriguingly, the mask he wears appears to be police-issue: could he even be a policeman?”(1)
The merest suggestion that our photogenic “yob” might in fact be a lawgiver rather than a lawbreaker disturbs this already troubling image, transforming it before our very eyes.
This is exacerbated further in Quinn’s tapestry transmutation. Metamorphosing the pixels of a digital photo into the knots of a woven image catapults this contemporary history back in time. Now our “yob” can stand alongside armour-suited warriors in a medieval pageant.
The rich heritage of Quinn’s The Creation of History makes it worthy to enter into the sacred realm of the museum. And what better institution than Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery? This establishment rose like a phoenix from the flames of a riot: on 10th October 1831 a group of rabble-rousers intent on creating a little history of their own torched the palatial home of the Duke of Newcastle in protest at his opposition to electoral reform.
For fifty years the burnt out shell of the building remained an admonitory reminder of this bad behaviour. Then, in the 1870s, it was converted into the first municipally funded museum outside of London.
This place of learning and leisure still stands. And it only exists thanks to the sort of scenes that were to take place 180 years later – not only in London but also Nottingham, where Canning Circus police station was firebombed by tracksuited warriors / yobs.
So, with this in mind, wouldn’t it make perfect sense for the curators at Nottingham Castle Museum to acquire one of the five editions of Marc Quinn’s The Creation of History? It could hang on the same walls that were once covered by tapestries – before “yob rule” led to them being unceremoniously ripped down and either burnt or “sold to bystanders at three shillings per yard.”(2)
(1) Cited in Gareth Harris, “London riots get tied up in knots”, The Art Newspaper, Iss. 243, 07/02/2013, accessed 08/02/2013 at http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/quinn-tapestry/28545.
(2) Harry Gill, A Short History of Nottingham Castle (1904), available at, http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/gill1904/reformbill.htm._
Screencap from Life in a Day
Over the weekend I spent more hours than is healthy at Birmingham Airport. The reason for my enforced stay was Britain’s inability to cope with a bit of ice and snow.
To pass the time I decided to overdose on coffee and, with too much caffeine in my bloodstream and a lack of real spice in my life, I reached for my Sony eReader. The story I chose to read seemed appropriate given my plight: The Machine Stopped by E.M. Forster (1879-1970).
Written in 1909 this novella is scarily prescient. It concerns an imaginary future in which the human race lives underground and eschews direct contact with the outside world. To achieve this it has constructed The Machine. This networked intelligence tends to the human race’s every need, be it physical, intellectual or spiritual. As a result, the thought of leaving the glorious isolation of one’s artificial cocoon is an anathema. Natural air, daylight, direct human contact – all are nauseating to people conditioned to living their lives sat on a chair, staring into a monitor and waiting for their virtual friends to message them with an original idea.
Don’t forget, all this was written over a century ago.
I am now back at home, safe and sound after my Birmingham exile. And what am I doing? Well, I’m sat in a chair, staring at a monitor, of course. Meanwhile life is probably still going on outside. One thing of which I am certain is that the world existed on Saturday 24 July 2010. I know this because I’ve just watched the film “Life in a Day”. It’s a 94 minute edited compilation of 80,000 YouTube clips all recorded on a single day in July a few years ago.
One of the best bits of the film is the sequence that features Angolan women chanting as they work. I am clearly not alone in this view. A YouTube user by the name of Pellentior has uploaded the music. While listening I scrolled down to the comments, where I found the following post by “cherryblossohm”:
When watching this scene it made me feel like I was doing it all wrong.
What exactly? Idk [I don’t know], life? Sitting here, on my ipad,
cell in one hand and tv on... when I’m up to date on stupid status updates
in actuality I’m missing out. I think I want to spend my time on this earth
in a different light. Light as in, the sun lol. Out and be humbled to
experience how others around the world enjoy living. Cuz I know I’m not.
In a single paragraph cherryblossohm has confirmed the sad truth of Forster’s prophetic tale.
I just hope for all our sakes that he got at least one thing wrong. After all, we will be in for one hell of a shock if the machine does ever stop working.
Aaron Swartz (1986-2013)
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History today according to the BBC
The front page of today’s BBC news website reveals a great deal about how historical events impinge on the present. This needs to be seen as indicative of a widespread obsession with the past. But it shouldn’t make us overlook the fact that the primary interest is current affairs. Simply put, history needs to have some contemporary resonance in order to count as “news”.
This is the case with the deaths of two men in their 90s. Their passing is, of course, a personal loss to their friends and relatives. I never knew them, but I am invited to pay my respects because these two gentlemen feature in the collective consciousness. This is due to two events that form part of the national story, namely the Jarrow March of 1936 and the experiences of Britons incarcerated overseas during the Second World War.
The demise of Con Shiels (the last survivor of the Jarrow March) and Alfie Fripp (a veteran of no fewer than twelve POW camps) marks the moment when two iconic occurrences pass from lived experience to “history”. This liminal moment gives the past a special frisson. We watch as the final living link to a momentous event is broken. This is history in the making.
There are lots of other issues that flow from these particular stories. Is history made by the many or the heroic (or villainous) few? Can we learn from “everyday heroes” like Con Shiels and Alfie Fripp? If so, what part (if any) do we play in history? And what actually counts as a historical event? How influential was the Jarrow March? Did it change the course of history? Or is its significance given undue importance by subsequent commentators?
In the BBC’s report of the death of Con Shiels it is notable that the trade unionist, Steve Turner is quoted calling for a “new ‘rage against poverty’”. Similarly, in 2011 the Jarrow March was re-enacted to mark its 75th anniversary and draw attention to youth unemployment. This demonstrates how a historical “fact” is nothing without interpretation. And this makes it inevitable that the politics of the present will get woven into the patterns of the past.
The Jarrow example provides a flavour of things to come. Get ready for the bickering and arguing that will be triggered when Margaret Thatcher dies!
The shadow of the Iron Lady looms large over another historically-flavoured news story: the status of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). This latest episode relates to Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s open letter to British prime minister, David Cameron in which she decries the continuance of “a blatant exercise of 19th-century colonialism” and calls for a negotiated solution as urged by the General Assembly of the United Nations way back in 1965.
Interestingly enough, one of the BBC web links connected to de Kirchner’s rhetorical salvo refers to new documents released under the British government’s 30-year rule. These reveal just how surprised Thatcher was by the Argentine invasion. Access or restrictions concerning such primary evidence play a crucial role in determining how history gets written and re-written.
Another link stemming from the latest crisis facing the Falkland Islands reminds us of the glorious / tragic events of 1982 via the commemorative events marking the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Anglo-Argentine war.
An anniversary such as this represents an additional way in which the past enters the present. The commemorative re-enactment of the Jarrow March is a case in point. A further example is to be seen amongst today’s crop of news stories, namely the centenary of Rhiwbina garden village in Cardiff.
But what about events of today that are destined to become tomorrow’s history?
Well, the year that has just passed has gone down in the record books as the “second wettest on record”. There is reason to believe that this will soon be surpassed, with reports that “extreme rainfall” is on the rise.
And this is an appropriately apocalyptic note to end this account of history today. Because one of the factors motivating our love of the past is a widespread anxiety about the future. History’s near cousin is nostalgia. Poverty, unemployment and war take on a rosy hue thanks to the patina of time. Using the vantage point of the present we know that things worked out alright in the end...
Or did they?
New research seems to confirm what many have long suspected: King Ramesses III was murdered, probably by having his throat cut sometime around the year 1155BC. This is reported by the BBC alongside a small photograph of the king’s mummified visage.(1) He looks strangely familiar... and then it struck me how much he reminds me of the late, great expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka. I wonder if their DNA crossed at some point over the past few millennia?
(1) Michelle Roberts, “King Ramesses III’s throat was slit, analysis reveals”, BBC News, 18/12/2012, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20755264
“Swedish weapons with Burma’s army”. So reads a two-page article in today’s issue of the newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet.(1)
Alongside the text are photographs indicating that the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has come under attack from Burmese soldiers armed with Saab AB’s Carl Gustav 84mm Recoilless Rifle (“The best multi-purpose weapon there is”). We know this because at least one such armament plus ammunition were left behind when the state’s forces were driven into a retreat by their KIA opponents.
A serial number – 17248 – is clearly visible on the weapon pictured in Svenska Dagbladet. This should make it simple for Saab AB to confirm whether it was exported directly to Burma (in contravention of the 1996 EU export embargo) or, as is far more likely, that the arms found their way to Myanmar via one of Saab AB’s official customers (probably India or Thailand).
This mishap should come as no surprise given the sheer quantity of Swedish-made arms that are being exported all over the world. However, what makes this particular incident noteworthy is the manner in which Svenska Dagbladet reported the news. At the very same time that it broke the story, the newspaper’s editors allowed a 32-page advertising feature to be inserted into that day’s paper. Entitled, Rikets säkerhet (The Nation’s Security), it is produced by MDG Magazines and edited by Christer Fälldin. In his introductory message Fälldin informs Svenska Dagbladet’s readers that this addition to their daily paper tackles what he considers to be one of the most significant political challenges facing Sweden, namely defence. Fälldin has therefore sought to use the inaugural issue of Rikets säkerhet to address “many of the security and defence issues” that are current today. Alas, one such issue that is missing from this “newspaper” (sic) is any discussion of the legal or moral dimensions of the arms industry and the responsibilities that Sweden has as a world-leading exporter of military equipment.
The fact that the first issue of Rikets säkerhet was allowed to subsume Svenska Dagbladet’s report into the inherent risks involved in exporting arms is highly revealing. It exposes the extensive lobbying campaigns undertaken by powerful groups and individuals with vested interests in normalising and enhancing Sweden’s weapons industry. Rikets säkerhet represents a sophisticated attempt to scare the Swedish people by confronting them with amorphous threats and worries about the future. These dire warnings appear alongside advertisements from all manner of military-related organisations. They are in turn interspersed with associated “news” stories. This pseudo journalism is a thinly veiled attempt to convince Sweden’s political elite to continue to invest ever increasing sums in defence procurement and development.
All this is a far cry from the Nobel-prize and IKEA-meatball image of Sweden so adored by the international media. Beneath an oh-so-sweet Nordic façade there festers a far from savoury side to Sweden. Just ask the people of northern Burma.
(1) Bertil Lintner, “Svenska vapen hos Burmas armé”, Svenska Dagbladet, 11 December 2012, pp. 20-21.
Moderna Museet online (left) and in print (right)
Earlier this month I reflected on a fascinating newspaper advertisement for Sweden’s Moderna Museet. Additional investigation has now turned this commentary into a spot-the-difference.
On the museum’s website is a promotional feature that includes the same image.(i) Only, on closer inspection, it becomes apparent that it differs from the version that appeared in the newspaper, Dagens Nyheter.
1 The invigilator’s clothing has been darkened. This ensures that she wears the attire of the art lover (i.e. dressed entirely in black). The same is true of the trousers worn by the visitor (2).
2 The visitor has been shifted further to the right. In the online image it looks as if she is reading a label next to the work rather than looking at the art itself. This risked introducing a troublesome piece of interpretation – a barrier preventing her from being in the midst of the art (mitt i konsten). This is alleviated by shifting the visitor closer to the art (although not too close given that the all-important pushchair is still in the way).
3 The posture of the hands-on art educator has changed. Her rather motherly pose is replaced by a less overtly protective position in relation to the three children. This prevents her from coming between them and the art (again ensuring that they are mitt i konsten). In the image on the left the children and the facilitator have their back to Sterling Ruby’s Monument Stalagmite. The print version spins them around such that all the group members are oriented towards the sculpture.
All this confirms the meticulous attention that has gone into this carefully crafted framing of Moderna Museet. A genuinely artful and art full advertisement.
(i) “Fira 1:a advent på Moderna Museet”, http://www.modernamuseet.se/sv/Stockholm/Nyheter/2012/Fira-1a-advent-pa-Moderna-Museet/. The image is credited to the photographer, Åsa Lundén.
Today’s issue of the newspaper, Dagens Nyheter features a full-page advertisement for Moderna Museet – Sweden’s national museum of modern and contemporary art. Every art lover knows that a picture is worth a thousand words. So, with this in mind, I’ve picked out ten points of interest and used them to structure a one thousand word reflection on this most artful of advertisements:
1 Moderna Museet is a place of celebration for all. This is important to stress at the outset because some misguided people continue to insist on treating our museums as either mausoleums or bastions of elitist culture. Moderna Museet isn’t like that. It’s a place to come and have fun; to celebrate things like the start of the Christmas period. And what better way to escape the commercialisation of this sacred event than by going on a pilgrimage to a secular temple of art such as Moderna Museet.
2 Moderna Museet puts you in the picture: when there you will be in the midst of art – your art, your museum (mitt i konsten, på ditt museum).
3 The director and his deputy have given up their holiday to greet the visitors. Tomorrow afternoon – Sunday 2 December – Daniel Birnbaum and Ann-Sofi Noring will talk about their latest acquisitions. In so doing they affirm that Moderna Museet is living up to its reputation: it is filled both with modern Old Masters (fylld av klassiker) and “with the work of a new generation of artists” (med verk av en ny generation konstnärer). These new works, we are told, “crown the collection” (kröner samlingen). They also enable the recently appointed director to put his mark on the museum. This raises lots of fascinating questions: What has the museum acquired under this leader that it might not have under its predecessor? Which criteria are used when choosing what to buy? Who makes the decisions? What did the purchases cost? Who are the donors? Who are the artists? And what personal connections link them with Birnbaum and his colleagues? Will any of these questions be addressed when the director speaks? They certainly should be, after all, this is your museum.
4 Who are these people so deep in conversation? A perfect pair: enthusiastic gesture is met with rapt attention. These two are clearly art lovers. But they aren’t visitors. Nor are they security guards. Instead they are young, trendy invigilators just waiting to share their love of art with the museum’s well-behaved guests. How do we know that they are art lovers? Their gestures and their clothes say it all (see 6).
5 This isn’t an art lover, but he looks nice and friendly. He’s carrying the tool of his trade and wearing his work clothes (just like the couple in 4). But his place of work isn’t the galleries. Nevertheless, rather than being marginalised, this menial worker is given pride of place. Indeed, he looks rather like a work of art: culinary art. Because Moderna Museet isn’t just about consuming art. It’s a place to eat and socialise. That’s why the chef is important enough to be included here. But he isn’t that special. His name is not given. Nor are those of the two invigilators. In fact, only two people are referred to by their names. And neither of them is visible. Standing in as substitutes for the director and his deputy are the artworks that they have sanctified by choosing to include them in the collections of Moderna Museet. The art stands for them. It embodies them. Thus Sterling Ruby’s Monument Stalagmite could be renamed: Monument Birnbaum. It’s a bold assertion of his fitness to lead; his regal good taste (thanks to this and the other acquisitions that “crown the collection”).
6 This person adopts the ideal art pose, with one hand on hip, the other touching the face in a gesture of deep contemplation. She wears the uniform of the art lover, dressed as she is entirely in black. She is part of the same tribe as the invigilators (4) who serve as acolytes assisting at the altar of High Art. This true believer is standing at a respectful distance from the art, not touching but visually consuming. Unfortunately, she is not able to stand directly in front of this particular artwork because there is an object is in the way. But this is not a sculpture; it’s a child’s pushchair! This obstacle is not just there by chance. It’s as symbolic as any of the paintings on the wall. It says: this is an accessible, family-friendly museum in which children are welcome (see 8).
7 The art is shown in glorious isolation in this pristine, white-cubed gallery. This lends it a spurious, “neutral” quality in which nothing comes between us and the art (we are, after all, “mitt i konsten” (1)). There is not a label or interpretation panel in sight. None of the works are literally framed in the sense of there being borders around the paintings or separate plinths under the sculptures. But they are framed in all sorts of other ways. This advertisement and all its messages (overt and subliminal) are frames. Art never speaks for itself, no matter how white and bare the walls.
8 We have already been reassured that the museum is not a mausoleum (1). Now we are reminded that it is not a library either. It’s a playground – for art lovers, young and old. Perhaps this trio of immaculately behaved children will one day be the artists (or museum directors) of the future? With luck they will grow up to wear black clothes and feel as at home in the museum as the lady in 6. The art instructor – just like the proud parent – does her best to make this a reality: she acts as a mediator of the art. She and the other parents and guardians are surrogates of the invigilators seen in 4. During the years 2004-2011 “Zon Moderna” served as the forum for Moderna Museet’s youngest guests. This initiative has been disbanded by the current director. But he is not reducing the museum’s commitment to children. Far from it: they are now brought into the bosom of the museum (mitt i konsten). Zon Moderna ran the risk of being dismissed as a case of “ghettoisation”: “an area specifically reserved for extra activities, and largely containing children within these spaces” (Gillian Thomas, “‘Why are you playing at washing up again?’ Some reasons and methods for developing exhibitions for children” in Roger Miles & Lauro Zavala (eds) Towards the Museum of the Future: New European Perspectives, London and New York: Routledge, 1994, p. 118.) The kids visible in this advertisement are not relegated to some sort of out-of-sight ghetto: we see them as they are just about to scribble away on the floor of the museum, centimetres from the museum’s latest priceless acquisition (5).
9 The museum’s logo adds to the friendly atmosphere: a personal signature which is actually a work of art, based as it is on Robert Rauschenberg’s handwriting. How long will it be before the museum decides to rebrand and ditch this naff typeface?
10 The museum is open every day except Mondays. There is even free entry on extended Friday evenings – perfect for those trendy young things that opt to stay on to drink in the museum’s newest space: a bar. There was a time when Moderna Museet – like all Sweden’s national museums – was free for all: now adults must pay because the current government says so. But the most important visitors still get in for free, namely children up to 18 years old. With luck, by the time they reach maturity they will have blossomed into the sorts of adults seen in this advertisement. They will thus be willing to pay to enter the museum and reacquaint themselves the fresh acquisitions that are to be introduced tomorrow: these are the works that today’s children will grow up with and later recognise as canonical works in their own personal museums of art. This recognition and sense of ownership will help ease the awkward truth that, by charging its citizens to enter Sweden’s Moderna Museet, they will actually be paying twice. After all, their high taxes have already paid for the museum. Their museum.
On Sunday 11 November a fascinating debate took place at Arkitekturmuseet (Sweden’s national museum of architecture). It marked the culmination of a weekend of activities to celebrate the institution’s fiftieth anniversary. Events included guided tours of the Rafael Moneo-designed building which Arkitekturmuseet shares with another of Sweden’s state museums, namely Moderna Museet.
The highlight of the festivities focused on the commemorative publication, The Swedish Museum of Architecture: A Fifty Year Perspective. This was launched following a series of reflections by two contributors to the book, Thordis Arrhenius and Bengt O.H. Johansson (the latter was director of the museum from 1966-77).
This was followed by a panel debate entitled “Midlife crisis or stroppy teenager? A discussion about Arkitekturmuseet yesterday, today, tomorrow”.(1) It was at this point that matters started to get interesting. It quickly became apparent that the past, present and future of Arkitekturmuseet are far from settled. Much attention was given to the recently expanded role of the museum. This is summed up in an introductory section of the anniversary book. Under the rubric, “More than a museum”, Monica Fundin Pourshahidi cites a press release by the Swedish minister of culture, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth in which it is stated that, from 2009 onwards, Arkitekturmuseet is vested with being a “power centre” not only for architecture but also for design: “The Museum of Architecture can and must be a display window and a distinct voice in the debate on social planning, architecture, design and sustainable development”.(2)
This point was taken up by Arkitekturmuseet’s present director, Lena Rahoult. But her positive spin was immediately problematised by a fellow panel member, the architectural historian Martin Rörby. The focus of his criticisms was a recent governmental memorandum which instructed the institution to engage in “promotion and communication” (främjande och kommunikation) rather than “traditional museum activities” (traditionell museiverksamhet). This would be best signalled by a change in title, with the word “museum” being replaced by “centre” or “arena”.(3)
Rörby expressed reservations about such a shift in focus, fearing that an increase in breadth would come at the expense of depth and critical engagement. He was also troubled by the vague, empty rhetoric of the memorandum. On the other hand, the notion of going beyond what was expected of a “traditional” museum was nothing new. Rörby illustrated this point by citing Arkitekturmuseet’s past involvement in the often heated debate regarding Sergels torg in central Stockholm. He stressed the rapidity of the museum’s response which enabled it to react to a pressing, contemporary issue. This active engagement, however, was only possible because of the museum’s unrivalled collections of artefacts, architectural models and other archival documents. Rörby was of the opinion that the museum would find it far harder – if not impossible – to arrange such an exhibition in the additional field of design. This is because the museum responsible for the national design collection is another entirely separate institution, namely Nationalmuseum. The design holdings will remain there, despite Arkitekturmuseet’s increased mandate.
In the light of this one can be forgiven for questioning the basis for adding design to the museum of architecture. The oddness of this situation was beautifully demonstrated by the fact that, at the very same time that this debate was unfolding at Arkitekturmuseet, Nationalmuseum just down the road was holding a “theme day” on “handicraft, time and creativity” in association with its craft and design exhibition, Slow Art.(4)
Way back in the late 1980s and early 1990s the museum fraternity in Sweden dreamed of a museum of industrial design (Konstindustrimuseet) being housed in Tullhuset adjacent to the main Nationalmuseum building in the Blasieholmen area of Stockholm. This nineteenth century toll house was to have been expanded to allow for 5000 square metres of exhibition space. Alas, this imaginative idea proved abortive, as did a plan to deploy the spectacular Amiralitetshuset on the island of Skeppsholmen.(5)
In the wake of these failed initiatives comes the current half-baked decision to place the design burden on the ill-equipped museum of architecture. Meanwhile, in February 2013, Nationalmuseum will close for a period of four years during which time a multi-million kronor refurbishment will take place. This, one would have thought, would be the ideal opportunity to resolve the status of design in Sweden. The risk is that the investment in Nationalmuseum is being made against a contested, confused and contradictory context.
Exacerbating this frankly farcical state of affairs is the added complication of Arkitekturmuseet’s relationship with Moderna Museet. These two museums, as has been noted, share a building. One might therefore have thought that it would sensible for the pair to unite, especially given the enlarged remit of Arkitekturmuseet. Indeed, in 1998 it was proposed that modern design dating from 1900 onwards should be moved to Moderna Museet.(6)
On being asked about the relationship with her neighbour, Arkitekturmuseet’s director Lena Rahoult made a few platitudinous comments and paid compliments to Daniel Birnbaum, her counterpart at Moderna Museet. However, when it comes to Moderna Museet’s upcoming exhibition on Le Corbusier, it emerged that the museum of architecture will not be involved.(7) This, it strikes me, represents a potentially serious threat to the autonomy of Arkitekturmuseet. If the Le Corbusier exhibition is a success despite (or perhaps because of) the exclusion of Arkitekturmuseet, then the argument is being made that Moderna Museet is more than capable of taking over this field.
Daniel Birnbaum would no doubt be delighted. He is a very shrewd operator. Upon taking over the running of Moderna Museet he erased all trace of its former director in the most charming manner: by turning the whole museum over to photography. This had a number of consequences. It facilitated a tabula rasa whilst showing Birnbaum to be both innovative and in step with the history of the museum. This in turn stifled any potential suggestion that photography was not being accorded sufficient attention. This was a smart move given that the formerly separate museum of photography had been subsumed into the collections of Moderna Museet on the completion of Rafael Moneo’s building in 1998. With this potential criticism snuffed out, Birnbaum then set about curtailing the independence of the museum’s satellite institution, Moderna Museet Malmö. This was led by Magnus Jensner until a “restructuring” made his position untenable and prompted his resignation.(8) In March of this year Jensner was succeeded by Birnbaum’s man in Stockholm, John Peter Nilsson.
Against the background of these strategic manoeuvres the decision to mount an exhibition on Le Corbusier at Moderna Museet is no mere innocent happenstance. It can be interpreted as part of a calculated empire building process. And, if the recent debate at Arkitekturmuseet is anything to go by, Birnbaum is a giant among pygmies on the Swedish cultural scene.
Perhaps mindful of this, at the same time as spouting her platitudes, Lena Rahoult has been busy mounting the barricades. She has taken the decision to withdraw Arkitekturmuseet from the bookstore that it has shared with Moderna Museet since the inception of Moneo’s building. All the books are being sold at a reduction of 60% whilst magazines and postcards are being flogged off for a few kronor. Once this stock has been disposed, Arkitekturmuseet will open a separate retail establishment in its own part of the locale. This development is notable given that the bookstore was one of the very few aspects of the building where the two institutions merged. Another is the shared ticket desk. Moneo designed the building to incorporate the old drill-hall where Moderna Museet began life and which is now occupied by Arkitekturmuseet. In so doing he provided a new entrance and closed the original doorway. Rahoult plans to reopen this entrance whilst keeping the other in use. Birnbaum is on record as describing this proposal as “ludicrous” (befängd).(9) Well he might, because one of the main criticisms of Moneo’s building is its very modest and hard-to-find entrance. Should Arkitekturmuseet prove to be the main gateway into the combined museum it may well increase the number of visitors to the architecture collection, but it will draw attention from what is currently the dominant partner, Moderna Museet.
The proposed changes to the shop and entrance have led to claims that Arkitekturmuseet wishes to “break free from Moderna Museet”.(10) The paradoxical situation has therefore arisen whereby, at the same time that Arkitekturmuseet struggles to work across disciplines in one direction, it is placing barriers to the museum next door.
There is, of course, no reason why different disciplines should not be brought together in a single museum. A case in point is the Museum of Modern Art, MOMA. Its mission statement is grounded in the belief
[t]hat modern and contemporary art transcend national boundaries and involve all forms of visual
expression, including painting and sculpture, drawings, prints and illustrated books, photography,
architecture and design, and film and video, as well as new forms yet to be developed or understood,
that reflect and explore the artistic issues of the era.(11)
Another example closer to home is Norway. However, in this case the forced union of art, architecture and design has been far from amicable or straightforward. But at least Norway’s National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design is being given a grand new building in which to unite. This is not the case in Sweden. No one should be surprised about this given the paltry cultural policies of the present alliance government under the stewardship of its mediocre minister of culture, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth.
When it came to the festivities to mark Arkitekturmuseet’s jubilee debate, the icing on the birthday cake occurred when the panel turned to the audience for questions and response. Up stepped Jöran Lindvall. He remains – as he was at pains to make clear – the longest serving director of Arkitekturmuseet (during the years 1985-1999). Nevertheless, he added pointedly, no one had thought to ask him to contribute to the fiftieth anniversary publication. His absence from its pages was a timely reminder that such official records are as partial as they are political. That much is shown by a similar publication released to mark Moderna Museet’s own fiftieth anniversary in 2008.
Such historical tomes might seem to be rooted in the past, but their main aim is to seek to placate the politicised present whilst simultaneously shaping the uncertain future. As if to underline this, Jöran Lindvall presented the current holder of the post he once occupied with a bag stuffed full of newspaper cuttings and other documents from his private collection relating to exhibitions that took place during his time at the museum. He declared his willingness to donate these to Arkitekturmuseet, but on one condition: that it remain a museum devoted to architecture. Lena Rahoult accepted this generous offer. She could hardly do otherwise.
It will be interesting to follow the fate of Lindvall’s loaded gift. Indeed, all those involved in museums would do well to keep track of events in Sweden and watch with interest as commentators, practitioners, museum professionals and politicians plot their next moves in a battle that is more comedy than tragedy.
But that is not to say that the outcome is likely to leave very many people laughing.
(1) The panel participants were the director of Arkitekturmuseet, Lena Rahoult together with Fredrik Kjellgren (architect), Petrus Palmér (designer), Birgitta Ramdell (director of Form/Design centre, Malmö) and the architectural historian Martin Rörby (Skönhetsrådet). The chair was Kristina Hultman.
(2) Press release dated 19 December 2008, cited in Main Zimm (ed.) The Swedish Museum of Architecture: A Fifty Year Perspective, Stockholm: Arkitekturmuseet, p. 4.
(3) Cited in “Stora förändringar föreslås på Arkitekturmuseet”, Arkitektur, undated, http://www.arkitektur.se/stora-forandringar-foreslas-pa-arkitekturmuseet (accessed 12/11/2012).
(4) Slow Art, Nationalmuseum, 10 May 2012 – 3 February 2013. The special event that took place on Sunday 11 November included a talk by Cilla Robach (“Slow Art – om hantverk, tid och kreativitet”) followed by a craft activity for children (see the advertisement on p. 7 of the Kultur section of that day’s issue of the newspaper, Dagens Nyheter).
(5) Mikael Ahlund (ed.) Konst kräver rum. Nationalmuseums historia och framtid, Nationalmusei skriftserie 17, 2002, pp. 76-77.
(6) Ahlund, 2002, p. 77.
(7) Moderna Museet’s exhibition has been given the name “Moment – Le Corbusier’s Secret Laboratory” and will run from 19 January – 28 April 2013. The decision not to collaborate with Arkitekturmuseet is ironic given that the latter put together the exhibition “Le Corbusier and Stockholm” in 1987.
(8) “Magnus Jensner slutar i Malmö”, Expressen, 20/10/2012, http://www.expressen.se/kvp/magnus-jensner-slutar-i-malmo.
(9) “Arkitekturmuseets femtioårskris – en intervju”, Arkitektur, undated, http://www.arkitektur.se/arkitekturmuseets-femtioarskris-en-intervju (accessed 12/11/2012).
(10) Hanna Weiderud, “Arkitekturmuseet bryter sig loss från Moderna”, SVT, 01/11/2012, http://www.svt.se/nyheter/regionalt/abc/arkitekturmuseet-bryter-sig-loss-fran-moderna.
(11) Collections Management Policy, The Museum of Modern Art, available at, http://www.moma.org/docs/explore/CollectionsMgmtPolicyMoMA_Oct10.pdf.
A lovely example of “banal Nordism” cropped up in the
BBC Radio 4 comedy programme, Clayton Grange.
In this week’s episode our spectacularly stupid scientists
“attempt to make war just a bit more gentle”
– a bit more Swedish.
Few listeners would suspect that this purportedly
most peaceful place on the planet is in reality the home of
Saab AB, the proud producer of the Carl-Gustaf system –
“the best multi-purpose weapon there is”.
The British Museum possesses many thousands of fascinating objects. One of its self-styled “highlights” is a rather plain looking marble inscription. It comes from Rome and is dated around AD 193-211. What makes it so interesting are the things it does not show. These include the names of two relatives of the Roman emperor, Septimius Severus (AD 145-211), namely his daughter-in-law Plautilla and his son Geta. The latter was murdered by Septimius Severus’ other son Caracalla. He was Plautilla’s husband and Geta’s brother. The two siblings were bitter rivals following the death of their father. It is believed that Caracalla murdered Geta and then had his treacherous and much despised wife executed. And, to make matters even worse, they were then subjected to the posthumous punishment of damnatio memoriae:
their names were expunged from all official records and inscriptions
and their statues and all images of them were destroyed.
This process [damnatio memoriae] was the most horrendous fate
a Roman could suffer, as it removed him from the memory of society.(1)
However, removing Geta from public consciousness was not a straightforward matter. Caracalla was obliged to give his brother a proper funeral and burial due to Geta’s popularity both with the Roman army and among substantial sections of Roman society. This explains why the names of Geta and Plautilla were included on the British Museum’s marble inscription, only to be scratched out later on.
Why am I mentioning all this? Because a modern-day form of damnatio memoriae is currently unfolding in British society. This is in relation to the disc jockey, children’s television presenter and media celebrity, Sir Jimmy Savile OBE, KCSG, LLD (1926-2011). When he died last year at the ripe old age of 84 he was hailed a loveable hero who had done much for charity. Now, however, revelations have come to light suggesting that he was, in the words of the police, a “predatory sex offender”.(2)
As a result, strenuous efforts are being made to expunge him from the public record.(3) Thus, the charity that bears his name is considering a rebrand. A plaque attached to his former home in Scarborough was vandalised and has since been removed. So too has the sign denoting “Savile’s View” in the same town. Meanwhile, in Leeds, his name has been deleted from a list of great achievers at the Civic Hall. A statue in Glasgow has been taken down in an act of officially sanctioned iconoclasm. The same fate has been dished out to the elaborate headstone marking Savile’s grave. This last-named act of damnatio memoriae is in some ways a pity given the unintended poignancy of the epitaph inscribed on the stone: “It Was Good While It Lasted”. It was almost as if Savile knew that he would one day have to atone for his evil deeds.
Atonement has, alas, come too late for those that suffered at the hands of Savile. To make matters worse, his considerable fame has been replaced by a burgeoning notoriety. This is reminiscent of the damnatio memoriae that befell Geta and his sister-in-law Plautilla. The marble inscription that once carried their name is a “highlight” of the British Museum precisely because of the dark deeds associated with them and the futile efforts made to delete them from history. In their case, damnatio memoriae has, in a perverse way, enhanced their posthumous status centuries after their grisly deaths. Let’s hope that the same will not be said of the late Jimmy Savile – an individual who has gone from saint to scoundrel in the space of just a few short months.
(1) “Marble inscription with damnatio memoriae of Geta, son of Septimius Severus” (Roman, AD 193-211, from Rome, Italy, height 81.5 cm, width 47.5 cm, British Museum, Townley Collection, GR 1805.7-3.210, http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/gr/m/marble_inscription.aspx).
(2) Martin Beckford, “Sir Jimmy Savile was a ‘predatory sex offender’, police say”, The Daily Telegraph, 09/10/2012, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9597158/Sir-Jimmy-Savile-was-a-predatory-sex-offender-police-say.html.
(3) “Jimmy Savile’s headstone removed from Scarborough cemetery” and “Sir Jimmy Savile Scarborough footpath sign removed”, BBC News, 12/10 & 08/10/2012, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-19893373 and www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-19867893.
A forgotten painting by the little-known American artist, Mark Rothko has been rediscovered at a London museum.
Experts had previously considered Tate Modern’s “Yellow on Moron” to have been executed by the Polish master, Wlodzimierz Umaniec (spelt Vladimir Umanets).
However, a novel technique known as a vandal-spectrometry has enabled scientists to detect traces of crudely applied oil paint beneath Umanets’ trademark scrawl.
This has prompted art historians to rename the work “Black on Maroon” and determine that it is part of Rothko’s abortive Seagram murals.
Inevitably, this reattribution has reduced the value of the piece. It has, however, increased interest in genuine works by Vladimir Umanets. This towering modern-day genius has been likened to the bastard spawn of Marcel Duchamp and Cy Twombly.
Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel has just been published. This 400-page document investigates an incident which occurred on 15th April 1989 at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield. On that awful day a soccer match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest had to be abandoned when the Leppings Lane stand became overcrowded. The ensuing crush led to the death of 96 Liverpool football fans.
This terrible loss of life and the unbearable grief of their loved ones have been compounded over the past 23 years by a deliberate and systematic attempt to cover up what happened. That much is clear from the report released today.
One of its most startling findings relates to the fact that written statements made at the time by police officers and members of the South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service were altered. Why? The answer is emphatic:
“Some 116 of the 164 [police] statements identified for substantive amendment were amended to remove or alter comments unfavourable to SYP [South Yorkshire Police].”(1)
In other words, our supposed custodians of law and order – both then and since – have been more interested in their own image and reputation than in finding out what went so catastrophically wrong.
And this, I argue, is why a so-called “academic” subject such as History is so vital to a democratic and viable society. Compare the contemporary example set out above with this quotation from The Historian’s Craft by Marc Bloch:
One of the most difficult tasks of the historian is that of assembling those documents which
he [or she] considers necessary... Despite what the beginners sometimes seem to imagine,
documents do not suddenly materialize, in one place or another, as if by some mysterious
decree of the gods. Their presence or absence in the depths of this archive or that library
are due to human causes which by no means elude analysis. The problems posed by
their transmission, far from having importance only for the technical experts, are
most intimately connected with the life of the past, for what is at stake is nothing less
than the passing down of memory from one generation to another.
Bloch had no need to restrict his attention to “the life of the past”. Because “the passing down of memory from one generation to another” occurs in the here and now. The Hillsborough disaster is history. But its living legacies are life, truth and justice in the present. These qualities should be our memorial to ten-year-old Jon-Paul Gilhooley who, together with 95 fellow supporters, became the innocent victim of official incompetence, misconduct and suppression on that fateful day in April 1989.
(1) Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel, September 2012, HC 581, London: The Stationery Office, p. 339.
(2) Marc Bloch, The Historian’s Craft, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004, pp. 57-59.
“Nothing like commemorating an event to help you forget it.”
So wrote Art Spiegelman in his cathartic book, In the Shadow of No Towers (2004). This monumental tome is an analogue to the Twin Towers that Spiegelman saw vanish from the place this self-styled “‘rooted’ cosmopolitan” calls home.
I am reading Spiegelman’s book to help me write my own work of memorialisation under the provisional title, “Forked no lightning: remembering and forgetting in the shadow of Big Ben”.
Half-way through In the Shadow of No Towers, Spiegelman recalls feeling asphyxiated by the flag-waving nationalism that characterised the “mind-numbing 2002 ‘anniversary’ event” (p.5). A year later the same date left him railing against the exact same “jingoistic strutting” (p. 10).
So perhaps Spiegelman was right to argue that there really is nothing like a good (or bad) commemoration to help you forget something?
Then it struck me: today is Tuesday 11th September! It’s gone 9 pm as I write, which means that almost an entire “9/11” has passed by without comment from family, friends, colleagues, strangers or those hourly BBC Radio 4 news bulletins that punctuate my day.
“The unmentionable odour of death offends the September night”. So wrote W.H. Auden in his poem “September 1st, 1939”. In 2003, Spiegelman asserted that this odour “still offends as we commemorate two years of squandered chances to bring the community of nations together” (p.10).
Many more chances have been missed since then. But at least the air seems to have cleared. Indeed, the breeze is so brisk that it appears to have blown away the cobwebs of 9/11 entirely. I guess we’ll just have to wait for a nice round number before we start remembering again...
And with that thought I slide my battered copy of In the Shadow of No Towers back into the oblivion of my bookcase. A lot of dust is destined to gather before a frisson of nostalgia prompts me to reach for it once again on 9/11/2021.
I stand corrected. BBC Radio 4’s “The World Tonight” at 10 o’clock has just referred to the anniversary of 9/11. It did so in relation to the Stars and Stripes that was hanging at half-mast at the US Embassy in Cairo. Why was this mournful flag mentioned? Because protestors stormed the compound, tore it down and replaced it with an Islamist banner. They were angered by the imminent release of the film Innocence of Muslims. This appears to have some connection to Florida Pastor and part-time religious book burner, Terry Jones.(1)
I do hope that news of this depressing incident doesn’t reach Art Spiegelman. It’ll simply confirm his despairing belief that “brigands suffering from war fever have since hijacked those tragic events…” (p. 4).
(1) For the background to this story and its deadly consequences see Matt Bradley and Dion Nissenbaum, “U.S. Missions Stormed in Libya, Egypt”, The Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444017504577645681057498266.html
This affair becomes more tragic with every passing hour. Reports from Libya indicate that at least four consulate staff - including US ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens - have been killed. What a tragic act of pseudo commemoration._
Jamtli is a regional museum in the city of Östersund in central Sweden. In recent days it has been blessed with a great deal of attention. At first this delighted its director, Henrik Zipsane. “All publicity is good publicity” he declared in a newspaper interview last week.(1)
Zipsane must have been cursing those words as he announced the cancellation of Jamtli’s exhibition “Udda och jämt” (Odd and even). This was to have been a group show of contemporary Swedish art. Included in the line-up was Lars Vilks. He made a name for himself in 2007 with the publication of his drawings of the prophet Muhammad as a dog-shaped piece of street furniture.
This triggered a furious and at times very violent reaction in both Sweden and abroad. Vilks is now obliged to live under police protection and has become synonymous with the polarised views pertaining to religion and freedom of expression.
Whatever one’s opinion of Vilks, it is impossible to accuse him of hiding his views on such matters. This is confirmed by his much-publicised decision to travel to New York this month in order to take part in a conference entitled SION (Stop Islamization of Nations).
Nevertheless, it seems to have been this specific action that led Jamtli’s leadership to change their mind about including Vilks in “Udda och jämt”. Yet they clearly failed to think through the potential consequences of this move. One by one the other artists in the show announced their decision to withdraw. Eventually it became clear that not enough participants remained and so the exhibition, which was due to open on 30th September, has now been cancelled.
This incident touches on lots of highly sensitive issues and gives rise to a host of often strongly held opinions. Oddly enough it is this that appears to be the greatest problem. Earlier this morning a spokesperson for Jamtli appeared on Sweden’s national radio. She lamented that the debate that had arisen threatened to overshadow the art. If this is such a bad thing, why extend an initiation to a so-called conceptual artist like Lars Vilks in the first place?
Could it be that Jamtli hoped that Vilks’ presence might have added a touch of spice to the mix – a little of that “good publicity” so craved by Zipsane? If so, this has all gone horribly wrong.
Or has it?
“Udda och jämt” promises to be one of the most talked about shows in Jamtli’s history – whether it takes place or not. So why don’t its asinine leaders go ahead with the exhibition as arranged? The plans are no doubt well advanced; the text panels and labels for each artwork must be ready to be go. These could be mounted on the wall alongside works by those artists who still wish to participate. Meanwhile, large tracts of white space would indicate those works that have been censored by the institution or self-censored by the artists.
Each (non)participant plus other interested commentators could be invited along to the opening. They could enter into debate over what has occurred, why and with what consequences. Each of the artists selected to take part in “Udda och jämt” would be compelled to explain their decisions. Did they withdraw in protest against the museum’s censorship, in support of Lars Vilks or for some other reason?
One such protagonist is the painter, Karin Mamma Andersson. She is on record as criticising Jamtli’s belated and apparently arbitrary decision to ban Vilks. But, prior to that, she was presumably happy for one of her paintings to share a wall with a work by Vilks? Or was she unaware of his participation? Whichever was the case, what “Udda och jämt” reveals is the multivocality of artworks and the powerplays inherent in the artworld. Art and artists are constantly being reframed – by the media and by curators in museums. Art never “speaks for itself”. This has been confirmed by the Jamtli debacle. Yet, rather than capitalise on this rare opportunity to unpick the workings of the artworld, what does the museum do? Simply shuts its doors, withdraws from the fray and waits for normal service to resume.
The greatest losers here are Jamtli’s public.
Because if Jamtli’s leadership had the courage of their convictions and gone ahead with this non-show then something fascinating would have occurred: the audience itself would have taken centre stage. Regular museum-goers and first-time visitors alike could have voiced their opinions about this so-called public institution. Do they applaud or abhor the actions of the museum and the behaviour of the artists?
The resulting dialogue would provide a roadmap for future decisions and contribute to an opening-up – a democratisation – of the museum.
As it is, by cancelling “Udda och jämt” the likes of Henrik Zipsane have simply placed an embargo on proper debate. And it is this lack of informed discussion and argument that characterises the hysteria around religion and freedom of expression.
The only winners here are those people who delight in spreading discord and miscommunication plus those misguided individuals and organisations who insist on separating “art” from life.
(1) “Jamtli ställer in utställning”, Svenska Dagbladet, 29/08/2012, http://www.svd.se/kultur/jamtli-staller-in-utstallning_7458194.svd.
There has been a spate of scare stories recently about the "threat" to "our" heritage.
These often centre on fabulously valuable artworks owned by extremely wealthy people.
Occasionally the objects in question have been hanging quietly on the wall of a public art gallery - until, that is, the owner dies or runs out of cash.
A case in point is Picasso's Child with a Dove (1901). This is currently in limbo. It has been sold secretively to an unknown foreign buyer for an undisclosed sum (thought to be in the region of £50m).(1)
Unfortunately, the new owner will have to wait a while before getting their hands on it. This is because Britain's minister of culture has placed a temporary ban on its export in the hope that sufficient money can be raised to "save" this item "for the nation".
This is exactly what occurred just the other day in relation to a painting by Manet.(2) It cost the Ashmolean Museum £7.83m to "save" this integral piece of British culture from the rapacious hands of a dastardly foreigner.
But don't believe this rhetoric. Oh, and ignore the headline price and touching tales of little street urchins parting with their pennies to rescue this relic. It took upwards of £20m in tax breaks and donations from public bodies to ensure that national pride remained intact.
Yet this doesn't bode well for Picasso's little bird-loving child, does it? The art fund (sic) must surely have run out by now. So too have the superlatives and dramatic warnings from our media luvvies and museum moguls.
Indeed, their fighting funds were already seriously depleted after they chose to place £95m in the hands of the Duke of Sutherland - one of the richest men in the country.(3) This act of Robin Hood in reverse stopped the robber baron from flogging two paintings by Titian along with other trinkets he and his family had so generously loaned to the National Galleries of Scotland. And now the same museum is coming under "threat" again!
Soon we will have to watch as Picasso's little bird migrates to sunnier climes. The national heritage will be fatally winged by this terrible loss.
The consequences just don't bear thinking about...
This is just as well because, in truth, the only repercussions will be a slight dent to national pride plus a small gap on a museum wall. This can be filled by any number of artworks that are currently in store at the National Galleries of Scotland.
Deathly quiet will then return to this mausoleum of art...
Until, that is, we are panicked by the next siren call as yet another integral piece of Britain's (ha!) much-loved heritage comes under covetous foreign eyes.
Tell the world. Tell this to everyone, wherever they are. Watch the skies everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies.
'Cos you never know, you might just see a sweet bird by Picasso fly by...
(1) Anon, "Picasso's Child With A Dove in temporary export bar", BBC News, 17/08/12, http://www.bbc.co.uk./news/entertainment-arts-19283696; Maev Kennedy, "Picasso painting Child with a Dove barred from export", The Guardian, 17/08/12, http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/aug/17/picasso-child-with-a-dove-painting.
(2) Stuart Burch, "Manet money", 08/08/2012, http://www.stuartburch.com/1/post/2012/08/manet-money.html.
(3) Stuart Burch, "Purloined for the nation", 03/04/12, http://www.stuartburch.com/1/post/2012/04/purloined-for-the-nation.html.
Andy Murray + Wimbledon + nationalism
Could there possibly be a more depressing combination?
I very much doubt it.
Alas, the media’s obsession with all this old balls made it harder to avoid than Christmas.
Fortunately on this occasion there is cause for genuine interest and, indeed, celebration.
This is because the local foreigner’s loss was Oxfam’s gain.
When a gentleman by the name of Nick Newlife died in 2009 he generously bequeathed his entire estate to the charity. This included a betting slip. Back in 2003, Newlife wagered £1,520 that the Swiss tennis player, Roger Federer would win Wimbledon seven times before the year 2019.
At odds of 66/1, Oxfam will now collect Newlife’s winnings: a cool £101,840.
So, just for once, can we please forget about new balls and old nationalisms?
Let's sing the praises of Newlife instead.
Until recently I have lived my little life in only two dimensions.
All that changed on Tuesday 3rd July.
Because on that evening – and very much against my better instincts – a Siren persuaded me to pay a small fortune for a pair of cheap plastic spectacles.
Despite resembling sunglasses these eyepieces afforded no protection against ultraviolet light. They were, however, effective at creating a spurious sense of depth when watching 3D movies at the cinema. The effect they produce is similar to that experienced when looking at Soviet realist portraits of Stalin. All too often Uncle Joe looks like an overlaid cut-out that could at any moment topple out of the frame.
A reviled monster of a slightly different kind featured in the film that I settled down to watch. The creature in question had been brought back to life thanks to another siren song, this time broadcast across vast tracts of the cosmos. This call succeeded in luring a rag-bag band of unsuspecting space travellers into its slithery embrace for the purpose of injecting a little fire into their bellies. Hence the title of the film: Prometheus.
Ridley Scott’s blockbuster revives and reprises a creature that was first introduced to movie-goers way back in 1979. This was Alien, one of the masterpieces of cinematic history.
For its part, Prometheus must count as one of the disasterpieces of the silver screen – whether it be in two dimensions or three.
Luckily for me, the saving grace of Prometheus was the fact that it happened to be the first (and I suspect last) time that I opted to pay for an extra dimension. Fittingly enough, this 3D experience turned it into an expensive novelty.
Alien was visually stunning, excellently written and well acted with a plausible (albeit fantastic) plot that remains to this day thought provoking, gripping and genuinely scary. Moreover, it was underpinned by an excoriating social commentary on the machinations of big business. The omninational Weylan-Yutani corporation’s casual disregard for its human employees contrasted with the genuine interest and sympathy they generate in us, the audience.
Prometheus is the absolute antithesis of all this. Its plot merits no comment whatsoever.
And yet, bizarrely enough, the fact that it is so utterly awful renders it the perfect prequel to Alien.
A specially-made pair of 3D spectacles should be hastily manufactured and given to Ridley Scott’s extraterrestrial creation. I have a feeling that its razor sharp mouth would hang open in gob-smacked admiration for its master’s work.
This is because Prometheus is the ultimate parasite.
It owes its existence entirely due to its host. Without that host – i.e. the original film – it would be nothing. Alien’s prequel is a mind-numbingly naked commercial venture that treats the paying public with the same contempt as the Weylan-Yutani company showed to the doomed crew of the spaceship, Nostromo.
One member of that crew is the character, Kane – played so brilliantly by John Hurt. In a particularly memorable scene we see him in a prone position, his features occluded by the facehugging Alien.
The best way to sum up Prometheus is to look upon Kane as an embodiment of the 1979 film as a whole. Thanks to the prequel it is now no longer possible to properly appreciate that movie. This is because, enfolding it in a deathly embrace and leeching it of all its vital signs, is its bastard spawn: Prometheus.
The unearthly star of Alien would surely applaud this act of ruthless parasitism.
But s/he would, I feel, have one criticism. The name is all wrong.
The single word title beginning with “P” should not be Prometheus but Parasitoid: a parasite that kills its host.
Because that’s exactly what Prometheus does to Alien.
Images to celebrate James Joyce’s Ulyssess on “Bloomsday” – 16th June.
Para, jämsides med.
En annan sort.
Bevingaren, 1980: 90
Even a parasite like me should be permitted to feed at the banquet of knowledge
I once posted comments as Bevingaren at guardian.co.uk
Note All parasitoids are parasites, but not all parasites are parasitoids
Parasitoid "A parasite that always ultimately destroys its host" (Oxford English Dictionary)
I live off you
And you live off me
And the whole world
Lives off everybody
See we gotta be exploited
By somebody, by somebody, by somebody
<I live off you>
Germ Free Adolescents
is a short step.
The word is
now a virus.
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The Paris Court of First Instance has issued its verdict on the trademark dispute between online gaming operator Unibet and former French horse-betting monopoly Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU). PMU had accused Unibet of violating trademarks PMU held on the names of certain betting services, specifically relating to horse betting.
The terms in question — Simple, Couplé, Trio, Tiercé, Quarté+, Quinté+, 2sur4 and Multi – were trademarked by PMU shortly before France liberalized its gaming market in May of this year. Trouble is, the names of these betting services were not created by PMU, but were established by government decrees which authorized PMU to create such bets.
When Unibet entered the French market, it used the same terminology to identify these types of bets on horse races. Obviously still clinging to its former monopoly mentality, PMU lost its shit and hit Unibet with claims of trademark infringement, unfair competition and parasitism.
In response, Unibet requested that the court cancel PMU’s trademarks, on the grounds that they were (a) registered in bad faith, since PMU created neither the bets nor the bet names; and (b) the trademarks were generic and denoted an essential characteristic of betting on the ponies.
In its ruling, the Paris Court of First Instance rejected PMU’s trademark infringement claims, essentially affirming Unibet’s counterargument that PMU had acted in bad faith by attempting to trademark something it had no part in creating. PMU was judged to have attempted to use trademark law in order to create an anti-competitive advantage. Like we said, those monopolistic instincts die hard.
However, PMU won a partial victory when the court ruled that, in using the same color coding as PMU to identify the types of bets on their web site, Unibet had committed ‘acts of parasitism’ against PMU. Unibet has therefore been ordered to pay €50k to PMU and to refrain from using such colors in the future.
Next on the docket, PMU v. the director of the movie Seabiscuit, for having the gall to depict a quadriped in motion on a muddy track without PMU’s permission.
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When thinking about vacationing in Mexico, most people envision the gorgeous beach resorts and hotels lining the beautiful nation’s coastlines. But there’s more to this vacation destination than just swimming and relaxing in the sun. What makes for a better trip than the variety of fun and relaxation dotted with a bit of adventure? Why not strap on your hiking shoes and explore the nature all around you on your next Mexican beach vacation? Here are some of our top picks for day hikes in Mexico that will bring out the adventure in you, and lead you back to your luxurious hotel that evening.
Desierto de Los Leones National Park
Easily accessible via taxi ride from Mexico City, this Federal District hiking locale is the perfect distance for a day hike. Miles and miles of trails, from easy to difficult, wind through this mountainous national park, peaking at Cerro San Miguel at an altitude of over 12,500 feet. Aside from its easy accessibility from the capital city, one of the coolest things about this hiking locale is that the park features a 400-year-old monastery and still-standing (though a bit crumbly) hermitages built by monks.
The Bluffs Trail on Isla Mujeres
If a lovely beach vacation is usually your poison, but you’d like to mix up your days with a nearby hiking excursion, then you’ll want to check out the shocking beauty and cliff-side ocean views provided by the Bluffs walking trails just a few miles outside of downtown Isla Mujeres. This gorgeous island just east of the coast of Cancun is also home to Garrafon Reef Park, if you’d like to mix hiking and snorkeling for the perfect day on your Mexico beach vacation.
Cerro de Mono
After a few blissful days relaxing by the pool at your beach hotel, it may sound inviting to get some exercise and take in the killer views on a hike in the subtropical forests of Cerro de Mono. Hiking the trails at this Punta de Mita adventure destination is a challenge, so get ready to exert yourself! Pro-tip: combine this difficult hike with some lunch in the nearby funky beach village of Sayulita.
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In partnership with Goethelab, Aachen, the German organisation will debut the sub €30,000 SLM technology in Frankfurt this month.
The research carried out by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory proves 3D printed magnets can display better magnetic, mechanical and microstructural properties, as well as conser
Desktop stereolithography leader launches new High Temp, Durable and Tough resins geared towards engineering applications.
Whether you're a newbie, expert or in-between, our Prototyping Processes white paper will help you choose the best process for your project. It's packed full of excellent info on strength, finish, material properties, and more.
Surgeons at Miami Children’s Hospital saved a young girl’s life using a 3D-printed heart model which helped to visualise a complex operation. Adaenelie, aged four, suffered from total anomalous pulmon
A team of researchers from a range of American Universities has manufactured small 3D-printed structures which shrink when heated, rather than expand. Each structure is about the size of a sugar cube
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I’ve been listening to Christmas songs, compiling my annual ‘Christmas Gift Guide’ blog posts, and indulging in Christmas mince pies. I think it’s safe to say I’m officially in the Christmas spirit! To celebrate the festive season, Lindt asked me to share a crafty DIY project using their delectable LINDOR milk chocolate truffles. During the month of December there is always a wreath hanging outside our front door, I find it so welcoming and cheerful! Today I’ll be showing you how to make your very own Christmas wreath. There’s no better way to welcome friends and family during the holidays than with this unique twist on the traditional Christmas wreath. I’m Day 5 in the “12 Days Of Lindt Christmas” series this year:
Be sure to read until the very end of the blog post, because there’s a surprise waiting…
Here’s how you can make your own Christmas wreath at home:
♥ 20 x LINDOR Milk Chocolate Truffles (for extra pizzazz tie red ribbons on one end of each truffle)
♥ Wire wreath frame (30cm – 50cm)
♥ Floral tape (or hot glue gun)
♥ Holly or berries
♥ Festive ribbon bow
Gather all the materials and lay them out on a large, flat surface.
Assemble wreath by taking pieces of cut foliage and tying them with tape to the wire frame. Follow the natural curve of the branches.
Continue layering pieces in the same direction, taping tightly. Exposed wire will get covered as you go along.
When you have come all the way around, simply tape ends tightly to one another. Cut tape and do a few extra twists to secure.
Cover any visible wire by using smaller stems. Add decorative elements, such as holly or berries.
Place the LINDOR truffles around the wreath and tie or glue in place. Add a pretty bow by securing it with wire or glue gun. And voila!
Lindt South Africa and I are sharing the Christmas cheer – we’re giving away a Lindt Bear and LINDOR Christmas hamper (with a value of more than R 1200,00) to one lucky Pink Peonies blog reader. You can either divide the contents of the prize up into smaller gifts / stocking stuffers for Christmas; or just keep all the choccies for yourself!
I’m making it super simple to enter the giveaway, all you have to do is the following:
Tell me in the comments section below: How many LINDOR milk chocolate truffles were used to create the above DIY Christmas wreath?
For extra entries:
Retweet my giveaway tweet here.
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Tweet the following message: “I would love to win a @LindtSA #Lindt12Days Christmas Hamper with @PinkPeoniesBlog here: http://bit.ly/1urtF6c”
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You only have TWO DAYS to enter this giveaway – today and tomorrow (Sunday). The giveaway will run until 9am on Monday, 7 December 2015, with 1 winner being selected at random shortly afterwards. I always announce the winners of my giveaways on Facebook and Twitter, so make sure you follow me on both social media platforms.
This giveaway is open to South African residents only.
Good luck, everyone!
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“No matter where we are in our teaching career, the difference between how we envision our days with children and how those days actually play out can be kind of shocking, much like picturing the perfect date and having it go all haywire.”
Those are the words of author’s Christine Hertz and Kristi Mraz, in their new book, Kids First from Day One. They say don’t hope for perfection, plan for growth.
Hertz & Mraz remind us children are the most important people in the room. They’ve discovered that putting that idea into practice can start right now, and their book shows how to combine your deepest beliefs and your empathy for children with practical ideas for creating environments and curriculum that engage students most effectively.
In Kids First from Day One, Christine and Kristi have given us a teacher’s guide for today’s classroom. My colleague Zoe, who is also the author's editor, began today's podcast conversation with Christine & Kristi talking about their journey to teaching…
See below for a full transcript of our conversation:
Zoe: Every teacher has a hope and a vision for their classroom. And in Kids First From Day One, you helped teachers make those visions come to life. Could you talk a little bit about how that process went for you both when you were coming to teaching yourselves.
Christine: So, I left college just bubbling with enthusiasm and goodwill for teaching and ready to take on the world and make it a better place. I was really well-grounded in my beliefs about children as competent citizens. I was well-grounded in theory. And really felt strongly about what I wanted my classroom to look like and sound like and feel like.
Then, my first year teaching, I can remember getting into the space and having 27 third grade students and just being completely overwhelmed by the demands of all there was still to learn. I was really convinced that all you needed to learn about teaching happened in the four years of undergraduate school. And then you should be able to go and you should be able to be an extraordinary exceptional teacher.
That idea of perfection was quickly squashed for me. That was a hard initial lesson, that teaching is about growth and practice and finding your practice and not necessarily having everything just perfectly so from day one.
Kristi: I think for me what's really interesting is when I went into the classroom, I don't know that I had any beliefs about teaching. Like, I don't think I knew what I believed. I knew that I wanted a pillow on the rug. I knew that I wanted clear bins. I knew that I wanted this particular pocket chart from this particular store. And I don't know why. I don't think I knew why I wanted any of those things.
Because of that, I had no mechanism for sifting what mattered from what didn't matter at all. I think it was really messy my first year because I didn't know how to choose important. So it was like, I wanted this pillow, but I didn't know why I thought a pillow should be in the classroom. It became about the pillow until I realized, "Oh, no. I think I believe that kids should have seating options. Oh wait, oh wait. It's not about the pillow. It's about seating options."
I feel like a lot of that first five years was trying to figure out why I did the things I did. And then realize that, oh there are beliefs driving all of this? Some of them were beliefs that I still have today. For example, that kids are not waiting to become anything. They are fully formed human beings who have all the same rights as adults. I still really strongly believe that.
But some of them sort of changed. Which is, I used to believe in order to have a smooth running classroom, I had to be “Miss Mraz” and I had to wear high heels. And I don't believe that anymore, obviously. So I think part of the work that sort of grew in this book came from a lot of matching your vision to your classroom is knowing what has driven your vision. And that allows you to sort of say, Oh, it's not about having the plants on the windowsill because I love plants, but what do I believe kids deserve? What do I believe a classroom should look like? And integrating that.
Christine: And what you can let go of. Every year, I think we let go of more and more stuff and more and more expectations for ourselves and replace them with different expectations for ourselves and for our students as well.
Zoe: So, you're talking a lot about beliefs. And I think one belief that probably all teachers share is that the kids should come first. The kids should be the most important people in the classroom. You were talking a little bit about this, I wonder if you could say a little bit more about what can get in the way of those beliefs? What can get in the way of putting kids first for teachers?
Kristi: So, I tell a story in this book, that like I wish I could pretend was about someone else, because I don't actually like owning to it. But, free therapy, right? Okay.
So, when I first started teaching, I really got into teaching because I was like, "I want to change the world and make the world a better place. And I'm going to make that happen in the classroom." You could see the stars shooting from my eyes, of like, "Ah, we're going to change the world through projects and all this. We're going to write letters to the president and recycle."
Then I got into the classroom and it was utter chaos. I was trying to teach with good intentions. It didn't go very well, I would say. The school I was teaching at, it was very common for classrooms to use color charts and clip charts. As my class basically cartwheeled between the lunchroom and the classroom and I... tried…
Kristi: No, literally. And as I tried to teach by just being louder, and louder, I started to feel like I must be doing it wrong because everybody else's classroom seemed so smooth. So, for me, management was a huge barrier between the classroom I wanted and the classroom I had. And I didn't have any skills.
So I started using the clip chart that was being used in some of the other classrooms. Very quickly my classroom dynamic changed. It got calmer, but there was also an undertone. I couldn't really pin what it was, until one day, I asked a kid to move his clip and he just shredded the clip chart. There was this half a minute and then kids cheered. I still get chills thinking about it. Because I'm like, what am I doing to kids? I still remember that drive home just processing that event and thinking about how I thought the classroom had gotten better, but that was from my point of view. And for a lot of kids, their days had gotten a lot worse.
I still, when I think about that, it just stops me in my tracks that choices that were made with good intentions really... Good intentions aren't enough to have successful classrooms for kids. I think that was my takeaway. It's never enough that it's a) working for me, and b) it can't be that it's good intentions; It has to be that it's actually supporting the kids in the classroom. And since that day, I've made a lot of changes and I've sort of rallied against the clip chart. We talk a lot about that in the book as well.
I always wanted what's best for kids in my room, but I didn't always stop to think if what I was doing was the best for kids., if at appearance sake it looked to be going well.
Christine: Yeah, and we've shifted our thinking from "what's best for kids in this space, in this confined nine month, ten month period?" to really thinking about our time with this child as one little piece of a long continuum of their entire life. It's not that it needs to be this wonderful third grade year experience or first grade year experience, but it needs to be that they feel valued as citizens in our community, that they feel like they have choice in what they're doing, that they feel like school is a place of joy and curiosity and wonder.
Every belief that we have is rooted in this idea that this is not about our one year. It's about this child's life and we just have the opportunity to be involved in one little piece of their life. Really, everything that we try to do in our classroom is reflected in that core belief that the kids just come first.
Kristi: And I think, just to add onto that, that one of the things that I think has shifted a lot, is I used to want to be my kids' favorite teacher. Do you know what I mean? I wanted them to go to the next grade and mourn me.
Kristi: How is that good for a kid to leave you? It's like the ex you can't get over. Is that a bad analogy to make about kids? But it's like, the experience exists within you, so that when they leave, every year should be better and better and better for them. It shouldn't be about having this teacher or that project, but what makes school powerful is how I as the student feel in it. Not that the teacher did wacky hat day. Not that you can't do that, but that can't be what you're pinning your hopes and dreams on.
Zoe: So, you just said a lot of really great things. I think that one thing that keeps coming up is that all of us, all teachers, are going to experience setbacks in the classroom. The shredding of a clip chart or whatever it might be on a given day. Something that you say in the book, you say, "Don't hope for perfection. Plan for growth." So, I wonder if you could say a little bit more about that. What would you like readers to do with that sentiment?
Christine: Several things that can really help you let go of that perfectionist ideal are self-compassion, really going easy on yourself, knowing things that trip you up, that really trigger your worries about your classroom, things that wake you up at three in the night, and just breathing easy and saying you'll work through these things. Building a network for collaboration, finding other teachers in your building, online, who can really be your mentors and support you, no matter how many years you've been in the profession.
Then choosing one little thing at a time can be really helpful to think about, "All right, so I'm really going to think about what time I'm having children do unstructured things versus structured." Then focusing on that for a week, a month, a year, and then working on growing in that regard.
There can be feelings sometimes where you're sitting in your car at the end of the day and it can feel like nothing's gone well. Often it happens in November, this long stretch from August until November. And there's this time where it feels like, "What am I doing? How can I do anything right?" I think recognizing that all teachers go through really tricky moments like that.
Then taking care of yourself. Going home, putting everything away for a little bit, find some good habits, and then coming back the next day with a fresh start.
Kristi: I think when it comes to planning for growth, not for perfection, I think it came up a lot for us when we were working on Mindset for Learning, the idea that you'll never be perfect. You have to drop the words, "I'm a good teacher, I'm a bad teacher" out of your mental vernacular and just realize that what makes you successful is learning from every day. That was really hard for me at the beginning. I like to be really good at things.
I'm like the poster child for a fixed mindset. If it wasn't a good day, I was in the car composing letters to other places to hire me. You know, like, "Please let me be your zookeeper. I don't have any qualifications, but I will try." It was really hard for me to learn from that, those moments, because I couldn't face them.
Only when I was like, "Eh, things happen." Just the other day, we were doing water experiments and I turned around and kids were drinking sewer water and I was just like, "I should've known better." But I didn't. If I had known better then I would've done better and now I'm about to learn better. Don't put out sewer water. It wasn't really sewer water. Home listeners, everyone's fine. I think.
Christine: I know a first grader who will just, every time something little happens that's a mistake that I make, she literally will chime up and say, "It's okay. Nobody's perfect." And that's the voice that we all need in our heads all the time. She's like so sweet, so kind, so understanding. And then it's like, "So what's next? Nobody's perfect, what's next?" So that idea that you're not going to be content in just letting things marinate the way they are, but that nobody's perfect, but what can we do next?
Zoe: So you're talking a lot about how important it is for teachers to think about themselves and to be kind to themselves. I think along with that goes the idea of empathy. You write about empathy in the book. I'm wondering if you can say a little more about how that fits into the classroom world.
Kristi: One of the things that kind of came up for us when we were writing this book was the idea that so much of what makes a classroom run well is our own mental state in some ways. One of the components that is so critical is that of empathy. And not just that kids should be demonstrating empathy toward each other, or taking each other's perspective, understanding kids' feelings, but that we as teachers can truly and honestly remember what it feels like to be five, or seven, or eight, or ten, or 15.
I remember being 15 too well, which is why I'll never set foot in a middle school. But, what I'm saying is that when we are able to remember that, it helps us design classroom with kids truly in mind.
I think about what it is to be five for the first snow. You realize, "Why am I trying to do this math? We should be out in the snow." You know what I mean? We should all be at the window talking about snow. We shouldn't be trying to power through. Because they're five. That's like, their fifth first snowfall. Or when kids are super excited because they open their lunch for the first time. Sometimes we can be like, "That's great," as we are trying to do eight other things. But those are the huge successes, that when we truly have empathy for our kids and are remembering what it's like to be in that place for them, we design classrooms differently. We think more carefully about how we're structuring the day, how much we're asking kids to be still versus move, how we respond to a kid shouting out on the rug.
I was a classic shouter outer. I feel like under "shouter outer" it's just a picture of me. But it was like I was dying to say this thing I knew. But as a teacher, the shouter outer, I'd be like, "Quiet signals." But that's so crazy. Because I'm in a staff meeting being like, "Oh, I've got to say something about this."
So, remembering that, I can respond to the shouter outer from a place of, "I get it. You're dying to tell me that you can see David's butt on this page. I get that.”
No David, by David Shannon. It's not some adult reading.
Christine: I think that really when you start creating a classroom culture that builds empathy to its very core, then it changes the way that you are as a teacher. Because now you're looking around and you're empathizing in every decision that you're making, and every small problem, you're really starting from a place of empathy to work through with children. At the same time, you're building a classroom community of children who talk about empathy, who learn different aspects of what empathy looks like and sounds like, how they can be more empathetic.
I think we've been saying for a little while now that we want our classrooms of today to really reflect the world of tomorrow. The reality for these children is that it's not about the world of tomorrow. It's what's happening here in our spaces every single day. We want to build spaces that are full of caring and kind children who celebrate the big successes and the first snows, but also will help us get through, what can feel like really big setbacks, as well, that we have kids go through every single day.
Kristi: Teachers make about 3,000 decisions a day. And you're making them this fast. So the closer you are to connecting in that relationship, the more likely those decisions will reflect what kids need. And you're living a model of what you want kids to be doing. How great would the world be if people started every conversation with, "I can see what you're saying."
Zoe: So, a lot of the situations you’re talking about like snow, or excitement about a butt in a picture book or something like that, could be triggers for disasters. But in the book, you talk about adapting practices to move away from what's traditionally known as a classroom management situation into more of a community building stance. I wonder if you could say a little bit more about that?
Christine: We think about the word management and it automatically brings to mind everybody in neat little boxes filing their neat little paperwork, little cogs in the machine. As soon as you step foot into a classroom, you know that teaching and learning is a lot messier than that. There are so many variables happening all the time. 3,000 decisions a day a teacher is making, and so by Friday we have decision fatigue. And we're completely shut down. But, the thing about creating a classroom community versus creating a classroom management system is that the more you do up front to create that community, the less the teacher has to be the center of it as time goes on.
And so, instead of this teacher being the center of all of the wheels that are working around the person, then the community is kind of delivering its own checks and balances. We're working at, at home there are things that are going on. All over the space without the teacher being on top of everything. You can't see everything. You can't hear everything. Although, we do seem to see and hear pretty well, overall.
Kristi: In our sleep.
Christine: In our sleep where, like, that thing comes back to you like, "Oh my gosh. I know what they said." But what's more beneficial is that we start our work of classroom and community building by thinking about what we're asking children to do. So, we don't just teach engagement like, keep writing, long and strong, just do it, keep going. Instead, engagement is a byproduct of our community building practices. We don't need to teach, "stay in your spot and keep working" because if what we're asking children to do is in their zone of proximal development, and something they can access in, something they've had choice over, and something they're really excited about, then that engagement piece is there.
Now that saying, in every classroom, in every corner of the world, there are moments and there are children who still have some really tricky, difficult moments. And so there are strategies that we can use that can really support those children and those moments. We get into this more in the book, but there are specific protocols that have been backed by research that say first try this, then try this, then try this. We've both been there. Literally in the room, day after day, helping children work through these really intense moments. And it's hard. But I think, again, everything we're doing is coming back to building the community. So it's not about managing this really intense moment or this really tricky student, but instead it's about how can we wrap them into our community and find ways for them to be successful as well.
Kristi: I think what often happens is a lot of the classroom management, the stickers, the marble jar, the name on the board with checks, again that comes from a belief that kids need to be nudged into doing the right thing or rewarded or punished into doing the right thing. But one of the things that we've really come to believe is that kids do the best they can as they understand it.
We talk a lot about behavior as something you teach just like any other subject. If you wouldn't think to do it for reading and it wouldn't work to teach reading, then it's not going to help kids to develop the social skills or the social competencies that they need in the classroom. So, if a reader is struggling, you don't write their name and put checks next to it until they get the right word. Because they don't have the strategies for is.
I think I personally connect because I was a first grader who got put in the hall a lot. I spent a lot of quality time staring at the doorway into the classroom because I didn't have a lot of skills for waiting, hence the shouting out. So, the way I was managed is I was moved outside the classroom. What I really needed to learn were ways to keep myself patient, and I didn't really get a chance to learn them until later on.
A lot of what we talk about in the book is how do you teach behavior skills? When I removed my classroom management system, it didn't mean the behavior was automatically better. I still went back to that chaos. That was the thing. They ripped up the clip chart. I didn't want the clip chart anymore. But I didn't have anything else. Thus started this action research project on how do you teach a community to come together? And, spoiler alert, it's Section Three.
Zoe: Also, actually Section Two, where you talk about the physical environment sort of fits into what you're talking about now as well. How does the classroom space itself contribute to building community instead of control?
Christine: A lot of our physical classroom beliefs stem from work that's come out of the Regio Amelia community in Italy where they've done a lot of work in early childhood centers talking about the environment as a teacher. So, if you think about it, what you have in your classroom for children to explore, but also to have access to and to have control over, can really help them, then, become their own teachers in a way. So they're grabbing scissors when they need to cut something up. Or they're running over and grabbing that clipboard because they've decided to come and sit at the rug.
Again, going back to our beliefs about teaching, we've given children a lot of opportunities to make choices, but to also have ownership over the materials. One of our guiding principles was an aha a couple years ago, is that anything that's essentially in the grasp of the child, should be something that they can access when they need it. Maybe it's a thing of band-aids, so they can grab that when they need it, or a dustpan and broom, new lined paper. These community supplies mean that the room is theirs as opposed to, "This is the teacher area, and this is your area."
Once they walk in the door, the space is designed with them in mind. Nooks and crannies for little kids, spaces for older children to work on their own or in small groups, space for all ages to gather as a whole group. Then the space evolves over time. The more your classroom evolves with your group of children, moving furniture, putting things on the wall, the more it will feel like a community and a place they belong. That's one of those inherent needs in people is that you want to feel like you belong somewhere and this is your space. The more a child can feel that, the more they'll be engaged in this whole community.
Kristi: It’s room design with empathy. That comes back to the idea of empathy, which is, if you're going to have it exposed, then kids should be allowed and encouraged as they see fit and not necessarily dictating the rule of, "scissors are for this time" or "markers are for that time" but letting them be thoughtful about how and when they're using the supplies. And we talk about this. It's not Lord of the Flies. We're not like, "Scissors and knives for everyone" and then we just sit back and are like, "whoever survives come to the rug."
But instead the reason that you have community supplies is so they'll get in an argument over the red. That's the point of it. I don't want everyone to have their own marker because then we never learn how to resolve the disagreement of the red marker. Fast forward 30 years and we don't know how to work as a society.
I think sometimes as teachers, when we think I don't have time for them to argue over markers because we've got to get to the work. But the thing is, that's the work of being alive and we can't say, "Oh, I'm teaching readers and writers" aside from the fact that we're actually teaching people who read and write. And it's the people part that we have to keep coming back to, which is, we want to give the kids the right sorts of problems as five, ten, 15 year olds, so when they get to be 25, 35, 45, they have the right kind of skills. Because how I negotiate over that red marker is how I'm going to negotiate over a parking spot both of us want. That's a terrible example, but you get the point.
I think that it seems like such a silly thing, communal supplies versus personal supplies, but one of them implies something about the community and the other, what do we value? We value personal property? We value sharing and problem solving. It's all those little things that come back to your beliefs. And we believe that children have the right and we have the responsibility to learn how to exist together.
Christine: And another piece of that is, again, thinking of what you can let go of. So if you're thinking from a place of designing for empathy, designing from a place of empathy, and you think about something like your teacher desk, then what purpose does your teacher desk have in a classroom that's designed for children and for this community? Our answer was, well, none. So find a different way to store your stuff and pile your papers, which still happens. But you don't necessarily need your desk.
And what's the purpose of an assigned seat? Well, maybe it's so that everybody knows where to go to get right to work. But is there a way to do this with more choice for children? And more independence, and autonomy, and decision making on their part, and thinking about where it feels good to work. The answer is yes.
Kristi: That goes back to just our one big idea, which is, people will make a variety of decisions, I think it's knowing why you're making that decision that's going to help you chisel out your beliefs. So, oftentimes, teachers don't think that assigned seats are an option. They think, "Well, everybody needs a seat spot." Well, why do you think that? If there's not a belief backing that up, then dig into it a little bit and say just because it's been done that way doesn't mean it's always...
In my classroom, every kid doesn't have a chair to sit in. There's no way for everyone to sit in a chair at the same time. And that horrifies people sometimes. But tell me why they all have to be sitting in a chair. Give me that reason. You can email it to me or place it in the comments. It's pushing against the status quo and really saying, "What's the belief system that's driving those decisions?"
Zoe: So, Kids First From Day One is broken down into four parts. Could you take a minute and just walk us through the parts and how they work together?
Christine: Sure. So the first part of the book is all about the teacher mindset and different ways that you can work on yourself as a teacher, thinking about being growth oriented, empathetic, thinking about being flexible.
The second part of the book is all about building a physical space, the physical classroom environment.
The third part is about building the emotional environment, the social-emotional environment.
And then the fourth part of the book is about creating a responsive curriculum that really meets the needs of the specific students in your classroom.
Kristi: I think one of the big points we want to make about the book is that there are a few things you can do before the kids come, but the real catalyst for all of it is the kids themselves. One of the things that is absolutely true is you might read it over the summer and get filled with ideas, but the whole point of the book is, "but kids come, and then what?"
One of the things we really tried to be mindful of is talking about, in every chapter, in every section, how does this work grow and build with actual kids in front of you? How do we adapt our classroom as it moves forward? And then, whether you're in your first year or your 40th year, as we wrote this -- I'm in my 17th year, because I started teaching when I was 12, that's why I look so good -- at writing it I was refining my practice. That's one of the things we thought a lot about too, again, thinking about how to make sure the room feel playful, then in turn made me become more playful as well.
It's not like you'll read it and your life has been fixed. Maybe. Let us know if it is. Write a review on Amazon if that's the case. Yeah, five stars. But also, its designed to be your friend and be with you through the hard times, tear-stained, coffee-stained, wine- stained. In it, we really try to direct people to other resources as well. These are the friends who helped us through and we hope they'll help you through too.
Christine: I think that we do think of the book as a launching pad and so it's a toolkit, it's a guide, we're your friends, we're here to help. But there is a larger community out there that's really trying new things with their teaching, trying to make a change, just getting into it. So our hope is also that people come together on Instagram, and Facebook, and Twitter, and in real life, and in coffee shops, and figure out a way to make their classrooms more closely aligned to their vision of what they want in their space and in their world.
Brett: My thanks to Christine Hertz and Kristi Mraz for their time today. Their new book, Kids 1st from Day 1, is available now at Heinemann.com. We invite you to watch all of the videos that accompany the book after you receive it. In these videos you watch the authors work with a class full of students. We’ll be sharing a sample of those videos on the Heinemann blog in addition to blogs from the authors. You can connect with the authors on Twitter and Instagram; we’ve shared links to how to connect with them on our blog which you can find at blog.heinemann.com. Thanks for listening.
To learn more about Kids First from Day One and download a sample chapter, visit Heinemann.com.
Christine Hertz is coauthor of the Heinemann titles Kids First from Day One and A Mindset for Learning. She finds great joy and challenge in helping all children grow as independent and engaged students. She is passionate about keeping play and creativity at the center of children's lives and curiosity and wonder at the heart of learning. Christine has taught in a wide variety of classrooms from preschool to fourth grade and as an adjunct instructor of education courses. She currently teaches in Worcester, Vermont. You can follow her on Twitter @christine_hertz or visit her web site at christinehertz.com. You can also find Christine & Kristi's Instagram at @kristiandchristine.
Kristine Mraz is coauthor—with Christine Hertz—of the new Kids First from Day One, which provides a practical blueprint for increasing the child-centeredness of your teaching practice. She and Christine previously teamed up for the bestselling A Mindset for Learning (coauthored with Christine Hertz), which provides practical and powerful strategies for cultivating optimism, flexibility, and empathy alongside traditional academic skills. She primarily supports teachers in early literacy, play, and inquiry based learning. Kristi teaches Kindergarten in the New York City Public schools. You can follow all of her adventures on twitter @MrazKristine, on Instagram @kristiandchristine or on her blog kinderconfidential.wordpress.com.
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Nikon today announced its third-generation projector-equipped digital camera, the COOLPIX S1200pj offering a 40% increase in projection brightness and three times greater projection contrast, enabling projection of vivid images at a projection size of up to 60-inch display. In addition, the S1200pj can be connected to an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch via the dedicated cable, allowing users to project images and movies stored on these devices as well as online content from websites such as YouTube.
The S1200pj truly offers new ways of using a camera by overcoming distance with the ability to view and project images and movies users have recorded themselves as well as images and movies acquired from around the world via the Internet.
Building off last year's COOLPIX S1100pj model, the new S1200pj provides a brighter 20-lumen built-in projector, 14.1-megapixel resolution, 5x Optical Zoom, HD (720p) movie capture with stereo sound and a 3.0-inch LCD screen display to help compose at the touch of a finger. The user can also add their artistic touch to their images with a variety of Special Effects and Filter Effects. Compact enough to slip into a pocket, the COOLPIX S1200pj goes wherever life takes it.
Price and Availability
The COOLPIX S1200pj will be available in mid September 2011 for $429.95 in black and pink.
|Effective pixels||14.1 million|
|Image sensor||1/2.3-in. type CCD; approx. 14.48 million total pixels|
|Lens||5× optical zoom, NIKKOR lens; 5.0-25.0mm (angle of view equivalent to that of 28–140 mm lens in 35mm format); f/3.9–5.8;
Digital zoom: Up to 4× (angle of view equivalent to that of approx. 560mm lens in 35mm format)
|Focus range (from lens)||[W]: Approx. 1 ft (30 cm) to infinity, [T]: Approx. 1 ft 8 in. (50 cm) to infinity,
Macro mode: Approx. 1.2 in (3 cm) to infinity (wide-angle position)
|Monitor||3-in. , approx. 460,000-dot, TFT LCD monitor with anti-reflection coating 5-level brightness adjustment|
|Storage media||Internal memory (approx. 94 MB), SD/SDHC/SDXC memory card|
|ISO sensitivity||ISO 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400
Auto (auto gain from ISO 80 to 800)
Fixed range auto (ISO 80 to 200, 80 to 400)
|Power sources||One Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL12 (supplied)
AC Adapter EH-62F (available separately)
|Battery life (EN-EL12)||Still pictures: Approx. 220 shots
Movies: Approx. 1 h 40 min (HD 720p (1280×720))
|Dimensions (WxHxD)||Approx. 4.3 x 2.5 x 0.9 in. (107.0 × 63.4 × 22.6 mm) (excluding projections)|
|Weight||Approx. 6.6 oz. (186 g) (including battery and SD memory card)|
|Supplied accessories||Camera Strap CP-19, Rechargeable Li-ion Battery EN-EL12, Charging AC Adapter EH-69P, USB Cable UC-E6, Audio Movie Cable EG-CP16, ViewNX 2 CD-ROM, PC-PJ Transfer CD-ROM|
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Building a successful brand takes a lot of hard work and a very long time. The reputation that your brand has developed can be damaged very quickly – all it takes is a poor quality batch of fabric, or a long delay in the launch of a new range. That’s why some of the biggest names in the fashion industry trust Genesis Fabrics – you can rely on us to provide only the very best fabrics to meet your needs, reliably and efficiently, when you need them.
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It is surprising just how many people have not yet experienced the delights of Noosa, Sunshine Coast! The Sunny Coast airport is located in Maroochydore, just a half hour drive to Noosa Heads. The Sunshine Coast airport, although not as large as the major cities like Brisbane, has direct flights arriving from Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Auckland and Christchurch just to name a few. The opportunity exists for a Noosa holiday with only 30 minutes driving time from the airport if flying out from any of those major cities!
It’s very easy to get around Noosa – there aren’t any hills, very few traffic lights and there are bus stops everywhere! No matter where you stay here, there will most likely be a bus stop 5-10 minutes walk away from your door. No need for a hire car when the buses run constantly, and if you stay around Noosa Hill or Noosa Sound the beach is only a 10-15 minute walk away anyway! Do you want to be even closer to the beach? Try staying in Little Cove, or along Hastings St where the beach is right across the road, or in Sunshine Beach (for keen surfers)!
Now that the weather is getting a bit chilly (especially for locals’ standards) it’s time to pack your jumpers and jeans! Although Noosa heats up nicely in the middle of the day it does get nippy early mornings and late afternoons/nights. You can still enjoy the beach here in winter so don’t worry about that! We constantly see people sun-baking on north-facing main beach in June/July... there aren’t many beaches that can say that about themselves!
Even our ice cream shops still have lots of customers in winter – that just proves it is never too cold for an ice cream, or for a swim for that matter! But just remember surfers, pack those wetties.
Once you experience Noosa I could bet you’ll want to return. Booking accommodation for your next trip has never been easier – we can take bookings 12 months in advance and you can do it yourselves online! Bam, next booking already sorted!We tend to holiday makers check out what’s for sale on their last days here, pondering on the idea of owning a property in this location. You might be surprised how many properties have great value so why not do a few drive by’s, and look out for our Dowling and Neylan signs, they shouldn’t be too hard to spot around here!
- Noosa Hill Accommodation
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Great Unit, perfect position, the staff at Duke Street were extremely helpful
Gail - July/August 2017
Thank you for your assistance on our regular annual holiday. It is comforting to arrive, after travelling, to a warm and sincere welcome from staff. We would like to thank Penny, Lynda and Lin for their efficient and reassuring service, and communication, during our long stay. See you next year
Dean & Lynne - July 2017
Clean and tidy, light and airy, great location and value for money - we will be back
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Circular No. 03/2017-Customs
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Excise & Customs
227B, North Block
New Delhi, the 16th January, 2017
All Principal Chief Commissioners/ Chief Commissioners of Customs/Customs (Preventive)
Principal Director General/ Director General, DRI
All Principal Chief Commissioners/Chief Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise
All Principal Commissioners/Commissioners of Customs/Customs (Preventive)
All Principal Commissioners/Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise
Subject: – Import of point of sale (PoS) terminal devices, its cells & batteries and labelling requirements thereof-reg.
The government has vide notification No. 35/2016-Central Excise, dated 28.11.16 exempted excise duty on Point of Sale (PoS) devices and also goods required for their manufacture. These devices are already exempted from customs duty. PoS devices are indispensable in a cashless digital payment ecosystem.
2. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) have stated that Point of sale (PoS) Terminal devices and sealed secondary cell/batteries containing alkaline or other non-acid electrolytes for use in portable applications are covered under the scope of Electronics and Information Technology Goods (Requirement for Compulsory Registration) Order, 2012 with effect from 13.5.2015 & 1.6.2016 respectively for mandatory BIS registration.
3. MeitY have relaxed the import conditions of Point of Sale (PoS) terminal devices and cells/ batteries fitted in these devices to the following extent.
a) Import of non-labelled registered PoS devices shall be allowed subject to the condition that the importer shall put standard logo on each carton at the port instead of each separate PoS Terminal device along with the declaration to the Customs confirming that each terminal device would be labelled after clearance but before sale /distribution in the Indian market. Customs may release the consignments of PoS devices based on the declaration along with the details of model/ Serial nos. of the PoS terminal devices inside the cartons.
b) Special permission for import of batteries and cells coming along (fitted) with the BIS registered PoS terminals if the said cells /batteries are either registered with BIS as per IS 16046 or are certified as per the International standard IEC 62133: 2012. Spares shall not be allowed under this relaxation.
Both the above exemptions from the regulatory requirements shall be valid till 31.3.17 or till further orders issued by MeitY.
4. Difficulties, if any in the implementation of this Circular may be brought to the knowledge of the Board.
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