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Halloween is a holiday I’ve always enjoyed. Not just because of the candy, but I like seeing the creative and very well thought out costumes people put so much time and effort into making.
With Halloween just behind us, you probably heard the term “cultural appropriation” at least once. If you’re not familiar with the term, the Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature defines cultural appropriation as the “taking over of creative forms, themes or practices by one cultural group from another” and is generally “used to describe Western appropriations of non-Western or non-white forms, and carries connotations of exploitation and dominance.” In short, it’s absorbing things such as ideas, practices and dress from a particular culture and incorporating them into your own culture.
Why does cultural appropriation pertain to Halloween? Because oftentimes, we see people dressed up as Native Americans or other racial and ethnic groups, and dressing up as a racial or ethnic group devalues them as a whole. They usually feel exploited, like their culture is a plaything or something exotic to marvel at.
If you walk into a store like Party City or any seasonal Halloween warehouse, you’ll find an array of questionable costumes. In its online catalog, Party City has an international costumes tab, which is just as stereotypical as you’d think it would be. Take the “pleasing geisha” costume, for example. The female model, who is clearly not of East Asian descent, is wearing what is supposed to be a kimono, which comes maybe halfway down her thighs, and has a corset abdominal piece. The model is also wearing thigh-high tights, platform shoes and carrying a riding crop.
A simple dictionary search for “geisha” would tell you that a geisha is a traditional Japanese woman who is trained to entertain men with song, dance and conversation. These women go through apprenticeships and are trained professionals in a number of performing arts. The Halloween costume industry, and Hollywood, has exploited the profession and turned it into a highly sexualized and racially charged costume for anyone to don. Its display and marketing allow consumers to assume that geishas represent all East Asian cultures, which is clearly not the case. This can apply to any racial or ethnic group that has been turned into a costume.
I will leave you with my two cents: The next time Halloween or any costume party rolls around, put down that “Indian chief” costume, or tell your friends to do so if they’re considering a costume along those lines. Because my culture is not a costume — no culture is.
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67: Amie has earned 67 Hero Points by being an active WPMU DEV member. They can use these to buy real stuff!
9: Amie has earned 9 Reputation Points by getting involved in the WPMU DEV community.
Is anyone aware of any CRM that integrates with Marketpress?
Amie commented on Locking pages in New Blog Templates still allows Admins to delete the pages.
I'm going to try this myself. Thx!
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Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new random walk-based clustering algorithm for detecting functional modules in protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks. It has been tested on two yeast PPI networks. Greater precision, better homogeneity and higher modularity were achieved in comparison with the results produced by the recently developed RRW clustering technique and the well-known CFinder algorithm. A much higher level of true positives were observed in the clustering results. The analysis indicated that the proposed method can not only detect overlapping modules but also be potentially used to identify functional modules with different topological structures, which may not be highly connected.
Keywords: PPIs; protein-protein interactions; random walks; graph clustering; protein interactions; protein interaction networks; functional modules.
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With January behind us, Andrew & Richard can sit back and relax after completing the Dryathlon for Cancer Research UK. The duo went booze-free for a whole 31 days and raise vital funds to help beat cancer. Raising an outstanding £1,185, Andrew & Richard not only beat their target but were hangover free for the whole month!
A fantastic achievement for Andrew & Richard and of course an amazing amount of money raised for a worthy cause! Who’s up for the Dryathlon next year?
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rubber-lined clutch pushed up on the hat pin holds beads snuggly, and also protect ends. Makes beading simple, and interchangeable!
*if using clutches to hold up beads, these have a very snug fit- use caution when applying to hat pins. See Tips on Beading Hat Pins for instructions.
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The eighth-grade class of the Harlem Academy- an independent school that prepares bright motivated students from undeserved communities for success at top secondary schools- were tasked with designing a building for an existing New York City lot that could serve the community.
Working with Viñoly, students developed various concept designs before building a 3-D model, which had to consider function, aesthetics, structure, and sustainable design principles. The culmination of the assignment was a visit to Viñoly’s New York headquarters this past Friday, where each student presented his or her design and model to a panel of architects, answering questions and receiving feedback.
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Cox Sports Television and Cox Media made a great night even more enjoyable Tuesday when they combined to host Drinks with Drew Brees at Walk On’s. Many of CST’s affiliates and programmers were in attendance.
In October of 2017, CST began its 15th year of existence as a regional sports network. This is a rare feat, as CST continues to serve as the Gulf South Leader in Sports.
Cox Media, led by VP Scott Burton, took the time to show its appreciation to clients as they look forward to the 2018 football season.
For images of the event, click here.
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A pair of flanges for joints in your exhaust system.
Supplied in 5mm Mild steel (MS) or grade 304 Stainless Steel (SS).
Supplied in 5mm Mild Steel (MS) or grade 304Stainless Steel (SS) to suit any pipe size you need!
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Once upon a time, a demon called Sharudo came to Fairy’s land, creating havoc. He built a monster town on a mountain top and dwelled there, ruling over the land below. One day, Sharudo came and took princess Chris to his monster lair. Now it’s up to Ares, a brave soldier in the service of the Fairies, to save Chris.
The Demon Crystal is an action puzzle game. Scattered around the stage are numerous keys which help open locked areas. The goal is to find the big key which is needed to open the exit and advance to the next stage. Ares’ only weapon is a limited number of bombs, which explode in a flame and can kill multiple enemies at once. The game consists of 30 stages (houses).
The Regista re-release of The Demon Crystal will hit the Switch in Japan sometime this Winter. No word on an NA/EU release at this time.
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Davinja has uploaded a video.
mydirtyhobby is the biggest amateur community worldwide. Currently there are 9.025 Users online. You can find 472.107 videos and 4.608.366 pictures.
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Are you feeling called to do something extraordinary in your work, business or life? Are you craving something different? Ready to reinvent? Do you believe there’s something more? I want you to realize that you have entered the most powerful stage in your life. Make an impact, create great change, live into your heart’s desire. Everything you’ve done to this point was just a warm up.
There is an exponentially empowering point where what you love, the things you dream about, the things you are growing into, your strengths and experience collide... the point where your Soul Code empowers you to live your extraordinary life - on your terms.
I’m here for you. I’ll show you how.
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London Pattern Handle made from selected Boxwood. Beautifully made and a joy to hold. Fitted with a brass ferrule that is complementary to the eye-catching Boxwood handle.
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In-demand software developers are highly sought after, and employers compete for talent with attractive compensation packages (they pay a lot!) and exciting work environments with flexible work schedules. As you’re vying to be at-bat for a hot tech company, “tricking your way” into a job offer might sound like a good idea, but it’s one of the worst things you could possibly do. Falsely advertising your skill level to get a job will only guarantee that you’ll be unhappy and unable to live up to expectations.
So how do you become an in-demand developer with your actual skill set? The answer might surprise you: what employers are looking for is likely very different from what you’re expecting!
Sometimes, learning to code can feel like an echo chamber where everyone talks about how powerful the latest and greatest thing is. A minute ago it was AngularJS. Today, Angular is old news and ReactJS is the new “in” technology.
You can rest assured that in no time, React will be out of vogue and there will be some other hot technology.
Regardless, it can feel like you were trying to learn how to ride a horse a week before the car was invented.
Chasing the flavor of the week is a futile task, it’s not uncommon to learn a technology only to find it’s no longer “the cool thing” anymore. Luckily for us, employers are generally less interested in your knowledge about a specific tool – but rather a more important, higher-level skill.
Adaptable programmers might not know every single one of the latest technologies, but what they do know is more important: how to break a problem’s solution down into a series of steps that can be completed by a computer program, and translate that into commands that the computer can understand.
Employers are investing in entry-level programmers for the long haul, and they are hoping new hires will stay with the company for a year or longer. Only having one tool in your toolbox might be acceptable today, but what about a year from now when things are different?
Rather than learn the coolest new buzzword – in-demand programmers play the game a little differently, in order to maximize for adaptability.
All in-demand programmers are familiar with the fundamentals of programming. Things that have lasted the tests of time. These things will likely stay true regardless of the changes in the programming ecosystem.
The programming language C, which is still used today, was created over 40 years ago, and resembles plenty of the newer, more modern programming languages too. And plenty of things that programmers learned 40 years ago are still true and will continue to be true… forever.
These timeless lessons are what in-demand developers know. Since technology evolves so quickly, hiring someone who is a whiz at the current fad is a lot less valuable than hiring someone who is adaptable, who is capable of working in a variety of environments. Just like building skyscrapers, it’s the foundation of underlying skills that allows you to build up to impressive heights as a programmer.
This is what interviewers really care about. Is there a strong foundation in place, and will you be able to quickly learn whatever is thrown at you?
Let’s break down the skills you should acquire to become the coveted adaptable programmer and to be able to solve any problems the world throws at you.
Many technologies you can learn (think: Rails, jQuery, Angular, ReactJS, etc.) will provide a certain way to solve many of the problems you’ll face in web development. For 90% of the problems you’ll face, you’ll be able to find an elegant solution that is easy to solve using a framework; problems that can be solved with something like 1 line of code.
These tools are awesome, and make our lives as developers SO MUCH easier.
You can think of these tools like stencils that are used to draw a picture. If you have a stencil for a cat, you can probably draw a picture of a cat quickly and easily any time you need to.
The remaining problems (the other 10%) are ones that these tools don’t provide a built-in solution for. Although these problems are generally only a small percentage of the problems you’ll face, you’ll often have to write dozens, or even hundreds of lines of code to do the tasks, and the framework won’t be able to help you much. As a result, this will generally be where most of your time is spent – because the other problems are just so easy to solve.
Think of it like needing to draw a picture of a duck-horse hybrid, for which a stencil does not exist.
Being able to use a certain framework is valuable, but being a “programmer,” who is able to take any problem and solve it without the use of a cookie-cutter solution is what is actually in demand.
Once you’ve learned one framework, you’ll likely pick up all other frameworks pretty quickly.
But what is more interesting is that you can solve the harder problems – the ones for which there are no cookie-cutter solutions. Or in other words, you are a programmer.
This means that while you’re learning to code, you should spend a good deal of time solving coding challenges that stretch your programming knowledge (harder challenges), not just the problems that are easiest to solve. After learning how to break down complicated problems (and convert the pieces into steps that computer programs are able to execute), you’ll learn to be an adaptable programmer.
And in general, learning your first programming language will be the hardest, because you’ll not only need to learn the language, you’ll also need to learn the logic of breaking problems down to be solvable by computers. Once you’re strong in one programming language, picking up other programming languages is quite easy.
That’s why in the interview process, you’ll be presented with problems for which there is no cookie-cutter solution, and you’ll have to craft your own solution. Many times the interviewer won’t even care what programming language you use – even if they don’t use that programming language at the company.
There are a handful of data structures that are used all the time by computer programs. Mastering how to use them is critical in gaining as a growing programmer. Here’s a list of some of the data structures you’ll be expected to understand in the technical interview.
You should know what the most commonly used data structures are, how to use them, and when you would want to use each of them. Not only will knowing these terms allow you to properly communicate like a developer, but these are the right tools to use for many problems.
These concepts are so important and useful, and they transcend all fads – regardless of what the flavor of the week is, it will be important to know these data structures and how to use them.
Big Oh notation is something that is taught in traditional Computer Science degrees, and that comes up all the time on technical interviews (really like 4 out of 5 interviews). Big Oh notation is a theoretical way to compare how fast one algorithm will run in comparison to other algorithms.
Not only should you expect to have to solve an arbitrary coding challenge with a dry-erase marker on a whiteboard, but you also need to be able to analyze your code and explain how efficient it is in comparison to other algorithms. That’s what Big Oh notation will allow you to do.
Knowing this fuzzy theoretical stuff is incredibly important for when you write a computer program, and find that it runs too slow and you need to make it faster. There is a science (computer science!) that you can apply to programs to understand why they’re slow, and how to make them faster.
That’s why hiring managers will consistently make sure you know about this in the technical interview.
A surprisingly large fraction of applicants, even those with master’s degrees and PhDs in computer science, fail during interviews when asked to carry out basic programming tasks.
Filtering out unqualified candidates is hard work for teams hiring software engineers when the same handful of tactics is used across the board.
…and a number of other criteria as well. But competent programmers who are adaptable to changes in the environment will always be in-demand, because this type of developer remains skilled in spite of trends big and small in the programming landscape.
You should choose the technologies you want to use based on the problems they solve and because you don’t want to program without them – not because it’s the only thing you know how to use.
An adaptable programmer is capable of accepting any open programming position regardless of the language or frameworks used. As such, this means the job market is many times larger than it is for someone who is only open to a small percentage of the positions out there.
When you’re learning to code, it certainly makes sense to spend time learning to use the practical tools that you’ll be using on the job – but make sure not to neglect learning the timeless skills. Learning the things that don’t change and truly mastering a programming language and problem solving will make you a developer who will always be in demand.
Learn more about the interview from three of our alumni who shared their advice for landing your first position as a web developer.
Thanks for the excellent write-up, I can’t agree more. I like the idea that interviewing is like dancing because in fact is like that. And of course having in mind all the lessons learned by our predecessors is incredibly important.
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Providing the ultimate combination of intelligent design and premium grade materials to protect from everyday wear and tear.
Luminescent, flexible and glow in the dark products. Glow charges with any bright light.
Contoured, scratch resistant, designer print cases. Show off stylish, on trend prints with day-to-day scratch and bump protection.
Gecko Rugged products are super tough, super cool and impact resistant.
Gecko Gear is one of the world’s premier developers of accessories for smartphones, tablets and personal computers. A fresh and exciting Australian company, making some of the finest, innovative products available for smartphones, tablets, laptops and other high-end products for everyone, anywhere.
At Gecko we believe in delivering products which enhance the exceptional beauty and functionality of the product they service. Designed in Australia, used everywhere, Gecko Gear products and accessories are developed, tested and built to exacting standards for use all over the world.
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This is a 5 storey terrace unit with one of its entire level for rent. The premises is equipped with CCTV, cargo lift, passenger lift and private carpark.
Landlords operating in the same building can provide immediate support pertaining to the premises.
24hrs access, this unit will be suitable for office with up to 20pax.
Hey Allan Chong! Would like to check the availability for Eunos Techpark, 49 Kaki Bukit Place (For RENT S$3,600 - , 2,300 sqft, S$1.57 psf). Please acknowledge. Thank you!
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The Irrigation Solution Needs a Push to Get in.
Ultrasonic activation is more efficient than traditional irrigation methods because it potentiates biofilm removal with the action of the irrigation fluid. It significantly eliminates more remnants of pulp and necrotic tissue from lateral canals and isthmus areas because it allows a deeper penetration of irrigants into complex anatomic regions of the root canal.
Simple to use, clinically effective and economic, the Irrisonic tip is used to activate the irrigating solution after root canal preparation. .01 taper/20 ISO tip sized, Irrisonic can be precurved and used in multiple cases. Recommended use with very low power level (10%).
Passive Ultrasonic Irrigation cleans 94% of Bacteria.
1. Root Canals previously cleaned.
2. Activate EDTA for 15s, NaOCL for 15s. Repeat this step.
Effect caused by the Irrisonic in the Irrigation Solution.
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NORFOLK, Va. - Students at Tidewater Community College in Norfolk could be seen with red "X's" on their hands on Thursday in a protest against modern-day slavery and human trafficking.
The protest was in participation with the nationwide "End It Movement".
"It's a topic that everybody needs to talk about because it's so quiet now. All we hear about is in the 1600s how African Americans came over as slaves. It's not just that. It's everybody," said Nora Brooks, a freshman member of the Student Government Association who started the movement on campus.
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The Cadet A320 (type-rated) position is for motivated, high calibre pilots who wish to develop their flying careers with one of the most progressive and dynamic low-cost low-fare airlines in the Central and Eastern European region. The Cadet A320 (type-rated) position requires a minimum of 200 hours total flying time and a valid A320 type-rating.
Nationality: Unrestricted right to live and work in the European Union (and/or) Serbia (and/or) Ukraine (and/or) Macedonia.
Licence: Current and Valid JAR/EASA (or National equivalent*) AIRLINE TRANSPORT PILOT'S LICENCE (or), COMMERCIAL PILOT'S LICENCE with a valid MPA-IR and passes in all ATPL subjects.
You will need a first class flying record, both in terms of practical hands-on skills and technical knowledge.
You will be a good communicator, work calmly under pressure, be assertive and possess solid and timely decision making abilities.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate evidence of leadership, adaptability, high personal standards and motivation, together with a commensurate appreciation of the high level of customer service delivery we offer.
Concessionary travel for self, family, and five annually nominated travel partners is unlimited and offered across the entire Wizz Air network. Travel is firm and not issued on a standby or sub-load basis.
We operate a fully automated and crew initiated "trip trade" programme at Wizz Air. This allows crew to trade and swap flight duties at any time during the month so as to better align their personal and free time.
Should you experience any technical difficulties with submitting your application, please write to us at pilot.recruitment@wizzair.com. Unsolicited emails, or emails containing documents not specifically requested by the recruitment department shall not receive a response.
Wizz Air is an equal opportunities employer. Applications for employment can only be made through the channels detailed on this website, please do not attempt to contact existing Wizz Air staff directly concerning your application, as no other method of application is approved. Please note that due to the high volume of assessments, Wizz Air operates a policy of not providing reasons or explanations to unsuccessful applicants after assessment.
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Fitness and nutrition for real women (and men!) who want real results.
The FASTer Way to Fat Loss® is a six week (seven weeks, including prep week) program that will empower you to transform your life through simple, effective, cutting-edge fitness and nutrition strategies.
During the seven weeks, you will learn how to fuel your body effectively to maintain optimal energy levels throughout the day, teach your body to burn fat naturally, restructure and repair your metabolic system, increase your metabolism, improve your hormone levels so you feel satiated, and learn how to work out in a smart, effective, and efficient way.
What Makes the FASTer Way Different?
We completely understand how it feels to be frustrated by the fitness and nutrition myths and misinformation provided online, by your doctor, by friends, and by your family. We can also relate to the feeling of being on a never-ending roller coaster when it comes to fitness and nutrition, constantly gaining and losing the same 10-15 pounds. We have all felt it and we’re guessing many of you are feeling it right now too. Most of us have been burning the candle at both ends and want a plan that translates into a simple lifestyle, not an intense and stressful quick fix.
When I was first introduced to the FASTer Way to Fat Loss®, I fully admit that I was a huge skeptic. I thought it was another fad diet and another waste of money. Then I saw my friends before and after pictures. Not models. Not random people on the internet. People that I knew and loved were getting amazing results from following the FASTer Way, and they were raving about it. It definitely got me interested.
I started the FASTer Way in May of 2018 and I was floored with my results, and with how easily they came. I 110% believe in the FASTer Way to Fat Loss® and know you will too!
The FASTer Way to Fat Loss® cuts through all of the fitness and nutrition myths, confusion, and misinformation you’ve heard in the past. No more scientifically unfounded advice, no more hours on the treadmill, no more restricting calories to obscene levels, no more feeling depleted and overwhelmed. With this program you will have a nutrition and fitness program designed to leave you feeling full, energized, and happy!
The FASTer Way to Fat Loss® offers everything the others don’t, it is different from all the other programs and diets that you have tried in the past.
Other programs give you the workouts, but don’t show you how to do them.
Other programs give you the nutritional advice, but don’t explain the science behind it.
Other programs give you an initial boost of support, but don’t continue to support you on your journey.
You’ll learn exactly how to dial in your nutrition through intermittent fasting, carb cycling, and tracking your macros. We’ll pair that with effective exercises that work in harmony with the nutrition strategies to result in maximum fat loss and increased lean muscles mass, which means you’ll lose weight and inches as you get stronger.
You’ll participate in a supportive online community where you can ask questions, learn from others, and check in with your daily progress.
What is the FASTer Way to Fat Loss®?
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*Note: not all items in the catalog are being produced. Please check the above PDF files for current availability.
Enchanting magical art dolls that are lovingly made and guaranteed to bring a smile to your face. Each ceramic figurine is unique with one of a kind hand made costumes made from fine laces and trims from around the world. They even have individually styled hair. Supply is limited.
Fabulous and fun jewelry with beautiful hand made beads and medallions with sparkling glass crystals.
Original feather art and jewelry made from naturally colored parrot feathers sourced from local bird sanctuaries.
Please click on the categories on the left to view a PDF page of of items available.
Personal Checks, Money Orders & Pay Pal accepted.
Doing business since 1986. Doing business on the Internet since 1998.
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The Mood Cube is a simple yet effective way of filling a room with mood-enhancing light. A mix of soft and bold colours, just switch the cube on to fill your room with colour.
There are no wires, plugs or naked flames, so it can be used to help you relax in the bath or drift off into the land of nod.
At full battery capacity the cube will last a whole week continuously, so let the soothing lights chill you out for as little or as long as you like. - L.M.
Portable, can be taken anywhere.
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From its world-class art, historical sights, and magnificent cathedrals to its sunny climate and unique cuisine, our travel experts are here to tell you which highlights of Spain you should see! Check out their tips and tricks in Madrid, Seville, Granada, Valencia, and Barcelona.
We’ve combined all of these must-see sights into one tour, named appropriately: The Best of Spain. You’ll see all the above (and more)! It’s time go go!
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Vindictus and Dungeon Fighter Finding Their Way To Steam?
Nexon may be partaking in Steam’s adoption of F2P titles. Two of the Korean developer’s titles, Vindictus and Dungeon Fighter may be on their way. Earlier this month, Nexon posted a topic on their official Vindictus forums offering a survey to garner feedback from players regarding obtaining Steam IDs. Along with the forum post, a recent Dungeon Fighter patch started with a download that included three Steam client related files.
Steam’s platform has managed to bring a number of MMO titles back from the dead. Nexon’s customer service has never been worth noting, but their games offer some unique gameplay and fun mechanics. If this increases the player base for Vindictus and Dungeon Fighter, the addition to steam would be more than welcome.
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It's time to take a look at everything related to time in Neutrino. We'll see how and why you'd use timers and the theory behind them. Then we'll take a look at getting and setting the realtime clock.
This chapter uses a ticksize of 10 ms, but QNX Neutrino now uses a 1 ms ticksize by default on most systems. This doesn't affect the substance of the issues being discussed.
Let's look at a typical system, say a car. In this car, we have a bunch of programs, most of which are running at different priorities. Some of these need to respond to actual external events (like the brakes or the radio tuner), while others need to operate periodically (such as the diagnostics system).
// You'll never get here.
In those days, since nothing else was running on the machine, this didn't present much of a problem, because no other process cared that you were hogging 100% of the CPU in the sleep() function.
Even today, we sometimes hog 100% of the CPU to do timing functions. Notably, the nanospin() function is used to obtain very fine-grained timing, but it does so at the expense of burning CPU at its priority. Use with caution!
If you did have to perform some form of “multitasking,” it was usually done via an interrupt routine that would hang off the hardware timer or be performed within the “busy-wait” period, somewhat affecting the calibration of the timing. This usually wasn't a concern.
In this chapter, we're concerned with the first two items on the list: the hardware interrupt and the kernel call.
When a thread calls sleep(), the C library contains code that eventually makes a kernel call. This call tells the kernel, “Put this thread on hold for a fixed amount of time.” The call removes the thread from the running queue and starts a timer.
Meanwhile, the kernel has been receiving regular hardware interrupts from the computer's clock hardware. Let's say, for argument's sake, that these hardware interrupts occur at exactly 10-millisecond intervals.
Let's restate: every time one of these interrupts is handled by the kernel's clock interrupt service routine (ISR), it means that 10 ms have gone by. The kernel keeps track of the time of day by incrementing its time-of-day variable by an amount corresponding to 10 ms every time the ISR runs.
Setting a variable to the current time plus 15 seconds.
In the clock ISR, comparing this variable against the time of day.
When the time of day is the same as (or greater than) the variable, putting the thread back onto the READY queue.
When multiple timers are outstanding, as would be the case if several threads all needed to be woken at different times, the kernel would simply queue the requests, sorting them by time order — the nearest one would be at the head of the queue, and so on. The variable that the ISR looks at is the one at the head of this queue.
That's the end of the timer five-cent tour.
Actually, there's a little bit more to it than first meets the eye.
As you can see, there's a high-speed (MHz range) clock produced by the circuitry in the PC. This high-speed clock is then divided by a hardware counter (the 82C54 component in the diagram), which reduces the clock rate to the kHz or hundreds of Hz range (i.e., something that an ISR can actually handle). The clock ISR is a component of the kernel and interfaces directly with the data structures and code of the kernel itself. On non-x86 architectures (MIPS, PowerPC), a similar sequence of events occurs; some chips have clocks built into the processor.
Note that the high-speed clock is being divided by an integer divisor. This means the rate isn't going to be exactly 10 ms, because the high-speed clock's rate isn't an integer multiple of 10 ms. Therefore, the kernel's ISR in our example above might actually be interrupted after 9.9999296004 ms.
Unfortunately, continuing with the math, that amounts to 608 ms per day, or about 18.5 seconds per month, or almost 3.7 minutes per year!
You can imagine that with other divisors, the error could be greater or smaller, depending on the rounding error introduced. Luckily, the kernel knows about this and corrects for it.
The point of this story is that regardless of the nice round value shown, the real value is selected to be the next faster value.
Let's say that the timer tick is operating at just slightly faster than 10 ms. Can I reliably sleep for 3 milliseconds?
Consider what happens in the kernel. You issue the C-library delay() call to go to sleep for 3 milliseconds. The kernel has to set the variable in the ISR to some value. If it sets it to the current time, this means the timer has already expired and that you should wake up immediately. If it sets it to one tick more than the current time, this means that you should wake up on the next tick (up to 10 milliseconds away).
Under Neutrino, a program can adjust the value of the hardware divisor component in conjunction with the kernel (so that the kernel knows what rate the timer tick ISR is being called at). We'll look at this below in the “Getting and setting the realtime clock” section.
There's one more thing you have to worry about. Let's say the timing resolution is 10 ms and you want a 20 ms timeout.
Are you always going to get exactly 20 milliseconds worth of delay from the time that you issue the delay() call to the time that the function call returns?
There are two good reasons why. The first is fairly simple: when you block, you're taken off the running queue. This means that another thread at your priority may now be using the CPU. When your 20 milliseconds have expired, you'll be placed at the end of the READY queue for that priority so you'll be at the mercy of whatever thread happens to be running. This also applies to interrupt handlers running or higher-priority threads running — just because you are READY doesn't mean that you're consuming the CPU.
The problem is that your request is asynchronous to the clock source. You have no way to synchronize the hardware clock with your request. Therefore, you'll get from just over 20 milliseconds to just under 30 milliseconds worth of delay, depending on where in the hardware's clock period you started your request.
This is a key point. Clock jitter is a sad fact of life. The way to get around it is to increase the system's timing resolution so your timing is within tolerance. (We'll see how to do this in the “Getting and setting the realtime clock” section, below.) Keep in mind that jitter takes place only on the first tick — a 100-second delay with a 10-millisecond clock will delay for greater than 100 seconds and less than 100.01 seconds.
The type of timer that I showed you above is a relative timer. The timeout period selected is relative to the current time. If you want the timer to delay your thread until January 20, 2005 at 12:04:33 EDT, you'd have to calculate the number of seconds from “now” until then, and set up a relative timer for that number of seconds. Because this is a fairly common function, Neutrino implements an absolute timer that will delay until the specified time (instead of for the specified time, like a relative timer).
What if you want to do something while you're waiting for that date to come around? Or, what if you want to do something and get a “kick” every 27 seconds? You certainly couldn't afford to be asleep!
As we discussed in the Processes and Threads chapter, you could simply start up another thread to do the work, and your thread could take the delay. However, since we're talking about timers, we'll look at another way of doing this.
You can do this with a periodic or one-shot timer, depending on your objectives. A periodic timer is one that goes off periodically, notifying the thread (over and over again) that a certain time interval has elapsed. A one-shot timer is one that goes off just once.
The implementation in the kernel is still based on the same principle as the delay timer that we used in our first example. The kernel takes the absolute time (if you specified it that way) and stores it. In the clock ISR, the stored time is compared against the time of day in the usual manner.
However, instead of your thread being removed from the running queue when you call the kernel, your thread continues to run. When the time of day reaches the stored time, the kernel notifies your thread that the designated time has been reached.
How do you receive a timeout notification? With the delay timer, you received notification by virtue of being made READY again.
We've talked about pulses in the Message Passing chapter; signals are a standard UNIX-style mechanism, and we'll see the thread creation notification type shortly.
Let's take a quick look at how you fill in the struct sigevent structure.
Note that the above definition uses anonymous unions and structures. Careful examination of the header file will show you how this trick is implemented on compilers that don't support these features. Basically, there's a #define that uses a named union and structure to make it look like it's an anonymous union. Check out <sys/siginfo.h> for details.
A pulse will be sent.
A signal will be sent.
Not used in this case; used with kernel timeouts (see “Kernel timeouts” below).
Not used in this case; used with interrupts (see the Interrupts chapter).
Since we're going to be using the struct sigevent with timers, we're concerned only with the SIGEV_PULSE, SIGEV_SIGNAL* and SIGEV_THREAD values for sigev_notify; we'll see the other types as mentioned in the list above.
sigev_coid Send the pulse to the channel associated with this connection ID.
sigev_value A 32-bit value that gets sent to the connection identified in the sigev_coid field.
sigev_code An 8-bit value that gets sent to the connection identified in the sigev_coid field.
sigev_priority The pulse's delivery priority. The value zero is not allowed (too many people were getting bitten by running at priority zero when they got a pulse — priority zero is what the idle task runs at, so effectively they were competing with Neutrino's IDLE process and not getting much CPU time :-)).
Note that the sigev_coid could be a connection to any channel (usually, though not necessarily, the channel associated with the process that's initiating the event).
Send a regular signal to the process.
Send a signal containing an 8-bit code to the process.
Send a signal containing an 8-bit code to a specific thread.
sigev_signo Signal number to send (from <signal.h>, e.g., SIGALRM).
sigev_code An 8-bit code (if using SIGEV_SIGNAL_CODE or SIGEV_SIGNAL_THREAD).
sigev_notify_function Address of void * function that accepts a void * to be called when the event triggers.
sigev_value Value passed as the parameter to the sigev_notify_function() function.
sigev_notify_attributes Thread attributes structure (see the Processes and Threads chapter, under “The thread attributes structure” for details).
This notification type is a little scary! You could have a whole slew of threads created if the timer fires often enough and, if there are higher priority threads waiting to run, this could chew up all available resources on the system! Use with caution!
Fill eventp with SIGEV_SIGNAL, and the appropriate signal number signo.
Fill eventp with SIGEV_SIGNAL_CODE, the signal number signo, as well as the value and code.
Fill eventp with SIGEV_SIGNAL_THREAD, the signal number signo, as well as the value and code.
Fill eventp with SIGEV_SIGNAL_PULSE, the connection to the channel in coid and a priority, code, and value. Note that there is a special value for priority of SIGEV_PULSE_PRIO_INHERIT that causes the receiving thread to run at the process's initial priority.
Fill eventp with the thread function (func) and the attributes structure (attributes). The value in val is passed to the function in func when the thread is executed.
Suppose you're designing a server that spent most of its life RECEIVE blocked, waiting for a message. Wouldn't it be ideal to receive a special message, one that told you that the time you had been waiting for finally arrived?
This scenario is exactly where you should use pulses as the notification scheme. In the “Using timers” section below, I'll show you some sample code that can be used to get periodic pulse messages.
Suppose that, on the other hand, you're performing some kind of work, but don't want that work to go on forever. For example, you may be waiting for some function call to return, but you can't predict how long it takes.
In this case, using a signal as the notification scheme, with perhaps a signal handler, is a good choice (another choice we'll discuss later is to use kernel timeouts; see _NTO_CHF_UNBLOCK in the Message Passing chapter as well). In the “Using timers” section below, we'll see a sample that uses signals.
Alternatively, a signal with sigwait() is cheaper than creating a channel to receive a pulse on, if you're not going to be receiving messages in your application anyway.
Having looked at all this wonderful theory, let's turn our attention to some specific code samples to see what you can do with timers.
Decide how you wish to be notified (signal, pulse, or thread creation), and create the notification structure (the struct sigevent).
Decide what kind of timer you wish to have (relative versus absolute, and one-shot versus periodic).
Let's look at these in order.
For now, we'll ignore CLOCK_SOFTTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC but we will come back to them in the “Other clock sources” section, below.
The second parameter is a pointer to a struct sigevent data structure. This data structure is used to inform the kernel about what kind of event the timer should deliver whenever it “fires.” We discussed how to fill in the struct sigevent above in the discussion of signals versus pulses versus thread creation.
At this point, nothing else is going to happen. You've only just created the timer; you haven't triggered it yet.
The timerid argument is the value that you got back from the timer_create() function call — you can create a bunch of timers, and then call timer_settime() on them individually to set and start them at your convenience.
The flags argument is where you specify absolute versus relative.
If you pass the constant TIMER_ABSTIME, then it's absolute, pretty much as you'd expect. You then pass the actual date and time when you want the timer to go off.
If you pass a zero, then the timer is considered relative to the current time.
The it_value specifies either how long from now the timer should go off (in the case of a relative timer), or when the timer should go off (in the case of an absolute timer). Once the timer fires, the it_interval value specifies a relative value to reload the timer with so that it can trigger again. Note that specifying a value of zero for the it_interval makes it into a one-shot timer. You might expect that to create a “pure” periodic timer, you'd just set the it_interval to the reload value, and set it_value to zero. Unfortunately, the last part of that statement is false — setting the it_value to zero disables the timer. If you want to create a pure periodic timer, set it_value equal to it_interval and create the timer as a relative timer. This will fire once (for the it_value delay) and then keep reloading with the it_interval delay.
We're assuming that this is used as a relative timer, because if it weren't, then that time would have elapsed long ago (5.5 seconds past January 1, 1970, 00:00 GMT).
For this example, we're assuming that it's an absolute timer, because of the huge number of seconds that we'd be waiting if it were relative (987654321 seconds is about 31.3 years).
Note that in both examples, I've said, “We're assuming that…” There's nothing in the code for timer_settime() that checks those assumptions and does the “right” thing! You have to specify whether the timer is absolute or relative yourself. The kernel will happily schedule something 31.3 years into the future.
Assuming it's relative, this timer will go off in one second, and then again every half second after that. There's absolutely no requirement that the reload values look anything like the one-shot values.
Of course there are other, specialized uses for these things, such as network “keep alive” messages that need to be sent periodically, retry requests, etc.
These are all examples of server-maintained timeouts. The client sends a message to the server, and blocks. The server receives periodic messages from a timer (perhaps once per second, perhaps more or less often), and counts how many of those messages it's received. When the number of timeout messages exceeds the timeout specified by the client, the server replies to the client with some kind of timeout indication or perhaps with the data accumulated so far — it really depends on how the client/server relationship is structured.
In order to keep the code sample from being one overwhelming mass, I've included some text before each of the major sections. You can find the complete version of time1.c in the Sample Programs appendix.
* a timer, and regular messages from a client.
* Illustrates using the timer functions with a pulse.
int in_use; // is this client entry in use?
sitting in a “do-forever” loop waiting for pulses or messages and processing them.
Notice the check against the return value from MsgReceive() — a zero indicates it's a pulse (and we don't do any strong checking to ensure that it's our pulse), a non-zero indicates it's a message. The processing of the pulse or message is done by gotAPulse() and gotAMessage().
In setupPulseAndTimer() you see the code where we define the type of timer and notification scheme. When we talked about the timer function calls in the text above, I said that the timer could deliver a signal, a pulse, or cause a thread to be created. That decision is made here (in setupPulseAndTimer()). Notice that we used the macro SIGEV_PULSE_INIT(). By using this macro, we're effectively assigning the value SIGEV_PULSE to the sigev_notify member. (Had we used one of the SIGEV_SIGNAL*_INIT() macros instead, it would have delivered the specified signal.) Notice that, for the pulse, we set the connection back to ourselves via the ConnectAttach() call, and give it a code that uniquely identifies it (we chose the manifest constant CODE_TIMER; something that we defined). The final parameter in the initialization of the event structure is the priority of the pulse; we chose SIGEV_PULSE_PRIO_INHERIT (the constant -1). This tells the kernel not to change the priority of the receiving thread when the pulse arrives.
Near the bottom of this function, we call timer_create() to create a timer object within the kernel, and then we fill it in with data saying that it should go off in one second (the it_value member) and that it should reload with one-second repeats (the it_interval member). Note that the timer is activated only when we call timer_settime(), not when we create it.
The SIGEV_PULSE notification scheme is a Neutrino extension — POSIX has no concept of pulses.
* periodic timer that fires once per second.
In gotAPulse(), you can see how we've implemented the server's ability to timeout a client. We walk down the list of clients, and since we know that the pulse is being triggered once per second, we simply decrement the number of seconds that the client has left before a timeout. If this value reaches zero, we reply back to that client with a message saying, “Sorry, timed out” (the MT_TIMEDOUT message type). You'll notice that we prepare this message ahead of time (outside the for loop), and then send it as needed. This is just a style/usage issue — if you expect to be doing a lot of replies, then it might make sense to incur the setup overhead once. If you don't expect to do a lot of replies, then it might make more sense to set it up as needed.
If the timeout value hasn't yet reached zero, we don't do anything about it — the client is still blocked, waiting for a message to show up.
// is this entry in use?
// is it about to time out?
In gotAMessage(), you see the other half of the functionality, where we add a client to the list of clients waiting for data (if it's a MT_WAIT_DATA message), or we match up a client with the message that just arrived (if it's a MT_SEND_DATA message). Note that for simplicity we didn't add a queue of clients that are waiting to send data, but for which no receiver is yet available — that's a queue management issue left as an exercise for the reader!
* look at the type of message (either a "wait for data"
fprintf (stderr, "Table full, message from rcvid %d ignored, "
// reply to BOTH CLIENTS!
fprintf (stderr, "Table empty, message from rcvid %d ignored, "
If there's no one waiting and a data message arrives, or there's no room in the list for a new waiter client, we print a message to standard error, but never reply to the client. This means that some clients could be sitting there, REPLY-blocked forever — we've lost their receive ID, so we have no way to reply to them later.
This is intentional in the design. You could modify this to add MT_NO_WAITERS and MT_NO_SPACE messages, respectively, which can be returned whenever these errors were detected.
When a waiter client is waiting, and a data-supplying client sends to it, we reply to both clients. This is crucial, because we want both clients to unblock.
We reused the data-supplying client's buffer for both replies. This again is a style issue — in a larger application you'd probably have to have multiple types of return values, in which case you may not want to reuse the same buffer.
The implementation shown here uses a “cheesy” fixed-length array with an “in use” flag (clients[i].in_use). Since my goal here isn't to demonstrate owner-list tricks and techniques for singly linked list management, I've shown the version that's the easiest to understand. Of course, in your production code, you'd probably use a linked list of dynamically managed storage blocks.
When the message arrives in the MsgReceive(), our decision as to whether it was in fact “our” pulse is done on weak checking — we assume (as per the comments) that all pulses are the CODE_TIMER pulse. Again, in your production code you'd want to check the pulse's code value and report on any anomalies.
Note that the example above shows just one way of implementing timeouts for clients. Later in this chapter (in “Kernel timeouts”), we'll talk about kernel timeouts, which are another way of implementing almost the exact same thing, except that it's driven by the client, rather than a timer.
Here we have a slightly different use for the periodic timeout messages. The messages are purely for the internal use of the server and generally have nothing to do with the client at all.
For example, some hardware might require that the server poll it periodically, as might be the case with a network connection — the server should see if the connection is still “up,” regardless of any instructions from clients.
Another case could occur if the hardware has some kind of “inactivity shutdown” timer. For example, since keeping a piece of hardware powered up for long periods of time may waste power, if no one has used that hardware for, say, 10 seconds, the hardware could be powered down. Again, this has nothing to do with the client (except that a client request will cancel this inactivity powerdown) — it's just something that the server has to be able to provide for its hardware.
Code-wise, this would be very similar to the example above, except that instead of having a list of clients that are waiting, you'd have only one timeout variable. Whenever a timer event arrives, this variable would be decremented; if zero, it would cause the hardware to shut down (or whatever other activity you wish to perform at that point). If it's still greater than zero, nothing would happen.
The only “twist” in the design would be that whenever a message comes in from a client that uses the hardware, you'd have to reset that timeout variable back to its full value — having someone use that resource resets the “countdown.” Conversely, the hardware may take a certain “warm-up” time in order to recover from being powered down. In this case, once the hardware has been powered down, you would have to set a different timer once a request arrived from a client. The purpose of this timer would be to delay the client's request from going to the hardware until the hardware has been powered up again.
This hits us with SIGUSR1 instead of SIGALRM.
You catch timer signals with normal signal handlers, there's nothing special about them.
You'll want to be particularly careful with this one, because if you specify too short an interval, you'll be flooded with new threads! This could eat up all your CPU and memory resources!
The functions clock_gettime() and clock_settime() are the POSIX functions based on the kernel function ClockTime(). These functions can be used to get or set the current time of day. Unfortunately, setting this is a “hard” adjustment, meaning that whatever time you specify in the buffer is immediately taken as the current time. This can have startling consequences, especially when time appears to move “backwards” because the time was ahead of the “real” time. Generally, setting a clock using this method should be done only during power up or when the time is very much out of synchronization with the real time.
The parameters are the clock source (always use CLOCK_REALTIME), and a new and old parameter. Both the new and old parameters are optional, and can be NULL. The old parameter simply returns the current adjustment. The operation of the clock adjustment is controlled through the new parameter, which is a pointer to a structure that contains two elements, tick_nsec_inc and tick_count. Basically, the operation of ClockAdjust() is very simple. Over the next tick_count clock ticks, the adjustment contained in tick_nsec_inc is added to the current system clock. This means that to move the time forward (to “catch up” with the real time), you'd specify a positive value for tick_nsec_inc. Note that you'd never move the time backwards! Instead, if your clock was too fast, you'd specify a small negative number to tick_nsec_inc, which would cause the current time to not advance as fast as it would. So effectively, you've slowed down the clock until it matches reality. A rule of thumb is that you shouldn't adjust the clock by more than 10% of the base timing resolution of your system (as indicated by the functions we'll talk about next, ClockPeriod() and friends).
While you can certainly feel free to try to set the base timing resolution on your system to something ridiculously small, the kernel will step in and prevent you from doing that. Generally, you can set most systems in the 1 millisecond to hundreds of microseconds range.
There is one timebase that might be available on your processor that doesn't obey the rules of “base timing resolution” we just described. Some processors have a high-frequency (high-accuracy) counter built right into them, which Neutrino can let you have access to via the ClockCycles() call. For example, on a Pentium processor running at 200 MHz, this counter increments at 200 MHz as well, so it can give you timing samples right down to 5 nanoseconds. This is particularly useful if you want to figure out exactly how long a piece of code takes to execute (assuming of course, that you don't get preempted). You'd call ClockCycles() before your code and after your code, and then compute the delta. See the Neutrino Library Reference for more details.
Note that on an SMP system, you may run into a little problem. If your thread gets a ClockCycles() value from one CPU and then eventually runs on another CPU, you may get inconsistent results. This stems from the fact that the counters used by ClockCycles() are stored in the CPU chips themselves, and are not synchronized between CPUs. The solution to this is to use thread affinity to force the thread to run on a particular CPU.
We've seen the clock source CLOCK_REALTIME, and mentioned that a POSIX conforming implementation may supply as many different clock sources as it feels like, provided that it at least provides CLOCK_REALTIME.
What is a clock source? Simply put, it's an abstract source of timing information. If you want to put it into real life concepts, your personal watch is a clock source; it measures how fast time goes by. Your watch will have a different level of accuracy than someone else's watch. You may forget to wind your watch, or get it new batteries, and time may seem to “freeze” for a while. Or, you may adjust your watch, and all of a sudden time seems to “jump.” These are all characteristics of a clock source.
11:22:15 11:22:15 Clock gets adjusted to 11:22:15; it was 5 seconds too slow!
Beautiful! The thread did exactly what you expected: at 11:22:00 it went to sleep for thirty seconds, and at 11:22:35 (thirty elapsed seconds later) it woke up. Notice how the sleep() “appeared” to sleep for 35 seconds, instead of 30; in real, elapsed time, though, only 30 seconds went by because Neutrino's clock got adjusted ahead by five seconds (at 11:22:15).
The kernel knows that the sleep() call is a relative timer, so it takes care to ensure that the specified amount of “real time” elapses.
Now, what if, on the other hand, we had used an absolute timer, and at 11:22:00 in “Neutrino time” told the kernel to wake us up at 11:22:30?
This too is just like what you'd expect — you wanted to be woken up at 11:22:30, and (in spite of adjusting the time) you were.
As you can imagine, there could be a problem if we try to implement a mutex that times out in 30 seconds. Let's go through the steps. At 11:22:00 (Neutrino time) we decide that we're going to try and lock a mutex, but we only want to block for a maximum of 30 seconds. Since the pthread_mutex_timedlock() function takes an absolute time, we perform a calculation: we add 30 seconds to the current time, giving us 11:22:30. If we follow the example above, we would wake up at 11:22:30, which means that we would have only locked the mutex for 25 seconds, instead of the full 30.
The POSIX people thought about this, and the solution they came up with was to make the pthread_mutex_timedlock() function be based on CLOCK_MONOTONIC instead of CLOCK_REALTIME. This is built in to the pthread_mutex_timedlock() function and isn't something that you can change.
They way CLOCK_MONOTONIC works is that its timebase is never adjusted. The impact of that is that regardless of what time it is in the real world, if you base a timer in CLOCK_MONOTONIC and add 30 seconds to it (and then do whatever adjustments you want to the time), the timer will expire in 30 elapsed seconds.
The important thing about the clock starting at zero is that this is a different “epoch” (or “base”) than CLOCK_REALTIME's epoch of Jan 1 1970, 00:00:00 GMT. So, even though both clocks run at the same rate, their values are not interchangeable.
If we wanted to sort our clock sources by “hardness” we'd have the following ordering. You can think of CLOCK_MONOTONIC as being a freight train — it doesn't stop for anyone. Next on the list is CLOCK_REALTIME, because it can be pushed around a bit (as we saw with the time adjustment). Finally, we have CLOCK_SOFTTIME, which we can push around a lot.
The main use of CLOCK_SOFTTIME is for things that are “soft” — things that aren't going to cause a critical failure if they don't get done. CLOCK_SOFTTIME is “active” only when the CPU is running. (Yes, this does sound obvious :-) but wait!) When the CPU is powered down due to Power Management detecting that nothing is going to happen for a little while, CLOCK_SOFTTIME gets powered down as well!
We precomputed our wakeup time as “now” plus 30 seconds and used an absolute timer to wake us up at the computed time. This is different from waking up in 30 seconds using a relative timer.
Note that for convenience of putting the example on one time-line, we've lied a little bit. If the CLOCK_REALTIME thread did indeed wake up, (and later the same for CLOCK_MONOTONIC) it would have caused us to exit out of power management mode at that time, which would then cause CLOCK_SOFTTIME to wake up.
When CLOCK_SOFTTIME “over-sleeps,” it wakes up as soon as it's able — it doesn't stop “timing” while the CPU is powered down, it's just not in a position to wake up until after the CPU powers up. Other than that, CLOCK_SOFTTIME is just like CLOCK_REALTIME.
The clock_nanosleep() function accepts the clock_id parameter (telling it which clock source to use), a flag (which determines if the time is relative or absolute), a “requested sleep time” parameter (rqtp), as well as a pointer to an area where the function can fill in the amount of time remaining (in the rmtp parameter, which can be NULL if you don't care).
Neutrino lets you have a timeout associated with all kernel blocking states. We talked about the blocking states in the Processes and Threads chapter, in the section “Kernel states.” Most often, you'll want to use this with message passing; a client will send a message to a server, but the client won't want to wait “forever” for the server to respond. In that case, a kernel timeout is suitable. Kernel timeouts are also useful with the pthread_join() function. You might want to wait for a thread to finish, but you might not want to wait too long.
This says that TimerTimeout() returns an integer (a pass/fail indication, with -1 meaning the call failed and set errno, and zero indicating success). The time source (CLOCK_REALTIME, etc.) is passed in id, and the flags parameter gives the relevant kernel state or states. The notify should always be a notification event of type SIGEV_UNBLOCK, and the ntime is the relative time when the kernel call should timeout. The otime parameter indicates the previous value of the timeout — it's not used in the vast majority of cases (you can pass NULL).
It's important to note that the timeout is armed by TimerTimeout(), and triggered on entry into one of the kernel states specified by flags. It is cleared upon return from any kernel call. This means that you must re-arm the timeout before each and every kernel call that you want to be timeout-aware. You don't have to clear the timeout after the kernel call; this is done automagically.
We used the SIGEV_UNBLOCK_INIT() macro to initialize the event structure, but we could have set the sigev_notify member to SIGEV_UNBLOCK ourselves. Even more elegantly, we could pass NULL as the struct sigevent — TimerTimeout() understands this to mean that it should use a SIGEV_UNBLOCK.
If the thread (specified in thread_id) is still running after 10 seconds, then the kernel call will be timed out — pthread_join() will return with an errno of ETIMEDOUT.
Things get a little trickier when you're using kernel timeouts with message passing. Recall from the Message Passing chapter (in the “Message passing and client/server” part) that the server may or may not be waiting for a message when the client sends it. This means that the client could be blocked in either the SEND-blocked state (if the server hasn't received the message yet), or the REPLY-blocked state (if the server has received the message, and hasn't yet replied). The implication here is that you should specify both blocking states for the flags argument to TimerTimeout(), because the client might get blocked in either state.
This causes the timeout to be active whenever the kernel enters either the SEND-blocked state or the REPLY-blocked state. There's nothing special about entering the SEND-blocked state and timing out — the server hasn't received the message yet, so the server isn't actively doing anything on behalf of the client. This means that if the kernel times out a SEND-blocked client, the server doesn't have to be informed. The client's MsgSend() function returns an ETIMEDOUT indication, and processing has completed for the timeout.
However, as was mentioned in the Message Passing chapter (under “_NTO_CHF_UNBLOCK”), if the server has already received the client's message, and the client wishes to unblock, there are two choices for the server. If the server has not specified _NTO_CHF_UNBLOCK on the channel it received the message on, then the client will be unblocked immediately, and the server won't receive any indication that an unblock has occurred. Most of the servers I've seen always have the _NTO_CHF_UNBLOCK flag enabled. In that case, the kernel delivers a pulse to the server, but the client remains blocked until the server replies! As mentioned in the above-referenced section of the Message Passing chapter, this is done so that the server has an indication that it should do something about the client's unblock request.
We've looked at Neutrino's time-based functions, including timers and how they can be used, as well as kernel timeouts. Relative timers provide some form of event “in a certain number of seconds,” while absolute timers provide this event “at a certain time.” Timers (and, generally speaking, the struct sigevent) can cause the delivery of a pulse, a signal, or a thread to start.
The kernel implements timers by storing the absolute time that represents the next “event” on a sorted queue, and comparing the current time (as derived by the timer tick interrupt service routine) against the head of the sorted queue. When the current time is greater than or equal to the first member of the queue, the queue is processed (for all matching entries) and the kernel dispatches events or threads (depending on the type of queue entry) and (possibly) reschedules.
To provide support for power-saving features, you should disable periodic timers when they're not needed — otherwise, the power-saving feature won't implement power saving, because it believes that there's something to “do” periodically. You could also use the CLOCK_SOFTTIME clock source, unless of course you actually wanted the timer to defeat the power saving feature.
Given the different types of clock sources, you have flexibility in determining the basis of your clocks and timer; from “real, elapsed” time through to time sources that are based on power management activities.
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Last spring the Vancouver Gas Fireplace Custom Fireplace Team took on a project that was very unique in its scope. The design, for the main lounge of a downtown Vancouver restaurant, called for five identical linear fire features with glass fronts approximately five feet wide by fourteen inches high. These boxes were stacked above each other with about two feet between them, creating a wall of fire stretching up for two stories. The five stacked firebox units were finished with white marble which was heavily veined in black and gold.
The lounge area is open to a second floor level of the restaurant and the fire units create a mesmerizing effect while providing an inviting, dramatic feeling to the space.
This design is entirely original in its nature. The look of the burners and the interior of the fireboxes were chosen specifically for the project by the designer from an amalgam of styles we showed her. The burners were set up with flames coming through a bed of black crushed glass that covered the bases of the units. The flame effect was enhanced by the installation of one-foot stainless panels into the backs and sides of the fireboxes.
There is a common thread to many of the custom installation projects we do, providing us with certain expectations around setting up and balancing units. Stacking five units like this provided us with a new set of challenges in terms of venting and heat issues.
Interestingly enough, we discovered a fairly significant variation in the venting characteristics from the bottom to the top units. The heat build-up in the lower units affected the flame more than it did in the upper units. This heat build-up eventually affected the wiring to the ignition modules, requiring us to relocate them.
The VGF Custom Fireplace Team fine-tuned airflow balance in the individual units by varying the fan speed of the vent-top draft inducers and working with the adjustable dampers that we designed into the fireboxes.
Another challenge was the increasing negative pressure build-up in the space as the day and night wore on (the units are on for over twelve hours a day). To achieve the cleanest finish possible, the glass had been just loose-fit into the fireboxes, leaving small 1/16- to just under ¼-inch gaps at the sides of the glass.
As the day progressed, these small gaps affected the air pressure in the units. The negative pressure in the building increased with the use of kitchen equipment, causing the flames on some of the units to get flattened out and, in some cases, actually go out as combustion air (which was being brought into the units separately) was being pulled out of the units through the firebox. To counteract this effect we designed discrete strips to be installed at the sides of the glass panels, sealing the fireboxes off from the atmospheric effects of the restaurant.
This project, with its short lead time and unique installation and operational challenges, has provided the VGF Custom Fireplace Team with valuable knowledge which we can apply to future projects. It has also given us a final result which we are very proud of.
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Description JUST REPRICED FROM $19,990, PRICED TO MOVE $2,300 below NADA Retail! SXL Turbo trim. CARFAX 1-Owner. Nav System, Moonroof, Heated Leather Seats, Chrome Wheels, Panoramic Roof, Tinted Windows, Leather Seating Upgrade.
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Was $19,990. This Optima is priced $2,300 below NADA Retail.
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MDRC was founded in 1948 and has the club callsign of VK3APC. The clubrooms are located at Turner Road in Highett, Victoria. MDRC holds regular meetings as well as Educational Sessions for adults and children, and weekly Coffee Group discussions. There are regular club meetings every Tuesday known as the “Tuesday Morning Group”.
When the clubrooms are open, so is the VK3APC shack. Members and visitors are welcome to come down to the clubrooms and operate HF, VHF or UHF. Digital modes are also available on HF and UHF. All of the MDRC Repeaters under VK3RMC can be accessed from the Club Rooms. VK3RMC is operational on D-Star and Analogue repeater systems across multiple bands with IRLP enabled on 70cm.
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With the latest release of Hue 3.9, we’ve added an additional layer of monitoring for Hue administrators.
Hue user administration operations can now be audited and written to a configurable audit log. Administrators can then use Cloudera Navigator’s Auditing Component to view, search, filter, and generate reports on these audited events.
Hue admins can thus easily monitor superuser operations such as adding/editing users and groups, editing permissions, and user logins/logouts. Most importantly, admins can easily detect when unauthorized attempts at these operations have been made, and capture the related metadata for those unauthorized attempts.
To enable and configure the log file used for the audit log, there are 2 new configuration properties that have been added to the hue.ini file, and can be overridden in Cloudera Manager’s Service Access Audit Log Properties controls.
# The directory where to store the auditing logs. Auditing is disable if the value is empty.
# Size in KB/MB/GB for audit log to rollover.
You can expand any audit record to view the metadata for a given operation, including whether it was allowed/authorized, the impersonated user and additional details specific to the operation.
Hue + Navigator provide rich data discovery, audit and policy enforcement features and Hue is evolving in a more enterprise compliance friendly product. If you have any questions, feel free to comment here or on the hue-user list or @gethue!
Could you please provide me a solution for that?
and also sync ldap users as suggested using hue.
The create home directory box only has effects on this page.
I dont want HUE to create HDFS user directories on user’s login, we want users to follow our predefined shell scripts to create hdfs user directories.
Is there a good way to disable the auto-creation of user directories?
Hey, dear Hue Team, I have the same question. I want to enable Hue Audit log, but I don’t want to use Cloudera Navigator. I saw your reply was 11 months ago, just want to know if there is any updates. Can we enable hue audit log without navigator now?
Feel free to enable it, Hue will produce an audit.log file, but Navigator will just not pick it up as it won’t exist.
Hi, dear Hue Team, thank you for your fast answer. So do you mean with Hue 3.9.0, we can enable the audit logging without Nav? We have Cloudera Manager(5.11.1) installed, the Hue version is 3.9.0. When I tried to change it through Cloudera Manager->Hue->Configuration, ‘audit_event_log_dir’, it generated a folder and I have no access. So I am wondering if I should do this in the latest version (Hue 3.12 or Hue 4) . Thanks again:)!
Are you trying to fix/create the ‘audit_event_log_dir’ so that Hue can write the logs there?
How can I Capture user’s windows login in Hue audit log.
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6 If a defendant is found `not guilty`, do you assume that they are innocent?
7 Has anyone from youthink ever been on Jeopardy?
8 Is gun ownership a human right?
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Click the button below to add the Mr. Fingers - What About This Love? to your wish list.
Cover is NM Promo stamp on back cover.
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Twin Oaks’ personnel have been providing consulting services to clients looking for sites to develop for commercial and industrial projects for over fifteen years.
Whether you are looking for land that is a Greenfield, brownfield or former mine site or for a specific type of building, Twin Oaks is there to aid you.
We pride ourselves on maintaining close communication with our clients. To fully understand your needs we start with a meeting to discuss the project basis using a checklist of scope components so that we can develop an individualized scope of the site requirements required for your project. The draft scope is provided to you for review and approval before we proceed to locate and investigate sites or buildings that will meet your individual needs and expectations. A final report will be a clear and concise document that will bolster your business plan and aid in obtaining project funding.
Twin Oaks include reviews of the Municipality’s Comprehensive Plan, all applicable zoning and SALDO restrictions on the properties to include in the Constraints Analysis, a critical component in the decision making process prior to the acquisition of the property.
Access to the nation’s transportation network is critical to many companies. In those cases, a key component of our investigation is the highway infrastructure accessing the identified sites. A determination that the client will be required to upgrade this infrastructure to proceed with their project is identified in our report.
If you are looking for a specific building, Twin Oaks will have our certified building inspector available to assess the condition of the structure and provide a report to you to aid in your decision to purchase the property.
We also have strategic partners for Phase I, ALTA surveys, lead and asbestos inspections so the client does not have to deal with multiple professionals.
Twin Oaks values the relationship with our clients and strives to provide them the most cost effective consultant services available.
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Are you a parent (or educator) of a pre-teen or teen? Do you wonder about how, what and when to explain puberty to your growing child? Are you wondering what an ITP is and how to best prepare your child or student for adult life? Or do you just think his or her autism is getting worse? Then this three-part series taking place on Tuesday evenings September 10, 17, 24; at 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm PST (9:00 pm to 11:00pm EST) is for you. This on-line series, will be available from the comfort of your own home (no matter where you live).
PowerPoints provided before the live training to help with note taking.
BONUS: Opportunity to watch replay of training at a later date (convenient if you miss a session).
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To attend this class, register here.
Teaching about puberty, hygiene, self-care, masturbation.
Building on strengths and the use of mentors.
The cost is $99. To register, go here.
Jeremy graduated form high school at age 21 with a full academic diploma. He auditioned to give a commencement speech, and he was one of those chosen. Here is the speech he gave.
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W/Tru-Tone feat. Black Fry. At Fulton 55. 8:30 p.m. $10-$12.
At the UU Church, Fresno.7:30 p.m. $22-$27.
At Press Box 3. 9 p.m. Free.
At at Chukchansi. 9 p.m. Free.
W/A Butcher's Euphoria, Fatal, Affirmative Reaction, Fatal Rebirth and Malicious Intentions. At Barmageddon. 8 p.m. $6.
W/Soundgroove, Brandon Dehaas, Hot Shade, Chris Patrick Chamblee, Light of Mine, Tone from The Prixxx, Let us Chant and CJ Liscum Band. At Full Circle Brewing Company. 3 p.m. No price listed.
At Tower Theatre. 7 p.m. This show is SOLD OUT.
At Downtown Rookies, Visalia. 9:30 p.m. No price listed.
At Starving Artist Bistro. 6:30 p.m. Free.
At the High Sierra Grill. 8 p.m. Free.
At Full Circle Brewing Co. 8 p.m. $10. All ages.
That’s what I know of at least. Feel free to add what you know in the comments.
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“A passel of double-domes at the G. & C. Merriam Company joint in Springfield, Mass., have been confabbing and yakking for 27 years — which is not intended to infer that they have not been doing plenty work.” Thus began an editorial that appeared in The New York Times on Oct. 12, 1961, excoriating the recently published Webster’s Third New International Dictionary.
The uproar spilled over beyond the culture pages. In his novel “Gambit,” Rex Stout had his detective Nero Wolfe feed his Third to the fire a page at a time while declaring it “subversive and intolerably offensive.” In a New Yorker cartoon by Alan Dunn, a receptionist at Merriam tells a visitor: “Sorry. Dr. Gove ain’t in.” The reference was to Philip Babcock Gove, editor of the Third. A crusty former Naval Reserve officer from New Hampshire and a political conservative, Gove was an unlikely target for vilifications like “subversive” and “Bolshevik.” But it was his fate to become the only American lexicographer whose name could appear in a New Yorker caption without need of identification.
Gove was naïve to imagine that the dictionary could be purged of all subjective value judgments. Yet the Third wasn’t the radical manifesto critics made it out to be. Mmes. Merman and Grable notwithstanding, its three most frequently cited sources were Shakespeare, the Bible and Milton. And the editors insisted — quaintly, by modern lights — on including only words that had been documented in respectable venues. In a letter responding to the Times editorial, Gove pointed out that “double-dome” had been used by John Mason Brown and Alistair Cooke, and that “finalize” could be found in “highly reputable places” like The New Republic and The Times itself.
Still, the controversy signaled a turning point in American attitudes about language. It introduced the words “prescriptivist” and “descriptivist” into the cultural conversation, and fixed the battle lines for the ritualized squabble over standards that persists across media old and new. The keening indignation, the dire prophecies of imminent cultural disintegration — it’s easy to have the impression that little has changed over the past 50 years.
But the furor over Webster’s Third also marked the end of an era. It’s a safe bet that no new dictionary will ever incite a similar uproar, whatever it contains. The dictionary simply doesn’t have the symbolic importance it did a half-century ago, when critics saw the Third as a capitulation to the despised culture of middlebrow, what Dwight Macdonald called the “tepid ooze of Midcult.” That was probably the last great eructation of cultural snobbery in American public life. Today’s defenders of Western culture sound their alarms just as clamorously, but they wouldn’t be so uncool as to object when a dictionary draws its words from hip-hop or the Internet: now all is legitimated under the rubric of pop culture.
In retrospect, in fact, the Third seems downright fusty. Word harvesting in Gove’s time hadn’t changed since Samuel Johnson, with readers patiently culling citations from printed works. Now the Internet puts tens of thousands of new words at the lexicographer’s fingertips, the great majority of them technical terms, media stunt words like “Brangelina” and “sexploits,” or what Dr. Johnson would have called the “fugitive cant” of chat rooms, tweets and social networks (think of “meep” and “w00t”). And modern dictionaries don’t keep words waiting in the vestibule long. Over the last year the Oxford English Dictionary has inducted “wassup,” “BFF” and “muffin top” (of the abdominal, not the culinary, variety). The new Chambers Dictionary includes “freegan” and “geek chic,” and Merriam-Webster has recently added “staycation.” Not that lexicographers will include any word that swims into their ken: so far they’ve drawn the line at “refudiate,” though the editors of the Oxford American chose it for their 2010 Word of the Year. But nowadays the dictionary is about as hard to get into as Sam’s Club.
But in one regard The Times hasn’t changed its attitude over the last half-century. Whether condemning Webster’s Third for including “yak” or applauding the O.E.D. for adding “OMG,” it has always assumed, like most everyone else, that the recognition conferred status as a “real word.” Yet lexicographers themselves disavow any such role — their inclusion of “w00t” or “staycation” means little more than that the words have been popping up a lot lately. Indeed, the day is long past when any dictionary could circumscribe the “official” language. The boundaries are irremediably blurred — between public and private, formal and casual, high, middle and low.
Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist, teaches at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Tempi is a 6-channel clock module by Make Noise.
Tempi clocks are all relative to the Leading clock. If an external clock is patched to TEMPO it is the leading clock, otherwise the leading clock is generated internally either via the state select controls, or tap tempo on Button1, depending on Clock Edit settings.
Tap Button 1-6 to set channel tempo.
You can use Machine Programming and Phase adjustments to adjust your Human programmed clocks.
Hold Button and press PGM_A to slow down.
Hold Button and press PGM_B to speed up.
To enter Phase Adjustment mode, press PGM_A and PGM_B at the same time. Press both buttons again to exit Phase Adjustment mode.
press Button to offset channel earlier by one cycle of the leading clock.
press Button to offset channel later by one cycle of the leading clock.
Hold Button and press PGM_A to offset earlier.
Hold Button and press PGM_B to offset later.
To enter Mute page, press PGM_A. Press PGM_A again to exit Mute page.
To mute a channel, press it's corresponding Button. You can program a new clock setting while muted.
Channels that are Mod enabled are subject to Program Shift and/or Run/Stop control. For more information, see Program Edit page.
To enter Mod page, press PGM_B. Press PGM_B again to exit Mod page.
To toggle the Mod state for a channel, press it's corresponding Button.
Mod functionality is disabled while in Mod page.
For Program Edit operations, press PGM_B twice.
Human Resolution controls how strict the Human programming is quantized.
Button6 controls whether Run/Stop is controlled Momentarily (Red) or Toggled (Off).
Note: with Program Shift and Run/Stop enabled, then State Select is used for Program Shift and Mod is used for Run/Stop. When only one behavior is enabled, then Mod is used.
For Bank Edit operations, press PGM_A twice.
For Clock Edit operations, simultaneously press PGM_A and PGM_B twice.
Channel 1 can be configured to emit either a 10ms trigger, or a 50% duty square wave.
Channel 1 Tap Tempo can optionally be used to set the leading tempo, disabling CH1 Human Programming.
Channels 2-6 can be configured to emit either a 10ms trigger, or a 50% duty square wave.
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A TV series following missing person cases in Cheshire will air on BBC One tonight (Monday, September 3).
The first episode of the critically-acclaimed Reported Missing will be shown at 9pm and focuses on cases in Runcorn and Macclesfield.
It will be the first of four episodes, each of which are an hour-long.
A production team from Blast! Films has been working with Cheshire Constabulary since September 2017 following high risk missing from home cases from the moment the 999 call comes in, through to their resolution.
Described by the force as a ‘carefully and thoughtfully’ made series, the show explores the work of police and their collaboration with specialist units including search and rescue, the underwater search team and National Police Air Service (NPAS).
The programme also follows the sensitive stories and emotional journeys of the families and friends involved in each case.
PC Chris Howard of Cheshire Police speaks during an episode of the BBC documentary series Reported Missing.
In the first episode, 16-year-old Patrick from Runcorn has left his mum Victoria an ominous note. He’s got himself in debt and needs to go away for a few days. Patrick’s stolen money from his mum and he’s sold his beloved PlayStation, making Victoria fear he’s got himself into trouble with drugs.
On the other side of Cheshire, officers in Macclesfield are left baffled by a report of a missing child. The father of five-year-old Tyler has reported his son missing, having not seen him in two years after a custody dispute with Tyler’s mum Tracey. But things take a sinister twist when Tracey denies that Tyler exists.
The first episode of Reported Missing is on BBC One at 9pm this evening (Monday, September 3).
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INAYAT Beads embellished clutch box A well-designed luxury bag tells your story to success. Posing with this black bead embellished clutch crafted from faux leather is sure to tell your tale to fame.
A well-designed luxury bag tells your story to success. Posing with this black bead embellished clutch crafted from faux leather is sure to tell your tale to fame.
Care: Store in a dust bag. Dust the surface using a clean, dry cloth. Keep away from water.
Product will be delivered within 5 weeks from the date of purchase.
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Body and pieces in perfect shape. Feel free to contact me for a quote ahead of time. The item "AMT 1969 Chevy Impala Model Kit # Y909-200 NOS" is in sale since Sunday, July 02, 2017. This item is in the category "Toys & Hobbies\Models & Kits\Automotive\Vintage".
The seller is "sharry317" and is located in Fort Scott, Kansas. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Russian federation, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica.
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African companies are going public at what could be their fastest ever rate. Thirty initial public offerings by African-based companies are already in the pipeline for 2015, according to research by global law firm Baker & McKenzie. If just the deals announced so far complete, volumes will spike by a quarter from 2014, which itself saw the highest IPO volume since the financial crisis.
There were 24 IPOs by African domiciled companies in 2014, a 33 per cent rise in volume and a 222 per cent increase in value from 2013, raising a total of more than $2bn.
For 2015 in sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya are the countries with the projected highest IPO value, partly driven by the exit strategies of private equity investors who snapped up assets in the wake of the financial crisis. Mauritius is also a popular destination for structuring deals. In North Africa, Egypt is set to be the most prominent issuer as the economy recovers from four years of turmoil, making long-delayed deals viable, with activity also in Morocco and Tunisia.
Significantly, financials and real estate are likely to be the most active sectors, along with more well-established areas of activity such as energy and power.
African companies are still most likely to go public on their domestic exchanges, with the Egyptian, Kenyan, Moroccan, Nigerian, South African and Tunisian markets set to be the most active in 2015.
But more deals will be cross-border. Listings by African-based companies are currently planned in London and Frankfurt, and more are likely to emerge in the course of the year. Six cross-border IPOs are in the pipeline compared to one completed in 2014 (Seplat) – potentially a five-fold increase.
The climate for cross-border deals within Africa is improving too. The East African Securities Regulatory Authorities have set June 2015 as the deadline to harmonize capital markets laws in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.
• December 4, 2014 – Ethiopia becomes the latest nation to issue a sovereign bond, with a heavily oversubscribed $1 billion sale.
-December 17 – oil services company Atlas Development & Support Services becomes the first from the UK’s AIM market to gain a full listing on the Nairobi Securities Exchange, raising $5 million from Kenyan investors.
• December 18 – Johannesburg Stock Exchange sets a new record for intraday equity trading volumes, hitting R53.7 billion (US$4.6 billion), 41 per cent higher than the previous record, set in 2012.
• December 19 – Angola inaugurates its much-delayed debt and securities exchange, with an equity trading market planned for 2016.
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Yes, these are all MBA graduates. The politicians, the owners, the managers and the stars! And ofcourse they choose their colleges precisely. Follow their footsteps with Admito.
Who hasn’t heard of Satya Nadella. He leads the brigade of MBA with impressive running of the tech giant Microsoft.
HCL has been going through a rough patch. And we don’t think there is any other than Mrs. Roshni Nadar Malhotra who is apt to take care of proceedings just now.
IIM Ahmedabad. The mecca of Indian MBA is headed by Mr. Ashish Nanda. A true motivator leading the education system with innovation giving out able managers for tomorrow to India.
If somebody has to summarize Mr. Ratan Tata in one word it would be “Tata”.That is the effect of this industry mogul on Indian mind and industry. He is one of the most philanthropic persons as well who truly dedicated his life to TATA.
Graduating from one of the top schools in management. Godrej has reached new heights under his able leadership. Mr. Adi is a great leader who likes to assess the situation first and then surgically executing his plans in the market. Like a boss.
Kellog school has given this world some of the great marketeers of its time. Mr. Venkatesh is no such exception. He chooses a life of academician imparting his knowledge to the newer generation. And it is my belief that we want it.
One of the deeply cherished politician in India, Sachin Pilot. He is in news for all the right reasons which are something of a feat for a politician in India. Wharton business school has given India a great pragmatic leader capable of bringing about a positive change in our society.
Who is not known to reliance industries? The great Dhirubhai Ambani changed the Indian landscape with his meteoric rise and then onwards his sons have taken the chariots of reliance to new highs. Anil Ambani is India’s leading Industrialists and continues to soar in business.
Indians are always happy about this jolly guy. He handles the ministry of state for finance and has introduced great reforms since his term in the office. He utilizes his time brilliantly for his country’s finances.
There are more who are making an impact on Indian as well as foreign soils being an MBA. I hope this has motivated you enough for your career in business administration.
you forgot the name of great personality RBI governor Raghuram Rajan who completed his post graduation from IIM Ahmadabad.
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Mardi Gras party eye mask is made out of a lightweight, yet durable plastic molded to fit face. This mask is artfully done with lazer cutouts and a handpainted design. A plume of feathers adds the finishing touch! Can we worn with ribbon ties attached at your next masquerade party this Mardi Gras 2013!
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Along with visits to different breweries, each episode contains a beef jerky and beer pairing from Jack Link’s as well as a few mixology tips from Faygo and Vlasic. Furthermore, the world-class HopCat restaurant provides culinary tips and show viewers how to incorporate craft beer into their kitchens. Finally, viewers will have an opportunity to discover the Meijer Beer Frontier at www.BeerFrontier.Meijer.com, which is an online and in-store source for exploring the best breweries and beers. More information on Pure Brews America is available at www.PureBrewsAmerica.com. Viewers can also catch up on the show’s first and season at www.PureBrewsAmerica.com/Season-2. Stay tuned for more to come as discussions of a fourth season of Pure Brews America in 2018 are in the works!
Pure Brews America is a production of Yellow Flag Productions (www.yellowflagproductions.com), a Southfield-based full service media, high definition video, and television production company that creates award winning TV series, feature shows, documentaries, commercials, corporate media promotions, radio shows, music videos, and custom productions for clients across the Midwest. Yellow Flag Productions has been awarded six Michigan EMMY Awards and received numerous nominations during their twelve years in business. With 500 TV programs and feature shows, over 250 radio shows, and thousands of video titles aired and produced, Yellow Flag Productions has become one of the Midwest’s premier sports, entertainment, and corporate media production houses.
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Furnishing a home bar or a minibar is a tough task as you should find all the right appliances that should go in the bar for making it self-sufficient. But when you want to furnish a bar per ADA compliance then that will be harder. The height and width of the product should be low enough so that people with disabilities will be able to reach it. Beverage coolers are the most important appliance for any bar. Summit SCR1841ADA 18 Inch Wide ADA Height Built-In Undercounter Beverage Center With Glass Door is one such beverage center that will be perfect even for a commercial setting.
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IS THERE A LITTLE DEVIL INSIDE YOU?
I honestly believe there is a little devil inside of everyone. You know that little devil that sits perched on the shoulder trying to convince you to stray, to have a little nibble, a small bite and in the end, maby devour an entire cake. (Yep I have one of those nasty little devils too and I can see you are shaking your head in agreement.) Most of the time I am able to silence this liffle fellow! But sometimes, when I am most vulnerable, or really tired, the devil wins and I am left feeling guilty, gluttonous and shamefaced.
It does not have to be this way! You can take control. The following tips will help you overcome those moments of weakness.
Rule one of any weight loss plan should be to remove temptation. Just get it all our of the house! Find a rubbish bag, and if it is high in sugar, salt or staurated fat then dump it. When temptation strikes, the extra effort of walking down to the shops may be enough to persuade you otherwise. Stock your cupboard with nutritious snacks, so there is always a healthy option on hand.
Cravings take place for so many reasons. You can probably identify your own triggers, be it a stressful day, a fight with your partner or a few less hours of sleep. It is important to have healthy snacks that will overcome the cravings on hand. Trying to ignore a craving or eat around a craving will often lead to double the number of calories being consumed. The Back To Basic Program eliminates the bodys need to crave food and makes you feel fuller longer.
If there were one solution to emotional eating, it would be exercise. Exercise reduces emotional eating in two ways. First, it will get you out of the kitchen and distracts you from the mindless eating you where about to take part in. The second is it increases endorphins (or what I like to call happy dorpins). Endorphines are the feel good hormone, which produce anagesia and a feeling of general well being. A lot of reward for a litte jog.
If you need help you can contact my trainer Sam Steadman from Outer Limits if you want to have a go stepping out side your comfort zone.
A common reason people emotionally eat, is because they don't feel supported. While family and friends are accessible at certain hours, food is available all the time. Focus on improving your relationships to improve your mood and reduce your stress. Instead of texting a friend, give them a call or schedule in lunch with mum once a week. This human contact may be what you are after.
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Thіѕ is a planet fоr аdultѕ wіth іtѕ оwn rulеѕ and оthеr nеw lеvеlѕ of perception. Thеrе іѕ a whіtерареr you can download оn the рlаtfоrm as wеll. And a vіdео that dеѕсrіbеѕ thе platform in оnlу 20 seconds. Thе virtual world іѕ mоvіng frоm оnlу being vіѕuаl tо bесоmіng ѕоmеthіng thаt іnсоrроrаtеѕ fееlіngѕ, emotions аnd ѕоundѕ. Also, thе purpose оf thе рlаtfоrm is tо hеlр уоu monetize уоur соntеnt as wеll.
Thе POV Chаіn рrоjесt іѕ fосuѕеd аrоund dеvеlоріng аn іntеrасtіvе аnd completely vіrtuаl nеtwоrk for anonymous transactions аnd сrурtосurrеnсу specialists. It’ѕ аlѕо full оf the latest products, аnd аll іf it іѕ fосuѕеd around thе аdult еntеrtаіnmеnt іnduѕtrу.
Whеn uѕеrѕ оf thе рlаtfоrm do their wоrk аnd put thеіr сrеаtіvе ideas іntо effect through the IT tесhnоlоgіеѕ, еасh of thе people whо раrtісіраtе саn earn a рrоfіt. And thrоugh the uѕе оf thе VR market, wіth an mаіn goal оf including POV tech аnd adult content аѕ wеll аѕ rеѕроnѕіvе аdult toys, promotion and thе prevention оf the pirated сору being еngаgеѕ by anybody оn thе рlаtfоrm. It’ѕ because of thіѕ, thеrе іѕ no point fоr аnуоnе to ѕtеаl аnуthіng, bесаuѕе nо оnе саn еаrn аnу mоnеу frоm dоіng that.
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Thе users of thе рlаtfоrm wіll bеnеfіt frоm mоrе pleasure. Thеrе аrе mаѕѕіvе changes аnd аdvаnсеmеntѕ in VR hарреnіng wіthіn thе adult іnduѕtrу. Pеорlе are gеttіng bеttеr ѕеnѕаtіоnѕ from thе nеw technology еmеrgіng in the adult еntеrtаіnmеnt industry. Thеrе will be all kinds of оf content оn the platform as well.
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Unfortunately, thе uрреr part оf thе саkе іѕ thоugh beautiful, but often рrоvеѕ to bе tаѕtеlеѕѕ; thе attention іѕ fосuѕеd inwards on the filling. Wе bаkеd a brаnd nеw product bу uѕіng mоdеrn tесhnоlоgіеѕ аnd IT сhаllеngеѕ.
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IDC expect market grоwth оf AR (аugmеntеd rеаlіtу) аnd VR (vіrtuаl rеаlіtу) glаѕѕеѕ uр tо 13,7 mіllіоn unіtѕ in 2017 and uр to 18,2 mіllіоn units - in 2021. In 2019, mоrе than 90% of thе mаrkеt wіll ассruе to VR glаѕѕеѕ. AR headset is аlѕо оn the rіght trасk tо асhіеvіng more thаn $30 bln of іnсоmе by 2021 which іѕ аlmоѕt twісе mоrе than for VR.
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Toner People are proud to be able to offer a broad range of Sharp toner cartridges to individuals and businesses across the UK. We have an extensive collection of printer ink and ink toner and are sure to have the right solution to fit your Sharp printer. If your business office or home printer is in need of a new toner cartridge, be it colour or standard black, then order online. If you are unsure of your requirements, call us on 01765 691000 to speak to one of our friendly team. We also stock a range of compatible printer ink.
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You deserve the best for your family, and that requires us to provide the best for our family of workers.
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YOUR WEDDING DAY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENT OF YOUR LIFE AND YOU WANT IT TO BE PERFECT.
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Jeff will consult with the Bride and Groom to tailor all your needs for a successful wedding day.
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Bubba Smith, (Charles Aaron Smith), American football player and actor (born Feb. 28, 1945, Beaumont, Texas—found dead Aug. 3, 2011, Los Angeles, Calif.), impressed many fans as much for his role as the soft-spoken Moses Hightower in six Police Academy films (1984–89) as he did during his nine seasons (1967–76) as an NFL defensive lineman. Smith’s football career began at Michigan State University, where he was twice named all-American (1965, 1966). In 1967 the imposing 2-m (6-ft 7-in) Smith was the NFL’s number one draft pick. During his five seasons (1967–72) with the Baltimore Colts, he played in two Super Bowls—suffering a loss to the New York Jets in 1969 but enjoying victory over the Dallas Cowboys in 1971. He then played with the Oakland Raiders (1972–74) and the Houston Oilers (1974–76) before retiring from the game and beginning a film and television career. In addition to the Police Academy series, he starred on the TV show Blue Thunder (1984) and was featured on other programs and in a series of memorable beer commercials that aired on TV in the 1970s and ’80s. Smith was inducted (1988) into the College Football Hall of Fame and saw his number, 95, retired by Michigan State in 2006. His autobiography, Kill, Bubba, Kill!, was published in 1983.
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People and places of New Jersey…with some travels.
Photo taken before an NJ Devils’ game at the Prudential Center. The Grammy Museum entrance is alongside the building.
The Grammy Museum Experience at the Prudential Center, the first satellite of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, is a Newark destination where you will receive a warm welcome from staff members who are proud of The Recording Academy’s East Coast home that opened in October 2017. A visit after the annual Newark Saint Patrick’s Day Parade this year added to the celebratory feeling of the awards showcase.
The museum opens with a dramatic entranceway filled with Grammy Awards through the decades. Visitors then enjoy a photo profile timeline of the Grammy Awards highlights since the start in 1958 with performing artists like Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett, Bruno Mars, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Elvis Presley, and milestones like the founding of the Latin Recording Academy in 1997.
There are also video interviews with singers like Halsey, from Edison, New Jersey and Ed Sheeran. Fun, interactive exhibits “Ray Charles and Raelettes” and two with Newark roots, “Drum with Max Weinberg” and “Wyclef Jean’s Rap Interactive,” are hits with children.
Bruno Mars, Peter Gene Hernandez, sang in the Super Bowl XLVIII in the New Jersey Meadowlands, has a new hit with Cardi B.
During this week’s Cherry Blossom Festival in Branch Brook Park, or after a concert, an NJ Devils match, the annual Mikey Strong Charity Game, or a Seton Hall Pirates basketball game at the Prudential Center is an ideal time to visit the modest-sized museum. Admission is $10 with discounts for youth (3-17, 2 and under, free), college students with ID, like those from Rutgers University Newark, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Essex County College, and Seton Hall Law School, $9, military with ID, $7, and group rates.
The art at the Prudential Center, known as “The Rock” from the Prudential Insurance Rock of Gibraltar logo, features sculptures as one enters the building: “The Salute,” honoring Martin Brodeur and “The Iron Man,” the latter on Championship Plaza, both by sculptor Jon Krawczyk, a New Jersey native and a Devils’ fan. Indoors is “The Mural,” the largest sports mural in the world by ambidextrous sports artist Tom Mosser from neighboring Pennsylvania, paying homage to New Jersey Devils Martin Brodeur, Ken Daneyko, and Scott Stevens. Commissioned by the NJ Devils, The Mural generously includes other Garden State greats in different sports like Althea Gibson, Richie Regan, Terry Dehere, Tony Meola, and iconic New Jersey landmarks: Newark’s Prudential Building, Barnegat Lighthouse, Atlantic City’s Steel Pier, and the dome of the state capitol. Mr. Mosser’s “Vintage Stadium Series” on Suite Level One, includes all four NJ Devils arenas in which the team has played. Additional works are by Samantha Wendell, Laurie Campbell, Michael Nighswonger, Dane Tilghman, Larry Ketchum, and Andy Bernstein.
Ken Daneyko, who played in the recent Mike Nichols Charity Hockey Game, by Tom Mosser. The Devils support many local, area, and national charities.
“The Iron Man,” modeled after an NJ Devil, by Jon Krawczyk is on Championship Plaza by the Prudential Center.
Children enjoy playing with their pal before games. The dazzling Iron Man is popular with Newark residents and visitors for photos and selfies.
From the fourth smallest contiguous US state comes a remarkable amount of musical talent, reflected in the exhibition “New Jersey Legends”. The names are likely familiar: Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, the Jonas Brothers, Gloria Gaynor, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, and Les Paul. Either they or their families have generously donated personal items from their careers for visitors to enjoy. There are also traveling photographic exhibits of Bruce Springsteen and Frank Sinatra via the Grammy Museum LA. The exhibit notes the Asbury Park dynamic with many New Jersey musicians.
Grammy winner Taylor Swift, from Reading, Pennsylvania, spent childhood summers in Stone Harbor at the Jersey Shore. Though Ms. Swift is not part of the New Jersey exhibit, a proud note for the state is that she spent childhood summers in Stone Harbor at the Jersey Shore. The museum featured her in an exhibit last year at this time.
Jon Bon Jovi, who has started a business with his son, is recording a new album in Nashville.
Les Paul’s medal from the National Inventors Hall of Fame, bestowed without the sneaker reflection. Mr. Paul was one of the inventors of the electric guitar, among other things, for which he also received a Grammy Award for technical achievement.
Suit and sneakers from the red carpet donated by Nick Jonas, recently married to actress Priyanka Chopra. Nicki is also a member of the Jonas Brothers with Kevin and Joe, who just debuted a new single at Penn State University.
After writing these modest travel pieces for a few years, an impression is that for a legacy to continue, it is invaluable for the artist’s memory to have a home. Having a physical place for children to learn about the artist, inventor, or leader helps them connect through a shared experience like playing with a new interactive baseball exhibit at the nearby Yogi Berra Museum at Montclair State University, or reading about how Mr. Berra overcame bullying, which serves as an insight into his empathy for others. At their best, such visits not only inform but inspire.
With “Whitney!” at The Grammy Museum Experience, Whitney Elizabeth Houston’s legacy has found a home – at least through June of this year and hopefully longer. “The most awarded female artist of all time,” Ms. Houston remains “the only artist to have 7 consecutive U.S. #1 singles.” Known as “The Voice,” Whitney won six Grammy Awards, two Emmy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, and 22 American Music Awards. Her second album “Whitney” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the first female artist to do so. To this day, “The Bodyguard,” 1992, in which she co-starred with Kevin Costner, is the best-selling film soundtrack and “Waiting to Exhale,” 1995, is No. 8, reflecting the staying power of Ms. Houston’s talent. Whitney’s single “I Will Always Love You,” written by Dolly Parton, also a Grammy winner and Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, remains the No. 9 bestselling recording in the world. Even more significantly, Ms. Houston’s success in “The Bodyguard” opened the door for African-American women as leads in blockbuster films. The soundtrack of “The Preacher’s Wife,” wonderful to revisit in writing this, went platinum three times and was and still is a best-selling gospel album.
Whitney, now a member of the Grammy Hall of Fame, reached an achievement even beyond multi-gold and platinum records. According to Forbes, the Recording Industry Association of America recognizes 22 artists with “Diamond certification,” that is, two albums “that have shifted at least 10 million equivalent copies between pure sales and streaming”. Whitney is one of those artists whose debut “Whitney Houston” album and “The Bodyguard” each sold more than 10 million copies, 12 million and 11.8 million, respectively. During her career, Whitney sold over 170 million “albums, singles, and videos”. What is immeasurable is Ms. Houston’s artistic influence on singers like Jennifer Hudson, whose tribute is included in the exhibit, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, Adele and those still to come.
On exhibit are performance and interview videos, album covers, costumes, and designer gowns from award shows and film premieres. Charming, eclectic things like the magazine covers from Whitney’s modeling days to the fairy godmother tiara that she wore in Disney’s televised “Cinderella,” all create a warm connection with the star for visitors.
Before Whitney’s red carpet experiences, her mother Emily “Cissy” Drinkard Houston, who led the New Hope Baptist Church Youth Inspirational Choir in Newark for decades, was a Grammy winner. Cissy was part of the Gospel singing group the Drinkard Four, later the Drinkard Singers. As a founder and member of Sweet Inspirations, Cissy was a session singer, a backup singer, or both for Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison, Bette Midler, and Elvis Presley in addition to recording her own albums. Her nieces are Dionne and DeeDee Warwick and opera singer Leontyne Price is a distant cousin.
The Whitney Houston exhibit opened in October 2018 attended by her family, including her cousin Ms. Dionne Warwick. Ms. Warwick grew up in East Orange as did Whitney where both had the honor of having their former grammar schools named after them, the Whitney E. Houston Academy for Creative and Performing Arts and the Dionne Warwick Institute of Economics & Entrepreneurship, respectively.
The videos of Ms. Houston’s performances and interviews with producers who worked with her underscore her virtuosity. So gifted, Whitney sang her acclaimed 1991 rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner” perfectly on the first take for Super Bowl XXV with a talent that surprised even the most experienced producers. Whitney, her arranger John L. Clayton, and anthem producer Rickey Minor slowed down the anthem from 3/4 time to 4/4, which increased the technical difficulty, but also made it more dramatic. This arrangement added to the anthem’s resonance in a time of heightened national security after the Gulf War. A few criticized Whitney for not singing the anthem live which she had done at a Nets-Lakers game, but the thought was that the cheering might not allow her to hear the first notes. Whitney did sing live, actually, though the microphone was off. An estimated 79.6 million people viewed her performance. Ms. Houston donated the proceeds of “the highest charting rendition of the national anthem on the Billboard 100 chart” to Gulf War veterans and their families.
Whitney supported many charitable organizations including her foundation. With her rendition of “A Song for You” at her “Welcome Home Heroes Concert” for those troops returning from the Gulf War, Whitney accomplished what every great singer does – each person in that audience believed that she was singing directly to him or her. We choose such songs for important life events, their words resonating with us. The songwriter Leon Russell, himself a Grammy winner, pitched it and Whitney hit it home as she did in her “One Moment in Time” video for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
The Whitney Houston Foundation has generously shared personal items of the artist reflecting her start as a soloist at age 11 in the choir of the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, the city of her birth. In the collection is her high school diploma. With such talent and natural teenage inclinations, Whitney reportedly was eager to start her career as soon as possible and took lessons throughout those years. In high school, I saw Whitney only in passing and make no claims of having known her except to write that before I heard about her singing, I was delighted to discover another tall girl at school. Whitney carried that height gracefully, and I remember a lovely, willowy girl who later blossomed into a beautiful woman. As it turned out, we both had spent our first years in Newark.
An absolute thrill was when the “How Will I Know?” video came out. My former classmates and I called each other (on landlines) in excitement. Years later, we read that Whitney was not as happy with it, perhaps not having had the creative control that she did once her career soared. Both the song and video deliver the charisma, however, of a breakout star. Being world famous, Whitney’s career in music and film were everywhere when I was living overseas.
A wise and long-time friend has shared the quote that people remain the same age for us as when we first met them. From Whitney’s amazing songbook, it would be difficult for any of us to choose a favorite, but “How Will I Know?” takes me back to the sweetness of the beginning.
You can experience the celebration of Ms. Houston, her fellow New Jersey artists, and other Grammy winners at the Prudential Center, Tuesday through Sunday, 11-6 and also find more information about Newark sights at the Greater Newark Convention & Visitors Bureau where you will receive another warm welcome.
A walk in nearby Branch Brook Park, envisioned by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, designers of Central Park. Frederick’s son and stepson, the Olmsted Brothers, realized their vision.
The Belleville part of the park also has a similar Central Park elegance.
The Erie Railroad Bridge, 1932. In addition to bridges and fountains, the park also features a popular roller rink.
Park patron Caroline Bamberger Fuld brought 2,050 cherry tree saplings from Japan in 1927 and nurtured them on the grounds of her estate in Orange until they were ready for planting in the park. Today there are 5,300 trees, the most in the United States.
There are 14 varieties of cherry blossom trees in Branch Brook Park.
The French Gothic Revival Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart next to the park. There is a beautiful view of the basilica across the lake.
Every shade of pink. There are three types of blossoming trees: single blossom, double blossom, and weeping cherries.
The age-old wisdom when choosing a partner is to see how he treats his mother and servers. One might add, travel with him. If you both are excited by things you experience, fantastic. If the trains never run on time, which make you both laugh, even better – that person’s a keeper. Maya Angelou included one more prong on the test: spend time with that special someone when it rains. Does he light up your day?
While watching, one woman, feeling hoodwinked, stomped out halfway through and complained, “Nothing happens.” The other fell asleep. To the list, add the “A River Runs Through It” test. Perhaps this was a lesson in not imposing one’s taste on others, and such a reaction has happened rarely, in fact, but it’s good to be excited about great work.
With love, like the view from Belvedere Castle, all things seem possible. Paraphrasing for St. Valentine’s Day, but the love of devotion is evident in the park as much as romance. A cheerful volunteer smiling and offering passers-by park maps from a windowless booth on a day of frozen park waters reminds us that the beauty of Central Park is not just cinematic. Those who remember “A River Runs Through It” would also recall the park at that time, and how the Conservancy and staff have transformed it.
As Bow Bridge takes us across the Lake, Central Park’s beauty carries us serenely back into our day. The love in the details of Central Park’s design by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux delivers the romance of nature every day. Artists who paint the park, musicians who set it to music, and photographers and filmmakers who capture it, share their inspiration. Both New Yorkers who enjoy the park daily and visitors remind us of how special a place it is. As park-goers know, hearing first-time explorers’ exclamations of delight is lovely.
One place that draws people now is the Pond where visitors have come for months to see the Mandarin duck. The bird-watching at the Pond is Central Park at its best. On a recent weekend visit, a crowd had gathered at the water’s edge. Around the Pond, there is the shared excitement of spotting Mandy, then following his movements, speculating where he will go next. Then there is the romance of experiencing something beautiful and unique with others. Two men charmed women with talk of the duck, which was both delightful and impressive. Couples came and went, some reaching for each other’s hands upon sighting Mandy. This sweetness may go back to our childhoods. Earlier at Harlem Meer, a young father had taken his elated son to see his friends, the ducks. For many, ducks were a memorable first contact with wildlife.
A photographer proudly and warmly shared that he had first captured “Mandy” (a description which hopefully is not too revealing), and a lovely woman mentioned that she had come from a distance to take the duck’s photos as well. Others climbed up on the rocks or dashed to Gapstow Bridge for a better view animatedly talking about the duck in several languages, all understood. Some in the group composed entirely of adults remarked on his stunning appearance with color block feathers of blue, russet, brown, purple, black, orange, white, and grey.
What is the draw of a bird? There is the intrigue of the Mandarin duck. Why has he come? Why has he stayed? Was he ever an ugly duckling? Like a gift twice over for photographers, his savvy in selecting one of the most picturesque spots in the park to hold court enhances a stylish panache that rivals Fashion Week. The gentleman charms wearing the Savile Row suit of plumage in the duck world.
Photographers compared notes about the best lenses to capture Mandy’s detail. People politely took turns to take pictures, civility much like that at fellow park New York Botanical Garden events. The inexplicable appearance of the duck is one of the special park experiences like Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s “The Gates,” which thrilled when I lived in the city. Coincidentally, wonderful photos of this were tweeted today @CentralParkNYC, a reminder to anyone who writes that tweets make the new deadlines.
Looking back while leaving, were it not too revealing with faces, the photo that I would have taken for “It’s the People” for the warm #CentralParkLove hashtag this Valentine’s Day week would be the small, warm circle gathered around the tiny bank of the Pond that Mandy was favoring that day. If you live in New York City or plan a trip to the park and want to feel good, have a visit with the Mandarin duck.
Thank you to Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark on Twitter for keeping us posted on the whereabouts of this celebrated resident.
In Central Park, there is the romance of childhood revisited with one’s children. Those who grew up going to the park can return to take their children to play in the same playgrounds, go ice skating, ride the Carousel, climb the big rocks, visit the zoo, and see a play at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater with “Yeti, Set, Snow!” presently on the marquee.
In terms of a plot at Central Park, there is not much to tell – people go there for walks, recreation, nature — and sometimes to see a duck. Aside from being a cinematographer’s dream, regarding feeling in the park, there is everything. Nothing, but everything, happens.
Thank you to Central Park for creative inspiration. Enjoy the park’s Instagram @centralparknyc and Central Park on Facebook with beautiful photos of the Mandarin duck and the park.
December and the holidays bring joy and sometimes reflection, but it is January, the heart of winter, that can become the month of rumination. The start of the year, however, is also when the days grow longer, and we appreciate the sun in a bright blue sky glistening on the snow – usually. If accustomed to snow, the absence of it offsets in that inexplicable way that setting the clocks forward and back sometimes does. January can become like this one a month played in minor key depending upon where our paths take us. With travel, like life, we may say that the timing is not right and never go, but think of 2019 as the year of heading out.
One such trip would be to the Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Parks in Hyde Park, which offer not only history but the beauty of the Hudson Valley. For those interested in history, Ken Burns’ “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History,” brings home the relatable parts of the family story as well as world events: Teddy, a young man who lost both his wife and mother within a day, Franklin, a favorite son of a doting mother and the privileged man struck by illness, Eleanor, a girl who felt that she never fit in with her peers, and Eleanor & Franklin and the dynamics of a marriage.
Springwood estate in Hyde Park, New York is the birthplace and home of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which the family referred to as “Hyde Park” and the “Big House”. The house is impressive, but the sweeping view of the Hudson River rivals it. One could see why FDR returned to Springwood often during his three terms as president. On the grounds are also the FDR Presidential Library and Museum and the burial site of the president and first lady. The estate is beautiful with trees that FDR, a conservationist like his cousin Theodore, had planted. Top Cottage, the president’s retreat, is about two miles away and accessible via the park shuttle.
Our first visit was on an impromptu stop while traveling to the Berkshires where my friend spent summers as a boy and enjoys returning as we both do. Hyde Park in Dutchess County, part of the Mid-Hudson Valley, however, is a destination in itself with FDR’s home, the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Park and the nearby Sixteen Mile Historic District in Columbia County, all part of The Hudson River National Landmark Historic District, the largest historic district in the continental US.
On this initial Springwood trip in June, we had a chance to tour FDR’s home. Among the fascinating accounts that the park ranger shared on the tour, a few stood out. Sara, Franklin’s devoted mother who owned the house and Franklin’s New York City home, interestingly, revamped Springwood to look more “presidential” years before Franklin was president with an idea like dressing for the job to which one aspires. Franklin assisted with the designs that transformed the exterior of Springwood from a pleasant “clapboard farmhouse” to Colonial Revival Style. Visitors, many political allies, could easily envision FDR in the White House.
The president, the “Great Communicator,” delivered two of his famous fireside chats from Springwood with his Scottish Terrier Fala, a favorite of children across the country, including our mother, by his side. Grown-ups, too, seemed to enjoy Fala. The FDR Library blog shares that sailors got the idea of cutting off locks of Fala’s fur for good luck on one of FDR’s WWII battleship visits. Fala had a habit of dashing off to the decks below to get treats, and he slipped by his “walking officer” on the USS Baltimore. The sociable Fala did not bark while being clipped, but FDR had to put a stop to this as the terrier looked quite shorn.
Before Fala’s antics, along the tree-lined driveway to his boyhood home, the 39-year-old Franklin pushed himself to walk farther and farther each day after being stricken with polio. Researchers speculate that the president may have had Guillain-Barré syndrome, which is a nerve disorder and not a viral disease, but that did not change what FDR dealt with in 1921. Franklin never made it to the end of the driveway, but he continued to try.
For our mother and many of her peers, FDR was president throughout their childhoods. Our mother recalls that Mrs. Branigan, a Vailsburg, Newark neighbor and an Irish immigrant, got off the bus from work one day and walked along the street sobbing. When Mrs. Branigan passed our mother’s house, she saw the little girl sitting on the porch glider, and between tears, said, “Our president is dead.” Hearing this, our mother, too, burst into tears feeling a family attachment to the man whose voice had come into their homes to reassure them during the Great Depression and World War II.
A familial warmth is part of the delight of visiting historic sites in Hyde Park and the area. Many residents knew the families who were also part of their community, and they shared life stories. After each winning election, neighbors carried torches up to the front of the house at Springwood to wish FDR well. The wonderful feeling of community in Hyde Park remains to this day.
The elegance of the Rose Garden, here blooming with peonies, befits its stately purpose as the resting place of Eleanor and Franklin. The beloved Fala is also buried nearby and daughter Anna’s German shepherd.
FDR bust and FDR Presidential Library, the view from Freedom Court. FDR bust by Walter Russell.
On another visit, we enjoyed exploring the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, the first US presidential library, which we enjoyed exploring ohas the compelling pull of history. Seeing the president’s memorabilia from his White House years has a resonance beyond his delightful boyhood collections and the family photographs in his home. Historic photos come to life in the library. FDR was the first president to donate his letters to the public, leaving them to the National Archives. The innovative design of the entrance celebrates this historic boon. At FDR’s request, the library also includes the letters of the First Lady. The library also has virtual tours. Given park budgets, Top Cottage has limited tours, and after our wonderful library visit, we looked forward to seeing FDR’s retreat another time.
Top Cottage was the second home that FDR designed with architect Henry Toombs with the thought that the president would retire there after his second term. The fieldstone Dutch Colonial Revival home, in keeping with the historic houses in the area, is one of only two buildings designed by a US president and one of the first in the United States with wheelchair accessibility. Primarily, it was a peaceful getaway. Springwood was often hectic during FDR’s presidency, and well-wishers entered the grounds hoping to see the president, unimaginable with 21st-century security.
Like Springwood, Top Cottage had many famous visitors: Winston Churchill, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon MacKenzie, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and Princesses Juliana and Beatrix, Norway’s Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess Martha, and interestingly, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek. On the first visit to the US by British monarchs, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were guests at the celebrated Top Cottage “hot dog summit,” where the president introduced the royal couple to American dishes at a picnic and took the king and queen on one of his hurtling car rides. The picnic had a serious and successful purpose in making the British monarchs seem relatable and more democratic as they ate and drank beer with Hyde Park staff. Months later, FDR was able to send supplies to help England after their declaration of war on Germany. All of FDR’s guests appreciated this woodland retreat from the public eye as he did and the warmth of being entertained in a home.
The Four Freedoms: A sculpture based on FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech that inspired Berkshire neighbor Norman Rockwell. Mr. Rockwell’s famous paintings, now on tour, but based at the Norman Rockwell Museum, raised money for war bonds on exhibit around the country. Speech admires May also enjoy the FDR Four Freedoms Park in NYC.
If we drove like FDR, we may have made it on time to tour Top Cottage, but missing the shuttle bus went from our running joke about timing, somewhat akin to having missed the rocket launch for life, to a lesson in saying good-bye to perfectionism, a good resolution. Travel writing should make people want to go to a place and enjoy it – informative fun does not have to be a dutiful treatise. And yet, we still tried. Top Cottage closes in the winter, another discovery on a different visit, which meant a great excuse to enjoy the beautiful tulip poplar trees outside the library and have lunch in the café before driving home. Other trips to the FDR historic site have brought more walks and gift shop stops for ornaments at the holidays. So a missed shuttle bus here and there has led to making the FDR historic site a regular stop like walking the grounds at the Vanderbilt Mansion.
Posting, too, went the way of the elusive Top Cottage. Even with the buffer of history, a post in the fall of 2016 was not the best time. Over the holidays, rethought this with the idea for Top Cottage as a metaphor for new beginnings, still the timing was not right, but better now with thoughts of spring visits.
Val-Kill, Eleanor Roosevelt’s historic site, is two miles from Springwood and a little over four miles from Top Cottage. Perhaps that is part of how Eleanor and Franklin’s marriage lasted or that the demands of public life required personal space. A warm June sun, chirping birds, and beautiful flowers, show the simple residence as what it was, a haven for the first lady. With the exhibits planned by the park rangers, visitors feel Eleanor’s uplifting spirit. Practically, Val-Kill gave the first lady opportunity to work on her own projects including the development of off-season jobs for local residents, which became Val-Kill Industries. The name “Valley Stream” is from the Dutch for both the valley location and the wonderful stream that offered the Roosevelt family swimming in the summer. The grounds are beautiful with a charming footbridge and a wonderful garden with peonies in season. Val-Kill later went to Eleanor’s son Elliott, who had attended the Hun School in Princeton, New Jersey, a Garden State connection.
If you enjoy history, the tours are where you get the great tidbits. Our park ranger, part of the esprit de corps of rangers like those at Springwood, brought the beautiful mansion to life.
Frederick Vanderbilt, grandson of Cornelius, along with his wife Louise commissioned Charles McKim, a name partner in the country’s top architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, to build their Neoclassical-Beaux Arts home. As the Historic Resource Study for the site notes, the elegant architectural combination was unusual for a country home and is the only one of its kind in the Hudson Valley. With a newly restored exterior, visitors can now enjoy river views from the balcony in warm weather. Completion of the 54-room mansion brought the top craftsmen for woodwork and stone design, many from Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. The interior is incredible as you can see from the photos. Much of the furniture and art was brought from Europe, a trend at the time, and Stanford White was Frederick’s antique dealer. James Greenleaf designed the Italianate garden, which we look forward to seeing on another trip.
During the two years it took to build the mansion, 1896-1899, Louise and Frederick periodically stayed in the Pavilion, now the Visitor Center, to oversee building. The Gilded Age families were the generation that spent the fortunes that their grandparents had made. In the case of Frederick and Louise, they were generous as opposed to frivolous. Frederick had architect McKim build the Howard Mansion at Hosack Farm across the road for his niece Rose Anthony Post Howard and her husband Thomas Howard, a descendant of the founder of Rutgers University and Revolutionary War general, John Neilson. Rose and Thomas were the maternal grandparents of Thomas Howard Kean, the Governor of New Jersey. Well-liked in Hudson Valley, Frederick and Louise Vanderbilt did not have children and enjoyed giving gifts to those of their staff in addition to showing their appreciation for their work. Though they had their bedrooms designed as if they were European royalty, the fashion of the day, the Vanderbilts were warm and accessible. Louise herself oversaw gift-giving for the staff. They left a great deal of their fortune to charity, loyal staff, and a niece. The ultimate donation of the mansion to the public, like that of Springwood, was FDR’s idea.
Play garden gift from Louise and Frederick. Many gifts generously make their way back to the mansion museum for the public’s enjoyment.
The estate provided local jobs year-round with the mansion, the grounds, garden, greenhouses, dairy, vegetable garden, orchard, and a dock where guests could arrive on their yachts. The ice box is representative of how eco-friendly the property was. Long after the invention of refrigerators, Frederick kept these efficient ices boxes in use. Not only did the ice boxes operate without electrical power, but the staff who maintained the ice remained employed.
The beautiful holiday welcome, done at the initiative of the park rangers, is breathtaking. Like other Gilded Age families, the Vanderbilts had several homes where they usually spent different seasons. The mansion was their country home where they celebrated Easter and visited in the fall, though they did give Christmas gifts to staff. New York City was their primary residence and Newport, Rhode Island, Bar Harbor, Maine, and the Adirondacks, their summer retreats. (Springwood also has Christmas decorations.) In warmer weather, visitors may go out on the balcony, opened after the restoration.
The Hyde Park Drive-in, opened in 1950, is across the street from Hyde Park. An in-season classic, it is another reason to stay over in the area to enjoy the sites and charm. If you enjoy these drive-in photos, you may want to follow the wonderful Cinema Treasures on Instagram, which documents movie venues all over the country.
At the Vanderbilt Mansion, a number of loyal Poughkeepsians talked up their town, which called for a return trip first to enjoy the Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park. The views matched “The Queen City of the Hudson,” as Poughkeepsie on the east bank is also known, which is across the river from the charming Kingston. Even on a minus-degree wind chill December day, the Hudson River was spectacular. An active park group takes year-round advantage of the trails and you can connect with them on their social media. During the holidays, the nearby Franklin D. Roosevelt Mid-Husdon Bridge is lit in red and green lights at night.
The all too brief visit to the City of Poughkeepsie led to stops to admire the fine architecture and an informal tour of Vassar College. Look forward to visiting the charming Mid_Hudson Children’s Museum and more on the next visit to the city, which also has a drive-in, the Overlook.
A delight of the December return trip was the holiday cheer and navigational expertise of the area toll takers. GPS is not the same as directions shared with smiles and the admiration of a cheerful holiday pin or Santa Claus gel nails. Our family knows the area from growing up, a story for another day, but these quick chats were not only helpful, but reminders of nice visits and family stories.
Teddy Roosevelt display at the Poughkeepsie Post Office. Looking forward to seeing his historic homes.
As a Seven Sisters graduate, it was delightful to visit Vassar College campus in Poughkeepsie. Now coed, the beautiful campus has a wonderful atmosphere and delightful shops and restaurants nearby.
Named after English poet John Milton, the hamlet in Ulster County delights with historic homes, churches, and welcoming shops in a scenic setting. With such a brief visit, look forward to another. A fun tidbit is that Marlon Brando’s “A Fugitive Kind” was filmed here in 1959. Enjoyed spectacular river views from the Milton Landing Dog Park with a truly merry Christmas tree out on the dock.
Rhinebeck charms in every season. The former “Violet Capital of the World,” later renowned for its anemones, Rhinebeck is known for its hospitality, and to this day, a warm welcome awaits visitors. FDR gave campaign speeches from the porch of the historic Beekman Arms, 1766, which hosted everyone from Founding Fathers George Washington and Robert Livingston to New Jerseyans Frank Sinatra and Jack Nicholson. A further New Jersey connection goes back to Robert Livingston’s brother William, who signed the Constitution and was the first governor of New Jersey during the Revolutionary War. William resided at Liberty Hall, Union. Liberty Hall, now part of Kean University, was sold to Kean relatives, family of New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean on his father’s side. Alexander Hamilton was a guest at both Liberty Hall and the Beekman Arms.
German settlers from the Bavarian Palatinate named the beautiful area “Ryn Beck” in 1714, because it reminded them of their Rhine Valley home. Rhinebeck dates back to the Sepasco and Eposus, Lenape Native Americans who were later joined by Dutch settlers in 1686. The Dutch brought the Sinterklaass tradition now celebrated in an annual December nondemoninational festival. Well-known residents like John Jacob Astor IV followed the Dutch and Germans to what became “Rhinebeck”. The village, a National Historic District, is remarkable in that so much of its original architecture remains.
The photos here are from a December trip to the Village of Rhinebeck within the larger town both within the “Sixteen Mile Historic District”.
A well-known resident, Hilarie Burton, who stars in one of my favorite holiday movies, “Christmas on the Bayou,” is an active sponsor of a local charity Astor Services for Children and Families and has invested in a town business, Samuel’s Sweet Shop, both co-starring her husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan and friends Julie Yeager & Paul Rudd. Rhinebeck is also the hometown of Rufus Wainwright, whose performance at the Asbury Park Convention Hall on his tour for “All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu” was so incredible that it was like being transported out of time and place. In real time, however, my friend stepped out for a snack on the boardwalk and returned for the encore. Mr. Wainwright was in competition with the PGA Tour, which is not to slight a true artist who had sold out the venue, but it helps with perspective when putting work out there.
The Hudson Valley has so much to see and do that we may never make it to Top Cottage. We look forward to discovering other sights that range from the High Falls Conservation Area to the Culinary Institute of America, which our mother has enjoyed with friends. Wilderstein, where FDR’s cousin, confidante, Fala gift-giver, and one of the first archivists of the FDR Library, Margaret “Daisy” Suckley lived, was and is on the visit list. Though arriving after dark on the most recent Mid-Hudson Valley visit, still took a loyal fan photo at the Victorian mansion with its grounds designed by Calvert Vaux, because all roads lead to Central Park and New Jersey at one time or another.
Once in a surprising turn of events, while traveling with a summer study group, we rode in a boat taxi along the Grand Canal at sunset in Venice. The sun splashed a million shades of gold along the colorful palazzi in “La Serenissimo,” the “Most Serene Republic of Venice”. Inexplicably, most of the students were arguing over the rooms, but the wonderful sound of rushing water and the steady hum of the engine could still be heard between sharp words. Looking across the boat, another classmate, like me, marveled at the panoramic beauty before us. She smiled serenely. We did not know each other well. From our remarks in class, we had different opinions on things, but we both had an appreciation for our good fortune. Our classmates missed the sunset, not having noticed, or not having minded. Later, when we all returned to school, work, and occasional turmoil, my fellow traveler and I would sometimes look at each other and smile. We had shared a love of beauty.
In a pessimist’s theory of reductionism, Serenissimo is overcrowded, Fala was the invention of wartime propaganda, and Teddy’s bad side is on Mount Rushmore. On a certain level, these assertions may seem true, but it would be like describing Venice without the light. Happy New Year.
Note: Intended for posting in January 2019.
A garden is ever-changing, but perennial at the same time, planned around time to stand outside it. We go then to a garden to enjoy nature’s beauty in time savored. Stepping into Greenwood Gardens takes us into a world of enchantment by adding fairy-tale charm to nature’s beauty. Greenwood Gardens features classical “Italianate gardens” with an “Arts and Crafts Design,” traditional handcrafted décor, resulting in the delight of Alice in Wonderland chess piece sculptures, a magical wrought-iron grille with birds of paradise and golden rabbits, fountains with Rookwood ceramic tiles, a stone teahouse, grottoes, and cascades.
“Greenwood Gardens” began as “Pleasant Days” an estate owned by the Days, Pauline and Joseph, who also lived in Gramercy Park. In 1906, the couple purchased the property from one of the well-known Newark brewers Christian Feigenspan, whose “P.O.N.,” the “Pride of Newark” beer won a silver medal in the Paris Exposition of 1877. Mr. Feigenspan, a Cornell graduate, was a Newarker in an area filled with the country estates of wealthy New Yorkers among the “short hills,” high enough for views, low enough for access for those seeking a direct route to the countryside.
As a new Short Hills resident, self-made millionaire Joseph Day admired the garden of his neighbor, architect William Whetten Renwick and commissioned him to create an Italianate mansion and formal gardens for what would become “Pleasant Days”. Before settling on a plan, Joseph and William toured gardens of Europe for inspiration. William, originally from Lenox, Massachusetts in the Berkshires, contributed to the design of both St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Church of All Saints in New York City whose principal architect was his uncle James Renwick, Jr.. The Day gardens that he created had a modernized flair from new US inventions like lighting from Thomas Edison whose laboratory was in nearby West Orange and uniqueness with a working farm to fulfill the wishes of Pauline. The beautiful Day home with its view of the Watchung Mountains was a social hub in the 1920’s and 1930’s. During the Great Depression, however, Joseph, a real estate broker, had difficulty in maintaining the 79 acre estate, which went on sale in parcels after Mr. Day’s death in 1944.
Dr. Adelaide Childs Frick Blanchard bought the house and gardens, replacing the worn mansion with the present Georgian Revival house in 1950. Adelaide and her husband Peter Blanchard, Jr. preserved the gardens on the still vast parcel of about 28 acres. Adelaide, a pediatrician, was the daughter of Childs Frick, a paleontologist and trustee of the Museum of Natural History and granddaughter of Henry Clay Frick who founded the Frick Collection. The Blanchards added the incredible limestone chess pieces, several ponds, and the striking London plane and Norway spruce allee along the entrance driveway. The estate, bordering on South Mountain Reservation with its mountain trails, allowed for one of the Blanchard family favorite pastimes, horseback riding. Mr. Blanchard later sold 40 acres of repurchased land to the Township of Millburn where there is a playing field and extensive woodland paths for the public to enjoy as Old Short Hills Park.
The gardens have reflected both the taste of their owners and their respective eras, the Gilded Age and the Colonial Revival. The Day garden favored popular perennials, the Blanchard garden, the “modern” evergreens of 1950’s. After Dr. Blanchard’s death, her husband, who lived many years thereafter, devoted the remaining years of his life to maintaining and restoring their home as a part of ensuring its future for public enjoyment. Carrying on Peter, Jr.’s wishes, Peter Blanchard III and his wife Sofia created a nonprofit to preserve the garden under the national Garden Conservancy trust. Son Peter, a writer, conservationist, and Greenwood trustee often speaks at the garden about which he has written Greenwood: A Garden Path to Nature and the Past, available at the gift shop or by calling (973) 258-4026. Working from archival photos, the Garden Conservancy has restored the original terrace pergolas among several projects. Today, the garden is a combination of perennials and plants with attractive foliage that offers color beyond the season of blooms.
Special flowers, particularly their scent, bring back memories – the rose corsage or boutonnière from a first formal dance, gardenias from a wedding bouquet, and pressed wildflowers from a picnic on one of those idyllic days that seem to have lasted forever. For many in our family, the scent of lilacs brings back the memory of our sweet grandmother Helen who returns to us each year with the first spring breeze.
Even more so than the beautiful flowers, perhaps it is the trees that are most significant at Greenwood Gardens. The visual poetry of the allée of London plane and Norway spruce trees that Peter planted for his wife Adalaide let visitors know that they are about to experience a place so beloved that the Blanchards felt compelled to share it.
After descending the steps in each marvelous level of the garden, visitors can travel through Greenwood’s mazes, an encounter with the wondrous. What is around the next corner? Should one go right or left? The boxwood, fragrant at every turn, suggests that no one can choose wrongly. Surprises, some delightful and expected like birds singing and the rustling sound of squirrels darting through the hedges, may reassure us, and some fanciful, like the Rookwood fountain spouts of the enigmatic Dionysus, either smiling or frowning, offer mystery.
Friends who garden share the same qualities of patience, kindness, and good-naturedness. Perhaps that comes from taking the long view, knowing to prepare for spring months in advance and having the vision to imagine a flourishing garden when there is frozen ground. Some friends in this bouquet are “house proud” as the British say. They enhance the loving quality of their homes with fresh flowers and vegetables for their families and instill a love of nature in their children. Others are artists, expressing themselves in the splendor of design. Some are both. Almost all view themselves as grateful caretakers of God’s gift of beauty. Each has a pride from accomplishment over time and the serenity of a joyful gift given to others.
A home of garden lovers, now shared with the public to experience not only nature’s beauty, but a sense of time more deeply valued, Greenwood welcomes volunteers. For more information on their gardens which reopen in the spring, visit Greenwood Gardens, where you can also take an inviting online tour or see what’s in bloom.
As this year’s Happy Holiday thank you, enjoy a favorite gift for friends, Norwegian Sugar Cookies. Almond extract works well as a substitute for alcohol, though Grand Mariner adds a light and sweet flavor. A variety of holiday cookie cutters make for fun, but you will have your own spin on this recipe. The caraway seeds are part of the traditional recipe, though I make them without those. This is a festive gift that everyone enjoys.
Sift together flour, baking powder, salt. Work shortening with a spoon until fluffy and creamy. Then gradually add sugar, while continuing to work until light. Beat in egg. Stir flour mixture and brandy into shortening mixture. Stir in caraway seeds. Refrigerate until batter can be handled easily.
Start heating oven to 350 F. Then roll out cookie dough on floured board to 1/8″ or thinner. Cut into small stars, circles, etc. Place 1/2″ apart on greased cookies sheets; sprinkle with powdered sugar. Bake 6-8 minutes or until a light brown. Makes about 12 dozen 1 1/2″ cookies.
Walt Whitman, with New York and New Jersey ties, shares wisdom that lights the way in autumn. At this time of year, the earlier darkness may not be welcome, but the fall offers a different kind of beauty with autumn leaves, a sometime #Snowvember, and a greater appreciation of the day. At night, the stars shine more clearly in the sky.
Fall splendor and autumn blooms in a celebration of nature’s palette mark autumn in Central Park. And then there are the greens, vibrant after this year’s rain. On a splendid day of second summer in the park, a walk in Central Park North brings the cheers of children playing soccer, strollers on their lunch breaks, friendly chats with fellow park admirers, and the fragrance of the flowers on the last of the warm breezes.
A young mother lay on one of the giant boulders with her newborn sleeping on her chest, looking at the sky while her infant slept in a perfect moment of contentment and connection. This sight brought to mind a wondrous thing about Central Park that the Conservancy has revitalized from the park’s original vision: park-goers know that there is no judgment in the park, which is one of the keys to its serenity. On a wonderful early fall tour of the North Woods, park staff mentioned the Bible as a source for Frederick Law Olmsted in creating a pastoral setting, his touchstone for a shared utopia. By looking to Heaven, he connected people with Earth.
We all have our favorite parts of the park, and the Park Conservancy encourages us to explore and enjoy all of it. The park is, impressively, 843 acres (341 hectares) and a six-mile (9.6 km) around its perimeter, its inception detailed on a springtime visit in “Central Park: A Template of Beauty”. On another visit, while circling somewhere on a wooded path in the North End, when asked which way was a central landmark, a hiker responded with a smile and a shrug that in the nicest way possible expressed, “Why would anyone head where visitors flock when there are these great woods?” She knew the paths of the northern park expertly and shared that knowledge with enthusiasm. Everything is about perspective.
The North End includes the North Meadow, Harlem Meer, the North Woods, the Great Hill, in season, playgrounds, baseball fields, and the seasonal pool/ice hockey Lasker Rink. The Conservatory Garden is a few blocks lower than the start of the North End at 100th Street. Designed by Gilmore Clarke, who created the Unisphere at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, it boasts three gardens in English, French, and Italian style. Distinguishing the garden is the Vanderbilt Gate by George Browne Post, who designed buildings for the nearby City College of New York, the Brooklyn Historical Society, and the New York Stock Exchange, and who later lived in Bernardsville, New Jersey. The Conservatory Garden is its own paradise thanks to dedicated gardeners.
A highlight on a recent trip was chatting with people fishing at Harlem Meer. Fishing of bass, perch, and carp is catch and release with respect to NYC fishing regulations, but the sport is no less fun. Our grandfather, an avid fisherman, would have delighted in the fishing and have known the questions to ask. A kidder, however, whenever anyone asked him what was new, he always answered, “New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, and New Mexico” often accompanied by a friendly swat on the arm. Straightforward was not his way, but fun was, and through a love of fishing, he made friends easily as his fellow sportsmen at the Meer seem to do, too.
A tour of the North Woods offers a thoughtful combination of art, history, ecology, geology, good company, and a poetry reading, a sublime mix for those who love nature and art. The North Woods, designed to evoke an Adirondacks experience, features rushing cascades, leafy paths, and stone and rustic bridges with inspiration by Maplewood, New Jersey artist Asher Durand whose work embodied the counterpoise of “naturalism and idealization,” seen in “Kindred Spirits”. The tour starts at the northeast corner of the park by Duke Ellington Circle, sometimes referred to as “the Gateway to Harlem” at East 100th Street at the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center. From the center, situated on Harlem Meer, the group traverses the woodland to The Loch, “lake” from Scottish Gaelic like the Dutch “Meer,” the Ravine, and The Pool on the West Side. The water experiences were part of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s original “Greensward Plan” for the park. In an impressive feat of engineering, the two created the Pool, The Loch, Harlem Meer, and three cascades from Montayne’s Rivulet, once a passageway for Revolutionary War troops. The Meer surrounds a promontory with the remnants of a lookout from the War of 1812. The Conservancy commissioned the center and restored the area to its original beauty in 1988-1993.
With this fall’s sensation of the sighting of the Mandarin duck, and now the saw-whet owl, it may reassure us at the holiday season to know that people will rush past cynicism to experience simple wonder, which is why the park is so important. The North Woods is also a bird habitat, noted with appreciation to others on the walk who had brought binoculars and shared some of their delightful sightings. All park tours, now also available in Spanish and French, are a way to learn about new parts of the park, to have a deeper appreciation for favorite places or an opportunity for children to discover. Thank you to our knowledgeable guides.
If you live in New York City, you will experience friendly neighbors waving and calling out your name from across the street, which no one to this day believes in any of my out-of-state retellings. “New York, New York City?” they ask, but the divine wordsmith Nora Ephron always recounted stories in both interviews and her work of how New York is a city of neighborhoods. The apparent effortless serenity of the park, devotedly designed and developed, increases that warmth exponentially in New Yorkers’ splendid front yard where visitors are cordially welcomed.
For those fellow Central Park explorers whose sense of direction needs a little navigational nudge now and then, though the paths are clear, the fallback GPS works in the North Woods. Better to enjoy walks with friends that offer visits on log benches or hikes with a tempo that pick up with camaraderie.
On such visits, we enter the woodland with the known behind us and explore the paths. In the heart of the woods, we look back in thanks and forward in anticipation, a Thanksgiving with a view to a new year.
A side trip to the zoo with a thank you to staff. Pictured is a delightful red panda.
The temple exterior and entranceway. The interior temple resembles the style of the marble arches.
This magical-looking place nestled in the rolling green fields of Robbinsville, New Jersey is a Hindu temple, the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir. The temple, or mandir, is one of approximately 100 in the United States and 1,000 globally. The grand exterior, or mandap, houses the inner sanctum, the actual mandir, and the entire complex is is an “akshardham”. By definition, “mandir” in ancient Sanskrit means “means a place where the mind becomes still and experiences inner peace“. The atmosphere upon arrival is immediately uplifting and reflected through pleasant exchanges with devotees and visitors on the way into and within the mandir.
The Robbinsville temple is in the Nagara style of Hindu mandir architecture found in Northern India. Nagara style temples are square with graduated projections and towers that give the mandir height. Characteristic features in addition to the towers are domes, golden spires, flags, the sanctum, and pillared halls. Each has symbolic meaning like the pinnacles, aspiration, the golden spires, the immortality of the soul, and the flags, spiritual attainment. The inner sanctum is where one will find the most important deities. These elements of temple architecture combined create a link between devotees and the Divine.
The temple’s style is not purely architectural. The Robbinsville mandir is built according to Scripture as are all traditional mandirs. This influence of religion on architecture echoed in a recent tour of Central Park when the staff guide mentioned that the landscape designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux took inspiration directly from the Bible to create serene pastoral settings, though the mandir follows specifications for scared architecture. These sacred temples are not exclusively traditional. More modern temples, hari mandirs, are smaller, and ghar mandirs, shrines within devotees’ homes, are where families perform rituals and discuss scripture together.
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is made of white marble, white limestone, and pink sandstone, selected to last in this cooler climate. As the mandir’s introductory film notes, the use of natural stone is similar to that of iconic spiritual centers like St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Angkor Wat. The stone-carving process is extensive and fascinating. For an idea of the undertaking, artisans in India created the sculptures. Many volunteer, but the carving also provides work to skilled artists whose talents are not in demand as they once were. The marble is primarily Italian Carrara, totaling 68,000 cubic feet, and the limestone is from Bulgaria and India. The sculptured stone, some 13,499 pieces, arrived in Robbinsville 98% complete after a journey of 21,500 miles. Additional volunteers finished the work. All this is breathtaking, but it does not prepare one for the splendid interior of the mandir with white marble and golden statues that appear silver in the lamplight. The sacred images, or murtis, within the mandir and on the pillars in the mandap are not just deities, but “living works of art” and “liberated souls…ancient sages, and exemplary devotees” that are models of spiritual inspiration.
What may surprise visitors is that the grand, beautiful temple holds fast with interlocking stone. Quotes from the Rig Veda, hymns in ancient Sanskrit, are inspiring poetry in stone that one can read throughout the temple. Skylights and white marble floors add to the lightness of the interior. The tradition of the lamplight in the mandir pre-dates electricity and skylights and once provided the only light in the temple within the temple. Among the sculptures, visitors will see peacocks, particularly at the entrance gate, which are the national bird of India, and elephants, which represent “resolve, grace, and nobility”. One devotee mentioned that the elephant is honored for the many centuries when it carried stone to build the mandirs in the days before other transportation. Ganesh, the popular deity known as the Lord of Good Fortune, the Lord of Beginnings, and the Remover of Obstacles, who is also important in Bhuddism, is depicted with the head of these beloved animals that reflect different accounts of his origin.
Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Sanstha (BAPS) is a branch of Swaminarayan Hinduism. Devotees believes that Bhagwan Swaminarayan, or the yogi spiritual leader, was God on earth and his Divine presence continues through succession. The Swaminaryran, also referred to as “Swaminaryran Lord,” was born as Ghanshyam Pande (1781-1830). His philosophy led to social reforms in India. His follower, Shastriji Maharaj (1865-1951), a sadhu and Sanskrit scholar, or holy man of ancient Hindu letters, formed BAPS on June 5, 1907 based on his interpretation of the Swaminarayan’s teachings. One of his successors, His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj, blessed this site in August 2014. The present spiritual leader of BAPS, His Holiness, Mahant Swami Maharaj, bestowed his blessing in September 2017.
BAPS in Robbinsville continues the ancient Hindu tradition of “worshipping the Divine through murtis, or sacred images, enshrined in mandirs”. The BAPS communities worldwide focus on spiritual living, family values, and community service. Though the mandir has a respectful quiet on a visit, rituals and festivals involve music. The mandir also offers Indian cultural events and celebrations for devotees in the great hall.
“A place of paramount peace” is an apt description. While walking through the beautiful inner mandir, devotees brushed aside concerns about interrupting them at prayer. The devotees warmly shared aspects of their faith and excitement at the near completion of the spiritual center. Construction on this mandir began in 2010 and though it is complete, the mahamandir, a greater temple, reportedly the largest in the world, is under construction adjacent to the mandap where there will also be a youth center and an exhibition hall which will feature “Indian history and culture”.
The mandir is an active house of worship. Visitors are welcome to take photos outside, but the temple kindly requests a respectful covering regarding clothing and no photo-taking inside. Please respect their wishes. For visitor information, please see BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir.
The visit is free, but donations, however modest, are welcome as a thank you. Reservations are not required for individuals or families, but do call for larger groups: (609) 918-1212. Upon arriving, you will be asked to remove your shoes as a respectful courtesy. The welcome is most cordial with the gift of prasadam (“prasad” grace and joy), a sanctified sweet, for each visitor. An introductory film and a free guided tour with a volunteer will add to your appreciation of the temple. If a guide is not available, the audio tour is excellent, and the book available to visitors at the welcome desk is helpful as an introduction to both the mandir and Hinduism. There is a snack shop and café.
To the right of the entrance, one may participate in the ritual of abhishek, or pouring water over the “sacred image of God,” here, Shri Ghanshyam Marahaj, the childhood form of Bhagwan Swaminarayan. Though the deities may seem confusing initially to those who are not familiar with Hinduism, the belief is that there is one supreme God, Brahman, the creator. Along with Shiva, who preserves the earth, and Vishnu, who destroys the earth so it can be created anew, the three are both one and separate in a mystical way like the Holy Trinity. All the deities and even devotees are the Divine presence on earth. “That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.” The temple guidebook complements this thought, “Without the deities, the mandir would be no more than a beautiful building. With them, it becomes a sacred place of worship wherein God resides”.
There is so much to see and the atmosphere is so peaceful that you will want to return. We had wonderful practicing neighbors while growing up, but my knowledge of Hinduism is more academic going back to incredible studies as an exchange student at Bowdoin College. This visit is was a welcome opportunity to talk to people about their faith without being intrusive. Devotees were warm and gracious in doing so as well as proud and excited to share their beautiful spiritual home. By no means is this modest travelogue definitive about BAPS or Hinduism, so please do enjoy a visit yourself to learn more.
In researching, this Hindu proverb stood out as a cornerstone of many faiths, “There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is being superior to your previous self.” The faith that brings the mandir’s stones to life is indeed at the heart of its beauty.
Behind the striking temple exterior (mandap), the construction continues to complete the center (akshardham).
Isamu Noguchi, 1904-1988, was a Japanese-American artist who felt most at home in New York City. His neighboring New Jersey legacy is one of sublime beauty, “The Letter,” a WPA era sculpture at the post office in Haddon Heights, near Philadelphia. The elegantly simple figure of a reclining woman writing a letter floats cloud-like above the grounded, wooden post office decor, reflecting her dreamy reverie as she writes what may be a love letter. Mr. Noguchi’s work conveys mystery, sharing his imagination while he challenges ours. The letter writer has a serene smile that suits the friendliness of the town-proud residents by an artist who loved creating work for the public to enjoy. This included sculpture, gardens, fountains, playgrounds, and furniture. His art combined the best of American and Japanese aesthetics.
As one of the great figures of the twentieth century whose 84 year-long life spanned the globe and whose artistic work included Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, there is so much to learn about Isamu Noguchi. His mother, Leonie Gilmour, from New York City, was a Bryn Mawr graduate who once taught at the Academy of Saint Aloysius in Jersey City. While later working as an editor in New York City, Leonie met the Japanese poet Yone Noguchi. After the relationship ended, upon realizing that she would become a mother, Leonie joined her mother in Los Angeles where Isamu was born in 1904. A few years later, following Yone’s invitation, Leonie and Isamu moved to Chigasaki, Japan, where Isamu grew up in a house with a garden by the sea while his mother supported them by teaching, his father, by that time, having begun a relationship with another woman. When he was 14, Leonie sent Isamu to the US to attend a progressive school that she had read about in Rolling Prairie, Indiana, while she remained in Japan with his half-sister. The school founder and a host family in La Porte, Indiana befriended him, and he later graduated from the local high school. Though his childhood was far from traditional and included the disappointment of a distant father, Leonie encouraged his artistic talent and seemed to be a devoted mother.
Excelling as a student, Isamu enrolled in pre-med studies at Columbia University. Once introduced to sculpture, he had such a natural ability that he pursued art exclusively. Ironically, his skill was so incredible that it held him back initially, his work criticized for being too perfect. With a Guggenheim Fellowship that funded an apprenticeship with the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi in Paris, Isamu’s work became more personal freeing him from that criticism. Interestingly, they had no mutual language in common except art, but understood each other perfectly, a welcome experience after a fraught relationship with Gutzum Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore. Perhaps realizing a longing for the father whom he never truly knew, or asserting a new identity, Isamu dropped his surname “Gilmour” and took “Noguchi” when he became publicly known as an artist. Remarkably, it was not until his early 40’s that he received widespread recognition for his artistic talent. Regrettably, when traveling to Japan as an artist, he learned that his father did not want him to use his surname. On the last visit while his father was still alive, Isamu did not call.
Worldwide travels over six decades as a working artist included friendships with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Mexico and Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning in the US, Greenwich Village neighbors, and collaborations in Japan and Italy. His global works include architecture, perhaps most meaningfully, his design for the Peace Bridges at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, one symbolizing the past and the other, the future. To his disappointment, his design for the main memorial could not be accepted because he was American.
While maintaining a studio in the village of Mure on the island of Shikoku in Japan, where he received inspiration from the Zen gardens, he fell in love with the beautiful actress and singer Yoshiko Yamaguchi (known in the US as “Shirley Yamaguchi”) whom he married in 1951. An anecdote in the museum’s excellent film shares that Isamu wanted the worldly Yoshiko, who worked with Akira Kurosawa and US filmmakers, to wear a kimono at home. She found these uncomfortable, so he designed her a type of pantsuit that had the look of a kimono, but offered more modern comfort. Clothing styles aside, they spent several happy years together in Japan. Sadly, upon returning to the United States for professional reasons, their careers drove them apart.
One account that may best describe the complexity of Isamu’s life was his noble impulse to join fellow Japanese-Americans during their internment in World War II. Living in New York, and not on the West Coast, Isamu, whose name means “courage” in Japanese, was free from this but volunteered to go with the thought of teaching art to boost spirits and develop talent as Brancusi had done for him. Before leaving, actress Ginger Rogers of Rogers & Astaire dancing fame had contacted him to commission a bust. The day after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, she invited him to her home for an initial sitting, and he stayed on the grounds for a month as a guest in a studio she had made for him. He finished the celebrity’s sculpted portrait in pink marble while living in the Poston, Arizona internment camp, on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, during which time he wrote two letters to her about the work’s progress. As The Washington Post notes, his work may have come to the dancer’s knowledge through his set designs for the Martha Graham Dance Company with which his sister, Alies Gilmour, was a dancer. Despite his good intentions, Isamu found that he had little in common with the farmers, shopkeepers, and laborers in the camp and asked to leave, a process which took several months. One detainee recalled how Isamu would wander out into the desert alone to collect wood to carve. Ginger Rogers treasured her Noguchi portrait, which was a centerpiece in her home until she died and now is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
Art at its best is transporting like incredible music, film, or literature that takes us out of ourselves and into the world of the artist’s imagination. As someone who experimented throughout his life by expressing different styles and working with a range of materials (marble, basalt, ceramics, steel, cement, paper, wood, aluminum), Mr. Noguchi risked failure and experienced rejection, but his striving makes the successes soar in a way that defies time and space. Ideal, then, that the complementary works of Spanish sculptor Jorge Palacios, are presently on view along with Mr. Noguchi’s in the latter’s museum in Long Island City, Queens.
At the Isamu Noguchi Museum, which the sculptor helped plan, many of the National Medal of Arts recipient’s sculptures relate to time. The Zen Garden, rooted in a serenity that stands outside of time, is beautiful and enjoyed by visitors. One can also admire it from the staircase exit on the second floor as well as from eye level. Flowing water, important to Isamu, creates serenity with the fountain. Central, too, was the artist’s relationship to the material, including an almost spiritual connection to natural elements like wood, clay, and stone, describing carving as a “process of listening,” a quote from his obituary in The New York Times.
There is so much to take in at the museum that it calls for at least a second visit. Everyone will find pieces that stand out. The impermanent things, the interplay with light, water, and nature, appealed to me most on this first visit, perhaps because they are so novel. The beautiful trees are interwoven with Mr. Noguchi’s art.
The museum’s film about his life features interviews with people who knew Isamu, including a befriended half-brother, and that is also worth a revisit to see in its entirety. A common touching thread in the interviews was that being American and Japanese in the era when Isamu Noguchi grew up, and later, a citizen of the world, were both often lonely paths for the artist. By living in New York City, however, he returned not to another place, but a home with fellow artists and kindred spirits in the realization of the life he had imagined for himself.
Going up the stairs, where you will find the film, and entering into the world of Akari light was a heavenly surprise. These lamp creations use “electrical light as a sculptural element”. For those interested in reading more about his life, Mr. Noguchi wrote an autobiography Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor’s World with a foreward by his close friend architect R. Buckminster Fuller. This is available at the museum and on Amazon, which is on order and calls for an Isamu Noguchi 2.0 revisit in “Writing New Jersey Life” and #FridayReads. There is, however, momentum with things, and better to post an introduction before the flurry of the holidays and the Akari and Palacios exhibitions end on January 27th.
“The Kite” stainless steel and reminiscent of “Bolt of Lightning,” 1984, Philadelphia, in honor of Benjamin Franklin. Mr. Noguchi’s plans were on hold for years until a 1979 retrospective of his work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art renewed interest in his art.
Whether visiting as a family, a couple, or on one’s own, and there were one and all, the Long Island City museum is a delight. There is a nice café with a select, good menu including coffee and beverages. You can reach the museum by public transportation or car. For those driving, there is street parking, and someone kindly suggested finding a nearby store lot, which you did not read here, but a good faith purchase will put you in good standing. The Socrates Sculpture Park across the street has a free exhibit on through March 10th. A blocks up is a new, charming neighborhood place, Flor de Azalea Café, which has some Wifi in a pinch and thank you to the museum staff for mentioning it.
For travelers, Isamu’s former Japanese studio is now the Noguchi Garden Museum. Other notable public works include the UNESCO Gardens in Paris, the Billy Rose Sculpture Garden in Jerusalem as well as works throughout the United States pictured in the online gallery of the Noguchi Museum.
As the museum notes, “The Letter” is a “mural relief” in magnesite, once again displaying Isamu Noguchi’s versatility as a sculptor. The post office has a display case sharing information about what we might call a “3-D mural”. There is a wonderful atmosphere in places that preserve their treasures. Both their appreciation that they are such and their pride in them emanates in a generous spirit. The US Post Office itself released stamps of Isamu Noguchi’s works in 2004, which are still in use.
Under the New Deal, the Public Works of Art Project that brought about “The Letter” and through which it came to my attention, aimed to give work to artists in the Great Depression and existed under the supervision of the US Treasury’s Section of Painting and Sculpture. The intent was for the art to reach as many people as possible, which brought the commissioned artists to the WPA’s newly constructed post offices throughout the country to share their work for the public’s benefit.
Returning to South Jersey, picturesque Haddon Heights where “The Letter” floats timelessly, shares a scenic beauty with Haddonfield and Haddon Township, all the namesakes of Elizabeth Haddon. An English-born Quaker, she sailed to the Colonies alone to begin the settlement of a large area of land in Southern Jersey, southeastern Pennsylvania, and Delaware, bought by her father who had envisioned a peaceful new start for Quakers, unwelcome in England at that time. Too ill to make the journey, his dream was realized by Elizabeth and his name carried on with “Haddon’s Field” where she and her minister husband created a beautiful home and helped to establish the Quaker community. Their courtship, brought to the public’s attention by Lydia Marie Child, a writer and abolitionist who authored the Thanksgiving poem “Over the River and Through the Wood” that became the popular Christmas song, inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to write “Elizabeth,” part of a long poem “Tales of a Wayside Inn”.
Elizabeth Haddon had a shared worldview with fellow Quaker Sarah Norris, who renamed her establishment “The Indian King” in gratitude to the “Sachem” in Algonquin, the elder or chief of the Unlachtigo Lenape, the southernmost of the three Lenape tribes in the state. With their knowledge of survival skills, the Lenape, particularly Sachem Ockanickon, were responsible for keeping the Quakers alive through their first winters. Later, when that generosity was not reciprocated, Sarah called her establishment “The Indian King” in gratitude and posted a highly visible sign as a reminder to the settlement’s debt to the Lenape. It was here at the Indian King Tavern that the New Jersey legislature read the Declaration of Independence into the minutes in 1776, and New Jersey became a state on September 20, 1777 with the changing of “colony” to “state” in its Constitution. On this site, the legislature adopted the Great Seal with the cornucopia for the bounty of the Garden State, designed by a Swiss-born artist Pierre Eugene Du Sumitiere.
In the Empire state, the path to find Isamu Noguchi’s works in New York City embraced the city he loved starting with chats with people uptown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park to midtown to downtown in Manhattan. These began with directions when the iPhone and mini bemoaned the number of photos, which led to the delightful surprise of fireworks downtown and the Diwali Festival. There was the added warmth of Long Island City, people smiling on the streets, leafy parks, roses and flowers growing skyward through garden gates, and Halloween decorations set up early in happy anticipation. Queens visits were welcome excursions in my Manhattan shoebox apartment days and still are. Being able to dine anywhere in the world in Astoria and shop working my way out from Broadway, especially at the holidays, was a Saturday well spent. Thank you to all the gracious navigators along the way.
Who could seem more different than Frank Sinatra and Norman Rockwell? On the surface, one might think “Fly Me to the Moon” as a song to capture their disparate public images. Both, however, were iconic artists of the twentieth century dedicated to excellence in their work, and each told stories in his own medium. At the annual New Jersey Festival of Balloons each July, when the balloons launch at dawn to Frank’s “Come Fly with Me,” his incredible voice soars along with them, still resonant with life, fresh like a Norman Rockwell “snapshot”. What seems effortless is always the result of dedication.
Norman Perceval Rockwell and Francis Albert Sinatra met in at Norman’s studio in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in 1971, when Frank sat for a portrait commissioned as a gift for his family. The relocated studio is now part of a visit to Norman Rockwell Museum – The Home for American Illustration, one of the highlights on a scenic Berkshires stay.
There’s almost always a New Jersey connection wherever one goes and the same is true of the museum dedicated to Mr. Rockwell’s work in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Norman Rockwell became a tried and true New Englander and the official state artist of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but he grew up in New York City across the Hudson River from Frank’s native Hoboken about twenty-one years earlier. An artist who came on the scene at the end of the Golden Age of Illustration, the period between the late 1800’s and post World War I, Norman was fortunate to start out at a time when talent met with opportunity. New publications in wide circulation were in need of artists. Though famous for his cheerful slices of American life, it may surprise people to know that Norman Rockwell created one of his most beloved paintings “Doctor and the Doll,” 1929, during a difficult time following a divorce. The model is actor Pop Fredericks who appears in a number of Norman’s paintings and often played the role of Ben Franklin and Santa Claus at events.
Norman lived in Stockbridge after moving there from Vermont. People know his lighter depictions of everyday life best from The Saturday Evening Post covers delivered weekly to homes across the United States from 1916 and 1963, which made his work a part of American life for five decades. Those paintings live on in reprint on calendars, greeting cards, and just about everywhere for any holiday. Norman often used local models, including his three sons, and the beautiful Berkshires for inspiration. Stockbridge residents fondly recall seeing him riding his bicycle around town. His 323 Post covers are on display in a room downstairs in the museum. Framed, they fill the four walls in a stunning tribute to Mr. Rockwell’s prolific talent and one can see why whenever his art graced the cover, the magazine had to print an additional 250,000 copies to meet customer demand. This wonderful photo shows him setting one of his models at ease, though he may have been giving direction as he often worked from photographs.
On the way to and from vacation – can you guess which is which?
Norman was a talent from the outset, landing a cover and a job at Boy’s Life magazine right out of high school. For years, he also provided art for the annual Boys Scouts of America calendars. His work still is everywhere and can be enjoyed here in New Jersey at Princeton’s historic Nassau Inn where one can view the “Yankee Doodle Mural”. The historic inn is neighbor to cultural resources like the Arts Council of Princeton which one can discover in walking tours through the inn or Discovering Princeton, both also noted as a thank you for longtime social media follows.
A Norman Rockwell real-life happy ending happened last year in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Years ago, a young man had accidentally damaged a Rockwell painting “Taking a Break” with his pool cue during a game and apologetically purchased the work for $50. Despite the minor flaw, the family enjoyed the painting until it was stolen. Forty years later, authorities recovered it much to the family’s delight. Concerned about security as it was, alas, not painted on a wall, they sold it for a staggering $900,000.
“Triple Self-Portrait,” 1960. The helmet is a symbol of humility. Norman bought it from a Parisian antiques dealer. Thinking himself clever for getting a deal, turned out that it was a contemporary dress French fireman’s helmet.
Noted for conveying charm through humor, both Norman and Francis would likely have enjoyed the Cherry Hill story. More profoundly, they also shared similar beliefs about freedom and civil rights. This aspect of Frank’s public life is perhaps better known today than Norman’s via documentaries and televised dramas, including Mr. Sinatra’s rise to stardom as a proud Italian-American who kept his surname in the 1940’s despite advice to the contrary. “Sinatra” on the marquee was more than billing.
Americans may expereince name-recognition with Norman Rockwell’s paintings of the Four Freedoms from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Annual Message to Congress of January 6, 1941: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. The speech did not go over as the president had hoped. Hitler’s threat seemed far away to war-weary Americans, but the wide circulation of Norman’s paintings in The Saturday Evening Post in 1943 made the ideas relatable to the public. The paintings later traveled to help sell war bonds, and their civic contribution earned Mr. Rockwell a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Gerald R. Ford. Those in the New York City area, enjoyed seeing the Four Freedoms Exhibit, which includes “The Golden Rule,” at The New-York Historical Society Museum & Library till September 1st. The exhibit is now on tour to The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., the Mémorial de Caen in Normandy, France, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX, and finally back home to the Norman Rockwell Museum.
A painting of which both the artist and the museum is proud, “The Problem We All Live With”, 1963, is a story version of the experience of Ruby Bridges, reflective of social issues in Mr. Rockwell’s work in the 1960’s, also in the New York exhibit.
On exhibit at the museum through October 29th is “Keepers of the Flame: Parrish, Wyeth, Rockwell and the Narrative Tradition” featuring works by Maxfield Parrish and Andrew Wyeth in addition to those of Norman Rockwell. The museum also has fun events like visits from former Rockwell models, a history of hand-drawn animation from Mickey Mouse to Tom and Jerry to The Flintstones, children’s events, and lectures by the museum curators, all of which you can find via Twitter: @NRockwellMuseum.
Thank you to the delightful and knowledgeable docent at the Norman Rockwell Museum for the studio tour and the fun tidbit about Frank Sinatra. Mr. Sinatra had good company in John Wayne, whose portrait the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center commissioned, and Bob Hope, Jack Benny, and Gary Cooper, years earlier. A fun anecdote about Gary Cooper from the Post writers is that he was a model for a May 1930 cover for his film “The Texan,” not a portrait but a painting-story about a cowboy actor having make-up applied on the set. Mr. Cooper, a friend of Frank Sinatra’s in the small world of Hollywood, was not only conscientious but nice to everyone on the staff and crew even as he was becoming a household name. As to where the painting is now, it could be in the collection of avid Rockwell admirer Steven Speilberg, who lived as a child in Haddon Township, New Jersey, and was one of the significant supporters behind the new museum that had outgrown the one in town due to the artist’s popularity.
The museum has dedicated talented volunteers who are part of the vibrant Stockbridge community, one of whom recently performed from Shakespeare at the Red Lion Inn. For more information on this Blue Star Museum that welcomes active military members and their families, also visit: www.nrm.org. The museum photos are from a trip last summer, but we look forward to our next Berkshire visit.
Stockbridge former firehouse featured in “The New American LaFrance is Here!” a popular ad in 1971 for ATO, Inc. American-LaFrance Fire engines.
Frank Sinatra Park, Hoboken, with a spectacular view of “New York, New York,” an outdoor amphitheater for concerts, and a playing field in the “home of baseball”.
Studio with a copy of “The Golden Rule,” 1961. The original hangs in the United Nations when not on loan.
As a living history museum, Hancock Shaker Village in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, a National Historic Landmark, holds talks and demonstrations throughout the day, sharing the music, craftsmanship, and other talents of the Shaker community. If you know “Simple Gifts,” but not much about the Shakers, the community came to the United States from England in 1774 to seek religious freedom. Founder Mother Anna Lee and her followers referred to themselves as the “United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing”. The name from “Shaking Quakers” is a description, not initially flattering, given by outsiders for the members’ animated physical expression during worship when they “shook off” sin. Dance was considered a form of worship. They did not marry and referred to each other as “sister” and “brother” in their familial communities with an estimated 6,000 members from New England through Kentucky by the mid-1800. Shakers are known today for their beautiful music, architecture, and furniture.
At its height, the Hancock Shaker community had 300 residents who peacefully co-existed and contributed to the surroundings towns through their sale of hand-crafted goods and furniture: “hands to work, and hearts to God”. At the largest Shaker village in the eastern United States, visitors can see as many as 20 buildings.
The Shakers believed in gender, ethnic, and racial equality as well as education working to create a pacifist “Heaven on Earth”. At a time when orphaned children had few options for care, the community took them in and educated them without obligation to remain, though some did.
At the community’s heart was the strikingly beautiful Round Stone Barn, built in 1826 and restored in 1968. Though practical in purpose, it was a working community barn. My first thought upon seeing it through the frame of the entry gate, surprisingly, was its similarity to the Taoist Temple of Heaven in Beijing. Though from different cultures and eras, the Shakers considered work to be a form of worship and the barn as a temple may not stray in concept. The interior of the barn is a harmony of line, space, and purpose.
For long-time admirers of Shaker furniture, seeing this and all the elegant architecture firsthand will be a pleasure. A filmmaker’s dream, the doorways provided wonderful frames to view the landscape in different ways in a play on perspective. At the Stone Barn, my friend gamely complied to reenact John Wayne’s role in “The Searchers” in an irresistibly incredible door frame that would have set John Ford’s heart alight. On a quiet June day between school groups and summer tourists, we could indulge ourselves thanks to a professional staff that reflects the welcome serenity of the original community.
The charm of the village includes friendly animals that are part of the Discovery Center for children and the working organic farm that offers monthly “farm-to-table” dining with “Food for Thought” and organic farming community farming. Sweet miniature donkeys run up to greet visitors, clearly used to people. Though traditional farmers, the Shakers embraced technology. They did not file for patents, so inventive ideas like putting gardening seeds into paper packets for distribution and creating flat brooms and circular saws cannot be traced specifically to them. Today, there are still some Shakers living in Maine.
Children can wear clothes from the period, learn to weave, milk a cow, and tend to a beehive at the Discovery Center.
The Shakers may have originated the sale of garden seeds in packets.
One of the adorable and friendly miniature donkeys. The barnyard animals are a delight for children.
August 4th marks the annual Summer Gala. Though we actually visited last June, a revisit lends itself to mention this wonderful event that raises funds for the upkeep of this National Historic Landmark, which also features summer concerts in the Stone Barn, Shakerfest on August 18th, a Country Fair on September 29th and 30th. For more information on this site in Hancock (Pittsfield), Massachusetts, open daily 10-4 through the summer, Makers Days (crafting), recipes, premium tours for children and adults that include scary Halloween fun, online shopping, and ways to support, watch the orientation video, or also see the calendar of events. An excellent café is onsite. One tip to enjoy the visit is to wear good walking shoes as the grounds are extensive and the pathways are preserved to reflect the era. Reserve several hours to enjoy this serene and beautiful place.
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“Who is ready to defend our park?” the speaker shouted. It was 6 a.m. and thousands of us filled the Occupy Wall Street camp under a pre-dawn sky. The day before, Mayor Bloomberg threatened to evict us, so we came prepared to lock arms in a human chain. We knew cops could scald our eyes with pepper spray. But we were ready to defend a vision and raised our hands and yelled like a loud crack of thunder.
Bloomberg backed down and utopia, an ideal community or society, an imaginary island, a word that in Greek means “no-place,” continued to flourish just up the street from the New York Stock Exchange. Like a dream vanishing in morning, utopia cannot survive reality. And yet at Liberty Park a flawed but working utopia has appeared. In one square block the left has made a site of transformation that frees people from a commodified life to one of wild defiant joy.
No one is paid but we work. Few can buy food but no one goes hungry. We march with signs that shout for change but have created a miniature example of the world we want. In Liberty Park is a glimpse of life beyond capitalism.
Utopian sites like Liberty Park or Tahrir Square or the Paris Commune are geysers shooting desire into daylight. They transform our consciousness through solidarity. Occupy Wall Street provides the euphoria of fighting a common enemy — the 1 percent whose ill-gotten wealth and power we have come to reclaim. But at the core is an experience of democratic values. Until we speak of that vision we will target Wall Street and not see the new world rising from its ruins.
We talk of how ideology divides the left but here empathy overflows ideas. Fighting over abstractions seems silly when sleeping on cold concrete. Out of need, we help each other and find meaning no book or leader can offer us.
In these new values a collective vision takes shape. In the donating of sleeping bags is the value of gifting. In the beautiful art, radical self-expression. In the weary nomads laden with backpacks we see radical inclusiveness, in the feeding and healing of each other, we see interdependence and in the general assemblies, direct democracy.
Weeks ago, I spent my first night at Liberty Park and watched protesters snoring in sleeping bags like large caterpillars. It was 3 a.m. A thin cold rain fell.
I met Tony, a young man from upstate New York. “I’ve looked for work for months but there’s nothing,” he said. “Not in the classifieds. Not through word of mouth.” Before coming, he left a note with his parents saying he was joining the occupation. “Mom said, ‘You’re doing the right thing.’ And she’s right. I don’t feel helpless anymore,” he said.
A few hours later, buses and taxis blared their horns in the morning rush. The 99’ers rose, shook puddles out of blue tarp. Their faces were strained from the cold and rain, hunger and fear. But whether it was greeting newcomers, sweeping trash into bags or scooping food on plates; I saw a sense of purpose that illuminated each gesture with glory. I felt that elusive utopia where the spirit moves through the dark corridors of history to a light that answers every question.
The other utopia I have experienced with the same energy as Occupy Wall Street is Burning Man. Each August, thousands of people gather in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada to haul tons of metal, tools, fabric and generators and build an ephemeral city. Rising from the bright white desert is the Man, a tall figure of wood and steel. For a week we circle him.
At Burning Man nearly everyone is joyful and open. And it heals. After interviewing refugees in Darfur or victims of flooded New Orleans or broken people in Haiti, it is a place where my soul unfolds into a new shape. You can dance or be spanked, fed, liquored up, massaged or loved and laugh hysterically. You can weep for the dead at the Temple. You can pour nightmares into the desert and walk away whole. Burning Man is a site of transformation with the same values of Occupy Wall Street; in it we experience radical self-expression, gifting, inclusiveness, immediacy, self-reliance, decommodification and civic responsibility. On the last day of the festival, the Man burns in a geyser of flame and crashes, we dance around his ashes to celebrate the sacred euphoria of our self-creation.
Every utopia has extreme behavior that is a symptom of its values. Horizontal groups bring in energy but suffer from “blurry lines.” Into Liberty Park have come homeless street youth, drug addicts and alcoholics.
During one sleepover, I saw a jittery circle at the far end of Liberty Plaza. I jogged over and heard an Occupy Wall Street security man yelling at a bleary-eyed vagabond to take his beer away before the cops came in. The next day a spiky-haired youth offered to sell me marijuana and later that night another Occupy Wall Street security man shouted at a thief who “borrowed and lost” an iPhone.
And of course, radical self-expression brings out the crazies. A tall, bearded man just loves to walk around with anti-Semitic signs. One time a group of us surrounded him and sang “Kum Ba Yah. We love Jews, oh Lord, we love Jews.” And then we hugged a gangly Jewish man with a big afro until he was dizzy with touch.
Thomas More was right to use Greek words “not” and “place” because utopia is “no place.” It is the repressed part of selves that has no place in society and yet, miraculously, it surfaces again and again.
Utopia is real because society is not. Under civilization is the building pressure of discontent and it steams through the cracks of crime and art and radical politics.
Burning Man and Occupy Wall Street are two utopias. The former, isolated in the desert, is reachable only by those with money. It changes lives but not society. The latter is sprouting in the heart of capitalism like a fountain of youth in a dead city, trying to transform the world with justice. Union supporters picket Sotheby’s art auction house on the Upper East Side to protest its attack on workers’ rights while others journey uptown to protest “stop-and-frisk” abuses outside a police station in Harlem. And at Liberty Park we camp on the doorstep of Capitalism.
On the surface, Occupy Wall Street is an oppositional utopia based on a common enemy. But at its core it shares with Burning Man the experience of creating a new world — which means as we march, we must see beyond Wall Street and point to the city flashing in the future and say its name before it vanishes.
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Dione Peterson’s Beau Chant ensemble connects the SSM community in Washington, D.C.
Since 2013, former SSM faculty member, Dione Peterson has been directing an adult choral ensemble called Beau Chant. A number of current and past faculty members have added their voices to Beau Chant and the group has toured internationally. This summer, they stayed closer to home with a trip to Washington, D.C.
Last modified on Jun. 28th, 2018 at 9:29am by Amy Wolf.
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The aircraft containing 17 passengers declared an emergency after a warning light came on relating to one of the aircraft’s two engines.
The flight, which originally left Aberdeen at 10.12am and was due to fly to Sumburgh airport in Shetland, returned to Aberdeen and landed safely at 10.45am.
A spokeswoman for Eastern Airways said: “Shortly after departing from Aberdeen for Sumburgh, charter flight EZE1035 returned to Aberdeen due to a warning indication relating to one of the aircraft’s two engines. As a precautionary measure, the captain decided to shut down the affected engine following a bird strike.
“The Jetstream 41 aircraft with 17 passengers and three crew on board landed safely at Aberdeen at 1045. Passengers disembarked the aircraft as normal via the aircraft steps. Engineers are inspecting the aircraft.
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St. Giles' Cathedral is less than a kilometre from Edinburgh Centre Novotel and so is Edinburgh Waverley Rail Station that provides transport links to cities in the UK. Visitors can use the convenient Airlink Airport Transfer to get to Edinburgh International Airport just 10 kilometres away.
The 180 comfortable rooms feature amenities suited to both business and leisure guests. All rooms are equipped with LCD TV, a writing desk, broadband internet access and pay-per-view movies.
Elements Restaurant at Novotel Edinburgh provides an a la carte menu comprising international contemporary and traditional cuisine, and the bar is open throughout the day serving a range of lighter meals and drinks.
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Chairman & CEO | Exyn Technologies Inc.
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Till now available 3D cellular models are not explored to their full potential. Cyprio’s solution, HepatoPearl, is a liver 3D cellular model that is easy to handle, adaptable to any bioassay and any established experimental pipeline. HepatoPearl can provide precise answers to drug assays such as long term DPMK, DILI and drug efficacy.
HepatoPearl is a physiologically relevant 3D in vitro model of Primary Human Hepatocytes (PHH) fabricated using the BioPearl technology. HepatoPearls are produced using cryopreserved and freshly isolated PHH. They have been characterized and validated by our research team using different donor cells.
During the 7 days post encapsulation, cells self-assemble to form a compact micrometric spheroid within each capsule. Homogenous oxygen and nutrient diffusion supports cell physiology within the HepatoPearls over long periods.
HepatoPearls effectively mimic the in vivo-like complex 3D architecture of the liver. Cell polarization, tight junctions and bile canaliculi network presence are some of the major aspects present in HepatoPearls, which impacts their physiological relevance as an in vitro model. Presence of tight junction protein, ZO-1 as well as cytoskeleton protein, F-actin, in the HepatoPearls indicates the analogy of this in vitro model to the native tissue.
HepatoPearls are viable during 6 weeks and maintain their morphological structure and physiological characteristics all along this period. Besides, transparency of alginate allows real-time microscopic screening of cell behavior in HepatoPearls.
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HepatoPearls maintain a high metabolic level over 5 weeks: major Cytochrome P450 enzymes, phase II metabolizing enzymes and nuclear receptors.
Moreover, long-term CYP P450 cytochromes inducibility of HepatoPearls is validated with three reference inducer molecules (omeprazole, phenobarbital, and rifampicin) and their three target enzymes (CYP1A2, CYP2B6, and CYP3A4).
Putting all together, HepatoPearls provide a relatively large working window for long experiments such as prediction of hepatic clearance over long incubations with low-clearance compounds, toxicokinetics with chronic drug exposure and high content screening through imaging.
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The insider said that Grande was "insulted" after producers refused to let her perform the song, though they later relented and said she could sing it as part of a medley.
According to Variety, the 25-year-old American singer won't be performing and may not even attend the event which takes place on Sunday, 10 February.
As Billboard pointed out in a separate article, the album's success was "a rare new peak for a late-'10s pop star" and was especially significant "because not many of her pop star peers are doing so alongside her".
Grande has already released two singles from her upcoming album Thank U, Next, the title track and 7 Rings, which has already shattered records. We all know how rigged these award ceremonies are so since she now has major beef with the powers that be, it's doubtful that she'll be taking out any awards but good on her for refusing to bow down to their bullying antics.
At this time, however, the Recording Academy and Ariana are yet to confirm the news, so there is still a chance it's just a fake rumor and that fans will be able to see the singer at the awards show on Sunday after all!
Other acts set to perform at this year's Grammys include Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Cardi B, Diana Ross, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello.
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In this one-hour special, Kirstie looks to the past for inspiration in creating the perfect family Christmas with a vintage twist. And we find out why Kissing Balls is high on her list of priorities. From Victorian finishing touches to the Germanic origins of many of our modern traditions this show is full of festive decorations and foodie treats for folks to try at home.
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For this item's standard variant, see elite sirenic chaps (shadow).
For this item's (un)dyed variants, see undyed, Barrows, blood, Third Age, Ice.
For other variants of this item, see non-elite.
Made from sirenic scales and further imbued with greater power. Woven into chaps as part of a set of armour.
The augmented elite sirenic chaps (shadow) is a sirenic chaps that has been upgraded to tier 92 using ancient scales, augmented with an augmentor, and dyed with shadow dye.
Augmented dyed equipment do not feature the cogs associated with most augmented items (they look identical to non-augmented versions). Disassembling augmented dyed items does not return the dye. Dying in unsafe player-versus-player (PvP) combat with this item drops a broken elite sirenic chaps - the dye, augmentor, and gizmos are lost.
Armour gizmos charged with perks can be used to enhance the item's abilities. As a legs slot item, the Augmented elite sirenic chaps (shadow) can hold 2 gizmo's, allowing up to 4 perks (2 perks each).
The Augmented elite sirenic chaps (shadow) uses charges stored within the item (not in the universal charge pack). It degrades exactly as the non-augmented version does: it has 100,000 charges of combat. These charges can be replenished by combining it with a non-dyed, augmented variant of the same item. This will combine the charges of both items but any excess charge will be lost, furthermore only one version may have perks on it. When combining two items the greater item experience of the two items is retained.
The item can be trained and siphoned as normal while it has charges. Once it runs out of charges, it will retain its equipment bonuses until it reaches equipment level 10, where it will become unusable and has to be recharged or be disassembled. This will return an un-augmented, broken elite sirenic chaps (shadow). It can then be repaired and re-augmented as normal. A dye can be used on an augmented, undyed version to produce this item.
Unlike normal augmented items, this item is made at an Inventor's workbench from a new, fully charged item, an augmentor, and 36 divine charges. It cannot be made from a partially used component. Augmentation dissolvers cannot be used on this item. Additionally, it can be made by dyeing an undyed version or upgrading a non-elite version.
2 1,160 10,620 Disassembling this item has a 50% chance to return installed gizmos.
3 2,607 31,860 Disassembling this item gives double materials.
4 5,176 63,720 10,620 15.08 Disassembling this item never gives junk.
5 8,286 127,440 31,860 5.03 This item drains 10% less charge when used.
6 11,760 169,920 63,720 2.51 Disassembling this item gives triple materials.
7 15,835 233,640 127,440 1.26 Disassembling this item gives an extra random uncommon material.
8 21,152 318,600 169,920 0.94 Disassembling this item returns all installed gizmos.
9 28,761 446,040 233,640 0.69 Disassembling this item gives quadruple materials.
10 40,120 637,200 318,600 0.50 Disassembling this item gives the maximum extra Invention XP.
12 81,960 637,200 0.25 Siphoning this item gives the maximum extra Invention XP.
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After missing the postseason two years in a row, you’d be able to guess the pressure on GM Steve Yzerman to fix things is pretty high. Lightning fans can take heart that the effort to fix things up in Tampa is well underway.
Erik Erlendsson of The Tampa Tribune hears from the Lightning GM about what’s happening with the Bolts.
Those kids from Syracuse (Alex Killorn, Richard Panik, Tyler Johnson, Radko Gudas) got a healthy look at life in the pros this season thanks to various injuries. Firing Guy Boucher and dealing one of those youngsters in Cory Conacher to Ottawa for Ben Bishop helped change the look in goal as well.
Further rebuilding will likely have to come via trade. According to CapGeek, they’ve got nearly $61 million committed to 17 players next season and with a $64.3 million cap, Yzerman’s got some work ahead of him.
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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY HAS ISSUED A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM MONDAY TO 11 AM TUESDAY.
MAY BE POSSIBLE...ALONG WITH A TRACE OF ICE.
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AND UPPER 20S MONDAY EVENING AND OVERNIGHT.
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Peel the broken crayons and make sure to remove the paper glue by rubbing it off with your fingers.
Fill the star molds as full as you can, with pieces sticking up.
Bake in the oven for 15 minutes, or until completely melted.
Turn off the oven and allow to cool completely in the oven. If they are disturbed to soon, they may crack.
Once cooled, they may be removed and used for coloring!
Such a neat idea! I’m going to try this when my girls are older!
Where was this great idea when mine were younger??
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Solidarity for Workers' Power Vol.5 No.7 (Jan or Feb 1969) contained an article by John Sullivan attacking 'Capitalism and Socialism', an article by Maurice Brinton in the previous issue. As an example of Sullivan's tone he described Brinton's article as "a warmed-up version of the soggy humanitarianism of the Christian Socialists, Ramsay MacDonald, and the right wing of the ILP."
Two members of the group (Tom Hillier and John Sullivan) have recently 'dropped out' of libertarian politics, and are now members of International Socialism, one of them already well up in the hierarchy. On leaving Solidarity they produced a singularly inaccurate pamphlet ('Solidarity Forever') in which they criticized us for various alleged actions and shortcomings. We have decided that these 'criticisms' should be answered and the record set straight. Afficionados of this sort of thing may order our reply-pamphlet now (10d., post free). An excerpt of this reply-pamphlet, giving the September 1968 views of T.H. on J.S. is published below.
No mere debating society conisting of John Sullivan and his "chosen few" of intellectuals who with two exceptions, have never produced an article with political theory as its subject — indeed Cde Sullivan has so far written two short articles on Vietnam and several book reviews. Something more positive than this is expected from someone as anxious to get theoretical discussion going within the group. His contributions to the Industrial Ctte are in all honesty even more meagre.
The text of Maurice Brinton's reply is reproduced below. Both of these texts are taken from the copies on the Whats Next website, here and here. Solidarity's reply evidently included some quotations from Sullivan and Hillier. However the one by Tom Hillier referred to above isn't included in the version on What Next, suggesting this may not be everything contained in Solidarity's pamphlet.
The Solidarity group has existed now for more than seven years. During this time it has produced a number of articles and pamphlets which have been of interest to many people whose politics were not those of the group. Their journal also claimed to offer a theory of working class organization. We, as ex-members, feel that there is a lesson to be learned from the experience of this organization. Some may feel that the internal workings of a tiny group can be of no interest to anyone outside it. We feel, however, that a study of this attempt to transcend the usual form of political organization will have some value. In the perennial debate between anarchists and socialists this experience may illustrate the incoherence of the anarchist position.
The precise status of the Solidarity group was always ambiguous. It proclaimed itself a revolutionary socialist organization, and at various times it made sporadic attempts to recruit people. At other times it seemed to see itself as a publishing house. The actual form of the group, as distinct from its image of itself, was a group of friends who formed a retinue around the leader, M.B.
The ambiguity extended to Solidarity's political ideas. It did not proclaim itself as anarchist, although it contained within itself most of the confusions of anarchist theory. Notably, it remained uncertain whether bureaucracy was an inevitable product of organization or whether it was possible to create a rational, libertarian organization of social and economic life – i.e. socialism. Members could point to the Soviets as examples of real democracy, while maintaining that a committee was by definition bureaucratic.
It would be possible to deduce the errors and sectarian excesses of Solidarity as an inevitable working out of its ideas. This would be a mistaken approach. The ideas were themselves confused, so there could have been many different conclusions from them.
Solidarity's ideological fuzziness had a function. It prevented it from being torn apart by the doctrinal quarrels which have split Marxist groups. The attitude was adopted that if agreement could be reached on immediate issues there was no need to quarrel about abstract matters. In practice the group settled for a matter-of-fact empiricism which sometimes degenerated into mindless militancy. This empiricism and ideological fuzziness undoubtedly enabled Solidarity to unite a number of people of quite different political views to perform specific actions. In the long run, however, the failure to think or discuss had fatal consequences. The inability to argue about issues was also not accidental. It reflected the suppressed realization that the group contained incompatible elements.
In fact, rather than Solidarity's aberrations resulting from working out of general ideas, they can be explained only by the specific experience of the group.
1) It took over the ideas of the French group Socialisme ou Barbarie which had published a large body of work since its appearance in 1949.
2) Solidarity's origins coincided with the upsurge in the peace movement, around the Committee of 100. Although it did not originate in this movement, the group soon became very influential in the anarcho-pacifist milieu around the Committee.
A glance at the magazine during this time showed how deep its immersion in this type of activity was. Many people thought of Solidarity as part of the peace milieu, rather than of the labour movement. This was, however, rather misleading. Solidarity made concessions to pacifism but so does every group which tries to work in a specific sphere. It inevitably recruited people who were pacifists and understressed the ideas of class division.
However immersed Solidarity was in the peace movement this was never its sole interest. Even at the height of this activity it still carried articles on industry and on working-class struggle.
Solidarity had been attracted to the peace movement by their use of the tactic of direct action, which it saw as a revival of an older Syndicalist tradition. It never subscribed to the pacifist philosophy behind this tactic, but thought that this difference was secondary. Here we find a recurrent characteristic of Solidarity's activity – the raising of tactical questions to greater importance than those of political principle.
It will be difficult for those who have come into politics during the past five years to realise how understandable Solidarity's overestimation of the peace movement was. In the early 1960s many thousands of people were marching with CND. This immensely colourful and active movement seemed like a classless rebirth of revolutionary politics. Today, with the advantage of hindsight, we can see that it was the last gasp of middle-class radicalism, not a new manifestation of revolutionary politics.
Because Solidarity rejected the consideration of overall strategy, it never had a correct evaluation of the peace movement (although it was quick to pounce on the backslidings of the leadership). Solidarity's lack of a democratic structure or clear ideas meant that it was too involved in the peace movement to realize the extent of its collapse.
The studies of specific industrial situations are what Solidarity will be remembered for. These articles improved on the general level of left-wing journalism. They were serious studies which went beyond the over-simplified "down with the bosses" which still forms the gist of the industrial articles in most left-wing papers.
Solidarity's isolation from the working class meant that these articles were mainly sociological studies for a predominantly middle-class readership. Here lay one of the greatest weaknesses of this approach. Solidarity never attempted to work out an industrial strategy. Although it was an explicitly revolutionary journal, its concentration on careful, accurate description of things as they were contained the likelihood of leaving things as they were. A concentration on description of existing reality, with no strategy for changing it eventually leaves this reality as something which in its totality must be accepted. One could only struggle against the manifestations of the system; the system itself remained inviolate because it was not understood.
A socialist strategy for industry would have to go beyond careful empirical examination. Such glimmerings of an industrial strategy as could be deduced from the pages of Solidarity were merely repetition of classic syndicalism, with all the virtues and weaknesses of that tradition. Syndicalists were justly annoyed when Solidarity presented the ideas which they had propagated for decades as brilliant new discoveries.
The Solidarity leadership realized that something was lacking in a purely syndicalist approach, but instead of attempting a total critique of capitalist society – a critique which would realize that there were many struggles in society but that the class struggle in industry was the crucial one – they documented a number of struggles, without having any clear ideas of which was primary. This approach is the logical corollary to a practice which consisted in joining in any struggle which came along, without trying to see its relevance to the whole.
The leadership was aware of the elementary fact that life did not begin at the factory gate. It saw that a socialist journal had to deal with other aspects of life. But the aspects which they chose to report contributed to the paper's lack of success among the people it tried to influence. The non-industrial articles in Solidarity tended to be ornamental, which sometimes meant that they were eccentric (the fluoridation fringe which haunts some of the wilder fringes of the left were distressingly interested in our aberration). One of the articles which provoked most response was a cretinous piece which tried to present the development of the symphony orchestra as part of the bureaucratic phenomenon.
It was not really Solidarity's fault that the different strands of its activity did not fuse together into a united movement. No other group had any greater success in converting peace activists to revolutionary politics. Perhaps the potential for such a fusion did not exist.
Industrial workers maintained an attitude of tolerant indifference to the peace movement. Peace movement activists saw no need to look beyond the next sit-down. Supporters of Solidarity were prepared to sell the group's theoretical pamphlets but were not prepared to read them, and certainly not to discuss them. This produced one of the most curious aspects of Solidarity's activity. Pamphlets which aroused a lively reaction outside the group were not discussed within it. Solidarity appeared as the carrier of a disease which it did not itself suffer from.
Solidarity's move away from the peace movement did not follow from an analysis of the inherent limits of the movement, but from a reaction to the fact that the dog was not only dead, but stinking abominably. The move back toward industry followed.
The tensions within the group were revealed most obviously by the publication of an article in Solidarity Vol.4 No.1 in April 1966. The article, entitled "No Noose is Good News", was a defence of the so-called workers' courts which in several factories had imposed sanctions on blacklegs and rate-busters. There had been a vicious and sensational press campaign against these "courts", alleging that innocent men were being driven to the brink of suicide by them.
The Solidarity article, editorial in tone, although signed by three members, was an excellent explanation and defence of the "courts", pointing out that they were an expression of working-class values and objectives, which presented a challenge to bourgeois law and order.
This article was not printed as an editorial because the anarcho-pacifist members of the group objected. From their point of view workers' courts were identical to the bourgeois variety: both tried to tell the free individual what to do. The article was, therefore, quite rightly not printed as an editorial. (We wish that Solidarity's contents had always been decided so democratically.) But it does say something about the political level of the group that it was split on an issue which is basic not only to the objectives of working-class organization but even to its existence.
The publication of "No Noose is Good News" started a process of political differentiation within the group. People did not present a point of view and resign when it was defeated. As Solidarity did not have formal membership no thorough discussion took place. But a number of the anarcho-pacifists took their distance from the group.
The new direction within the group was clearly shown by the article "Six Years Hard" in Vol.4 No.5. This article, a summing up of the work of the group, announces the intention of leaving the peace milieu. At the same time it tries to justify the group's past immersion in it. (The editorial was a joint production of one of the authors of this article and Solidarity's leader M.B.) It is highly inadequate in that it praises the peace movement with faint damns, but nevertheless it does announce its break from it towards working-class activity, and the intention to institute some kind of formal membership. The article may be schizophrenic but it is frank. A few quotes will give the main direction of the new line.
"Unlike most of the left, who paid only superficial attention to the upsurge round the peace movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, we considered this movement to be extremely important; we thought that it marked a new stage in the struggle for a free society. We said that this was the only mass movement in existence. The 'entrists' pointed to the slumbering millions who were allegedly members of the Labour Party – or who would become members 'once things started to move'. Unfortunately these do not constitute a movement. They do not participate in any way in 'their' organization."
"We think we were right in trying to work with the activists of the peace movement. That is not to say that we think the experiment has been an unqualified success. In many respects it has been a failure."
"The peace movement has not developed its moral protest at the atrocities of the warfare state into any overall criticism of society. Lacking any coherent system of ideas it is imprisoned by the concepts of established society. The activists' protest becomes an isolated moral gesture which at its worst degenerates into irrationality and exhibitionism. They have been unable to participate in the undramatic day-to-day issues which for most people comprise the reality of the class struggle. They lacked a bridge (or even any understanding of the need for a bridge) to the mass of ordinary people. The easing of international tension and the consequent decline in fears of atomic war has therefore left them aimless and isolated."
"Others accuse us of precisely the opposite failing. They resent the basic framework of our ideas our talk of class and class struggle. The way to freedom, for them is a molecular process, the slow addition of one free individual to another free individual. We have even heard it put forward that the only real revolutionary force in society today consists of those who have 'seen through the necessity to work' and who have 'emancipated themselves through drugs'. We are criticised for not having developed a sufficiently total critique of society ... by those whose notion of totality includes ignoring the real struggle in industry, where most people spend the major part of their life."
Solidarity generally did not discus its ideas so frankly. It usually maintained an effective silence about its internal affairs which would have been the envy of any hardened Bolshevik organization. In an organization which does not have a public discussion of its views, seemingly minor events have a special significance.
The previous issue of Solidarity had carried an article criticising part of the Spanish Anarchist CNT for co-operating with Franco's official Sindicatos. Connoisseurs of the left scene know that any criticism of Spanish anarchism will be hotly resented by the anarchist pseudo-community. Even the mildest reformist English pacifist anarchist feels an emotional bond with this violent proletarian movement.
The Solidarity leadership was well aware of this. Printing such an article was part of a move away from anarcho-pacifism.
The move away from the peace movement had already started when a motion to remove the sub-heading "For Workers Power" was introduced and narrowly defeated.
There was an alliance between the Marxists and the group leadership on this question. The revival of left politics made it obvious that any group which seriously tried could make an impact. But to carry out the minimum work in a larger group it would be necessary to have some division of labour. The leader himself felt unable to carry out all the tasks which he had done till then.
The discussion on this move was a curious one. Those opposed to it felt that organisation in itself was bureaucratic. They rejected, not the frustration and malfunctioning of the democratic process which constitutes bureaucracy, but the democratic process itself. Elections, voting and discussing were considered bureaucratic.
However, the decision to have formal membership went through. It was decided that committees would be formed to carry out specific tasks, an outline of the group's aims was produced ("As We See It"), and it was decided that we should make serious attempts to recruit members. A curious fact about Solidarity then emerged: some of the most active comrades felt morally bound to decline membership!
In practice the decisions on a formal structure were largely inoperative. Things soon drifted back to their old ways, confirming the anarchists in their belief that formal structures do not work.
For anyone outside the Solidarity group a knowledge of its decision-making processes must be limited. More surprisingly, this was also true for the members of the group! The decision-making machinery was shrouded in mystery.
Pamphlets would appear "out of the blue" and would be issued without discussion after having been read by one or two people. Even the date of publication of the paper rested with one comrade. Many theoretical articles were translations from the French of P. Cardan. These would be presented to the trusting English comrades at the last moment. It was claimed that there were yet unmined treasures of theoretical writings which awaited translation.
Though the group claimed to be a factory of ideas, it would be more correct to describe it as a retailer. Most of the theoretical material consisted of translations from the French magazine Socialisme ou Barbarie. Yet when the S. ou B. group, the parent factory as it were, collapsed there were, unlike on the occasion of every other factory closure, no protests or demonstrations, let alone a post-mortem. Solidarity was opposed to traditionalism, but on this occasion the one-minute silence has lasted for several years.
The smallness of the Solidarity group made the task of producing a paper more difficult. The people who did the actual production work felt that they had special rights over content and timing. It was noticeable that something which met with the leadership's approval would be quickly typed and duplicated, while something which did not would be delayed "for technical reasons". When one comrade dared to mention a publication deadline he was met with outbursts of emotion and was prudent enough to keep quiet in future.
The crucial event that frustrated Solidarity's attempted escape from the peace ghetto was the Greek Embassy occupation.
So there was a sympathy for the Greek people and for the ousted Papandreou's regime which is in striking contrast to the massive indifference to the genocide which accompanied the suppression of the C.P. in Indonesia. The anarcho-pacifist wing of Solidarity were at one with the readers of the Times in feeling outrage at the murder of Greek democracy. Out of this feeling there came the break-in at the Greek Embassy.
The people involved were mainly the remnants of the activists who had been around the Committee of 100, and Solidarity. These, of course, overlapped, although Solidarity's recent decision to turn away from the peace movement, would, if implemented, have made cooperation with such people impossible.
Shortly after the coup there was a meeting at LSE to consider some kind of direct action over the Greek situation. The meeting had been advertised only by personal contact. (An outstanding feature of the whole action was the military efficiency with which it was carried out, combined with a total lack of understanding of its political meaning). At this meeting a number of people committed themselves to a sit-in at the Embassy.
People did not yet realise what they were letting themselves in for. Contrary to the revolutionary myth which developed after the event the occupation was seen as basically similar to those which had taken place at other Embassies.
The reason for the authorities taking the thing so seriously remains uncertain. The whole operation was more elaborate less spontaneous than other sit-ins. The police were probably annoyed at the presence of prominent veterans of the civil disobedience movement, like M. Randle and T. Chandler.
The political point of the sit-in did not get across. Probably none of the participants were supporters of the ousted Papandreou regime but the whole escapade inevitably seemed to be in defence of the corrupt Greek parliamentary system.
1) The colonels' regime had consolidated itself by that time. A gesture could not have the marginal effect in shaking it which might have been hoped for in the first weeks of its existence.
2) The British working class displayed a massive indifference to the whole business. Not having a classical education, they did not share Sir Maurice Bowra's concern. Greeks were just like other foreigners.
3) Very few of the demonstrators were Greek. The sit-in could hardly be presented as a legitimate protest by outraged Greek citizens; it was too easily dismissed as another Rentacrowd exploit.
4) There was no political agreement among the defendants. We think, therefore that the LSE socialists were right to take the attitude that they should conduct a conventional defence and try to get the lightest possible sentence.
The anarcho-pacifists round Solidarity, took a different view. To them, any trial was a suitable occasion for a political demonstration. The LSE students' arguments on tactics were dismissed as cowardice. The pacifists were unable to make any distinction between principles and tactics. To them the least tactical question was one of principle, and also a matter of personal pride and honour. Of course if every tactical question becomes one of principle real discussion of principles becomes impossible, and discussion of tactics consequently becomes futile.
Eventually, all of the defendants, including the Solidarity Pacifist block pleaded guilty. Only the Quaker, Mike Randle, made a political speech.
What followed; was one of the most shameful episodes in the history of any left group. A. Anderson, a Solidarity supporter and one of those involved in the occupation, produced a pamphlet, "The Greek Embassy Case which was a vicious and scurrilous attack, on the LSE students. The pamphlet was not a Solidarity production, but it had been produced on Solidarity's duplicator and A.A. had been given editorial assistance by Solidarity's leader MB.
This is an example of the disadvantages of the informal structure of the Solidarity group. The leader when challenged denied responsibility for the Anderson pamphlet. However Solidarity Vol.4 No.10 carried comment of the same scurrilous nature. No analysis of the fiasco appeared in the paper. Solidarity was not formally, organizationally, responsible for the pamphlet or for the conduct of the defendants, in spite of the fact that most of its resources were being devoted to the aftermath of the Embassy affair.
The leadership were able to avoid discussion of the lamentable episode. The Solidarity supporters who had sat-in were even more reluctant to discuss it. Any mention of the affair provoked the hysterical reaction: "You are not involved!"
The pacifist wing produced a thoroughly dishonest collection sheet entitled "Save Greece Now" which seemed to suggest that contributing money to their fund would help to do something about the situation in Greece. The leaflet did say that the collection was for the defendants in the Greek Embassy case, but it was the heading which most people responded to.
The nearest we have to a considered Solidarity view of the Greek Embassy occupation is an article by Dan Thersites in Vol.4 No.8, July 1967 – i.e. several months after the event.
The article, written in boys' adventure story style, informs us that the Embassy "was a difficult nut to crack". We are told all about the door being locked, the necessity of split-send timing, the importance of timing the operation to fit in with newspaper and television headlines, and many thrilling details of the operation – but almost nothing about the politics.
The most significant item in this account is that the occupiers included everyone "from ultra pacifist quaker to blood and thunder revolutionary" and that "many people who had been inactive for three years or more re-emerged to participate in this project. Action forged a unity which no amount of talk could have done".
"Thersites" goes on: "Our reporter met with a discreet and judicious silence when probing for details of the prior organization of the demonstration." This is nothing to the wall of silence which the authors have met when they have tried to discover the relevance of the whole operation.
Should Thersites' account be dismissed as a mere childish caper? We think not. It illustrates in a grotesque form the weakness of Solidarity's position on principles and tactics. Obviously people of quite diverse views can agree on tactics. Disagreement on the timing of an exploit for instance would not normally correlate with political views. But the same people who agree to cooperate on tactics will find themselves disagreeing on the meaning and significance of their action.
We think that the LSE students should be criticised for taking part in this brilliantly executed but politically ambiguous venture. But their conduct when faced with a trial was sensible. Solidarity should have dissociated itself from Anderson's scurrilous attack.
The whole sorry episode was an illustration of the criticism Solidarity had made of the peace movement activists in "Six Years Hard" only a few months before. "The activists protest became an isolated moral gesture which at worst degenerates into irrationality and exhibitionism."
1) The anarcho-pacifists, this group tended to be senior in having been group members for longer than the others.
2) The syndicalists, who wished the group to concentrate more exclusively on industrial issues. They also resented the hierarchical functioning of the group.
3) The semi-Marxist, consisting of Marxists and others, who rejected a purely syndicalist orientation but agreed with the syndicalists that the group should have a democratic structure.
A formal structure was mutually agreed in Nov. 1968, but the discussion was carried on at an incredibly personal and politically low level. The leader's tendency denied that they were opposed to a structure for the group, so the discussion took the form of a legalistic haggling which disguised real differences. Confidence in each other's good faith was absent.
At a meeting in January 1969 the syndicalists suddenly announced that they were forming a separate Solidarity group. They offered no explanations. At this point, the leader congratulated the seceding group on the maturity of their approach which avoided the tedious wrangling which follows political differences in traditional groups! He also announced that the group was really a geographical division. Several of the seceding group happened to live in South London. Thus a division caused by political differences compounded by personal hatreds was presented as a geographical division of labours while the failure to provide an explanation was accepted as a sign of maturity. It seems to us that this procedure is grossly inferior to that in traditional political splits.
The split left the leader's faction in a majority. They proceeded to take advantage of this by starting to dismantle the structure, while denying that this is what they were doing. Solidarity will now, we are convinced, become more and more openly the loose group of friends which it never entirely ceased to be. Those who still demand a democratic structure will be edged out while the anarcho-pacifists will be welcomed back into the fold.
If we ask ourselves why Solidarity failed, the answer must be that it failed to define its function. It was never sure whether it was a magazine produced by the informal group around M.B. or whether it was an attempt to build a socialist organization. Both of these functions are legitimate, but they call for different structures. Failure to be clear on what the nature of the group was led inevitably to incoherence and bad faith.
The group's failure to distinguish between tactics and principles meant that it alternated between narrow, apolitical direct action – direct action conceived not as a tactic, but as a philosophy – and a romantic, absolutist, political theory.
Thus the paradox which struck most people about Solidarity, its careful, detailed industrial reports with its romantic adventurism does have an explanation. A failure to politicise day-to-day struggles finds its corollary in romantic adventures as a compensation.
The mixed elements of political idealism and petty personal spite which characterized Solidarity's internal discussions likewise form a unity. The leader gets no personal advantage out of the members' work for the magazine. His commitment and dedication is something which might be emulated by more level-heeded people. But the failure to distinguish personal and political matters flow precisely out of a total commitment to the magazine which was therefore treated as part of himself.
The Solidarity leadership were able to observe the empirical fact that the working-class did not go for the same kind of direct action and politics of demonstration as the middle class pacifists. They hoped to fuse the two elements together. But they did not realise that the different styles of politics are not an accident but follow logically from the class composition and politics of the different social groups. Similarly the form of organization is a logical expression of the different life-styles and modes of behaviour. The type of loose friendly association is not accidentally but inevitably a product of a middle class group.
Solidarity propounded a theory of industrial and political organization which demanded instant recall of delegates and of anyone elected to a position of responsibility. But since the group did not provide any political education for its members there was no possibility of revoking the leadership. No one could replace them.
1) Organization should not be confused with bureaucracy. Democratic organization is a basic necessity if the working class is to achieve consciousness of its class interests.
We do not claim that the socialist organization can be a working model of the socialist future, but socialist ideas are not compatible with forms of association which maintain the hierarchy of leader and follower.
2) Any organization which seeks to win acceptance for its ideas must be accessible to potential supporters. Membership of the organization should not be dependent on personal friendships.
Any small political group runs the risk of becoming an exclusive clique of inward-looking sectarians, but this danger is much greater for the informal group which makes no distinction between political and private life.
A political group is necessarily an artificial association, that is, it consists of people who come together on the basis of shared ideas. The group should accept people who accept these ideas and are prepared to assist in the group's work. Therefore there must be a boundary between members' private and political life.
3) People who share specific ideas and work together to implement them, by definition form a group. The anarchist device of refusing to have formal membership or of refusing to specify the functions of individual comrades has no advantages.
We would urge serious libertarian socialists to abandon the politics of melodramatic gestures and the cosy life of the small group, centred round a patriarchal leader, to participate in the task of building a socialist movement which is both democratic and revolutionary.
Small personal groups might have had some value at a time, when the socialist movement was at a low ebb. Today, when it is both possible and urgently necessary to build a revolutionary movement, the self-imposed isolation of groups like Solidarity cannot be justified.
It is true that between 1961 and 1963 comrades around Solidarity played an active part on the Industrial Sub-committee of the Committee of 100. But it is quite wrong to identify this with "immersion" in an unspecified "peace milieu" as the Sullivan-Hillier pamphlet does. The work carried out by Solidarity during this period included systematic work on the docks and in relation to a number of factories; our Appeal to Trade Unionists, distributed in tens of thousands of copies, stands up to critical examination seven years later; the famous Against All Bombs leaflet was distributed in July 1962, in the streets of Moscow; 9 to say nothing of various other activities which cannot yet be "declassified".
"The founding of Solidarity coincided with the peak of the anti-war movement. We were active within this movement, particularly around the Committee of 100. The Group was never pacifist, we did not originate from the Peace Movement. We participated in it because it was the only place where methods of direct action were being carried out. The titles of some of our pamphlets show our interests at that time. We combined activity around the peace movement with industrial activity and argued that both were facets of the same struggle."
Now he can't have it both ways. Either the passage quoted opposite is true – in which case the charge of "concessions to pacifism" falls. Or the charge of "pacifism" is true – in which case this passage is dishonest bunk. Whichever one chooses! Sullivan seems to have created a credibility gap for himself. But readers' doubts, if any, should be resolved by a glance at our Death of CND as performed by the Grosvenor Square demonstrators under the direction of themselves alone. 10 If this is "pacifist" then Enoch Powell is a leading spokesman for Black Power. To return to the charge of pacifism after our publication of such a pamphlet is worse than flogging a dead horse – it is an act of positive political necrophilia.
Over a quarter of the Sullivan-Hillier pamphlet is devoted to discussing Solidarity's attitude to the Colonels' coup and to the occupation of the Greek Embassy in London, on April 28th, 1967. 11 Two years later one ought to be able to assume that they considered this attitude worthy of a serious political critique. If they have such a critique, we are as unaware of it as ever. In fact falsification and smearing reach their height in this section of the pamphlet. They write "the anarcho-pacifist wing of Solidarity were at one with the readers of the Times in feeling outrage at the murder of Greek democracy. Out of this feeling came the break-in at the Greek Embassy".
During Easter 1963 an anti-bomb march in Athens had been smashed by the police. 2,000 people had been arrested. Some British Committee of 100 participants – including people who had worked closely with Solidarity – had been beaten up and deported. In June 1963 the "Save Greece Now Committee", on which several of our supporters were represented, decided to call a big demonstration in the streets of London during the proposed Greek Royal Visit. The Communist Party and other sections of the traditional left, fearing "adventurist" civil disobedience, opted out. But the "Save Greece Now Committee" was determined to show real solidarity with their Greek comrades who were then in no position to demonstrate. This determination provoked a political crisis in Greece. The Greek Premier resigned when his advice to the Greek royals to defer their visit to London was disregarded. On July 9th the Greek King and Queen arrived in London to a "police state welcome" (Evening Standard, July 9th 1963). On July 10th the Greek and British royal families went to the Aldwych theatre and were loudly booed and hissed as they entered. The Home Secretary did his nut. So did the police. The Challenor brick planting episode followed. The police image took the biggest knock it had for decades. The Establishment hit back. In December 1963 our comrade Terry Chandler was sentenced to nine months prison for his role in organising the demonstration. Neither Sullivan or Hillier were closely associated with Solidarity at the time, but their deeply ingrained ignorance about these matters does not excuse their smearing.
2. See "Mommy in Toyland", Solidarity Vol.III No.8.
8. See "Working Class Consciousness", Solidarity Vol.II, Nos.2 and 3, and "The Fate of Marxism", Vol.III No.7.
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Here is my entry to the 'Just Us GirlS' #15 Challenge (technique), "add stitching to your project". I have a little sewing machine that I purchased years ago just for paper crafting. Well, when I dug it out of the box, the thread wasn't in. I'm not so good doing that. I wanted to get this card out before work this morning, so I had to come up with some other 'stitching'. I'm not sure if french knots counts as stitching, but I did use needle and gold cord.
All supplies are from Stampin' Up!. The card base is chocolate chip card stock. For the stamped panel, I used sahara sand card stock. I off stamped the branch from 'bird on a branch' in close to cocoa classic ink. I didn't want the branch to be too prominent. I off stamped the leaves from 'flower fancy' in sahara sand classic ink, also. The flowers are from 'flower fancy' and they are stamped in whisper white craft ink, and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The 'congratulations' is from 'well scripted' and stamped in close to cocoa classic ink. I used gold cord to make the french knots in the center of some of the flowers. I tied a scrap piece of the same gold cord around the bottom of this panel and made a little bow. I used my paper distressor to create the rough edges of the stamped panel. I used dimensionals to give the stamped panel lift from the card base.
As always, thank you for taking a moment to look at my entry into JUGS #15. Please leave a comment, as they always make me smile.
What a beautiful card Sharon! Simply gorgeous & yes, the stitched on beads sure do count! You are a very creative & patient women to sew on all those beads! Thank you for playing along with Just Us Girls technique challenge! Hope you are able to join us Saturday for a fun color challenge!
Beautiful card! Love what you did. Thanks so much for playing along with Just The Girls.
Very beautiful card and very gentle. I like it, because it is simple but it tells everything.
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billions of dollars annually from the blood, sweat and tears of the athletes and the athletes receive very little, if anything in return.
that there are three separate issues with the NCAA as it relates to college athletics. The first is that athletes are promised an education.
and administrators pockets are getting fatter, the student athlete continues to struggle.
decision to leave school even though he wanted to stay. Barber indicated that he would not have left Auburn University if he had gotten paid.
a very successful career in the NBA. But there are many who are not so fortunate.
(CCES) in 2014 found that 53 percent of Blacks support college athletes being paid compared to only 22 percent of whites.
salary, but at least with a stipend so that they are not walking campus flat broke.
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It’s the all-new, third generation Audi A3. It is notable not only because it is Audi’s biggest-selling model in the UK and a big-selling staple in the global market, but also because it is the first VW Group model to get the new MQB platform.
This ultra-flexible platform will be used to underpin everything from superminis to executive saloons. It won’t only be prolific; it also results in a new, cheaper and more efficient way of manufacturing, allowing different models to share more common parts and production facilities than before. So expect to see it in just about all of the big-selling VW brand models.
We’re testing the Audi A3 2.0 TDI, in mid-range Sport trim and complete with front-wheel drive, standard 17-inch alloys, the 2.0-litre turbodiesel (now substantially lighter and modified to produce 148bhp and improve emissions) and the optional, £1480 seven-speed S tronic dual-clutch 'auto.
Trim levels are the usual SE, Sport and S line, and all but SE get 15mm lowered suspension as standard. However, this option can be deleted in favour of a standard suspension setting at no cost, which is exactly the version we’re testing here.
Very good. On first acquaintance it’s actually the clean lines and simple ergonomics of the interior that most impress. Undoubtedly the high spec of our test car, which came with the full navigation system and leather interior amongst other optional extras, played a part in the premium sensation. But even the basic architecture oozes high-class appeal. The seats could be a bit more supportive, but otherwise the A3 is easy to get comfortable in, intuitive to use and feels appropriately solid in every respect.
Those concerned about rear passenger space will undoubtedly want to wait for the five-door model that arrives later this year. This three-door model is perfectly adequate (if unexceptional) in terms of its rear accommodation and usefully-shaped 365 litre boot.
The dynamics have improved, too, even if the A3 remains a slightly sterile drive. The ride in particular is much more pliant at low speeds. It’s a little unsettled over bigger vertical intrusions at higher speeds, but even over off-camber roads and with cornering forces involved, the A3 remains planted but forgiving. On this early evidence, deleting the sports suspension is a good move. Body control is a little soft by typical Audi standards, but it’s never even remotely unsettling and undoubtedly it’s a very fair trade for the good ride comfort.
The A3 still handles well. Both SE and S line (which will account for the majority of sales) get 'Audi select' as standard, which brings with it a variable steering and gearbox setting. Select dynamic and the steering weights up substantially, and with the S tronic 'box in 'sport' the A3 2.0 TDI sings along in a stable, grippy and flowing fashion. It’s not hugely involving, but it is a pleasant and predictable thing to drive quickly, and the venerable 2.0 TDI provides a decent mid-range swell on which you can make rapid progress without difficulty.
The new A3 generally feels more light-footed than its predecessor – potentially due to the weight that has been saved by the use of aluminium. The A3 remains pretty much the same size but for a marginally longer wheelbase.
Stick in auto, and the steering is too often on the light and disconnected side, and the gearbox can be caught out, too, feeling a touch lethargic generally, and dim-witted in its down-changes under more vigorous use. Still, in unhurried driving the A3 2.0 TDI is notable for its refinement. Engine noise is very audible under throttle, but otherwise it’s well suppressed by big diesel standards.
Overall, though, we’d avoid the automatic in favour of the sweet-shifting manual, not only for the savings made on purchase price, but also because it’s a more pleasant drive and a cleaner car – a very impressive 68.9mpg and 106g/km next to the 62.7mpg and 119g/km that the auto' manages.
Yes. The A3 is not cheap, with this model coming in at over £24k (it’s £22,730 without the auto 'box), but Sport models are reasonably specced to include climate control, various aluminium style highlights, sports seats, multi-function wheel and a colour infotainment screen.
Ultimately, the new A3 is not a dazzlingly different experience to the old A3. But it has been improved in exactly the areas it needed improving, and it is now a more comfortable, better looking and even more pleasant and efficient place to cover many miles. The planted, accessible handling bodes well for other models using the MQB platform, and it is undoubtedly one of the most rounded cars in this class.
Price: £24,210; 0-62mph: 8.5sec; Top speed: 134mph; Economy: 62.7mpg; Co2: 119g/km; Kerb weight: 1280kg; Engine type: 1968cc, 4cyl, turbodiesel; Power: 148bhp at 3500-4000rpm; Torque: 236lb ft at 1750-3000rpm; Gearbox: 7spd S tronic.
Given the decrease in weight, I expected better performance and economy figures.
Given that the car achieves almost 70mpg combined as a manual i think your expectations were unrealistic. The BMW 118D is about 7mpg off and slower too as a manual anyway.
By God that IS dull.
Yes, it all looks very clever, light and frugal but it has left me cold.
I'm sure they will sell loads of them (to women, mostly) but I hope some of the owners of the existing model spread their wings to check out the new Mercedes A class or Volvo V40.
They may not necessarily be better cars, but they certainly look it.
How BMW-ish of them to go for this minimalist design. Form follows function. Almost as good as the original.
Seems reasonably priced against the Golf, considering the equipment. Still rather dull though.
The interior looks classy, but I'm not a fan of the MMI display which looks like it has been stuck onto the dashboard as an afterthought (and would it get in the way of an aftermarket SatNav, I wonder?).
Still, BMW and Mercedes appear to be going down the same route in terms of dashboard design, so I am not singling out Audi especially.
I would of liked to have known a little about this "new" engine and why it is better. The car is very similar even the alloys look the same as those on the current A3 sport. A cheaper platform has not lead to a cheaper car though! Is that because VAG has now got a wider profit margin per unit?
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On December 22, clashes continued in western al-Bab with pro-Turkey forces were attempting to advance against ISIS units.
In northern Hama, militant groups intensified artillery shelling of government forces deployed near Souran and Maardas. Local sources say that this could be pre-emtive actions before the attack in the area. However, this looks not likely because Jabhat Fatah al-Sham and its allies need some time to regroup after the defeat in Aleppo.
In the province of Homs, over 30 ISIS terrorists were killed as result of air raids by Russian attack helicopters and warplanes. The Russian Aerospace Forces supported government forces clashing with ISIS near the Tyas Airbase. No significant changes of the frontline have been observed by now.
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Seagoing people are some of the most experienced, hands-on individuals in today’s technical world. They know what they are talking about. After all, they have to keep their ship operational, even under the most extreme conditions. Their skills are the result of years of evolution, acquired through learning from mistakes and accomplishments as well as from experience and expertise handed down from generation to generation. These people deserve compressors which have been developed in the same way – through evolution – and not revolutionary designs developed on a purely theoretical basis in laboratories and universities. Take a closer look at Sauer compressors for commercial shipping and eXperience the advantages of evolution in compressor design.
Sauer compressors are easy to maintain. 4 simple maintenance routines and the Easy Care Concept allow even inexperienced crews to carry out the work when necessary. The maintenance intervals are fixed and are guaranteed including safety margins. We are of the opinion that systems to monitor the intervals electronically can never replace the responsibility and experience of the ship’s crew.
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3D scanner is a device that analyses a real-world object or environment to collect data on its shape and possibly its appearance (e.g. colour). The collected data can then be used to construct digital three-dimensional models.
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Start your 5-star luxury tour in Vienna where you will cruise through the Iron Gates towards Braila. Continue with Transylvania and visit Bran Castle.
Discover Vienna’s imperial treasures, cruise along the Lower Danube all the way to the Black Sea and watch legends come to life in Transylvania.
This handcrafted itinerary is truly the stuff legends are made of as you’ll discover when visiting Bran Castle, home to the legend of Count Dracula, and Sighisoara, where Vlad Tepes – Vlad the Impaler – was born.
Tour the city of Vienna, or be guided through majestic Schönbrunn Palace. Alternatively, take in the sights of the city on a guided bicycle tour or visit the world-renowned Spanish Riding School and either tour the stables or see the Lipizzaner Stallions perfecting their skills during their morning exercise program.
Explore Bratislava with a knowledgeable local guide and discover all that this majestic city has to offer. Alternatively, discover Bratislava’s communist-era history during a guided tour or enjoy a guided cycling excursion.
a walking tour of the Buda side of the city. Alternatively, discover Budapest’s Jewish heritage with a local guide.
Immerse yourself in Budapest’s imperial past by attending an exclusive private classical music concert at the majestic Gödöllõ Royal Palace, one of the favourite residences of Queen Elisabeth of Hungary.
Witness a traditional Hungarian horse show.
Discover Pécs, a city of art and history, or explore the village of Villány and learn about everyday life in Hungary while sampling some of the fine local wines. Alternatively, tour Zsolnay Porcelain museum.
Explore Osijek on a guided city tour, or if you’re the more active type, you can take a blissful guided bike ride through Osijek’s countryside.
Join an in-depth city tour including a visit to Tito’s Memorial or take an orientation tour of the city before time at leisure.
Tonight, enjoy a Serbian folklore performance on board your Scenic Space-Ship.
Enjoy a guided bicycle ride along the Danube, or taste your way around the local market on our Shop with a Chef tour. Or, for some true insights into local life, you can join a walking tour of the city with a local. Alternatively, journey to Sremski Karlovci, where you can wander the town with our experts and marvel at the many beautiful Baroque elements.
Travel to Viminacium and discover the ruins of Roman amphitheatres, hippodromes and mausoleums at this archaeological site dating back to the 1st century, and at its peak believed to have had 40,000 inhabitants. Later, relax on board and admire the scenery as you cruise the spectacular Iron Gates.
Enjoy a guided walking tour of Vidin. Alternatively, take a hike to the Belogradchik Fortress and discover the ruins of the ancient stronghold, which was constructed when the region was part of the Roman Empire. Or venture to a local winery for a tasting.
As you cruise the mighty Danube, relax in one of the lounges and viewing areas, and enjoy the scenery on your way to Silistra.
Discover Silistra Fort during an active walking tour or journey to a nearby local village where you’ll visit the primary school and discover wonderful insights into daily life in Bulgaria.
The World Heritage-listed Danube Delta is the best preserved of Europe’s deltas and hosts over 300 species of birds. Sail through the passage of Saint George and the magnificent Danube Delta to reach the Black Sea coast. Admire spectacular scenery during your small boat cruise to Mile 0, where the mighty Danube River meets the Black Sea.
This morning disembark your Scenic Space-Ship and travel to Bucharest, where you’ll enjoy an overnight stay.
Visit Sibiu in the region of Transylvania for a tour of this medieval city. Explore its lively squares and colourful streets before checking into your hotel.
Waltz through Europe on a 16 day river cruise from Vienna to Bucharest. Explore the beautiful old towns and immerse yourself in the history and culture.
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Research takes time— but you want information that you can use now. That’s why we at the NIOSH Center for Motor Vehicle Safety invite you to subscribe to our new quarterly eNewsletter for motor vehicle-related research updates and practical tools to apply research-based strategies in the workplace. While you’re here, we hope you enjoy learning a little more about us, too. As this is our first issue of the Behind the Wheel at Work, your feedback is an important part of its growth. We encourage you to reach out to us with comments and suggestions at kur4@cdc.gov.
The NIOSH CMVS is the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s focal point for research and prevention of motor vehicle crashes, the leading cause of work-related deaths in the U.S.
We envision that all workers exposed to motor vehicle traffic risks while working have the highest possible levels of protection from the risk of motor vehicle crashes and resulting injuries.
Through the CMVS, NIOSH researchers and external partners work to respond to emerging issues and provide research-based guidance so that those who work in or near motor vehicles come home safely at the end of their work day.
We’re working to ensure that recommended solutions are clearly communicated to employers and workers. The safety of workers who drive on the job is a responsibility shared by many—employers, workers, policy makers, vehicle manufacturers, and the research community.
Our online resources cover prevention information for employers and workers, motor vehicle safety management and policy, and trucking safety, among other motor vehicle safety topics.
Give workers information about the possible effects of prescription and non-prescription medications on their ability to drive safely.
Long-haul truck drivers (LHTDs) are essential to transporting goods such as food and clothes across long distances, and in many cases across several states. In 2012, more than 1.7 million people were employed as heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers in the U.S.—the majority of them being LHTDs. On average, LHTDs work 60 hours per week and drive more than 107,000 miles per year.
Due to limited information available on workplace safety and health of these workers, NIOSH conducted personal interviews with a nationally representative sample of 1,265 LHTDs at 32 truck stops across the U.S. in 2010. Interview questions covered roadway safety, work-related injuries, work environments, safety culture, self-reported driving behaviors, and drivers’ opinions on their training, job-related frustrations, and job satisfaction.
More than 1 in 3 LHTDs had at least one truck crash at work during their career.
73% of LHTDs perceived their delivery deadlines as unrealistically tight, which may be an incentive for risky driving behaviors such as speeding (4.5% often and 26% sometimes), hours-of-service violations (10% often and 27% sometimes), and continuing to drive despite fatigue, bad weather, or heavy traffic (24% often and 47% sometimes).
14% of LHTDs stated that they sometimes or never wore a seatbelt. This is an important finding because wearing a seat belt is the most effective way to prevent injury or death in the event of a roadway crash.
38% of LHTDs reported receiving inadequate training at the beginning of their careers.
5% of LHTDs reported at least one non-crash injury involving days away from work in the previous 12 months; among company drivers, 68% of these non-crash injuries involving days away from work were not reported to employers.
Ensure that drivers do not need to violate hours-of-service rules to make on-time deliveries.
Educate drivers on seatbelt use, cargo securement and weight limits, safe driving, and ways to avoid drowsy or distracted driving.
Ensure that entry-level truck driver training meets current needs.
The results of this first national survey of LHTDs highlight critical safety issues that are worthy of future research and interventions to keep truckers and others on the road safe.
Publication: National survey of U.S. long-haul truck drivers; Injury and safety. Accident Analysis and Prevention 2015; 85: 66-72. Chen GX, Sieber WK, Lincoln JE, Birdsey J, Hitchcock T, Nakata A, Robinson CF, Collins JW, Sweeney MH.
Checking the rearview mirrors, pressing your foot to the gas pedal, and feeling the movement of a vehicle making a wide turn, you might almost forget you’re in the NIOSH driving simulator. The simulator gives users a realistic physical driving experience in a virtual traffic environment and fuels research to improve the safety of specialized vehicles in occupations such as firefighting and law enforcement. It’s the centerpiece of the Vehicle Safety Lab, the NIOSH focal point for engineering and technology-based safety intervention research to reduce the number and severity of work-related motor vehicle crashes.
NIOSH researchers are using the simulator with vehicle-modeling and gaming development software to create unique interactive driving scenarios featuring a range of vehicles for the purposes of different studies. They also have specialized equipment, including eye-tracking devices, to measure driver perception and performance.
Current project goals are to develop intersection-safety best practices and create design requirements for effective fire truck vehicle warning systems during an emergency response. Learn more about NIOSH traumatic occupational injury research labs.
Describe your role within NIOSH.
I have worked at NIOSH for 22 years and currently direct the NIOSH Center for Motor Vehicle Safety. In this role, I promote research and action to address the leading cause of fatal injury to U.S. workers– motor vehicle crashes. Inside NIOSH, I lead strategic planning and program development for the Center and conduct epidemiologic research on work-related crashes. Outside NIOSH, much of my work involves developing and sustaining partnerships with public, private, and non-governmental sector groups such as the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety, National Safety Council, American Society of Safety Engineers, Transportation Research Board, and UN Road Safety Collaboration.
How do you expect motor vehicle safety research to change over the coming years?
I think it will be increasingly important to work collaboratively across federal agencies and with partners to leverage our resources to best advantage. Several of the Center’s most successful collaborations have depended on partners coming together to share data, technical knowledge, research facilities, or access to workplaces. In addition, researchers are increasingly challenged to keep pace with the new technologies on our vehicles and roads. There will be a need to demonstrate the effectiveness of these new technologies in reducing crashes and injuries, as well as a need to help employers make informed choices when selecting vehicles and implementing policies.
What drives your interest in this work?
Motor vehicle safety is the perfect topic for me because it combines my interests in epidemiology and public policy. The field changes constantly, so there’s always a new challenge and something new to learn. And, my job gives me the opportunity to work with knowledgeable and committed individuals from the public, private, and NGO sectors who share my interests. These relationships help me understand what the Center can do to better meet the information needs of employers and workers, and they reinforce the importance of the work we do to protect workers on the road.
I started my career with the CDC in November 2008 working as an epidemiologist at the Dengue Branch in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I came to NIOSH—and back to the field of occupational safety and health—in June 2012 to provide support to the Center for Motor Vehicle Safety. I provide administrative and scientific support to accomplish the Center’s mission. Also, I respond to internal and external subject matter inquiries. Additionally, I am involved in a research project using national occupational fatality and motor vehicle crash data to look at risk factors leading to work-related fatal motor vehicle crashes.
Where can people see the effects of the Center’s efforts?
Research conducted through the Center helps guide prevention policies and recommendations aimed at employers, workers, and the scientific community. We also generate information products to help workers stay safe when driving. Please visit our website to find out more!
Why do you continue to pursue this topic area?
It challenges me every day and many times takes me out of my comfort zone as a researcher. I love that work at the Center is very dynamic and diverse—and that I get to learn about many issues that play a role in motor vehicle safety from different perspectives. I’ve been able to identify specific areas of interest and start developing expertise in those areas. It is also a plus that I get to work with and learn from some of the most respected researchers in the field of work-related motor vehicle safety!
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An animated picture is worth more than a thousand words!
flash-at-will, adjustable brightness, very thin (0.2mm) and flexible.
Various kind of multiple lighting color, soft, non-glare, flash-at-will, adjustable brightness, is very thin (0.2mm) and flexible.
Also called cold light source because there is no heat generated while in use. Turn your high-resolution posters, logos, and banners into dazzling animated electrolight sheets.
Technical aspects Sign materials: Multi-laminate construction Sizes & shapes: Any shapes and sizes up to 90 cm x 180 cm of animated area each. Custom sizes also available.
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Cryptocurrency refers to a form of digital currency. It can be used anywhere that accepts it as standard currency. However, it is not issued by central banks or regulated by governments.
Crypto does not have the level of stability when compared to the usual currencies but more people are choosing to use it for a variety of reasons such as online shopping and other transactions.
The first cryptocurrency that came out was bitcoin which has led to it being regarded as the actual crypto. It is actually a digital currency that consists of using encrypted crypto technology and is operated by blockchain technology.
There are different websites that currently allow people to convert their cryptocurrency into real money that can be transferred to your bank account directly and vice versa. It is referred to as digital because its form is not physically tangible.
Unlike other currencies, you cannot place it in a safe, smell it or touch it, which makes it difficult for some people to take it seriously or comprehend its purpose. However, it continues to be used to transfer money on a daily basis along with facilitating numerous sales and purchases.
One of the alluring aspects of cryptocurrency is that it is decentralized and no bank or government can control it.
Digital currency offers several benefits to consumers. Along with being good for business owners and businesses, it is also useful to the buyer. Purchasing certain crypto pays off in the long run.
Read the Online Cryptocurrency Magazine here.
Cryptocurrency is well known for being readily accessible to the public. Virtually anyone can use it and investors around the world have easier access to it as a decentralized system. Various ongoing projects attempt to raise the funds they need through cryptocurrency. Anyone who carries out fund transfers online can consider getting involved in such projects.
It is easy to make payments with cryptocurrency. This can be accomplished within seconds. The process is fast because minimal details are required. All you usually need is the wallet address of the enterprise or individual that you want to make a payment to.
The amount is credited to the recipient within a short period of time, depending on the type of crypto that is used. Another factor that makes crypto desirable is the ease of transferring funds and low transaction fees.
You do not have to wait for a number of days to receive money for your business with crypto. Due to the basis of cryptocurrency technology, which is commonly known as blockchain, third party approvals, fee payments and delays are eliminated. For conventional businesses, there are challenges that often arise as a result of the middlemen that are involved in transactions.
A cryptocurrency transaction facilitates faster settlements with its peer to peer networking structure. Crypto helps to get rid of the obstructions that are associated with traditional settlements. Settlements are instant and completed promptly unlike a conventional settlement that requires more time and costs.
When dealing with cryptocurrency, any applicable transaction fees are negligible in comparison to other online forums that charge high fees.
How Should You Find a Good Platform for Investing in ICO?
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While the majority of Albertans gamble for fun, gambling can become a problem for others. With this in mind, the Alberta Gaming, Liquor & Cannabis, Alberta Health Services and industry partners have joined forces to promote Responsible Gambling Awareness Week, taking place May 14-19, 2018.
Partners in Responsible Gambling Awareness Week include Alberta Health Services, Alberta Health, Alberta Charitable Casino Operators and Alberta Hotel & Lodging Association.
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We were in Lucknow for an extended weekend and it was decided well in advance that it will be a food trail for us. There are a few places we never want to miss and there are others which have been on the list but it's not possible in a single visit to sample all of them.
I think a brief introduction of the cuisine is in order.
Lucknow is the heartland of Awadhi cuisine. Awadhi is an offshoot of Mughlai cuisine including influences from central Asia, Middle east and Northern India. There is little similarity with the other offshoots of Mughlai found in our country as Hyderabadi, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Bengali and even Keralite are as different as chalk and cheese from each other. Even though many spices are common and meats and vegetables too are common in all these Mughlai versions. The cooking technique, a few regional herbs, use of nuts and milk or yogurt in the gravy and the marination of meats with different kinds of tenderisers make a lot of difference in how the final product tastes.
Awadhi food is mildly spiced, a fine balance of various spices. The heat of the spices is quenched by the use of milk and nut pastes and the curries are slow cooked for hours. The kababs are grilled on huge flat pans till they get a flaky crust on both sides, the meat for the kababs being tenderised and pounded finely before shaping them in round patties. Much like burgers. These kababs are served with parathas or roomali rotis.
Galawat ke kabab or Galauti kabas are the ones that melt in your mouth with a meaty taste. The fine creamy texture is a result of a tenderising process that involves the use of raw papaya ( the enzyme Papain being responsible for the breakdown of the meat fibers) and a fine balance of spices makes a kabab a lingering taste experience. The Galauti kababs are so soft that they cannot be lifted from the plate in one piece. You have to spoon them up like a pate. Almost.
The shammi kababs are a little granular, soft, crumbly textured patties with a few grains of coarsely ground spices, The crust is a bit firm but the kabab is still so soft you wouldn't be able to lift it from the plate without breaking it. The taste is a robust spicy and yet mildly hot meaty experience.
There are a huge variety of Salans and Kormas and many other popular curries . The breads are quite versatile as well. Sheermaal and bakakhanis are heavier breads and are mean to be shared by the family members, much like Middle eastern culture. The Roomali rotis and the flaky Ulte tawe ka paratha is a lighter almost paper thin bread that wraps your kabab and polishes off your korma with equal ease.
Biryanis of Awadh are a different world altogether. Lightly but very pleasantly aromatic. Each grain of rice would be soft and yet separate seeped into the flavors of the meat. It is achieved by first cooking the meat to make a stock called yakhni and then cooking the rice in that stock. The rice is cooked al dante first and then is cooked on Dum with half cooked meat. This imparts a unique aromatic experience in a biryani.
And that picture of Biryani is torturing me now. The succulent soft rice grains absolutely drunk on the juices of the meat and lightly spiced as if they were genetically modified to have a whiff of the meat and spice.
This is one of the best Biryanis I have ever had. And this was at Tundey Kababi at Ameenabad market in lucknow.
See how a biryani is cooked in a huge vessel that can cook about 20 kilos of biryani in one go. They also do 'take home packs' and you can get anything packed for you. But this cardboard packets for biryani is something I wouldn't like. Yes we need to stay away from plastic packaging but there were better ways with boxes made with leaves or the old fashioned terracotta handis. I wish they used the more easily available handis there.
We had the famous kebabs at Tundey kababi and the mutton korma to go with roomali roti. Everything is perfect. Though I would say the kababs are a bit too high of fat, most likely trans fats (read dalda) and that much fats in the kababs takes away some of the flavors, making the the kababs almost inedible when they cool down while finishing the other stuff. The fats start getting solidified and the flavors too freeze.
Did I tell you the Kababs are not considered a starter in a traditional meal here? It is actually served as a side dish and you eat it with parathas and raw onion slices.
Those parathas are called Ulte tawe ka paratha.
They have a nifty arrangement to bake this paratha, an invverted round bottom iron kadai (wok) is placed on the stove (coal fired angithi) and the paratha is flattened by hands and rolling pin, then tossed and given a spin in the air so the gluten fibers extend and break, then the paratha lands on the inverted kadai. The spinning act makes the central part of the paratha thinner and the margins a little thicker.
The korma of Lucknow is mildly but very aromatically spiced. Not too hot so you get all the spices well balanced. Meat well done and the gravy rich with some nut pastes and a unique blend of spices.
You must order a half portion Kulfi as even the half is quite huge here...The kulfi tastes of real khoya and real kesar (saffron) and is rightly sweetened. Embedded with pistachios which is not too overwhelming, I have had one kulfi which had just too much pistachio and it killed the real kulfi. This one is perfectly balanced.
They have a sugar free version too and though we did not sample that variety, I am sure that must be great too. This place is quite famous and it is the best Kulfi falooda till date for me.
Could we have anything more on the same day? The Lunch at Tundey Kababi and then the Kulfi at Prakash was enough for the day. Yes, we were not able to have our dinner that day.
Another day another place. But we had to work up an appetite so we had a 2 hour walk at the NBRI Botanical garden. The garden is a must see if you are a birder or love greenery and want to see some impeccably maintained gardens. The cacti garden, the aromatic garden, the ferns house etc are the main attractions of this place.
Coming back to food, the walk actually made us hungry and a rickshaw ride took us to Hazratganj.
Dastrkhwan was the place to be. This place has simple seating arrangements both side of the road. Yes, one side of the roads is the open kitchen and a narrow seating area, the other side is also a seating arrangement of about 6-8 tables. The servers keep crossing the road to fetch food and bills. You eat your food watching the traffic on this busy road and the server dodging the traffic to fetch your Korma and the Kabab.
Yet another kabab. Yes, These kababs are actually better than the Tundey Kababis. Larger in size, and more flavorful. The flavor of delicate spicing alive and not drowned by the fat content.
We ordered Shammi kabab, Galawat ke kabab, Chicken korma, Roomali roti and Biryani. Would have loved if thee were a few more people so we could taste a few more curries.
Look at these kababs. On the left is the Shammi kabab and the right one is the Galawat ke kabab. Both equally delectable. These are large kababs and quite filling. If you have ordered two kababs per person you might not be able to enjoy the main course goodies.
But we were ravenous after a two hour long walk in the Botanical garden and kept nibbling on them through the meal.
See how the Galawat ke kabab is so soft it got a dent of the serving spoon. It barely holds it's shape.
Shammi kakab is more on the crumbly side, yet very soft and luscious. Spicing is awesome. These kababs are so soft they can be lifted in one piece just once and that is when the kababi (the one who cooks them) flips them from the tawa (gridle) to the serving plate.
Once on the plate you have to lift it in pieces.
The chicken korma has a layer of fat which you would like to pour off in a plate. A nice and mildly spiced curry with some nuts and poppy seeds paste.
Biryani is good. But just so. Not awesome.
We liked the Tundey kababi's biryani more, that was the mother of all biryanis.
Dastrkhwan needs to add some more punch to the biryani. Looks almost the same but tastes like a lame imitation.
We had to order a Ulte Tawe ka paratha as well. Didn't I tell you how good they are?
Two hungry souls who normally eat simple meals at home. Went berserk with Lucknow food.
There are many vegetarian options in Lucknow as well.
Bajpayi ji at Hazratganj for some great UP style poori subzi.
Mini mahal at Hazratganj for all kinds if vegetarian chaats and meals.
And a nice small restaurant called Marksman in the same area if you are craving some good south Indian food.
Apart from these , there are many small snacks outlets in the Ameenabad and chowk area where you can pick up dry snacks to take home.
Basically Lucknow is a place for a non vegetarian foodie. You would find small carts selling chicken biryani and meat biryani and that would be good too. I didn't get to taste any from those carts but the crowd that mobbed those carts tells much about the taste.
See you again with some home cooked food.
I am so nostalgic,.next time I go there I gonna have the biryani ,,,I luv the kulfi,..
How did I miss this Sangeetha??!!
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Welcome to my fifty-eighth video on the vanilla Minecraft server Kindred!
In this video I move some of my trading villagers to a new home and move the nether portal to a fancy new location.
Please hit that “Like” button if you enjoyed this video, and any comments (good or bad) are most welcome!
Welcome to my fifty-seventh video on the vanilla Minecraft server Kindred!
In this video I automate some farms, and build an a-maze-ing maze, with the help of JRHobbsMC!
Welcome to my fifty-sixth video on the vanilla Minecraft server Kindred!
In this video I visit the Ocelot Sanctuary, and add a monument.
Welcome to my fifty-fifth video on the vanilla Minecraft server Kindred!
In this video I explore the new blocks in Minecraft 1.12, build an AFK fishing farm, and build a swimming pool extension to the mansion.
Welcome to my fifty-fourth video on the vanilla Minecraft server Kindred!
In this video I build an elytra launcher and create a wither farm.
Welcome to my fifty-third video on the vanilla Minecraft server Kindred!
In this video I build a creeper-only mob farm and get a gift of chickens from PermissionLost!
Welcome to my fifty-second video on the vanilla Minecraft server Kindred!
Kindred Server Ep#51: Rocket Man!
Welcome to my fifty-first video on the vanilla Minecraft server Kindred!
In this video I try (and fail!) with the creeper farm, then I help FellaGaming to kill the Ender Dragon, and finally I build a rocket dispenser at the server spawn. Oh yeah, and I get a bit of a God-complex!
Welcome to my fiftieth video on the vanilla Minecraft server Kindred!
In this video I celebrate reaching 50 videos on the Kindred server, and I do some more work on the charged creeper farm and nether tunnel.
Kindred Server Ep#49: Bunny-mon GO!
Welcome to my forty-ninth video on the vanilla Minecraft server Kindred!
In this video I play the new craze sweeping the world – Bunny-mon GO! I also return to the charged creeper farm, to make some improvements to it.
© 2019 Kindred Minecraft Server.
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 at 21:13 and is filed under Amsterdam, Bands, De Kelvinators. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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This conversion of 28.74 terabytes to bits has been calculated by multiplying 28.74 terabytes by 8,796,093,022,208 and the result is 252,799,713,458,257.9062 bits.
how many terabytes is 37.47 gigabytes?
how many degrees fahrenheit is 7,268 degrees celsius?
how many kilometers per gallon is 95.33 miles per liter?
how many weeks is 60.48 months?
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Participants of the No Major Opinions Podcast are requested to read through this instruction set to help get the best sound possible for the show. In a nutshell, you will be recording your sound separately as you participate in the stream and uploading the resulting file for the editor to assemble and mix. This will allow for more control and better results.
If you haven’t already done so, please read through the Tips For Voice Audio article to get your performance sounding as good as possible before it is recorded/streamed. The better your sound is at the start, the better the end result will be.
Discord will still be the “call-in” software being used for the time being. It can achieve some great results for the live stream, but is hard to work with in the post production, hence the need to record separately.
For simplicity, I recommend using Audacity to record your voice, as it’s simple, powerful and free. If you are already setup with another Digital Audio Workstation, feel free to use it, but please read through the notes below to ensure your recording is consistent with the rest of the group.
It’s a good idea to take a few minutes to test out this workflow before the stream to make sure everything works.
Download and install Audacity on your computer. The defaults settings for Audacity will be to record at 32-bit float and 44100 Hz. This podcast (and most broadcast audio) will use 24-bit and 48000 Hz, so please change your Quality Preferences to match.
Back at the main Audacity window, make sure sample rate settings are also correct in the bottom left of the window.
Next, make sure all your input settings are correct. If you have a USB interface or mic, you should see it where the below image lists “Core Audio” (near the top of the window). Ensure the correct device/input is set on the next drop down (it may be labeled as the input number or the device name) and that the channel is set to 1 (Mono) Recording Channel.
Now you’ll want to check that your levels are set to a good volume. It is actually a bad idea to adjust the input level in Audacity like the image above – it should be set before it gets to Audacity. If you are using an audio interface or USB mic, it should have an input level or gain knob. If you are using a sound card or on-board inputs, you will need to adjust them using the system’s input settings. Click the input levels to have them start monitoring and start talking into your microphone.
If you don’t see any activity on the meter, you’ll either need to increase your input level or adjust your input settings to select the correct device/input. Your goals it to have your loudest part of speach just tickle the yellow part of the meters (-6) and not hit any of the oranges or red.
If your levels are hitting the red, they are too loud. Turn them down.
If you are not getting past -36, then they are too quiet. Turn it up.
Don’t worry about getting it consistent. These raw tracks will have a lot of dynamics compared to the Discord audio and sound a lot quieter. These tracks will be processed to sound better.
Once your levels are set, hit the Record button (red circle) to begin recording. Ideally, your recording will start before the stream (even just a few seconds). When complete, press the Stop button (square) to stop recording.
And that’s it, you’re all done.
It is possible to use a smartphone to record the tracks as well, since the Discord App and any Audio Recording App can operate simultaneously (tested on iOS), but the quality will be lower and getting the audio off your device will be more challenging.
If you have any issues, please contact me using the #no-major-opinions Discord channel on the NASAMarathon server. My name is proximitysound(#8640).
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It’s absolutely true. Men and women struggle sometimes to understand one another. So in this blog post, all you women out there – I want to help you understand the “male ego” as it’s called.
Often, it gets a bad wrap. But it’s part of how we men are made, and any woman who understands it, has just unlocked the door to her man’s heart.
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"url": "https://bernidymet.com/category/marriage/",
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Can you download open-source software on the internet?
This can be the only spinster audio editor that i've come across that comes a reverb (a special type of digital reverb you should utilize to semi-accurately model any space). it's important to utility your own impulse recordsdata although.
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Why isn't my windows media enjoying the audio and solely the video a movie that I downloaded?
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SwiftKit, the present software program is completely legal contained by JaGeX's eyes - although they won't endorse the software program. There was a latest 'discourage' next to the representative forums due to a misunderstandinsideg between a JaGeX Moderator and gamers the place the JaGeX Moderator badly worded a reply stating that they didn't endorse the software program, leading players to consider SwiftKit was ilauthorized. This was cleared at a next date and JaGeX acknowledged that the software program adheres to their Code of Cgleam, but that they can't endorse it as a result of it organism Third-party software.
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Jason, I never hated you, how could I hate someone who would put his face in front of some jagged cleats to win a game? I just got tired of watching you hit.
In my wildest dreams, I had a hard time visualizing a situation where the A’s would get something for Jason Kendall.
Will miss Kendall’s grit and pitcher handling, though his hitting is no longer at a major-league level.
– SF Gate’s A’s blog.
The coverage of this deal, from a Cubs perspective, has been mindboggling to me. Perhaps I was a slight bit biased, having immediately called a friend after hearing about the deal, and screaming “226!“, which left me little tolerance for differing opinions (as seen on the-w.) You can read the A’s perspective above – to them, this is a great move, getting rid of a player they were sick of watching to open up a door for a player they wanted to see and – bonus! – they got a couple free players and some salary relief out of it.
Look, I think this was a horrible deal. I think the Cubs would’ve been better of making no move than this move. Much like Cesar Izituris, I think the Cubs have traded for a player who’s having a bad time of it and may well be done as a major league regular, but they’re hoping they can fix him (/spread some magical pixie dust) and all of his problems will be gone. It didn’t and hasn’t worked with Izituris, and the Cubs have spent a lot of outs to find that out. I’m very upset to see the same process repeat itself again. I think Rob Bowen had proven to be a bad move (and a bad trade, Z’s hot streak or not) and Koyie Hill is the wrong direction, but Jason Kendall is probably just going to be another mistake and more time wasted going the wrong way instead of trying more promising directions.
The original thought, when this happened, is Pinella had campaigned for a better catcher after tiring of Hill and Bowen’s inability to hit. That may or may be solved by picking up Kendall, but it’s not actually what happened. When you start to read the A’s side coverage, it becomes pretty obvious this was an A’s idea to start with.
– Jim Hendry, quoted in the San Fransico Chronicle, and a generous, generous man. Hendry’s also quoted hyping up the major league prospects of Jerry Blevin, who’s pretty much be ignored in this deal on the Chicago side. Hendry sounds like he belives this is a steal for his team, and he’s trying to make sure Beane doesn’t get killed by the A’s fans for helping him out. It’s a pretty warped perspective from reality.
Phil Rogers’ short article on the trade was one of the worst I’ve read. Using Jason Marquis, the guy who’s completely fallen apart over the last six weeks, as a proof of the Cubs scouting being smarter than statistical evidence shows either cluelessness or obliviousness. I’m also not sure how much scouting could’ve actually been done, if the Cubs were not looking for catchers (as the SFGate article states), this deal was proposed on Sunday, and Kendall didn’t play on Monday. I think this deal was done 99% based on Jason Kendall name recognition while ignoring all evidence that he – like a lot of catchers when they reach they get into their 30s with a ton of games caught – might be done.
The defense I’ve heared about Kendall’s woeful hitting stats – that’s 226 AVG, 261 OBP, 281 SLG – is that he’s hit better lately. If you accept that, you’ve got also accept how horrible Kendall must’ve been doing earlier for a hot streak to take him to 226.
So yes, he did get hot in June, and even show a little bit of power. That was June. It’s July, and he’s back to what he’s been the rest of the season. Do you want to believe the 1 month, or the 2.3 months?
I’m actually more distressed about those on base numbers. Jason Kendall strength, when he was someone you’d want to sign, was his ability to get on base at a leadoff man’s rate. Some of it was because he hit 300 7 seasons, but it was equally about his ability to take pitches and get on base via the walk. While your swing may slow down, an aging player should retain his ability to identify the strike zone and walk his way on base.
* pitchers have figured out a reliable way get Kendall out, and don’t feel the need to waste any pitches out of the strike zone. Kendall’s not walking because the pitchers don’t fear him making contact.
If it’s the latter, I expect Kendall will get a brief surge, as he faces NL teams that are going off old scouting reports and don’t know how to challenge him. Word gets around fast, and I think the NL will figure out whatever the AL has, and what Kendall has been unable to correct.
I should note that signing Jason Kendall makes all the talk about Barrett being traded for his defense seem like complete bunk. Kendall’s known as a guy you can run at will on. Bowen and Hill seemed to be keeping people relatively honest, but no more.
The big catch here, the big unknown, is how much everyone’s paying for Kendall’s salary. It was $13 million, $5 mil still paid by the Pirates. (What an awful deal for the Pirates.) Season’s 91 games over, and even though it doesn’t exactly work that way, we’ll say that means 56% of the salary has been paid so far.
Kendall’s got a rep as being a good game caller – but he’s also the 5th different catcher the Cubs have used this season. It’s tough to believe any pitcher has a particularly good connection with any catcher at this point.
$3.5mil split by the Cubs and As. If the A’s are paying $3.25 mil of it, so the Cubs are basically paying Bowen’s salary for Jason Kendall, well, I guess you’re rolling the dice and hope that Kendall has a better shot to improve than Bowen.
I still rather the Cubs find out what they have in Soto first. If the Cubs internal scouting was correct, the Cubs would be out of it now – Theriot and Fontenot’s hot hitting would’ve never helped out the ball club because the scouting didn’t think they were worth anything. Maybe they’re right to about Soto, and he can’t be a Major League catcher, but wouldn’t you have a little doubt after the other guys you said couldn’t make it have been a valuable assets.
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Oklahoma where you guys at?!?!
Any Dallas area shops or guys that do side jobs?
Guys in or near COTTONWOOD, ARIZONA. Need some assistance! Will pay for your time!
Jersey Guy needing some Texan help!
Gulf coast coal rollers first meet!!!
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