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Tales in Pictures
A Very Short History of Art
Menkaure and Kamemernebty II, about 2535 bce.
Rameses II, about 1230bce
Christ Pantocrator, Mosaic from Hagia Sophia, 12th c.
Christ Pantocrator, St. John's Chrysotomos, Wisconsin, yesterday?
Ninjas who secreted in modernism
Donatello, David, ~1430, early Renaissance
Verocchio, David, studio, about 1474 is that Leonardo? posing as David,
Leonardo, Madonna of the Rocks, Louvre version, about 1510
Michelangelo, David, about 1502
a tale of three david's
Raphael, School of Athens, 1510
Michelangelo, Creation of Adam, Sistine Ceiling, Rome, 1510
Caravaggio, Bacchus, 1597
Diego Velasquez, Las Meninas, 1565
rembrandt, In the Studio, 1629
Watteau, Signboard of Gersaint, 1721
Jean Honoré Fragonard, The Happy Accidents of the Swing, 1767
Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863
Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1872
Vincent Van Gogh, Self Portrait with bandaged Ear, 1888
Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907
Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931
Mark Rothko, Four Darks on Red, 1958
Jackson Pollock, Number 1 (Lavender Mist), 1951
Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn, 1962
Self Portraits!
Raphael, School of Athens, ~1510
Raphael, self portrait in School of Athens, ~1510
Dürer, SElf Portrait in Fur-lined cloak, 1500
Parmigianino, Self Portrait in Convex Mirror
Rembrandt, Artist in the Studio, 1629
Duane Michaels
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(Re-)Introducing the Language of Art
Introducing the Elements and Principles of Art
Most Basically, the Elements of Design, or Elements of Art, are the bits and pieces with which you compose a work of two or three dimensional art. Most of these building blocks apply directly or indirectly to other visual art media like digital art, performance art, and video... and can add nuance to interpretation of happenings and sound art as well. On the surface, you'll find these terms elementary... see what degrees of sophistication you can find in close looking at images with regards to their use of these basic elements.
nota bene: you will find that different sources list different elements and principles, some more than I have, some fewer. Read a couple different sources (I give a list at the bottom) and write your own list carefully!
The visible path of a point moving through space or the edge where two shapes meet
We think of line as having direction, weight, and even speed. Horizontal lines generally indicate stability, rest, tranquility; vertical lines indicate formality, alertness, and significantly affect our understanding of balance in the image; diagonal or oblique lines dramatically direct our gaze, and suggest movement, energy, action.
Vine . 1991-93. Oil on linen, 96 x 102 1/2" (243.8 x 260.3 cm)
image credit MOMA
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, Great Salt Lake, photographer unknown
Vilhelm Hammershoi,Gentoft Lake, 1905, oil, photocredit artandperception.com
Most literally, a shape is a geometric or organic self-contained area. Usually, we perceive shape as two dimensional. As you consider paintings, consider positive and negative shapes. When we talk about sculpture, we generally consider them through photographs, which can flatten forms to create shapes that allow us to see the sculptures differently.
Paul Cézanne, Mont Saint Victoire, 1895. photocredit wiki paintings.
"Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone, the whole put into perspective so that each side of an object, or of a plane, leads towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth, whether a sections of nature, or, if you prefer, of the spectacle which Pater omnipotens aeterne Deus unfolds before your eyes. Lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth.. ..Everything I am telling you ] about - the sphere, the cone, cylinder, concave shadow – on mornings when I’m tired these notions of mine get me going, they stimulate me, I soon forget them once I start using my eyes. (from wikiquotes, quoted from Joachim Gasquet’s Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, Thames and Hudson, London 1991 pp. 163-164)
Paul Klee, Castle and Sun, 1928, image source artinthepicture.com
Joan Miró, Toward the Rainbow, 1941, gouache and oil on paper imagecredit welovedc.com
Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1976
Many see form as a subset of shape or the same, even, and they can prove hard to tease apart. We speak of form as having depth as well as length and width, and perceive it as three dimensional even in a flat work of art.
Paul Cézanne, Apples and Oranges, 1895-1900
Leonardo da Vinci, Study of Arms and Hands, 1474, pen and ink on paper
Pablo Picasso, Self Portrait at 15, 1896
also called hue. Whatever the hue, colors come from black, white, and the three primaries and vary in intensity and value. Valuable primers on color here and far more in depth and quite valuable resource from the ever-dependable OWL at Purdue, here. Color VALUE refers to how light or dark a color appears and color INTENSITY refers to how pure the saturation of the HUE. So, for example, a blue with absolutely no yellow or red added has a high intensity, a blue diluted with yellow that makes it head close to green has low intensity.
Vincent Van Gogh, Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate) 1890
"It seems to me that a painter has a duty to try to put an idea into his work. I was trying to say this in this print — but I can’t say it as beautifully, as strikingly as reality, of which this is only a dim reflection seen in a dark mirror — that it seems to me that one of the strongest pieces of evidence for the existence of 'something on high' in which Millet believed, namely in the existence of a God and an eternity, is the unutterably moving quality that there can be in the expression of an old man like that, without his being aware of it perhaps, as he sits so quietly in the corner of his hearth. At the same time something precious, something noble, that can’t be meant for the worms. ... This is far from all theology — simply the fact that the poorest woodcutter, heath farmer or miner can have moments of emotion and mood that give him a sense of an eternal home that he is close to." image and quotation wikipedia
We call an objects surface qualities its texture. Ask yourself is it matte, shiny, smooth, rough, jagged etc. Texture can be tactile (physical) like a Van Gogh painting seen in person, where Van Gogh's use of impasto (thick, pasty paint) gives the painting roughness that you could feel with your hand (if the museum guard stepped out) or visual, like the photograph of the Van Gogh painting, with its highly obvious brushmarks even on the smooth photopaper.
Meret Oppenheim, Object (luncheon in Fur), 1936, photo MOMA
Janine Antoni. (Bahamian, born 1964). Butterfly Kisses. 1996–99. Cover Girl Thick Lash mascara on paper. 29 3/4" x 30" (75.6 x 76.2 cm).. Purchase, 2001.
Jan Davidsz de Heem, Still Life: Breakfast with Champaign Glass and Pipe, 1642, Dutch.
COMPOSITION.
well, now that's a long conversation. For now, artists use the elements to make their works. Consciously and subconsciously, the principles guide their decisions about how to use the elements to make pleasing or otherwise affecting works.
The Principles of Art/Design
Balance refers to the appearance of equilibrium in a two or three dimensional artwork. Artists balance their work symmetrically (rarely), asymmetrically, or radially, by including elements of varying visual or conceptual weight. Relying on the laws of physics can help you to balance a work; a small object at the edge of the work can balance a large object at the center, a small dark object appears heavier, and will balance a larger light object. Artists use balance to create feelings of anxiety, peace, tension, etc.
Katsushika Hokusai, Sudden Gust of Wind, 1832
Jeff Wall, Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) 1993
When I was making A Sudden Gust of Wind I knew I wanted to show how the air could carry the papers. Hokusai had already solved some of these problems. If you analyse his composition, you realise that many of the little pieces of paper coincided with very important points of the rectangle. He composed something that had a feel of the accidental. It was not accidental, but he knew how to make it look that way. I thought that the only way to achieve that was to first create chance situations, to create a lot of movement and then just have a lot of materials to edit. So we created a way a lot of paper could be moved in the air and then tried to think of both the rectangle and the invisible air current in three dimensions. As the papers move in depth, they move away from us and get smaller. I just worked hard on it and tried to compose. There is no guide, its just a feeling, a sense of real, how things are really are or would be . _Jeff Wall
Jan Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, 1665 photo wikipaintings
valuable resource on this painting at the national gallery. here.
We call the repetition of an element in an image a pattern. Artists create exact or varied patterns, to different effect.
Julie Heffernan, Self Portrait in Need of Perpetual Help, 2009
Wasily Kandinsky, Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913
EMPHASIS or DOMINANCE
Artists give certain elements or areas of their images more power than others, drawing the viewers gaze to a specific space, action, or concept. They use various tools (lines of particular direction, the gaze of persons pictured, contrast, scale, etc) to achieve the emphasis
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Night Watch, or The Shooting Company of Franz Banning Cocq, 1642, photo wikipedia
Michelangelo da Caravaggio, The Incredulity of St. Thomas, 1601
Artists use repetition to create unity in their works. Repetition without VARIETY tends to generate static images, repetition combined with Variety tends to create harmonious ones.
Michelangelo Buonarotti, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1508-1512
UNITY/HARMONY
The Combination of similar or related elements-- colors, shapes, lines,objects, often via a degree of repetition, often creates a visually pleasing affect. Unity and Harmony give a sense of intentionality and completeness.
Henri Rousseau, The Dream, 1914
Limbourg Brothers, Trés Riches Heures du Duc De Barry, Juillet, ~1414
Contrast in Color, Direction, Value, Content etc all create interest in a work of art and prevent it from becoming dull or lifeless. Artists seek to balance Repetition, Unity, and Harmony with Contrast to enliven their images.
Barnett Newman, Stations of the Cross, 1958-1966 image source here.
Franz Marc Fighting Forms, 1914, image source wikipedia
Dorothea Tanning, Eine Kleine Nachtmusic, 1943
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Artist and art historian Towns teaches art history and visual culture at the UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC. See her work in sculpture at www.betsytowns.com
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Tyler, The Creator’s ‘Cherry Bomb’ Docu Trailer Features Pharrell
Tyler, The Creator shared the first glimpse of his upcoming project, “Cherry Bomb: The Documentary.” The 45-minute film is an in-depth look at the making of his 2015 album “Cherry Bomb.” The trailer includes a handful of cameos from artists and friends, including Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, Lil Wayne, A$AP Rocky, ScHoolboy Q, among others. In the clip we see Tyler in the studio, conducting a string section, playing piano and recording verses.
The doc was directed, shot, produced, and cut by Mikey Alfred and Illegal Civ Cinema. For fans of the rapper, it will be great insight into his process of creating an album. The first 10 minutes of the documentary will be screened at the Illegal Civilization’s tent at this weekend’s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, taking place at Los Angeles’ Exposition Park.
Aside from being a rapper, Tyler, the Creator has a long list of music videos he’s directed including his own, “She,” “Domo 23/Bimmer,” “IFHY/Jamba,” among others. He’s also helmed videos for other artists like Earl Sweatshirt, Trash Talk and D.A. Wallach. “Cherry Bomb: The Documentary” will be released on DVD in January 2017. Check out the trailer below.
*http://www.indiewire.com/2016/11/tyler-the-creator-cherry-bomb-trailer-documentary-kanye-pharrell-1201745987/
Skrung Owt
i can't wait
this looks like it should be dope
The Grindin' fam should get an early release 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Rafael Arana
FOREVER STAR TRAK
tanv91
Apart from the outro, this song was almost unlistenable
Totally forgot about it. =/
this TIGHT
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lmao tyler
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@Mika freestyle meeean ...please rip that
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So nice! What an incredible album.
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Gonna watch this again, great work mane @BabyMilo
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One of the worst songs P has ever been involved in
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I love the feeling i get from watching Tyler, like no worries just being himself having fun living his life just the way he wants
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Welcome to The Bat & The Cat, a fanpage dedicated to "Gotham" characters Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle, aka young Batman and Catwoman, played by David Mazouz and Camren Bicondova.
TVLine shares spoilers about Bruce and Selina
TVLine answered a fan question about Bruce and Selina’s relationship in the remaining episodes of “Gotham”:
Question: Any details on what we can expect to see with regards to the BatCat relationship the rest of the season on Gotham? —BatJordan
Ausiello: When Matt Mitovich asked David Mazouz about Camren Bicondova’s ominous tease for the series finale — portending a split for Bruce and Selina — he affirmed, “They kind of had too close of a relationship at the beginning of this season to have the relationship that Batman and Catwoman need to have.” EP John Stephens puts the path ahead in slightly less rocky terms, saying that Bruce and Selina have “come through that element of ‘I hate you/I’m attracted to you, I hate you/I’m attracted to you’ to a different level of maturity than they had before.”
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New “Gotham” sneak peek: “Selina Tells Barbara What Penguin Is Up To”
Another sneak peek from tonight’s episode of “Gotham” has been released, this time by TVLine. You can watch it below:
Tune in tonight, at 8/7c, on FOX, for a new episode of “Gotham”.
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5×09 – “The Trial of Jim Gordon” HQ still
A HQ still from episode 9 of “Gotham” season 5 has been added to the gallery:
Link to the gallery:
Episode Stills > Season 5 > 5×09 – The Trial of Jim Gordon
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5×09 – “The Trial of Jim Gordon” synopsis
Read below the synopsis for episode 9 of “Gotham” season 5:
PA: Viewer discretion is advised.
GORDON RECKONS WITH HIS PAST AS IVY CASTS A SPELL ON BRUCE ON AN ALL-NEW “GOTHAM” THURSDAY, MARCH 7, ON FOX
Written by Series Star Ben McKenzie; Directed by Series Star Erin Richards
After Gordon is shot in an attempt to establish a cease-fire, he hallucinates a trial for his life that could have deadly real consequences. Meanwhile, Ivy (guest star Peyton List) returns and puts her spell on Bruce, leaving Selina to defend herself. Lee has a life-changing moment as Barbara and Penguin consider their next moves in the all-new “The Trial of Jim Gordon” episode of GOTHAM airing Thursday, March 7 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (GTH-512) (TV-14 L, V)
Cast: Ben McKenzie as Detective James Gordon, Donal Logue as Detective Harvey Bullock, Morena Baccarin as Dr. Leslie Thompkins, Sean Pertwee as Alfred Pennyworth, Robin Lord Taylor as Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin, Erin Richards as Barbara Kean, David Mazouz as Bruce Wayne, Camren Bicondova as Selina Kyle/the future Catwoman, Cory Michael Smith as Edward Nygma/The Riddler, Chris Chalk as Lucius Fox
Guest Cast: Peyton List as Ivy Pepper, Kelcy Griffin as Detective Harper, Anthony Carrigan as Victor Zsasz, JW Cortes as Detective Alvarez, Hunter Jones as Will Thomas, Julian Gamble as Judge
Source: TheFutonCritic.com
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5×06 – “13 Stitches” HQ stills
Two HQ stills from episode 6 of “Gotham” season 5 have been added to the gallery:
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5×06 – “13 Stitches” synopsis
The synopsis for the sixth episode of “Gotham” season 5 has just been released:
GORDON BUILDS A TEAM TO STOP EDUARDO DORRANCE ON AN ALL-NEW “GOTHAM” THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, ON FOX
Directed by Series Star Ben McKenzie Shane West Guest-Stars
Gordon assembles an unlikely team to protect Gotham from Eduardo Dorrance (guest star Shane West) and his Delta Force. Just as Lee Thompkins resurfaces, Barbara reveals shocking news that will change Gordon’s life forever. Meanwhile, Selina and Penguin team up to outsmart fellow villain Magpie (guest star Sarah Schenkkan) in the all-new “13 Stitches” episode of GOTHAM airing Thursday, Feb. 14 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (GTH-506) (TV-14 L,V)
Guest Cast: Cameron Monaghan as Jeremiah Valeska, Shane West as Eduardo Dorrance, David Carranza as Angel Vallelunga, Sarah Schenkkan as Magpie, and Jamie Murray as Secretary Walker
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Additional pictures of David Mazouz and Camren Bicondova on the set of “Gotham” season 5
Additional HQ pictures of David Mazouz and Camren Bicondova filming episode 3 of “Gotham” season 5, back on August 20, 2018, are available in the gallery:
Behind the Scenes > Season 5 > Filming – August 20, 2018
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Next on “Gotham”
September 22, 2014 – April 25, 2019
— July 9, 2019: “Gotham” season 5 + “Gotham”: The Complete Series out on DVD and Blu-ray in the US. Learn more about it here.
— September 13, 2019: Results of the 45th Annual Saturn Awards, where David Mazouz and “Gotham” are nominated.
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— September 16-17, 2017: Heroes and Villains Fan Fest (New York)
• David Mazouz will attend.
— September 23-24, 2017: Baltimore Comic-Con
— November 11-12, 2017: Rhode Island Comic Con
• David Mazouz and Camren Bicondova will attend.
— November 19, 2017: Heroes and Villains Fan Fest (Atlanta)
— January 5-7, 2018: Wizard World Comic Con (New Orleans, Louisiana)
— January 13, 2018: DC in D.C. (Washington, D.C.)
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— April 13-14, 2019: German Comic Con (Dortmund)
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• Camren Bicondova will attend. David Mazouz cancelled his appearance.
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“Gotham” series finale trailer
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WA Shearings Hotels
WA Shearings Hotels (known as Shearings Holiday Hotels until early 2005) is the hotel division of coach and hotel holiday operator WA Shearings. The group was formed in 2005 from the merger of Shearings Holidays and the Coach Holiday Group, which can each trace their origins back more than 100 years ago.
The merger created a group that claims a 14% share of the £2.1b UK coach holiday market and owns the UK’s 14th largest hotel company. The enlarged company can boast a fleet of more than 400 coaches, more than two million UK bed nights, an annual passenger carrying of more than one million people and a combined database in excess of 2.5 million customers.
The group offers coach hotel and self-drive breaks in the UK, air and coach holidays in Europe, and long-haul holidays through partnerships.
The Torquay-based hotel division specialises in the fast-growing grey market, offering entertainment-led accommodation and themed breaks for the over-55s.
Key People:
Group chairman: Bernard Norman
Group managing director: John Slatcher
Group finance director: David Newbold
Group sales and marketing director: Karen Gee
Operations director of hotels: Vince Flower
The merger with CHG in 2005 added nine Wallace Arnold hotels to the fold that, like Shearings, targeted the entertainment-led holiday market for the over-55s. CHG started life in 1912 as coach holiday company Wallace Arnold. It was bought out in 1997 and renamed the Coach Holiday Group in 2001 when it acquired National Holidays and Caledonian Holidays.
The hotels’ focus on the grey market fits neatly with the coaching business as 67% of hotel customers use Shearings coaches. They are also extremely loyal, with many visiting four or five of its hotels a year on both short and long breaks, giving the company highly stable occupancy figures.
The focus on coastal and rural resorts chimes in with research from Greypower, which found that 73% of mature travellers took their holidays in the UK, 82% to the countryside and 69% to coastal resorts.
Most Shearings hotels offer entertainment (such as tribute bands or Stars in Their Eyes performers) most nights, along with a range of themed breaks. Operations director of hotels Vince Flower identified these areas as key to the hotels’ future growth and success and they provided a means to tackle the shift from long to short break holidays by extending the opening season from 36 to 52 weeks. This strategy won Shearings a Thistle award in 2002 for its year-round contribution to Scottish tourism.
WA Shearings Hotels has adopted a rolling policy of replacing older hotels with better quality properties with larger bedrooms since the 1996 management buy-out. It has added about 14-15 new properties to the estate and sold around the same number in the past 10 years.
Although the focus this year has been on the merger, with four hotels sold or for sale to reduce duplication, Flower is starting to look for new sites. Last year, he added properties in Scarborough, Blackpool and Morecambe and is now looking to boost the company’s presence in Brighton (where demand outstrips supply) and to add sites in Chichester, Portsmouth, Northumbria and Fife.
The company intends to pursue its policy of buying better hotels to replace older ones with small bedrooms in star locations and to seek properties in new areas and those where supply outstrips demand.
Source: director of hotels, August 2005
Operating Data:
WA Shearings generated combined sales of £216m and operating profits of £14m in 2004.
Hotel turnover in 2004: more than £54m
Hotel operating profit in 2004: more than £11m
Occupancy: 78.25% (92.5% in April to October)
Number of hotels: 43
Scotland: 12 hotels - Braemar, Dornoch, Fort William, Gairloch, Loch Lomond, Loch Long, Melrose, Oban, Pitlochry, Portpatrick, Rothesay, Strathpeffer
Wales: three hotels - in Llandudno (two) and Tenby
Central & Northern England: eight hotels - in Blackpool, Cirencester, Great Yarmouth, Morecambe, Scarborough (2), Whitby, Windermere
South Coast: seven hotels – in Bournemouth (2), Eastbourne (2), Isle of Wight (2), Weymouth
South West: 14 hotels – in Exmouth (2), Ilfracombe, Lynton, Newquay (3), Paignton, St Ives, St Mawes, Torquay (3), Weston Super Mare
Total number of employees at WA Shearings: more than 3,400
Number of hotel employees: more than 1,400
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Category: PAC
Campaign Reform, PAC
End Citizens United Feels That Cory Booker Did A Fantastic Job
March 1, 2018 by gotitnow - No comments
Cory Booker declined corporate political action committee (PAC) money. End Citizens United (ECU) felt that the senator made a perfect decision. Booker joined the ongoing trend of candidates rejecting corporate PACs. ECU encourages candidates to turn down funds aimed at special interests.
Rejecting the PAC money showed his leadership and desire to stop the system that leaves behind many Americans according to votesmart.org. He demonstrated his interest in fighting for the people’s rights, and not corporate special interests.
Through its president, Muller Tiffany, ECU expressed its gratitude to Cory Booker. Members were assured that he would help mend the broken system and create one that promotes democracy.
With an endorsement from ECU, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand declared during her re-election campaigns, that she would reject PAC money. ECU already had a list of more than 70 candidates who supported this initiative. Some of the endorsed candidates are Andy Kim, Elissa Slotkin, Beto O’Rourke, Conor Lamb, Christina Hartman, and Dean Phillips.
Washington’s policies frustrated most voters. As such, they felt that any candidate who supported ECU was committed to fighting for their rights, against the corporate special interests.
ECU is an organization that gives voice to American families. It also seeks to eradicate BIG Money from politics. This way, Congress will focus on every American citizen and not the special interest donors.
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About Cory Booker
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In 2006, Cory became a mayor. During his leadership, affordable housing doubled and the city deficit reduced to 73 million dollars from 180 million dollars. He raised more than 6 million dollars for the race to this seat. He has served as the New Jersey senator since 2013.
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From 2007 to 2009, Gillibrand represented New York’s 20th congressional district. She is the New York senator since 2009. Her top priority is to rebuild the economy. Her efforts to create more jobs and to have more products locally manufactured are unstoppable. The senator seeks to support more small businesses in her area.
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Trumps charity bought his portrait because no one else would
Home > POTUS Published October 25, 2018 - 11:24pm
In what might be one of the most pathetic legal defenses ever argued in a court of law, a lawyer representing the Trump family admitted that Trump’s charitable foundation spent $10,000 on a portrait of him — but only because no one else wanted it.
Trump family lawyer Alan Futerfas offered the sad account on Thursday, during oral arguments in a case brought by the New York state attorney general against the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
The state attorney general’s office alleges that Trump and his three children operated the foundation “in persistent violation” of federal and state laws, including calling the organization a charity while using it as a “personal piggy bank” to fund their own excessive spending habits.
One example of this alleged misuse of funds took place in 2014, when an oil painting of Trump was put up for auction during a charity event at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.
“So Mr. Trump donates $10,000 to start the bidding, and then when the bidding goes on and no one else bids, they’re stuck with the painting,” Futerfas told Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Saliann Scarpulla as he argued for the case to be dismissed.
When Trump’s personal charitable foundation placed the bid, it was only meant to “get the bidding started,” Futerfas claimed.
But as it turned out, no one else wanted the painting, so the charity was on the hook for the $10,000 bid. And while Trump could have footed the bill himself at that point, he chose instead to bill his charitable foundation for the cost.
That’s not the only time Trump has allegedly dipped into charitable funds for personal use.
The state’s lawsuit says Trump also used money from his charity to pay off debts and legal settlements, decorate one of his golf clubs, and make donations to benefit his presidential campaign.
Now, Trump is trying to get the case dismissed — but his defense might just be worse than the charges.
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Gabourey Sidibe: The Sanctimony of Hollywood’s Anorexic Tears.
Home → Damien Zone → Gabourey Sidibe: The Sanctimony of Hollywood’s Anorexic Tears.
“Every phony who had a microphone took a moment to patronize Sidibe solely because she is black and enormously fat. Sorry but that is the sad truth. Another sad truth is that Hollywood treats black people like cute little pets and not as human beings. I am sure that Miss Sidibe is an inwardly beautiful and talented person, but she is dangerously overweight from carrying both a lot of her own fat and the weight of all the false praise Hollywood has heaped upon her back.” [David D. Mattia – Hollywood Writer/Producer] <– Click on him. He’s really kind of smart.
She’s precious you say? Well, I say that if her body hit the earth at 17,000 mph nobody would be around to appreciate her alleged preciousness. Certainly she is deserving of praise for scoring an Oscar nomination on her first movie, but the sanctimony behind that acclaim runs deeper than the crack of Chaz Bono’s butt.
Woe that I should be labeled unkind, but why is anorexic Hollywood glorifying a woman who has obvioulsy ventured so far into the realm of morbid obesity that she has her own area code? Had she won the Oscar, the weight of the statue and her own inherent mass could very well have put her into an elipitical orbit around the earth. Do you know what that would have done to the earth’s climate and the ocean’s tides? It would be pretty nasty if you didn’t count the joy of seeing Los Angeles swept away into the volcanic trenches of the oceanic hell where it belongs.
Anyway, out in Hollywood — the place where Death is taking an industrious working vacation — some unhappy movie geek recently made a movie mocking McDonalds and fast food in general. Of course every adipose impaired wraith on the red carpet in premature-death-city lauded the documentary in their traditionally mindless lockstep. It reminded me of a 1980’s cult who called themselves “Breathaerians.” They insisted they never ate and their leader denied having ingested anything other than lemon water for over twenty years. Of course the whole cult crumbled when somebody snapped a photo of said leader eating a quarter-pounder with cheese in –you guessed it — McDonalds.
The irony, however, is that Hollywood is a place where people do not eat, and when they are forced to, they usually puke it up in their Coach bag and dump it in the woods because it’s “green.”
In their endless quest to be wafer thin , and then in turn to foist this concentration-camp-chic on the youth of the world, quite a few wanna-be starlets have bit the dust — probably because they were trying to eat it. Yet somehow, in their never ending hypocrisy, the actresses of Hollywood have opted to hold up Miss Sidibe, a medical nightmare in the making, as a pillar of hope and goodness and beauty. Sometimes sanctimony leaves behind the smell of sulphur and this year’s Academy Awards should have run a pre-show warning to close cover before striking.
This woman is not a role model. If she were doing Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials instead of playing a role that exploited her girth there would not be enough plywood in the world to board up all the KFC’s thet would eventually succumb to the wrath of the Hollywood elite. The company would be beaten down by Tinseltown; accused of demoralizing this poor, pitiful creature and steadfastly deemed unworthy to do business in polite society.
Further Hollywood hypocrisy in the case of Gabourey Sidibe manifests itself oh-so-sneakily in the shape of why elite, Hollywood racism is good, while your average, everyday, mid-western racism is bad.
You see, Hollywood rallies against the use of the “Magical Negro” character in movies and TV, but they always use it, and in this case they’ve conjured up their ultimate fantasy — a magical negro who is actually a living person named Gabourey Sidibe. They can cry when she cries and they can dab at their tears when she dabs at hers. My own best guess is that Sidibe’s tears are real, but Hollywood’s are always, always, always, artficial.
If you are not familiar with the concept of the magical negro, think of Scatman Crother’s mind-reading character in “The Shining” or Michael Clarke Duncan’s ability to restore life to the dead in “The Green Mile.” In these films the African (American in this case) is possessing of mystical powers that stupify the white man. It’s incredibly offensive and Hollywood insists they hate it, but they just can’t seem to stop doing it.
“Doctor it hurts when we do this. Please tell us to stop doing it?”
Why did so many award presenters feel the need to tell Sidibe how beautiful she was, and why harken back to Hattie McDaniel when that happened 70 years ago? People are so past even noticing another person’s race in a motion picture that it’s absurd to have even mentioned it. But the truth is that some people, the last one’s you’d expect, are not past noticing and noting race under the oh-so-obvious played out guise of being good people. Hollywood gilds its guilt with false praise and maudlin sentiment — it makes for great TV once every March.
With fondest regards,
Damien LeGallienne
Mon at 9:03am ·
By Damien on March 11, 2010 / Damien Zone, Featured Hollywood, Featured World News, Health and Medical, Hollywood, World News / 2 Comments
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8:14 pm on June 17, 2011
Daniel, you are so right with what you said, and THANK YOU for the use of the word “patronize” it hits right where intended. i am not black and im not fat, but i am muslim and i wear hijab, i know exactly how this woman must have felt! thank god there are people out there who think like you
10:55 pm on June 17, 2011
Thank You, Alia, for reading and for commenting — my name is Damien by the way — Daniel is a nicer name but I have to use the one I was given at birth 🙂
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Our most recent Kids Show was: Disney's SLEEPING BEAUTY Kids!
Mon, 02/18/2013 - 16:17 — Aileen McCulloch
Up next for kids aged 6 to 13 - Disney's SLEEPING BEAUTY KIDS!
Begins rehearsals on September 20 and goes up in early November! Rehearses just one day a week, Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (goes to 2 p.m. later in the rehearsal period). Show goes up in mid-November. Jump over to the sign up sheet and let us know you are participating!
Cost is $200 per child and each student is asked to sell 10 tickets and one $25 advertisement. Alternately you can pay $150 in advance and sell 15 tickets and one $25 ad. Or you can pay $325 up front and receive six any show/any age tickets to use when you wish to and an ad spot to give a message to your child.
For those with extreme financial issues - we can also work out work study options. We always work to help you afford the classes! So let us know how to help.
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The 15th day of the 7th lunar month is known as the Ghost Festival. Its origin dates back to the story of Maudgalyayana rescuing his mother, which was first recorded in the Ullambana Sutra.
Maudgalyayana was one of Buddha’s ten most outstanding disciples, and he also had the greatest psychic powers. After he acquired psychic powers, the first thing he did was to look for his mother, who had passed on.
Through his clairvoyance, he found out that his mother had been reborn into Avici, the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts. As a hungry ghost, his mother could not eat anything and was reduced to a bag of bones. What sins did his mother commit when she was alive? She wasted a lot of food and was greedy and hot-tempered. She also nursed ill intentions, failed to watch her tongue or her behavior, and was mean to others. She even slandered Buddhist monks.
Maudgalyayana was a dutiful son. He tried to help alleviate his mother’s suffering by using his psychic powers to produce a bowl of food for her. To prevent other ghosts from snatching the food, his mother covered the bowl with her emaciated left hand as she used her right hand to take the food. But every time, before the food could enter her mouth, it turned into flames. When the flames fell onto the ground, they became food again.
Maudgalyayana was devastated. Though he had acquired supernatural powers, he was unable to save his own mother.
He asked Buddha how he could relieve the suffering of his mother. He was told that due to the many transgressions his mother had committed, he would not be able to get her out by himself. It could only be done by gathering the strength of many monks, and the 15th day of the 7th lunar month would be the perfect time to do that, as there is a lot of energy on this day.
On the 15th day of the 7th lunar month, monks would emerge from their summer retreat and confess to their transgressions. Buddha instructed Maudgalyayana to prepare fruits, foods, and clothes and present them to the monks in “yulan” bowls. The monks in return would pray for his seven generations of parents and ancestors. That was how his mother could be reincarnated.
Maudgalyayana followed Buddha’s instructions and made offerings to the monks. He succeeded in freeing his mother from the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts.
The spirit Maudgalyayana displayed in rescuing his mother in the Ullambana Sutra bears similarities to the concept of filial piety in Confucianism. The story also became a very popular opera show, “Mulian Rescues His Mother”, during the Song, Ming, and Qing Dynasties (from the 10th century onward).
The moral of the story of Maudgalyayana rescuing his mother is that one must pay for one’s own doings. Even someone with psychic powers like Maudgalyayana cannot help himself or others run away from their karma. A person who has done evil must suffer and mend his ways before there is hope for him to redeem himself. Maudgalyayana’s mother contracted deep karma when she was alive, and even when she was reincarnated as a ghost, she was selfish, covering her bowl of food with her hand to prevent other ghosts from snatching it. There was no repentance. Why did the food offered to her turn into flames? Not one single thought of ours, be it good or evil, can escape the eyes of gods.
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Heritage-Listed Venue with Modern Additions in Maylands, Australia
By Raphaelle January 13, 2014 in Architecture
The Australian architecture studio, remodelled this heritage-listed venue in Maylands, Australia, adding a sense of contemporary design to the existing structure. The project completed in 2010 brings to our attention a new timber extension with steel framed openings. Floor-to-ceiling windows allow to flood the interior with light and warmth. The depth generated by the several frames located in the sides articulate a play of light and shades. The exposure of old and new elements is visible, yet not disturbing at all. Contrasting styles brought together cast a dynamic and bold living environment. Despite all contradictions, the space feels uncluttered and harmonious, everything falls into the right place.
“Internally a central concrete core creates the organisational and conceptual centre of the project. The concrete brings extra weight and presence to emphasize this. Contained within the core is the kitchen, the heart of the house. Located around the core are the livings spaces and dining room.” The extension opens up to the rear courtyard and garden. There’s also a small wooden deck outside, where you can have coffee in the morning, near the extraordinary eucalyptus tree.
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Stashwax, SNL Duke it Out Over Who Spoofed Anti-Semite First
Stashwax makes a Braveheart spoof with the anti-Semitic comments Gibson made during his Malibu DUI arrest. Saturday Night Live does the same thing (but slightly better) with Apocalypto. We have to admit Gibson makes the pairing of his melodramatic films and drunken bigoted hyperbole a little irresistible.
Despite this inarguable fact, Stashwax has its panties in a twist over SNL's outright piracy of "their" idea, even showcasing this momentous battle on their homepage. Stashwax President Lloyd Grenache tastefully adds, "Stay off our gags [...] Gibson is our Anti-Semite - go find your own."
Looks like Stashwax is trying to leverage itself by suggesting it's SNL's only logical media nemesis. And we're sure we haven't seen the end of one-upmanship between TV and the 'net. But there's really no contest here. South Park has long owned Mel Gibson with its own artful rendering way back when Passion of the Christ came out. Sorry.
by Angela Natividad Jan-10-07
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Vodka Makes Adequite Secret Ingredient to Lindsay Lohan H2O
One day we got thirsty so Shawn over at Shedwa offered us a sip from his water bottle, the contents of which had a distinctively sharp odour. We would have drunk it anyway but when we saw the label read ADEQUITE, we knew better.
Actually that's a lie. And the Adequite water in this print ad is probably similarly unfounded considering how pissy Lohan got over that "Be adequite" thing getting out and making her look all stupid. And as the little red celebu-hoodrat is so fond of sporting her AA pins, maybe she's not even an alcoholic.
We're on your side, Lindsay. It's actually we who are the alcoholics. And we're drunk with love of you.
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Oh, there's a countdown clock on the site insuring we check back to see what this is all about on January 15. Hmm. Philips? Yea, we think so.
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Bond Girl, X-Woman Says Be Nice to Dogs
Oh we just can't pass on featuring one of our favorite, over-the-top Bond girls Zena Onatop aka Famke Jansen who is appearing in a "Be An Angel For Animals" PETA ad. Famke and PETA want us to be nice to dogs this holiday season. The ad, shot by Andrew Southam, was unveiled at an event yesterday in LA at Runyon Canyon Park. So don't crate your dog when you go to the inlaws for Christmas this year. Call Famke and I'm sure she'd be happy to come over and watch your dog.
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Smirnoff Gives Lost Stars Fresh Play, Children Point and Laugh
Smirnoff Ice's Save the Mistletoe is an amusingly long-way-around attempt to say Smirnoff brings people together (just like mistletoe - so stop ravaging innocent bushes).
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That's not all. Kevin at PR Blog divulges having seen a swamp-like creature that was actually supposed to be mistletoe, getting heckled by children at a nearby ice rink for love of the campaign. We wonder which sponsoring celebrity burn-out he happened to be. We put our money on The Incredible Hulk.
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Mia Hamm Expecting Kicking Duo in Spring '07
Hurty Elbow nudges us over to an odd ad for a Mia Hamm interview about the twins in her tummy. The image gave us a somewhat disturbing mental picture of twin knee-sock-wearing socker players kicking like crazy in the leathery interior of their soccer ball mum. "These babies can kick!" says the cheery-as-hell 34-year-old legend.
Weird. But we're fond of Mia because she did those cute "anything you can do I can do better" ads with MJ before he got lame. So congrats on the pair! - Contributed by Angela Natividad
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Actor Peter Boyle Dead, Chick-Fil-A Dreams, Ageny Overdoes Holiday Effort
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Roehm Reamed, Homes Eaten, Mel Gibson Gets A Menorah
- Lost Planet thinks they've made a trailer for their Xbox 360 game that'll shatter cultural norms, change lives and trigger brain aneurisms on-sight. It's a fair trailer but it won't look that great six months from now when some other game has kicked its ass, as these things tend to go.
- Fledgling supermarket Bloom cozy up with agency BooneOakley to make a real-live gingerbread house in South Carolina (of all fucking places)! And yes, we will help them eat it.
- News from our incognito buddy FishNChimps: Coke steals from actual creative people. That always leaves a bad taste in one's mouth. And considering they've been riding the holiday polar bear thing and/or copying Pepsi's campaigns for the last two hundred years to the nth degree, that really came as no major shocker. To witness the fuckage of other creative companies, hit Urban Counterfeiters.
- Join NPR's first-ever holiday craft contest before it is gone. Forever. Perhaps you can beat the cleverly rendered Mel Gibson menorah. Yeah, you heard us. A Mel Gibson menorah. Craftwise, it could be unbeatable.
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- AdJab is as pissed off as we are about people labeling things viral before they actually become viral.
- George Parker is all over Julie Roehm's ass crapping on her supposed avalanche or job offers, delivering the inside story on Draft/FCB's lack of promised analytics skills and poking holes in the Advertising Age Jonah Bloom "in-depth" Julie Roehm interview. - Contributed by Angela Natividad
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The school on the hill
By Natasha Badhwar on Nov. 30, 2015 in Learning and Education
Jayashree and Amit at a protest rally in Kasrawad, Madhya Pradesh, in 1999. Photo: Parthiv Shah
Old students come back to visit their school campus in Sakad village, Madhya Pradesh, and look for the tree they had planted as a child. They sit in the shade of the trees they had tied rakhis to, pledging to protect them. They point out traces of other projects they had been part of. At lunchtime, they join the queue of students to once again taste the meal that had nurtured them in their growing up years.
Every story worth telling is eventually a love story.
“The Adharshila Learning Centre is a collaboration in progress,” says Jayashree. It is evolving every day. This school is the result of sahbhagita, the collective participation of a community, students and teachers.”
Amit and Jayashree, who are known by their first names, met in the late 1980s in the Narmada valley, when both of them were looking for a meaningful way to work against injustice and oppression. Amit had studied at Modern School, Barakhamba Road, in Delhi and had begun studying architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture when he realized that his quest lay elsewhere. He quit studies and headed to Jhabua, to work with Bhil and Bhilala Adivasis along with senior activists.
Jayashree grew up in Pune and completed her bachelor’s in chemistry from Fergusson College. She first visited the Narmada valley on an exploratory trip, returning later as a volunteer for six months. She never went back to Pune. The undulating brown landscape of the Vindhyas, the river and the song of the people became home. She began to work with Adivasi women on issues of health, dignity, forest rights and education. Along with other like-minded friends, Amit and Jayashree were activists with the Khedut Mazdoor Chetna Sangath in Alirajpur, campaigning tirelessly against the exploitation and displacement of tribals.
After they got married in 1989, they spent the first eight years travelling, organizing meetings and mobilizing people to become aware of, and demand, their rights. They lived among the Adivasis, learning to understand their needs and world view. They imbibed life skills that would guide them throughout their life and work.
“To change the exploitative social order and confront injustice, we have to hit at the base and change the education system,” Goothiya Naikda, a tribal activist, once told Amit.
“We learnt our first lessons about the critical need for quality education in those years in Jhabua,” says Amit. “We would meet teenage tribal boys who were studying in the state-run ashram schools and be startled by the fear and lack of confidence in them. Mainstream education reinforced in them the feeling that tribal language, lifestyle and culture was inferior and had to be rejected. They were embarrassed of their own families. Instead of empowering them, their experience of education seemed to have completely disempowered them.”
After their children, Revali and Sarang, were born, Amit and Jayashree moved to Sendhwa in Badwani district in 1997. They began to set up the Adharshila Learning Centre with the support of the Adivasi Mukti Sangathan, a people’s rights organization.
Jayashree tells the story from this end of the timeline. “At Adharshila, tribal children first learn to read and write in their mother tongue, Bareli. They come from a rich oral culture and are natural storytellers. We don’t want to disrupt their expression by intervening with a new language, grammar or sentence structure. We offer simple teaching aids and minimum intervention in the early years. I will ask eight-year-olds to write the story their grandmother told them, or to write about what they did in the holidays, and each one will hand in three-four pages of creative writing in Bareli. Trust is built. The children become convinced that their teachers are interested in their life and experiences. Their confidence grows.”
Situated on a hill, amid six and a half acres of farm land, Adharshila is a residential school. It is now in its 17th year. This year, they have 125 students from almost 50 villages in Badwani district.
“When we first arrived here, this land was barren and rocky. The soil cover was thin and it was hard to grow anything on these slopes,” explains Amit. “When we started to build the classrooms and hostel, everyone from the community contributed what they could. People would gather at dusk after their work in the fields was over and, overnight, we dug foundations and began to build this school.”
The same barren land now not only produces grain and pulses but also record levels of vegetables. Over the years, the soil has been nurtured with organic manure from bull dung. Jayashree and her team have learnt about soil and seeds and used drip irrigation to grow enough food to sustain the school kitchen for at least eight months in a year. “All our students are children of farmers,” says Jayashree. “Their years in school must enhance and reinforce the traditional knowledge and skills of their community. We don’t need to teach them about the dignity of labour. Every child contributes in farming and tending to the animals with innate enthusiasm.”
The fields, vegetable patches and trees on the campus are natural classrooms. Students explore the known first—their own immediate environment and community—and then move on to learning about the unknown. The curriculum includes learning and building on the Adivasi students’ own culture, history and unique identity.
Professor Sujit Sinha, who teaches the master’s in education course at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, regularly sends his students to intern at Adharshila and invites Jayashree and Amit to lecture at his university. “The National Curriculum Framework recommends that children should examine local issues of livelihood, production, health and environment first and then link it to history, geography, science and environmental studies,” he says. “Adharshila is one of the best examples in India of this way of learning. It is transformational. It is critical for everyone in education to learn from this initiative by Amit and Jayashree.”
“There is a freedom and spontaneity that is intrinsic to the Adivasi way of life,” says Jayashree. “We wanted to make sure that the school retains the same ethos. I also learnt a lot about children from my daughter, Revali. As a toddler, she wanted to do everything herself. Aapi-aapi, she would repeat. Stay in the corner, watch me, but don’t intervene. That’s how most children like to explore their abilities and learn.”
At Adharshila, “aapi-aapi” has become a teaching methodology that has been a win-win. Senior students regularly teach junior classes, and, in the process, discover that their own concepts have become clearer.
“What is unique about our experience is that we were both students and teachers while we were at school,” explains Kamal Dudwe, an alumnus. “We studied harder and more carefully when we had to teach a class.” Dudwe, who is from the first batch of students of Adharshila, has completed his master’s in economics from Banaras Hindu University and is preparing for his Public Service Commission entrance exams while completing his PhD from Allahabad University.
Majali Janu, another student from the first batch, is a dedicated teacher at Adharshila and now also a trainer of new teachers.
The Adharshila theatre group is called Naatak India Company. They travel and perform many original plays and are regularly invited to tribal rights sammelans (meetings) and education seminars. Their most popular play is a 90-minute performance titled Bhanai, in which the students demonstrate the nexus between corrupt political parties, religious organizations and the market. “The children perform plays that question the privatization of education, media’s role in society and patriarchal family structures,” says Jayashree.
Students of Adharshila bring out their own newspaper, conduct surveys and review meetings and upload their podcasts on SoundCloud. They have the confidence to ask questions and the rigour to look for answers.
Amit and Jayashree decided early on to steer clear of all institutional funding. About 50% of the school’s financial needs are met through fees, and the rest through an informal network of friends, individual donors and community support. Volunteer teachers and artists from India and abroad stay on campus and teach for months on end.
“Living in an Adivasi village breaks my arrogance,” says Amit. “Middle-class urban life tends to give us a natural sense of being know-alls. We have an opinion on everything, whether we have any information or not. There is a lack of pretension and hierarchy here that feels light. It makes me realize how wasteful the other lifestyle is.”
What appears to be a small experimental school at first sight is, in fact, a powerful example of how education systems can be revamped and recharged. Adharshila is a people’s institution that sees itself as part of the larger struggle towards a secular, just and egalitarian society. Its pedagogical tools and practices are simple yet powerful. Humility and a constant readiness to learn and reinvent are not the least of them.
“These are meant to be the best years of our students’ lives,” says Jayashree. “Love, freedom, happiness—you don’t need a lot of money to give this to our children. We need ideas. Creativity and will. That’s all.”
First published by Live Mint
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“We do everything,” said Lorie Christy, RRT, respiratory care manager at 25-bed Compass Memorial Healthcare in Marengo, IA.
That means PFTs, the ER, transport, codes, pulmonary rehab, sleep studies — formal and HST— Holter monitors, the occasional newborn delivery, and general floor work.
“In most large hospitals you are specialized to a certain area,” she said. “We work very closely with all departments and help out wherever is needed.”
Marlyce Campell, CRT, says RTs in her facility must know it all — from preemie care to the patient in hospice.
“You may be the only RT for the shift or weekend,” said Campbell, director of respiratory care and sleep lab at the 25-bed Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital in Wakeeney, KS. “You have to know how to be very organized and be able to handle several things at once.”
According to Jennifer Hemann, CRT, director of cardiopulmonary services, the sleep center, and the laboratory at the 47-bed Crossroads Community Hospital in Mt. Vernon, IL, small hospital respiratory care means performing more than just the respiratory care hat role.
“Typically, if you are in a smaller hospital, RT is cardiopulmonary services, which includes some basic cardiology along with RT,” she said. “Staffing is very limited due to the hospital size, yet RT can be needed in multiple areas of the hospital, often at the same time . . . these RTs are true superheroes, constantly running all over the hospital to care for patients in a variety of care settings.”
Jim Valentine, CRT, says being able to prioritize the needs of patients and emergencies is paramount for the small hospital RT because sometimes you are the only RT in the building.
“I also think you must be able to work as part of the team which includes nurses, physicians, social workers, and PT,” said Valentine, the respiratory care manager at the 55-bed Pomerene Hospital in Millersburg, OH. “You do not always have a second therapist to help validate your decisions and thought processes.
For Brenda Wilkerson, CRT, the cardiopulmonary supervisor at the 94-bed Johnson Memorial Hospital in Franklin, IN, being a small hospital RT definitely means being a “jack of all trades.”
“From neonatal resuscitation to adult ICU to hospice care to EKGs, EEGs, and things large hospital therapists never get exposed to — they are part of our routines,” she said.
It’s like family
Therapists who do take a closer look at small hospitals generally want a more personal environment, and these managers say they will definitely get it — in fact, it’s one of the biggest advantages to this setting.
“We get to know our patients and their families,” Christy said. “When one of our patients comes into the ER we generally know what may be going on and what we can do for them. We also will follow that patient to the floor if they are admitted.”
“You really get to know your patients and their family,” echoes Campbell. “They trust you.” Therapists are also part of the whole hospital team — not just nursing, but PT, LTC, staff on the ER floor, and more.
“It’s very rewarding to work in a small hospital,” Campbell said.
Hemann says everyone—from the unit nurses to the ancillary departments and even administration—works side by side to care for patients in her facility.
“When you have teamwork with your counterparts, co-workers begin to feel like family,” she said. Staff members are genuinely interested in each other, not just inside the hospital but outside as well, and patients take notice.
Valentine believes a small facility fosters a family feel.
“Both staff and patients get to know each other and develop a relationship that often goes beyond the hospital stay,” he said.
That family atmosphere means RTs have access not just to their fellow caregivers, but to the highest levels in the facility too, says Wilkerson. “The organizational team — from CEO through housekeepers — all know each other, and we all talk to one another,” she said. “The access we have to the C-Suite folks is second to none.”
Working in a small facility may result in:
Increased on-call time due to the smaller staff size.
Working with a limited quantity of high-tech equipment.
Taking on multiple tasks that go beyond patient care, such as discharge planning and restocking.
Having to transfer patients to more specialized facilities.
Being the only RT in-house at any given time.
Running into patients outside work with questions about care, due to small-town living.
Less competitive salaries.
So, should you pursue a job in a small hospital, or shouldn’t you?
In making this decision, Valentine suggests you: “Ask yourself, are you comfortable with your skills and are you able to critically think? Are you open to the idea of working by yourself as the only therapist on a shift? Are you open to being part of a team of health care providers who share decision-making in the care of our patients?”
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US demands Iran free seized ship, vows to protect Gulf oil lifeline
KSA gives $ 1.88 m for Rohingya resettlement
KSA gives $ 1.88 m for Rohingya resettlement /ksa-gives-188-m-rohingya-resettlement
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RIYADH: ARAB NEWS
Saudi Arabia yesterday announced a contribution of $ 1.88 million toward UNHCR’s humanitarian program in Myanmar providing shelter to Rohingyas in Rakhine state.
A memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed by Yousef Al-Bassam of the Saudi Fund for Development and Imran Riza, UNHCR’s regional representative in Riyadh.
The contribution will enable the UNHCR to provide temporary and permanent shelters for around 75,000 displaced people.
After signing the agreement, Riza highlighted the importance of such assistance in terms of value, timing and significance in improving the living conditions of many of displaced people in Rakhine state.
On behalf of High Commissioner Antonio Guterres, Riza expressed his highest appreciation and deep gratitude to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, for this generous contribution which clearly reflects the Saudi leadership's response to humanitarian crises.
The partnership with the Saudi Find for Development involves collaboration with Pakistan in terms of providing permanent shelters to the displaced people.
Islamic, European officials plan support for Sudan /node/1527816/saudi-arabia
Islamic, European officials plan support for Sudan
JEDDAH: Support for Sudan in the wake of a new deal on civilian rule was among items discussed during a meeting between leading Islamic and European officials in Saudi Arabia.
The secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr. Yousef Al-Othaimeen, received Finnish foreign minister, Pekka Haavisto, in Jeddah. Finland currently holds the rotational presidency of the Council of the EU.
Al-Othaimeen and Haavisto had a constructive exchange of views on common issues with particular focus on Sudan after civilian and military leaders signed an agreement aimed at installing a civilian administration.
The deal came after three months of deadlock since Omar Bashir was deposed as president, and the two officials discussed ways to back Khartoum in its transitional phase.
The secretary-general commended the role of Finland and the EU in promoting peace, security, stability and development in different parts of the world and expressed the OIC’s readiness to engage in issues of mutual interest.
Haavisto praised the role of the OIC in promoting the culture of peace, dialogue and understanding, noting the organization’s vast experience in leading peace building initiatives among its member states in collaboration with other partners.
At least 9 children dead, 16 hurt in Philippines truck crash
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Home News Charlie Sheen forced to reveal HIV status
Charlie Sheen forced to reveal HIV status
US TV star Charlie Sheen has been forced to reveal his HIV status after blackmail attempts and media intrusion
Speaking on the NBC’s morning show the star told host Matt Lauer that he had been HIV positive for about four years, and during that time people had attempted to blackmail to keep his status a secret.
Sheen also revealed that he was on treatment and undetectable, which made “impossible” to pass HIV on to his partners – all of which were aware of his status, and under the care of his own doctor.
Media speculation has been rife about Sheen’s HIV status since a rumour posted in Radar Online over a month ago, which was then reignited by a piece in The Sun last week. The blackmail attempts, combined with endless media intrusion are what led Sheen to publicly reveal his status.
The star was diagnosed four years ago when undergoing tests for a suspected brain tumour.
It is saddening that in 2015 anyone, celebrity or not, should be forced to reveal their HIV status. It is a private medical matter and should be shared only if and/or when the individual is comfortable.
We’d like to offer our support to Mr Sheen at this time, and hope that he can now move on with his life.
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Featured WSBK: another race hat-trick for Bautista in Thailand as the Spaniard cruises to Race Two victory
Discussion in 'Racing' started by Simon, Mar 17, 2019.
In what has been a dream opening six races in Alvaro Bautista’s WSBK career, the Spaniard romped to another race win to become the first rider since Neil Hodgson to win the opening six races of a WSBK season, back in 2003, causing to another lights to flag victory in dominant fashion.
When the lights turned green, Bautista was able to hold onto first position from start to finish. Kawasaki's Jonathan Rea didn't have the outright speed to challenge Bautista and instead had his hands full dealing with Yamaha's Alex Lowes.
At the end of the first lap the leading trio had a slight gap over Kawasaki's Leon Haslam, Yamaha's Michael van der Mark and GRT Yamaha's Marco Melandri.
Soon, the big battle came from the scrap for fifth position, with van der Mark, Melandri, GRT Yamaha's Sandro Cortese and Ducati's Chaz Davies duelling for position. Turn 3 was once again a prime overtaking area, with Melandri trying a move on van der Mark, with both running wide and allowing Chaz Davies to get a better drive down the straight. Melandri retook Davies at Turn 8 but the race winner from Buriram in 2018 fought back at Turn 12, a fight replicated by Cortese and van der Mark.
On lap Four Melandri and Davies had a close call, with the Italian forcefully moving aside his former teammate at Turn 9, allowing van der Mark to go through, while Chaz Davies had to recover right at the back of the group and eventually retired on lap eight.
Up front, Bautista continued to dominate and took the chequered flag by more than ten seconds ahead of Rea and Lowes.
Bautista said: “I don’t know what to say. I think this weekend has been perfect for us because we dominate in all of the practices and all of the races. I want to say thanks to Ducati and to my team, we are working with a completely new bike, arriving at completely new tracks and we have to work for a set-up to make a good base. Here, we knew it would be difficult because in the last eight races, seven have been won by Kawasaki. At the end, we manage to have the same feeling that we have in Australia and we can be competitive. I am very, very happy!”.
Further back van der Mark was able to hold off a late charge by Leon Haslam, while Marco Melandri finished in sixth position for a fifth race in a row. Van der Mark’s fourth place means he stretches his finishing run to 21.
Behind the leading six, Sandro Cortese became the first German since Max Neukirchner in 2008 to finish six consecutive races inside the top eight, with his seventh position. Eighth belonged to Michael Ruben Rinaldi (BARNI Racing Team), with Razgatlioglu holding off Jordi Torres as they completed the top ten.
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Bird Love Stories
This Valentine's Day we wanted to share with you some of our favourite bird love stories. You may find yourself shocked or amused by the courting practices of our feathered friends, but one thing we all agree on is the urgent need to protect these species and their breeding grounds.
1. The Hooded Grebe's Courting Dance
Whilst this is truly a spectacle of nature, sadly these birds are Critically Endangered with fewer than 800 birds remaining. They face a daily struggle, predated by non-native American Mink and increasing numbers of Kelp Gull, killing both adults and chicks in their nests. Once the breeding season is over, the Hooded Grebe still faces danger as one of its main wintering grounds - the estuary of the Santa Cruz River - is threatened by badly planned hydroelectric dams (you can sign the petition against this threat here).
Action has been underway for five years to address these threats led by BirdLife National Partner and Species Guardian - Aves Argentinas and local Patagonian NGO - Ambiente Sur. Their dedicated team of colony guardians keep American Mink and Kelp Gull away, and protect nests from destruction by Rainbow Trout.
I want to help save the last 800 Hooded Grebes
2. Penguins mate for life
What's that thing we tell all the singletons...that there's plenty more fish in the sea, right? Sadly, that's no longer the case for the African Penguin. This monogamous species is facing extinction due to depleted fish stocks, which means they're having to forage further away for food, leaving their lifetme mate and chicks behind for longer periods of time. But the BirdLife Partnership is working hard to create a safe and plentiful environment for them, including establishing a new colony in South Africa, with abundant fish stocks and safe nesting areas.
I want to be a penguin protector!
3. Snowy Owls and... Lemmings
All that's needed to reach the female Snowy Owl's cold heart is a lemming. The male projects himself into the air, holding a lemming, then upon descent he drops the rodent to the ground, before standing upright and fanning his tail feathers as the lady approaches.
Sadly, the Snowy Owl has recently been classified as Vulnerable to extinction in BirdLife's 2017 Red List update.
I want to give the Snowy Owl a lemming
4. Red-Billed Buffalo-weavers
Male Buffalo-weavers, in particular the Red-billed species, are probably the randiest birds on the planet! Along with their wingman, they can copulate for half an hour and mate with up to 12 females. What's more, to increase the chances of successful fertilisation, the Buffalo-weaver has evolved a false penis directly in front of their cloaca, which is already an abnormally sensitive area for the bird.
Perhaps its efficient mating rituals are the reason the Red-billed Buffalo-weaver has such a thriving population in southern and eastern Africa!
I want all birds to build a stable population
5. Indian Peafowl - a Tail of True Love!
Peafowls are truly spectacular, and don't they know it! Males fan out their stunning, iridescent plumage to attract prospective Peahens. Although the Indian Peafowl is native to South Asia, you're likely to see then strutting around parks and gardens all over the world, as their beauty has historically driven wealthy landowners to want them in their own homes!
I want to support BirdLife's global work
Donate to BirdLife's Nest Quest appeal - the best way of ensuring that we can continue protecting vital nesting sites with our Partners over the globe.
Sign the Petition - Add your name to the list of people calling for the President of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, to STOP the building of new bird threatening dams.
Watch and share the film - Filmmakers Michael and Paula Webster's (a.k.a Living Wild in South America) beatiful film, Tango in the Wind, tells the story of the Hooded Grebes' fight for survival in the Patagonian lakes.
BirdLife and its Partners are fighting to protect crucial breeding grounds from the urgent threats they face. With your support, we can use our skills and expertise to keep breeding grounds safe, so today’s babies can grow to raise families of their own in years to come.
Your support will help us to:
Campaign for real change, to the people that matter, like our #LivingLand campaign. Fighting against intensive agriculture practices that have brought Europe’s farmland birds – such as the Lapwing – to the brink, with population declines of over 55% in recent decades. We’re using our influence and expertise to push for reform at the very top.
Combat the threat of invasive predators - one of the leading causes of bird extinctions worldwide. Defenceless baby birds have no way of protecting themselves from these alien invaders, and often die in agony. But the situation CAN be reversed. We recently cleared five Pacific islands of invasive predators, and we’re already seeing evidence of rare birds bouncing back. We need your support to continue our work in threatened bird paradises such as Rapa Iti.
Help us push for formal protection for the world’s most vital breeding grounds. These crucial habitats have been identified by BirdLife as Important Bird & Biodiversity Areas – a global network of over 13,000 sites. Nearly half of these sites lack full protection, but with your help, we can push for change, and continue co-ordinating critical conservation action on the ground.
Thank you to Michael and Paula Webster (BirdLife Species Champions for the Hooded Grebe) for their support and for providing the Hooded Grebe footage and images.
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Velocity Restorations Ford Bronco Review
On Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
The Ford Broncos, Toyota Land Cruisers, and International Scouts that fill Velocity Restorations’ shop beg to be photographed. Everything in there simply oozes style. The shop is one of a dozen or so around the country specializing in these restomods, pairing vintage SUVs with more modern powertrains, safety features, and creature comforts.
Velocity Restorations had two Broncos on hand for us to sample. The first was designed as a daily driver or beach cruiser; the second was a SEMA build that was far wilder. The daily driver was one of the shop’s set-price builds, a Brittany Blue model fitted with a 400-plus horsepower Ford Coyote V8 crate engine and a five-speed manual transmission.
The steering is light and devoid of feedback, but it doesn’t detract too much from the driving experience. The five-speed’s throws are long, but the relaxed and deliberate nature of each shift feels fitting in an old cruiser. The soft suspension and copious amounts of sidewall help soak up bumps in the pavement. It’s top-heavy, and the body rolls through turns, but it’s perfectly content to cruise around on a sunny afternoon.
Nail it from a stop and the nose gets light. All the weight shifts to the rear, but on the sandy surface of the Florida coast, the tires struggled a bit for traction. Shifts from the transmission are quick, but there’s not a lot of grace to them. There was noticeable lurch on each gear change. We would have liked to have driven a less powerful Bronco with the automatic transmission. Like the blue Bronco, the steering is light, and bumps in the pavement are mostly dissipated by the suspension and tires. It was entertaining, though we much prefer the balance and drivability of the blue Bronco.
The custom options are where Velocity Restoration’s Broncos really shine. That said, the waiting list is long and there are a number of other shops like Icon and Gateway Bronco that do much the same thing. If you’re interested in ordering one, we say shop around and see who can deliver your heart’s desire. The options are seemingly endless.
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Stories from Thursday, April 21, 2016
Five Greencastle, two North Putnam teams going to Academic Super Bowl state finals (Local News ~ 04/21/16)
Seven Putnam County teams are moving on to the state finals of the 2016 Indiana Academic Super Bowl. For Greencastle High School, that means a tradition continues, while for North Putnam High School a tradition is emerging. Greencastle is sending five of its six academic teams to the state finals May 7 at Purdue University, while North Putnam is sending a pair of its scholarly teams...
Joe E. Raab (Obituary ~ 04/21/16)
Joe E. Raab, 92, Reelsville, passed away Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at Cloverleaf Healthcare in Knightsville with his sons at his side. He was born on Dec. 1, 1923 in Reelsville to the late Ira and Mary (Strobel) Raab. Joe graduated from Reelsville High School in 1941, and served his country during World War II where he earned the Purple Heart Medal in the United States Army...
South Putnam Talent Show slated for Friday night (Local News ~ 04/21/16)
South Putnam High School's annual National Honor Society Talent Show is this Friday, April 22 at 7 p.m. at SPHS. All proceeds will go to Joseph and Jacob Baker. Their father, Dan Baker, who was a bus driver for South Putnam, passed away earlier this school year...
DePauw Music Events (Local News ~ 04/21/16)
DePauw School of Music Events Week of April 25--May 1 DePauw School of Music Senior Showcase Monday, April 25 3 p.m. Green Center Thompson Recital Hall Celebrate four years of hard work and dedication with the School of Music's performance certificate recipients: Dana Hart, Lance Orta, Yazid Pierce-Gray, Julie Strauser and Addy Sterrett...
Monty J. Records (Obituary ~ 04/21/16)
Monty J. Records, 51, Greencastle, passed away Sunday, April 17, 2016. Arrangements are pending at Bittles and Hurt Funeral Home, Greencastle.
It really does take a village (Editorial ~ 04/21/16)
This election season, it may seem passé (and in some circles, wildly unpopular) to invoke Hillary Clinton, but here goes anyway. "It takes a village to raise a child." Clinton may have re-popularized the African proverb 20 years ago, but we are reminded of its importance here in Greencastle in 2016...
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RENEWING ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES. MOSQUE, HOUSE, LIBRARY
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This is the fifth book documenting the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship featuring the work of young architect-practitioners teaching in the advanced studios at Yale.
The studios each explore new typologies and include the themes, "Once Upon A House," taught by Hernan Diaz Alonzo of the L.A. based architectural practice Xefirotarch, which examined the relationship of types versus species, where type is viewed as "categories of standardization, then species are malleable entities in constant metamorphosis." The brief called for a house to occupy a site in three acts by employing a cellular spatial logic. In subverting the typology of the house, the studio presents radical possibilities of inhabitation. In the "Expanded Mosque," taught by Makram El Kadi and Ziad Jamaleddine of the New York and Beirut-based architectural practice L.E.F.T. the students critiqued architecturally both an imported Modernism that is dissociated from contextual consideration and a reconstruction of the present in the image of an idealized past. The program of the mosque does not only serve a purely liturgical function, but is also an important community gathering place. The studio examined how the physical space of the mosque and social space of Islam can have a dialogue with other programs, religious or secular. The studio questioned the stagnating typology of the mosque in an attempt to project new possibilities for the future for a site of a World's Fair designed by Oscar Niemeyer in Tripoli. In the advanced studio, "Re-Storing Public Possessions," Geoff Shearcroft, Vincent Lacovara, Tom Coward, and Daisy Froud of the London-based architectural practice AOC investigated the increasing emphasis on material artifacts and demand for 'hard' storage in this digital world. The studio examined the established public repositories of London--the V&A Museum, the Tate Gallery, the British Museum, the British Library, and the Royal Armouries--and how they might evolve in response to the changing demands of the contemporary public to create a participative and productive architecture. The book features interviews with the professors.
2019 © Librería Arcadia Mediática
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This House Doesn't Hold Back on Colorful Details
Zahid Sardar
Ian Allen
Originally published in Modern Dreams
A see-through pool wall is just one element of this vibrant home.
Spencer Greene and his daughter, Anya, go for a dip in their Palo Alto, California, home. The three-inch-thick acrylic pool window allows the parents to monitor their children’s swims from the LC4 chaise longue.
Architects Tom Chastain, Renee Chow, and Antje Steinmuller of Studio Urbis installed Swisspearl siding as a rainscreen and used concrete flooring and walls to insulate the home and regulate its internal climate.
In their bedroom, Anya and Yash hang out in the boat-shaped swing by Haba that their aunt brought them from Germany (it’s not currently available in the United States). A Rapson Rapid Rocker by Rapson-Inc. sits next to the window.
Movable wood screens on the exterior provide shade to alleviate heat gain. The home is color coded to correspond to the outside elements.
In the kitchen, the walls near the garden are painted green. The built-in table was designed by Chastain, and the Tone chairs are from De La Espada.
The red- and orange-painted cabinets are meant to reflect sunlight and represent the heart of the home. The glass-fronted cabinets in the kitchen are by Henrybuilt, and the clear containers with dry goods are from the Container Store.
In the living room, a vintage table and chairs by Edward Wormley sit in front of a Florence Knoll wall unit with a vintage jewelry chest by George Nelson for Herman Miller. The Hinaki pendant light over the stairs is by David Trubridge.
The patio table and benches are from Crate and Barrel.
Greene purchased the vintage George Nelson dining table and cane-back chairs together. “We assume they were originally a set, but there is no way to be sure,” he says. A pass-through fireplace from Regency Fires separates the dining platform from the living space.
3form Varia Ecoresin Organics panels were used as sidewalls for the stairwell. The material is a translucent resin that permits light to pass, making the adjacent spaces seem bigger. Silhouetted figures going up and down the stairs animate the room. Effects can be varied and modulated with panels of different textures from different suppliers, such as 3form, Panelite, and Bendheim. Panels can also be mounted in simple aluminum U-channels to be used as partial room dividers or as entire walls.
Elements House Floor Plan
A Lower Living Room
B Media Room
C Exercise Room
D Sauna
E Bathroom
F Study
G Laundry Room
H Utility Room
I Storage
J Wine Cellar
K Entry
L Guest Bathroom
M Living Room
N Dining Room
O Kitchen
P Family Room
Q Loft Library
R Bedroom
S Master Bedroom
T Master Closet
U Master Bathroom
Elements House
Studio Urbis
In Palo Alto, California, Spencer Greene, a Texas-raised technology executive, and Santosh Ramdev, a public relations professional from New York, just couldn’t agree on a home they both liked. Greene wanted light wood finishes in a midcentury modern house like his grandmother’s to match his collection of vintage furniture. Ramdev, who grew up in an Indian household full of color, preferred easy-care concrete floors.
The couple found a 50-by-200-foot lot with two teardown structures on it. Then they discovered that the smaller one could not be torn down because disturbing its foundation would harm the old trees beside it. In 2004, Greene and Ramdev began hunting for an architect for the remodel. Just after their wedding, in 2005, they discovered architects Tom Chastain and Renee Chow of Studio Urbis on UC Berkeley’s website. It was an instant match. "As teachers, we didn’t sell. We explained," Chastain says. "Instead of style, we spoke of site and space, and that gave them the confidence to choose us."
Antje Steinmuller, a former student of Chastain’s who is now a principal at Studio Urbis and a professor of architecture at California College of the Arts, became the project architect. Over the next five years, Greene and Ramdev’s children, Anya and Yash, were born, and several designs ensued for the expanding family. Eventually, they made a choice. "We really helped them to understand what spatial associations they were triggering during our discussions," Steinmuller says. "Spencer was very precise. He’d say, ‘I’ll enter and turn right to reach for a coat hook,’ and then physically demonstrate what he meant."
Thanks to such specific input, the refurbished, 500-square-foot guest cottage remains where it was, and the new 4,000-square-foot, two-story house is a composition of well-lit, open-plan spaces to "journey" through. Inside, bright green, red, and blue walls symbolize earth, fire, water, and air. "Color can be associative, but it also helps to define room spaces," Steinmuller says. In the kitchen, Ramdev’s spices, beans, and grains are stacked in clear glass containers on open storage shelves against a wall of channel glass, like colorful, site-specific art. "The attitude of this home," Chastain says, “is deliberately not luxurious."
Ramdev: We looked at so many gorgeous houses near University Avenue, but Spencer would walk in and say he would have to redo this and redo that. They were all construction projects. I realized then that he was in denial. He really wanted to build from scratch.
Greene: I’ve lived in this area for 20 years, and still it took a long time to find something we liked. We eventually found Tom Chastain’s work and began to be more interested in an intellectual approach to our design. It struck me that he said right away that there will be mistakes, but he promised to make the good stuff outweigh the bad. He had the wisdom to say that he would not be perfect. I’ve been called hyperrational. When we sat down with him, he sensed my interests and explained very simply why modern architecture is different from premodern. In modern architecture, you design the whole site and not just a structure deposited onto the land.
Ramdev: I think Spencer had certain architects he wanted to interview and was really keen on one whose work he had seen in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. The house had channel glass, and we went to see it. We liked the style, but the house was intimidating. We are both down-to-earth people, and I did not want marble flown in from India and special things from Italy. I wanted a house that was livable, where our children could grow up happily.
Greene: I had always imagined that architects were artists with great design sensibilities but I did not realize how much of their work is about negotiation. Because there is little residential space close to downtown, Palo Alto lots are deep and narrow. With so many zoning codes, people are building to match the imposed mass and volume restrictions—and that becomes the design. Houses begin to look the same. We wanted something different. In the end, we left a bit of our buildable space unused so we could have a better design within the constraints. The pool, for instance, drove a lot of decisions. Long before this project, I woke up with this image of a porthole looking into a swimming pool. In my mind’s eye, it was a round porthole—just two feet in diameter. But even though I had worked so closely with Tom on the design, when they took the forms off the concrete, I was startled to see this huge gap in the swimming pool wall. Tom said it was the window! I thought a little opening would be all that we could do, practically. He made the idea better, and the water pressure keeps the Plexiglas shield in place.
Ramdev: We had toured so many houses, and every one had wood ceilings and wood everywhere. The natural theme was being overdone, and so I resisted that. We do have some wood paneling downstairs; the architects had to explain to me many, many timeshow it represented the core of the house. It was a battle I lost, but now I agree it works aesthetically. I also wrestled with the architects over the acrylic panels embedded with bamboo rings that serve as translucent sidewalls for the stairs. I thought the panels should be clear, but in the end I picked the translucent panels.
Greene: I call our home the Elements House because the exposed concrete slab suggests earth; the windows reveal the sky; the pool is a water feature, visible inside and out; and the fire is our double-sided fireplace. The lower level has three of the elements. We picked the colors to help make sense of it: Red is near the fireplace and sauna. Blue paint suggests air and water.
Ramdev: Antje Steinmuller was my window to architecture; she worked closely with me. When we were designing the kitchen, she showed me the layout on a piece of paper, and all I said was that I wanted it to be larger, larger. There is enough space for all of us to be working on totally different recipes. I make Indian-style rotis and set the kids up to make their own. Spencer makes pancakes in the morning while I am getting the rest of breakfast or lunch ready.
Greene: Santosh has a vast array of lentils and spices, and that drove certain aspects of the design. Instead of being hidden in a pantry, these foods have become a decorative feature that is extremely useful.
Ramdev: In this kitchen, I always know where everything is because of how Antje designed the open storage shelves. It is not a decorative show kitchen that is not a place to cook. It really functions, and I wanted that.
The Big Screen Upper cabinets with translucent 3form Ecoresin on the front and back panels and open steel shelves allow light into the kitchen from exterior walls of channel glass. This lively and practical screen idea can be used on any window wall or as a room divider to allow privacy while bringing light from one space into another.
Shadow Play 3form Varia Ecoresin Organics panels were used as sidewalls for the stairwell. The material is a translucent resin that permits light to pass, making the adjacent spaces seem bigger. Silhouetted figures going up and down the stairs animate the room. Effects can be varied and modulated with panels of different textures from different suppliers, such as 3form, Panelite, and Bendheim. Panels can also be mounted in simple aluminum U-channels to be used as partial room dividers or as entire walls.
Primary Colors A flexible exterior wall—composed of two-by-six-foot Fleetwood glass doors that pocket into green side walls—links the interior to the exterior. The use of landscape colors inside is an inexpensive and simple way to visually reference the outdoors. Frank Lloyd Wright employed this tactic, as did Arts and Crafts designers before him.
Some Like it Hot A double-sided gas fireplace by Regency separates—and also connects—the living room and dining area without diminishing the effect of the larger, loftlike space. regency-fire.com
Here Comes the Sun Daylight ricochets into some of the darkest “landlocked” corners of the house via Solatubes, making artificial light unnecessary during the day. In dense urban areas, where side windows are not possible and large skylights are inconvenient, light can still be channeled through these very small, circular exterior openings. They connect to ingenious reflective inner tubes that can be threaded into walls or ceilings and attached to chandeliers. solatube.com
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Great Rivers Council, BSAUnit ResourcesFinanceFiscal Policies and Procedures for Units
Should our unit have a checking account?
Yes. Unit funds should be deposited in a checking account that requires two signatures on every check unless the chartered organization requires other procedures.
Does a unit need its own tax identification number? If so, where do we get it?
The answer depends on the chartered organization. Most units obtain their own tax ID number by completing IRS Form SS-4. The current form and instructions are available on the IRS website (www.irs.gov). The chartered organization should be the “responsible party.” Contact your chartered organization for written permission. Contact your local council for more information.
Who is responsible for the finances of the unit?
The unit committee is responsible for the unit’s finances, but the assets belong to the chartered organization.
Should our unit consider insuring our unit equipment?
Yes. It is suggested that your unit insure its equipment. Remember, the chartered organization owns the assets.
Can our unit deposit funds with the local council?
Yes. Most councils allow units to deposit funds to their credit in the council service center.
What happens to the unit funds and equipment should the unit dissolve?
The unit committee shall apply unit funds and property to the payment of unit obligations and shall turn overthe surplus, if any, to the chartered organization or the council, as may be agreed upon, pending reorganization of the unit or for the promotion of the program of the Boy Scouts of America.
When should our unit submit a BSA Unit Money-Earning Application?
For all unit fundraising. Approval must be given in advance by the chartered organization and the local council.
Is our unit considered tax-exempt by the IRS?
Chartered organizations vary widely in tax status, but the tax status of your unit is the same as that of your chartered organization if the chartered organization includes the unit in its tax status.
Does our unit need to file annually an electronic postcard 990-N with the IRS?
The BSA national office consulted with outside counsel. In their opinion, most units do not have to file. The only exception is for the very small number of units that have filed for separate federal tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Can our unit be covered under the BSA’s group exemption?
No. The IRS only allows local councils (and council trust funds) to be included under the BSA group exemption.
Can our unit be exempt from state sales taxes?
The unit may qualify for a number of state sales tax exemptions as a nonprofit organization under your state laws. Check with your own state; this varies widely across the country.
A volunteer suggested that our unit apply for its own tax-exempt status. Can we?
Units should not incorporate or apply for their own tax-exempt status. Units are not legal entities.
Can we solicit gifts for our unit?
No. Simply put, units are not permitted to solicit any gifts.
Does that mean people can’t make gifts to our unit? - Anyone can contribute to a Scout pack, troop, or unit—and many donors don’t need or care about charitable deductions.
Can gifts go to the local council to benefit our unit, then “pass through” the council to us?
No. Your unit “belongs” to your chartered organization, not to your local council.
My local company has employee volunteerism grants. Can these gifts go to our unit?
Employee incentive awards and volunteerism grants usually can NOT go to a unit, due to the company’s giving restrictions. Corporate donations often can only go to charities that are 501(c)(3).
Can my unit credit amounts from fundraising to an individual toward their expenses?
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WNY STEM Activities and Opportunities for May 2017
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Saturday, May 6 - Boom Day Festival, Silo City (92 Childs St., Buffalo) – WNY STEM will celebrate this annual season rite of passage - by inviting kids to use a digital microscope to view teeny tiny pond creatures and bigger critters like diving beetles. Visit our tent from 11am to 4PM. WNY STEM is a proud co-sponsor with Silo City, The Great Lakes Experience, Explore Buffalo, Young Audiences, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services, Rigidized Metals, Cabelas. The Public and Sea Grant. See https://www.facebook.com/events/656437941214070/.
Thursday, May 11- Celebrating STEAM, Salamanca City Central Jr./Sr. High School, 50 Iroquois Dr., Salamanca, 5pm-8pm. The community is invited to join us as students in grades 4-12 showcase STEAM projects, scientific thinking and problem solving skills. Community groups will participate with interactive displays. WNY STEM is a cosponsor with the SUNY Fredonia Science & Technology Entry Program and Salamanca City Schools.
Saturday, May 13 – STEAM Ahead Career Day, New York Power Authority, 5777 Lewiston Rd., Lewiston, 10am-3pm - Families and educators are invited to meet exhibitors, educators, businesses and professionals in STEM and STEAM fields, and enjoy interactive activities, presentations and workshops in the all-new state-of-the-art exhibits at the Niagara Power Vista. WNY STEM and NYPA are co-sponsors in cooperation with WNY Career Path Alliance and the Niagara County Community College Liberty Partnership Program. Free admission, parking, and trolley service to Niagara Falls from the Vista. Learn more at http://www.nypa.gov/niagarapowerevents.
Wednesday, May 17 - Girls Coding App Demo, SUNY Buffalo State Technology Building, Room 160, 1300 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, 5:30-6:30PM. Join Horizns Consultants and the Girls Coding Project for a demo of the new Childcare Resource App sponsored by the United Way of Buffalo & Erie County. See what girls have learned in the yearlong Girls Coding Project and in supporting app development. The Project was initiated by WNY STEM and AT&T in collaboration with SUNY Buffalo State and Girl Scouts WNY.
Thursday, May 18 - WNY Brain Challenge, ECC South Campus, 4041 Southwestern Blvd., Orchard Park, 9am to 1pm. Remember those crazy contraptions that Rube Goldberg used to assemble from everyday objects? This first-time competition invites middle and high school student teams to design, build and present a Rube Goldberg-style device to roll a ball down a ramp using simple machines only…no hands allowed! WNY STEM is proud to collaborate with Computers For Children to present this event in coordinator with WNY Technology Education Association Tech Wars. Visit www.brainchallenge2017.wixsite.com/brainstem.
Be Recognized as a Paid Presenter - The WNY STEAM Conference cosponsored by WNY STEM and the Education Collaborative of WNY will include workshops held on August 7 (Monday) at SUNY Buffalo State. General Motors has agreed to be a major sponsor and their design team from Michigan is waiting in the wings to join us. Monday's interactive 50-minute sessions will cover all aspects of STEAM led by K-12 teachers, college and university professors, and STEAM industry professionals. Authors of presentation proposals selected for the Monday sessions will be granted a $50 stipend and a waiver of workshop registration costs for the presentation members. This is our way of recognizing your leadership in STEAM learning. To submit your proposal by May 26, visit HERE.
Get Involved in STEM/STEAM Month - The weeks ahead are filled with FREE events to inspire STEM/STEAM learning and careers. Join us this Saturday at the Boom Days Festival and the following Saturday at the STEAM Ahead event at the Niagara Power Vista. Free informational STEM/STEAM tables are still available at the May 11Celebration of STEAM in Salamanca and volunteer judges are needed for the May 18 Rube Goldberg Brain Challenge at ECC South. Contact mkavanaugh@wnystem.org, if interested. Check out the attached for more details on a few events in the next couple ahead.
The Skis Keep Calling Us - Unless you've been living on another planet, you couldn't help but notice that our "Spud Launchers" from Hamlin Park School in Buffalo became stars and have been growing their astronaut-tested specimens in the UB Greenhouse since completing the Student Spaceflight Experiments Project with WNY STEM. Due to the success of that project, WNY STEM has been invited to facilitate a coalition of sites/schools (grades 5-12) for Mission 12, starting September 5, 2017. Interested teachers and administrators should contact mkavanaugh@wnystem.org so that letters of intent can be completed before May 15.
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Home / Issue 1092 / Columnist: SHARON DAVIS' MOTOWN TRACKING
SHARON DAVIS' MOTOWN TRACKING
I started this column on Easter Monday listening to Pirate Gold which is an idyllic environment for me as I wallowed in nostalgia and sang along to singles I thought I�d long forgotten. With this in mind and all the excitement surrounding the 45th anniversary of pirate radio this year, in particular everyone�s favourite Radio Caroline (yes � I do remember Caroline and quite vividly too!) and the film 'The Boat That Rocked' which is loosely based around that golden era, I asked Martha Reeves if she remembered the significance of those days when music ruled the ocean wave. �(Congratulations to) the golden radio stations on the occasion of their 45th anniversary. We have a continuing party this year as Motown Records add up to 50 years of wonderful music and a fellowship that has lasted and stood the test of time. The pirate stations played our music when other stations were not aware of the Motown sound, and we are eternally grateful for the air-play and support. We owe a ton of gratitude to our off shore dee jays for approval and steadfastness in making our records a hit, stay on the charts and remain on the play lists over the years.� Now an extremely busy and influential councillor for Detroit City Council, I�m so grateful to Martha for taking time out to join us. See you and the ladies in June!
From Martha, let�s talk about Marvin Gaye, the man she worked with and like all of us, loved him dearly. With the differing deadlines of this website, it�s not always possible to write items to coincide with a particular day, and this is the case here. However, nothing will detract us from marking this year as the 25th anniversary of Marvin�s death on 1 April, the day before his 45th birthday. If he had lived, he�d be a grand 70 years old this year. Anyway, Motown/UMe are remembering his birth and passing by issuing a digital-only album (yeh, that pisses me off too!) titled Marvin Gaye:Then & Now, a 14-track set of rare items highlighted by the previously unreleased Soulie; a 1966 track that was recently discovered by Motown�s New York-based producer, Mickey Gentile; a hot funk 2009 remix of I Want You by John Morales of M+M Productions; Marvin�s two rare late fifties Chess recordings with Harvey and the Moonglows � 'Mama Loocie', and Twelve Months Of The Year, and his early pre-hit Motown titles including Witchcraft and Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide.
For vinyl lovers now, Marvin�s first duet album with Tammi Terrell, the mighty United released during 1967 and featuring the masterpieces Ain�t No Mountain High Enough, If I Could Build My Whole World Around You, If This World Were Mine and Your Precious Love in its track listing, is being issued this month. And finally, for now, Marvin will figure prominently in a two-hour documentary being produced by Berry Gordy.
URIEL JONES
It�s with a heavy heart that I join others to mourn the passing of Funk Brother Uriel Jones at the age of 74. He first fell ill in February but had apparently been showing signs of improvement. However, he was admitted to a Michigan hospital after suffering complications following a heart attack and died on 24 March last. Born in Detroit on 13 June 1934, Uriel spent his formative years at the city�s Moore School for Boys which catered for �problem children�. He took up boxing and then mastered the trombone, before he discovered his first drum kit. Within a short time he was playing in clubs in and around Detroit where during 1961 he came to the attention of Berry Gordy, who, as it happens, was forming an in-house band for his record label. These musicians would, of course, become the Funk Brothers. Working with Marvin was Uriel�s first big break and his funk propelled drumming can be heard on countless of his tracks. He also worked with The Temptations, where he was a key component of the psychedelic era when the group was the leader with titles like Cloud Nine and I Can�t Get Next To You. Uriel can also be heard at a softer, calmer pace on Jimmy Ruffin�s What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted for example. Paul Riser remembered � �Uriel�s drum sound was the most open and laid-back, and he was the funkiest of the three guys we had. He had a mixed feel and did a lot of different things well.� The other two drummers, of course, were Benny Benjamin (who died in 1969) and Richard �Pistol� Allen (who died in 2002). Uriel is survived by his wife and three children, and our heartfelt condolences go out to them.
I�d also like to pass our warmest wishes and condolences to Vandella Rosalind Ashford Holmes, who lost her mum on 2 April last.
In the very last edition of The Dusty Springfield Bulletin � I shall miss the magazine like crazy because it�s been part of my life for how long? Yep, twenty-one years. God love us Paul Howes, how can this be true? Anyway. I�m digressing. Within the last magazine was a letter from Vicken Couligian from Cheshire � a name familiar to me. So I asked said Paul if I could print a few words from the letter because in a small way it does show the power of print. Here tis�Vicken wrote � �I�ve been a bit of a disco fan since the late 70s having been mesmerised by the voice of Donna Summer since I heard her early hits on the radio. Through her music and then in turn discovering Blues & Soul magazine, I developed an interest and a love for Motown in general, and Diana Ross in particular. Having read many articles by Sharon Davis in her regular Motown Tracking column, I noticed several references to a certain singer also with the initials DS! Of course I was aware of Dusty..but was not aware of her soul credentials or knowledge. � What about that then? We aim to please Vicken!
The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 11B:1971
'The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 11B:1971' picks up where Vol. 11A ended, covering July to December �71, detailing Motown�s transition from (what some people call) the conveyor belt singles in Detroit to the new sounds and signings of Los Angeles. And the set is released here this month. We�ve got the Rare Earth and Mowest labels competing against the established Soul, VIP and Motown subsidiaries, with an influx of new acts to compliment the established artist roster. This six months in the company�s history offers a pot pourie of music, encompassing diverse genres, marking Motown�s expansion into other markets but which, in all honesty, was relatively unsuccessful, barring a handful of new signings, like Rare Earth for whom the Rare Earth label was formed. Here we also have their label mates like The Messengers, Sunday Funnies, and The Rustix, who hardly set the charts alight but who were, nevertheless, part of the growing musical family. Spanning five discs this era is represented by the hits, B-sides, remixes and canned stuff , and is complimented by a 124 page booklet featuring wonderful in depth information about the releases written by co-producers Harry Weinger, Keith Hughes and Bill Dahl. It really is a joy to read, because I�m one of these people who likes to know the whys and where fors. And when I worked with Motown, this information just wasn�t as available as it is now. So, thanks guys! Anyway, whatever you may think about these packages (and I know they�re not everyone�s cup of tea) this release does complete the musical journey of 1971, and offers the opportunity to fill any gaps in our record collections. Actually, this release reminded me that I still have a load of these singles in a box in my garage because during the seventies I was lucky enough to be on Motown�s US mailing list. So, one of these days I�m gonna wind up my record deck and have a singles session. And no, before you ask, my turntable doesn�t have a dog and a horn attached!
MARVELETTES
One of the acts not included on 'The Complete Motown Singles' of course, is the Marvelettes, which is a very bad link to report that Gladys Horton, founder and original group member has retired so�s she can look after her youngest son Sammy. She advised us via an email which also included the following � �Because of my retirement, there will be no �original� member of The Marvelettes performing. Nor on tour. So please be careful when you hear or see any type of advertisement claiming that The Marvelettes are performing �live� in or near anywhere that you live. "I hate to travel by train, and touring on a bus is just not for me any longer. You, the fans, have always been our great supporters of both the group�s live performances, as well as our many hits over the past years that the �original� group has been active. Love comes in two directions, from your hearts to us, and from our hearts to you, and it has always been that way! Thank you so much. We have all gone through the good times as well as the hard times in all of our lives. I want to thank Berry Gordy; Motown Record Corporation; all of the many fans all over the world; all of the many performers that we have graced the concert stage and had the great honour to perform alongside; our many support back-up musicians over the years, and a very special �thank you� to Billy Wolfe who, since 2002 helped me to get back past record royalties that I never knew were out there.� Ah.
I suppose you could say that by way of honouring Gladys� retirement (or maybe it�s more of a coincidence) The Marvelettes: Forever � The Complete Motown Albums: Vol 1 is released Stateside on 15 May. This limited edition houses three cds covering their first four studio albums, their one-off live release and a greatest hits compilation, alongside tracks that didn�t make it. All have been re-mastered and include their big sellers � 'Please Mr Postman', 'Forever', 'Too Many Fish In The Sea' and so on � plus an insight into their Darnells� releases and other sought after rarities. Although I haven�t seen the artwork as I write this, I�m told there�s loads of visuals including the original album covers and unseen pictures, plus loads of information about the ladies and music. Mmm, sounds like one for me then.
MOTOWN RELEASES
It�s true to say that Motown�s release schedule this year has gone a little astray � ok, a lot astray then � because due last month was a whole rack of albums on vinyl, like Stevie�s amazing Songs In The Key Of Life, Smokey�s wonderful A Quiet Storm, Rick�s oh so funky Street Songs and the Four Tops� historic Reach Out. So I checked into www.backtoblackvinyl.com to check this out but was greeted with the instruction that to download any album I needed the code printed on the insert of the vinyl album. Where do I get �em from? Help! Anyway, due for release this month is the Hitsville USA Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 � Vol 1. This is a four cd set and is, I think, a Hip-O Select release. No loves, I�m sorry I don�t know what happened to the publicised singles releases, but will, I promise, keep you updated when I hear anything. Having mentioned Rick James, I don�t know whether you know or not, but his I�m Rick James - The Definitive DVD is on release now. It features his career highlights , interviews and all eight of his music videos that include the hits like Give It To me Baby' and Super Freak, with a trio of unreleased videos for Throwdown, She Blew My Mind(69 Times) and Hard To Get. And lots more. Some people perhaps remember him for all the wrong reasons � his wild life, a crazy bloke with sex and drug hang-ups � but he was one helluva creator of funk/rock who died too soon. Am reading his autobiography at the moment, so will report back when I�ve finished it. Yes, it�s warts an� all, so I�m heavily sedated!
It�s catch up time now�..Congratulations to The Miracles who were recently honoured with a star on the Hollywood Hall Of Fame. The honourees (is that really a word I wonder?) are the original group members � Smokey and Claudette Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Pete Moore and the late Ronnie White. Guest speakers at the ceremony were Berry Gordy and Stevie Wonder.
My intrepid reporter Kevin Melville tells me that Mickey Stevenson is due to release his Here I Am album on the Fantastic Voyage label. Tracks include Here I Am, Rocky Racoon, Knock On Any Door and Stormy. Mickey of course was one of Motown�s driving forces as a songwriter, producer and talent scout. He began his career as a singer in gospel and doo wop groups and wanted to join Motown as a soloist. Berry Gordy, however, had other ideas, and asked him to be the company�s first A&R chappie. As such Mickey was invaluable to the formation of the artists and their success. When he left the company for MGM his wife Kim Weston � herself a Motown artist of some considerable, huge, massive, and everything that�s fabness note � went with him. From there, Mickey formed his own labels People and Mikim before joining up with Ember Records to release a pair of singles and one album. Still very much a part of Motown and music�s history, the last time Mickey was mentioned here was as part of the world premiere of Memories Of Motown staged in Berlin. Actually, there�s a poster advertising the show somewhere around here (see above).
DRUMS PLEASE
Under the heading 'Bohannon lifts the lid on a life in the music industry,' in new audio book we�re told that Hamilton Bohannon (composer, producer singer and musician) tells the story of his life in music that includes touring as band leader with Motown�s prime performers, including a two and one half year stint as Stevie�s drummer. He also recalls his life on The Temptations� touring bus, his refusal to box with Marvin and the moment when he was caught in a battle with Diana Ross when he inadvertently touched her hair. That�s all I know but if you�re interested you can check this out on www.hnarecords.com or emailing phase3@bellsouth.net
I goofed last time when writing about Lynda Laurence being Stevie�s support singer. As she quite rightly pointed out, the name of the group that she sang with was The Third Generation and not Wonderlove, who was formed after she�d left. Ooops, sorry guys! As an add on here, Lynda tells me her three-year-old grandson was contacted by Oprah Winfrey to audition for the forthcoming America�s Most Talented Kids. Will let you know more. And, as you�ll have noticed from a recent news item, her fellow Supreme Scherrie Payne is working with a fab new group Tour De 4Force whose debut single Godsend is due for release shortly. Do contact Jim Saphin on dimarflo@aol.com or visit www.tourde4force@yahoo.com if you�d like more information.
AL ABRAMS & TOMMY GOOD
WHAT MOTOWN'S 50th ANNIVERSARY MEANS TO ME...
Aaannndddd nooooow�.imagine the drumroll here. It�s time for the start of the new What Motown�s 50th Anniversary Means To Me section. Artists and fans alike are planning to contribute to this rolling series, and to kick it all off I�m delighted to introduce you to Mr Al Abrams and Mr Tommy Good.
"Let's face facts. If I had taken Berry Gordy aside at any time in the early 1960s and told him that in 2009 people would be celebrating Motown's 50th anniversary by writing books about the company, that our songs would be modern classics still being played on the radio and being bought in stores, and that our artists would be performing around the globe, you can well imagine his reaction.
"Al," he would have said, You really need to take some time off and go home and rest."
But then imagine if I had grabbed his hand and said, "But Berry, when all that will be happening there will be a black man in the White House."
He probably would have called for an ambulance.
But both events happened in January 2009. And as they say in the Bible, one begat the other.
Once our PR efforts made it possible for Diana Ross and the Supremes to appear on the cover of a TV Guide magazine -- a publication people kept in their living rooms for an entire week -- we opened the door to acceptance of African-American artists by white Americans. First on their magazine covers, then on their tv sets, then in movies and in night clubs like the Copacabana, and ultimately -- as their president.
Why? Because the music of Motown was neither black nor white. It was truly as we said, The Sound of Young America.
Motown made it possible.
That is our legacy.�
(At the age of 18, Al Abrams was hired by Berry Gordy in May 1959 as the first employee of what would become Motown Records. He began as Promotion Director and subsequently served as Motown's Director of Public Relations during the glory years of 1964-66. His play, Memories of Motown, made its debut in Berlin in January. Al�s book Selling My Soul, The Complete Motown Press Releases 1964 � 1966 is due for publication soon).
�Motown is 50 years old. the music still stands alone. I always thought it would stand the test of time, and it has (and) it still is wonderful to hear. I feel great for having been a part of Motown, I felt that I was a small part of something great. Even though I felt I could have been managed a lot better. I couldn�t believe it when I heard that Universal was going to release an anthology of my songs that I recorded at Motown. I hadn�t heard those songs in 42 years. I bugged Paul (Nixon) to make sure it was me singing them. I am so grateful for the recognition that I have received, It has helped heal the feelings I had about how I was treated at Motown. I know now some of those tunes could have been hits. I remember being asked to sing at a weekender in Northampton, I said �yes�, there was no way that I would miss performing for the wonderful people in the UK that had kept my songs alive for all these years. I had to learn these songs for myself, and to sing them in the same key I had sung them in when I was in my early twenties.. I was the first artist to record Just Ask The Lonely and (sang) that song in Northampton for the first time ever. I did it and it felt great. It�s hard for me to explain how exciting it was for me to get to sing lead on Honey Lane, with the Temptations singing background. I have many fantastic memories, such as sitting in with Marvin Gaye. Talking and singing with Stevie Wonder. Going to Berry�s house to learn Bad Bad Baby. Having Berry and Diana Ross come to clubs that I was performing at. Having Smoky Robinson write three songs for me to record. Many fabulous memories.
I believe for the most part that Image, and dressing and looking the part, have replaced loving the music and working very hard to learn your craft. It seems that we expect less from our singers now. Maybe things come too easy and fast. I might add, not in all cases, but generally speaking. I also believe that when Motown left for California around 1970 the music changed and was never the same. It was still good, but not that Detroit soul sound, that we all love and know is special."
It�s always a pleasure to talk and sing about Motown. (In the sleeve notes of Tommy Good:The Motown Collection Paul Nixon noted that Tommy and his band The Tabs were and still are to an extent one of the Motown label�s biggest and best kept secrets. Despite producing the classic Northern Soul favourite Baby I Miss You, he never achieved the success of many of his label mates. Paul then chats to Tommy about his career and so on. Do check this release out, it�ll do your soul the world of good � no pun intended.)
and last...
but not least in any sense of the word, I joined two hundred or more fans at the annual Dusty Day held at Finnegan�s Wake in Ealing, W5. As well as mingling, the organiser Simon Bell asked me to join fellow authors Jeanette Lynes and Annie Randall in a question and answer session about our books. This was great fun, once I�d found my feet! One of the day�s musical celebrations was for Motown�s 50th where Simon, Madeline Bell, Mac Kissoon and Katy Setterfield sang a selection of the company�s finest. I also met loads of Motown fans as well and spent time chatting about the music and signing books until my hand ached. Thank you, thank you, for making me feel so at home, and if you newcomers to bluesandsoul.com are now reading this, a big welcoming hug. What kept you??!!!
Sharon Davis x
Please feel free to contact SHARON DAVIS at B&S with any Motown news that you feel would benefit others - Thank you.
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Glenn Jones serves as Chemex Modular’s Chief Executive Officer. He has over 40 years of experience in the hydrocarbon processing industry, particularly with fuels, natural gas liquids, aliphatic solvents, and asphalt. This experience includes process design, construction, operations, research and development, and management of various projects, engineering disciplines, and operating units. Prior to being a founding member of this company, Mr. Jones began his career in 1973 with Caribou Four Corners as assistant refinery manager of its Kirtland, NM refinery. He left Caribou in 1978 to join Thriftway Company as refinery manager of its Bloomfield, NM refinery. Mr. Jones left Thriftway in 1984 and worked with Redd Engineering in Salt Lake City, Utah as a startup engineer for two years while operating his own gasoline blending business in Texas. He began employment with Petro Source Corporation in 1986 as refinery manager of its Eagle Springs, Nevada refinery and later held the positions of general manager of refinery operations and general manager of engineering services. He returned to Redd as Vice President from 1997 to 2000, handling both domestic and international projects. Glenn has profit and loss responsibility for Cowhouse Partners, LLC, Chemex, LLC, and Chemex Modular, LLC in his position as Managing Member of Cowhouse Partners, LLC.
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Director of Manufacturing & Construction
Clinton Hallford has over 20 years of experience in industrial construction. His experience started with CDK Contracting in Farmington, NM in 1994. He served in several different capacities before leaving CDK Contracting in 2001 to join the team at Petro Source Management Corporation. Mr. Hallford has a broad range of experience in downstream industrial construction, including:
Construction and operation of a used lube oil facility in the Texas Panhandle
Construction of four hydrocarbon processing units at a fuel terminal in Reno, NV
Oversight of the upgrade of a loading and storage facility in Tulsa, OK at the Port of Catoosa, which delivered the first sweet crude shipment by barge out of the State of Oklahoma
Decommissioning of a refinery in Mersin, Turkey for British Petroleum
Construction and assembly of a modular 6,000 bpd Atmospheric Distillation Unit and a 3,000 bpd Vacuum Distillation Unit in Bakersfield, CA to be shipped to Indonesia
Successful startup and commissioning of the 6,000 bpd crude unit and 3,000 bpd vacuum unit on-site in Indonesia
Management of the construction of a modular 1,000 bpd topping plant in Bakersfield, CA for shipment to Nigeria
Leadership of the team on-site in Nigeria in successfully commissioning and starting up the 1,000 bpd topping plant—the only currently operating, privately-held modular refinery in Nigeria
On-site oversight of the assembly and commissioning processes for a 3,000 bpd naphtha reformer and hydro-desulfurization unit in Bangladesh
Management of the construction and assembly of a modular 12,000 bpd Atmospheric Distillation Unit and a 6,000 bpd Vacuum Distillation Unit in Bakersfield, CA to be shipped to Indonesia
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Led the detailed design team and fabrication team for the construction, installation, and successful startup of two modular 2,000 bpd diesel hydro-treaters, with the third such hydrotreater currently under construction under his leadership
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Matt Rodgers serves as Chemex Modular’s Chief Commercial Officer and General Counsel. He joined the company in 2016 and is responsible for sales, legal matters, coverage issues, and compliance. Prior to joining Chemex Modular, Mr. Rodgers litigated high profile patent cases, primarily in the high technology space, for 13 years. During that time, he represented both plaintiffs and defendants in multiple patent trials and had responsibility for jury selection, examination of key witnesses, argument of pre- and post-trial motions, JMOLs, jury charges, Daubert motions, and evidentiary disputes.
Some of the significant trials in which Mr. Rodgers had a major role include:
$482 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson on behalf of a doctor regarding drug eluting stent technology
Willfulness and exceptional case finding, nearly unprecedented award of treble damages, attorneys’ fees, and expert fees against a drill bit component manufacturer on behalf of a unit of NOV. This verdict and subsequent settlement for a multiple of the verdict protected a royalty stream projected to approach $1 billion
Defense of a case for Apple in which total potential liability significantly exceeded $1 billion. Responsibility for development of damages theories during fact and expert discovery, and further development of damages evidence through cross of chief inventor and cross of plaintiff’s corporate representative at trial. A $386 million judgment against Apple was vacated on appeal due to unreliable damages proof in a widely publicized Federal Circuit opinion
Mr. Rodgers was also on the team primarily responsible for business development at a high-profile Houston patent litigation boutique. Mr. Rodgers received his Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma.
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Alan Robinson serves as Chemex Modular’s Chief Financial Officer. He brings over 25 years of operating and financial management experience to his position. After receiving a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Cal State University - Bakersfield, Alan worked in public accounting performing tax, audit and financial duties. Mr. Robinson was then a member of a turnaround team as Controller of a multiple-site vocational trade school. The turnaround team then moved to a troubled produce processing company with his position being System/Financial Analyst. Mr. Robinson worked his way to Operations Manager of the Organic Division. As Operation Manager he was responsible for six production facilities, three shipping facilities, and three offsite storage facilities with 300 employees during peak season. Mr. Robinson then had an opportunity to join a real estate development company as a member and Chief Financial Officer. He worked closely with investors, investment bankers and the municipality to secure financing for a lake-front destination development. Mr. Robinson was also part of the development design team which developed a financial model to maximize the profitability of the project.
Johnny Hallford
Johnny Hallford serves as Chemex Modular’s Director of Sales. He has 30 years of experience in training and mentoring manufacturing teams.
Taught manufacturing processes and destructive and non-destructive testing for 15 years to mechanical engineering students at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Curriculum included mechanical testing of metals, polymers, and composites; non-destructive evaluation, heat treating, metallography, metal joining and fabrication processes, injection molding, blow molding, metal casting, CNC machining, conventional machining, rapid prototyping, as well as advising student design teams on Capstone engineering design projects. Mr. Hallford further worked with the Dean of Engineering as project manager for the implementation of the first of its kind Engineering Innovation Center, which serves the College of Engineering as a workspace and forum for the collaboration of interdisciplinary design teams for industry sponsored design projects and collegiate design competitions.
Served as shop foreman and project manager for Machine Works, Inc. in Bryan, Texas. The Machine Works facility had a shop capacity of up to 50 tons and 30 fulltime engineers, welders, equipment mechanics, draftsmen, CNC programmers and machinists.
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THERE'S HOPE FOR ‘DISCLOSE ACT’ IN 2014
FOR RELEASE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2013, OR THEREAFTER
If there’s one main reason behind the distrust many Californians feel for government and elected officials at all levels, it may be the way special interests regularly pour millions of dollars into election campaigns while managing to hide their identities.
There was hope last year for an end to the sense of political impotence and frustration this often produces among voters. With two-thirds majorities for Democrats in both houses of the state Legislature and a governor who helped write this state’s original clean elections law, the Political Reform Act of 1975, the expectation was that a major disclosure bill would pass.
But those two-thirds majorities turned out to be ephemeral and sporadic, coming and going irregularly as politicians played musical chairs when vacancies occurred in congressional, state Senate and Assembly seats.
So the single legislative bill that could have done the most to restore trust in time for next year’s election languished. It’s not dead, having been turned into a two-year bill after it passed the Senate by an easy 28-11margin, with most Republicans voting no.
But no Assembly Republican voted for the bill, known informally as the DISCLOSE Act and officially as SB 52, originally sponsored by Sens. Mark Leno of San Francisco and Jerry Hill of San Mateo.
So when it was due for an August hearing in an Assembly elections committee, it was converted into a two-year bill instead, with that house due to take it up again in 2014.
There is no way this or any other proposal can hope to keep big money, both from within California and outside, from playing a major role in the state’s politics, electoral and initiative. But this measure is intended at least to let voters know who is paying for what.
The need for a law like this became urgent after the U.S. Supreme Court’s notorious 2010 Citizens United decision declared corporations the equivalent of human beings, giving them the right to donate limitless amounts to political campaigns not formally controlled by candidates.
This led to independent expenditure committees, which run ads at the very least dovetailing with those of the candidates. So we get subterfuge, as with the last-minute 2012 dumping of millions of dollars into California proposition campaigns by out-of-state groups with vague names and anonymous donors, many still secret.
The DISCLOSE Act, first sponsored in the Legislature by former Democratic Assemblywoman Julia Brownley of Ventura County, now a congresswoman, would force every political TV commercial in California to disclose its three largest funders prominently for six seconds at the start of the ads, rather than using small print at the end. Similar rules would apply to print and radio ads, mass mailers, billboards and websites.
So voters would know before they heard a message who is behind it.
This bill passed the Assembly in 2012, but time ran out before the Senate considered it.
Its passage in the new year has the backing of Assembly Speaker John Perez of Los Angeles, giving it a strong shot of getting the two-thirds backing it needs to become law so long as the Democrats’ current two-thirds majority proves a bit more stable than it was through most of 2013.
The need for transparency allowing voters to peel away the veil of anonymity many campaign donors now hide behind is more pressing today than ever, thanks to the unlimited quantities of cash corporations can deploy.
That’s what made the DISCLOSE Act the most important bill the Legislature considered in the past year, more so than fracking regulations, prison changes, drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants or anything else. It will be again in 2014.
Other open-government bills will also be on the docket in this session, but if this one passes, California voters could become the best informed in the nation. And if it happens here, count on it being imitated elsewhere, like many other California-first laws covering everything from medical marijuana to property tax limits.
But that happens only if this measure gets a two-thirds vote in the Assembly, which the vagaries of 2013 proved is no sure thing.
Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, "The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It," is now available in a soft cover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, visit www.californiafocus.net
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ANTI-SEMITISM ISSUE BECOMES TEST FOR UC CHIEF
FOR RELEASE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2015, OR THEREAFTER
It’s rather doubtful that Janet Napolitano worried much when she first heard vandals scrawled swastikas and the message “Jews to the gas chamber” inside a restroom on a University of California campus.
Or, later, when she learned “grout out the Jews” and “Hitler did nothing wrong” had been daubed on other campus walls.
Just a form of college hijinks, she probably thought. Chances are, she also paid little heed a couple of years earlier when Muslim students carrying dummy submachine guns on the Berkeley campus set up mock checkpoints and stopped only students who appeared to be Jews.
But the current crisis over these and many other campus incidents now threatens to undermine Napolitano’s authority in ways that quarrels over admissions standards, faculty salaries and top-heavy administrative budgets never have.
There is no doubt anti-Semitism has been allowed to run rampant at UC, and not merely via incendiary sloganeering on walls and other structures. There has been a bleeding over of anti-Israel sentiment into plain old-fashioned, almost medieval anti-Semitism spurred by an ever-growing Arab presence on the campuses, partly a side effect of the university’s increased willingness to accept foreign students because they pay $24,000 a year more tuition than in-state students. UC flat-out needs their money because of years of decreased state funding under ex-Govs. Pete Wilson, Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The expanded Muslim contingent on campus portrays Israel to home-grown minority students as a colonial power, an image furthered by the growth of Jewish settlements on former Palestinian lands. Many minority students, ignoring a long history of Jewish support and sacrifice on behalf of their civil rights, have helped the Palestinian movement encourage a boycott of Israeli products, university divestment from companies doing business there and other sanctions against the Jewish state.
Interestingly, this movement does not specifically target Israeli students, of whom there is a tiny contingent at UC. Rather, it focuses on all Jews, the vast majority of whom have never been there and don’t make Israeli policy.
The upshot is that nothing has been done to deter anti-Semitism, in part because campus administrators fear being accused of stifling academic debate. But how is academic freedom involved when mathematics professors spout anti-Jewish rhetoric, as has happened occasionally? What would happen to the same faculty if they regularly spewed the N-word or anti-feminist or anti-Muslim messages?
So in late May, in an interview with National Public Radio, Napolitano pledged to submit to her Board of Regents in July a policy statement adopting the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism, as it is manifested in attacks on Israel. It is not, by those standards, anti-Semitic to question Israeli policy on settlements or anything else. But it is anti-Semitic to deny the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. That would be equivalent to denying Japan’s right to exist as a Japanese state. The State Department also calls it anti-Semitic when Israel is condemned for the same practices routinely engaged in by other countries.
Pope Francis goes farther, observing the other day that “To attack Jews is anti-Semitism, but an outright attack on the state of Israel is also anti-Semitism.”
Both, of course, happen frequently on UC’s 10 celebrated campuses.
Meanwhile, Napolitano reneged on her pledge to offer the Regents a policy banning anti-Semitism on campus, postponing the subject for two months before proposing a milquetoast anti-intolerance statement in September.
This spurred rebellion among the Regents. Norman Pattiz, the head of the national Westwood One radio network, observed that “To completely disregard the people who brought (this) to our attention…I think is insulting.”
Added fellow Regent Bonnie Reiss, director of an institute at USC, “When we hear lines of students giving us examples of swastikas on…fraternities or challenging a Jewish student’s (right) to serve on a council just as a result of her religious identity, of statements that “Hitler was right,” I hope I’m not the only one feeling chilled…”
It was a very unusual outcry from usually acquiescent Regents, and a direct challenge to Napolitano.
It’s now up to her and the committee she’s appointed to draft a new statement to fix this, stop the continuing wave of campus anti-Semitism – or lose what credibility she has as chief of the most prestigious university system in America.
Elias is author of the current book “The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government's Campaign to Squelch It,” now available in an updated third edition. His email address is tdelias@aol.com
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Tom Dixon style for new London boutique fitness studio
Fittings by Tom Dixon feature as part of The Fore's decor / Copper and Cope
We break down barriers to exercise and get people moving properly
– Hannah Lanel
Hannah Lanel has opened The Fore – a new model of boutique gym offering two instructors per class – in London's King’s Cross, an increasingly residential area of the city.
Lanel was responsible for The Fore's distinctive interior design. She told CLAD, that the sleek decor – which features fittings by Tom Dixon – was inspired by her own home.
The Fore is part of a growing trend towards combining upscale interiors with fitness to create a new business model for customers who are willing to pay more to work out in a designer environment.
The business model at The Fore is groundbreaking in that each class has two instructors – one to lead the class, and the other to adjust form, to ensure exercises are done with anatomical and functional accuracy.
Offering a number of personal and group training programmes, the boutique occupies a total area of 5,500 sq ft (511 sq m) and features a Technogym-equipped gym with a focus on the Skillmill treadmill, studios, a juice bar, café, retail area, and workshop rooms.
"We break down barriers to exercise and get people moving properly,” Hannah Lanel, founder of The Fore, told HCM magazine.
"This intelligent approach to training means that people quickly come to know about training frequency, intensity, and functional fitness."
Read the full interview with Hannah Lannal in the June issue of Health Club Management here on digital.
Hanel Lannal The Fore London King's Cross boutique fitness gym Technogym Skillmill
The recently opened studio offers in-depth programmes / Copper and Cope
The space also boasts an on-site coffee bar and co-working spaces / Copper and Cope
The Fore's founder, Hannah Lanel, choreographed the boutique's interiors / Copper and Cope
FEATURE: People profile – Hannah Lanel
Founder: The Fore
Hannah Lanel has opened The Fore – a new model of boutique gym offering two instructors per class – in London's King’s Cross, an increasingly residential area of the city. Lanel was responsible for The Fore's distinctive interior design. She told CLAD, that the sleek decor – which features fittings by Tom Dixon – was inspired by her own home. The Fore is part of a growing trend towards combining
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Interview: Dror Benshetrit and Di-Ann Eisnor
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Suffragettes, Manchester, 1908 from WikiCommons
Yesterday in a local shop Culturebaby (now five) pointed to a greetings card featuring two defiant-looking young women from the early 1920s wearing purple, white and green. She immediately declared their status as 'Suffragettes'. Whilst the sisterhood of political emancipation had witnessed huge strides by this point, and this pair were not officially clad as suffragettes, my mighty little woman catalysed a discussion between impressed strangers, each delighted that a five year old knew this essential history. And a hundred years later, the battle is not yet won. Each election we don our literal or metaphorical colours, not those of transient party politics, but the eternal symbolism of these brave warriors of equality. With this in mind, I've spent a few years amassing a library of essential reads for my little women. The list could be longer, and no doubt I'll update it regularly, but this pile of inspiration gives plenty for every young girl, and indeed the men in their lives, to ponder and draw on for every eventuality. From the bookish to the brave, the scientific to the sporty, from political pioneers to the conscientiously kind, this selection showcases a host of role models and the brilliance of writing and illustration out there for the very young. There's even the odd princess.
1. Lottie Solves a Mystery- Lucie Braveheart (Penguin)
The inspiration for this post came from the publication of a new picture book series for girls from Puffin, featuring Lottie of the well known toy brand. I was delighted to find that this first story is replete with positive female role models and has a healthy focus on nature, adventure and friendship. It's a breath of fresh air (literally) and echoes the idea behind the dolls - inclusive, ethnically diverse, age appropriate, and based on the scientific proportions of a nine year old child. The vision from Arklu was that these dolls might empower children to be themselves, to be imaginative, adventurous and have fun doing what they enjoy. To date they have won over 35 international toy awards. In this story Lottie finds a suitcase belonging to her Great Aunt, an explorer. Amongst the fascinating items she uncovers a notebook with photographs and fieldnotes. Following a chat about this fabulous ancestor with her mother, Lottie and her friends are inspired to become wild beast explorers themselves and, tracking a set of footprints, set out to find the Beast of Branksea.
2. Little People Big Dreams (Frances Lincoln)
This exquisite set of books are some of the most inspiring and beautifully designed titles we own. Bound for posterity and the brain-child of one of our favourite publishers Frances Lincoln, I've swiftly become an evangelist for this series which is growing all the time. The vision for these books, created by a selection of different authors and illustrators each with their own distinctive and scrumptious style, is that young children can easily, through these simple and engaging biographies, discover the lives of outstanding people. From designers and artists to scientists, activists and authors, every featured mighty woman went on (often despite the odds) to achieve incredible things. Each had a dream and a passion and they followed it. The first book, a staple favourite in our household, follows Coco Chanel, from her early life in an orphanage – where she is a genius with needle and thread – to her time as a cabaret singer, hat maker and, eventually, international fashion designer. Each miniature biography comes with extra facts about each inspiring woman at the back. The girls love the photographs and timelines. They also include motos that the women themselves believed. For Coco Chanel it was "To be irreplacable one must always be different", for Amelia Earhart it was "If you want to do something, do it. You never know how far you will get". For Maya Angelou, with her difficult journey of overcoming extreme violence and racial prejudice, but culminating in her delivery of her poem at the inaugaration of President Clinton, it was a reminder to "lift up our hearts" - "there is nothing I can't be". For Frida Kahlo, surviving a terrible accident in her youth and channeling her fight for survival into her now world famous art, it was "Live Life". Finally in our set, the brilliant young woman Marie Curie who vowed to herself she would be a scientist not a princess and moved countries and learned a new language in order to be able to gain a degree, discovered elements that have been used to save so many people. She trained other women and advised every new student that "in life there is nothing to be afraid of, only many things to learn, and many ways to help those in need."Amen Marie.
3. Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo (Penguin)
Next up, and rightly so, is the most highly funded original book in the history of crowdfunding. Raising over a million dollars on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, this stunningly illustrated title features short biographies of 100 extraordinary women from around the world from rappers and gymnasts, to explorers and monarchs, Hadid to the Brontes - success stories spanning time and in every field imaginable. It is easy to dip into for an appropriate tale. Before swimming a couple of weeks ago the girls and I enjoyed the inspiring journey of Yusra Mardini, the young Syrian refugee who pushed a boat of people for three hours to safety and later swam in the Rio Olympics. We've already bought this as a present for some of the young women we love and it is going to our Goddaughter too. The diversity that the book encapsulates so well, also weaves through its beautiful design. The women are not always those we might expect, which is refereshing, and each story is accompanied by a full page portrait produced by one of 60 female artists. And it is just that. A work of art. As the authors themselves note - it's the book they wish they had when they were growing up, and it has been so successful the second in the series has been announced.
4. Fantastically Great Women who Changed the World by Kate Pankhurst (Bloomsbury)
A second collated biography recommendation for slightly older readers is cute, compact and cartoon-like. The paperback is cheap and portable, making it a great present for classmates. Taking thirteen pioneering women who changed the way we think, challenged social norms and fought for their passions, Kate Pankhurst (descendant of the indomitable Emmeline) looks at how and why these women became so great. Full of facts and personality, quotations and speech bubbles, this mildly irreverent and quirky book also showcases that kindness as well as courage and self belief can never be underrated.
5. Emily Davison by Izzi Howell (Wayland)
The Funeral of Emily Davison
A couple of weeks ago in the library we discovered a series of factual books about great characters from Wayland books' Fact Cat Series. Culturebaby found them intriguing and accessible with their simple text, photographs and source materials, fact boxes and, frankly, exciting content. She devoured the biography of Emily Davison - her fight for the vote and her tragic end.
6. Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova by Laurel Snyder, Illustrated by Julie Morstad (Chronicle Books)
Next in our set of brilliant biographies is the poetic and exquisitely illustrated story of the famous ballerina Anna Pavlova. Chronicle books feel and look beautiful and this title has echoes of the Little People Big Dreams series above. The Culturebabies love their ballet classes and regularly turn our days into a musical. Anna's story of a poor girl with an unwaivering dream to dance captures that first moment of falling in love with your life's vocation. Jumping in a sleigh one evening and taking Anna to the Mariinsky theatre her mother prophesied "you are going to enter fairyland" and as Tchaikovsky begins and Sleeping Beauty opens her eyes "...so does Anna. Her feet wake up! Her skin prickles. There is a song suddenly inside her. Now Anna cannot sleep. Or sit still ever...." Anna works and waits, waits and works until she is accepted into the ballet school, and then... her Swan takes flight.
She was born for this. However, Anna never forgets her roots and feels acutely for those who have never heard the music. So she travels, she meets people, performs in odd places, and devotes her life to the dance. She shared her gifts with the poor as well as the rich. She inspired people wherever she went as she believed that ballet had changed her life and felt it could do the same for others.
7. Georgia's Bones by Jen Bryant and illustrated by Bethanne Andersen (Eerdmans)
I bought this beautiful picture book about the artist Georgia O'Keeffe to accompany the Tate Modern's exhibition late last year. We often associate Georgia with her series of flower paintings, but this picture book explores the inspiration behind her love of nature and her interest in collecting objects - sticks, stones, flowers and bones. Culturebaby, who had recently been on a mudlarking trip to Tower Beach that had utterly inspired her, (displaying her shoe-box of antiquities to anyone who visited), and seeing a kindred spirit in the young artist, declared "she's me!". Georgia grew up on a farm in Wisconsin and, answering those who teased her for her interest in shapes and sizes, said that "someday I'm going to be an artist"; and that is what she became. This sumptuously illustrated story charts her childhood where "shapes often drifted in and out of Georgia's mind" all the way to New York, whose forms she also captured. Then on to New Mexico with its rolling colours and desert full of bones, which she collected, cleaned and incorporated into her art. This book, as its author notes, was inspired by Georgia's "commitment to life as an artist at a time when few women were taken seriously as artists". She was a pioneer.
8. The Fossil Girl: Mary Anning's Dinosaur Discovery by Catherine Brighton (Frances Lincoln)
A perfect companion to the last item is a favourite with the girls, the story of the Regency period scientific pioneer Mary Anning told in cartoon form. We recently went on a trip to Lyme Regis where Mary lived as a child and where she found her first Ichthyosaur in 1810, a discovery which changed science forever. Mary lived at a time when scientists were working on a new idea that evolution was the answer to the plethora of discoveries of ancient lifeforms, a theory which was shocking to some as it wasn't featured in the Bible. Mary also lived at a time when it was mainly men who worked in fields such as these, and rich men at that. Coming from a poor family, Mary and her brother collected fossils to sell in their shop, and following a storm and flood that wrecked their home, with a new urgency and vigour, she sought items that would impress. She couldn't have imagined the scale and importance of her consequent find of the first whole Icthyosaur - now in the Natural History Museum, or the others that followed. Captivated, Mary devoted the rest of her life to the study and collection of this pioneering area of science and as my little ladies scrambled over rocks discovering ancient ammonite after ancient ammonite, they too (and I with them) experienced that utter thrill of the discovery of the ancient and precious.
9. Speed Bonnie Boat Illustrated by Alfredo Belli (Picture Kelpies)
The girls love to finish every bedtime story session off with some song, and they particularly love illustrated traditional ballads. I discovered this brilliant picture book earlier this year, which combines the Skye Boat Song with a story inspired by the escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie from the Battle of Culloden, supported by the brave young Flora MacDonald and her loyal family. Flora's spirit and courage became legendary and there are memorials both to the Prince but also to Flora throughout Scotland. "Rocked in the deep, Flora will keep watch by your weary head." They also paricularly like that we have MacDonald ancestry.
10. I am a Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers, Illustrated by Sam Winston (Walker Books)
Before I move on to a set of fiction books with positive messages for young women, I'd like to dwell on the stunning recent addition to the treasured shelf from much-loved author Oliver Jeffers. Peppered with real quotations and featuring many of the authors' favourites this unique meditation on the rewards of reading and sharing stories, takes us on a lyrical journey into the wonderland that is the written word. "I am a Child of Books. I come from a world of stories, And upon my imagination, I float." A little girl sails her raft "across a sea of words" to arrive at the house of a small boy. There she invites him to come away with her on an adventure. Guided by his new friend, the boy unlocks his imagination and a lifetime of magic lies ahead of him…Some people have forgotten the joy of reading, perhaps some have never discovered it, but this is a joy to be shared "for this is our world we've made from stories, our house is a home of invention, where anyone at all can come. For imagination is free." It's an inspiring read for all children. Being bookish is cool.
THE FICTION LIST
Next I plan on whizzing more quickly through a set of stories that have positive messages for all children, both more generally and also specifically in relation to being a young woman. I've selected them for their empowering messages, inspiring heroines, often counter-cultural messages, and not least because they are excellent reads. So here's the fiction list:
1. Oh the Places You'll Go! by Dr Seuss (Harper Collins)
Chosen for: its message that you can be whoever you want to be. You don't have to wait for life to pass you by - sieze it! At times you will be alone, stuck in the mire, confused or tired, but "Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." We can forgive Dr Seuss the 'guy' and insert girl. This was a gift for Culturebaby at Christmas from her Montessori nursery and it was recited at the naming of a friend's child. It was an excellent message to tackle anything life has in store - get on your way.
2. Zog, and Zog and the Flying Doctors by Julia Donaldson and Illustrated by Axel Scheffler (Scholastic)
Chosen for: its brilliant heroine, Pearl, a princess who is determined to be a doctor. In the first title she supports a young dragon through his challenging and demoralising training to be fierce, nursing his friends and refusing to be rescued by a prince and return to "prancing round the palace in a silly dress." Surprisingly she finds her soul-mate behind the rescuer's visor and both head off with Zog their friend, as flying doctors. When they return in the sequel, successful doctors, expert in their fields, the challenge to overcome is her own Uncle, the King, and his misplaced idea that princesses can't be doctors. Determination and skill triumph and he is convinced. An important message, that no-one, whoever they are, should dampen our dreams.
3. Sir Lilypad, a tall tale of a small frog by Anna Kemp and Sara Ogilvie (Simon and Schuster)
Chosen: with it's prequel The Worst Princess for its swashbuckling female; another royal rebel who refuses to be saved, but equally understands the importance for her attempted rescuer of belonging, friendship and dignity. This book is funny and has great illustrations but it also has the important message that standing up for the weak and having no tolerance for bullying is hugely important for those in positions of leadership.
4. Jill and the Dragon, and Jill and the Lion by Lesley Barnes (Tate)
Chosen for: its eponymous heroine, her attitude to those who feel lost and out of place and her quest to bring out the best in them and help them to find their dignity and true place in life. Tate books are consistently unique and stunning, and this pair from award-winning illustrator Lesley Barnes are no exception. Uniquely shaped and exquisitely designed, these titles leap off the shelf. Tate describes Jill as "a feisty, independent-minded new character", who reminds us that everyone has a talent, however well hidden, and that it is a special person that can help others to uncover it.
5. The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (Harper Collins, abridged version illustrated by Christian Birmingham)
Chosen for: Lucy: the pure of heart, the valliant, always faithful and whose belief in Aslan returns her to Narnia again and again. Her heart enables her to see the king, when others are no longer able, and her consistent honesty reveals to us the nature of true faith. Culturebaby has long been a resident of the land beyond the wardrobe, and at three, this beautifully illustrated Harper Collins version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was a perfect way in to the classic for her (which we are now reading in its original form). "Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen..."
6. Ada Twist Scientist, and Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty and illustrated by David Roberts (Abrams)
Chosen for: its mould-breaking young scientific women who encourage us to stand and cheer at each perfect failure, get up and try again. The mighty girls masterpiece Rosie Revere Engineer features a girl who loves making things; gadgets and gizmos and machines for doing wonderful things. She hides them under her bed where no one can see. She was once unabashed but, after she created a wonderful gift for a favourite relative who laughed at her offering, she lost her confidence to share her inventions. Then one day she heard the dream of her great great aunt (herself once an engineer) to finally fly and set herself the task to create a flying machine and propel the old lady into flight. With the wisdom and support of this wonderful old lady Rosie discovers that true failure can come only if you quit. Then comes Ada Twist, a scientific genius who needs to know 'Why'? I particularly love this title because her parents believe in her, allow her to experiment and learn and, although they become frustrated, they too recognise they are on a journey. They learned to truly support her passions - figuring it out as they went along. "...because that's what you do when your kid has a passion and a heart that is true. They re-made their world - now they're all in the act of helping young Ada sort fiction from fact." It's as much a book for the parents of exceptional and inquisitive young women, and the rhyming text and fabulous illustrations are a hit with everyone.
7. Sleeping Beauty: A mid-century fairy tale by David Roberts and Lynn Roberts-Maloney (Pavilion)
Chosen for: its quirky brilliance and beautiful period illustrations, re-inventing a classic tale in mid-century style and with a refreshing feminist twist. Beginning in 1930's at a Christening, and stretching to the 1950s for the 16th birthday, Sleeping Beauty (Annabel), carefully protected from needles by her adoring aunts, pricks her finger on the stylus of a record player - a gift from the evil Morwenna. Annabel had dreamt of seeing the future and her wish unexpectedly comes true as her rescuer, 1000 years into the future, is no prince, but a girl named Zoe who has a passion from the past and scours the library for evidence of why a giant thorn-tree is found amidst a futuristic high-rise landscape. The aunts equally take on a delightful role as protectors who ultimately sacrifice themselves for their beloved ward. It's a great re-telling anyway, but the period details confirm this picture book offering as a 20th Century historical tour de force. There are three others in our collection - an Art Deco Cinderella, a 1970s Rapunzel, and a male Red Riding Hood, 'Little Red' from the 18th Century. They are all brilliant.
8. Daisy Saves the Day by Shirley Hughes (Walker Books)
Chosen for: its glorious historical illustrations from the ingenius and talented Shirley Hughes and an encouraging tale that with loyalty and dedication anyone can change their own circumstances. Daisy comes from a poor family and, forced to leave school and the books she loves, she must work as a scullery maid in a large house with stern employers. It's work she doesn't enjoy, and isn't brilliant at either, but she works hard and is allowed books to read in her spare time. Books take away her loneliness and give her a challenge and hope. Despite a number of disasters Daisy, through her quick thinking, is able to save the household from a fire, and in saving the day she is rewarded with her greatest dream - a place at a school.
9. The Fairytale Hairdresser and Aladdin by Abie Longstaff and Lauren Beard (Picture Corgi)
Chosen for: their lighthearted and enjoyable tales about a creative and strong young woman. The author Abie Longstaff, has aimed with this series to demonstrate that fashion and fun can be combined with courage, quick thinking and self-determination. Her series of ten books subverts traditional fairytales and creates a Fairy Land where princes work, women don’t necessarily choose marriage ahead of their careers and the justice system is more focused on rehabilitation than punishment.
10. Olivia (and sequels) by Ian Falconer (Simon and Schuster)
Chosen for: their glorious turns of phrase, delightfully educational content and sage message behind the mirth. Olivia is a piglet. She's also a toddler. Fiercely independent and in danger of wearing out the naughty step, Olivia's exploits in the pursuit of individuality cannot fail to make even the most despairing parent chuckle. When Olivia decorates her bedroom wall with splodges of black and red paint, this is no graffiti, but an experiment emulating Pollock. In Olivia and the Fairy Princess, we are presented with Olivia's incandescnce at the sole aspiration of her peers to be pink tutu-clad princesses in need of rescue. She presents alternatives, explores stark modern dance, and considers a future as a reporter exposing corporate malfeasance. These books are utterly brilliant. Buy them immediately.
11. Merryn's Journey (Song of the Deep) by Brian Hastings; illustrated by Tony Mora & Alexis Seabrook (Sterling)
Chosen for: the heartwarming father and daughter relationship, gorgeous illustrations, and brave female role model. Originally a video game, creator Hastings has turned the adventure into a book about a young girl who lives alone with her fisherman father. Each day he heads out to sea to catch fish while Merryn tends her garden, and every night he comes home and sings to her about a mysterious world that lies below the waves. Then one day he doesn't return, and Merryn, recalling his dangerous realm of serpents, merrows, monsters, and a sunken city made of gold, sets out to rescue the one she loves. Clever Merryn constructs a vessel and heads off on a strange and beautiful adventure where her kindness and care for others, however terrifying, ultimately reflect back to her in her moment of need.
Books to Change Children's Thinking
Green Reads for Children
I'm delighted to say that Penguin and Arklu have offered my readers an exclusive and exciting competition to win one of
• 1x copy of Stargazer Dress-up Sticker Book, Lottie Solves a Mystery, and a Lottie Autumn Leaves Doll
• 1x copy of Stargazer Dress-up Sticker Book, Lottie Solves a Mystery, and a Finn Kite Flyer Doll
Plus a couple more copies of the books for the runners-up.
To be in with a chance to win please tell us what you'd add to our Mighty Girl Booklist in the comments below and then enter using the Rafflecopter.
Disclaimer: Whilst we already own a good proportion of these books, several have been sent to us over the last couple of years for the purposes of review. However, the selection in this post represents what I believe to be the very best of everything we have received and own on the topic. Many thanks to Picture Corgi, Walker Books, Pavilion, Abrams, Tate, Simon and Schuster, Penguin and Frances Lincoln for copies of some of these titles. Huge thank to Lottie, Penguin and Arklu for their brilliant competition prizes.
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Labels: 5 lit a day, Books for girls, Children's Books, Diversity, Lottie
My First Ballet: Cinderella
For the second year, the girls and I returned to the Peacock Theatre in London to see the young and talented dancers from the English National Ballet School perform for the tiniest aspiring ballerinas. Now in its sixth year, the My First Ballet series features a classical ballet, specially shortened, adapted, and cleverly narrated to suit children as young as three.
Marina Minguez as the Fairy Godmother (c) Photography by ASH
Maria Isabel Trabalon Sanjuan and Jeong Eun Park as the Stepsisters (c) Photography by ASH
Although arguably the music of Cinderella, a Prokofiev classic, is a little less memorable than Sleeping Beauty (last year's lovely production), the rags to riches tale is firmly fixed in the fairytale canon and lent itself very well to this adaptation. The narrator, now older, takes us on a journey back in time to a story from her youth and we meet the young Cinderella through the older Queen's eyes. This year's story had a real element of humour and the stepsisters, full of character, stole the show.
Remi Nakano as Cinderella and Yuki Nakaaki as The Prince © Laurent Liotardo
One of the best elements of the My First Ballet productions are the interweaving of narration and dance. Carefully and intentionally, the dancers illustrate that many of the ballet moves that we might usually miss with the whirl of limbs and chiffon have specific meanings. These are deliberately emphasised throughout and outlined in the well designed programme. Miniature audience members are invited to spot certain gestures and specific moves throughout the ballet. At crucial junctures time is slowed so we don't miss a crucial exchange. I'm always learning something new alongside my little women and enjoy these productions just as much as they do.
Marina Minguez as the Fairy Godmother
& Mar Bonet Sans as Cinderella (c) Photography by ASH
This unique collaboration between English National Ballet and English National Ballet School is always particularly exciting for Culturebaby as we are lucky enough to be able to attend ENB's Junior ballet school. These brilliant dancers therefore demonstrate in a connected and tangible way what is possible for the very youngest of students. The classes, run by highly trained professionals and featuring a real pianist, come highly recommended. No auditions are necessary but the quality of teaching is excellent. We are heading over to Chelsea tomorrow to take part in the annual performance for the Juniors, which last year was hugely impressive. It's a class worth travelling to.
Remi Nakano as Cinderella © Laurent Liotardo
ENB has worked with Widgit to produce resources that can be easily used by the young but also by those with learning difficulties or disabilities. The My First Ballet: Cinderella Symbol Resources are designed for use before, during and after performances. You can download these here at the links below. Some of these flashcards in particular are brilliantly useful and I'll be producing a set for the girls soon:
Going to the Theatre
Flash cards and Quizzes
Ballet people
Another great accompaniment to the performance is James Mayhew's beautifully illustrated picture book Ella Bella and Cinderella. It is part of the ingenious series where the little ballerina Ella is transported, with the aid of a magical musical box, into a series of ballets; supporting the characters and saving the plot.
Although the ENB school dancers have finished their run for the year, performances continue over the summer at two locations. For further details and booking information see the website at www.ballet.org.uk/myfirstballet
Anita Wolleb as the Fairy Godmother © Laurent Liotardo
The Peacock, London
Tickets: £10 - £25
Manchester Opera House
26 –30 July 2017
Tickets: £11.50 - £29.40
Disclaimer: We received press tickets for the purposes of review from English National Ballet. All views are, as always, our own. Photographs are courtesy of ENB and the specified photographers - with thanks.
Labels: Ballet, Ballet for Children, Cinderella, English National Ballet, English National Ballet Juniors, English National Ballet School, Fairy Tales, James Mayhew, Peacock Theatre
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Tax repatriation plan may not fix the dollar
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on December 09, 2017, on page 5.
Lumentum says halting all Huawei shipments, cuts quarterly forecast
TD Securities
U.S. banks
Wells Fargo Asset Management
Shaun Osborne
Brian Jacobsen
David Woo
The Republicans
Investors looking for the U.S. Republican tax bill to prompt multinational companies to convert foreign profits into dollars and end the worst slide in the greenback in a decade may have to temper their hopes for a prolonged rebound. The plan, designed in part to give U.S. multinationals a reason to repatriate the roughly $2.6 trillion in profits held by their foreign subsidiaries, would slash tax rates on such previously accumulated earnings.
At the same time, many large companies already have those profits in dollar-denominated securities.
This time, however, the Republican bills before a conference committee would permanently change how U.S. companies' foreign profits are taxed.
Legislation passed by the House of Representatives would allow companies to bring back foreign profits at a 14 percent repatriation tax rate, as opposed to the current 35 percent, over eight years.
Neither bill requires companies to convert foreign profits into dollars.
The Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, estimates that at the 15 U.S. companies with the largest cash balances abroad, 95 percent of foreign profits are held in U.S. dollar-denominated cash or equivalents.
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A Reimagined Life And Home In The Bay Area
by Liberty Lausterer
If you could completely reimagine your life, unbeholden to your past, what would it look like? When Sarah Reid’s son Zane turned 18, she experienced a “what am I doing with my life?” moment. She’d been working in non-profit administration but had always wanted to do interior design for spaces that served low-income communities. Thus was born her business, Small Victories Design. A move from Massachussetts to California facilitated this transformation. In the move, Sarah left behind thrifted finds that filled her attic, basement, and garage. As a “borderline hoarder,” leaving them behind proved difficult. But in having the courage to let go of one incarnation of herself (and most of the objects that made up that life) she embraced another.
Sarah and her husband Matthew Latkiewicz, a television host, writer, and producer, arrived in Oakland with only what they could squeeze into their Honda Fit. This included Sarah’s grandparents’ coffee table, Matthew’s two favorite chairs, some art, and their clothes. After weeks scouring Craigslist and thrift stores, Sarah realized the best place for reasonably priced home goods was estates sales. “That is how the best stuff gets into the bloodstream of the Bay Area. That and the Alameda Flea Market.” From her estate sale and flea market explorations she began assembling a collection of what she calls “soulful objects.” It took about three years before Sarah felt like she had made a cohesive and comfortable space of their 1920s Art Deco apartment.
And comfy it is. The living room is the most inviting space to unwind and imbibe in style. “Matthew has been writing about booze and drinking culture for 14 years (culminating in his book You Suck At Drinking) so we have to have a good bar!” They also have a side table in the living room with whiskey on it for those occasions when they are “too lazy to get up and walk to the bar.” Contentment, Sarah reminds us, is often found in the small, thoughtful details.
It would be the perfect home for Sarah were it not for the fact they can’t have cats. “I have offered bribes and contracts and everything I can think of to our landlord but we just can’t have a cat.” Luckily, Cat Town Cafe, America’s first permanent cat cafe, is within walking distance. It also happens to be one of several non-profit groups where Sarah has volunteered her design work. Other than the lamentable absence of a cat, I can imagine that an ideal evening would be spent in Sarah and Matthew’s gorgeous home, listening to their records, sipping Matthew’s flawlessly mixed cocktails, all while coveting that unbelievable crown molding. And, of course, toasting Sarah on her courageous and inspired decision to reimagine her life. —Liberty
Photography by Esteban Cortez
Image above: Sarah put together her half of the office in a fit of energy over the course of one day. Since they can’t paint their apartment, Sarah relies on punches of color, such as the “Oh What Fun!” art she found at a thrift store. “It says how I feel about my work.” The desk was cobbled together with IKEA pieces. The chair was a gift.
"That rug. Oh that rug. When Matthew's aunt passed we were heartbroken. The cousins were allowed to choose a few items of hers so we chose this. She was an artist and I love the idea that she and I walked on this rug while doing our work." You can peek through from Sarah's office to her dressing room. The dressing room "fulfills some strange little-girl fantasy I didn't even know I had." And check out the vintage beaded door curtain Sarah transformed into a clever bulletin board.
A shelf in Sarah's office holds a collection of thrifted finds she uses in her design and styling work. "I do not apologize for the amount of cat art and objects in the apartment!"
When looking for an apartment in the Bay Area, Sarah saw an ad for an apartment in Oakland near Lake Merritt, though it only had one photo of the exterior; a gorgeous pink and red stucco Art Deco building. She thought, "Whatever is inside that thing is going to be awesome." It is awesome, in part, because of Sarah's creative touch. A corner of the office with a sleeper sofa, shown here, doubles as a guest room. The large painting is by Federico Saenz-Recio as seen on Design*Sponge.
"It sounds hokey but I tend to ask a room what it wants and it tells me. The neutral, textured, comfortable vibe in the living room was really clear to me. I think I channeled what I imagined my mom in the 70s would do now, and with a little money." Can you find the TV? In an effort to reach a marital compromise (Sarah didn't want it above the fireplace and Matthew wanted it in the living room), they placed it in front of the fireplace. "Most people think it's the fireplace until we point it out, thank god." The feather art on the mantel belonged to Sarah's grandparents. They got it in Mexico on a Quaker service mission in the 1950s. Her mother carved the wooden doll as a girl.
Sarah likes to walk in the door and see flowers. They're "the cheapest medication I know of." She also keeps a thrifted tray in front of the the West Elm sofa for handy items such as quarters for laundry and parking. The photo is of her and Matthew, taken by friend Jessica Eve Rattner, before they walked to town hall and got married.
Behold the to-die-for crown molding! Sarah was raised surrounded by house plants, so she has them in every room. Here they are nestled in a corner of the living room around thrifted items and an IKEA floor lamp. Sarah calls the sculpted deer Sophie and pets her when she sits in the chair. (It's nice to have something to pet when one's heart pines for a real cat.)
The living room table is a very special family artifact. It was handmade and inlaid by prisoners in Kansas and given to Sarah's great-something grandfather who was in government. If the apartment was on fire, the living room coffee table is the one thing Sarah says she'd save. Matthew, she adds, would probably save his bike. The painting was the first piece of art Sarah and Matthew ever spent money on. It's by their friend Amy Borezo.
"The first piece of art we hung after moving in was this old school wall map of New England. I love Oakland but New England is deep in my bones." The church chair has a sibling in the bedroom. The lamp and table were found thrifting.
The ropes hanging along the living room wall were the result of a painful time in Sarah and Matthew's relationship. "We almost left each other but when we decided to stay together I strung up these pieces of rope and every night we would tie a knot in one of them, together, and say, 'I had you in my heart all day today.' We stopped tying them when we tied the actual marriage knot." It's such a moving and honest example of the work and resiliency that it takes to make love last. Matthew and Sarah are no strangers to little acts that add up to something bigger. Matthew's habit of collecting change (filling the jar) often ends up with the two of them doing something special, like taking a vacation.
In the corner of the living room, Sarah has placed a dollhouse on a bench, right at child's height, for their friends' children. It's a thoughtful act of hospitality and yet another example of Sarah's consideration for comfort. The embroidered pillow was hand stitched by Sarah and Matthew's friend Melissa and is based on a drawing Melissa's son Enzo made of the couple. "We named our wedding 'The Yes Party' after this drawing!"
Sarah and Matthew in a light-filled corner of their living room next to a fiddle leaf fig. "The windows in this apartment are unreal. I love this corner and so does my fiddle leaf fig. I don't care if the design community is over figs, I love them so much." Of all the rooms Sarah has designed thus far, the living room is by far her favorite one. The tray next to Matthew is from Urban Outfitters and holds whiskey, an extension of the couple's impressive bar cart.
Sarah used the move to California to embrace more white and light in her spaces. To that end, she chose a mostly white dining table from CB2 and paired it with vintage chairs she found at Alameda Flea Market. She also switched out the dining room light. "There had been a terrible Home Depot boob light. This acrylic chandelier cost me forty dollars at the Flea and I love it SO MUCH." The rest of the lighting in the apartment is original. Her goal, Sarah says, is to honor the Deco style of the apartment without bowing down to it. The photograph on the wall is a Polaroid collage by Star Drooker and features Matthew and Sarah in The Lady Killigrew cafe, which they owned together for three years in Montague, MA. The rug is from Rugs USA.
The gallery wall in the dining room highlights a collection of Sarah and Matthew's art. The wall tells their story, which is exactly what Sarah strives to do in her design work. "I really believe that the space you live in should be an extension of some core truths and beliefs of your being, of your relationship (if you're in one), and of your history."
"When we moved in, I just started taping little mementos to the wall with washi tape because I didn't know where else to put them and then never moved them." Nearby shelving is home to extra barware. Sarah says she cannot resist a good decanter.
The bar area, also in the dining room, consists of a Treasure Island Flea bar cart and vintage sconce. In contrast, Sarah opted for a modern piece of art above it. It's a refined little corner to go with Matthew's refined palette. For Matthew, a classic Martini (not dry), up, with a twist. And for Sarah, an old fashioned Old Fashioned, no cherries or oranges. Cheers!
In the bedroom, Sarah used a West Elm table runner to cover the non-functioning air conditioner. The collapsible clothes valet was a $10 find at Thrift Town. "It made my heart sing when I saw it." The curtains are from IKEA.
The bedroom combines special handmade pieces with thrifted finds. Sarah made the brass tie display, reflected in the mirror, for Matthew's birthday one year. Her grandfather made the leather satchel hanging on the mirror when he was a teenager. A quilt from Anthropologie and bedding from Target are paired with an antique runner textile and handmade decorative pillow. A gifted tassel garland hangs above the CB2 bed, flanked by two Salvation Army lights.
In her design work, the floor plan is one of Sarah's favorite things to sketch. "In general, everything has its place; it's comfortable and makes my heart and eyes happy."
Photos highlight Sarah and Matthew's Lake Merritt neighborhood. "Its proximity to the BART, the Lake, tons of local shops and eateries, and the fact that Oakland is sunny and warm all the time makes it just absolutely perfect. We pinch ourselves every day."
Elizabeth Shannon says:
Sarah’s grandparent’s coffee table is just stunning! Great business concept, too! Am glad that she was able to follow her dream.
What Mum Loves says:
amazing place! these homeowners seem to be fantastic people! x
Such a lovely home! All the special mementos makes this home so lively. Congratulations and all the best with your new business….it’s such a wonderful idea.
Every room is lovely! Where did the art print above the bar cart come from? Love it!
Oh dear! We’ve had it for years and I have no idea where it came from!
What a lovely and warm home. Thank you so much for doing away with slideshows! I had stopped visiting as much because I found them so frustrating. This was a pleasure instead of a chore.
Vox says:
I loved the great photography that makes these spaces look even more spectacular than they already are. The emotional and lifestyle descriptions helped me appreciate each space even more. Great writing. Great piece.
essay writer says:
Every single part of the rooms is amazingly warm and sweet! I just adore the design. Love it immensely!
I would love to know about her career change to interior design? I am interested in the same and would love any “getting started” tips!
Hi Justine! Just seeing this now! Email me and ask me questions? sarah@smallvictoriesdesign.com xoS
Hello, could you please tell me where you got that ‘Oh What Fun’ print from? It’s gorgeous!!
In a Out of the Closet in Berkeley! No idea who made it originally :(
thefolia says:
Oh what fun! Happy Nesting.
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Are Saudi companies over-valued? Corporate Finance view
Of the 55 listed Saudi companies chosen for this survey with a total capitalization of SAR 989 million, and by using a simple perpetuity calculation, it seems that their Enterprise Values (EV) reaches only SAR 72 million. In other words, the portfolio was over-valued by
What are the Credit Risk impact of Tesco’s accounting scandal?
In a recent article by the Harvard Business Review, Amazon was admired as being able to generate much cash flow despite having a very low net margin (http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/10/at-amazon-its-all-about-cash-flow/). Yet in the current news, the Chairman of Tesco resigned for overstating its already low profits by
Are all schools in the GCC low Credit Risk rated?
GEMS recently issued a perpetual subordinated Sukuk for USD 200 million, carrying a coupon of 12% (http://goo.gl/G54cz3). This is a company that has a Financial Rating of 3.6 (6 Sigma), a Category 1 obligor in terms of credit risk, and should command very fine pricing.
How Risky is a Saudi Portfolio? A selection of Credit Risk Ratings
In our previous article on Kuwaiti companies, we addressed the point that given the relative wealth in the country, why were almost half of the listed companies we sampled in Kuwait risk rated above 6.5; i.e. watch listed or worse in terms of credit risk,
Beauty is certainly in the eye of the Credit Risk beholder.
According to the company’s website L’Oreal Group is the world’s largest cosmetics and beauty company with a portfolio of 27 international brands including Lancôme, Maybelline, and Redken. With an organizational structure based on distribution channels and a strong sales force, it aims to please customers
Do all regional Pharma companies have the wrong credit risk model?
Take UAE’s largest. Julphar was established in 1980, and is involved in the production and distribution of pharmaceutical products through a network of twelve manufacturing plants (with further expansion planned), and a logistics network across five continents (www.julphar.net). The company enjoys a diverse product range
How well will retail stores cope with changes in the industry? A Credit Risk perspective
According to Deloitte’s recent publication titled Global Powers of Retailing 2014 (http://goo.gl/Wj4FEP), of the 250 largest retail stores in the world, EMKE Group (the Lulu chain) was reported as the 197th largest. The Group had a CAGR in revenues of 25.3% over 2007-2012, with current
Saudi Cement Companies Risk Ratings – Credit Risk perspective
Why are the Saudi Cement companies’ credit risk ratings so low? What is their secret and is this secret sustainable? Using 6 Sigma’s Credit Risk System we estimated various Saudi companies’ risk ratings. Of these, the Cement companies showed very low ratings, well below what
How can a company in UAE’s Ras Al Khaimah emirate become the number one producer and seller of Ceramics in the world? A Credit Risk perspective.
RAK Ceramics has grown to be the largest ceramic producer in the world. Yes the world, competing with the Chinese, Italian and everyone else. It is the darling of the UAE, and a shining example of an emerging market company taking on the big boys.
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Tag Archives: Rep. Cresent Hardy
House Campaigns Turning Around
Oct. 16, 2018 — According to the liberal Daily Kos Elections website, six congressional races that appeared to be headed in one direction look to be reversing themselves.
Four campaigns that Democrats earlier projected as red to blue conversions are now either tilting toward the Republican candidate or coming back into play. An additional campaign that we believed was always miscategorized is now performing as we predicted, while a further Republican incumbent, already projected to be in a close race, has actually dropped behind for the first time in a published poll. Descriptions for each of these contests follow.
Two GOP incumbents who were trailing in several polls — the Siena College/New York Times polls had one lagging 15 points behind and the other by 10, for example — have come back to take the lead or are hovering in virtual tie range.
Iowa Rep. Rod Blum (R-Dubuque) has represented the most Democratic seat in Iowa for two terms. He fell significantly behind state Rep. Abby Finkenauer (D-Dubuque) to the point where the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) even canceled a flight of media advertising because they presumably believed the race was sealed.
Posted in Election Analysis, House, Polling and tagged Abby Finkenauer, Andy Kim, Arizona, Daily Kos, Donna Shalala, Florida, Iowa, Maria Elvira Salazar, Mayor Ben McAdams, Nevada, New Jersey, Rep. Cresent Hardy, Rep. Mia Love, Rep. Rod Blum, Rep. Steven Horsford, Rep. Tom MacArthu, Rep. Tom O’Halleran, Utah, Wendy Rogers on October 16, 2018 by Jim Ellis. Leave a comment
New York Rep. Slaughter Passes;
Nevada’s Sen. Heller Dodges Primary
March 20, 2018 — Veteran New York Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-Rochester) who, at 88 years of age was the oldest member of the House of Representatives, passed away on Friday after suffering a fall-related concussion earlier in the week.
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Rep. Slaughter, a native of Kentucky, was first elected to the House in 1986 from a Buffalo-Rochester district where she unseated first-term GOP Rep. Fred Eckert. She held the seat ever since, and had announced plans to run again this year. Slaughter became the first woman to chair the House Rules Committee, a position she held while the Democrats held the majority from 2007-2011.
Her one close re-election call came in 2014, when she surprisingly survived by just 871 votes. She rebounded in 2016 to defeat the same opponent, Gates Town Supervisor Mark Assini (R), 54-42 percent. Prior to her service in Congress, Slaughter spent two terms in the New York State Assembly and one in the Monroe County Legislature.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) will now call a special election for the winner to serve the balance of the term and presumably run in the 2018 regular election. In accordance with New York election law, the Monroe County political leadership will choose party nominees. Therefore, no primary elections will be held.
Posted in Election Analysis, House, Senate, Special ELection and tagged Buffalo-Rochester, Danny Tarkanian, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, House Rules Committee, Mark Assini, Monroe County Legislature, Nevada, New York Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-Rochester), New York State Assembly, Pat Spearman, President Trump, Rep. Cresent Hardy, Rep. Jacky Rosen, Rep. Ruben Kihuen, Sen. Dean Heller, sexual harassment accusations, special election, Steven Horsford on March 20, 2018 by Jim Ellis. Leave a comment
Looking at the Opens
Jan. 19, 2018 — Considering the large number of House retirements that came swiftly late last year and just as 2018 began, it is a good time to review the 49 seats that will have no incumbent running in the next election.
Three of the current vacancies are in special elections that do not run concurrently with the regular election calendar, and will operate under the following schedules:
• AZ-8: (Rep. Trent Franks-R) – Primary: February 27 | General: April 24
• PA-18: (Rep. Tim Murphy-R) – One election: March 13
• OH-12: (Rep. Pat Tiberi-R) – Primary: May 8 (concurrent with state primary) | General: August 7
Republicans are expected to hold all three seats.
While the GOP is risking 34 of the 49 open seats, most should easily remain in the Republican column. Eighteen of the 34 are considered safely Republican, while another six reside in the “Likely Republican” category. An additional five are in the “lean Republican” category The remaining five are clear political battlegrounds and are “Toss Ups,” several of which are ripe for Democratic conversion.
But seeing that only five of 34 open Republican seats rest in the highly competitive category, it will not be enough for Democrats to create the wave election that they are already expecting. Therefore, they will have to build serious and expensive campaigns in the five “Lean R” seats, and further expand their resources into the Likely Republican category in order to score long-shot upsets.
Posted in Election Analysis, House and tagged Angie Chirinos, AZ-2, AZ-8, AZ-9, Bob Huff, CA-39, CA-49, FL-27, Jim Ellis, Mayor Greg Stanton, Nevada, NH-1, NJ-2, NV-4, OH-12, PA-18, President Trump, Rep. Cresent Hardy, Rep. Darrell Issa, Rep. Jacky Rosen, Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, Rep. Martha McSally, Rep. Ruben Kihuen, Rep. Tim Walz, Shawn Nelson, Steve Ferrara, Young Kim on January 19, 2018 by Jim Ellis. Leave a comment
The Wild West
July 11, 2017 — Surprising political rumblings are being felt in two key western swing states, one highlighting what will be a major Republican primary battle, with a toss-up open seat and a potentially competitive challenger campaign in the other.
The former will feature a serious Colorado GOP primary between two of the most conservative candidates in that state, while two Nevada seats could see a pair of candidates swapping districts.
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Republican former US Senate nominee Darryl Glenn says that, in the next several weeks, he will announce a formal GOP primary challenge to veteran Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado Springs). Glenn received no national party support in his 2016 race against Sen. Michael Bennet (D) but still came within six points of him on election night, holding the incumbent below majority support. Just recently, state Sen. Owen Hill (R-Colorado Springs) announced his own primary challenge to Rep. Lamborn. Therefore, we are on the precipice of witnessing a major three-way intra-party confrontation before a Republican electorate very familiar with tough primary battles.
Rep. Lamborn was originally elected in 2006, coming through a difficult primary battle in that year. The same scenario occurred in his first re-election, and he has repelled several primary challenges in subsequent campaigns. But, in each of those situations he was the most conservative candidate. The difference here, at least when reflecting upon a Glenn candidacy, is that Rep. Lamborn may not be considered as such. This will be the first challenge where the congressman will actually have to defend himself from the right.
Posted in Election Analysis, House and tagged Colorado, Danny Tarkanian, Darryl Glenn, Nevada, President Trump, Rep. Cresent Hardy, Rep. Doug Lamborn, Rep. Jacky Rosen, Rep. Ruben Kihuen, Scott Hammond, Sen. Dean Heller, Sen. Michael Bennet on July 11, 2017 by Jim Ellis. Leave a comment
The Money Factor
Oct. 21, 2016 — Breaking information is now allowing us to categorize the recent rhetoric from strategists’ in both parties. The newly released Federal Election Commission financial disclosure reports and accompanying media spending figures give us a pretty clear indication about which races are truly hot, versus those that can be classified as pretenders.
The 3rd quarter disclosure reports are available for most campaigns but some of the Senate contests, such as the critical Missouri and Indiana races, have not yet been processed and released to the public.
According to a Politico report, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has reserved more media time than their Republican counterpart, the National Republican Senatorial Committee. But, most of the Republican Senate candidates report more cash-on-hand than their Democratic opponents, thus making the resource deficit a bit less pronounced.
Posted in Election Analysis, House, Senate and tagged Bryan Caforio, California, Danny Tarkanian, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Emily Cain, Evan Bayh, Federal Election Commission financial disclosure reports, Florida, Indiana, Jacky Rosen, Jane Dittmar, Jason Kander, Maine, Martin Babinec, Missouri, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Politico, Rep. Brad Ashford, Rep. Bruce Poliquin, Rep. Cresent Hardy, Rep. Patrick Murphy, Rep. Scott Garrett, Rep. Steve Knight, Ruben Kihuen, Sen. Roy Blunt, Tom Garrett, Virginia, Wisconsin on October 21, 2016 by Jim Ellis. Leave a comment
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Appointments: There will be a conglomerate of youths in Okowa’s government – Akpobi
July 5, 2019 July 5, 2019 admin 0 Comments appointment, Delta, Elvis, Okowa, youths
AUSTIN OMOS OYIBODE, EDITOR
Delta state coordinator of NotTooYoungToLead, Elvis Akpobi, has said that Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state has good plans for youths in the state, saying his delay in appointing youths into the new administration should not be taken as the governor’s unwillingness to bring youths onboard.
Akpobi, in a chat with journalists, said the governor is a father to the youths and as a father, he feels the pains of his children, hence he as good plans for all Delta youths, noting that in the last administration, the governor appointed over 1500 persons, and in this new administration he has not appointed up to 50, hence there is great hope for youths in the state.
His response followed agitation from youths as the governor rolled out his first, second and third phases of appointments which include commissioners, special advisers, most of whom were members of the last administration and who are senior political leaders in their different local governments and communities.
Akpobi explained that the governor is aware that Delta youths labored tirelessly for the governor during the election and with that understanding the governor has good plans in stock for all youths but added that youths should develop themselves, have good ideas and be creative so that when eventually appointed, they will contribute to the advancement of the state.
According to him, if the government is 100percent youths, there is bound to be challenges because youths need experience to put some issues through in their different offices.
He said: “Why not be patient and see. It could be the governor is testing our patience. It takes more than being able to speak good English or just being an activist. How you handle issues matters a lot.
“I think we should give the governor time. He’s someone that promises and he will not fail. During the elections, youths came out to support the governor because they love his person.
“Youths did not support him because of leaders but because they love him. If we look at some people we call leaders, we will not support the system. I believe the governor will surprise us, so we need to be patient.”
On the issue of apprenticeship as stated by the governor during the swearing in of the secretary to the state government, Chiedu Ebie, Akpobi said the governor actually explained that his government is not about apprenticeship but will have a large conglomerate of youths, adding that the governor did not say youths will not be appointed into the cabinet.
He added: “These people already appointed are grounded in the job, they are not apprentices. I think the governor wants to mix his government with grounded persons and those who will learn on the job.”
He said though youths are many in the state and that it is not possible for the governor to notice everybody, he said: “If you are sound, you have capacity, you have ideas, it will show up anywhere. It only takes time. My dear, if you want a leader to pick you and take you serious, bring something to the table.
“We are blessed with a grassrooted governor. But this does not mean he knows everybody in the state who has capacity. But my advice to youths is keep doing what you are doing. One day, somebody will pick you up. Somebody that values capacity and potentials, God will use that person to elevate you.
Let’s build capacity and develop ourselves. Leaders also should help the younger generation that are around them. They should be the person that God will use to elevate the youths. Why must leaders always put interest in everything and leave the youths behind? I know there are youths out there that are feeling helpless but keep doing your best, God will use somebody you never thought of to elevate you.
“But I must say everybody cannot make it through politics. This is because everybody is now thinking it is only through politics you can make it, No.
“My advice is that youths should have patience, the governor is a promise keeper. He knows that in this last election, majority of the success story came from youths. It was youths that went to the field. We stood our ground. And the governor knows that.
“He will not let us down. All I’m saying is that youths should be patient. Every father knows the plight of his son. He is a father, he has children, he will not let us down. I have this confidence that he will bring on board young persons with creative ideas, not people who will get appointment and make people stop appointing young people.
“Some were appointed, they became so arrogant, no respect for elders. No, we don’t want such people. We want people who have capacity and ideas to add to the development programme of the governor. They should stay calm. “
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Gary Ballance
Full name Gary Simon Ballance
Born November 22, 1989, Zimbabwe
Current age 29 years 239 days
Major teams England, Derbyshire, Derbyshire 2nd XI, England Lions, Mid West Rhinos, Yorkshire, Zimbabwe Under-19s
Nickname Gazza
Playing role Middle-order batsman
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak
Education Peterhouse, Zimbabwe; Harrow School
Tests 23 42 2 1498 156 37.45 3176 47.16 4 7 195 8 22 0
ODIs 16 15 1 297 79 21.21 443 67.04 0 2 21 1 8 0
First-class 156 256 24 11157 210 48.09 21499 51.89 40 50 1444 65 120 0
List A 110 102 14 4360 156 49.54 4841 90.06 8 26 378 82 43 0
T20s 85 76 9 1624 79 24.23 1318 123.21 0 6 117 67 43 0
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Last Test England v South Africa at Nottingham, Jul 14-17, 2017 scorecard
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Last T20s Lahore Qalandars v Yorkshire at Abu Dhabi, Oct 4, 2018 scorecard
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111 Yorkshire v Somerset Leeds 13 Jul 2019 FC
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The belief that when one seemingly indispensable player retreats into the background another often rises to the challenge was exemplified by Gary Ballance as he took the England chance offered by Jonathan Trott's stress-related illness. In no time, Ballance's nuggety left-handed batting style was providing the backbone of England's line-up. There was nothing overly stylish about his approach, but his discipline and shrewdness was apparent and he could step up the tempo when necessary. Ballance, in the coach's parlance was a batman who Found A Way.
Ballance's reputation began to blossom during a run-rich 2013 season for Yorkshire after which he was selected for England's tour of Australia. He made his Test debut in Sydney at the end of England's 5-0 whitewash and followed up an ODI debut in Dublin the previous summer with further limited-overs forays against Australia.
But it was 2014, as England sought comfort after the loss of Trott, where England found a batsman to sustain them. A maiden Test hundred against Sri Lanka at Lord's was followed by two in successive Tests against India, at Lord's again and Southampton. Only Trott and Andrew Strauss had previously made hundreds in their first two Tests at Lord's; 1,019 runs at 67.93 in his first 10 Tests ranked alongside the finest starts to an England career. There was some low-key drunken notoriety as well as he stripped topless in a Nottingham night club to celebrate victory over India at Trent Bridge.
That sense of chubby, red-faced permanence ran aground in 2015 as firstly he lost his ODI place and then New Zealand and Australia, in turn, exposed a shuffling back-foot technique and, amid heavy criticism, he was dropped for the third Ashes Test with his team-mate Jonny Bairstow preferred. Few batsmen played so strikingly deep in the crease, but he insisted that he would remain true to the method that had brought him such success. Such faith did not bring immediate rewards: a return against Pakistan the following summer brought limited rewards before four single-figure scores in Bangladesh consigned him to inactivity on the subsequent five-Test tour of India.
Such was the pessimism around his England chances that Yorkshire made him captain in the Championship and he responded with an early-season avalanche of runs, becoming only the second Yorkshire batsman (Younis Khan was the other) to hit a double century and century in the same match, to save the game against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl. With England's top-order failings evident, he gained a reprieve for two Tests against South Africa, that once gilded average now well below 40, and found himself in the Ashes squad for the 2017/18 tour.
Ballance's roots are Zimbabwean. Aged just 16, he appeared for Zimbabwe at the 2006 Under-19 World Cup, taking three wickets and top-scoring with the bat in a win over England, the country he had already settled on moving to in order to pursue a career. He took up a sports scholarship at Harrow the same year and his relationship to Dave Houghton (who is married to the cousin of Ballance's father), facilitated several appearances for Derbyshire as a schoolboy, including an innings of 73 in a Pro40 game while still aged 16.
At the end of 2007, Ballance signed an academy contract with Yorkshire, allowing him to begin a university course at Leeds Metropolitan University - although he dropped out after a year. He made his Yorkshire debut in 2008, sharing digs for a time with his soon-to-be England colleague Joe Root, but only featured sporadically at first. In 2011, he was one of Yorkshire's better players as they were relegated in the Championship. He added 717 runs at 42.17 in the Championship and 331 runs at 55.16 in the Clydesdale Bank 40, and was rewarded with a two-year contract extension.
During the winter off-seasons, he plied his trade for Mid West Rhinos in Zimbabwe and cracked the first double-hundred of his career for them in 2011-12. He passed 1000 first-class runs in only 14 innings during the season and captained Rhinos to the final of the 50-over Coca-Cola Cup competition.
As Yorkshire regained their Division One status at the first attempt in 2012, Ballance was again a key figure. His 613 Championship runs included an unbeaten 121 as Yorkshire completed the second-biggest successful run chase in their history against Gloucestershire at Bristol in May, when they knocked off a target of 400 in 110 overs; Ballance clinched victory with a four followed by consecutive sixes.
Such performances led to his selection for the England Lions squad for a limited-overs tour of Australia in February 2013, where Ballance made three half-centuries despite the team losing every game. Centuries for the Lions against Australia and Bangladesh A during the 2013 season pressed his case further and led to an ODI debut against Ireland. He made a two-ball duck but 1251 Championship runs, including five hundreds, were enough to win him a place in England's Ashes squad to tour Australia.
Despite growing up on a tobacco farm in Harare, Ballance does have British roots through his grandparents, one of whom flew for the RAF during World War II. He is also distantly related to John Timms, who played for Northamptonshire between 1925 and 1949.
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Australia v England, 1st Test, Brisbane, 3rd day November 23, 2013
Trott at crossroads with short-ball troubles
George Dobell in Brisbane
Characteristically so cool and clear of mind, Jonathan Trott is now clouded with doubt and thought as he tries to deal with an issue that could define his career
During England's brief first innings at the Gabba, Jonathan Trott tucked a ball from Mitchell Johnson off his legs and, rather than settling for the comfortable single on offer, made a point of pushing for a sharp second run to ensure he stayed on strike.
It was a moment that revealed much about Trott. It was a moment that told the world he was not afraid and that he was not going to avoid the challenge that may well define his career.
But perhaps he protested a little too much. Perhaps that fortitude to ensure he did not duck that challenge went to the heart of Trott's problem: he is so determined to show he is not afraid of the short ball, that he is getting himself into impossible positions from which to play it.
Consider his approach to facing Johnson. Determined not to be seen to back away or in any way appear tentative, Trott is walking across his stumps and towards the bowler. It is leaving him unbalanced and rendering it more difficult for him to leave the ball or play straight.
Indeed, Trott may well be more nervous of appearing scared than he is by the ball. Like all top batsmen, he would gladly trade some thumping blows to the body rather than losing his wicket.
Certainly the suggestion from David Warner that Trott is "backing away" from the ball will hurt him greatly. "Pretty weak" was Warner's description of Trott's second-innings dismissal. "It looks like England have got scared eyes," he said.
Such words will sting Trott. They will sting far longer and far harsher than any bruise or cut from the ball. For such an allegation goes to the heart of how Trott sees himself. It raises questions not just about his technique, but about his character, his courage and even, in the world of alpha male sportsmen, his masculinity.
It is a misunderstanding, too. Trott's issue is more technical than it is a fear of the short ball. His technique - his down to up pull stroke, his movement at the moment the ball is released leaving him unbalanced at the crease and his trigger movement that takes him forward - is rendering it hard for him to leave the ball or keep it down.
Jonathan Trott succumbed to the short ball for the second time in the match © Getty Images
That is not to say there is not a mental side to this. Trott knows he has an issue and he knows the world is aware of it. In his anxiety, he is becoming ever more frenetic at the crease and failing to follow his own golden rule not to overthink the game. He head, so clear when he batted England to victory on debut at The Oval in 2009 against Johnson et al. or against a brilliant Pakistan attack at Lord's in 2010 or in Melbourne later the same year, is now clouded by doubt and thought. Trott's apparent imperturbability has always masked some mental torment. Now it is spilling over.
It is a serious problem. He is struggling to deal with Johnson's short ball and, unless he can resolve the issue soon, he could be dropped from the Test side for the first time in his career. In both innings of this Test he has fallen to such deliveries, with the dismissal on day three - pulling straight to the man positioned for the stroke at deep-backward square leg - underlining his confusion and unease.
It is a simplification to state that Trott is simply unsettled by the short ball. From the moment he entered Test cricket with that century against Australia, bowlers have tested him that way. The pitches have rarely been this quick but he has prospered on them before and against bowlers of pace. He showed the folly of those who dismissed him after one poor Test in Johannesburg in January 2010.
But Johnson represents a perfect storm of issues for him. Not only is he fast - though no faster than the likes of Tino Best - but he is unpredictable, slingy and left-arm. Trott, unable to anticipate even a rough area in which the ball is directed, is struggling to judge the length or how high the ball will bounce and is unsure whether to defend or attack. At present he is doing a bit of both and a lot of neither.
He could do worse than look how Michael Clarke has risen to the challenge. Clarke, who has also struggled to deal with the short ball from Stuart Broad, responded to his first innings failure with a textbook innings on day three. While he may well have looked to use the pull short earlier in his innings than he might have done on other occasions, he generally went back to basics: he watched the ball carefully, he remained calm and he played straight. Trott, his mind scrambled, is maybe trying to watch the ball, but he is not playing straight and he does not look calm.
He will not suffer for a lack of hard work. After suffering similar problems in the limited-overs series against Australia that ended the English summer (he was only dismissed by Johnson once, with a perfect bouncer, but it stuck in the mind of both men), Trott prepared for this challenge thoroughly. After a brief holiday, he went into the nets and faced a bowling machine cranked up to its maximum setting and aimed at his head and neck for hour after hour. Clearly it was not quite enough to prepare him for the almost unique problems presented by Johnson.
He now stands at a crossroads. How he copes with this challenge will define the rest of his career. But a man good enough to average in excess of 50, as Trott has done in both ODI and Test cricket for much of his career, and a man good enough to win the 2011 ICC Player of the Year award - arguably the highest award in cricket - should not be written off prematurely.
George Dobell is a senior correspondent at ESPNcricinfo
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July 31, 2012 August 15, 2012 by Edward Champion
Andrew Shaffer (aka Fanny Merkin) (The Bat Segundo Show)
In this one hour radio interview, writer Andrew Shaffer discusses Fifty Shames of Earl Grey, Fifty Shades of Grey, appropriate gestures for world domination, pescatarians, and self-destructive writers.
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Andrew Shaffer is most recently the author of Fifty Shames of Earl Grey.
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Condition of Mr. Segundo: Being seduced through parody.
Author: Andrew Shaffer
Subjects Discussed: Pen names and impostors, romance novel writing aspirations, having multiple identities on Twitter (EvilWylie, EmperorFranzen, et al), dressing up to tweet, the advantages of kilts, compiling indices for books, delaying the first six scene in Fifty Shames of Earl Grey to match Fifty Shades of Grey, people who count the number of phrases in Fifty Shades, when copy editors don’t understand cultural references, battling editors over dinosaurs, the number of pescatarians in New York, when pescatarians cause confusion in communal dining environments, eating meat, copulating with parts of the face, the joys of using euphemisms, naming private parts after Katy Perry and James Franco, combing through the original Fifty Shades, the thematic obsessions of E.L. James, needless shame attached to BDSM, Star Trek, geek culture, Twilight, fan fiction, 69-sided dice, designing a T-shirt promoting for a book before writing a book, Roger Corman’s marketing techniques, book merchandise, appropriate gestures for world domination, trying to be a Philip Roth-like novelist in your twenties, trying to challenge youthful angst from a 60-year-old man’s vantage point, Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love, reading the collected works of Andrew Shaffer in the bathroom, departing from Twitter on the weekend, the side effects of working at home, finding positive aspects about Fifty Shades, fibbing to agents, the escalating commercial success of Fifty Shades of Grey during the writing of Fifty Shames of Earl Grey, when fun turns into an unexpcted high-pressure business decision, intense birthing scenes, emulating E.L. James to the point of anticipating what she would write about, pulling a string of handkerchiefs from an unexpected part of the body, being fixated on Tom Cruise, Cocktail, watching every Tom Cruise movie for research purposes, jumping on couches, the literal and metaphorical qualities of “jumping the shark,” Eyes Wide Shut, attending unsuccessful orgies, the parallels between orgy and literary cocktail parties, the importance of organization when planning a sex party, how narrative depictions of sex ruin sex in the real, reticence to depict a realistic female orgasm in fiction, reviewing romance novels, Literary Rogues, self-destructive writers, whether or not personal foibles of great people matter, why terrible moments in life are funny, viewing great people as human beings, E.M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel, being funny in the bedroom, understanding the dominatrix, commonalities between BDSM and therapy, Tiffany Reisz, doing anything you want in college, lying to a girl about the need to make NASCAR noises in intimate situations, David Foster Wallace, truth telling, “The Depressed Person,” Infinite Jest, Elizabeth Wurtzel, retreating to the comic mode, audience reaction, having fun while writing, exhibitionism, reading Less Than Zero at the age of twelve, music vs. reading as a formative experience, drugs, lost time in college, bad behavior, being drawn to other people’s personal history, writing a parody vs. expressing the real.
EXCERPT FROM SHOW:
Shaffer: I’ve been toying with doing a romance novel for a couple of years. And I always was wondering, “Am I going to do this under my own name? Or am I going to do this under a pen name?” And it just turned out that under my own name, I was just a guy mocking this thing.
Correspondent: You’re a man of many identities on Twitter as well.
Shaffer: Yes. Yes. So it really felt natural to write under a different voice and just assume a different role. So it came pretty naturally.
Correspondent: So do you require multiple identities to go about your life? Do you require self-deception and various disorders in order to function as a creative artist? An emerging voice of our times?
Shaffer: (laughs) It’s interesting. I never had before I got online.
Correspondent: Oh.
Shaffer: I never did experiments with pen names or alternative identities or anything. I was pretty sure I knew exactly who I was.
Correspondent: And then the Internet came along and had you constantly questioning yourself.
Shaffer: The Internet came along and I became one person online on Twitter. And then I became another person for my friends and another person at work and another person for my family.
Correspondent: You turned into Lon Chaney.
Shaffer: Yes. I just portrayed this different face to everybody.
Correspondent: Except it was through words and text. I mean, there were avatars involved.
Shaffer: Yes. And sometimes dressing up. But not too much.
Correspondent: Oh. You dress up sometimes when you tweet or when you write? You pull like one of those Tom Wolfe things where “Well, I wear the white suits in public, but when I sit down for the typewriter, it’s all jeans all the way”?
Shaffer: Well, I do wear kilts a lot when I write. But not to assume a different identity. Just because, well, they let my balls hang out.
Correspondent: Oh, I see. Well, we were talking before we were rolling, or before I insisted that we roll because I want to get this very important info on tape, that there actually is an index. It’s not in the galley I have. But there is an “Index TK.” So I’m wondering: why did you feel that this hefty narrative required subjects and topics to guide the reader through the life of Anna Steal here? What is this index?
Shaffer: Oh my gosh.
Correspondent: What are some of the samplings?
Shaffer: So it’s not common for a work of fiction to have an index. But that was actually something that my editor at Da Capo suggested. You know, they have that form where they fill out for every book. Are we going to have an index? Are we going to have a table of contents? She’s like, “You know what? What if we did have an index?” And it lists on there where particular sex scenes are at in the book.
Correspondent: Oh, I see. That would have helped me. Because it does take quite a while for the first sex scene to happen.
Shaffer: Yes. Yes. The first sex scene.
Correspondent: But I had patience for you.
Shaffer: Delayed.
Correspondent: I was willing to wait for you.
Shaffer: Oh, thank you. Thank you. In the original book [Fifty SHades of Grey], people would say, “Oh my gosh.” They would go through and count up how many “Oh my Gods” there were or whatever.
Correspondent: There are websites for this?
Shaffer: Yeah. People have counted up. “I came across 1987 ‘Oh mys.'”
Correspondent: (laughs)
Shaffer: It’s just one sentence. “Oh my! Oh my!” And so people have actually counted up how many. Because it’s repetitive. And I think if there had been a traditional editor on the original books, they would have cut that out. So people have gone through this. So I said, “You know what? I’m going to have that in my book.”
Correspondent: So you did that with “the” and all that?
Shaffer: Some of the stuff. So at the end of the book, the index actually says like “Oh my!” and then “parentheses overuse of.” And then I list every time I’ve overused that phrase in the book.
Correspondent: And it’s a great way of expanding the page count. So you do less work. Or do you? Do you have some sub-editor go ahead and deal with the index? Assign someone else to do it? And meanwhile, you sit back and collect your hefty advance, living like the lord of the manor.
Shaffer: The funny thing about that is that every time they compile, they ask you if you want an index compiled. And who does that? It’s the copy editor usually. Or your editor or something. And they ask, “So what are some things you would like to have in your index?” And so I gave them a couple of ideas. But then the copy editor just sort of fell in love with the book and just created this whole list. “I hope it’s okay that I inserted my own stuff in here.”
Shaffer: And so she put her own different things in there.
Correspondent: The copy editor fell in love with your book. Didn’t go ahead and get out the ruler and rap you across the wrists, like they usually do.
Shaffer: No. I had an instance with — I was just talking with one of my other editors at Harper Perennial today. I had an editor on my first book — a copy editor that didn’t seem to get all of my references. And so it was very awkward when I got back this copyedited manuscript. And I think I had a chapter titled something like — it was a book on philosophy, but I had a chapter. Something like “Ain’t Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang Baby.” Or something along those lines. And I got this back from the copy editor. It had been crossed out. It said “It is Not Any Thing Except for a G Thing.”
Correspondent: (laughs) They’re a little stingy there at Harper.
Shaffer: Well, I just think it was clear that she didn’t get the reference.
Correspondent: So you have to forward YouTube links to copy editors in order for them to actually understand what you’re talking about.
Shaffer: I think sometimes. I think it’s coming from a good place. And I’m glad — it makes my book look a lot better when it’s copyedited and edited and everything. But there were some times I had to stet stuff with that book. And for this one. There was one joke in Fifty Shames where Earl Grey says, “I’m part of the .00001%.” He says, “I have certain perks for being part of that.” And so it’s written out “.00001%.” And in the copy editing, I got it changed. Actually written out “I’m part of the one millionth percentile.” And it kills the joke.
Correspondent: So is there an Andrew Shaffer style guide that you have for Harper and for Da Capo? (laughs) For Fifty Shames?
Shaffer: For Da Capo, they created a style guide actually that had everything listed out. It was just the most bizarre list of stuff. And it’s actually mostly what appears in the index. There were dinosaur names. The Kosmoceratops was a dinosaur. And I actually got into a great back and forth with my copy editor.
Correspondent: Dinosaur wars.
Shaffer: On the correct ways to capitalize and italicize dinosaur names. So I think, yeah, the copy editor was great on this book. She totally got it. But I think we learn stuff from each other. It was a good working relationship.
Correspondent: Were there any, shall we say, belligerent conference calls at all? Any David Foster Wallace style longass emails about “If you cut this particular phrase” and there’s a six page explanation. Anything along those lines?
Shaffer: Oh my. Well, you know, I really rely on the editors, like I said, to make me look good. I think that a good editor is just invaluable. At least for me. I think maybe there are other writers who can turn out a great first draft. But I’m not one of them. So I’m thankful for all the help I get. And so therefore, when I usually get stuff back from them, I usually go with everything. I stet very few things on a manuscript. Because I think, “Okay, they’ve really got a great idea of where this should go.” Probably better than I do sometimes. But I was a little concerned because when I sold this book, I did not know the editor who bought the book. And when I looked her up on Publishers Marketplace, everything else that she had done was, for the most part, like vegetarian or vegan cookbooks.
Correspondent: I see.
Shaffer: And I was like, “Did she think that Earl Grey was some sort of food book or something?” Oh no. This is not a book about tea.
Correspondent: You could have made Anna Steal a vegan.
Shaffer: Oh, I could have.
Correspondent: Sorry to have only proposed that idea.
Shaffer: Maybe the next book.
Correspondent: If only I had been there during the creative process.
Shaffer: And I’m actually a vegetarian. I was like, “Did you sign this book because I’m a vegetarian? Is there some kind of club I belong to now?”
Correspondent: Really? They can smell it on you.
Shaffer: I didn’t know.
Correspondent: I didn’t know you were a vegetarian. Is it fairly recent?
Shaffer: About six months. Yeah.
Correspondent: Okay. Have you had any dark meat cravings? Climbing up the walls at night? Screaming like The Lost Weekend or something?
Shaffer: No. Because I’m actually a pescatarian.
Correspondent: Oh, you’re one of those.
Shaffer: So I can eat fish. But I always explain it as vegetarian. Because I have a very hard time. Because if I explain pescatarian, it will lead to other questions like “My mother likes pork. Can you eat pork?” I’m like, “Okay. Let’s just go with vegetarian and just assume I can’t eat any meat.”
Correspondent: Well, we’re in New York here. We have plenty of pescatarians. In fact, everybody I know is a pescatarian. I’m one of the last guys who eats red meat around here. I had a burger for lunch.
Shaffer: (laughs)
Correspondent: Without guilt. Though I did dine with a pescatarian.
Shaffer: Well, I ate meat for many years. And it was for cholesterol reasons, actually, that I switched over. But the editing of the book. One of the interesting things. So I sent the draft in to the editor. And she sent it back to me over
The Bat Segundo Show #472: Andrew Shaffer (aka Fanny Merkin) (Download MP3)
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Length Units: Pole (rod, Perch)
Glossary » Units » Length » Pole (rod, Perch)
Pole (rod, Perch) (rd) is a unit in the category of Length. It is also known as poles. This unit is commonly used in the UK, US unit systems. Pole (rod, Perch) (rd) has a dimension of L where L is length. It can be converted to the corresponding standard SI unit m by multiplying its value by a factor of 5.0292.
Other units in the category of Length include A.u. of Length (a.u., a0, b), Angstrom (Å), Arcmin (arcmin), Astronomical Unit (AU, UA), Attometer (am), Barleycorn (UK), Bohr (first Bohr Radius) (a0, b), Bolt (US Cloth), Button (UK) (line (UK)), Button (US) (line (US)), Cable Length (int.), Cable Length (UK), Cable Length (US), Caliber (centiinch) (caliber, cin), Centimeter (cm), Chain (engineer'S) (ch), Chain (Gunter'S) (ch), Chain (Ramsden'S) (ch), Chain (surveyor'S) (ch), Cubit (UK), Decameter (dam), Decimeter (dm), Electron Classical Radius (re), Ell, Ems (pica), Exameter (Em), Fathom (fath), Femtometer (fm), Fermi (F, f), First Bohr Radius (a0, b, a.u.), Foot (ft), French (fr), Furlong (UK) (fur), Furlong (US) (fur), Gigameter (Gm), Hand (UK) (hd), Hectometer (hm), Hubble, Inch (in), Kilometer (km), Kiloparsec (kpc), League (Canadian), League (int. Naut.) (leag. (int. naut.)), League (statute, Land) (leag. (stat.)), League (UK, Naut.) (leag. (UK, naut.)), League (US, Naut.) (leag. (US, naut.)), Light-Day, Light-Hour, Light-Minute, Light-Second, Light-Year (ly), Line (UK) (line (UK)), Line (US) (line (US)), Link (engineer'S), Link (Gunter'S), Link (Ramsden'S), Link (surveyor'S), Megameter (Mm), Meter (m), Microinch (µin), Micron (µm), Mil (thou) (mil, thou), Mile (geographical) (mile (geogr.)), Mile (international) (mi (int.)), Mile (nautical, International) (mi (naut., int.)), Mile (nautical, Telegraph) (mi (naut., teleg.)), Mile (nautical, UK, US) (mi (naut., UK, US)), Mile (statute, Land) (mi (stat.)), Mile (survey, US) (mi (survey, US)), Millimeter (mm), Millimicron (mµ, nm), Nail (UK), Nanometer (nm), Nautical Mile (international) (mi (int. naut.)), Nautical Mile (UK, US) (mi (UK, US, naut.)), Pace (UK), Palm (UK), Parsec (pc), Perch (rod, Pole) (rd), Petameter (Pm), Pica, Picometer (pm), Point (US Printer'S), Quadrant, Rod (perch, Pole) (rd), Rope (UK), Span, Terameter (Tm), Thou (mil) (thou, mil), X-Unit (UX, X), Yard (yd), Yoctometer (ym), Yottameter (Ym), Zeptometer (zm), and Zettameter (Zm).
Glossary: Units: Magnetic Flux: Weber
Glossary: Units: Length: League (US, Naut.)
Glossary: Units: Kinematic Viscosity: Square Meter Per Hour
Glossary: Units: Specific Acoustic Impedance: Rayl (MKSA)
Glossary: Units: Length: Zeptometer
Glossary: Units: Angular Acceleration: Degree Per Square Second
Glossary: Units: Energy: Kilojoule
Glossary: Units: Length: Exameter
Glossary: Units: Radioactivity: Becquerel
Glossary: Units: Volume: Fluid Dram (US)
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End User Computing… Central Control or Distributed Safety? On Bromium’s Novel Play
Bromium, Chief technology officer, Ian Pratt, VMware, VMware ThinApp, VMworld, Wanova, Windows
At VMworld back in August, one of the small number of announcements made revolved around “end user computing”, VMware’s term for all the different products that deliver solutions for actual business users. VMware announced a suite of solutions, built around a bunch of different projects (Projects Octopus, AppBlast, ThinApp, VMware Horizon Application Manager and VMware Horizon Mobile along with VMware view and technologies from their recent acquisition of Wanova). The new products, Horizon Suite, View and Wanova are designed to do a couple of different things, according to the release;
The VMware Horizon Suite will provide a flexible platform that uniquely combines the principles of identity, context and policy to separate personal and business workspaces, enable consistent access to applications and data across any personal device.
With the recent acquisition of Wanova, VMware and its partner community can now offer centralized desktop management solutions that address the requirements of IT organizations to help them transform legacy Windows desktops into a service
I was interested to watch the demo of these products – it kind of felt like I was watching something from 1990 – the idea of delivering “secure corporate workspaces” on mobile devices delivers to all the negative connotations of IT around lock-down, control and silo-ing. But then I considered something. Looking around the room in the VMware keynote, I was struck by the overpowering sense that VMware customers are largely traditional corporate IT types who, quite frankly (and with all due respect) are a little behind the times when it comes to this new paradigm of access. That’s not to say that they don’t realize “something” is happening, but rather that right now, they’d like to do give the minimum amount of functionality to the business, whilst still retaining absolute control.
Tools like View and Wanova are a (slightly) modern take on that much maligned tool, VDI. They’re designed to give a desktop-like view within multiple devices and, at first glance they make sense; they allow workers to do what they want (sort of) while using the device of their choice. But that “sort of” is a big deal. Even the VMware messaging around these products is telling, the first line of the press release stated proudly;
Vmware demonstrates holistic solution to deliver legacy desktops as a centrally managed service
But the future isn’t holistic. It’s not within a legacy desktop. And it sure as hell isn’t centrally managed. I’ve long riffed on this topic – the fact that IT is often a barrier – a barrier to new functionality, to agility, to mobility. But it’s hard not to see their point. Everything is a vector. Every time someone does something on an insecure device, runs a different sort of app, in fact anytime anyone within a corporate that feel like the sort of tool they’d use in their non-work life, IT has panic attacks about vectors of risk.
Which is where Bromium comes in. Just over a year ago I was in the audience at Structure when Simon Crosby, at that time CTO at Citrix announced that he was leaving to found a deep-stealth company called Bromium. Bromium was to be founded by Crosby and Ian Pratt, creators of Xen, alongside Gaurav Banga. Over the next 18 or so months some details emerged about what they were doing but while at VMworld this year I got the opportunity to sit down and have a talk with Crosby and more importantly have a demo of Bromium. Most readers will have seen what Bromium is, but to quickly recap, the product enables safe end user activity by creating completely isolated instances (a “MicroVM”) on a computer’s processor that keep activity from impacting on other parts of the machine. Essentially it ring fences a discrete operation, give it all the system components needed to run that operation then locks down the operation within an individual container.
Sounds interesting and, to let the story run its course, it means that rather than being stringent about security and as such allowing lots of false positive to occur, threats can be left within the MicroVM to run their course, safe in the knowledge that any harm that will occur will be reversed once the MicroVM ends its life. It’s a pretty amazing concept and one which, taken alongside the absolutely incredible team that Bromium has built, leads me to go way, way out on a limb and say that Bromium has a very good chance of being the next billion dollar acquisition.
Now of course Bromium is still a little conceptual – it’s only available for Intel processors running windows. It’s pretty much just a beta product at this stage – there’s a bunch of stuff to happen before we can say it’s truly there. But I got a demo of the working product, all run on Simon Crosby’s personal laptop and it worked a treat – new operations opened rapidly within nicely containerized VMs and Crosby could let malicious attacks could simply run their course, secure in the knowledge that there was no harm they could do to the rest of the system.
Crosby nicely states why Bromium is so valuable, and, by extension why central IT control, and the traditional IT vendor perspective of limiting access, is flawed;
Human beings don’t do well when they’re fortified within the walls of a city. They want to go out, explore the world around them and click on shiny attachments. This means constantly entering into “areas of unfathomable trust” where it’s easy to get hurt if they’re not careful.
I’m super bullish on Bromium as a business, in part because of the team behind it. But I’m also excited by the fact that, in a space generally populated by vendors delivering corporate IT’s demands for total control, Bromium is a company turning that on its head, allowing workers to achieve what they want, and empowering them to do so safely.
Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.
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The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change
If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.
Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age
Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility
Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.
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Mystery woman riding scooter photo-bombs wedding party, sparks viral search: 'We love her for it!'
Major power outage plunges Manhattan into darkness
Thousands protest President Trump immigration policies in Chicago
Lucky baby born on July 11 at 7:11 p.m. — weighing 7 pounds, 11 ounces
Severe thunderstorms spawn weak tornado in western Michigan
Ferndale's Pig and Whiskey Festival this weekend
Royal Oak Live Music Thursdays with Jill Jack
Northville Grub Crawl
Couples night out in Berkley
Financial Independence, Retire Early documentary
Michigan Science Center launches 'Summer of Science'
Man walking on I-75 hit, killed by 2 vehicles in Monroe County
Posted Mar 22 2019 09:19AM EDT
BERLIN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (FOX 2) - The Monroe County Sheriff said a 64-year-old man from Garden City was hit and killed while trying walk across the northbound lanes of I-75 late Thursday night after his car broke down.
Sheriff Dale Malone said deputies were called to the accident on I-75 just south of Swan Creek Road in Berlin Township Thursday night.
According to the sheriff, a 45-year-old woman was driving a 2003 Ford Explorer north on I-75 when she hit the man who was reportedly walking across the highway.
Malone said the man was trying to cross traffic after his car broke down on the side of the road.
After being hit by the first SUV, the man was hit again by a 2017 Ford Explorer by a 42-year-old man.
The 64-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. His identification is not being released at this time.
Both drivers are cooperating with police in the investigation and neither were injured.
The Monroe County Sheriff is still investigating the crash and asks anyone with information to call 734-240-7715.
Multi-vehicle crash involving over 30 cars at WB I-96 near Kensington
A multiple car crash on I-96 westbound has caused a closure of the freeway in Green Oak Township.
The crash occurred near Kensington Tuesday evening. Michigan State Police said that drivers suffered only minor injuries.
State police said that low visibility, road conditions and speed were contributing factors in crash. About 30 vehicles were involved in the initial crash, six crashes then followed as traffic backed up involving two to three more vehicles in each.
Dr. Sabrina: What it really means to have self-confidence
As you scroll through social media it seems as though everyone is confident and have it all together.
Dr. Sabrina joins FOX 2 for People 911 to talk about what it really means to have self confidence and why it's something we may already have inside of us.
Ceremonial handshakes are over as UAW and Big Three talks begin
UAW teams from Ford and General Motors were on hand Tuesday as Fiat Chrysler began contract negotiations with the union -- the last of the Big Three to shake hands and start the process.
"In February, we had an awesome announcement that we will build the first new assembly plant in Detroit city limits in three decades," Mark Stewart, COO of FCA North America said.
Stewart elicited applause for Fiat Chrysler's new assembly plant coming to Detroit, struck a unifying tone while also emphasizing the new direction the industry is headed. It's a transformation fueled by new technology, electrification and the environment.
Man lured to Lyon Twp woods and beaten testifies against alleged attackers
Casting a shadow over Old Tiger Stadium, new apartments stand over historic baseball field
'She had the voice of an angel' - two years later, Egypt Covington's killing remains unsolved
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PRODUCTION: Independent Romanian Feature Film in Preproduction Featured
Iulia Blaga 2016-10-04
Director Andrei Stefanescu
BUCHAREST: Obscur, the debut feature of Romanian writer/director Andrei Stefanescu, is currently in the financing and preproduction stage. The film is an independent project set for shooting in November 2016.
The film tells the story of a girl who goes back to her childhood friend who raped her. Because she cannot continue to live with the trauma, she plans to revive and sublimate the feelings of pain, guilt and fear. She wants to kill the person she has become, but the process does not go as planned and instead of death all will end in a beautiful life.
Andrei Stefanescu is producing through Qualiafilm with a budget of 3,000 EUR “out of 15,000 - the ideal amount that would allow us to pay the crew and actors”, Andrei Stefanescu told FNE. All the money comes from private funds including a small amount from crowd funding. “Making an underground film in a no-budget system, without support from any production company, we've chosen the human to human version of fundraising”, said Stefanescu.
Shooting is scheduled to take place in Bucharest and its surroundings. Principal photography will last for 10 days.
The film is set to have several premieres in March 2017 independently in Romania, Germany, Belgium and Ireland with the help of friends, as it is set to be made with an international cast and crew from Belgium and Germany. If no deal is signed with a distributor in six months, the film will be distributed online.
Production Information:
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str Mantuleasa nr. 4, Bucharest
www.qualiafilm.com
Director: Andrei Stefanescu
Scriptwriter: Andrei Stefanescu
DoP: Boroka Biro
Sound: Celine Bodson
Cast: Sabina Suru, Ana Joita, Elder Roche
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Electrosonic Captures Second Consecutive AV Award for Consumer Installation of the Year
At a gala dinner on 11th October at the London Hilton, Electrosonic took home the AV Award for Consumer Installation of the Year for the second year in a row. This time the award was for Electrosonic’s work on The Siemens Crystal, a sustainable cities initiative by the global electronics and electrical engineering powerhouse.
Electrosonic has won a total of 27 AV Awards since the honours began in 1999. The AV Awards are managed by UK-based AV Magazine but judged independently by senior representatives from user companies and key industry players. They are considered to be one of the most prestigious AV industry awards in the UK.
The Siemens Crystal features extensive AV systems engineered and installed by Electrosonic. Located at London’s Royal Victoria dock, it serves as home to Siemens’ Centre of Competence – Cities, a team of multi-disciplinary urban experts. Its public face is a 21,500-square foot interactive exhibition, which guides visitors through the urban infrastructure of the future by examining the possibilities for sustainable mobility, building technologies, power and water supplies, and healthcare. Electrosonic’s support ranged from the entrance to the Crystal to ten exhibit zones and a concluding presentation.
“Once again we are proud to have been awarded the honour of Consumer Installation of the Year,” says Sarah Joyce, VP EMEA. “The Siemens Crystal features innovative interactive exhibits designed to inform the public about the sustainability of cities and how they’re meeting the challenges of security, clean water, energy, transportation, carbon dioxide levels and access to healthcare. Ultimately, it’s an optimistic panorama of what the city of the future could look like if the ideas presented in The Crystal were to be applied. Electrosonic is delighted to have played a part in this meaningful view of the urban society of tomorrow.”
The Crystal was designed by Wilkinson Eye, architects with Pringle Brandon the interior/fit out architect. Exhibit fabrication was by The Hub; content for the AV and interactive exhibits was created by ISO, All of Us, Clay, Squint Opera, Spirit Link, B12 and Siemens Software. Additional content was produced by Event Communications and Siemens, with exhibit lighting design by DHA Design.
Last year Electrosonic won AV Award honours for its AV support of The Parlamentarium, the European Parliament’s Visitors’ Centre and the first multimedia-rich exhibition to be fully accessible in 24 languages.
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Exquisite Tweets from @LevParikian
Collected by Preoccupations
I have seen an utterly wonderful and enchanting thing.
#1 8:04am Nov 17th 2018 via Twitter Web Client
LevParikian
Lev Parikian
It’s this mechanical scale model of a three-ring circus, currently on display at Rosebery’s auction house in West Norwood. @RoseberysLtd
#2 8:04am Nov 17th 2018 via Twitter Web Client in reply to LevParikian
It’s 27 feet long and takes up most of their entrance hall.
It’s beautifully put together, with over 100 moving parts, all of them mobilised by a single engine. Apart from that engine, it’s all mechanical.
Here's the the big top. It was made by David Hardie in the 1930s, and used by salesmen as a demo to circus owners of what they could buy.
A track goes all the way round, and carries two horse-drawn carriages and an advertising truck.
It takes five people two days to put it up. Same for taking it down. It’s quicker to set up an actual circus.
But once it’s going, and is switched on, it just runs and runs. Apparently it’s run for over 30 years without breakdown. Someone worked out that this amounts to 90,000 miles.
There are loads of gorgeous little details, like these guys doing their workout.
And this little scene.
#10 8:25am Nov 17th 2018 via Twitter Web Client in reply to LevParikian
It’s been in various places over the years, including the model village in Babbacombe in Devon. But now the time has come to sell it. You could buy it if you want. The starting price is £7000.
You’d need a big room, though.
Anyway, it’s a lovely thing, and if you have a chance, get yourself down to Rosebery’s. They have it on display, and switch it on some afternoons. The sale is on November 22nd. auctions.roseberys.co.uk/m/lot-details/…
Thank the person who made it ;-)
#14 8:39am Nov 17th 2018 via Twitter Web Client in reply to SecretSuffolk
We should form a consortium. Who do we know with a huge house?
#15 8:39am Nov 17th 2018 via Twitter Web Client in reply to ruthbratt
They're expecting it to go for between 10 and 20k. Wouldn't be surprised if it was more.
#16 8:41am Nov 17th 2018 via Twitter Web Client in reply to LevParikian ruthbratt
It's just terrific, isn't it? I was like a big kid.
#17 8:42am Nov 17th 2018 via Twitter Web Client in reply to stoneflowerjane
That's the starting price. It'll go for far more than that, I suspect.
#18 8:44am Nov 17th 2018 via Twitter Web Client in reply to vaselby
It’s not switched on every day, but they have the times posted on the front door. Sale is on Thursday, so hurry!
#19 9:07am Nov 17th 2018 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to ByRobDavies RoseberysLtd
This seems to have gone down rather well, so here are a few more clips.
#20 11:49am Nov 17th 2018 via Twitter Web Client in reply to LevParikian
I love the horses.
Small details give so much pleasure.
Keeper trying to entice monkey down from tree. (See also inquisitive rabbit.)
#24 12:00pm Nov 17th 2018 via Twitter Web Client in reply to LevParikian
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Yellow Sky (1948)
William A. Wellman's Yellow Sky is currently showing in London as part of the BFI Southbank's Shakespeare On Film season to mark the quatercentenary of the Bard's death and is well worth seeking out if you're in the vicinity.
Very loosely based on The Tempest (1610), as Fred M. Wilcox's sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet (1956) would be eight years later, Wellman's Western is taken from a novel by pulp maestro W.R. Burnett and tells of bank robber James "Stretch" Dawson (Gregory Peck) and his gang, who wind up in the titular ghost town and become embroiled in the affairs of its only residents, an aged prospector (James Barton) and his tough granddaughter, known as "Mike" (Anne Baxter). Given the dilapidated state of Yellow Sky, the men realise the only reason Grandpa and Mike have stuck around is to safeguard the former's secret stockpile of gold. Dawson fancies a share of the spoils but struggles to rein in his ill-disciplined crew, at least one of whom lusts after Mike. Matters come to a head when dandy killer Dude (Richard Widmark) emerges as a serious challenger to Stretch's authority and an army of drunken Apaches appear over the horizon.
Reaction to Yellow Sky was highly positive upon its initial release, with the New York Times's Bosley Crowther noting thematic similarities with the previous year's Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (apparently Darryl F. Zanuck had the same idea and originally envisioned Walter Huston as Grandpa). Variety was also keen, praising the "earthy" script for demonstrating "an understanding of the hungers of men".
Yellow Sky is certainly surprisingly upfront about gang member Lengthy (John Russell) and his intention to rape Mike at the first opportunity, a constant threat hanging over the narrative from the moment he sets eyes on her. We have little doubt that Mike can handle her own and don't have to wait long before she floors Dawson with a jab to the jaw and wrestles him to stand-still in the dirt. She later brawls with Lengthy in a creek as it becomes clear that this "he-girl" in jeans has had to adopt a tomboy act in order to survive the West. Her falling for Dawson, ultimately a rather principled chap, is a matter of easing the repression of her femininity and learning to trust someone other than her elderly guardian in order to realise her true self and blossom. This process is capped, quite literally, at the film's close after the bad guys have been routed and Dawson has gone straight: he presents her with a floral bonnet, a gift she receives with delight. Civilisation has dawned on Yellow Sky and the future looks bright.
Wellman's film is crisply shot by Joe MacDonald - who would also serve on another Western reworking of Shakespeare, Broken Lance (1954) - and contains a number of memorable images: the gang's escape across the salt flats, starved of water; a toppled roulette wheel in the ironically-named Eldorado saloon spinning to a stop as Dude is killed; the pouch at his belt "bleeding" gold dust like the sands of time; Stretch's reverse bank robbery to square his debt to society.
The ever-underrated Baxter is especially lovely here as a gun-totin' Miranda and Peck as staunch and stoic as you'd expect. Widmark, of course, brings effortless menace, as the Punch cartoon above nicely conveys. Was there ever a leaner heavy?
Labels: Alfred Newman, Anne Baxter, Gregory Peck, Harry Morgan, Joe MacDonald, Richard Widmark, W.R. Burnett, Western, William A. Wellman
"Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives... What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in The Third Man"
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OCTOBER BEST SELLERS
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1. The Lost Man
The man lay still in the centre of a dusty grave under a monstrous sky.
Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outback Queensland.
They are at the stockman’s grave, a landmark so old, no one can remember who is buried there. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last chance for their middle brother, Cameron.
The Bright family’s quiet existence is thrown into grief and anguish. Something had been troubling Cameron. Did he lose hope and walk to his death? Because if he didn’t, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects…
For readers who loved The Dry and Force of Nature, Jane Harper has once again created a powerful story of suspense, set against a dazzling landscape.
2. Nine Perfect Strangers
The retreat at health and wellness resort Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, and absorb the meditative ambience while enjoying their hot stone massages.
Watching over them is the resort’s director, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies.
These nine perfect strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.
With her wit, compassion and uncanny understanding of human behaviour, Liane Moriarty explores the depth of connection that can be formed when people are thrown together in… unconventional circumstances.
3. Bridge of Clay
Let me tell you about our brother.
The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay.
Everything happened to him.
We were all of us changed through him.
The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy – their mother is dead, their father has fled – they love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world.
It is Clay, the quiet one, who will build a bridge; for his family, for his past, for his sins. He’s building a bridge to transcend humanness. To survive.
A miracle and nothing less.
Markus Zusak makes his long-awaited return with a profoundly heartfelt and inventive novel about a family held together by stories, and a young life caught in the current: a boy in search of greatness, as a cure for a painful past.
4. Boy Swallows Universe
Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It’s not as if Eli’s life isn’t complicated enough already. He’s just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwing obstacles in the way – not least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer.
But Eli’s life is about to get a whole lot more serious. He’s about to fall in love. And, oh yeah, he has to break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day, to save his mum.
A story of brotherhood, true love and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe will be the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novel you will read all year.
5. The Clockmaker’s Daughter
My real name, no one remembers.
The truth about that summer, no one else knows.
In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe’s life is in ruins.
Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist’s sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river.
Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets?
Told by multiple voices across time, The Clockmaker’s Daughter is a story of murder, mystery and thievery, of art, love and loss. And flowing through its pages like a river, is the voice of a woman who stands outside time, whose name has been forgotten by history, but who has watched it all unfold: Birdie Bell, the clockmaker’s daughter.
6. Lethal White (Cormoran Strike #4)
‘I seen a kid killed . . . He strangled it, up by the horse.’
When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic.
Trying to get to the bottom of Billy’s story, Strike and Robin Ellacott – once his assistant, now a partner in the agency – set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside.
And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike’s own life is far from straightforward: his newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been – Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much more tricky than that . . .
The most epic Robert Galbraith novel yet, Lethal White is both a gripping mystery and a page-turning next installment in the ongoing story of Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott.
7. In a House of Lies (A Detective Rebus novel)
Everyone has something to hide
A missing private investigator is found, locked in a car hidden deep in the woods. Worse still – both for his family and the police – the body was in an area that had already been searched, ten years ago.
Everyone has secrets
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is part of a new inquiry, combing through the mistakes of the original case. There were always suspicions over how the investigation was handled and now – after a decade without answers – it’s time for the truth.
Nobody is innocent
Every officer involved must be questioned, and it seems everyone on the case has something to hide, and everything to lose.
None more so than Detective John Rebus.
8. Less
Andrew Sean Greer
***WINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION***
Less is the story of a 49-year-old writer, Arthur Less, who learns that his former boyfriend is about to get married. To avoid the wedding and heartbreak, he decides to embark on a trip around the world, accepting invitations to a series of half-baked lectures and literary events.
From almost falling in love in Paris, almost falling to death in Berlin, to booking himself as the (only) writer on a residency in India, and an encounter in a desert with the last person on earth he wishes to see, Less is a novel about missteps, misunderstanding and mistakes.
9. Milkman
Anna Burns
***WINNER OF THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE***
Set in an un-named city but with an astonishing, breath-shorteningly palpable sense of time and place Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. The story of inaction with enormous consequences and decisions that are never made, but for which people are judged and punished.
Middle sister is our protagonist. She is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her nearly-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with milkman (which she herself for the life of her cannot work out how it came about). But when first brother-in-law, who of course had sniffed it out, told his wife, her first sister, to tell her mother to come and have a talk with her, middle sister becomes ‘interesting’. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous.
Milkman is a searingly honest novel told in prose that is as precise and unsentimental as it is devastating and brutal. A novel that is at once unlocated and profoundly tethered to place is surely a novel for our times.
10. The Nowhere Child
Christian White
***WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARD FOR AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT 2017***
‘Her name is Sammy Went. This photo was taken on her second birthday. Three days later she was gone.’
On a break between teaching photography classes in Melbourne, Kim Leamy is approached by a stranger investigating the disappearance of a little girl from her Kentucky home twenty-eight years earlier. He believes Kim is that girl.
At first she brushes it off, but when Kim scratches the surface of her family history in Australia, questions arise that aren’t easily answered. To find the truth, she must travel to Sammy’s home of Manson, Kentucky, and into a dark past. As the mystery of Sammy’s disappearance unravels and the town’s secrets are revealed, this superb novel builds towards an electrifying climax.
Inspired by Gillian Flynn’s frenetic suspense and Stephen King’s masterful world-building, The Nowhere Child is a combustible tale of trauma, cult, conspiracy and memory. It is the remarkable debut of Christian White, an exhilarating new Australian talent.
1. Any Ordinary Day
Leigh Sales
The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after?
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories – and a terrifying brush with her own mortality – sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-changing event. What are our chances of actually experiencing one? What do we fear most and why? And when the worst does happen, what comes next?
In this wise and layered book, Leigh talks intimately with people who’ve faced the unimaginable, from terrorism to natural disaster to simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Expecting broken lives, she instead finds strength, hope, even humour. Leigh brilliantly condenses the cutting-edge research on the way the human brain processes fear and grief, and poses the questions we too often ignore out of awkwardness. Along the way, she offers an unguarded account of her own challenges and what she’s learned about coping with life’s unexpected blows.
Warm, candid and empathetic, this book is about what happens when ordinary people, on ordinary days, are forced to suddenly find the resilience most of us don’t know we have.
2. The Barefoot Investor for Families
The new book from Scott Pape, the Barefoot Investor. The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You’ll Ever Need is a phenomenon, sprinting through one million copies to become one of the best selling Australian books ever. Why is it so successful? It’s simple, funny and practical. And it has changed people’s lives.
The eagerly anticipated follow-up, The Barefoot Investor for Families, sticks to the same script. It’s aimed fairly and squarely at parents, grandparents, and basically anyone who read that book and said: ‘Why the hell wasn’t I taught this years ago?’
Scott lays out ten money milestones kids need to have nailed before they leave home, and it’s all structured around one family ‘money meal’ each week (so roughly 20 minutes).
If you follow the roadmap, with tailor-made lessons for each age group, your kids will know how to do things like:
Learn the life-changing value of hard work
Set up a fee-free bank account (or jam jars!)
Go on a Treasure Hunt around the house, and sell some of their ‘stuff’ second-hand
Save your parents $100 on household bills
Even …
Learn to cook at least two low-cost, delicious, nutritious meals from scratch.
Scott’s mission is to make sure your kids are financially strong so they never, ever get sucked into the traps that middle-aged bankers have devised to rob them of their money and their confidence.
There are only ten things every kid needs to know about money, and you can teach them over dinner, once a week.
It’s that simple.
Start now – it’s never too early or too late.
3. The Barefoot Investor
This is the only money guide you’ll ever need.
That’s a bold claim, given there are already thousands of finance books on the shelves.
So what makes this one different?
Well, you won’t be overwhelmed with a bunch of ‘tips’ … or a strict budget (that you won’t follow). You’ll get a step-by-step formula: open this account, then do this; call this person, and say this; invest money here, and not there. All with a glass of wine in your hand.
This book will show you how to create an entire financial plan that is so simple you can sketch it on the back of a serviette … and you’ll be able to manage your money in 10 minutes a week.
Sound too good to be true? It’s not.
This book is full of stories from everyday Aussies — single people, young families, empty nesters, retirees — who have applied the simple steps in this book and achieved amazing, life-changing results.
And you’re next.
4. Ottolenghi SIMPLE
Everything you love about Ottolenghi, made simple.
Yotam Ottolenghi’s award-winning recipes are always a celebration: an unforgettable combination of abundance, taste and surprise. Ottolenghi SIMPLE is no different, with 130 brand-new dishes that contain all the inventive elements and flavour combinations that Ottolenghi is loved for, but with minimal hassle for maximum joy.
Bursting with colourful photography, Ottolenghi SIMPLE showcases Yotam’s standout dishes that will suit whatever type of cooking you find easy – whether that’s getting wonderful food on the table in under 30 minutes, using just one pot to make a delicious meal, or a flavoursome dish that can be prepared ahead and then served when you’re ready.
These brilliant, flavour-forward dishes are all SIMPLE in at least one (but very often more than one) way:
S – short on time: less than 30 minutes
I – 10 ingredients or less
M – make ahead
P – pantry
L – lazy
E – easier than you think
Ottolenghi SIMPLE is the stunning new cookbook we have all been wishing for: Yotam Ottolenghi’s vibrant food made easy.
5. Mirka & Georges: A Culinary Affairs
Lesley Harding & Kendrah Morgan
Arriving in Melbourne in 1951 from Paris, they energised local society and transformed the culinary and artistic landscapes. Their apartment became a hub for the bohemian set, and their cafes and restaurants brimmed with sophisticated food, sexual intrigue and creative endeavours. Mirka’s distinctive art, now collected by major galleries, was a vital part of this heady mix.
Their eateries were magnets to the rich and famous, a who’s who of the art world and those looking for a seriously good time. Mick Jagger was a customer. As were Bob Dylan, Barry Humphries, Jean Shrimpton, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, Marlene Dietrich, Fred Astaire, Maurice Chevalier and Graham Kennedy.
Launched in the year of Mirka’s 90th birthday, Mirka & Georges gloriously illustrates the Moras’ extraordinary story, with the couple’s classic French recipes, photographs from family albums and images from Mirka’s studio by internationally renowned photographer Robyn Lea.
6. The Cook’s Apprentice: Tips, Techniques and Recipes for New Foodies
The Cook’s Apprentice is the essential teaching cookbook for the younger cook who’s just starting out. This wonderful book is full to the brim with everything new foodies need to know to become relaxed and confident in the kitchen.
Arranged alphabetically, The Cook’s Apprentice includes 56 ingredient chapters – from Apples to Zucchini – and more than 300 achievable recipes ranging from classics every cook will want to try to exciting new dishes that reflect our diverse nation. Stephanie takes you into her kitchen as she explains more than 100 important techniques in straightforward language, discusses the kitchen tools she likes to use, and describes ingredients you might not know: How do I whisk eggs to soft peaks? What does it mean to ‘make a well’ in dry ingredients? Why should I roast spices? How do I prepare fresh chillies safely? What is ‘resting meat’ and why should I do it? How do I prepare a mango? What flavours work well together? What is fresh mozzarella? How do I say ‘quinoa’?
The Cook’s Apprentice gives all you new cooks the inspiration you need for a lifetime of enjoyment in the kitchen.
7. Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
Clementine Ford
Fearless feminist heroine Clementine Ford is a beacon of hope and inspiration to hundreds of thousands of Australian women and girls. Her incendiary first book, Fight Like A Girl, is taking the world by storm, galvanising women to demand and fight for real equality and not merely the illusion of it.
Now Boys Will Be Boys examines what needs to change for that equality to become a reality. It answers the question most asked of Clementine: ‘How do I raise my son to respect women and give them equal space in the world? How do I make sure he’s a supporter and not a perpetrator?’
All boys start out innocent and tender, but by the time they are adolescents many of them will subscribe to a view of masculinity that is openly contemptuous of women and girls. Our world conditions boys into entitlement, privilege and power at the expense not just of girls’ humanity but also of their own.
Ford demolishes the age-old assumption that superiority and aggression are natural realms for boys, and demonstrates how toxic masculinity creates a disturbingly limited and potentially dangerous idea of what it is to be a man. Crucially, Boys Will Be Boys reveals how the patriarchy we live in is as harmful to boys and men as it is to women and girls, and asks what we have to do to reverse that damage. The world needs to change and this book shows the way.
8. Hell Ship
Michael Veitch
For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch’s family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants-mostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A better life, they believed, awaited them in Australia.
Three months later, a ghost ship crept into Port Phillip Bay flying the dreaded yellow flag of contagion. On her horrific three-month voyage, deadly typhus had erupted, killing a quarter of Ticonderoga’s passengers and leaving many more desperately ill. Sharks, it was said, had followed her passage as the victims were buried at sea.
Panic struck Melbourne. Forbidden to dock at the gold-boom town, the ship was directed to a lonely beach on the far tip of the Mornington Peninsula, a place now called Ticonderoga Bay.
James William Henry Veitch was the ship’s assistant surgeon, on his first appointment at sea. Among the volunteers who helped him tend to the sick and dying was a young woman from the island of Mull, Annie Morrison. What happened between them on that terrible voyage is a testament to human resilience, and to love.
Michael Veitch is their great-great-grandson, and Hell Ship is his brilliantly researched narrative of one of the biggest stories of its day, now all but forgotten. Broader than his own family’s story, it brings to life the hardships and horrors endured by those who came by sea to seek a new life in Australia.
9. Winx: The Authorised Biography
Andrew Rule
Australia’s world champion racehorse Winx has become a sporting giant, transcending racing in the same way that Muhammad Ali transcends boxing and Donald Bradman transcends cricket. She is described by her trainer, Chris Waller, as a supreme athlete — a world-class sprinter with a freakish ability to dominate longer distances ‘like Usain Bolt running in 1500-metre races’. She is the Phar Lap of the modern age, and one of the greatest racehorses in 300 years of Thoroughbred racing.
10. The Land Before Avocado
Richard Glover
‘It was simpler time’. We had more fun back then’. ‘Everyone could afford a house’.
There’s plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like?
In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It’s a vivid portrait of a quite peculiar land: a place that is scary and weird, dangerous and incomprehensible, and, now and then, surprisingly appealing.
It’s the Australia of his childhood. The Australia of the late ’60s and early ’70s.
Let’s break the news now: they didn’t have avocado.
It’s a place of funny clothing and food that was appalling, but amusingly so. It also the land of staggeringly awful attitudes – often enshrined in law – towards anybody who didn’t fit in.
The Land Before Avocado will make you laugh and cry, be angry and inspired. And leave you wondering how bizarre things were, not so long ago.
Most of all it will make you realise how far we’ve come – and how much further we can go.
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Hands Across the Pond
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November 08, 2016 / Wesley Hutchins
"Vote Here/Vote Aqui" sign in Orlando, Florida - 2008. Image Credit: Erik (HASH) Hershman via Flickr CC
So it all comes down to this. After arguably the most bruising, unconventional, and wild political campaign in American history, we are finally at the moment when we choose our next president.
To be honest, it has been tough to get my head around it all, with so many twists and turns, ups and downs, allegations and innuendo being thrown around, facts and falsehoods being spouted about, claims and counter-claims being made, and just generally, the anxiety over the whole affair.
As it stands, the choices we face as a country are both unpopular and with unprecedented high negative ratings. For many of us, the choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is one we would rather not have, for neither has been particularly inspiring and they both have heavy amounts of baggage – the contents of which have been exposed for us to see.
Nevertheless, that’s those are choices we have and a choice must be made, for this election has come down to a referendum on the future – about what kind of country and society we wish to be, much like the UK’s referendum on the EU in June. Indeed, much commentary has been written and discussed about that referendum and what happened there in relation to our election. There are differences to be sure, but just as our election has pitted the wild card Trump against the more seasoned Clinton, the EU referendum pitted the unknowns of Britain leaving the EU against the what was known about staying in – in other words, the relative status quo vs a desired yet ill-defined change.
What ought to be clear is that vast swathes of the people in both countries are not satisfied at all with where they are in their lives and with the state of our countries. There is the sense that the establishment has been failing them for years with policies appearing to benefit only those who are ingratiated with the system, such as the politicians, their families, wealthy campaign donors, corporate and other special interests, and just about anyone with inside connections to give them a leg up over everyone else.
Along with the effects of 2007-2008 financial crisis, there have been the issues - repeated throughout the Western world - of globalization and how many people have been left behind as a result of it, changing economies and demographics which have clashed with the traditional structures and assurances of societies, and a general sense of uneasiness and the feeling that things are going downhill in many ways. Frustration with the status quo has allowed for the rise populism, which has fueled Trump in America and Brexit in Britain.
That decision for Britain to leave the EU was a shock to everyone because it was figured that given the given the stark choice between the known and the unknown, Britons would stick with what they knew as a future in Europe as opposed to the unknowns outside of it. When the vote came, a slight majority of Britons decided that whatever unknowns there were outside the EU, they were worth it in the belief that the fortunes for themselves and the UK were better off outside.
The mistake that some of the pro-EU campaigners made leading up to last June’s referendum was that they focused too much on the negatives of leaving, rather than the positives of staying, just as those advocating keeping the UK together during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum were criticized for accentuating the downsides of separation in order to get the people to vote “No”. This resulted in the “Yes” vote for separation being much higher than anticipated as the separatist campaign – appealing to positive platitudes if not solid facts – made inroads particularly among the working classes who felt they little to lose in choosing separation. Two years later, the Brexit campaigners did much of the same thing by portraying themselves as having new and bold solutions, as opposed to the stale answers offered up by the establishment. Similarly, a significant chunk of the American electorate appears prepared to risk uncertainty with Trump rather than go with what they know (and probably dislike more) about Clinton, who has been touting her experience and readiness for office in contrast to the unpredictability of Trump.
Whatever happens, it is incumbent on our leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to commit themselves to getting things done for the great good. At everyone’s heart is the desire for a government that works effectively and efficiently, which works in the national interest while engaging with the world. Indeed, there is a lot that needs to be done domestically and internationally, and the people and political leaders must rise to the occasion as we do live in unprecedented times where people’s trust and confidence in government and other institutions are so low.
This is the landscape facing the victor of the election tonight (or tomorrow) and on top of that, about half of the country not only voted against this person, but probably has a low opinion of them, to say the least. Whoever it is will have to work hard to unite the country as never before and provide answers to legitimate issues raised throughout the course of the campaign.
As an optimist, I do not believe all will be lost regardless of who wins. Our country has gone through so much in over two centuries of existence, including an all-out civil war and presidential resignation, and we have shown the capacity to not only survive, but go on to be a better country than before. Our Constitution and hard-won democratic institutions are greater than any one person who temporarily occupies them for a few years at the pleasure of the people, and I believe the same to be true of the UK as well.
That said, the choice we make does matter and I hope that people do consider the future carefully make a wise choice that we can be holistically comfortable with for generations to come.
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Nashvillian immigrant to Nicaragua is held in murder case
Public outrage against foreigner threatens fairness of trial set for January 24
UPDATE 2/19/07: TRIAL COURT SAYS VOLZ IS GUILTY
The Tennessean reports in this article that Nicaraguan authorities have charged Nashvillian Eric Volz with murder. He is being held in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua for a trial on January 27.
"A Nashville native whose father was a bassist for the once-popular Christian rock band the 77s is jailed in Nicaragua on charges that he and another man killed his former girlfriend, according to the Spanish-language newspaper El Nuevo Diario."
"Meanwhile, friends and family of Eric Volz are fighting a legal battle here, proclaiming his innocence and accusing the Nicaraguan government of falsely arresting him."
"Volz, son of musician Jan Eric Volz, is the editor of a Nicaraguan bilingual magazine, EP Magazine, according to the family's Web site, www.friendsofericvolz.com."
According to the family's site, "From a legal perspective, there is little doubt that Eric is getting disparate treatment and that there is serious prejudice against him because he is an American." The local Nicaraguan newspaper El Nuevo Diario reports that Volz was nearly lynched when being moved from place to place by the authorities. El Nuevo Diario may even have taken an intentional jab at Uncle Sam with this mention on the front page of its web site of the U.S. census report painting U.S. residents as the most overweight in the world, setting records in the time we spend eating, drinking, and watching TV.
It is not difficult to imagine that the image of the American foreigner in Nicaragua has been tarnished by anti-immigrant or anti-American rhetoric in the wake of Volz's arrest. Anti-immigrant sentiment is also a concern in the U.S. criminal justice system, as reported previously by the Tennessean (story available on Google via this search). Middle Tennessee examples of American nativism in general were most recently catalogued in this cover story in the Nashville Scene. And the Nashville City Paper has reported extensively on high-profile crimes by illegal immigrants (one story here) and the various measures and other reactions that have resulted.
Unless he is found innocent in the upcoming murder trial on January 24, it may not be possible in the end to determine whether anti-immigrant or anti-American sentiment determines his fate.
update 1/24/07: The Nashville City Paper summarized the situation before the trial in this story.
update 2/9/07: The Nashville City Paper reports here that a new trial date has been set.
update 2/19/07: The Nashville City Paper reports here that Volz has been found guilty. The San Antonio Express-News has more detail in this article.
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Germany Rallies By Latvia at 2015 World Championships
Pedro Rengel May 10, 2015
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC - MAY 8: Germany's Michael Wolf #16 with a scoring chance against Latvia's Edgars Maslaskis #31 during preliminary round action at the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship. (Photo by Andre Ringuette/HHOF-IIHF Images)
The Germans have wedged themselves back into the tournament after three consecutive losses; a 10-o romp at the hands of the Canadians, and two close losses to Sweden and Switzerland.
A strong showing in the third period allowed the Germans to push past Latvia by a score of 2-1, all but eliminating the latter’s chances at making the playoff round. Though the Latvians drew first blood in the first period on the powerplay (a tripping penalty called on Patrick Hager), the balance of play was largely in favor of the Germans. They finally managed to break through on an extended powerplay, after Latvian alternate captain Janis Sprukts was ejected for kneeing, allowing the Germans to even the score off a Michael Wolf goal.
Matthias Plachta would seal the game for the Germans with two and a half minutes left in the game; improving the prospects of a German team remaining in the top-flight tournament next year, and perhaps advancing to the playoff round. The Germans do face an uphill battle, facing off the hosting Czech Republic on Sunday, before wrapping up their group play against the lowly Austrians on Monday; though they will be paying especially close attention to Switzerland, who lead them by three points and face an undefeated Canadian squad and the hosts to wrap up their play.
Pedro Rengel
Originally hailing from the tropical paradise of Venezuela, I moved to Canada at age 11 for the sole reason of falling in love with hockey as a self-proclaimed Pittsburgh Penguins fan. Now a Canadian citizen, my mad love affair with hockey represents a statistical contribution as opposed to an anomaly. Being able to write this well despite having Spanish as a first language is enough of an anomaly (I'm occasionally biased).
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Science Users Information > Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic:Modelling the crystalline silicate reservoir in starburst galaxies
Modelling the crystalline silicate reservoir in starburst galaxies
Thesis Supervisor at ESO (as of 01.11.2018): Ciska Kemper
The interstellar dust reservoir in galaxies is predominantly composed of silicates, in our own Milky Way found to be mostly in amorphous form (glass; Kemper et al. 2004). However, infrared spectroscopy reveals that stellar dust production -- one of the main sources of interstellar dust -- can contain significant amounts of crystalline silicates (Sylvester et al. 1999, Kemper et al. 2001). Upon injection in the interstellar medium these crystalline silicates are gradually amorphitized, due to cosmic ray hits, which cause damage to the lattice structure, and an amorphization time scale can be determined.
One of the most interesting Spitzer results in this area revealed the presence of crystalline silicates in absorption in a sample of 12 out of 77 starburst galaxies (Spoon et al. 2006), with crystallinities in the range from 6-13 %. We put together a simple dust production model for galaxies, which reveals that the high levels of crystallinity can be understood as being due to freshly produced dust that has not yet
been amorphized by cosmic ray hits, which may be possible under certain conditions (Kemper et al. 2011).
In this project, we will expand this dust production model for a starbursting galaxy. The current model solves a set of coupled differential equations describing the interstellar silicate reservoir in terms of crystalline and amorphous components, affected by dust production, amorphization, crystallization, and dust destruction rates. Assuming that the interstellar crystallization rate and the dust formation in the ISM are negligible, and the destruction rate does not depend on lattice structure, this model shows that, the crystalline fraction of silicates in the ISM peaks around 30 Myr after the onset of the starburst, with crystallinities consistent with the measurements by Spoon et al. (2006). After that time, the crystalline fraction declines again as a consequence of the amorphization time scale, governed by the cosmic ray fluence.
In this project, we will drastically expand on this model in the following ways:
* Inclusion of a more realistic description for the dust production by evolved stars
* Inclusion of the formation of dust in the interstellar medium, which is currently ignored
* Parametrization of the cosmic ray fluence based on the expected supernova rates in galaxies
* The model currently assumes instantaneous mixing. We want to improve this by including spatial information on the distribution of star
formation, supernovae and interstellar dust.
* Small grain correction: very small grains may be crystalline but appear spectroscopically as amorphous, due to the relative importance of edge effects. This will be incorporated in the model
* Implementation of metallicity and chemical abundance constraints
With these improvements, we will do further parameter studies to explain the crystalline fractions seen in already detected galaxies,
both starburst and lower star formation rate galaxies (Spoon et al. 2006; Willett et al. 2011; Aller et al. 2012; Stierwalt et al. 2014). Using a suitable radiative transfer code we will also predict the resulting spectral appearance of interesting results from the parameters study. The results from this analysis will be compared with the observational results.
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You are here: Home / Hike Reviews / Hikes By Distance / 9.1 to 12 miles / Hiking the Colorado River Headwaters in Rocky Mountain National Park — No Party Boats Here!
Hiking the Colorado River Headwaters in Rocky Mountain National Park — No Party Boats Here!
July 12, 2013 by Jeff Greene 2 Comments
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Colorado River Headwaters Trail
Date Hiked: August 12, 2012
Best Season: Autumn Spring Summer
Check Trail Conditions: Rocky Mountain National Park 970-586-1206
Distance: 9.1 miles as hiked by us
Elevation Gain: 591 ft min/max, 1749 ft total
Route Type: Out and back, as hiked. Lollipop if you add Lulu City.
Trail Type: Well maintained dirt trail
Difficulty: Moderate
Parking: Free at trailhead, $20 for a seven day car pass to enter the park, $10 for bikes and pedestrians
Locality: Rocky Mountain National Park
Nearest City: Grand Lake, CO
Kid-Friendly: No
Dog-Friendly: No
Last summer, Colleen and I visited Colorado and the Rocky Mountain National Park. We stayed at a great little cabin just outside the charming little community of Grand Lake, in the much quieter western side of the park (compared to the Estes side). While researching the east half of the park, we found that the upper reaches of the Colorado River ran right by our cabin, and that the actual headwaters of the Colorado River were a relatively short hike’s distance of the scenic Trail Ridge Road!
Now, when most people think of the Colorado River, they think of either the whitewater of the Grand Canyon, or the “Party Central” part of “the river” around Lake Havasu visited by tens of thousands of people every year from Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada.
Rafting the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon (photo via dlcondra on Flickr)
Crazy Copper Canyon Boat Party on Lake Havasu, as the Colorado River goes along the California/Arizona border. This is not an unusual scene on Havasu. (Photo via Paul Michaels at Paul’s Travel Pictures)
But the Colorado River is much more than the Grand Canyon and party boats. It travels 1,450 miles through seven US and two Mexican states, draining 246,000 square miles of watershed, getting dammed and diverted in multiple places along the way before sometimes (in a wet year) trickling all the way into the Gulf of California.
Map showing locations of major dams in the Colorado River basin of the United States and Mexico. Creative Commons image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
If you are coming from Grand Lake, as we did, the trailhead is right off Trail Ridge Road, approximately 10 miles from Kawuneeche Visitor’s Center, and not far from Holzwarth Historical Site and Timber Creek Campground. Almost immediately past the Colorado River Trailhead Parking Lot, Trail Ridge Road makes a sharp right curve and starts heading uphill towards Milner Pass (trailhead for Mount Ida) and Alpine Visitor’s Center. If you’re coming from the Estes side, the Colorado River Trailhead Parking Lot is about 30 miles from Beaver Meadows Ranger Station just west of Estes, and marks the end of the long and winding descent from the aforementioned Alpine Visitor’s Center.
Entrance to the park from Grand Lake.
Not a lot of trees in Timber Creek Campground, but a pretty good view of the elk, if you unzip your tent window!
Colorado River Trailhead parking lot.
The parking lot at the Colorado River Trailhead was decent sized, and had trash cans and well kept vault toilets. The trailhead itself was at the north end of the parking lot, and well marked. I should also note here that the trailhead is at over 9,000 feet in elevation, so unless you are very well acclimated to high elevations and low oxygen levels, you probably are not capable of as much mileage and climbing as you usually are–as we ourselves became all too aware of on this hike, which was our first in the Rockies.
Trailhead!
Our goal is Little Yellowstone, but we’ll settle for one of the early Colorado River junctions just past Lulu City.
According to much of what I read while researching the hike, Lulu City is probably the most popular hike from here, but our goal was the junction of the Colorado River and Lulu Creek, which some believe to be the real beginning of the Colorado River. The accepted geological beginning of the river is at Poudre Pass (7.5 miles from trailhead), but we knew there was no chance that we’d make that. We hoped to make it to Little Yellowstone at 4.5 miles, which is just past the junction we most wanted to make.
Almost immediately past the parking lot, there is a set of steps on the trail that makes a quick and steep, but relatively short climb, before leveling out for almost a mile. You’ll come to a couple of wooden bridges and crossings over creeks/washes that may or may not be full of water, depending on how recently it has rained, how wet a winter it was, and how late in the year you are hiking.
Trail climbs fairly rapidly not too far from the parking lot, but levels out quickly.
Steep-ish, but not bad.
Leveling out among the pines.
A clever wooden bridge across what was a dry wash on this day.
A better bridge across another dry creek. Probably wetter in Spring.
Along this stretch is also your first view of the Colorado River–for what it is worth. You’ll also see some nice meadows, and a trail junction that crosses the river and heads west on the Red Mountain Trail towards the Grand Ditch. We actually checked out the bridge across the river on the way back, but I’ve included the pictures here for continuity’s sake. It’s a cute little bridge, though not quite as majestic as the one over the Colorado by Hoover Dam…
First glimpse of the river from the trail! (Not too impressive)
Heading out into the first meadow.
Trail junction–Red Mountain and the Grand Ditch (and a cute wooden bridge over the river) on the left, our trail on the right.
4’ish miles to go?
Bridge over the Colorado River!
Colleen contemplating the majesty of the mighty Colorado!
Back on the main trail.
We soon hit a stretch of the trail that followed immediately alongside the river, which pleased us both. Our favorite hikes are the ones that go along a river or creek, keeping the air cool and filling the air with the burbling sounds of running water. Unfortunately, within a quarter mile, the trail moved back away from the river again.
The trail (or an obvious spur of the trail) briefly travels right alongside the river.
One of our favorite stretches of the trail!
Trail starting to move away from the river again. Unfortunately, this was our last close-up view until near the end!
The rocky slope of Shipler Mountain rising up on the right side of the trail.
One of the cool things about hiking in a place like Rocky Mountains National Park is the diversity of wildlife that you know exists in the area. Every time you come across a meadow, you scan for elk or moose or bear, and every time you see a rocky cliff or moraine, you look for bighorn sheep. And while we didn’t see any of those on this hike (probably because we weren’t here early enough or late enough), we did see some moose on the way home this day, and saw bear, moose, elk, and bighorn sheep during the five days we spent in the area, so they really do exist.
A great meadow. See any moose? Me neither…
A rocky slope! See any bighorns? Me neither.
But hey! It’s a marmot! Sure, it’s basically a giant rat, but that counts for something, right? We watched several of these playing among the rocks.
None of the exposed sections lasted very long, and all offered the opportunity to look for bears and elk and stuff…
An old beaver pond, which appeared quite beaver-less on this day.
Soon you’ll approach a sign for Crater Creek, and the site of the old Shipler Cabin. According to the trail guides I saw, Joseph Shipler built the original cabin–the first structure in the valley, as a base for his (unsuccessful) mining operation in 1876. There are just remnants of the cabin left, and then a “privy” sign, leading to a semi-open air toilet with the best views I’ve ever seen!
A sign for Crater Creek, which is almost the mid-way mark of the hike.
The first of several little crossings over Crater Creek, as the trail briefly heads eastward along it.
The ruins of Shipler’s cabin.
Is that a sign for a privy? Here?
View of the privy as you approach.
And the doorless entry! You might want to have your own paper…
But what a view!
The final crossing of Crater Creek.
Nicely shaded stretch of trail from Crater Creek.
About 3/4 of a mile past that last crossing of Crater Creek, you’ll come to the trail junction for Lulu City. Lulu City was a small, unsuccessful mining town from the 1800’s that once had as many as 200 people, and is the destination for most people on this trail. But we’d read that there were only a few skeletal remains of cabins there, and it would require us to detour a couple hundred feet down, and then back up again, so we decided to skip it at this point and see if we were still in the mood after making our destination. In retrospect, I wish we’d made the effort (the trail does connect back to this trail at the river), but we were just not in the mood for adding any additional work to the trail by the time we turned around.
Lulu City Trail junction. We hung right, to go straight towards Little Yellowstone.
We were very impressed by the signage on the trails in the Park.
The other half of the sign–we’re 3.5 miles in.
From here, it was a little less than a mile, mostly flat, to the river junction we were looking for. If you look at the elevation profile at the bottom of the post, you can see how it levels out between roughly the three and four mile mark, before spiking at the end–but I’ll get to that shortly.
Another sturdy creek crossing.
I can’t find a name for this one, but there was some water in it.
A look ahead towards the valley below, which isn’t as far down as it appears.
Final approach to the Colorado River crossing–I can hear it from here!
The crossing. I have a, “Seriously? That’s it?” look on my face.
Looking up the Colorado from the bridge.
Looking downstream from the bridge, towards the Grand Canyon…
The confluence of Lulu Creek (from the right) and Colorado River (on the left) as it heads towards the bridge we just crossed. Some (or at least some guy) say this is the beginning of the Colorado River, but most disagree.
Another look up towards the true headwaters of the Colorado.
Once crossing the Colorado, you’ll come to another trailhead, where the Lulu City Trail re-connects with this one. After one more crossing across Lulu Creek, (where we sat and had a nice picnic lunch), you’ll start to head steeply up the trail towards “Little Yellowstone.”
The Lulu Trail junction is to the left of me, the creek crossing bridge is there behind me on the right.
Lulu City Trail junction, as it looks if you are headed back towards home. I wish we’d taken that route back, just for something different.
Lulu Creek bridge.
Heading up the trail towards Little Yellowstone.
View back down the Colorado River Valley and towards our original trailhead, from the trail to Little Yellowstone.
We didn’t get very far. If you look at the elevation profile, you can see the very steep little peak right there in the middle, which was the beginning of the trail up to Little Yellowstone. Very quickly we decided that after 4.5 miles of hiking, starting at 9,000 feet of elevation, there was no way in hell we were getting all the way to Little Yellowstone, much less up to La Poudre Pass, from whence the actual headwater allegedly springs. So once we got a decent view down into the valley (picture immediately above), we turned around and headed back.
And while we still didn’t see any cool elk, bears, moose, or sheep, we did spot a pair of cute river otters:
Two river otters cavorting in the Colorado River along the trail back.
Back to the parking lot!
So we didn’t really make it to the “true” Colorado River headwaters at La Poudre Pass, though we did make it to what at least one crackpot said was the headwaters, based on his theory of Lulu Creek being the major creek that joined the other creek to form the actual river–though I think he may have just been another guy who, like us, was too tired to hike all the way to the REAL headwaters, and wanted to declare victory in his own way. But wait—further research reveals that none of this may actually be the headwaters of the Colorado River, and that the real headwaters may actually be the Green River in Wyoming, but some bastards in Congress over-ruled the findings of hydrologists because they thought it made more sense for the Colorado River to begin in Colorado.
But hey–it is still very cool to think that this:
Me, standing at the confluence of Lulu Creek and the Colorado River, very near the actual headwaters.
Heads a few hundred miles downstream to create this:
Picture of the Colorado River above the Grand Canyon, from my old college friend Sam Antonio, at http://samantoniophotography.blogspot.com/
Elevation profile–click through for full size view.
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Filed Under: 9.1 to 12 miles, Autumn, Hike Reviews, Hikes By Difficulty, Hikes By Distance, Hikes by Interest, Hikes By Region, Hikes By Season, Moderate Hikes, Rockies Hikes, Scenic Hikes, Spring, Summer Tagged: 2013, 9.1 miles, Colorado, Colorado River, Grand Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Rocky Mountains
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That last photo you have from Sam Antonio actually looks like Dead Horse Point State Park in Utah (located between Arches and Canyonlands), not the Grand Canyon.
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Published on December 27th, 2012 | by G. Bargas, Managing Editor
Quick, to the eShop! Bundles Shock Super Mario Bros. and Hit a Mega Spin Cycle
The Holiday Season still lingers with the aftertaste of empty wallets and eating in excess. But, rejoice! There is one shop that still wants to deliver some deals for your newly unraveled Nintendo product(s).
If you were lucky enough to get a Nintendo Wii U for your celebratory event, hopefully the gift-giver was kind enough to crack that sucker open and update it for you. This was one thing Nintendo was kind enough to disclose via Facebook status. This update takes approximately one hour to complete, depending on your connection speed, and does provide users with the most current system software.
The new update for the console also introduces Nintendo TVii. This space-age endeavor allows you to do more than simply watch television shows. The GamePad screen delivers various options, episode/movie information and features to supplement your programming. These features are of course based on your zip code and cable service provider. One feature that was previously shown offers a chat experience to your current program.
While the Nintendo Wii did house a fine selection of games, its online Shop Channel however, suffered from a clunky design and lack of easy accessibility. Now, the eShop is designed with easy navigation and truly is a shopper’s friend.
A few games will tote newly discounted prices and are available to download for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. The games are digital only titles and can be downloaded for under $10 for a limited time.
Here are the games that you can grab for a discounted price:
Chasing Aurora
Price: $7.49. Offer is valid from 9 a.m. Pacific time on Thursday December 20, through 9 a.m. Pacific time on January 3rd.
Price: $9.99.Offer is valid from 9 a.m. Pacific time on Thursday December 20, through 9 a.m. Pacific time on January 4th.
Trine 2: Director’s Cut
Price: $15.99. Offer is valid from 9 a.m. Pacific time on December 20, through 9 a.m. Pacific time on January 7.
Now on to the rest of the games!
No. of Players:1 player
Genre: Action/Platformer
Publisher:Nintendo
It’s always interesting to see which classic games make their way on to newer consoles. For example, Super Mario Bros. 2, which originally released in Japan due to its “tough” level layout, was included in the Super Mario All-Stars collection years later. Now, the game makes its way to the Nintendo 3DS under New Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels, bringing with it those same platforming challenges and nervous qualms to players. The game features familiar Mario platforming and such things as poisonous mushrooms to throw a wrench in your gears.
It is a great choice for Nintendo 3DS owners, bringing Mario back to his roots and providing a great challenge for aspiring level conquerors.
Developer:Capcom
Publisher:Capcom
Out pops another classic. The game that started it all is back on a Nintendo console. Jump in and defeat Dr. Wily as he brings on the battle with six of his henchmen. Gather your skills and patience in this challenging platformer.
The Mega Man series recently celebrated its 25 year mark with a crossover title Street Fighter X Mega Man on PC as a free download. Make sure to check out the free download and enjoy more retro on your Wii U with the original.
Genre: Adventure/Puzzler/Physics Based
The follow up title to the Wii Virtual Console release brings the game to a handheld nearest you. Fluidity: Spin Cycle turns your Nintendo 3DS into a rotating puzzlin’ platform.
The game is centered around the use of elements and its physics as the core mechanic. Players must traverse each level solving puzzles as they take different forms, as do you. There are even enemies to battle. The rotation of the console to solve each puzzle brings yet another challenge to the table.
Of course, with the game being played with a rotating screen, there isn’t any support for the use of the 3D screen.
No. of Players: 2 players simultaneous
Genre: Action, Multiplayer, Top down Shooter
Publisher: D4 Enterprise
Price: 900 Wii Points
Last, but certainly not least, we have the Wii stayin’ alive with Shock Troopers 2nd Squad. The top down shooter brings players back to the arcade days, reviving what most expected when they dropped tons of quarters on a NeoGeo machine. This time around the 2D side-scroller comes to the Nintendo Wii via Virtual Console.
Shoot’em up, defeat the evil terrorist organization known as DIO and save the world. Sounds simple, right? If you have ever experienced the wrath of titles like that of Metal Slug, expect the same kind of action in Shock Troopers 2nd Squad. Your skills will be put to the test as you wade through bullets and enemies.
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The new Nintendo Video segment this week is “A Jam-Packed Year-in-Review!” You can take a guess as to what it entails.
Other honorable mentions include Johnny Impossible (eShop) and Mahjong 3D-Warriors of the Emperor (eShop). New for the Nintendo DSi are Goooooal America (eShop/DSiWare) and Wizard defenders (eShop/DSiWare).
Quick, to the eShop! is your one stop shop for the weekly rundown of Nintendo downloadable titles.
Tags: 3DS, eshop, Nintendo, nintendo wii u, Weekly Downloadable Content
G. Bargas, Managing Editor I am Greg, aka LaWiiG. Thanks for coming to take a look around! Retro is the way to go! Do yourself a favor and show love by playing retro games.
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IFR Asia - Renminbi Capital Markets 2013 By Jonathan Rogers
Renminbi Capital Markets 2013: On stronger footing
IFR Asia - Renminbi Capital Markets 2013
The CNH market is emerging as an alternative even to the booming US dollar high-yield bond market, with a flurry of new issues in April from China’s property sector.
Source: Reuters/Bobby Yip
A visitor takes a picture in front of Two IFC, Hong Kong’s highest commercial building, on a sunny day in the SAR’s business Central district.
The offshore renminbi market, having sprung back to life after last year’s lull, has emerged as an attractive alternative for Chinese issuers at the lower reaches of the credit curve. While the US dollar market remains the dominant source of funding for Asia’s sub-investment-grade issuers, a flurry of new issues from China’s property sector is proving that the Dim Sum format is becoming competitive.
So far in 2013, 10 China high-yield property deals have emerged in renminbi, totalling Rmb16.2bn (US$2.6bn), with records set in both the number of deals and total raised in the CNH offshore market.
The China property sector has also been the richest source of Asian high-yield bonds in the offshore US dollar debt markets. However, companies that have tapped the Dim Sum pool have benefited from meaningful cost savings versus term funding in dollars without overloading their existing investor bases. With renminbi deposits again rising – and the currency appreciating – that development is set to continue.
Indeed, Rmb1.8bn of property supply came to the market in just one week in mid-May, via three-year deals from Powerlong Real Estate Holdings and Fantasia Holdings. A Hong Kong syndicate banker suggested, perhaps ironically, that this issuance represented the “top of the market” for high-yield CNH issuance. However, as long as the bid remains in place and issuers continue to find funding costs competitive after the basis swap back into US dollars, which, in the past few weeks, has tightened around 40bp at the three-year tenor point, further issuance is assured.
“Issuance has been driven by the advantageous pricing after swapping into US dollars and has been met with demand from investors, who see continued cash inflow in their CNH funds with expected renminbi appreciation in the medium term. While both factors remain in place, we are going to see more issuance from low-grade credits in the CNH market,” said Chao Li, head of Greater China bond syndicate at Standard Chartered in Hong Kong.
Fantasia issued its Dim Sum bonds at the equivalent of dollar Libor plus 608bp, or roughly 150bp inside its due 2017 dollar paper, while Powerlong did so at dollar Libor plus 770bp, through its blended US dollar curve, based on its 2015s and 2018s, which stood at Libor plus 945bp when the new issue priced.
This new source of business comes after the Dim Sum market last year failed to live up to the promise arising from the Rmb4.1bn of high-yield issuance in the third quarter of 2011. According to data from Thomson Reuters, only Rmb5.45bn of high-yield issues were completed in CNH last year, with none in the second quarter
The fall-off in issuance last year was the result of a modest decline in the renminbi against the US dollar, as well as a stagnation of CNH deposits in Hong Kong, the source of the bulk of Asian demand for CNH bonds. Since January, however, the CNH deposit base has increased to a record Rmb650bn, having held steady at Rmb550bn for most of last year.
A large proportion of this money sits in private bank accounts, a willing audience for the yield pick-up that the sub-IG bond product – with or without the rebates often offered to private banks as incentive to book primary paper.
Of Powerlong’s Rmb800m issue, 64% was allocated to PBs and, of Fantasia’s Rmb1bn trade, 39% went to same type of investors, while the optically attractive 7.875% and 9.5% coupons, undoubtedly, piqued the interest of customers looking to beat the meagre yields available on CNH time deposits or CDs.
This dynamic mimics that seen in Asia’s G3 market, where the PB bid is increasingly anchoring demand for low-grade issuance in the ongoing quest for yield. The good news for potential high-yield issuers is that investors are showing a willingness to embrace challenging debut credits – if returns are sufficiently attractive.
So, developer Golden Wheel Tiandi priced on April 17 a Rmb600m three-year CNH trade, marking its debut in the offshore public markets. It paid up for the privilege, printing the highest coupon for a property name in the CNH market at 11.25% – a level that represents true high-yield in a global market, where high-yield coupons fall more typically in the 5%–8% range and anything higher signals extremely challenging credits.
The next step for the CNH market, from an issuer’s point of view is to prove that it can deliver in the same size and tenor as the offshore US dollar market. That, however, may take some time, since the longest viable tenor available in Dim Sum is five years, with cross-currency swaps unavailable at longer tenors, and most of the CNH issuance concentrated at the three-year mark.
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Hail Map for Girard, KSadmin-001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00
Hail Map for Girard, KS
The Girard, KS area has had 14 reports of on-the-ground hail by trained spotters, and has been under severe weather warnings 57 times during the past 12 months. Doppler radar has detected hail at or near Girard, KS on 61 occasions, including 6 occasions during the past year.
Name: Girard, KS
Where Located: 35.5 miles ESE of Chanute, KS
Map: Google Map for Girard, KS
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The Top Recent Hail Date for Girard, KS is Saturday, June 1, 2019 (15th out of 61)
Hail and Wind Damage Spotted near Girard, KS
6/23/2019 8:06 AM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for bourbon, cherokee and crawford counties will expire at 815 am cdt, the storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. however gusty winds are still possible with these thunderstorms. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until noon cdt for southeastern kansas, and southwestern and west central missouri.
6/23/2019 7:46 AM CDT At 746 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 7 miles south of blue mound to near hepler to near st. paul, moving east at 55 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
6/23/2019 7:34 AM CDT At 734 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near blue mound to near walnut to edna, moving east at 55 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, fort scott, baxter springs, frontenac, columbus, galena, girard, arma, marmaton, cherokee, weir, lowell, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, bronson, arcadia, this includes interstate 44 near mile marker 0.
6/23/2019 7:09 AM CDT At 708 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near colony to near dearing, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
6/21/2019 12:20 PM CDT At 1219 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near warsaw to 9 miles southwest of osceola to near arcadia, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pomme de terre lake, truman lake, stockton lake, prairie state park, pomme de terre state park, stockton state park, nevada, fort scott, lamar, el dorado springs, frontenac, girard, stockton, arma, pittsburg, appleton city, humansville, osceola, marmaton, liberal, this includes interstate 49 between mile markers 67 and 107.
6/21/2019 11:56 AM CDT At 1154 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near deepwater to near schell city to near redfield, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
6/1/2019 9:23 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for northeastern cherokee and southern crawford counties will expire at 930 pm cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. however gusty winds are still possible with this thunderstorm. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until midnight cdt for southeastern kansas. to report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement agency. they will relay your report to the national weather service springfield.
6/1/2019 9:04 PM CDT At 904 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over girard, moving southeast at 25 mph. other storms were located near columbus in cherokee county (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, columbus, girard, cherokee, weir, scammon, chicopee, west mineral, roseland, beulah, opolis, greenbush, ringo, lawton, carona, lone oak, skidmore, brazilton, stippville,.
6/1/2019 8:45 PM CDT At 845 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near girard, moving southeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/1/2019 8:25 PM CDT At 824 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over cherokee, or 8 miles southwest of pittsburg, moving southeast at 35 mph (trained weather spotters. ping pong size hail was reported one mile north of cherokee). Hazards include two inch hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, columbus, girard, cherokee, weir, sherman, scammon, chicopee, mccune, west mineral, roseland, beulah, carona, skidmore, hallowell, sherwin, faulkner, stippville, crestline,.
6/1/2019 7:59 PM CDT At 759 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles west of girard, moving southeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/1/2019 7:31 PM CDT At 731 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near arma, or 7 miles northeast of girard, moving southeast at 25 mph (public. this storm has a history of producing quarter size hail). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, girard, arma, hepler, hiattville, petersburg, farlington, croweburg, polk, porterville, pawnee station, englevale,.
6/1/2019 6:54 PM CDT The national weather service in springfield has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. southwestern bourbon county in southeastern kansas. northeastern crawford county in southeastern kansas. until 745 pm cdt. At 654 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near redfield, or.
5/22/2019 8:46 PM CDT At 846 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over frontenac, or near pittsburg, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, prairie state park, frontenac, girard, arma, liberal, mulberry, mindenmines, franklin, arcadia, irwin, burgess, croweburg, yale, iantha, ringo, oskaloosa, verdella, lone oak, polk, this includes interstate 49 between mile markers 71 and 76.
5/22/2019 8:31 PM CDT At 831 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over frontenac, or over pittsburg, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/22/2019 7:55 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for northern cherokee and crawford counties will expire at 800 pm cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. a tornado watch remains in effect until 1100 pm cdt for southeastern kansas.
5/22/2019 7:04 PM CDT At 704 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near mccune, or 10 miles north of oswego, moving northeast at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/20/2019 8:27 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for bourbon, northern cherokee and crawford counties will expire at 830 pm cdt, the storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. however gusty winds and heavy rain are still possible with these thunderstorms. a tornado watch remains in effect until 100 am cdt for southeastern kansas, and southwestern missouri.
5/20/2019 8:06 PM CDT At 806 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 8 miles southeast of blue mound to near cherokee, moving northeast at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, fort scott, frontenac, girard, arma, marmaton, cherokee, weir, mulberry, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, uniontown, west mineral, fulton, redfield, hepler, mapleton, burgess,.
5/20/2019 7:56 PM CDT At 754 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles northeast of bronson to near cherokee, moving northeast at 55 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, fort scott, frontenac, girard, arma, marmaton, cherokee, weir, mulberry, chicopee, mccune, franklin, bronson, arcadia, uniontown, walnut, west mineral, fulton, redfield, hepler,.
5/20/2019 7:41 PM CDT At 741 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles south of moran to near mccune, moving northeast at 50 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/20/2019 4:13 PM CDT At 413 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over weir, or 7 miles southwest of pittsburg, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, prairie state park, lamar, frontenac, columbus, girard, oronogo, arma, jasper, golden city, liberal, cherokee, weir, alba, mulberry, scammon, purcell, chicopee, nashville, mindenmines, this includes interstate 49 between mile markers 45 and 75.
5/20/2019 4:08 PM CDT At 408 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over scammon, or 9 miles north of columbus, moving northeast at 50 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
5/20/2019 4:08 PM CDT The national weather service in springfield has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. northern cherokee county in southeastern kansas. southern crawford county in southeastern kansas. barton county in southwestern missouri. Northern jasper county in southwestern missouri.
5/19/2019 12:55 AM CDT At 1254 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near st. paul to near treece, moving northeast at 70 mph (emergency management. 60 mph winds were reported from faulkner to melrose). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, columbus, galena, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, west mineral, roseland, neutral, melrose, beulah,.
5/19/2019 12:26 AM CDT At 1224 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near neodesha to near edna, moving east at 50 mph (radar indicated. this line of storms has a history of producing 60 to 70mph wind gusts). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
5/18/2019 1:47 PM CDT At 146 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near bronson to 8 miles southeast of redfield to near mindenmines to near shoal creek drive to 7 miles northwest of anderson, moving north at 55 mph (radar indicated. at 141 pm cdt...powerlines were blown over 2 miles east of pittsburg kansas). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, joplin, pittsburg, carthage, neosho, webb city, big sugar creek state park, prairie state park, fort scott, carl junction, lamar, frontenac, galena, girard, oronogo, seneca, granby, anderson, carterville, noel, duquesne, this includes the following highways, interstate 44 between mile markers 0 and 30. Interstate 49 between mile markers 1 and 85.
5/18/2019 1:32 PM CDT At 132 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near uniontown to near girard to near pittsburg to seneca to near south west city, moving north-northeast at 55 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, joplin, pittsburg, carthage, neosho, webb city, big sugar creek state park, prairie state park, fort scott, carl junction, lamar, baxter springs, frontenac, galena, girard, oronogo, seneca, granby, anderson, carterville, noel, this includes the following highways, interstate 44 between mile markers 0 and 30. Interstate 49 between mile markers 1 and 85.
5/18/2019 1:13 PM CDT At 113 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near mccune to near scammon to near miami to near maysville, moving north at 55 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/6/2019 10:16 PM CDT At 1016 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near nevada to near arma to near girard, moving southeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, fort scott, frontenac, girard, arma, mulberry, franklin, arcadia, hepler, moundville, richards, deerfield, burgess, beulah, croweburg, ringo, oskaloosa, pawnee station, farlington, brazilton, polk,.
5/6/2019 10:01 PM CDT At 1001 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near fort scott to 8 miles northwest of arma to near hepler, moving southeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, fort scott, frontenac, girard, arma, mulberry, franklin, arcadia, hepler, moundville, richards, deerfield, burgess, beulah, croweburg, ringo, oskaloosa, pawnee station, hiattville, farlington, hammond,.
5/6/2019 9:44 PM CDT At 944 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles northwest of redfield to near uniontown to 7 miles northwest of hepler, moving southeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
4/18/2019 12:22 AM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for eastern cherokee and crawford counties will expire at 1230 am cdt, the storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 500 am cdt for southeastern kansas. to report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement agency. they will relay your report to the national weather service springfield.
4/18/2019 12:12 AM CDT At 1212 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near hepler to near baxter springs, moving east at 55 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts. Expect considerable tree damage. damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, baxter springs, frontenac, columbus, galena, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, lowell, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, franklin, arcadia, walnut, treece, hepler, roseland, neutral,.
4/17/2019 11:53 PM CDT At 1153 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near erie to 6 miles southeast of chetopa, moving east at 65 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts. Expect considerable tree damage. damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, baxter springs, frontenac, columbus, galena, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, lowell, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, walnut, west mineral, treece,.
4/17/2019 11:33 PM CDT At 1133 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near thayer kansas to 9 miles northwest of white oak oklahoma, moving east at 55 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
2/6/2019 10:14 PM CST At 1014 pm cst, a severe thunderstorm was located over frontenac, or over pittsburg, moving northeast at 55 mph (emergency management). Hazards include quarter size hail. Damage to vehicles is expected. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, columbus, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, west mineral, roseland, neutral, beulah, croweburg, yale,.
2/6/2019 10:02 PM CST At 1001 pm cst, a severe thunderstorm was located over scammon, or 9 miles north of columbus, moving northeast at 50 mph. county emergency management has reported quarter size hail northwest of columbus (emergency management). Hazards include quarter size hail. Damage to vehicles is expected. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, columbus, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, walnut, west mineral, hepler, roseland, neutral, beulah,.
2/6/2019 9:46 PM CST At 946 pm cst, a severe thunderstorm was located near columbus, moving northeast at 55 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include quarter size hail. damage to vehicles is expected
11/30/2018 11:31 PM CST Grain bin blown down and a portion of a roof blown off a structur in crawford county KS, 2.7 miles ESE of Girard, KS
11/30/2018 11:27 PM CST At 1127 pm cst, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near bronson to near cherokee to near baxter springs, moving northeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, fort scott, baxter springs, frontenac, columbus, galena, girard, arma, marmaton, cherokee, weir, lowell, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, franklin, bronson, arcadia, uniontown, redfield, a tornado watch remains in effect until 500 am cst for southeastern kansas.
11/30/2018 11:02 PM CST At 1101 pm cst, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles east of chanute to 6 miles south of mccune to near welch, moving northeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
8/19/2018 4:22 PM CDT At 422 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near arcadia to near columbus to miami, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
8/16/2018 7:25 PM CDT At 724 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles north of nevada to 6 miles south of sheldon to 7 miles south of walnut, moving southeast at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
7/17/2018 12:40 PM CDT At 1240 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 7 miles north of mccune to 6 miles east of chetopa, moving east at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. these severe storms will be near, girard around 1255 pm cdt. pittsburg, baxter springs, cherokee and treece around 100 pm cdt. other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include lowell, sherman, chicopee, franklin, roseland, neutral, melrose, beulah, opolis and greenbush. This includes interstate 44 near mile marker 0.
7/17/2018 12:16 PM CDT At 1215 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near st. paul to 6 miles northeast of oswego to chetopa, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. these severe storms will be near, mccune around 1220 pm cdt. west mineral around 1225 pm cdt. columbus, cherokee, weir and scammon around 1235 pm cdt. girard and treece around 1240 pm cdt. baxter springs around 1245 pm cdt. pittsburg and arma around 1250 pm cdt. frontenac and galena around 1255 pm cdt. mulberry around 100 pm cdt. Other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include lowell, sherman, chicopee, franklin, roseland, neutral, melrose, beulah, croweburg and riverton.
7/17/2018 11:54 AM CDT At 1154 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near galesburg to near edna, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. severe thunderstorms will be near, walnut around 1225 pm cdt. girard and treece around 1250 pm cdt. baxter springs, columbus and arma around 100 pm cdt. other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include lowell, sherman, chicopee, franklin, roseland, neutral, melrose, beulah, croweburg and riverton. This includes interstate 44 near mile marker 0.
7/16/2018 5:40 PM CDT Quarter sized hail reported 1.7 miles W of Girard, KS, corrects previous hail report from 1 e girard. quarter-sized hail estimated near crawford hills golf course; delayed report.
7/16/2018 5:40 PM CDT Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed several limbs at the girard municipal golf cours in crawford county KS, 1.2 miles W of Girard, KS
7/16/2018 5:19 PM CDT At 519 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near girard, moving southeast at 5 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
7/16/2018 5:15 PM CDT Quarter sized hail reported 1.7 miles W of Girard, KS, quarter-sized hail estimated near crawford hills golf course; delayed report.
6/26/2018 11:21 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for northern crawford county will expire at 1130 pm cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire.
6/26/2018 10:38 PM CDT At 1038 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near hepler, or 9 miles northwest of girard, moving east at 15 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/20/2018 1:11 AM CDT At 111 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over mindenmines, or 7 miles east of pittsburg, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, prairie state park, lamar, frontenac, girard, arma, jasper, liberal, cherokee, weir, mulberry, chicopee, nashville, mindenmines, franklin, asbury, lamar heights, burgess, beulah, croweburg, this includes interstate 49 between mile markers 55 and 70.
5/20/2018 12:54 AM CDT At 1254 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near pittsburg, moving east at 50 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/20/2018 12:46 AM CDT At 1246 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles northeast of mccune, or 7 miles southwest of girard, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, west mineral, roseland, beulah, croweburg, yale, carona, farlington,.
5/20/2018 12:22 AM CDT At 1222 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near parsons, moving northeast at 50 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/19/2018 5:06 PM CDT At 506 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over liberal, or 12 miles west of lamar, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, prairie state park, lamar, frontenac, girard, arma, liberal, sheldon, mulberry, chicopee, nashville, mindenmines, franklin, arcadia, bronaugh, lamar heights, moundville, milo, irwin, burgess, this includes interstate 49 between mile markers 60 and 87.
5/19/2018 4:48 PM CDT At 448 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near frontenac, or near girard, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/19/2018 4:42 PM CDT Golf Ball sized hail reported 0.1 miles WSW of Girard, KS
5/19/2018 4:40 PM CDT Quarter sized hail reported 0.9 miles SSE of Girard, KS
5/19/2018 4:24 PM CDT At 424 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near mccune, or 9 miles southeast of st. paul, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, girard, arma, mulberry, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, walnut, hepler, beulah, croweburg, greenbush, yale, ringo, lone oak, farlington, brazilton, polk,.
5/19/2018 4:18 PM CDT At 418 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near mccune, or 8 miles southeast of st. paul, moving northeast at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, girard, arma, mulberry, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, walnut, hepler, beulah, croweburg, greenbush, yale, ringo, lone oak, farlington, brazilton, polk,.
5/19/2018 4:03 PM CDT The national weather service in springfield has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. crawford county in southeastern kansas. Until 445 pm cdt * at 403 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles northeast of parsons, moving northeast at 35 mph.
5/19/2018 9:51 AM CDT At 950 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over frontenac, or over pittsburg, moving northeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/14/2018 11:32 PM CDT At 1131 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near girard, moving east at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, west mineral, roseland, beulah, croweburg, yale, carona, farlington, brazilton, greenbush,.
5/14/2018 10:54 PM CDT At 1054 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near walnut, or 8 miles east of st. paul, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
5/3/2018 12:20 AM CDT At 1219 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 8 miles east of hepler to near mindenmines to joplin, moving northeast at 50 mph (emergency management). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. the cherokee county, kansas emergency manager has reported 50 to 60 mph winds with these storms. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, baxter springs, frontenac, galena, girard, arma, weir, lowell, mulberry, chicopee, franklin, arcadia, treece, hepler, neutral, croweburg, riverton, yale, farlington, crestline, this includes interstate 44 near mile marker 0.
5/3/2018 12:04 AM CDT At 1202 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near walnut to weir to quapaw, moving northeast at 50 mph (emergency management). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. the cherokee county emergency manager has reported 50 to 60 mph winds with these storms. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, baxter springs, frontenac, columbus, galena, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, lowell, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, franklin, arcadia, walnut, treece, hepler, roseland, neutral,.
5/2/2018 11:31 PM CDT At 1131 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 8 miles west of parsons to near oswego to 6 miles west of bluejacket, moving northeast at 50 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
3/19/2018 4:53 AM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for southern bourbon and northwestern crawford counties will expire at 500 am cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and exiting the warned area. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. to report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement agency. they will relay your report to the national weather service springfield.
3/19/2018 4:38 AM CDT At 437 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles east of hepler, or 10 miles north of girard, moving north northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include quarter size hail. Damage to vehicles is expected. Locations impacted include, girard, uniontown, redfield, hepler, hiattville, petersburg, farlington, brazilton, porterville, pawnee station,.
3/19/2018 4:32 AM CDT At 431 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near hepler, or 7 miles north of girard, moving north northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include quarter size hail. Damage to vehicles is expected. Locations impacted include, girard, mccune, uniontown, walnut, redfield, hepler, greenbush, pawnee station, hiattville, petersburg, farlington, brazilton, porterville,.
3/19/2018 4:14 AM CDT At 413 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles south of walnut, or 8 miles east of st. paul, moving northeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include quarter size hail. damage to vehicles is expected
9/16/2017 6:11 PM CDT At 611 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 7 miles east of hepler to near mindenmines to 7 miles northwest of purcell, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, prairie state park, lamar, frontenac, girard, arma, liberal, cherokee, weir, sheldon, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, nashville, mindenmines, franklin, arcadia, bronaugh, lamar heights, hepler,.
9/16/2017 5:54 PM CDT At 553 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near hepler to near frontenac to near weir, moving east at 35 mph (emergency management. damaging wind gusts were reported in the town of weir, with trees and power lines down). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
9/16/2017 5:22 PM CDT At 521 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near galesburg to 6 miles northeast of parsons to near oswego, moving northeast at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
8/16/2017 5:04 PM CDT At 504 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near mccune, or 11 miles southwest of girard, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, girard, cherokee, mccune, beulah, greenbush,.
8/16/2017 4:37 PM CDT At 436 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near parsons, moving east at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
8/5/2017 9:40 AM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for northwestern crawford county will expire at 945 am cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. however heavy rain is still possible with this thunderstorm.
8/5/2017 9:07 AM CDT At 907 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near walnut, or 8 miles northeast of st. paul, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, girard, walnut, hepler, farlington, brazilton, greenbush,.
8/5/2017 8:50 AM CDT At 848 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over erie, moving east at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/29/2017 10:44 PM CDT At 343 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from arcadia to arma to mccune, moving southeast at 50 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
6/29/2017 10:28 PM CDT At 328 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 7 miles south of hume to near arcadia to near girard to 6 miles northwest of mccune, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, fort scott, frontenac, girard, arma, marmaton, cherokee, mulberry, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, walnut, fulton, redfield, hepler, burgess, beulah, croweburg, yale,.
6/29/2017 10:18 PM CDT At 318 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near fulton to 9 miles southeast of redfield to 7 miles southeast of walnut to 6 miles north of parsons, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, fort scott, frontenac, girard, arma, marmaton, cherokee, mulberry, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, uniontown, walnut, fulton, redfield, hepler, burgess, beulah, croweburg,.
6/29/2017 10:07 PM CDT At 306 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near fulton to near hepler to near st. paul to galesburg, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, fort scott, frontenac, girard, arma, marmaton, cherokee, mulberry, chicopee, mccune, franklin, bronson, arcadia, uniontown, walnut, fulton, redfield, hepler, mapleton, burgess,.
6/29/2017 9:53 PM CDT At 251 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from blue mound to 8 miles southwest of bronson to 6 miles west of erie to near altoona, moving east at 40 mph. wind gusts up to 58 mph have been measured in chanute (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
6/17/2017 11:51 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for southeastern bourbon and northeastern crawford counties will expire at midnight cdt, the storms which prompted the warning have weakened below severe limits, and no longer pose an immediate threat to life or property. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. however heavy rain is still possible with these thunderstorms. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 600 am cdt for southeastern kansas, and west central missouri.
6/17/2017 11:38 PM CDT At 1138 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near fort scott to near arma, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, fort scott, frontenac, girard, arma, marmaton, mulberry, franklin, arcadia, croweburg, yale, ringo, pawnee station, hiattville, farlington, hammond, polk, garland, englevale,.
6/17/2017 11:06 PM CDT At 1105 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles southeast of fulton to erie, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
6/17/2017 6:27 AM CDT At 627 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over scammon, or 9 miles north of columbus, moving south at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/17/2017 6:12 AM CDT At 611 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near mulberry to near frontenac to weir to west mineral to 6 miles northeast of parsons, moving south at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, columbus, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, walnut, west mineral, roseland, burgess, beulah, croweburg,.
6/17/2017 6:00 AM CDT At 559 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 7 miles south of fort scott to near arma to near girard to 7 miles northeast of mccune to st. paul, moving south at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, prairie state park, carl junction, frontenac, columbus, girard, arma, liberal, cherokee, weir, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, nashville, mindenmines, franklin, arcadia, walnut,.
6/17/2017 5:44 AM CDT At 544 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from fort scott to near arcadia to near girard to 6 miles southeast of walnut to near erie, moving south at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/17/2017 5:38 AM CDT At 537 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near redfield, or 12 miles southwest of fort scott, moving southeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, girard, arma, marmaton, mulberry, franklin, bronson, arcadia, uniontown, walnut, redfield, hepler, beulah, croweburg, yale, petersburg, farlington, brazilton, porterville,.
6/17/2017 5:03 AM CDT At 502 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over moran, or 7 miles east of la harpe, moving southeast at 50 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/15/2017 10:25 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for cherokee and crawford counties will expire at 1030 pm cdt, the storms which prompted the warning have weakened below severe limits, and no longer pose an immediate threat to life or property. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. however gusty winds are still possible with these thunderstorms. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 200 am cdt for southeastern kansas.
6/15/2017 10:05 PM CDT At 1005 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 7 miles west of girard to near chetopa, moving east at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, baxter springs, frontenac, columbus, galena, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, lowell, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, west mineral, treece, roseland, neutral,.
6/15/2017 9:37 PM CDT At 936 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 7 miles north of mccune to near edna, moving southeast at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
5/31/2017 1:48 PM CDT At 148 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over mccune, or 12 miles east of parsons, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, baxter springs, frontenac, columbus, galena, girard, cherokee, weir, lowell, sherman, scammon, chicopee, mccune, west mineral, roseland, neutral, beulah, riverton, yale, carona,.
5/31/2017 1:23 PM CDT At 122 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near st. paul, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/27/2017 12:56 PM CDT At 1255 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near mccune, or 8 miles southwest of girard, moving east at 10 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/27/2017 12:32 PM CDT At 1231 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles north of mccune, or 8 miles east of st. paul, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, girard, cherokee, mccune, walnut, hepler, farlington, beulah, brazilton, greenbush, a tornado watch remains in effect until 700 pm cdt for southeastern kansas.
5/27/2017 12:07 PM CDT At 1207 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near st. paul, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/10/2017 6:53 PM CDT At 653 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles south of hepler to near mccune, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, girard, arma, mulberry, mccune, franklin, arcadia, walnut, hepler, beulah, croweburg, greenbush, yale, ringo, pawnee station, lone oak, farlington, brazilton, polk,.
5/10/2017 6:25 PM CDT At 625 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near parsons, moving northeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
4/29/2017 9:05 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for crawford county will expire at 915 pm cdt, the storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire.
4/29/2017 8:40 PM CDT At 840 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near walnut to near girard to near pittsburg to near cherokee, moving northeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, girard, arma, cherokee, mulberry, chicopee, franklin, arcadia, beulah, opolis, croweburg, greenbush, yale, ringo, lone oak, farlington, brazilton, polk, englevale,.
4/29/2017 8:11 PM CDT At 811 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from galesburg to near parsons to 7 miles southwest of mccune to oswego, moving northeast at 50 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
4/25/2017 10:25 PM CDT At 1025 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over arma, or near girard, moving northeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, prairie state park, frontenac, girard, arma, liberal, cherokee, mulberry, chicopee, nashville, mindenmines, franklin, arcadia, bronaugh, burgess, beulah, croweburg, yale, farlington, hannon,.
4/25/2017 10:13 PM CDT At 1013 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over girard, moving northeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
4/4/2017 8:50 PM CDT At 850 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 7 miles southwest of uniontown to near cherokee, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, fort scott, frontenac, girard, arma, marmaton, cherokee, mulberry, chicopee, franklin, bronson, arcadia, uniontown, fulton, redfield, hepler, mapleton, burgess, beulah, croweburg,.
4/4/2017 8:15 PM CDT At 814 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near chanute to near welch, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
3/6/2017 9:28 PM CST At 928 pm cst, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near fort scott to near mindenmines, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect considerable tree damage. wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Locations impacted include, fort scott, girard, arma, mulberry, franklin, arcadia, hepler, croweburg, greenbush, ringo, pawnee station, hiattville, farlington, brazilton, polk, garland, englevale, a tornado watch remains in effect until 300 am cst for southeastern kansas.
3/6/2017 8:58 PM CST At 857 pm cst, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near uniontown to 7 miles southwest of girard, moving east at 35 mph (trained weather spotters reported damage to a barn west of fort scott). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect considerable tree damage. wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Locations impacted include, fort scott, girard, arma, marmaton, mulberry, franklin, arcadia, uniontown, walnut, redfield, hepler, croweburg, greenbush, ringo, pawnee station, hiattville, petersburg, farlington, brazilton, polk, a tornado watch remains in effect until 300 am cst for southeastern kansas.
3/6/2017 8:44 PM CST At 843 pm cst, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near bronson to 6 miles southeast of st. paul, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
2/28/2017 11:19 PM CST Quarter sized hail reported 0.1 miles WSW of Girard, KS, .
7/14/2016 10:17 AM CDT At 1016 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near girard to columbus, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect damage to roofs. siding. and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, columbus, galena, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, lowell, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, franklin, west mineral, roseland, sherwin, hallowell, crestline, greenbush, stippville,.
7/14/2016 9:56 AM CDT At 955 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles southeast of st. paul to near oswego, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect damage to roofs. siding. And trees.
7/8/2016 12:17 AM CDT At 1215 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near frontenac to cherokee to 6 miles south of mccune, moving southeast at 45 mph (law enforcement. this line of storms has a history of downing large trees across crawford county). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. Expect considerable tree damage. damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, baxter springs, frontenac, columbus, galena, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, lowell, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, west mineral, treece, roseland,.
7/8/2016 12:02 AM CDT Severe thunderstorm wind gusts have downed several power lines in girar in crawford county KS, 0.1 miles WSW of Girard, KS
7/7/2016 11:58 PM CDT At 1156 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles northwest of arma to near parsons, moving southeast at 45 mph (law enforcement. this line of storms has a history of downing large trees). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect considerable tree damage. wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, baxter springs, frontenac, columbus, galena, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, lowell, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, walnut, west mineral, treece,.
7/7/2016 11:48 PM CDT At 1147 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles east of hepler to near parsons, moving southeast at 40 mph. these storms have a history of producing wind damage (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
7/7/2016 11:44 PM CDT At 1143 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 9 miles northwest of nevada to 7 miles southeast of fort scott to 6 miles west of arcadia, moving east at 30 mph (law enforcement. this storm has downed large tree limbs around fort scott). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. Expect damage to roofs. siding. and trees. Locations impacted include, fort scott, frontenac, girard, arma, marmaton, mulberry, franklin, arcadia, uniontown, walnut, fulton, redfield, hepler, petersburg, porterville, greenbush, devon, brazilton, pawnee station, ringo,.
7/7/2016 11:20 PM CDT At 1119 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near fulton to near redfield to 6 miles northwest of hepler, moving east at 50 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, fort scott, frontenac, girard, arma, marmaton, mulberry, franklin, bronson, arcadia, uniontown, walnut, fulton, redfield, hepler, mapleton, petersburg, porterville, greenbush, devon, brazilton,.
7/7/2016 11:06 PM CDT At 1106 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 8 miles southeast of blue mound to 9 miles north of walnut, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
7/6/2016 5:13 AM CDT At 513 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near hepler to near pittsburg to columbus, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. siding. and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, fort scott, baxter springs, frontenac, columbus, galena, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, lowell, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, walnut, west mineral, this includes interstate 44 near mile marker 0.
7/6/2016 4:44 AM CDT At 444 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 8 miles north of erie to near altamont, moving east at 60 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. siding. And trees.
6/23/2016 7:04 PM CDT At 702 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located from pittsburg kansas to liberal, moving east at 5 mph. these storms have a history of producing wind damage in pittsburg (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. siding. And trees.
6/23/2016 6:53 PM CDT At 652 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near pittsburg, moving east at 5 mph. trees have been reported down near pittsburg (law enforcement). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. siding. and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, prairie state park, lamar, frontenac, girard, jasper, golden city, cherokee, chicopee, nashville, mindenmines, carytown, lamar heights, kenoma, lone oak, ringo, yale, iantha, oakton, beulah,.
6/23/2016 6:17 PM CDT At 615 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over pittsburg, moving east at 5 mph. additional severe storms were located over southern barton and northern jasper counties. at 610 pm law enforcement reported telephone poles down in the pittsburg area (law enforcement). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. siding. And trees.
6/12/2016 1:44 PM CDT At 144 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near girard, moving north at 15 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect damage to roofs. siding. And trees.
4/26/2016 11:52 PM CDT At 1151 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 8 miles north of erie to near walnut to near girard to near west mineral, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect considerable tree damage. wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, walnut, asbury, west mineral, hepler, roseland, greenbush, stippville,.
4/26/2016 11:51 PM CDT Several buildings damaged... large trees down on south side of girard. damage to animal hospital in crawford county KS, 0.1 miles WSW of Girard, KS
4/26/2016 11:27 PM CDT At 1125 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from thayer to near galesburg to near parsons to near chetopa, moving northeast at 45 mph. this line of storms has a history of producing wind damage (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
4/10/2016 9:15 PM CDT At 914 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over st. paul, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
11/17/2015 4:39 AM CST At 438 am cst, a severe thunderstorm was located over mccune, or 13 miles northeast of oswego, moving northeast at 65 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. Siding and trees.
11/5/2015 1:26 PM CST A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect until 145 pm cst for eastern crawford and northwestern cherokee counties. at 124 pm cst. severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles northwest of arma to near girard to near cherokee to near west mineral. moving northeast at 55 mph. hazard. 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
11/5/2015 1:20 PM CST Quarter sized hail reported 0.9 miles NW of Girard, KS, quarter hail reported at natures corner preschool.
11/5/2015 1:20 PM CST Based on multiple videos and eyewitness accounts of an emergency management official...a microburst produced damage across the town of girard. several trees were downed in crawford county KS, 0.1 miles WSW of Girard, KS
11/5/2015 1:18 PM CST At 118 pm cst, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near girard to 7 miles northwest of cherokee to near mccune to near oswego, moving northeast at 55 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, west mineral, roseland, lone oak, ringo, yale, beulah, farlington,.
11/5/2015 1:16 PM CST Quarter sized hail reported 5.9 miles NE of Girard, KS
11/5/2015 1:11 PM CST At 111 pm cst, a severe thunderstorm was located near mccune, or 9 miles southwest of girard, moving northeast at 55 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, west mineral, roseland, greenbush, brazilton, lone oak, ringo, yale,.
11/5/2015 12:56 PM CST At 1256 pm cst, a severe thunderstorm was located near parsons, moving northeast at 55 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees.
9/18/2015 8:42 PM CDT At 841 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 7 miles east of hepler to 6 miles northwest of cherokee, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect damage to roofs. siding and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, frontenac, girard, arma, cherokee, mulberry, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, ringo, lone oak, yale, beulah, garland, farlington, polk, englevale, croweburg, brazilton,.
9/18/2015 8:27 PM CDT At 827 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from hepler to near mccune, moving northeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, fort scott, frontenac, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, mulberry, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, walnut, hepler, greenbush, brazilton, pawnee station, lone oak, ringo, hiattville,.
9/18/2015 8:00 PM CDT At 759 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from erie to near cherryvale, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees.
8/27/2015 6:32 AM CDT At 631 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles southwest of girard, moving southeast at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees. Locations impacted include, girard, cherokee, mccune, beulah, brazilton, greenbush,.
8/27/2015 6:18 AM CDT Quarter sized hail reported 8.1 miles E of Girard, KS, nickel to quarter size hail at hwy 47 and hwy 3. winds estimated 30 40 mph.
8/27/2015 6:11 AM CDT At 611 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near greenbush, or 8 miles east of st. paul, moving south at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees. Locations impacted include, girard, cherokee, mccune, walnut, hepler, beulah, brazilton, greenbush,.
8/27/2015 5:51 AM CDT At 551 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near walnut, or 11 miles northeast of st. paul, moving south at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees.
8/23/2015 3:25 AM CDT Large trees downed in girard ks. large trees were also reported down across mutiple locations across crawford county when the line of storms passed throug in crawford county KS, 0.1 miles WSW of Girard, KS
8/18/2015 8:00 PM CDT At 800 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near girard to near treece, moving east at 25 mph (trained weather spotters). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts. Expect considerable tree damage. damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs and outbuildings. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, baxter springs, frontenac, columbus, galena, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, lowell, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, west mineral, roseland, sherwin, hallowell, this includes interstate 44 near mile marker 0.
8/18/2015 7:46 PM CDT At 746 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 7 miles west of girard to 7 miles west of columbus, moving east at 40 mph (trained weather spotters). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts. Expect considerable tree damage. damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs and outbuildings. Locations impacted include, pittsburg, baxter springs, frontenac, columbus, galena, girard, arma, cherokee, weir, lowell, sherman, mulberry, scammon, chicopee, mccune, franklin, arcadia, west mineral, roseland, sherwin, this includes interstate 44 near mile marker 0.
8/18/2015 7:34 PM CDT At 733 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near st. paul to oswego, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. Siding and trees.
8/5/2015 8:16 AM CDT At 815 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from hepler to near oswego, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. siding and trees. these severe storms will be near, hepler around 820 am cdt. arma around 835 am cdt. columbus, mulberry, arcadia and treece around 840 am cdt. baxter springs around 845 am cdt. galena around 850 am cdt. other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include lowell, sherman, chicopee, franklin, roseland, sherwin, hallowell, crestline, greenbush and stippville. This includes interstate 44 near mile marker 0.
8/5/2015 8:00 AM CDT At 759 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near erie to 6 miles northwest of edna, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. siding and trees. severe thunderstorms will be near, walnut around 805 am cdt. hepler around 815 am cdt. girard around 825 am cdt. arma around 835 am cdt. frontenac around 840 am cdt. mulberry and arcadia around 845 am cdt. columbus and treece around 850 am cdt. baxter springs and galena around 900 am cdt. other locations impacted by these severe thunderstorms include lowell, sherman, chicopee, franklin, roseland, sherwin, hallowell, crestline, greenbush and stippville. This includes interstate 44 near mile marker 0.
7/14/2015 9:07 AM CDT At 906 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles north of bronson to walnut, and moving east at 30 mph (trained weather spotters. these storms have a history of producing wind damage in allen and woodson counties). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees. Locations impacted include, arcadia, arma, brazilton, bronson, croweburg, devon, englevale, farlington, fort scott, franklin, frontenac, fulton, garland, girard, hammond, harding, hepler, hiattville, mapleton, marmaton, mulberry, pawnee station, petersburg, polk, porterville, redfield, ringo, uniontown, walnut, xenia and yale.
7/14/2015 8:50 AM CDT At 847 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 12 miles northwest of bronson to 14 miles west of walnut, and moving east at 30 mph (trained weather spotters. damage to trees and power lines has been reported near yates center and in iola with these storms). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees.
6/12/2015 4:17 PM CDT At 416 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles northeast of mccune, and moving northeast at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees. Locations impacted include, arma, beulah, croweburg, englevale, franklin, frontenac, girard, lone oak, mccune, polk, ringo and yale.
6/12/2015 3:56 PM CDT At 355 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near mccune, and moving northeast at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees.
5/17/2015 12:21 AM CDT At 1218 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 34 miles northeast of fort scott to 6 miles southeast of baxter springs, and moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. siding and trees. locations impacted include, arcadia, arma, baxter springs, carona, cherokee, columbus, englevale, fort scott, frontenac, galena, girard, mindenmines, mulberry, pittsburg, scammon, treece, weir and west mineral. this warning also includes prairie state park. a tornado watch remains in effect until 500 am cdt sunday morning for southeast kansas and southwestern missouri. 75in.
5/17/2015 12:06 AM CDT At 1205 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 19 miles east of fulton to treece, and moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. siding and trees. locations impacted include, arcadia, arma, baxter springs, carona, cherokee, columbus, englevale, fort scott, frontenac, fulton, galena, girard, hepler, mccune, mindenmines, mulberry, pittsburg, redfield, scammon, treece, weir and west mineral. this warning also includes prairie state park. a tornado watch remains in effect until 500 am cdt sunday morning for southeast kansas and southwestern missouri. Possible.
5/16/2015 11:43 PM CDT At 1140 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from fulton to 18 miles southwest of treece, and moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. siding and trees. locations impacted include, arcadia, arma, baxter springs, carona, cherokee, columbus, englevale, fort scott, frontenac, fulton, galena, girard, hepler, mccune, mindenmines, mulberry, pittsburg, redfield, scammon, treece, uniontown, walnut, weir and west mineral. this warning also includes prairie state park. a tornado watch remains in effect until 500 am cdt sunday morning for southeast kansas and southwestern missouri. Possible.
5/16/2015 11:35 PM CDT At 1133 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from fulton to 22 miles west of treece, and moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. Siding and trees.
5/16/2015 11:30 PM CDT At 1128 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 10 miles northwest of fulton to 8 miles south of walnut, and moving northeast at 65 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. siding and trees. locations impacted include, arcadia, arma, brazilton, bronson, croweburg, devon, englevale, farlington, fort scott, fulton, garland, girard, greenbush, hammond, harding, hepler, hiattville, mapleton, marmaton, pawnee station, petersburg, polk, porterville, redfield, uniontown, walnut and xenia. a tornado watch remains in effect until 500 am cdt sunday morning for southeast kansas and southwestern missouri. 75in.
5/16/2015 11:02 PM CDT At 1059 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 14 miles north of bronson to 22 miles southwest of walnut, and moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. Siding and trees.
4/8/2015 3:46 PM CDT A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect for northern crawford and bourbon counties until 430 pm cdt. at 343 pm cdt. a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles north of walnut. and moving northeast at 50 mph. hazard. 70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. source. radar indicated. A 67 mph wind gust.
4/8/2015 3:30 PM CDT The national weather service in springfield has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. bourbon county in southeast kansas. crawford county in southeast kansas. until 430 pm cdt * at 327 pm cdt. A severe thunderstorm was located 15 miles west of.
4/7/2015 4:10 AM CDT A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect for crawford and northern cherokee counties until 430 am cdt. at 407 am cdt. a severe thunderstorm was located near cherokee. and moving east at 35 mph. hazard. quarter size hail. source. Radar indicated.
4/7/2015 3:54 AM CDT A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect for crawford and northern cherokee counties until 430 am cdt. at 352 am cdt. severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 9 miles north of mccune to 5 miles southwest of west mineral. and moving northeast at 40 mph. hazard. Quarter size hail.
4/7/2015 3:35 AM CDT The national weather service in springfield has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. northern cherokee county in southeast kansas. crawford county in southeast kansas. until 430 am cdt * at 333 am cdt. A severe thunderstorm was located 9 miles southwest.
4/3/2015 2:55 AM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for eastern crawford and northeastern cherokee counties will expire at 300 am cdt. the line of storms which prompted the warning has moved out of the warned area. A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 600 am cdt friday morning for southeast kansas and southern missouri.
4/3/2015 2:41 AM CDT A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect for eastern crawford and northeastern cherokee counties until 300 am cdt. at 239 am cdt. severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from englevale to scammon. and moving east at 45 mph. hazard. 70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. source. Radar indicated.
4/3/2015 2:09 AM CDT The national weather service in springfield has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. cherokee county in southeast kansas. crawford county in southeast kansas. until 300 am cdt * at 206 am cdt. Severe thunderstorms were located along a line.
4/2/2015 7:31 PM CDT The national weather service in springfield has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. cherokee county in southeast kansas. crawford county in southeast kansas. until 830 pm cdt * at 728 pm cdt. A severe thunderstorm was located 11 miles west of.
4/2/2015 7:26 PM CDT A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect for northern barton and central crawford counties until 800 pm cdt. at 724 pm cdt. a severe thunderstorm was located near frontenac. and moving east at 50 mph. hazard. 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. source. Radar indicated.
4/2/2015 7:05 PM CDT The national weather service in springfield has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. southern crawford county in southeast kansas. barton county in southwest missouri. until 800 pm cdt * at 704 pm cdt. A severe thunderstorm was located near cherokee.
3/25/2015 1:27 PM CDT The national weather service in springfield has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. southeastern bourbon county in southeast kansas. eastern crawford county in southeast kansas. northwestern barton county in southwest missouri. Southwestern vernon county in west central missouri.
3/24/2015 3:00 PM CST Quarter sized hail reported 0.1 miles WSW of Girard, KS
5/31/2013 6:10 PM CDT Tennis Ball sized hail reported 2 miles N of Girard, KS
5/31/2013 5:57 PM CDT Quarter sized hail reported 0.1 miles WSW of Girard, KS
3/30/2013 4:56 PM CDT Quarter sized hail reported 7.7 miles S of Girard, KS
1/29/2013 10:01 AM CST Power pole reported leaning over road due to high wind in crawford county KS, 0.6 miles N of Girard, KS
9/7/2012 3:23 PM CDT Several power lines were blown down in girard. winds estimated at 60 to 70 mph. pea size hail also reporte in crawford county KS, 0.1 miles WSW of Girard, KS
4/29/2012 11:35 PM CDT Sheriff deputy estimated wind gusts of 50 to 60 mp in crawford county KS, 8.1 miles E of Girard, KS
1/1/0001 12:00 AM Quarter sized hail reported 4.8 miles N of Girard, KS
1/1/0001 12:00 AM Storm damage reported in crawford county KS, 4.8 miles N of Girard, KS
2/10/2009 8:14 PM CST Penny sized hail reported 3.7 miles E of Girard, KS, nickel size hail and strong winds
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Guest Blogger: Chimène Keitner
It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome as our guest blogger today Chimène Keitner (right).
An Associate Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, Chimène specializes in International Law and International Tribunals, International Law in U.S. Courts, Comparative Law, and Complex Litigation. Among her publications is her 2007 book, The Paradoxes of Nationalism: The French Revolution and Its Meaning for Contemporary Nation Building.
Born in Canada, Chimène earned her bachelor's degree from Harvard; her J.D. from Yale, where she was awarded a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, served a student director of the immigration clinic and an editor of the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law; and her doctorate from Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Following law school she clerked for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, then practiced at a firm in San Francisco before entering academia. She's worked on human rights litigation and advocacy in cooperation with the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights First, and the Center for Justice and Accountability.
She guest-posts today on her forthcoming article respecting the Alien Tort Statute -- a most timely topic, given the début today in San Francisco of a trial based on that human rights statute.
Chimène wishes to honor Emily Greene Balch, the 1946 Nobel Peace Prizewinner whom we've profiled below.
Heartfelt welcome!
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I met Foreign Affairs’ Product Manager at a Tech Ladies event and she revealed that they have never conducted user testing on their site before. What started as 5 current user interviews, a survey and 5 usability tests, snowballed into a year of research and redesigns.
Our first rounds of research showed us that the biggest problem was surfacing and organizing content. Both current and new users just got lost within the 92 years of content. The navigation bar was too simple and people had to guess and click on too many sub-channels. The home page was disorganized and was somehow both too long and had too little information. The paywall didn’t have enough information for users to feel confident making a decision. After finding the issues we set off on the redesign of four different areas: the paywall, the navigation bar, the homepage, and the landing pages.
Challenge: Foreign Affairs had never conducted user research before and solely relied on data from marketing campaigns, in house data and gut instincts.
Solution: The first month, I conducted 5 new user interviews, 5 usability tests and surveyed 4,000+ current readers. The results lead to a plan for the redesign. During the redesign I implemented a lean research plan to gauge the progress that we were making. I also followed up with more surveys and a competitor usability study.
Results: An informed plan.
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Solution: This is actually a two part roll out. For the first phase, we changed the structure of the channels and subchannels. We also introduced a rolling nav bar. The 2nd phase, focuses on a new aesthetic as well as surfacing new articles within the nav bar.
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Hazardous Animal Life of Okinawa
By: Sheila J. Vaughen
While the natural beauty of the Okinawan islands is apparent at first glance, less easily discerned are potential dangers from a few species of native wildlife that are capable of harming their human neighbors. Newcomers to Okinawa are nearly always informed of the poisonous Habu snakes that inhabit the area. Less information is usually given about hazards from spiders, mosquitoes, centipedes and caterpillars. Bites and stings from some members of this group are capable of inflicting harm ranging from death, in rare cases, to minor skin irritations.
In this, the first of two articles on hazardous wildlife indigenous to Okinawa, terrestrial life will be reviewed. Next week’s article will cover potentially hazardous marine life.
Lieutenant (Dr.) Daniel Szumlas, head of the Medical Entomology Department at the Consolidated Preventative Medicine Unit on Camp Lester, discussed some of these insects and arthropods. He identified the Brown Widow spider as the most toxic spider of the area. Technically spiders are not insects but arthropods. This classification includes others creatures that feature exoskeletons and jointed legs such as crabs and centipedes.
The Brown Widow Spider
A cousin of the well-known black widow spider, the brown widow is similar to the black widow in behavior and toxicity. “All spiders are technically poisonous, but they are not all dangerous to humans,” explained Szumlas. As is the case with many toxic predators, the larger the animal, in this case a spider, the more dangerous the bite or sting.
The brown widow spider at adulthood is fairly small, spanning only up to one half inch in diameter. Like its cousin, this spider bears a red hourglass marking on its underside. Its legs will appear striped with light and dark brown bands.
A reclusive spider, the brown widow is not likely to bother humans because they usually remain hidden, preferring to live in dark, quiet spots. In addition to the common habitats of closets, sheds and beneath large furniture, they have also been found in vehicles. As many residents of Okinawa have discovered to their horror, bugs, including roaches and spiders see nothing wrong with setting up shop in a person’s car.
“If you have a cockroach problem in your home or vehicle, it would not be surprising to find spiders in there too,” explained Szumlas. If there is food for one type, there is likely to be food for another type of pest. He recommends placing baits in problem areas including vehicles, homes or offices, to handle the problem.
While reclusive and not particularly aggressive, bites from brown widows do occur, usually only when they are provoked or antagonized in some way. A typical scenario might be a child who attempts to prod or play with a spider, or a female that reacts to protect its egg sac. The egg sacs of the brown widow are slightly smaller than a green pea and have multiple spiky protrusions all around it.
If bitten by a brown widow, medical treatment should be sought right away. Szumlas added that it is actually very difficult for medical personnel to know with certainty if a person has been bitten by any spider. “However if symptoms are evident, especially if the victim is a child, it should be considered an emergency,” said Szumlas.
Symptoms include pain around the bite area typically beginning about an hour after contact with the spider. Systemic effects could include painful cramping of the chest and abdomen muscles, difficulty breathing and rapid respiration.
Mosquito Risks
Because of the presence of mosquito breeding grounds on Okinawa, there is always the potential risk of infection from a mosquito carrying the Japanese encephalitis virus. Pig farms and standing water, such as found in rice paddies, are typical draws for mosquitoes, including those that might be carriers of this virus.
While not currently requiring vaccinations against Japanese Encephalitis, U.S. medical officials on Okinawa have the vaccine available for US military and related personnel of the island.
The CPMU office at the Naval Hospital monitors the presence and numbers of infected mosquitoes of the island. “There are always at least some mosquitoes on the island that are carriers of the infection,” he explained. The greatest concentrations of carrier mosquitoes occur at the northern side of the island.
“While the JE virus can be fatal, the risk of contracting the disease and then also developing a serious reaction is actually quite low.” This is because not all persons react to the virus in the same manner. Szumlas said that the chance of being infected with JE after a mosquito bite is somewhat minimal. Infection will lead to acute illness in only one out of 200 cases.
Szumlas explained the effects of the last reported cases of JE infection by American personnel. “In 1991 three Marines who had been out near Camp Hansen, were infected. Of the three, the most serious reaction involved permanent brain damage; the second recovered but had an altered personality. The third recovered fully from the infection with no permanent effects whatsoever.”
“While the vaccination is usually mandatory for deployable forces, it is at this time voluntary for those residing on Okinawa.” People who may want to consider receiving the vaccination are those who live close to pig farms, those who spend a great deal of time on the northern side of the island in general, and those who camp frequently.
Simple means of protection against mosquitoes include: using repellant sprays; using bed netting when camping; and wearing clothing that covers arms and legs. Since mosquitoes feed during dusk hours, it is also recommended to avoid mosquito-attracting areas during these times.
Centipedes and Caterpillars
Another creepy creature, and arthropod, to avoid is the large centipede frequently seen throughout the Southeast Asia region. Known to get as large as 10 inches or more, this centipede is capable of biting and causing pain and discomfort.
They are not deadly, but as stated previously, the larger the animal the more toxic their bite. Its long segmented body, numerous legs, and claw-like legs that trail from its back end distinguish the tropical Asian centipede. The danger comes from their poisonous claws, or maxillipeds, at the head, which are capable of piercing human skin quite easily.
Centipedes and millipedes are more frequently seen at night. Avoiding them altogether is the best recommendation. However if bitten, treatment should include promptly disinfecting the area to prevent bacterial infection. Cold compresses may minimize swelling and pain relievers would be in order. In severe cases, medical treatment might involve injection of Novocain or like substances.
Less a threat than an annoyance, are caterpillars that can cause skin rashes and irritations. While most types of caterpillars are quite harmless, some species on Okinawa can release poisonous hairs into human skin causing sudden rashes. Persons coming into contact with vegetation, whether from a days trek in the wild or merely a minor brush from a shrub, could also come into contact with these bothersome hairs.
As before, some persons will react to this irritant in more severe ways than others will. Hypersensitive skin can become quickly inflamed with itchy and even painful rashes. Headaches and nausea can also accompany the dermatitis in some cases. It should be noted that the caterpillars do not have to be living to release the hairs, which become airborne quite easily.
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Jaleigh Johnson is a fantasy author born and raised in the Midwest. Her novels for the Dungeons and Dragons Forgotten Realms fiction line include The Howling Delve, Mistshore, Unbroken Chain, Unbroken Chain: The Darker Road, and Spider and Stone. Her first book for middle grade readers is The Mark of the Dragonfly, from Delacorte Press. In her spare time, she enjoys gaming, gardening, and going to movies with her husband. Visit her online at www.jaleighjohnson.com.
Why is storytelling so important for all of us?
Speaking for myself, at its core, storytelling keeps me sane and hopeful whenever I’m down, and it fires my imagination when I’m up. For me, it’s really that simple.
What’s one thing that readers would be surprised to find out about you?
Most people are surprised to learn that in addition to being a writer, I have a day job in accounting and tax preparation. Sometimes it’s a challenge to balance the artistic part of my brain with the concrete numbers part, but sometimes it’s a comfort too.
When did you write your first book and how old were you?
I think I was in my early twenties when I first tried to write a (not very good) novel. This would have been around 2002. The novel was actually a paranormal romance that I submitted to Harlequin. They rejected it, of course, but they took the time to give me some good feedback, for which I was grateful.
What was the greatest thing you learned at school?
In regards to my writing, the greatest thing I learned in school was grammar. My high school English teacher was tough, but she gave me such a good foundation for my writing skills.
How would you describe yourself in three words?
Creative, quiet, funny. Hehe, you can interpret “funny” however you like.
In your new book; The Mark of the Dragonfly, can you tell my Book Nerd Kids Community a little about it and why they should read your novel?
I think if they enjoy fantasy, friendship stories, or trains, they will enjoy reading THE MARK OF THE DRAGONFLY. It’s the story of a world where objects from other lands fall from the sky in violent meteor storms, where two young girls who couldn’t be more different have to come together to save each other, and to do that they have to stow away aboard a beautiful old steam train called the 401.
For those who are unfamiliar with Piper, how would you introduce her?
She’s a female Han Solo. That’s how I’ve always thought of her and how I describe her to others—at least the ones who are familiar with Star Wars. She’s a rogue, a survivor, and though she seems to be out for herself, she has a large heart.
If you could introduce one of your characters to any character from another book, who would it be and why?
I think it would be fun to introduce Anna to Ophelia from Karen Foxlee’s OPHELIA AND THE MARVELOUS BOY. Anna loves to read and has a scientific mind like Ophelia. I think they could get into all kinds of trouble together.
If you had to choose, which writer would you consider a mentor?
Seventh grade was the time I really started to fall in love with fantasy novels and fantasy writing, and I read a bunch of Dungeons and Dragons tie-in fiction. I loved those sword and sorcery tales. Ed Greenwood was the author of many of those novels, and I actually had the chance to meet him several years later at a convention, and we’ve since become friends. He also did a lot to help my early writing career, so if I have a mentor, it would be him.
You have the chance to give one piece of advice to your readers. What would it be?
If you mean advice about writing, I would say, write because you enjoy it. That will make everything else easier. If you mean advice about life, I’m actually still trying to figure that out myself.
What's the most memorable summer job you've ever had?
The year I started working for a local collectibles shop. I got the job because I played Magic: The Gathering, and the store was selling the card game. It was my first real job, and I worked there for seven years.
What decade during the last century would you have chosen to be a kid?
That’s a hard one. Maybe the late sixties? If only to watch the Apollo moon landing. How that must have sparked the imaginations of kids around the world. Gives me goose bumps to think about watching that first step.
What scares you the most and why?
The things that scare most people scare me too, but I also have a fear of spiders and flying in airplanes. And a spider in an airplane? Forget about it.
What is your greatest adventure?
Travelling. I love to explore new places and try new things. My last trip overseas I went to Ireland, and it was so beautiful. I think I could live in Dublin.
When was the last time you told someone you loved them?
Last night, before my husband and I went to sleep.
Who is the first person you call when you have a bad day?
My husband. He always knows how to calm me down and make me feel better.
When was the last time you cried?
I went to see Monuments Men at the movies recently, and I cried. But I cry at movies all the time. It doesn’t take much to get me going.
Fans of The City of Ember will love The Mark of the Dragonfly, an adventure story set in a magical world that is both exciting and dangerous.
Piper has never seen the Mark of the Dragonfly until she finds the girl amid the wreckage of a caravan in the Meteor Fields.
The girl doesn't remember a thing about her life, but the intricate tattoo on her arm is proof that she's from the Dragonfly Territories and that she's protected by the king. Which means a reward for Piper if she can get the girl home.
The one sure way to the Territories is the 401, a great old beauty of a train. But a ticket costs more coin than Piper could make in a year. And stowing away is a difficult prospect--everyone knows that getting past the peculiar green-eyed boy who stands guard is nearly impossible.
Life for Piper just turned dangerous. A little bit magical. And very exciting, if she can manage to survive the journey.
"This magnetic middle-grade debut...[is] a page-turner that defies easy categorization and ought to have broad appeal."-Publishers Weekly, starred
"Heart, brains, and courage find a home in a steampunk fantasy worthy of a nod from Baum."-Kirkus Reviews, starred
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Thank you JALEIGH JOHNSON for making this giveaway possible.
1 Winner will receive a Copy of The Mark of the Dragonfly by Jaleigh Johnson.
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I'm listening to the Game of Thrones soundtrack right now! Thanks for the giveaway – the book sounds awesome!!!
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SKATING, PORN & PHOTOGRAPHY WITH VAN STYLES
November 27, 2013 / James Lee / INTERVIEWS
van styles with his work / photo: the hundreds
Van Style’s life so far reads like a teenager’s wildest fantasy. Growing up skating in the mid 90s and riding for Status skateboards, Van [Steve Vanasco] wasn’t so different than you or me – skate rat by day, party all night. That is, until he started operating a skate camp at 21, and one of his student’s parents gave him the opportunity to explore the Adult film industry. With his skate background, Van produced the Skatetrixxx 1 & 2, the notorious skateboard pornos and continued producing, directing, and creating many more films that you may have unknowingly jerked off to before.
Since then Van has been become widely recognized for his photography, especially his work shooting ridiculously good looking girls wearing clothing from your favorite skateboard brands. With his expanding empire, I called him up to find out about his journey from skate rat and porn guy to photographer and household name.
Your first gig in the Adult industry was producing Skatetrixxx, was this the first skateboard porno ever made?
I couldn’t imagine so, I feel like everything in Adult has kinda been done, so I don’t think it was the first one but I would say maybe it’s the first one with cameos like Shiloh Greathouse, and other real skateboarders. I guess it’s the only skateboarding porno at the time to feature an actual pro skater [Pancho Moler] doing a real scene, with his girlfriend too.
You got in the industry around 21, 22, you must have been making good money?
I’d say from 23 to 26, I made good money. VHS sales were still around, DVD sales were still strong, the internet, the Tube sites, none of that had really hit yet, so there was still money to be made. I had just signed a contract with Hustler – I had a royalty deal with them, which was like $2 a unit for VHS and DVD. Then at the same time, I was doing my own editing for the videos so I was getting paid an editing fee, and doing all the photography for them, so I was getting a photography fee. All these things kind of combined together.
$2 sounds per video sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
Yeah and I was putting out like a video or 2 a month. It all kinda added up. I would say for being that age, I was probably making minimum of like 100k a year. I guess it’s kind of the time frame where one would finish college and go get a job and I just happened to stumble upon this industry. For my age, that was a really good living, with no college experience, no exact background in anything I was doing.
ellis cooper / photo: van styles
You were an Am for Status skateboards back in the day, are you bummed you didn’t pursue that more and tried to go pro?
I guess I’d like to say yeah, I’d like to think it would have happened but my friends and I grew up with a different mentality. The younger kids who were skating with us like P-Rod or Mikey Taylor, they had a different approach to it. They were almost that first generation, like, bring the generators out, light up spots at night and go kill it cause they saw that early on.
As for me and my friends being early and mid 90s skaters, we were like typical teenagers, skate all day during the day and at night go party and hang out and have fun. That drive wasn’t necessarily the same. Once I saw those kids – Paul early on was just so amazing on his board and when you saw that, you were like OK, this is the next generation. I’d love to be pro but this is gonna be the platform, and I’m not there. And then in skateboarding it’s kind of known there’s like that turning point age, when you are like 21, 22, 23, if it hasn’t really cracked yet, you can keep going for it and keep wanting it but at the same time, you’re getting older so you need to, I don’t wanna say grow up or act like an adult but you do need to handle your responsibilities.
I didn’t wanna be in my late 20s and be like fuck – feel like I pursued something that didn’t really pay off. The way I thought about it was, like I could do these jobs in Adult, which to me were a lot like skateboarding as far as the mentality, and then I could go skate and not stress, not worry about filming or getting certain tricks. I could just go skate and truly have fun now.
jon sciano – nose blunt transfer / photo: van styles
Now you are mostly known for your photography. When you’re editing your own photos of chicks, do you ever just get too turned on where you just have to beat off right then and there?
[Laughs] Definitely not. I do appreciate when a girl looks good, and notice she looks great in an image, but it’s not the same level as far as someone who would be looking at porno. For me, it’s what skating was to me at 13. I get asked a lot, like how many of these girls do you hook up with? And I understand most outsiders ideas, thinking that’s what this is all about but it’s really not like that. The chance I’ve been given from photography to be able to do what I love and make a living doing it, just the fact that I can walk out the door with my camera and shoot whatever I want and be happy, that’s what it means to me. It’s not a way to meet girls or get a girl half naked, maybe as corny as it sounds it really is an artistic approach or photographic approach to it.
Do you think there are a lot of people in Adult that take advantage of their situation as a photographer?
In the Adult side there are some that do that for sure, but as far as photography, I really can’t answer that. For one I don’t really hang out or talk or work with people that shoot girls. All my photographer friends whose work I respect and admire, they shoot different stuff. I don’t really follow anyone that shoots just girls, I’ll look at like Blabac’s work, Atiba, even older skate photo stuff from Jake Rosenberg, Daniel Harold Sturt, or current guys for landscape and street photography like 13th Witness and Trashhand. I would imagine there are guys that try to use photography as a tool to get laid or hook up with chicks, but I cant really confirm that.
Have you gotten any advice from one of those photographers you can share?
One of the things Mike Blabac said to me, which I kind of still hold in my head, was that once you learn how to photograph skateboarding, you can almost shoot anything else. That’s like the hardest thing to photograph. If you think about it, to properly convey and get a skate photo, where not only skaters can understand it and appreciate it, but at the same time be able to show it to anyone and have them be stoked on it, it’s kinda crazy. Versus something like football, or landscapes or even shooting girls.
denise schaefer / photo: van styles
How did the internet affect the Adult industry? Has it made it impossible to make money off of videos?
Pretty much what happened was, when the internet was booming all of the companies that were out here in LA, they were all run by oldschool owners, so they didn’t look at the internet as the next platform. They looked at it like something to make a little extra money off of. Versus these younger guys who were in Florida and elsewhere, who saw the potential in it and they were like these sleeping giants who kept building their traffic and sites and understanding of the web and how it worked. By the time everything hit, when you have a city of companies that are making their money off of a platform that is dying, it’s too late to catch up when everyone else has already gotten their share of the pie in a sense. So now you had a whole industry of people trying to play catch up with this platform that the internet guys have understood and structured years ago.
If you were to look at AVN magazine, those issues used to be so thick, full of company ads. Same thing with Transworld, it used to be thick full of ads and articles and all types of stuff. Look at a Transworld from 2003 to right now, it’s so insanely different. They both just shrunk. The same thing happened in Adult.
”You can love it or hate it, but the internet broke down the walls where you don’t have to jump through hurdles to get to where you want to be now.”
I remember a lot of companies were complaining about the tubesites but the problem is, really in any industry, that the generations coming and growing up now, they are an instant download generation. They didn’t have a Tower Records. This new generation, that’s what they know. I think one industry that probably grasped this and understood it really quickly with some street sense is like Hip Hop. They would do free mixtapes and leak them out to everybody so it would create a demand. So when an artist dropped something worth purchasing, their momentum was there and it transferred over to that. That’s the same with the internet now, that’s why brands will drop quick little parts. It may not be a whole video production, but it will create momentum towards a brand or that guys boards or shoes or something. Create a buzz.
At the end of the day that is the beauty of the internet now. If you were a skater a few years ago and you wanted to be seen, you would have to go get your trick shot by that one photographer, who works at that one magazine and that was your platform, that’s how you got noticed. Now you can be some unknown kid from the midwest, where your part just creates that much buzz on Youtube that you get noticed. You can love it or hate it, but the internet broke down the walls where you don’t have to jump through hurdles to get to where you want to be now.
remy – wallride / photo: van styles
Does that make magazines not as valuable anymore? Because brands can just reach their own audience via Instagram & Facebook and don’t need to use a magazine to reach people..
Not at all, I believe these magazines still have a value and recognition. It’s one thing like, yeah you can post photos on your Tumblr and Instagram, but at the end of the day, if you get published in Transworld or Thrasher, that’s fucking rad still. I think it’s making them step up their game as far as who’s creating good content. They are seeing the kids with the momentum it’s like OK we gotta do something with this guy because he rips, he has a good following, all these elements come into play now. It’s a pretty unique time and I think these magazines still hold a great value. If you get a photo in Thrasher, that’s something you keep till your 60.
You seem like you kinda have that hustler style mentality. Have you always had that drive?
I just have a very determined and persistent motivation for something. Like with skating if I wanted to get a trick, I would go every weekend, like to the courthouse in LA, and get a trick into the pond just cause that’s how I focus. For me, I just apply that to more in life, when you want something you just have to focus and go for it. I don’t like waiting for other people to create things for me or hold my future in their hands, I wanna create it on my own.
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Rad! Just watched the old video part. I used to skate in van nuys in HS. we were always afraid of the dudes from 118 boardshop. afraid they’d show up at the post office and kill it. we were still trying to learn noseslides on the small benches.
Mike Pound
Had a rad 4th of July in Queens with this dude and his family when my buddy and I hopped in the Status tour van!! Good times!
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Alternative Business Structures: A key topic of discussion and interest in 2010, a framework for non-lawyers to have ownership stakes in law firms continues to progress. The SRA is presently identifying several "trial firms" to run through its application process, before it's formally launched later this year. Even this pre-process is not without controversy: "...one partner at a City firm complained that those taking part will be ahead of the pack and have an unfair advantage.'"
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Vanessa Knee
Hi I’m Vee, the founder and head coach of Jindabyne Girl Riders. I have always lived in the mountains and shaped my life to follow the snow most of my 20’s and 30’s. Chasing the snow as a passionate skier, I moved to Whistler for the spring of 1991 and was introduced to mountain biking. I had spent most of the 90’s in Whistler year round, living the dream of skiing all winter and riding all summer. During that time including summers at home, I rode my way to the state and national level cross country races to compete in the World Cup in Sydney in 1999. Now 25 years on, I still love biking and still like to race in selective mountain bike races. I live in Jindabyne in the summer and Thailand in the winters teaching Yoga and I have been involved in the outdoor and fitness industry for over 15 years as a fitness and personal trainer, Yoga Instructor, mountain bike instructor. I also run successful local kids bike programs and our team of coaches facilitate Snowy Mountains Grammar School's mountain bike program. Bringing the National She Rides program to Jindabyne in Spring of 2015, contributed to our area becoming well known as fantastic destination for women’s biking. With PMBIA Level 1, MTBA Level 1, TAFE bike guiding qualifications and much experience teaching and guiding.
Jane Scheer
Jane Scheer has been a long time Jindabyne resident making this beautiful area home since moving from Sydney and the corporate world over 18 years ago. With a science and nutrition background, Jane has shaped her life in Jindabyne as a well-known cross country skier, racer and coach. Jane has a love of both road and mountain bikes and spent the early 2000’s racing Elite in the NSW and National series mountain bike series. She now races more seriously in cross country skiing events and competes internationally. Jane is an exceptional ski coach and brings her teaching skills across to the mountain bike field. Jane has her MTBA level 0 qualification and brings vast teaching experience to her clients and is an absolute gun!
Sarah James
Sarah James is a long time local of Jindabyne and has been teaching outdoor education for the last 7 years for Action Learning Initiatives and is involved in the young community through the church and pastoral care. Sarah has been the head guide for the mountain bike programs at ALI and has an incredible rapport with the students and a way of teaching that is unmatched by her peers. Sarah has incredible understanding, patience and able to communicate in way that enable students to soar in a nervous environments. Sarah’s passion for teaching and the outdoors shines through and this coupled with her gentle nature and vast teaching experience, she is a wonderful coach for women and kids.
My family and I have been enjoying the Jindabyne life since 2000. We initially moved to the area for the love of skiing when we began our careers as ski instructors. Since then I have also continued my work as a physiotherapist owing the business Snowsports Physiotherapy. In recent times, I have been applying my skills of biomechanics and teaching to mountain bike instructing. I have a special interest in teaching kids and particularly in empowering girls in sport. I am excited to be part of the Jindabyne Girl Riders teaching team and look forward to inspiring and riding with your children.
Karen Forman
Road and Mountain biking Coach
Karen (Kaz) Forman is based in Jindabyne and a Cycling Australia Level 1 Accredited Road and Track Coach and level 0 MTBA coach and the honoray Club Coach of Jindabyne Cycling Club. Previously she was junior development coach at St George Cycle Club in Sydney, junior and womens coach at Illawarra Cycle Club and coach at Cairns Cycling Club. A lifelong bike rider, having raced road and track at high level in her "elite" aged years, Kaz retired from racing for 12 years after an altercation with a car. Sven years ago, when her then five year old Gabi (now 13) announced she wanted to race bikes like Anna Meares, she hit the masters scene and contested state and national championships on road and track. She's won a few medals including three gold and a silver at the Australian Masters Games and top 4 at world level, but reckons her greatest achievement is coaching a disabled novice rider all the way to win a silver medal at the Paralympics in Rio. Kaz is also a journalist whose profession has seen her live and work around the world. She has covered World championships, the Giro and Tour Down Under. She is a journalist for Bicycling Australia magazine and has delivered Cycling Australia's Let's Ride programs teaching kids to ride safely in Wollongong schools as well as school MTB programs in Jindabyne. She competed in L'etape Australia in 2018 leading her team to first placed womens team and also in Snowies MTB Festival 2019 taking bronze with her teammate in the womens teams division.
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Babe Ruth All-Stars win one of three at district
July 21, 2011 ChronicleAdmin Sports Comments Off on Babe Ruth All-Stars win one of three at district
The North Big Horn Babe Ruth All-Stars made the short trip to Cody for the 13-15-year-old District IV Tournament Friday and Saturday, winning one of three games.
Manager Ray Peterson said the all-stars played well at times, though they tended to get off to slow starts and then battle back.
In the first game Friday, host Cody stopped the local stars 13-3. Starting pitcher CJ Murphey did a credible job on the mound for North Big Horn, but he received little offensive support as NBH didn’t score in the first four innings.
“We just started slow in that game,” manager Ray Peterson said. “We had the four innings without any runs, and we had a lot of strikeouts.”
Meanwhile, Cody plated two runs in the first and two more in the third to lead 4-0, then exploded for five runs in the fourth as Murphey gave way to Bill Despain.
North Big Horn scored its only three runs of the game in the top of the fifth, but Cody matched that total in the bottom of the frame to lead 12-3. Cody won the game on the 10-run rule when the Park County squad scored a single run in the bottom of the sixth.
North Big Horn came from behind in the next game to edge Greybull 14-13 and stay alive in the tournament.
North Big Horn took a 3-0 lead in the top of the first when Despain singled home a pair of runs and a third crossed the plate off the bat of Alex Connour. Greybull, however, got to North Big Horn starter Connour for four runs in the top of the second and four more in the third to lead 8-3 before NBH mounted its comeback, though Greybull kept scoring – one run in each the fourth, fifth and sixth and two in the seventh.
“Greybull came to play,” Peterson said. “They scored in every inning except the first. But our kids fought back, didn’t give up and had good fifth and sixth innings.”
North Big Horn scored three runs in the bottom of the third to trail 8-6 as Despain, Connour and Demitrie Montuy drove in runs, but Greybull built the lead to 10-6 before NBH responded with four in the bottom of the fifth to tie the score. Aaron Monterde had an RBI double during the uprising.
Greybull went up 11-10 in the top of the sixth, but North Big Horn plated three in the bottom of the frame to lead 13-11. The never-say-die Greybull nine scored two in the top of the seventh to knot the score 13-13, but North Big Horn won the game in walk-off style in the bottom of the seventh.
Caleb Horrocks led off the inning with a walk, then stole his way to third. With one out Connour lofted a fly ball to center field. Horrocks tagged up and came in with the winning run.
Asked about his team’s offensive turnaround, Peterson noted, “The kids started catching on that they could steal on their catcher and they started becoming more aggressive on the bases.”
Horrocks not only scored the winning run, he was the winning pitcher, throwing in relief of Connour.
Final game
North Big Horn met Powell in a loser-out game Saturday morning and fell 22-7. Powell scored four runs in the first off Lovell starter Mysen McArthur, then exploded for 11 in the second to lead 15-0.
“Mysen did a good job, but we must have had a dozen errors,” Peterson said, “bobbled balls, not making plays. Everybody started getting down on themselves.”
Murphey relieved McArthur and slowed Powell to seven runs over the final three innings.
North Big Horn scored two runs in the second, four in the third and one in the fifth. Despain had a two-run single in the third.
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Snow
The weather report was not promising. Snow. The motorways would be a cold, icy hell. Didn’t matter. She had to get home.
The M23 was not too bad. Most people must have looked out at the gently falling snow and decided to stay home. She held her speed at a steady sixty, fighting the urge to go faster, knowing that this was already too fast for the conditions. Snowflakes whirled towards the windscreen and were flung away to lie on the hard shoulder in ever deeper layers.
The gritting lorries had been out, spraying crushed rock salt across the lanes. The inner lane was almost clear of snow. It had been melted into submission by the passage of tyres. The fast lane was white over, a band of velvet ribbon laid against the dark crash barrier.
On the M25 the snow turned to grimy slush, churned up by the passing traffic. She flinched as a lorry slammed towards her, thwarting her attempt to join the motorway. She reduced her speed and slid in behind the massive truck. The lorry’s tyres spat salt and black pellets of ice at her windscreen. She was relieved to be able to move out and get past, the lorry’s lights receding in her rear-view mirror.
There was more traffic here but the snow was lighter, the flakes crushed before they had time to settle. She pushed her speed up and pushed north. The sky shed a silvery light on the scene, draining colour as if the world was being sucked of life. Home, she thought. I have to get home.
The miles drifted by. By the time she reached the M1, the snow was thickening. Visibility dropped and she had to drop her speed. Forty miles per hour. Still too fast, she knew. She measured the miles still to travel, dividing them by her speed, calculating how long the journey would take. Long hours. Maybe too long. Maybe too late. She shook her head as she pushed the thought away. Drive.
The road became an endless tunnel, nothing ahead but snow, beating at the windscreen with ghostly and insistent fingers. Behind, she could see her tyre tracks change from black to white as the snow deepened. Her speed dropped again. The windscreen wipers struggled to clear a view. She drove by instinct, alert to every tiny movement as the car ploughed on.
By the time she reached Leicester hers was the only car on the road. With miles still to go, she began to fear that the weather would beat her. That the snow would win.
She had a sudden memory of snowdrifts, piled high against the house, in a winter long ago. She had walked along the top of the drifts, able to see over buried dry-stone walls which usually reared above her head. Her feet were icy inside her wellingtons and her hands, in woollen mittens, were so cold that they hurt, like daggers. It didn’t matter. From this perspective she felt tall and powerful. Alive.
She hadn’t realised that the snow had started to soften. As she took the next step, she slid straight down, into the heart of the drift. Her body carved a cylinder within the snow, entombing her. She could not move. Helpless she had called out. ‘Daddy!’ There was no reply.
Looking up, she could see the hole she had made in the snow, a foot or more above her head. She called again. ‘Daddy!’ And then the thought: I could die. It was a strange idea to a six year old. She examined it. It was real. It could happen. Unless she got out, it would happen. She knew about the dangers of extreme cold. Animals had died on the farm, in less bitter winters than this.
Her breath clouded the air, skimming the walls of snow with a fine layer of ice. No-one was coming. She would have to rescue herself. She tried pushing at the snow, compacting it so it resisted, pushed back. Fear bubbled but, beneath it, anger. She would not be beaten by snow. She jerked her arm, her elbow digging deep into the tube of snow, creating a tiny space. She bludgeoned the snow, until she had widened it enough to lift one knee. She kicked her boot into the icy wall, her hands seeking a hold, pulling herself up, upwards towards the light.
A hand reached down. She looked up. Her father’s face was there. Close. He’s lying on the snow, she thought, and smiled at the picture in her head.
‘Jenny. Grab hold, love. I’ll pull you out.’
His hand was warm. She held tight, relying on his strength to release her from her icy prison. They lay on top of the drift for a moment.
‘I thought I’d lost you, sweetheart,’ he had said.
Me, too, Daddy. Me, too.
The last few miles were worse. The wind had risen after she turned off the motorway. Snow was drifting between the dry-stone walls. The road was bare in places. The wind had swept the snow away, piling it against the verges in sculpted, sharp-edged shapes. She didn’t care. She was nearly home. These were her roads, her hills. The car bounced and slid as she urged it across each mini drift, like a rider cajoling a wayward horse. Not far now.
The walls of the convent, loomed. Beneath the shelter of its walls, the snow was deeper. She struggled and slid but could not barge through. So near. She remembered other winters, other drives across snow blurred hills. As clearly as if he were sitting beside her, she heard her father speak.
‘We’ll need some toppers off the wall. Give us some heft.’
She stopped the car, engine idling. The snow-capped walls were not held with mortar. She lifted a heavy granite slab from the top of the wall and placed it in the boot. Another three and she could feel the tyres sink deep into the snow, biting at the buried road surface beneath. This was what her father did, she remembered. All those years ago. This was how they got home.
The light was on in the living room when she finally made it to the lonely farmhouse. She stopped the car, knowing that it would be buried in snow by morning. The door opened. She could see her mother’s figure backlit in the doorway. She got out of the car, stood like a frozen statue in the snow.
‘I’m too late,’ she said. ‘Aren’t I?’
Her mother stepped forward, enveloped her in a hug.
‘He died a few minutes ago.’
She leaned into her mother’s arms, tears setting like diamonds on her cheeks. Too late. Too late to say goodbye. The two women went into the house.
‘Did he say anything? Did he know I was coming?’ she asked.
Her mother smiled through her tears.
‘He said your name. And something about toppers off the wall.’
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Customs Regulations in Croatia
Customs regulations of the Croatia are the same as the standards of the European Union. Foreign currency is freely import and export tin he value of 3000 Euros, and local currency to the amount of 15 000 KN. Valuable professional and technical equipment must be declared at the border.
From clothing and personal effects, foreign visitors are allowed without making application to the customs of the following items: 200 cigarettes, one bottle of liquor, a kilogram of coffee or tea, and perfumes and cosmetics for personal use.
Things need to register upon arrival in Croatia are: sports equipment, professional equipment, radio transmitters, radio phones, cameras and camcorders to record, record player, cassette recorders, television sets, typewriters and things like that.
Artistic things can be taken out only with the written Croatian export licenses for the protection of cultural and national treasures. Art objects, archaeological, ethnographic and historical objects classified as Croatian cultural heritage may be taken provisionally, only with export licenses.
Dogs and cats along, should have an International certificate from a veterinarian, that of vaccination against rabies at least 15 days but not more than six months.
Tax refund for foreign nationals:
Tourists making purchases in Croatia (apart from petroleum derivatives) which exceed 500 Kuna per receipt may reclaim VAT. Upon purchase, the vendor will provide a form VAT, which must be filled out and stamped on the spot. Upon leaving, the account must be verified by the Croatian Customs service. VAT refund in Kuna can be obtained within six months in the shop where the goods were purchased (in which case the tax is refunded immediately) or by posting the verified receipt back to the shop, together with the account number into which the refund should be paid. In this case the refund is paid within 15 days of receipt.
Information: Croatian Customs Directorate, Tel. +385 (0) 1 6102 333
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5.6.6 Relative Pronoun (who, which, whom or whose) IV
Use a suitable relative pronoun from the following – who, which, whom or whose – to join each pair of sentences. Leave out any words which are not needed in your sentences.
Check out your answers by clicking the sentences.
Example: That's the teacher. He used to live next door.
That's the teacher who used to live next door.
1. She lost her dodo pendant. She got it as a birthday present.
1. She lost her dodo pendant which she got as a birthday present.
2. He bought another pearl necklace for his daughter. He simply adores her.
2. He bought another pearl necklace for his daughter, whom he simply adores.
3. He built his new house single-handedly. But it collapsed a month later.
3. His new house which he built single-handedly collapsed a month later.
4. That picture shows Mona Lisa crying. Who painted it?
4. Who painted that picture which shows Mona Lisa crying?
5. The boy litters everywhere. The teacher now wants to speak to him.
5. The teacher now wants to speak to the boy who litters everywhere.
6. Police are looking for the wanted man. His forehead has a tattoo of a policeman.
6. Police are looking for the wanted man whose forehead has a tattoo of a policeman.
7. They give free haircut to the boy. His father owns the barber shop.
7. They give free haircut to the boy whose father owns the barber shop.
8. It was the lifeboat crew. They rescued the family's dogs and cats from the sinking boat.
8. It was the lifeboat crew who rescued the family's dogs and cats from the sinking boat.
9. The twin brothers want to be bullfighters. But none is old enough.
9. The twin brothers want to be bullfighters, but none of whom is old enough.
10. John says his new kite is made of toilet paper. Now everyone wants him to fly his kite.
10. Now everyone wants John to fly his new kite which he says is made of toilet paper.
11. He bought a new branded watch. It must be a fake as it tells the correct time but often wrong date.
11. He bought a new branded watch which must be a fake as it tells the correct time but often wrong date.
12. We find it hard to believe our cousin. He told us he is living in a haunted house.
12. We find it hard to believe our cousin who told us he is living in a haunted house.
13. John made a clay model of a giraffe. Its neck however is too short.
13. John made a clay model of a giraffe whose neck however is too short.
14. She wants to get rid of her tenant. His loud snoring is disturbing others.
14. She wants to get rid of her tenant whose loud snoring is disturbing others.
15. He is a very boastful person. Everyone takes an almost instant dislike to him.
15. He is a very boastful person to whom everyone takes an almost instant dislike.
16. I tried to put out the fire. All my fingers got burnt by the fire.
16. All my fingers got burnt by the fire which I tried to put out.
17. The couple deliberately stepped on other competitors' toes. They were disqualified from the dancing competition.
17. The couple who deliberately stepped on other competitors' toes were disqualified from the dancing competition.
18. The salesman is very angry. Someone sold him a fake designer belt.
18. The salesman, to whom someone sold a fake designer belt, is very angry.
19. John is very likely to marry his old flame. His divorce is coming through soon.
19. John whose divorce is coming through soon, is very likely to marry his old flame.
20. I told you about Robin Hood. This is a life-size, marble statue of Robin Hood.
20. This is a life-size, marble statue of Robin Hood who/whom I told you about.
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Watch Cole Swindell Try to Turn Back Time in New Video for “Break Up In the End”
by Jim Casey | @TheJimCasey | March 30, 2018
Cole Swindell dropped a new video for his current single, “Break Up In the End.”
Written by Jon Nite, Chase McGill and Jessie Jo Dillon, “Break Up in the End” is the lead single from Cole’s upcoming album, which follows his 2016 sophomore album, You Should Be Here. The Georgia native is aiming to score his eighth career No. 1 single with the tune.
“I am honored that my songwriting friends trust me with such an amazing message,” says Cole. “I’m excited and confident in the strength of ‘Break Up In The End’ and it being the first song from my upcoming third album. This is the perfect set up of what’s to come.”
Watch the new video for “Break Up In the End” below.
written by Jim Casey | @TheJimCasey | published March 30, 2018 8:05 AM
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NATASHA LEIBEL HAIR - MAKEUP GROOMER
Many years ago, in a small town, somewhere in Canada, Natasha began giving haircuts to some very trusting friends at the ripe ole age of 9. With her dad's cutting sheers in hand, she ‘Bobbed’ her way through the ‘hood’. Fast-forward thirty years, you will still find her styling her way through her neighborhood, but it just now happens to be New York City.
Early in Natasha’s career she won international hairdresser of the year. This allowed a 6-month stint in London with the Tony and Guy artistic team. This moment was monumental in broadening her vision of the hair and fashion industry. Being exposed to such creativity, masterful artistry and forward thinking, laid the groundwork to her very successful career. Over the years she learnt how to execute artistic impression, run a business, build a community and has created a very strong work ethic along the way. These experiences have fueled her many years as a celebrity hair and makeup artist.
Natasha has been quoted as saying, “It is such a gift and education to work so intimately with such talented artists. I am grateful everyday to be in a creative industry that celebrates diversity and authenticity”.
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2016-17 League One predictions
Posted on August 6th 2016 by GuestBlogger
So it’s that time of the year again.
That period of the season where everyone is full of hope and optimism, and all sides are tied on the same amount of points.
But who will finish where come May? Who will be falling through the trapdoor and who will be hoping to emulate last season’s champions Wigan Athletic? Here is how I think the 2016-17 campaign may pan out.
Champions – Scunthorpe United
The Iron have a very canny gaffer in Graham Alexander, and they have added well to a squad that ended 2015-16 on fire. Last term they played their best football when the pressure wasn’t on, but if their new signings gel and they can hit the ground running, they seem to have enough quality in all areas to be very serious contenders.
Runners-up – Charlton Athletic
It’s always tricky to gage how relegated sides react the following season, but in Russell Slade the Addicks have a manager who is adept at working with what you may call ‘tricky’ owners. They have bought well, and in Lee Novak and Nicky Ajose they have two strikers who will always score goals at this level. An immediate return to the second tier could beckon.
3rd – Millwall
Will last seasons play-off final defeat have an adverse effect on Neil Harris’ charges? Perhaps for a while, but not for long enough to stop them having another real go at promotion. Harris knows the club and its values inside out, and if they can keep hold of Lee Gregory they will score plenty, but they may have to settle for a play-off once more.
4th – MK Dons
For some reason the Dons could not quite replicate their free flowing football of 2014-15 in last season’s doomed foray into the Championship, but that is perhaps in no small part to the personnel they lost (a certain Dele Alli for one). However, Karl Robinson is a top boss at this level, and they will be there or thereabouts once again.
5th – Sheffield United
At times it seems as though the Blades are destined to stay in the third tier of the game for eternity, but in Chris Wilder they have a boss who won’t accept anything other than 150%, so any slackers will surely be sent packing. That hard working approach, coupled with a little bit of stardust from the likes of Che Adams, may see then finish inside the top six.
6th – Gillingham
For five months last term automatic promotion was more than just a pipe dream. Sadly, a lack of adequate cover and a drastic loss of form – teams worked them out as they lurched between 4-4-2 and 3-5-2 – after Christmas saw the Gills slip out of promotion contention entirely come May.
So has Justin Edinburgh learned some lessons? His recruitment on the whole has been good – Paul Konchesky, Billy Knott and Mark Byrne all look shrewd ‘freebies’– but sadly pre-season injuries to Scott Wagstaff and Lee Martin have – for now – meant a change of system is perhaps on the back burner.
These setbacks, plus an alarming lack of central defenders, will need addressing, but if Edinburgh can bring in the right type of reinforcements then another shot at the play-offs is possible. Don’t though, and a return to lower mid-table obscurity may beckon.
7th – Peterborough United
The Posh look well equipped for a shot at the play-offs, and their policy of buying young talented players has continued (I have personally rated Ryan Tafazolli for a while) this summer. A lack of managerial experience for Grant McCann may see then come up just short though.
8th – Oxford United
Despite the loss of Kemar Roofe, Oxford look well equipped to cope with the step up a division. They took on and beat three higher ranked opponents in cup games last term, so if they are able to do that on a more consistent basis then they may end up the highest of the three promoted sides.
9th – Bolton Wanderers
The heady days of Premier League and European football must seem a lifetime ago now, but Phil Parkinson is a very good appointment for a club that needs stability. Losing young Rob Holding to Arsenal is a blow, and Zach Clough could yet depart, but the money will help, and Parkinson’s know how will see them comfortably consolidate this season.
10th – Coventry City
I said last season that the Sky Blues were punching above their weight when they appointed Tony Mowbray, and that he and the goals of Adam Armstrong could see them challenging. For months this looked on, until an horrendous collapse saw them drift away. This season there is no Armstrong, and they won’t be allowed the luxury of 12 loanees. They have to start well or Mowbray could be on thin ice.
11th – Rochdale
A club and a gaffer that deserve huge credit, the Dale and Keith Hill have done remarkably well for the last two seasons. On a tiny budget Hill gets his staff playing to their strengths, and although they may lack the star quality to barge into the top six, they will enjoy another campaign mixing it in the top half.
12th – Shrewsbury Town
I believe I backed the Shrews for relegation last term, so a big well done to Micky Mellon and his staff. The trick now is avoiding the dreaded second season syndrome, but they look well equipped to improve on the efforts of 2015-16. Mellon has added plenty of League One ready players to his squad, and they should enjoy a more comfortable campaign.
13th – Northampton Town
Losing both your manager and star player so soon after a runaway title success is obviously a bitter pill to swallow, especially as both Chris Wilder and Ricky Holmes will now be direct opponents. However, momentum is a wonderful thing, and this coupled with the fact that Robert Page did a fine job at Port Vale last season should ensure a trouble free campaign for the Cobblers.
14th – Bristol Rovers
Darrell Clarke has done a fine job in his time at the club, and the fact that this summer he turned down Leeds United means he looks set on sticking around for the foreseeable future. One player they would love to keep is Matty Taylor – top scorer last season – as his goals could be vital again. However, at the time of writing Fulham are rumoured to be sniffing around. Keep him and they’ll be fine, but lose him and it may be a slightly tougher nine months ahead.
15th – Bradford City
The Bantams had a fine season in 2015-16, but now have to deal with losing in the play-offs and their esteemed manager Phil Parkinson departing for Bolton. Stuart McCall is clearly a popular appointment with the Valley Parade faithful, but whether he can irk as much from this hardworking but far from flashy squad as Parkinson did remains to be seen.
16th – Southend United
Fans of the Shrimpers would probably have taken 14th place at the start of last season, but they may not finish as high this term. Plenty of players have left, most notably Jack Payne, and the fact that they have handed Nile Ranger a contract may give an idea of where they are in terms of a real goal threat.
17th – Chesterfield
Last season was one of struggle for the Spireites, and this coming campaign will be no different. Danny Wilson knows the English lower leagues like the back of his hand and will try to recruit the correct type of player. However, Lee Novak’s goals on loan played a big part in them staying up, so will Ched Evans – who hasn’t played professionally for four years – or others be able to step up?
18th – Walsall
At times last season the Saddlers were almost unplayable, and to come so close to automatic promotion and then miss out altogether must have been a real gut wrencher. That hurt must now have been compounded for the fans having to see Tom Bradshaw, Romaine Sawyers and Sam Mantom all leave the club, so 2016-17 looks set to be one of rebuilding. Is boss Jon Whitney tactically strong enough for that job? We will find out.
19th – Bury
Money is clearly a big issue currently at Gigg Lane, so due to that you have to admire manager David Flitcroft for his work in getting Bury into League One and then keeping them there over the last two campaigns. This one may prove trickier still though with the purse strings so tight and the recent departure of Leon Clarke, whose 18 goals kept his side away from choppier waters last season.
20th – AFC Wimbledon
As soon as the fixtures for this season were released two games would have stuck out for the ‘real’ Wimbledon fans; MK Dons home and away. But 2016-17 should be about more than just that, because staying in this division will surely equal a successful campaign as they continue their rise back up the football pyramid. Neal Ardley is highly thought of as a coach, and should have enough nous to keep this side up.
21st – Fleetwood Town
Last term the Cod Army stayed up by the skin of their teeth, at the same time having to watch the man who Steven Pressley replaced – Graham Alexander – nearly make the play-offs with his new side Scunthorpe. Pressley has himself now left the club, and German Uwe Rosler has recently been appointed. However, after a bright start in the English game with Brentford he has since struggled at both Wigan and Leeds.
22nd – Port Vale
After a solid effort in 2015-16, Vale look like they’re back to square one having lost their manager Rob Page to now direct rivals Northampton Town. He had done a fine job over the last 18 months or so, and the CV of his replacement Bruno Ribeiro is hardly glowing. Key players have also left the club during the summer, and if they start slowly they could be in real trouble.
23rd – Oldham Athletic
Onto their sixth manager in under two years tells its own story, and new Latics boss Steve Robinson will pull off something of a small miracle if he can keep this side up again. He has the opportunity to put his own stamp on things immediately, inheriting just six senior pros, but whether he has the time or experience for them to gel sufficiently remains to be seen.
24th – Swindon Town
Since losing to Preston at Wembley in the 2014-15 play-off Final, Swindon have struggled to recover. Their squad quickly broke up and then their gaffer Mark Cooper was dismissed as their hangover lasted through until the Autumn of last year. Sadly there has still been no real evidence of the slide being stopped, and further departures mean this could be a long arduous campaign.
So there it is, my thoughts on who will excel, who will struggle and who will exceed or not fulfill expectations. I hope you don’t all agree, as that would be boring, but I do hope you enjoyed the read.
Here’s to another exciting League One season!!
Post written by GillsInTheBlood
Blog: gillsintheblood.wordpress.com, Twitter: @GillsInTheBlood
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SE-JSH
SE-JSH (Mediflight 5950)
Leonardo AW169
Babcock Scandinavian Air Ambulance AB
Region Västerbotten's one-year old EMS helicopter is seen in its right environment - on the top of a mountain near Tärnaby in northern Sweden.
Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JSH/7547
Lycksele Hospital (ESEY)
Patrick Brandenstein (contact)
Lycksele Airport (ESNL)
Press image / VLL
SE-JSH became Sweden's third AW169 to enter active EMS service when it replaced Västerbotten County Council's AS365N2 (SE-JIB) on 27 March 2018. The predecessor, SE-JIB, had served the region since it took over after military Bell 412s on 1 December 2002.
Information about SE-JSH
Last update: 28 Mar 2018
Reg: SE-JSH
S/N: 69059
I-EASV
This aircraft was constructed at Leonardo Helicopters assembly plant in Milan in 2017. It was the third in a batch of several AW169s ordered by Babcock Scandinavian AirAmbulance to update the fleet of EMS helicopters in Sweden. SE-JSH was picked up at the factory and flown to Sweden together with SE-JSI in early February 2018.
SE-JSH was put service as EMS helicopter in Lycksele in the early morning of 27 March 2018. The launch followed after a period of customization and training. SE-JSH was the third AW169 in EMS duties in Sweden, after Östersund's SE-JRA and Gällivare's SE-JSG.
SE-JSH replaced the AS365N2 SE-JIB, which had served the region since 1 December 2002 (when it replaced the Swedish Armed Force's Bell 412s).
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Wearable brain scanner
British scientists have unveiled a next-generation wearable brain scanner that can be donned like a helmet and allows patients to move freely while being scanned, potentially revolutionising neural care for children and the elderly.
Researchers hailed the “transformative” imaging set-up, which for the first time gave them access to brain activity while patients make natural movements, including nodding, stretching and even playing ping pong.
“It gives us a new kind of brain scanner that allows us to study things we’ve never been able to study before and people who have never been able to be scanned in a neuro-imaging environment — patients from groups like children for example,” said Professor Gareth Barnes from University College London, who worked on the project.
Current magnetoencephalography (MEG) scanners use sensors to measure the brain’s magnetic field that need to be kept extremely cold — minus 269 Celsius, or close to absolute zero — requiring bulky cooling technology.
They typically weigh around half a tonne and patients must remain perfectly still to not disrupt the brain images produced.
This makes it hard to scan patients who are unable to stay immobile for long periods, such as young children or those with movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease.
The new scanner, developed by researchers from UCL and the University of Nottingham, does away with the need for cooling by using state-of-the-art “quantum” brain sensors, which represent two giant leaps in scanning technology.
“These can be mounted directly onto the scalp surface so we can bring them into much closer proximity to the brain and that increases the amount of signal that we get,” said Matthew Brookes, associate professor at the University of Nottingham.
“They’re also very light, which means we can put them on the scalp surface and the subjects can move their head around whilst they are being scanned.”
‘Earlier treatment, earlier diagnosis’
In a paper published in the journal Nature, scientists from the two universities showed patients performing a range of physical movements while the scanner helmet took images of their brain’s magnetic field.
They were able to measure vast differences in electrical activity in certain areas of the brain depending on the activity performed — be that playing table tennis or sipping a cup of tea.
“We can get a full image of what the magnetic field looks like outside the brain,” said Brookes, allowing researchers to see which areas of the brain fire up as patients do different tasks.
In order to gain a clear view of the brain’s electrical signals, the team first had to develop a system of electromagnetic coils that cancelled out the Earth’s natural magnetic field around the patient.
The new technology — which is highly customisable and can fit over children’s heads as well as adults’ — could revolutionise the way doctors and surgeons treat patients suffering from neurological disorders.
“We think these sensors will help the surgeons better target where they operate and speed up the process,” Barnes said.
The technology would also render some surgeries unnecessary, and allow for earlier treatments and earlier diagnosis, he added.
The team are already working on even more customisable, bike-helmet style scanners that they predict could provide brain images four times more accurate than today in adults and 20 times clearer in children.
“This technology has transformative potential across a range of neuroscientific and clinical applications,” it said. — AFP
Patrick Gaily
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There are never any real surprises with a Richard Jones production and Covent Garden’s Boris Godunov, first seen in 2016, is typical of Jones’s approach: it’s boxy, it’s ascetic, it’s over-bright, with minimalism turned a touch psychedelic in the visuals.
An enchanting Hansel and Gretel at Regent's Park Theatre
If you go out in the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise. And, it will be no picnic! For, deep in the broomstick forest that director Timothy Sheader and designer Peter McKintosh have planted on the revolving stage at Regent’s Park Theatre is a veritable Witches’ Training School.
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Don Pasquale at the Met
Don Pasquale is generally considered one of Donizetti's greatest works. Yet, "[o]f the three Donizetti operas being performed at The Met this season, the comedy Don Pasquale has been out of the repertoire for the longest time." This season the opera returns with bass Simone Alaimo (Don Pasquale), soprano Anna Netrebko (Norina) and tenor Juan Diego Flórez (Ernesto). Here are four reviews.
'Don Pasquale' in a New Production at the Met by Otto Schenk
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI [NY Times, 3 April 2006]
Savvy directors and actors understand that the only way to make a rich comedy truly funny is to take it seriously. For a brilliant demonstration of this principle in action, go to the Metropolitan Opera for the director Otto Schenk's wonderful new production of Donizetti's "Don Pasquale," which opened on Friday night.
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A Grand Night at the Opera
By JAY NORDLINGER [NY Sun, 3 April 2006]
It promised to be a wonderful time at the Metropolitan Opera - and it was. What had been so promising? Well, first, the opera was "Don Pasquale," Donizetti's fabulous farce about an old man who contrives to get married, wanting to disinherit his nephew, and ... But if you get into the plot of an opera buffa, you get into the weeds.
Don Pasquale, Metropolitan Opera, New York
By Martin Bernheimer [Financial Times, 3 April 2006]
It was one of those gosh-we’re-great nights at the opera. The mighty Met, ever true to yesterday, celebrated stylistic retrogression while mustering its first Don Pasquale in 26 years. Otto Schenk, grand old man of Austrian kitsch, was coaxed out of retirement for a final fling at let’s-pretend stage-direction. Rolf Langenfass provided dauntlessly picturesque decors. The cast looked stellar on paper, and the proud first-nighters registered push-button approval. Too bad the wonders ceased.
Vamping taints an all-too-merry widow
BY MARION LIGNANA ROSENBERG [Newsday, 4 April 2006]
It all looked so promising on paper: Four winning principals in Donizetti's "Don Pasquale," the wise and urbane 1843 masterpiece last heard at the Metropolitan Opera more than a quarter-century ago.
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Treaty Energy plans to expand oil and gas development in Tuscola, Texas
Treaty Energy Corporation announced plans to expand its oil and gas field development operations in Tuscola, Texas and provided a material update on all other current operations in East Texas and in Belize.
Treaty Energy Corporation has acquired lease rights to drill thirteen (13) new wells on the 260 acre Kubacak lease. The Kubacak lease is located approximately three and a half miles southwest of the Company's current operations on the Stockton and Mitchell leases.
The Company plans to develop the Kubacak lease in three phases. The first phase calls to develop three wells to determine the field's characteristics, the second phase will expand on the first three wells to include an additional 10 wells. The third phase will be announced at a later date, after the first two phases are completed and more lease assets are acquired.
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Avalanche F Chris Stewart flies under radar
A quick glance at any pre-season prognosticators lists of top scorers likely did not include Colorado Avalanche forward Chris Stewart. Stewart enjoyed a marvelous campaign last year, amassing 28 goals and 64 points in 77 games. As impressive as that is, it does not really tell the full story. See, Stewart, a first round pick (18th overall) in 2006 accomplished that in his first full season in the league. He even began last year's campaign rather slowly when he was mired on one of the bottom lines in Colorado, with one goal and five assists in the first 18 games of the year. After a 5-2 loss against Vancouver where he played only eight minutes, the Avalanche moved Stewart to their top line, and they haven't really looked back.
Since that game, Stewart recorded 27 goals and 58 points in his next 59 games. That would put him on pace for about a 40 goal, 80 point campaign.
A budding power forward, Stewart measures in at 6'2" and 228, yet when the games better power forwards are mentioned, his name seldom comes up. As the Denver Post reports, Stewart was once labeled as a guy unconcerned about his commitment to conditioning, at times subtly criticized for being overweight and slow on the ice.
But let's be honest here. In 2008-09, Stewart did collect 19 points in 53 games while averaging 12:16 in ice time per game, and he's only moved forward from there. This year, Stewart already has 16 points in 11 games, including a hat-trick as a recent part of an active eight game point streak where he has recorded 8 goals and 6 assists.
Long story short - the guy is good. So why the lack of notoriety? Many fantasy hockey publications predicted Stewart to actually drop his totals from the previous year, but why? A full year on the top line would represent a larger opportunity for him to solidify himself as one of the league's best young power forwards. Those 18 games he spent toiling in the bottom six surely did him no favours on the scoreboard.
Colorado fans are certainly high on him, and Western Conference teams have already learned a lesson to not leave him alone in front of the net. A strong, right handed forward with a sneaky release, Stewart will be on more people's radar sooner rather than later if he keeps this up. While the media may not have noticed (despite Adrian Dater in Colorado and ESPN's EJ Hradek), they will soon. Stewart was recently named the NHL's third star of the month behind Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos and Boston's Tim Thomas.
So if you see Chris Stewart available in your hockey pool, you best grab him now.
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AMR Weekly Top one hundred Singles Charts
The Guitalele (sometimes incorrectly spelled “Guitarlele”) may be new to you now however you’re sure to hear way more about this distinctive instrument in the months to come back. With the coming of satellite radio like Sirius Radio and XM Radio there are dedicated stations for number one hits, One Hit Wonders and eighty’s music making very simple to entry the music you wish to hear when you wish to hear it. Arguably the most emulated guitarist in rock historical past, Jimmy Page is moreover assured a spot in the music’s pantheon of greats for his roles as a musical director, produce and all-around guru of Led Zeppelin.
Here are The Rolling Stones twenty biggest hits, based on the Billboard charts. Blondie released the album The Curse of Blondie in 2003 and March 2006 saw Blondie inducted into the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame and likewise onto the Rock Stroll Of Fame at Guitar Middle on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.
It is price noting the low gross sales compared with the charts from right now. The correct record should be Band of Gold In Love Again. In 1999 Bruce Dickinson returned to the band and in 2000 they launched the album Brave New World and rocketed Iron Maiden again into the charts and the minds of the UK public.
Speaking of nice music video hits, Tina Turner was a strong feminine artist as nicely, picking up a great head of steam in the eighty’s. These embrace PDF information of Chart Runs of the 1960’s of Music Echo – a high a hundred chart! Making a complete of 11 records within the chart from Elvis.
The music is wonderful, and it is pretty much one among my favourite songs on the chart right now. King remains to be within the music enterprise after writing several songs for other entertainers for years. How about her large music eighty’s hits, Love Is a Battlefield, and Hit Me With Your Finest Shot.
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A SHORT HISTORY OF NUCLEAR FOLLY
A film based on Rudolph Herzog's book about atomic blunders and cover-ups...
aka DIE ATOMBOMBE IM VORGARTEN (German Title)
director: Rudolph Herzog
DOP: Henning Brümmer
Producer: Ilona Grundmann
Narrator: Eva Mattes (German vs)
An Ilona Grundmann Filmproduction for ARTE
tx date: August 19th, 09:50 p.m. on ARTE
In the spirit of "Dr. Strangelove", the film tells stories such as that of the accidental drop of a nuclear weapon on the house of train conductor Walter Gregg. “We heard a loud boom!”, says his son. “First daddy thought a jet had crashed. But then it turned out that a plane had dropped a nuclear bomb in our backyard". In similar incidents during the Cold War, 40 nuclear weapons were destroyed or lost. Some of them are not accounted for to this day
Based on Rudolph Herzog's recent critically acclaimed book, „A Short History of Nuclear Folly“, the film uses recently declassified footage from Russia and the U.S. and interviews with eyewitnesses to illustrate some of the strangest and scariest episodes of the Cold War Era – from the filming of a John Wayne movie in a radioactive canyon, to the loss of four hydrogen bombs in Greenland.
->For a 1h German language radio special on the project, follow this link:
http://www.hr-online.de/website/suche/home/mediaplayer.jsp?mkey=52326727...
Press quotes:
"a tale of negligence and hubris that makes one speechless... at other times one can't help but laugh out loud"
-SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
"a symphony of the absurd"
-SPEKTRUM DER WISSENSCHAFT
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Quotes about My village
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When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow. Votes: 4
Emmanuel Jal
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer. Votes: 4
I still visit my village quite often, as my parents and one of my sisters live there, but also I feel the village is more of an isolated, unreal part of me. Votes: 4
Volker Bertelmann
Id rather be selling groundnuts in my village than play for a pathetic club like Chelsea FC Votes: 3
As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my villageBut leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action. Votes: 3
Tony DiTerlizzi
I'm doing a collaborative project with another artist, Mary Hamill. My project is to gather the oral history of war widows, starting with the women of my village, Kop Nymit. Votes: 3
Chath Piersath
As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi. Votes: 3
Pankaj Mishra
I guess I am handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm ... average? Votes: 3
I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as a low-flying area by the Air Force, so lots of exciting aircraft used to fly over my village. Votes: 3
David Mackay
One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community. Votes: 3
Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer. Votes: 2
I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village. Votes: 2
Sanjeev Bhaskar
My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side. Votes: 2
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. Votes: 2
I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty. Votes: 2
Roberto Benigni
I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village. Votes: 2
My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters. Votes: 2
On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center. Votes: 2
I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition. Votes: 2
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns. Votes: 2
My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in. Votes: 2
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages. Votes: 2
Roger Bannister
I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now. Votes: 2
On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'. Votes: 2
Yang Lan
There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement. Votes: 2
Lisa Unger
My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a punch line. Votes: 2
I was privileged because my father was a policeman, and we lived in town. Many people in Malawi are from typical villages. My grandmother insisted I should be in both worlds, and so I needed to be acquainted with village life. Votes: 2
Joyce Banda
In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in my head and I live in that village, and it's true. When I start writing a book, characters from previous books reappear. All my emotions, my mind, my heart, my dreams, everything becomes connected with a new book, and nothing else really matters. Votes: 2
The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie. Votes: 0
To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village. Votes: 0
Andrea Gibson
After my grandfather began to be successful, he returned to the village where he was born and founded a primary school. Votes: 0
Guler Sabanci
I could've shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me. Votes: 0
Josh Pais
You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy. Votes: 0
Ian Botham
I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection. Votes: 0
Dream Song:As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village. Votes: 0
Frances Densmore
I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay. Votes: 0
Jason Reeves
I live in New York, but I still get the village gossip. My apartment is a crash pad for so many Singaporean cousins and friends. Votes: 0
I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from. Votes: 0
David Batstone
Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own. Votes: 0
I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office. Votes: 0
I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began. Votes: 0
I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café. Votes: 0
I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares. Votes: 0
Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen. Votes: 0
There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood. Votes: 0
I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.' Votes: 0
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The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. Votes: 9 Bill Gates
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Kim Jung Gi is an established artist from South Korea whose art work has attracted the international attention of millions over the last few years.
He has the ability to visualize the drawing before making his marks. With mental pictures, he can draw without a photographic reference.
"I observe things all the time. I don’t take references while I’m drawing, but I’m always collecting visual resources. I observe them carefully on daily basis, almost habitually. I study images of all sorts and genres, "Kim said, adding that he's been passionate about art since he was a kid."
Since 2007, he has published three Sketchbooks which contain more than 2,200 pages of his monumental art work.
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Home / 2019 / JDT shock champions Kashima Antlers in AFC Champions League
JDT shock champions Kashima Antlers in AFC Champions League
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Five-time Malaysian Super League champions Johor Darul Takzim (JDT) have rekindled their AFC Champions League hopes with a shock 1-0 win over defending champions Kashima Antlers of Japan in a Group E match in the month of Ramadan.
International Syafiq Ahmad struck the winner on 67 minutes – who left his markers trailing with a brilliant solo attempt when he sent a curling shot that beat Kwoun Sun-Tae all the way for a historic win at the Larkin Stadium.
It is the first-ever win by a Malaysian team in the AFC Champions League. Although the Southern Tigers remain at the bottom of the table, the three points off the Japanese giants gives the Johor outfit hope.
This, however, will very much depend on the final round of matches on May – which also falls in the month of Ramadan. JDT’s outside chance can be realized if they beat Korea’s Gyeongnam FC away with a good score and at the same time hope Kashima lose to China’s Shandong Luneng to advance to the Round of 16.
Shandong has already qualified with 11 points from five matches with Kashima in second place with seven points, Gyeongnam ahead of with five points. JDT has four points. – RIZAL ABDULLAH
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Founded in 2009, MovieStarPlanet often shortened for MSP is a Danish game played by users across the globe of the ages 8 to 15 years. Apart from its obvious operation in Finland, it is extensively played in 14 other countries.
It was developed by MovieStarPlanet Apps and can now be played online or installed from the Google PlayStore or Apple Store all for free! It also has moviestarplanet characters.
Unless a user wishes to become a MSP VIP member or purchase a Diamond Package in which case, payment is required. It is a social game wherein your character can talk to others and gain fame by acting in movies, designing clothes, creating artbooks, and much more.
When one enters the game, they get to customize their own character starting from the gender, to the facial structure, to the clothes, and at last, the footwear.
Pixi Star And Zac Sky
The user must also have a unique username for their characters which would be displayed to other characters. As soon as this is done, females are introduced to Pixi Star and males to Zac Sky. The two of them are the first characters that are introduced to the user in the life of the game. They both serve as guides to the new players of the game.
The predecessor of Pixi Star is Samantha. Samantha served as a guide from 2009 to 2015. Interestingly, Pixi Star’s closet still contains the outfit of Samantha. Samantha could also be cast as an extra in movies, but now if she is cast, she comes along with the tag ‘Pixi Star’ and not ‘Samantha.’
Becca Beats
A main character in the game is Becca Beats, and she will be found across the game while playing it. She is featured in both the mobile shop for a female player and the animations list. She has a boonie named “Phunkee.”
The two are seen posing on the cover of the Markwins MovieStarPlanet makeup kit. She is also seen on the homepage of the merchandise shop of the game and has posed for the cover page of one and is present in several magazines. Her male counterpart is Zeke Cassidy.
Starla Sky
Starla Sky is the first main character both genders would see if they choose to pursue a career as a movie star. She is also featured on the cover of the Markwins MovieStarPlanet makeup kit with her own boonie and is on the cover page of one magazine while being present in several magazines.
In addition, she is also seen on the in-game item “MSP Bed.”
Roxy Ramone, the previous face of the “create and rate” game, is present on the cover of Markwins MovieStarPlanet makeup kit with her boonie. She is also on the homepage and footer of the merchandise shop of the game.
Holly Nova
Holly Nova provides the inside scoop about celebrities and stars in the game as she as a news reporter for the “MSP Buzz” channel. She can currently be found on the UK, DE and US servers.
If a character chooses to pursue a career as a socialite, they are sure to interact with Coco. She is the sister to Caeser who is used in the career choice of a Fashion Guru.
As of 2013, this game was played by 100 million users and is only expanding in terms of users as days go on! You can easily categorize yourself in some way to moviestarplanet categorize.
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The dos and don'ts business trade marks
Mark Kingsley-Williams, director of Trade Mark Direct, explains the importance of business trademarks and how to get the trademarking process right.
Your business stands or falls by its name and logo. A good trademark adds to a brand's value making your brand stand apart from your competitors. Too many companies pay little attention to getting the correct trademarks for their business.
Follow the eight tips below to protect your brand.
1. DON'T just register your company or product name with Companies House as this does not give you any trademark protection, nor does owning the website address. Register your name and logo with the Intellectual Property Office. (More than half of DIY applications fail, so consider using an expert agent or attorney.)
2. DO your homework. Check that the name you want can be registered as a trademark and it's available for use at Companies House. Also, check the internet domain name is free.
3. DON'T be too literal or descriptive with your company or product name. Names such as 'Designer Leather Bags' won't be accepted, nor will misspelled words such as 'Letha Bagz'. You also can't register a trademark that includes a famous name or brand, for example, 'Mike's Armani Shop'. And, by the way adding .com or .co.uk or Ltd to a name that is otherwise identical to a registered trademark makes no difference, you can't use or register it.
4. DO think about creating a made-up name, as this is one of the easiest ways to a successful trademark application. It's one of the reasons brand names such as Viagra, Accenture and Yakult come about.
5. DON'T worry, if another company has already registered the name you want, you may still be able to register it if your products or services are different.
6. DO research your classes. Two companies can own the same trademark as long as they are registered for different products.
7. DON'T delay your application. Too many businesses put it off until too late when someone else has already registered the company or product name they have been using. They then have to rebrand and start trading under a new name, which can be a very costly process.
8. DO be thorough. A registered trademark lasts for 10 years before renewal fees are due, and once it's registered you cannot increase the scope. So if you currently only sell clothing but are harbouring a desire to expand to makeup, then it's worth applying for that class, otherwise, you have to start and fund a second application from scratch.
For more information on how to apply for a trademark go to www.trademarkdirect.co.uk, the online trademark registration company.
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How your kids can make you an entrepreneur faster than anything else
Joel Remy created Bamboo Bamboo in 2015. Bamboo Bamboo’s mission is to provide a range of sustainable, eco-friendly baby products in the most innovative and functional way. Joel’s eco-friendly baby suction bowl won a Loved by Parents award in 2016. Here he shares his story of how and why Bamboo Bamboo came about and how your kids could make you millions.
Mums and Dads and the word ‘preneur’
In 2015 mumpreneurs generated £7.2Bn for the UK Economy. That’s approximately the total GDP of the Bahamas!
There are hundreds of fascinating stories about mums who whilst raising a family have successfully built businesses and brands through a mix of creativity, intelligence and sheer determination. These mumpreneurs seem to have mastered the art of balancing the competing demand of motherhood and balancing a career. But… what about Dad?
The term Dadpreneur doesn’t have the same ring. Hopefully, because our society has decided to do away with micro-labelling every facet of our culture, but I doubt it. A google search doesn’t reveal much, certainly not the lists of entries for super successful mums we continue to hear case studies about.
Surely the same ingredients that go into making mum go from Zero to One as Peter Thiel defines in his book on how to build the future, are the same ingredients that are required of dads? Where are those viral stories, where are those successful dads?
An entry from Peckham
Just off Queen’s Road Peckham in a small two bedroom flat I decided I wanted to give entrepreneurship a go. My flat wasn’t small because of actual room sizes, it just felt small because I had four children – 3 girls and a boy, with not much breathing space between ages.
Family time, fun times and perhaps most times were spent in the living room. But it was meal times which gave the carpet those darkened areas where the Vanish could only do so much. There was a baby weaning story for each patch. But on this particular Friday after a long week of selling software – my regular day job, my one-year-old daughter lobbed her bowl from off the high chair onto the floor. The kicker was that it was one of those all natural pureed vegetable dishes from the jar – the ones where the contents look luminous and glow in the dark (it looks like that when it comes back out too – #justsaying).
After an internal rage of whisper swearing and pulling a ‘that’s naughty’ face to a one-year-old who couldn’t care less, I wondered ‘Why did the bowl not just bloody stick to the highchair like it was supposed to?!’ Hmmm.
Suction Bowls and Plates
Around 2am was my quiet time and probably when the Vanish cleaner on the carpet had fully dried. It was also the time when I was the most creative and ideas would jump into my mind, at least that’s what it felt like. Tonight I was thinking about baby dishes that would be functional yet beautiful. There were two facts I learned that night that blew me away;
#1 - Nearly every bit of plastic that has ever been made still exists! Most of which ends up in the exact same place in the North Pacific Ocean bobbing around in a giant circle which spans waters from the West Coast of North America to Japan.
I decided to not make the bowls using plastic, like pretty much every baby bowl available at the time.
#2 - Bamboo, the fastest growing plant on the planet, was the only plant to survive the Hiroshima bombings. Today it can be used to make everything from bullet proof vests to baby blankets, surfboards to socks and roofing panels to paper.
I decided it would be bamboo.
Bamboo, the all natural grass which grows amazingly fast, clocked at 90cm in height in 24 hours, is also naturally anti-bacterial. It is so effective that it eliminates and prevents over 70% of bacteria that attempt to grow on it, whether this be in its natural or fabric form.
The following nights, weeks and months were both exciting and daunting. I became exceptionally good at telling myself not to bother. After all, who the hell did I think I was? A mumpreneur?
However, challenges quickly became opportunities, researching made me smarter, I understood perfection was the enemy of the progress early, and small mistakes were healthy. Summer of 2016 my house was a complete mess again!
Boxes everywhere! Boxes of my all natural suction bamboo bowls had arrived before I had even put any thought into a brand name. It was super scary. I waited so long to see them and now I just wanted to get them out there in the field. Amazon and eBay became my obsession – not for sales, but for feedback. What did customers think, what did parents think, would they hate it? (The dark voice inside eager to tell myself I told you so).
A year, later the brand Bamboo Bamboo and our eco-friendly baby suction bowls picked up two LovedByParents awards. It was at this most exciting moment where it really dawned, we had created something that parents found delightful during baby led weaning and would actually have a positive impact on the planet. It IS worth it.
Today we are pleased to offer a range of all natural organic bamboo based products to parents across Europe and are full of joy at the comments, feedback and pictures we receive from customers and fans on our Instagram and Facebook social media.
I didn’t get away from the boxes and probably made a lot more mess in my house than what existed before. But I am pleased that baby led weaning for thousands of parents has become mess free.
Joel Remy
www.bamboobamboo.co.uk
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Hergé: Interview on French (Belgian?) Television?
#1 · Posted: 25 Jan 2008 18:29
Found a clip on-line. When is this from? And what is he saying?
My guess it's from the 50’s and he's talking about Tintin…
Moderator Note: The clip is available to view on the copyright owner’s site here.
It's amazing what you can find on the Net, isn't it?
I might be wrong but I don't think that it is an actual Belgian TV programme since the interviewer mentions going to Belgium, Herge's country of residence - something that would be unnecessary to say on Belgian TV. There is also an interview with a man who appears to be a leading French-Canadian politician.
Herge is mentioned as working on a story about jewels and gypsies - "The Castafiore Emerald" - which would make it the early 1960s. And can you think of him being questioned on anything other than Tintin?
Here is my modest attempt to summarise the interview (sentences in square brackets [] are my own observations):
He is described as doing the outline of the story and drawing the characters. After that several specialised collaborators [they probably mean Bob de Moor or Roger Leloup] will work on the furniture or machinery because "everything must be correct in the illustrations submitted to the world's severest critics" (remarks from the interviewer).
His working name comes from a reversing of his initials: Georges Remi = G.R. = R.G. = Herge.
They talk about his childhood influences. He tells of how he would tell himself stories and draw strips in his school notebooks in order not to forget them. This sometimes got him into trouble since he failed to pay attention to whatever the teacher was saying.
He did not see drawing as a career since it was not then the major industry that it is today. He saw his future as rather vague.
He was a scout at 12 and enjoyed it very much. He still goes camping with his wife in the Alps and the Pyrenees.
The interviewer describes Tintin as someone with virtues when compared to real-life children. "Too much, perhaps", Herge agrees, describing him as "not human, he is an outline of humanity". An English critic is quoted as describing Tintin as a "goody-goody". Tintin is the sort of hero that many children might aspire to be. He is not an athlete or a Superman and wins out thanks to his intelligence rather than his strength.
Herge tells of how he drew "Totor, Patrol Leader" for the magazine "Boy-Scout Belge" ("Belgian Boy Scout") while a scout himself. Totor is described as an "ancestor" of Tintin since they had many similarities.
Herge describes Tintin as about 15 or 16. He hesitates in stating that Tintin is "Belgian", seeing him more as a combination of various North-Western European cultures, not typically Belgian, even though Herge is himself.
Tintin's round and simple face is a bit "too holy" states Herge, who admits that he drew a simple oval face both out of laziness and because it would be easily identified one week to the next when first published. He does not pay much importance to Tintin's clothes, the sweater and plus-fours being a design that comes almost "automatically".
He describes the difficulties in translating "Tintin" in other languages, especially Captain Haddock's outbursts to which English translators are hard pressed to find equivalents to in their own language. Herge states that the British translation is slightly better than the American one.
[I don't know if it is a reflection of the times, but there is a lot of criticism of Americans and their own comics in this programme.]
Herge has never considered re-adapting Tintin to "American mentality" - it's pointed out again that Tintin is a hero who resorts to brains rather than brawn in his adventures. He does state that the Americans strongly objected to Haddock's penchant for whisky - "Everyone knows that Americans never drink whisky(!)" he remarks. Thus some drawings had to be modified or taken out in order not to show Haddock taking too much pleasure in drinking.
Blacks also had to be taken out of the stories when published in the US. "Everyone knows that there are no blacks in America," says Herge [but I think that he is being sarcastic].
["Tintin in America" and "The Crab with the Golden Claws" are examples of this. Black characters appeared in both books when they were originally published in Europe but were changed to white at the behest of American publishers: "Crab" for instance originally had a black sailor whom Tinitn tied to a chair and was punched to the floor by Alan; he was later replaced by a white man.]
At the time of the interview, neither "Tintin in the Congo" nor "The Red Sea Sharks" had been published in the US. Herge says that the books will "never appear in America". [I believe that that policy has now thankfully changed.]
Herge admits to receiving a lot of mail from children and describes them as "very difficult" readers to please, since a lot of his fan mail points out the mistakes he has made in the drawings and how he has to make greater efforts in his research. One reader sent him a letter claiming that when the eclipse occurs in "Prisoners of the Sun", in the southern hemisphere, the moon should be seen getting in the way of the sun in the direction opposite to which Herge shows.
The interviewer points out the amount of research that goes into Tintin, but it is not easy. Herge describes how on one occasion he was unable to obtain pictures of the New Delhi police in India. Following a report, a boy from India sent him details of the New Delhi police including colour pictures of the force.
Herge cannot explain the appeal of Tintin to adults. He does not believe that the illustrations are sufficient to explain it. He just doesn't know.
Suddenly we are taken to a separate interview in which a man [I think he is Gerard Pelletier, a French-Canadian politician] describes how he still enjoys reading Tintin, even though his children are old enough to read it themselves. He points out that a lot of the humour is designed to appeal to adults even if it is lost on children. He particularly points out "King Ottokar's Sceptre" and how it highlights Western diplomacy in the Balkans. He describes it as an excellent satire. When comparing Tintin to American comics he describes it as a case of "night and day": Tintin contains a lot more, teaching children a lot of things, especially in terms of geography. He claims to have been to Peru and that an adventure based there admirably describes the lives of Peruvians. Tintin, he states, handles his situations with more intelligence and less gratuitous violence than American publications and is often quoted by children. He describes Tintin as appealing to children of all cultures and languages: he claims that when he and his family moved into a neighbourhood that only spoke English, some hostility developed between the local kids and his own who only spoke French. But when his children produced a Tintin book, the English speakers went through it, even though they could not read the French, and found it far superior to their own comics.
Back to Herge. He does not consult children, parents or teachers about what they think of his stories [I don't think that he had any children of his own]. When it comes to points of conflict he consults his collaborators. He has little contact with children: he does not consider it important, putting more emphasis, it seems, on his own intuition. He believes that he can feel what appeals to children.
Violence might affect children but it is balanced by humour: a man being punched, for example, is shown seeing stars or falling in a comical way.
He does not decide in advance where an adventure should take place: he develops an idea and then chooses a suitable location.
"Tintin in Tibet" was deliberately made different to the others in that it describes a rescue mission and is devoid of violence, firearms, spies, villains or gangsters. The only things holding the rescuers back are the elements, like wind and snow, while the "so-called abominable snowman" is a lovable creature, even if he confronts Tintin in a very dramatic way.
It's pointed out that all the adventures take place in foreign countries but none in just Belgium itself. It was never a deliberate thing. He then says that the story which he is working on at the moment ("The Castafiore Emerald") does take place in Belgium (his own country) but could be anywhere in the world.
It's pointed out that there is a lack of women in the stories, even though it appeals to girls and mothers as well as boys and fathers. He admits that this is because sentimentality has little place in Tintin's stories. They are mainly about men getting into all sorts of "misadventures rather than adventures" and "mocking women would not be nice": a man slipping on a banana skin, providing he does not brake a leg, is much funnier than if it happened to a woman. He does not want to ridicule women. As the lady interviewer puts it, "It has nothing to do with the misogynist world of the boy scout".
Someone has compared Herge's work to Balzac, but he laughs this off, saying that the only thing that they have in common are their many characters.
Asked if he sees himself mainly as a novelist or an illustrator, he seems to think that in his case both are linked - a bit of a graphic novelist. When planning the story he sees the illustrations more than the text. Text is only there to describe things that cannot be described otherwise.
He enjoys his work, though not always, finding it sometimes tiring: "Creation is amusing even if you suffer a bit". [An unmentioned example would be when he had a breakdown while working on the Moon adventures.] He works on his illustrations to show as much as possible.
He enjoys the countryside. He's rather vague in describing his interests. He does not like travelling much: Tintin does it for him.
When asked if there is a lot of Tintin in him, he states that it is impossible not to put a bit or a lot of oneself in one's work. He admits that maybe there is something of him in Tintin but he would not know what or how much.
Thank you! I can cope barely with written French, but spoken... Nah. So many thanks to you mct16 for the summary.
Of course I understood he spoke about Tintin, and it is very interesting hearing his actual voice and seeing him "live". I'm also very fond of his humour, and him being a bit sarcastic from time to time (especially about the Americans...) and his almost notorious unwillingness to talk about himself... But perhaps it's just tintinologists like me who are interested in the man behind the works.
Once again: thanks!
#4 · Posted: 31 Jul 2009 13:41
Just found this interview again here.
(http://archives.radio-canada.ca/arts_culture/arts_visuels/clips/13234 /)
For some reason I can't get the URLs of this particular site to embed here.
The other man is Gérard Pelletier and the lady interviewer is Judith Jasmin. It's a French-Canadian production.
This interview is now available on the official Tintin site.
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Global › Asia Pacific › Intelligence Applied › Snapchat and Instagram usage rises sharply in the Philippines as people migrate onto photo-sharing platforms
Snapchat and Instagram usage rises sharply in the Philippines as people migrate onto photo-sharing platforms
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The use of social media platforms Instagram and Snapchat has risen sharply in the Philippines as the popularity of highly-visual platforms continues to grow, according to Connected Life, the latest study of over 70,000 consumers from global research consultancy Kantar TNS. Developments in mobile technology are a clear driver, with the number of smartphone users across the Asia Pacific region now numbering over a billion – 30 million of them in the Philippines - and increasingly powerful smartphone cameras giving connected users the opportunity to take and share photos instantly.
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Use of Instagram in the Philippines has increased 50% in the past year, from 22% to 33%. Across Asia Pacific, connected consumers are expanding their use of social media beyond Facebook and testing newer, more visual channels. Malaysians are the most active on Instagram, with 73% using the platform to share beautifully edited and curated pictures with followers. Hong Kong and Singapore are not far behind, with 70% and 63% respectively.
The growth of Snapchat in the Philippines has been even quicker, with use more than tripling from 6% in 2015 to 20% in 2016 among connected consumers. Hong Kong is the most active Snapchat market, with almost half (46%) of internet users on the platform. And in Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia, around one in three connected consumers are sending photos on Snapchat.
While young people are the biggest social media users across all platforms, the rise of the ‘Insta-Gran’ is also gaining momentum; a fifth (20%) of internet users in the Philippines aged 55 – 65 now use Instagram. However Snapchat remains the domain of the younger user, with only 5% of users in the Philippines in the 55 – 65 age category.
The rise of these platforms provides brands with new opportunities to target and engage consumers. However, brands need to be mindful of evolving consumer attitudes as they look to take advantage of the diversifying social media landscape. The Connected Life results reveal that a quarter (23%) of connected consumers in the Philippines ‘actively ignore’ social posts or content from brands. Businesses need to avoid being invasive as a third (33%) already feel ‘constantly followed’ by online advertising.
In addition, the Kantar TNS study found that influencers and celebrities hold the key to connecting with consumers. Almost half (42%) online 16 – 24 year olds in the Philippines say they trust what people say online about brands more than ‘official’ sources, such as newspapers, brands’ own websites or TV adverts. Again, younger people are the more influencer-oriented group, trusting bloggers and peers rather than information from brands. The older generation’s ‘influencer network’ is still primarily friends and family. However, considering this group’s adoption of other trends, they may soon begin referring to social media influencers for inspiration and information.
Zoë Lawrence, APAC Digital Director at Kantar TNS, said:
“The rise of Instagram and Snapchat highlight how consumers are eagerly adopting visual ways of expressing themselves, as they embrace the ability to capture and share moments. Importantly, the adoption of these new platforms is incremental – people are using them in addition to Facebook, WhatsApp and other social channels. This provides brands with multiple new channels to engage with consumers in a deeper and more effective way.
“What’s crucial is that brands no longer look at social channels as blank media space for advertising. The results show that consumers are demanding content that is integrated seamlessly into the platform, enhancing rather than interrupting the use of it. To do this successfully, it’s essential to maintain the brand values of the platform being used. Instagram is a place for highly-curated, enhanced images, whereas Snapchat is raw, in-the-moment and humorous. Brands need to approach each platform individually to ensure the content created mixes seamlessly into the user-generated feed and maintains their own integrity.”
About Connected Life
Connected Life is a leading global study of the digital attitudes and behaviours of 70,000 internet users across 57 countries. It uses comprehensive analysis of how connectivity changes people’s behaviour to address the big challenges for marketers. It does so by looking in detail at consumers, connections, content and commerce, providing the strategic guidance needed to keep, engage and influence the people that matter.
The fieldwork was undertaken in all markets between June and September 2016. Instagram and Snapchat usage measured by those who identified as using platform at all (daily, weekly, monthly or less often).
For further information, visit the Connected Life page
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Kantar TNS is one of the world’s largest research agencies with experts in over 80 countries. We provide actionable insights to help companies make impactful decisions and drive growth.
With expertise in innovation, brand and communication, shopper activation and customer relationships we help our clients identify, optimise and activate the moments that matter to drive growth for their business.
We are part of Kantar, one of the world’s leading data, insight and consultancy companies.
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India arrivals into SA show recovery
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South Africa’s tourist arrivals were sluggish for November 2018, however India has started to make a comeback with a 25.6% increase.
Send: India arrivals into SA show recovery
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Of the 875 172 recorded in November, 256 537 were overseas arrivals, representing a 1.3% decrease from 259 805 in November 2017. Out of the 862 046 visitors recorded in October 2018, 253 945 were overseas arrivals, representing a 4.9% decrease from 267 025 in October 2017.
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USA: 27 374 visitors in November, up from 26 305 in November 2017.
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Netherlands: 15 247 visitors in November, down from 16 371 in November 2017.
Australia: 8 143 visitors in November, up from 7 284 in November 2017.
India: 9 315 visitors in November, up from 7 418 in November 2017.
China: 9 274 visitors in November, up from 9 000 in November 2017.
Brazil: 5 979 visitors in November, up from 5 482 in November 2017.
Canada: 6 870 visitors in November, up from 6 215 in November 2017.
Tourism Update spoke to Kwakye Donkor, CEO of Africa Tourism Partners (ATP) regarding South Africa’s arrivals. According to Donkor, Cape Town’s dubbing of Day Zero created a negative perception of SA as a tourist destination. Other contributing factors include the perception around safety and security in SA, as Donkor says this is still a major problem, as well as the ongoing visa confusion.
Touching on the Indian and Chinese markets, Donkor adds: “India and China have the biggest population of outbound travel,” and therefore are both a vital source market for South Africa.
Given the November increase in both the Indian and Chinese markets, Donkor says there are a few contributing factors at play. South Africa being part of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) has played a critical role and, with SA looking for investment, specifically during the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) last year, and SA’s investment summit where Jack Ma, Founder and CEO of the Alibaba Group, was present, has brought heightened awareness and an increase of Chinese investment and, in turn, business travel, which ultimately translates into leisure tourism.
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With all this, Donkor expects to see increases from the UK and US source markets too in the coming months.
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Most of the world’s solar panels are made from silicon, but panels have been created using a material called cadmium telluride (CdTe) which produce electricity at a lower cost.
The huge gain in efficiency seen in CdTe panels is a result of adding selenium to the cadmium telluride.
Until now it had not been properly understood why this was the case.
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The Erotic and Esoteric in Religion with Jeffrey J. Kripal
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Jeffrey John Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought and former chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His books include Kali's Child, Esalen, Authors of the Impossible, The Serpent's Gift, Mutants and Mystics, The Supernatural (with Whitley Strieber), and Secret Body.
Here he describes his intellectual journey starting with the study of eroticism in religion and leading him into the study and appreciation of the esoteric or paranormal. His early research focused on homoeroticism in the life of the nineteenth century Hindu saint, Ramakrishna. In India, he experienced a profound state of consciousness associated with the goddess Kali. Later he worked with Whitley Strieber, a UFO contactee, and describes a striking correspondence between Strieber's experience of the Visitors -- and his understanding of Hindu goddesses.
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Snowpack below normal despite extreme February snowfall
Karen Peterson
The snow covered mountains in the St. Ignatius area disguise the fact that snow accumulations for this year are still below average.
Issue Date: 3/6/2019
Last Updated: 3/5/2019 6:49:47 PM | By Mary Auld
LAKE COUNTY – Last week’s snowfall closed schools and created treacherous driving conditions, but up in the mountains snow accumulation is still below average.
As of March 3, the Flathead Basin received just 91 percent of its normal snowpack for the season. This was despite significant snow accumulation throughout the previous week.
According to Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Hydrologist Casey Ryan, February’s snowfall events bolstered a snowpack that was well below average in January.
Ten inches of snow fell in Polson between Feb. 24 and Feb. 26. Winter snowfall hit even harder further south. Hamilton reported 25 to 36 inches of snowfall, and Missoula reported 11.3 inches. On Mon. Feb 25, Missoula broke a 100-year-old snowfall record with 8.6 inches of snow. The largest amount previously recorded on that day was eight inches in 1917. Snow continued to fall through the end of the week in Missoula with 3.2 inches falling on Wednesday and .8 inches on Thursday.
Ryan said the Flathead Indian Reservation typically receives the bulk of its snowfall from January to March, but last week’s storms were significant compared to the events he usually expects this time of year.
“These events have helped us chase normal snowpack,” Ryan said. He said the influx of snow has created dangerous backcountry conditions. He advised skiers to heed avalanche warnings. The storm rounded out what Ryan called “an extremely memorable February.”
The National Weather Service reported that this February saw the most snow on record in Kalispell, and only one other year has seen higher snowfall recorded in Missoula.
The low temperatures last month were also an anomaly. In Kalispell, the average temperature for the month was 14.2 degrees less than normal. Ryan said these conditions could be attributed to the polar vortex, which is an expanse of cold air located around the North Pole. The air mass expands during the winter and creates cold, wet conditions in North America like those we saw last week.
Below-average snowfall is consistent with the El Nino weather conditions that were forecasted this year, Ryan said. El Nino brings on below-average precipitation, and above average temperature in Northwest Montana. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently issued an El Nino advisory after observing sea-surface temperatures that indicate El Nino was present and will continue through the spring.
According to Ryan, there will likely be below-average temperatures and about average snowfall for the next month. Spring and summer temperatures, also affected by El Nino, will likely be above average this year, Ryan said.
As the snow melts this spring, environmental conditions depend on a number of factors, including the rate at which temperatures rise. He said that whether flooding occurs this year as the snow melts in the mountains “is really anybody’s guess.” High temperatures in spring and early summer can result in rapid melting of snow. This could cause drier conditions later in the summer.
Ryan said looking further into the future, toward wildfire season, he’s most concerned about flash droughts. The “unusual” phenomenon occurs when precipitation stops suddenly, for a significant time. Flash droughts have occurred the last two years, and the warm, dry conditions forecasted for this summer could indicate that flash droughts are on the horizon. Prolonged periods without precipitation — last summer the area went over a month without rain — can amplify the impacts of wildfires. “Those wildfire events which are common and a normal part of the climate around here can become very intense,” he said.
In the short term, according to Ryan, we will likely see below-average temperatures and about average snowfall over the next month.
Cold temperatures will persist into this week due to an arctic front that moved into the region last weekend. Cold air has settled in the valleys, driving temperatures down. “Don’t put away your winter coat just yet,” Ryan warned.
Flathead Indian Reservation Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Polson Lake County Missoula
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Lofty Goals
Designer Katie Rosenfeld transforms an industrial New York City loft space into an inviting home for a young family
Written by Sally Finder Weepie
Read Mckendree
Sometimes, in design, you run up against a brick wall. Or, in the case of Katie Rosenfeld, tasked with shaping the interiors of a New York City loft, one brick wall after another. Literally—because every room except one in Mow Wong and Chris Kofol’s home is clad in brick.
That’s OK with the homeowners—they love the historical character of the downtown building, a former hat factory. But it presented an interesting design challenge for the Wellesley, Massachusetts-based designer. “The loft has a lot of industrial elements,” Rosenfeld says, “but they didn’t want a rustic or modern look. They were after a bold, lacquered Miles Redd kind of look—a maximalist vibe. I had to figure out how to do that in a way that made sense with the architecture.”
Photography: Read Mckendree
Interior design: Katie Rosenfeld, Katie Rosenfeld Interior Design, 354 Washington St., Suite 223, Wellesley, MA 02481; 781/235-2450, katierosenfelddesign.com.
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Textured Walls
First, Rosenfeld called on grass cloth—lots of grass cloth—to soften rooms and juxtapose the brick with soft texture. She covered walls in the hallways, casual dining area, master bedroom, and library with two variations of grass cloth that both bring in a menswear feel, one in a check and one in a soft gray-blue that feels like a man’s blazer.
Colorful Living Space
Smartly complementing the fabric on walls, a well-curated variety of fabrics, many of those also menswear-inspired, covers furnishings, bringing modern verve to the pieces’ classic forms.
“Mow and Chris are very tailored, well-dressed. They have great taste,” Rosenfeld says. “I brought in tattersalls, checks, and plaids because I wanted the apartment to look like they look. My biggest goal is to create interiors that reflect the homeowners.”
A palette of jewel tones speaks to their penchant for rich color. “We wanted traditional but bold,” Mow says.
Bold in Blue
That comes through in the open living areas of the loft, which presented another design challenge with its long, narrow 100x24-foot floor plan. To make the large space feel intimate—and give it function—Rosenfeld delineated numerous zones.
The family gathering spot is defined by a tufted navy velvet sofa with nailhead trim, perfect for TV time. “I gave it a layer of funkiness with pillows,” Rosenfeld says. “Pillows are where you can go more wild with fabric.”
All in the Mix
Adjacent to the family hangout zone is a formal living space where Chris and Mow can entertain friends. It pairs abstract art with a stately Chinese armoire that belonged to Mow’s mother. That juxtaposition threads throughout the home, providing energy and interest. “There’s vintage everywhere,” Rosenfeld says. “The framed Hermes scarf in the library, lamp on the bar cart, the tiger-print chairs, all the rugs—I like to mix in old things.”
Bold Buffet
Like the living areas, the formal and informal dining areas are open to each other but have different functions that fit the lifestyle of the homeowners and their little girl, Cricket. The family eating spot includes a green lacquered cabinet decorated with blue-and-white ceramics for style—and an easy-care tulip table that suits a baby. “There’s no worries about her flinging her mushy peas,” Chris says with a laugh.
The formal dining spot, teaming an ebonized dining table with Louis XVI-style chairs—upholstered in sassy animal print—is set up for sophisticated adult entertaining. “I think it’s so striking,” Rosenfeld says. “It’s one big ball of chic.”
Gorgeous Green
That vibe continues in the library, Mow’s favorite space, a cozy work area that drips sophistication with paneled emerald-green-lacquer wainscoting, tailored fabrics, and rows of volume-filled bookshelves.
Sweet Nursery
Chris, meanwhile, has a soft spot for a different space. “I have to go the sentimental route,” he says. “My favorite space is Cricket’s nursery. It’s cure, warm, and soft—and there’s a special story behind the artwork.”
The story started on a bit of a scary note, as Cricket was born six weeks early. They traveled to Massachusetts to be with her in the hospital. In the tiny infant’s special-care unit was artwork bearing the words “A person’s a person no matter how small.”
While the new dads worried, Rosenfeld worked—at top speed—to get the nursery ready for the early arrival. “I wanted the room to be versatile, so I went with the gender-neutral blue-and-white wallpaper,” she says. “Then I put in pink accents that can be switched out.”
Her crowning touch is a painting of an elephant by a Danish artist with the same slogan: A person’s a person no matter how small. “I love the irony of the elephant,” Rosenfeld says. “And even though there’s no window, the room still feels airy, while it’s cozy and cocoonlike for Cricket.”
In fact, Mow says, the entire loft feels warm and welcoming, thanks to the clever layout that makes the space highly functional for their family, paired with smart decorating. “The design reflects our tastes,” he says. “It’s traditional, but livable and comfortable—super inviting.”
Rounding out the loft are the private spaces, including the master bedroom, which features layers of sophisticated color, pattern, and texture—notably the suiting-like grass cloth that softens the walls.
Fab Master Bath
The master bath contrasts the chic, smooth stone of the shower with a warm wood vanity and traditional toile wallpaper, all in a masculine color scheme.
The second bath, also outfitted in stately stone, takes a turn for the playful with a zebra-print wallcovering that pleases Cricket—and the family's fun-loving friends.
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Finding Your Inner Clown: An Interview with Dan Fewings
By Jennifer Boon on January 28, 2013
Cornel finds his inner clown. A photo by Tori Silvera
I am sitting in a café, drinking peppermint tea. The lights are dim and a soft flow of jazzy music supplemented by discreet conversation ebbs through the air. There is nothing exceptionally unusual about this night. Nothing abnormal, that is, unless you consider that the man sitting across from me is a clown.
Local Peterborough resident Dan Fewings has gained a reputation for his involvement with the Fabulous Green Roof Theatre Camp, his role as an improvisational singer with the band The Three Martinis, as an emcee for hire, and his successful career as a guitar and drama teacher. To say that Dan has also been employed as a clown, or that he has experience in the field of performance arts, would be both depreciating and false. In little over an hour, I had the pleasure of interviewing a man who is quite literally the living embodiment of a first-rate comedian.
Originally from Simcoe, Ontario, Dan is a Queen’s – Trent Concurrent Education graduate who attended a theatre arts school at Niagara College, where he enrolled in his first professional level performance course. Recently, Arthur had the opportunity to sit down with Dan, and hear his thoughts on humour, old movies, and living the life of a clown.
So, Dan. Tell me a little about yourself. Do you come from a drama background?
Yes. I had always done plays and stuff like that in high school, but this was new, like wow! It was so profound when I started clowning. I was really busy living it.
Do you wear a costume?
Not much. No white makeup, just a red nose, which is the smallest. The clown is more normalized that way. But I always tap into that spirit. I’ll wear a scarf, black pants, detached jacket, and a hat. I do it with very little. I really think now that I am less of a clown and more so a clown in real life, because I know how to play.
That is certainly a good skill to have! Is there a difference between clowning and acting?
Acting is adopting the various characteristics, clowning you are flowing through. There is energy. You surrender to it.
How much does your own personality get invested in the comical character?
My archetype of who I am as a human being is essentially a clown. I have the most fun when kicking my feet out from under myself. For example, I will always crack the first fat joke, to disarm people. As a clown, I can tap into that trickster-ish notion of taking a lower status, like an underdog. There’s definitely that element to it.
Do you have a favourite thing about being a clown? Or least favourite?
I like the belief that people know that clowns are necessary in society. You are using the rest of the world as your stage. The reaction of kids, too, knowing that you are valid. Like, this little girl came up to me once and opened up her purse and hands me a penny and said, “Thank you, Mr. Clown.” You have every kid’s undying love, a space in somebody’s life.
Are there many challenges that accompany clowning?
Well, I like the edge. Clowning is sink or swim. I’m like someone whose sight is gone, so his hearing increases. I can’t learn or remember lines, so my other sense of being quite comfortable in “just going with it” was developed.
So I assume that you think humour is important in society?
Definitely. Charlie Chaplin once said that “humour is the gentle and benevolent custodian of the mind, and that it prevents one from being overwhelmed by the apparent seriousness of life.” That about sums up me [Laugh]. I feel like I’m one of God’s little elves. If you look at Chaplin, he is saying really serious things, but with humour. But he is really just showing us how precious life is. I aim to do the same.
Do you think everyone has an inner clown?
Oh, yes! You just have to access it. Clowning is a journey, it’s like character tai chi. It’s not Shakespearian theatre. You can’t fail when you have someone there who can help you discover who you’re all about.
That’s amazing. I am inspired to give it try now! What are your future plans?
Well, I’ve been teaching for 26 years. When I retire, it’s not going to be like…Oh, now my life begins. My life has always been this way. I love to keep on playing.
Okay. My last question is kind of a fun one: what advice would you give to grumpy people?
[Thoughtful pause.] Hm. Lao Tsu said, “Once you’ve made a thought, laugh at it.” That’s exactly what clowning is, turning reality upside down, on its head. I’d tell people, just laugh at it.
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Jennifer Boon
Jen is a third year Indigenous Studies and English undergrad, and has been writing for Arthur since 2012. She has written dramatic pieces performed in Nozem theatre for Anishinaabe Maanjiidwin, been published in small alternative magazines, and is currently developing a book of self-positivity poetry in partnership with local Peterborough youth. In addition to spending her time writing essays, short stories, and articles, Jen can also be found devouring sushi at local restaurants downtown or sipping one too many cups of coffee by the river.
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January Transfers, Wojciech Szczesny, Santi Cazorla and Taking Your Chances
So I've just wrapped up watching a few Arsenal Fan TV episodes and perusing around to catch even the smallest sniff of credible news on our potential transfer activity...what better time to get cracking and giving you all a bit of a read.
Who...are you...? (thanks be to the internet for the picture)
To begin, despite it really being only about my opinions on some of the rumors (some are credible, some are just interesting), I actually want to discuss some of the January window bloviating that is making the rounds. First, let's briefly discuss us being linked with 17-year old Krystian Bielik, a holding midfielder from Legia Warsaw who no one outside of Poland's oh-so-routinely invaded borders has ever heard of. Normally I don't mind it too much when we chase after young talent...our youth academy hasn't produced many of our own gifted youngsters from scratch these past couple of years, but the frustrating part is the pseudo slap in the face that the one position we've needed a top class player in for years is not being addressed in the now. Sure, if this deal materializes, I won't hate it in principle necessarily, but it's still clear we need proper strengthening in two key areas, and that's what we need to be focusing on.
Speaking of holding midfielders, the other four players that we either have interest in or are secretly life-long Arsenal supporters are Moussa Sissoko, Loic Perrin, William Carvalho and Benedikt Howedes. Sissoko is a work horse for Newcastle and capable of playing anywhere in the midfield, but for me, he's too forward thinking and not the sort we NEED...we have too many forward thinking players at the club as is. So that brings us to Perrin and Carvalho - everyone in the world now knows who Carvalho is, the gifted young holding midfielder from Sporting Lisbon, who is precisely the player we need...hard working, tough in the tackle, physically imposing and able to win the ball and distribute to those ahead of them. The only stumbling block is the 25million pound price tag, something that we all know Wenger will struggle to justify, despite it being perfectly acceptable. Perrin, on the other hand, is an undersized center-back also capable of slotting into the holding midfield role who has spend his entire professional career at AS Saint-Etienne, and has never been good enough to even manufacture a move to a better Lique 1 club let alone jump to a league of more credibility...oh, and he's never even featured for France at the top level. Perrin's upside would be his relatively low fee, something that Le Prof will no doubt swoon over and likely rub fresh Brie all over himself at just the thought of it - for me, this the worst of the lot.
God...I try to not ask for much honestly...so if you could see your way into letting this happen, that would be great...(again, thanks internet)
To end the transfer hullabaloo, let's delve into Herr Howedes for a moment...I've got a feeling we have a real shot here, and if you need a reminder, think back to this summer and his defensive contributions to Germany's World Cup winning efforts. He locked down their left flank at the back quite well, and often times covered for Per Mertesacker before Joachim Low showed him the bench...Howedes then featured at center-back and played equally as well, and he's also able to do a job as a holding midfielder. Why do I have a hunch? Because Schalke just signed Matija Nastasic on loan from City for the remainder of the season, and the deal includes a 13million pound buy-out clause. With the influx of German players to the Emirates in recent seasons coupled with our existing needs, a move for Howedes could well materialize and probably for less than 20million - please god, let it be so.
Now on to more pressing matters and some topics of interest in our current first-team. Can someone tell me just what exactly Wojciech Szczesny is doing? Listen...when your the clubs number one keeper who so happens to constantly be taking 8th Air Force levels of flak due to inconsistency, the last thing you should do is have a smoke in the shower after a match...and then have the gall to wonder why the gaffer maybe took just a small bit of issue with it. Part of being a footballer is acting professional, and as Jack Wilshere's exploits on the same matter weren't enough before, you should probably conduct yourself in a more esteemed manner. The only thing that saved Wilshere was that he was away from the club...Szcz lit one up right then and there and cared not. Rightly sacked from the team sheet, and this is the moment where Wenger needs to remain firm.
For behold...a first-class fool whilst in his natural habitat (image courtesy of Arsenal's official Facebook page)
I recently read an interesting piece delving a little more into this topic, and the writer brought up an excellent point that Szczesny's actions show that Wenger is losing the respect of his players at a more than acceptable rate. I don't necessarily blame them if that's the case as he is still the manager, however he's never been much of a disciplinarian...well, at least not for the right reasons. It's worth keeping an eye on at the very least however, but for the moment I am more than okay with relying on David Ospina.
Santi Cazorla - player of the season for us in his first year, shifted out to the left and marginalized when Mesut Ozil was brought in, now back to his ludicrous best when Ozil was sidelined for three months. With his return to full fitness however, just where does Wenger go from here? You've got to remember, not only is Ozil back but so is Theo Walcott, and that gives Wenger a good selection headache in theory, but the unfortunate reality is that someone is going to be left rather disappointed. There is no possible way Alexis Sanchez will be sacrificed, so it'll come down to Cazorla, Ozil and Walcott competing for two places. The numbers are in Theo's favor...we're just a better side when he plays and his pace is irreplaceable, not even by Sanchez or Alex Oxlade-Chamberlin. Ozil had a solid debut season for us, but his work rate and questionable attitude are major red flags when considering his re-institution into the first-team, whereas Cazorla as shown just what he is capable when we lean on him just a little bit. For me, honestly? Ozil has to earn his place back...to drop Cazorla from the XI now would be tantamount to a kick square in the gonads, and he deserves better than that...after all, the truth is, Ozil came to us as a luxury signing.
Like Ospina and Bellerin, Francis Coquelin has done incredibly well and taken his chances well as of late (image courtesy of Arsenal's official Facebook)
In closing, I'd like to talk about the value of taking your chances. Being apart of a big squad of talented players at a top tier club is never going to be easy, and it's difficulty is magnified by a factor of ten if you're seen as more of a squad player. Given our wonderful injury bug that prefers our taste above most, full credit must be given to Francis Coquelin, Hector Bellerin and the aforementioned David Ospina. Coquelin has been a journeyman if there ever was one, despite being on our books the entire time...languishing in the Championship or smaller Bundesliga clubs, he's been nothing better than a player who belonged in a tier below, but over the past few weeks he's been simply brilliant in the holding role. No, he's not our answer for that position, but he absolutely is a better option at the moment than both Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini and deserves to be selected from here on out...he's still young, he'll keep improving. The same can be said for Bellerin, who had a borderline horrific debut against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League, but he's been improving with each and every appearance lately, looking stronger and stronger both at the back and going forward...he too deserves the chance he is currently receiving.
And finally, Ospina. He came to us after an excellent summer with Colombia, but his promising move was shut down via injury *shakes fist in frustration*. However, the hilarious yet foolish antics of he who shall not be selected have given him a golden chance to prove his worth. Much like Julie the Cat coming in for Greg Goldberg against Gunnar Stahl in the shootout in D2, Ospina has taken this chance with both hands (yes, that was a mild goalkeeper pun) and produced two clean sheets while looking self-assured between the posts. It remains to be seen if this gets the best out of Szczesny in the long run or if he'll continue to pout on the bench, but you really cannot go wrong with having two strong shot stoppers to call upon...dare I say, just ask Chelsea.
I do apologize for being so long winded today, but thank you to all of you who come to read us and continue to do so...we truly do appreciate it. Until next time, Gooner Family.
Andrew Thompson is a contributing writer at both The Modern Gooner and Outside of the Boot - follow him on Twitter @AFCBvB1410 for hilarity, history nerd moments, and of course, the beautiful game.
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cricket india New Zealand sports TSWSports wt20 New Zealand Annihilates India at Nagpur. Bowled out for 79
New Zealand Annihilates India at Nagpur. Bowled out for 79
by The Solitary Writer on 3/15/2016 01:55:00 PM in cricket, india, New Zealand, sports, TSWSports, wt20
New Zealand would have thought a little that they would claim victory at Nagpur and that too against the Numero Uno T20 side at the World T20 in India. New Zealand was jolted down for a low total of 126. Luke Ronchi's cameo blitzkrieg and Cory Anderson's slow and steady 34 facilitated the black caps to put down a decent total of 126. The Indian bowlers were good as usual. Martin Guptill's first ball Sixer followed by his wicket made the game interesting. Due credit must be given to the Indian bowlers.They have been continuing their form since the Asia Cup and the Sri Lanka Series at home.
With a small total on the board, Indian batters came down to chase glory. Sad they succumbed to pressure from the first over itself. The Men in Blue had never defeated the Black Caps in all their T20 encounters and even today they couldn't. The Nagpur pitch helped the Kiwi Spinners. New Zealand planned a Spin attack for India. The Spin Trio of Mitchell Santner, Nathan McCullum and Ish Sodhi annihilated India. The Indian batters just came and went. No one seemed to show interest in staying there at the crease. Kohli's presence gave some boost to the Indian fans but soon he left. A nick to the bowling of Ish Sodhi and he gave a simple catch to Luke Ronchi. He was out for 23 but the batsmen who followed simply threw their wickets. Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina and Ravindra Jadeja, gave a simple catch to the Kiwi fielders of the bowling of Sodhi, Santner and McCullum. Now all hopes were laid on our captain cool Mahindra Singh Dhoni but he couldn't do much. The Spin trap set by the New Zealanders put India to the back foot. The Indians could manage only 79 in pursuit of 126 and got humbled. Spinners proved vital at such a surface. The Indian Origin Ish Sodhi proved to be a Kiwi champion and claimed 3 wickets. Nathan McCullum got 2 wickets and Mitchell Santner knocked 4 wickets just for 11 runs. The Indian batsmen certainly have disappointed the Indian fans but the tournament is still young and there are plenty of matches to go.
Having drawn in a difficult group comprising of teams such as New Zeland, Australia, Pakistan and Bangladesh, India is certainly going to face the music. They need to come back hard and win their upcoming games. The battle of supremacy has just begun with New Zeland defeating India at their own backyard. Mitchell Santner received the player of the match award for his well deserved 4 for 11.
Such a performance would definitely hurt the morale of any team. With arch rival Pakistan up next and the Mauka ads doing rounds across the channels, all eyes would be on India's preparation for their next games. Today, our middle order got exposed to the Spin attack and Pakistan may plan a similar strategy in their game. With Bangladesh looking strong after their recent successfully performance in the Asia Cup where they defeated UAE, Pakistan and Srilanka, a lot would be expected from them. Certainly tough days for Indian Cricket Team after losing the Tournament Opener. You can Visit this blog for the World Cup News. #India #WorldT20 #WT20
Best of Luck Team India for the Epic battle on 19th March 2016.
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