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Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbears Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food as far as the eye can see! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds! The robots behavior has become somewhat unpredictable at night however, and it was much cheaper to hire you as a security guard than to find a repairman.
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After reading a short blurb in the Washing Post, we decided to try Mezcalero, the new Columbia heights Mexican restaurant. This one goes in the column of "easy to like, easy to be<|fim_middle|> draw in business)? Some place that might actually draw non-gringos?
As a proud former Laurel resident, I've been remiss in not spreading the word about this gem. Tacqueria Los Primos seems to be fairly new, with Yelp reviews spanning back to 2016, as I regretfully hadn't heard of it before moving away. They were packed out the door with hispanic families when I went on a Saturday night, which is of course how I knew they would be good. Part of this is their layout, where you order at a counter directly facing the entrance before getting a number and making your way to a table, which creates a logjam between people coming in and out; nevertheless, the place was popping. Four tacos will run you 8 dollars, and they come loaded with cilantro and onions, with radishes, limes, and interestingly enough thick cucumber slices on the side. The tacos themselves were rock solid (think I had al pastor, lengua, tripe, and chorizo). Other customers seemed to be enjoying their tortas, quesadillas, enchiladas, and other staples. Delicious, authentic, cheap, big portions, what's not to like? Just the fact that I can't pick this up on the way home every night anymore.
I ate dinner last weekend at Sin Fronteras. My Mother and her SO has been raving about the place, so I was glad to get to check it out. The parking lot of this place was packed, which has to be a good sign. My Mom really likes the Margarita Salmon. She told me to get the Chile En Nogoda which is- A toasty poblano pepper, filled with seasoned ground brisket beef combined with raisins and sweet plantains, topped with our delicious, homemade cold creamy Nogada Sauce served with white rice. It was delicious- it had a really good mix of flavors and was savory, but fresh. I thought the combination sounded a bit strange, but it was really good. Not a huge portion, but just right with the chips and salsa and everything else. My Mom got a seafood soup that I tried which was also delicious- it tasted like a latin version of a bouillabaisse. SO had the tilapia which was also very good from the bite I stole. The guac had more cilantro than I like, (but I don't like any cilantro) but was good. The margarita I had was more than acceptable in size. I loved this place, the interior is a bit like a sports bar/diner cross in feel, very casual. The owner was so nice and wanted to make sure we liked everything, which we did. They take a lot of pride in their restaurant and food.
On my eternal quest to truly know tacos, I stopped in at La Fondita Michoacana a few blocks from my house in the Heights the other day and was not disappointed. Situated next door to Tortas El Angel (another place I need to explore), it ain't much to look at, but all of the middle-aged ladies working the kitchen and register were super friendly, even when my halting Spanish wasn't quite enough to meet their halting English. The standard taco fillings are represented, and served on freshly made flour or corn tortillas. The pastor and barbacoa were fantastic on flour, with a good red and green salsa available (I preferred the brighter verde). Enchiladas rojas were done well, with rather tossed-off sides of rice and refried beans. I'd put the tacos a few notches above Tacos A Go Go, a single notch above Chilosos (though I love Chilosos thick tortillas for breakfast) and on par with Unos Pinches. Tierra Caliente is probably still juuuuuuust a little better. That I can easily walk or bike to Fondita means I'll probably eat here more often than any of the others.
Houston is a taco-rich environment, and I had come to believe that at a certain level of goodness, all tacos kind of play at the same level, without stand-outs. I was wrong. The tacos at Tierra Caliente are the truth. These are the Platonic ideal of taco. They are the essence of taco-ness. I sampled 3: lengua, pastor, and barbacoa. Both the corn and flour tortillas are excellent, each spending a little time on the griddle before getting wrapped with the meat and a generous sprinkling of onion and cilantro. Both red and green salsa tasted fresh and bright, with a little bite, but not so spicy as to overwhelm the other ingredients. My only quibble was that the pastor veered a little on the sweet side for my tastes. (I prefer the version I had at Taqueria Tacambaro the next day up in the Heights.) Grab your tacos, head over the the Ice House and grab a beer or Topo Chico. If anyone else can think of a place that consistently tops (or even meets) what Tierra Caliente is putting out, I want to hear about it.
A few years ago, Don helped me get in touch with Eric Ziebold, who in his vast culinary background once worked for Thomas Keller at the French Laundry. I was going to San Francisco and wanted to know where the chefs go to eat in their time off. La Taqueria was one of those places. I hit it again on my most recent visit this past week, and the beef head (cabeza) quesadilla was as good as it was when I first tried it a few years ago. The beefy flavor was intense and wonderful, beating the heck out of any ground meat that might find its way into a typical beef quesadilla. The line to get in is a testament to the place's reputation, and the lunch counter ordering and minimal seating have not dissuaded the multitudes from descending on some of the best fast-Mexican food in San Francisco.
The owners of Guajillo and Casa Oaxaca are now in Manassas on Mathis Avenue. Wife and her sister went for lunch last week and were the only customers the whole time they were there. My wife and I were there for lunch Friday and there were three other parties the whole time we were there. I haven't been to Guajillo or Casa Oaxaca, so I can't speak to how it compares to them. I enjoyed my chorizo quesadilla and my wife's five tacos plate (steak, pork, chicken, fish, and lamb). Thin crispy chips and warm salsa were good.
Is there a thread on Pepita? Google didn't find it. I had lunch there the other day. I had the tongue and goat tacos, the tongue was very soft and had good flavor, but the goat was really a star, the flavor combination was great with a little more texture than the tongue. We had chips and the salsa verde. The salsa verde was one of the best I have ever had- it was thicker in texture than most and had a nice kick to it. I also liked the music selection. $24 total for 2 people- 4 fairly good size tacos, chips, salsa and non-alcoholic drinks. Which isn't too bad. I would like to try the veggie taco because I think overall Mike Isabella restaurants have some great veggie dishes. | disappointed." We started with a round of very disappointing cocktails. For a place called Mezcalero, we had high hopes for the mezcal based cocktails on the list. Both were so sweet that we could barely get other flavors. Queso fundido was solid but undersalted. The chile relleno was quite good. We had many tacos including nopales (cactus paddles), mushrooms, salmon, and tilapia. The tacos were solid but also undersalted. Service was lackluster. For a neighborhood place, this is reasonably priced and has some authentic options. But it doesn't impress. And it's a very different experience from something like Espita.
In the space formerly occupied by the credible Pane e Vino, there is now Casa Tequila. It appears to be the second outpost of the original Casa Tequila in Purcellville, and offers what might be the suburbs' most extensive tequila menu. With the same outdoor seating as Pane e Vino and with such a selection of tequila, there should be some pleasant happy hours for the Lorton Station residents. The menu -- which I admit that I have not yet sampled -- looks like a decent attempt at "Mex" with a few "Tex" thrown in to attract the locals. This area is not big on true Mexican flavors, which is a shame, but here might be the place to sample some genuine dishes. The mole ranchero and arroz con pollo will be on my short list when I visit. Which will be soon.
After hearing about this place on Chowhound, I decided to give it a try for a quick lunch today while running errands in the Rio Center. While this is definitely not a restaurant, I thought it was worth a new topic for those craving some quick Mexican near 370 in Gaithersburg. Its easy to find and thats about the best thing I can say for its location, since it is inside a Chevron gas station. The lot is cramped, but on the plus side you can fill up your tank and buy soft drinks or snacks at the main store while waiting for your order from the Taco Bar side retail space. The Taco Bar portions half its space to beer and wine sales, so the dining area is fairly small. They do have 4-6 small tables with chairs. Take out was very popular the entire time i was eating there. The kitchen itself is efficiently layed out, and I personally like the large window area that looks directly into the kitchen so you can see that its clean and well manned by a few Mexican women. Their best dish and the reason I went was the Pozole with Pork. To me, this is the Mexican version of Pho, a very popular hearty homestyle soup served throughout Mexico. This is a long-simmered stew made with Hominy and Pork traditionally, although I think they also had a chicken version if pork's not your thing(it really makes the stew in my opinion though). Their version includes a mild chili sauce mixed in, a Tostada(fried tortilla) for crumbling into bits and adding for crunch, and plenty of lettuce and cilantro on top.. Add in some lime and onions from their condiments bar, and you'll have a wonderful meal full of Mexican flavors for a bargain $6. I also ordered the Chicken Taquitos Platter, which came with four fried chicken tacos topped with shredded lettuce, Mexican Crema and Queso, along with Refried Pinto Beans and Yellow Rice. Their combos all include these two sides and a can of soda for $8. The taquitos were just so-so, somewhat bland, but well fried and they perked up well with some hot sauce and lime. The beans were very good, thick with a strong bean flavor that most places just don't get right. The rice was also cooked well and fine for soaking up other flavors. Finally, we had some Tacos al Pastor(pork and pineapple), Tacos de Bistec and Tacos de Suadero(shredded rib meat). These were all tasty and worth ordering, with two nice firm tortillas used for each taco. The Tacos al Pastor were my favorite, although all 3 were on the dry side, IMO. Again, adding some Pico de Gallo and Salsas fixes this as the flavors are great. Judging from the 10 orders placed while eating next to the register, their Tortas are also very popular and certainly smelled good. If you want fast, inexpensive and fairly authentic Taqueria food, this is a great place to go. I still like El Tapatio II near Shady Grove for other foods, but the pozole here is better and certainly cheaper.
For many years I'd been chasing my memory of the Zarape de Pato I'd had during Santibañez's reign at Fonda San Miguel in Austin, sublime stacked enchiladas with spicy shredded duck between the layers, and a chile cream sauce.. I even purchased the restaurant's cookbook to try recreating it at home, only to discover that the cookbook was published after he left the restaurant and the recipe in the book was distinctly different. I searched the menus at Rosa Mexicano because he founded the original NYC restaurants, thinking its presence would justify a visit to the DC outpost, despite, um, you know...No dice. I'd given up on the fruitless quest when, a few months ago, I realized he had a new restaurant at The Wharf. It is on the dinner menu (only) at Mi Vida! Reservations are hard to come by, and I'm not typically down near there at the beginning of dinner service to score a walk-in table. So, rain or not, my husband and I took the Circulator down last night for the reservation I had finally snagged. We were rewarded with a window table at the top of the restaurant, with a beautiful view of the water and boats shimmering in the rain. Memories being what they are, it was different than I remembered. For one thing, this has a habanero cream sauce, and I'm pretty sure the older version was poblano. The tortillas are smaller. It's overall smaller, though it's listed on the "sharing" portion of the menu. Perhaps that is because it is so rich (the price is pretty rich too: $15). The consolation prize is that it's closer to the original than any approximation I'd encountered. My husband enjoyed the bite I let him have. It's all but certain that I'd have enjoyed it more if I hadn't been searching for it for 15 years. Finding it was more satisfying than eating it, if that makes any sense. I imagine that next time I order it, my expectations will have realigned and I will enjoy it more. There was other food! Because I almost always order nachos when I see them and their $14 Tatanachos looked good (Crispy Tortillas, Black Beans, Melted Chihuahua & Oaxaca Cheeses, Crispy Ancho Peppers, Pickled Jalapeños, Salsa Verde, Crema, Cilantro), they rounded out my order. They were arranged beautifully on the plate, something my husband commented on a few times. Those were also on the sharing menu and actually got shared. While I stuck with the sharable starters, my husband wolfed down the main course of salmon he ordered, which didn't get shared. (SALMÓN EN SALSA DE PIÑA $26 Pumpkin Seed-Crusted Wild Salmon, Sweet Potato Mash, Pineapple-Tomatillo Sauce). He really liked the salmon and sweet potato pairing. There is much more of the menu to explore: tacos, ceviche, guacamole (whoa, was the server pushing that)...plenty of things to try when the whole enchilada isn't chasing a memory. I hope we can get that table again .
Tried this since Taqueria Distrito Federal seems to be closed and the kids really wanted Mexican. They just opened a few weeks ago and are still not on a fully regular schedule. It's a pretty limited menu with around 5 choices for tacos, same for burritos, and a few sides such as beans and rice as well as the chicken. We got two tacos (fish and al pastor), chips and salsa, a steak burrito and quesadilla. I had the steak burrito prepared al arriba, which means it is doused with salsa and guacamole. It had a nice taste, but not a lot of meat for the size. Felt like it was mostly rice and beans. Only tasted the taco al pastor which had an interesting juxtaposition of slight spice with something sweet as well, some sort of fruit I think. Kids' quesadilla was pretty standard fare, though they also forgot to prepare it so it came out quite a few minutes after everything else. Salsa was very good, though a little too salty for me. Generally the food was good, but at a cost. Our total bill was $41, then with tax and tip ended up being over $53. For a place that doesn't have alcohol and you order from a counter and then sit down, the prices are way too much IMO. My burrito alone was $15. They brought our food to us, but others they called out their numbers and were expected to come up to pick up their food. This really made me miss TDF already.
Papi's Taco Joint On an unseasonably cold spring Sunday, with temps dipping below zero, we engaged in some culinary counterprogramming with street tacos and Coronas for dinner. This was my first visit and and my friends' n-th time there. It's a cute place. Full service bar area as you walk in, a small dining room is adjacent (maybe 20 seats) and a covered patio (even smaller) with heat lamps. Collectively we've only ever tried the tacos, which you order from a small printed menu pad on each table, wherein you check off your selections like a sushi menu. They come in orders of two ($5-8.50). I went with braised short rib (probably their most popular) and the ground beef - both with soft shells, with cilantro, onion, radish, lime wedge. Incredibly flavorful meats and fresh veggies. Complimentary chips/salsa are clearly made in house but the former were cold and otherwise unremarkable. Service is quick and attentive. For < $15, I had a very filling meal plus an adult beverage. Just one order of two + chips may be plenty for lunch. I'll definitely be back. Warning: the habanero-based sauces on the table (one red, one green) should be approached like like Caps fans entering the playoffs (with cautious enthusiasm). Anyone been to either of their sister restaurants: Alexander's Tavern (also in Fells) or Huck's American Craft (Canton)?
I can get decent tacos at Bamba. Is there a high end interesting Mexican restaurant in DC (some place that isn't relying on fajitas, enchiladas, table side guac, or tacos to | 2,298 |
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AGS President And CEO David Lopez Named A Glassdoor Top CEO In 2019
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Lopez wins prestigious award following 98% approval rating in anonymous employee reviews; ranked 15 out of 50 on Glassdoor's Top CEOs list
LAS VEGAS, June 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- AGS (NYSE: AGS) (or the "Company") today announced that its President and Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") David Lopez won a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award honoring the Top CEOs in 2019. Glassdoor, one of the world's largest job and recruiting sites, highlights top leaders who employees love working for with this prestigious annual award that is determined by anonymous and voluntary reviews on Glassdoor.com from May 2, 2018-May 1, 2019.
Among the approximately 900,000 companies reviewed on Glassdoor, Lopez earned a 98% approval rating among employee reviews, while the average CEO approval rating is 69%, demonstrating extremely high levels of leadership, performance, vision, trust, engagement, conviction, and communication. Lopez ranked 15 out of 50 CEOs in the small-to-medium company category.
Lopez's award as Top CEO follows the Company's recent 2019 award as one of 'Atlanta's Best and Brightest Companies To Work For®' in 2019 – the third year in a row AGS has won this honor. The Company was also named among the 'Best and Brightest Companies To Work For in the Nation®' for the second year in a row.
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Categories: Press Releases | and Executive Vice President of Investor Relations Julia Boguslawski said, "This is an incredible honor for David, who through his leadership and passion, drives the AGS culture to be the best in our industry. The fact that our own employees anonymously and voluntarily gave David 98% approval ratings on Glassdoor.com demonstrates that he is a tremendous leader, visionary, and a CEO of and for the employees – driven to foster a work environment where people can be creative, feel recognized and rewarded, and are passionate about doing their best work for our customers and our shareholders. David does so much more than just drive our strategy and vision – he connects and galvanizes our team to be the best we can be."
Glassdoor President and Chief Operating Officer Christian Sutherland-Wong said, "It's an honor to recognize incredible leaders who, from their employees' perspectives, exemplify exceptional vision, trust, and communication. Glassdoor's Top CEOs award continues to be more competitive every year, and I congratulate each leader on their achievement. Today's job seekers are looking for leaders who share their values and will empower them to bring their full selves to work. More and more, we're seeing Top CEOs make decisions to shape the culture of their organizations to help recruit and retain quality talent, which has a direct correlation to fueling business success."
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Glassdoor's Top CEOs in 2019 were determined using company reviews shared by U.S. based employees throughout the past year. The final list is compiled using Glassdoor's proprietary algorithm, led by its Economic Research Team, and considers quantity, quality, and consistency of reviews.
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AGS is a global company focused on creating a diverse mix of entertaining gaming experiences for every kind of player. Our roots are firmly planted in the Class II Native American gaming market, but our customer-centric culture and growth have helped us branch out to become a leading all-inclusive commercial gaming supplier. Powered by high-performing Class II and Class III slot products, an | 512 |
This is a brief tutorial on the construction of shadows as they are cast from the sun. We all know how descriptive they are, the long shadow of a fence over a path, a telegraph pole over a road, spreading from the feet of people on the beach at the end of the day. Shadows in a painting tell the viewer more about the day than you might expect. A shadow<|fim_middle|> extended up crosses the same line drawn from another corner (any corner will do) at the point where the sun is. The blue lines show the splay of the shadow of the table legs and obey exactly the same rules as the posts did. The two vanishing points of the sides of the table top shadow are exactly the same as the vanishing points for the table top itself.
Similar rules govern how shadows from artificial lights are placed. If the ground is sloping or the posts at an angle then obviously the geometry gets more challenging. A more complex description is on the excellent Handprint site. | crossing a road shows how high the verges are relative to the road, describing the shape of the land. We instinctively understand from shadows what time of day it is, even which season. If you understand how they are cast and how to get them correct you have quite a powerful tool in your painting box.
Here I want to deal briefly with the simplest of possible cases, but hopefully give you an idea of how the same methods might be used in more complex scenarios.
So our first example, a set of posts.
The time is 1pm. See the changing angle of the shadows and how although in reality all the shadows are the same length in our perspective view they vary in thickness and length. Let's move the clock on an hour.
Here we are at 2pm the sun is at it's highest due to the magic of daylight saving summer time! People often imagine the shadows are splayed because the rays radiating from the sun, but this is not the case. The sun is 93million miles away so if we looked straight down from the top all the shadows would be the same length and parallel. So the effect of the shadows splaying is due to perspective and nothing else. On one more hour.
No surprises here at 3pm the shadows have swung round and lengthened again as the sun has dropped nearer the horizon. So let us look at 2pm again and look at how things got to where they are.
A very tall skinny illustration since we have to get the sun in!
First the Red lines. If we drop a line vertically down to horizon we find it hits exactly at the point where the shadows converge at the horizon IE, the shadow's Vanishing Point. If we had the shadows and no sun (as we might have in a reference photo) we could extend the shadow lines to the horizon and then project that point vertically up. We know the sun must be on that line… but where?
For that we need the Green lines. If we start from the sun again and fire a ray from the sun so that it skims the middle of the very top of the pole. Where that ray hits the ground marks the length of the shadow. Once again if we work backwards we can draw a line from the end of our shadow and through the middle of the top of the pole, extending it on we find it crosses our red line at exactly the sun's position.
Here is a simplified version with just a plank. As you see it also shows how the shadow gets wider in perspective as it gets nearer. Now a more complex example, a sculptor's table with hammers upon it. First a quick video.
You can drag the slider and watch the shadows in motion. Once again here are a few times of day.
Here is our table at 10am.
…and at 12pm. Compare the two images and see how the various parts have moved. On 2 more hours.
Finally here we are at 2pm with the sun at its highest. Time for another tall skinny illustration with coloured lines!
Starting with the red lines. A line from one corner of the tabletop shadow then taken through the real corner and | 644 |
In our walk with God, we learn to grow in Him and trust Him. Something required for this to happen is to give of ourselves. In our journey through karate, we have learned that it is essential to give 100% if you want to grow. It is the same in our faith. While giving God bits and pieces of yourself might help you to survive, you are not thriving. God requires all of us.
In the story of the poor woman at the temple, the woman gives everything she has to God: Two small gold coins. God knew this was not just what she could afford to give; it was what she had to give. She gave Him everything she had. Now, I'm not saying God asks us all to empty our bank accounts and throw the money at His feet. However, I am encouraging you to realize that what you have is not yours, but God's. He is the supplier of all wealth. He gives and he takes<|fim_middle|>coffee time" with God. Do your best to give Him your full attention and don't stand Him up.
Only by giving of ourselves fully can we fully enjoy all that God has given us. He gave us his son, His infinite love, and His infinite grace. He deserves all of us. | away. So when you spend your money and use your possessions, remember the One who gave it to you. Use them in a way pleasing to Him. Use them to glorify and worship Him.
Another way of giving of ourselves to God is through our time. The Bible commands us to tithe: Giving 10% of everything He's given us back to him. God has given us more than just our money. He has also given us our time. What would it look like to give Him 10% of our day? Only including the hours you are awake, this would be about an hour and a half. While not everyone has the luxury of putting aside 1 ½ solid hours each day, we can give him more of our time than we already do. We give him our time through reading of Scripture and prayer. When you read the Bible, savor the words. Remember that it is so much more than just a book. The Bible is God's love letter to His people. That's us! He's written it to you and me! Read it with that in mind and the Spirit will show you things you never saw before.
Finally, give of yourself in prayer. Praying is an extremely important spiritual discipline in our walk. It is our conversation time with God. Think of it like "coffee time" with Him. If you planned to meet a friend for coffee, you wouldn't not go, right? Also, when you're there with that friend, you are attentive and interested, not distracted. When we are praying with God, it should be this way. Set aside a specific time each day to have " | 335 |
How Empathy Impacted My Loss and Grief.
When someone you know is grieving, there is often a sense of helplessness about how best to help and a<|fim_middle|> with someone through grief, it is also important to nurture and care for yourself. Don't get on board the 'guilt train'. If you feel tired and overwhelmed, it's okay to take time-out to reboot your own energy levels. Taking a break for you will enrich your body, mind and spirit.
Most importantly be proud that you have had the courage to face your fears and be available to make a difference to someone who's grieving.
It is not unusual for those who are grieving to make statements about 'being with their loved one' or verbalising a belief like they 'can't go on without them'. If you are concerned about the mental health of the person you are supporting, talk to them, acknowledge their pain and ask the hard questions.
MyGriefAssist is a community service initiative provided by InvoCare, an international company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange that operates funeral homes, cemeteries and crematoria around Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. | fear of saying or doing the wrong thing. However, doing or saying nothing at all can exacerbate their pain and leave them feeling isolated, confused, and hurt around the perceived loss of support.
If you are feeling lost and can't find the words, one of the most precious gifts you can give someone who is grieving, is not to try to fix them or fill the gaps with words, but to sit in silence and listen.
Accept that you cannot take away the pain or gloss over the loss with wise words and stories about your own and others' losses.
A personal visit, phone call or hand written note can be comforting. Potted plants, flowers, or small personal thoughtful gifts are also an acceptable way to express your feelings.
When someone is grieving their energy levels are low and they will tire easily, so be aware of keeping your visits short, or ask them to let you know when they want some time alone.
Offer to be available to help out with the practical day to day chores, such as driving, cleaning, cooking, shopping, gardening. Be mindful about asking permission before jumping in to help, and check out their specific needs.
Realise that your friend is a unique individual and will grieve in their own unique way, in their own time.
Give them permission to express their pain without judging or dismissing their feelings. Let them know they are safe and that it's okay to cry, shout, scream or be angry about their loss in your company.
When we see someone hurting, it is a normal human response to want to ease their pain. However, with the best of intentions, our words can be insensitive. Avoid statements such as: 'I know how you feel', 'It's for the best', 'Be grateful he/she didn't suffer', 'There are plenty of fish in the sea', 'You are blessed to have had so many years together', 'Get on with it', 'You've got to be strong'. Instead, validate their pain by listening and reflecting.
Remember you don't have to say anything, sometimes your presence in their life is all they need.
Make a note of the date of your friend's loss and give them a call or send a note on those days. Family holiday times may also be tough.
In the initial stages of grief, there is a degree of shock and denial, and for the first few weeks or so they have lots of support and personal details to take care of. However, there comes a time when they begin to realise the finality of their loss. When this occurs they sometimes feel they are going crazy. You can help by making regular contact throughout the months ahead.
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Paper, Climate Change and Common Sense
Submitted: Kathi Rowzie August 18, 2021
The UN Int<|fim_middle|> carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions and avoided emissions. Each of these elements is influenced by important characteristics that distinguish paper from other products: it's made from a renewable resource that stores carbon, it's manufactured using mostly renewable, carbon neutral energy, and it's easily recyclable.
Sustainable Forestry and Carbon Sequestration
Sustainable forest management, the cornerstone of the North American paper and paper-based packaging industry, helps increase the ability of forests to sequester carbon while also protecting and conserving other forest values like soil, air and water quality, wildlife habitat and biodiversity. An infinitely renewable resource, healthy forests sequester carbon by capturing CO2 from the atmosphere and transforming it into biomass through photosynthesis. The carbon stored in forests helps to offset releases of CO2 into the atmosphere from sources like the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation (the permanent loss of trees).
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports that sustainable forest management practices resulted in net carbon sequestration each year between 1990 and 2018. As reported in the agency's Inventory of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions and Sinks, U.S. forests and wood products captured and stored roughly 12% of all carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions in 2018. CO2e is a measure of the global warming potential of all GHGs compared to CO2. The Canadian government reports that forestlands captured and stored around 19% of the country's total CO2e emissions in 2018.
Planting new trees and improving forest health through thinning and prescribed burning are some of the ways to increase the uptake of forest carbon in the long run. According to the U.S. Forest Service, the perpetual cycle of harvesting and regenerating forests can also result in net carbon sequestration in products made from wood and in new forest growth. In its 2020 Global Forest Resources Assessment, the U.N Food and Agriculture Organization reported that net forest area in the U.S. increased by approximately 18 million acres between 1990 and 2020, while net forest area in Canada remained stable at around 857 million acres during those same years.
The Paper Industry and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The North American paper and paper-based packaging industry was among the first industries to take voluntary action to reduce GHG emissions. Between 2011 and 2019, the U.S. industry reduced greenhouse gas emissions from 44.2 million metric tons to 35.2 million metric tons or 20%, according to the US EPA. Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) reports that between 2007 and 2017 the Canadian industry reduced GHG emissions from 22 million metric tons to 13.1 million metric tons or 40%.
These reductions are attributed to the predominant use of carbon-neutral, wood-based biofuel (which accounts on average for around 60% of energy generation at North American mills), the switch from coal and oil to less carbon intensive fuels such as natural gas, and investment in equipment and process enhancements that improved overall energy efficiency. Contrary to the claim that the North America paper and paper-based packaging industry is a major contributor to GHG emissions, EPA and NRCan data show that U.S. and Canadian producers account for only 0.5% of total GHGs in their respective countries. A continuing increase in the use of biomass energy at North American mills has the potential to reduce GHG emissions even further.
Some in the ENGO community argue that because biomass releases just as much CO2 in the atmosphere as fossil fuels, it isn't really carbon neutral. But the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and other experts disagree. As DOE explains: "Burning biomass releases about the same amount of carbon dioxide as burning fossil fuels. However, fossil fuels release carbon dioxide captured by photosynthesis millions of years ago – an essentially "new" greenhouse gas. Biomass, on the other hand, releases carbon dioxide that is largely balanced by the carbon dioxide captured in its own growth."
In other words, biomass contains carbon that was only recently removed from the atmosphere by photosynthesis, and that same carbon is returned to the atmosphere as part of the natural carbon cycle when it is burned to generate energy. This inherent property exists whether or not trees are regrown. Sustainable forest management practices help make sure that biofuel use does not outpace forest regrowth. The IPCC concludes that, "Regardless of how carbon neutrality is defined and calculated, the use of forest biomass produced under conditions where forest carbon stocks are stable or increasing always yields long-term mitigation benefits."
Avoided Emissions: Paper's Recycling Success Story
When paper products are sent to landfills, they release GHGs as they decompose. When they are recycled, these GHG emissions are avoided. That's a significant environmental benefit when you consider that around two-thirds of all paper and paper-based packaging is recovered for recycling in the U.S. and Canada, more than plastics, glass and metals combined. When you single out corrugated cardboard, the recovery rate jumps to nearly 90%. The US EPA reports that the amount of paper and paper-based packaging that was recycled instead of going to landfills lowered U.S. GHG emissions by 155 million metric tons of CO2e in 2018, an amount equivalent to taking over 33 million cars off the road for an entire year.
The North American paper industry continues to invest billions of dollars in technology to increase the types of paper products that can be recycled as well as infrastructure investments that expand recycling capacity. For example, U.S. producers have announced or planned $4.5 billion in manufacturing infrastructure investments by 2023, more than $2.5 million per day. The industry also is focused on "recyclable by design" innovations that help brands, retailers and other end users develop fully recyclable paper packaging by eliminating non-recyclable elements.
Paper producers' commitment to sustainable forest management, the use of renewable, carbon neutral energy, and strong support and investment in recycling has transformed the circularity of paper products from vision to reality, and will help to drive further GHG emission reductions.
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Two Sides North America Announces the Election of New Board Members | ergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released updated projections about the effects of human activity on our planet, warning that inaction to immediately address climate risk will yield dire consequences. The IPCC's conclusions and recommendations will no doubt be the subject of continuing debate, but there are three things that most people agree on: the climate is warming, humans play a role, and we need to do something about it.
However, without broad-based public understanding of how the environment works, there is an unfortunate tendency to believe that all manufacturing industries and processes must be part of the problem, a misconception that some in the ENGO community and the news media are only too happy to exploit. They push the thoroughly unscientific narrative that paper contributes massive amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere, a byproduct of tree harvesting, manufacturing processes and paper waste. Far from mitigating climate change, it's a narrative that could stifle an industry that is, in reality, a part of the solution.
Mitigating climate change demands a common-sense approach that is grounded in sound science, embraces proven strategies, and invests in driving continuous improvement. This approach, in a nutshell, is why the North America paper and paper-based packaging industry is a climate mitigation leader.
Paper's Carbon Footprint
A look across the life cycle of paper shows that its carbon footprint can be divided into three basic elements: | 284 |
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Some newspaper hawkers are trying to ride on the booming e-commerce business to develop a new source of income.
I attended primary school in the 1990s. Usually over the weekend, without the burden of homework, I had a fun time reading the papers that my parents bought from the newspaper stall outside the neighbourhood's wet market.
The newspaper was my window to the outside world. Not anymore. The last time I bought a newspaper was in 2009, when I took a news writing course. Today, I know what is going on around the world with just a click of the mouse on the internet.
While today's traditional media are striving to go digital, with varying degrees of success, this does not seem to be an option for the thousands of newspaper stalls in Hong Kong. With the business declining and hardly any new blood joining, these stalls will possibly disappear in between the city's skyscrapers in the years ahead, unless measures are taken to revitalise this sunset business.
It is thus heartening to learn that some newspaper hawkers are now trying to ride on the booming e-commerce business to develop a new source of income. Several community-based newspaper stalls have partnered with a local delivery service company to provide pick-up services for online shoppers.
The Hong Kong Newspaper Hawker Association, too, is trying to diversify the business, and is exploring aggregating links to the websites of what it calls grass-roots business members on its own websites. The idea is to let the small businesses promote their product using the<|fim_middle|> for instance, the window for local start-ups to grow their business, and also for visitors to take home something special. | citywide network of newspaper stalls.
Some newspaper hawkers are also adjusting their product portfolio, as they are selling to mainland tourists more Chinese publications that are not available on the mainland because of their political sensitivity.
It is still too early to tell whether these adaptation methods will succeed. But some policy support will help. Now that the government has wheeled out its plan to introduce food trucks in part to boost tourism, perhaps it should consider marking on the map the location of the proposed trucks, based on the network of newspaper stalls. In this way, tourists can enjoy specialty food and conveniently buy something special from the newspaper hawkers, including some locally designed souvenirs and product.
This is one of many ways to revitalise the traditional business and prevent it from dying. The newspaper stall may no longer be the window to the world for me, but it can become a window of other sorts, | 178 |
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Tapella Resigns to Allow Recess Appointment of Boarman as Public Printer
WASHINGTON, DC—Dec. 29, 2010—On the heels of an announcement (below) from the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) of Public Printer of the United States Bob Tapella's resignation, The White House issued a press release detailing six "Recess Appointments,'' including William J. Boarman as the 26th Public Printer of the United States. The change in GPO leadership was originally announced last April, but was pending Boarman's confirmation, which has now been sidestepped.
Boarman has been serving as president of the Printing, Publishing & Media Workers Sector of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), and as senior vice president of CWA. He has been associated with the printing industry, its labor relations and personnel management for over 40 years, starting with his four-year apprenticeship at McArdle Printing in Washington, DC.
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Public Printer Bob Tapella Resigns
Public Printer of the United States Bob Tapella announces his resignation as head of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). Tapella has led the men and women of the 150-yearold agency the last three years. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2007 to become the 25th Public Printer of the United States. Deputy Public Printer Paul Erickson becomes the Acting Public Printer effective immediately.
Prior to becoming Public Printer, Tapella served as a senior executive at GPO for five years. He was part of the team that took GPO from a survival mode to the thriving operation it is today. Tapella helped turn GPO's financial situation from years of significant losses into the positive net operating income the agency enjoys today. Fiscal year 2010 marked the seventh consecutive year of positive results. The agency also launched GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) during Tapella's tenure, giving the American people a one-stop site to authentic, published government information.
"It has been a pleasure serving both President Obama and President Bush during the last eight years at GPO," said Public Printer Bob Tapella. "I want to thank the hardworking men and women of GPO who have transformed an agency that opened in 1861 | 282 |
Isn't He Clever to Arkansas Derby
Isn't He Clever will be entered to run in the Grade I Arkansas Derby. The late<|fim_middle|>"We've kind of thrown that race out," said Dominquez. "It was his first race of the year, and he was fresh. That's not his style. He's done well since then and really matured."
Dominguez said that jockey Robby Albarado, who won the 2007 Arkansas Derby with Curlin, will have the mount.
Nominations for the Arkansas Derby closed with 97 horses being made eligible, including several horses that weren't part of the early-bird nomination process before the Grade III Southwest Stakes. Among the new names on the list is Grade III Spiral Stakes third-place finisher Heavy Breathing, who is expected to run.
--Edited Oaklawn release with additional content by Dick Downey
Horse Racing, Kentucky Derby, Arkansas Derby, Isn't He Clever | Triple Crown nominee is on the Kentucky Derby bubble with $188,000 in graded stakes earnings.
Most recently, Isn't He Clever had a stalking trip made a winning turn move in the Grade III Sunland Derby only to be caught late in the stretch by Daddy Nose Best.
"He's doing good, real good," said trainer Henry Dominguez. "We're just hoping he runs a similar race to the Sunland Derby, but maybe wait a little longer this time. It's his style, and we're not going to try and change him."
Isn't He Clever has four wins and two seconds from seven starts. His only off-the-board performance came in the Grade II Robert B. Lewis Stakes when he went straight to the lead and eventually faded to fifth. He was elevated for fourth in that race with the disqualification of Groovin' Solo.
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Pets are part of the family, so you have to see these hilarious pregnancy announcements that include your cat. Usually, people think of making a pregnancy announcement with their dog, but all of your fuzzy furballs are about to have their world turned upside down by the baby. Include your kitties from the start, let your cat help you tell the world that baby is on the way. Need some ideas? Here are my top seven ideas for a pregnancy announcement that include your cat.
Did you include your cat in your pregnancy announcement or know somebody who did? Did one of these pregnancy announcements that include your cat have you laughing? Tell me in the comments!
Let's face it, cats are simply not as agreeable as dogs when you are trying to snap a picture. Why not add a few quick props such as your pregnancy test and your pregnancy scan. Then later, you can edit your message in. Then you can get that perfect shot where the cats are looking at the camera, and the world can read your adorable message. We're paws-<|fim_middle|> I'm sending these to my pregnant & cat-obsessed sister. She will probably be inspired to do the same!
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We have to hand it to you; you kept this pregnancy secret on the down low for a while. Now with your pregnancy announcement the cat is out of the bag and everyone knows! This announcement is even easier if your cats like bags as much as mine does. A bag is practically a present in itself for kitty!
This adorable kitty does not seem super excited about this note, but I bet the parents to be are excited! I like that they included this photo in what appears to be the cats favorite window spot. Make sure to bribe with a can of tuna for that photo, too cute!
Here is another easy and hilarious idea for pregnancy announcements that include your cat! If you already had a crib from baby number one or are just already prepared for baby why not snap a picture of your kitty exploring the crib. At some point, that cat is going to jump in there anyways, and it makes an adorable and fun announcement before you shoo them away!
Hahaha, what an adorable twist on a Prego pasta sauce announcement! I love the idea of pairing up your kitty next to a jar of sauce for a pregnancy announcement. Your friends and family are sure to be surprised!
Having problems getting your cats to look at the camera? If you have art skills why not draw a sweet announcement. Most cats are known for not adapting quickly to change, so a new baby in the house might be an adjustment for a while. I love this announcement where this cat has no idea what is coming. This pregnancy announcement idea is too sweet.
Have baby number two on the way? Share your cats elation at the idea of a second child to pull his tail love him. You can tell this cat is SUPER excited for baby two. Don't worry, your family and friends will be excited for you!
These are all so cute!!!! I was having a rough day until I saw this.
What a cute way to include the fuzziest family member in the pregnancy announcement! People really love their cats!
Very cute ideas for any cat lovers. You could even use a few of these for other pet owners. Love them. Very creative.
Oh my gosh, these are too cute! I like the baby holding the cat! So creative!
These are all so adorable. I love the idea of including the cat. What a fun way to recreate the traditional pregnancy announcement.
These are all fantastic pregnancy announcements. I will have to share this with a friend that just found out she is pregnant.
I love the "My parents are getting me a human" announcement. These are all great ideas.
Oh how cute are these? All super cute and I love the idea of using cats photos in pregnancy announcements!
Ha, ha, ha… I love that one that says our parents are getting us a human. That is so super-funny! These are all adorable. Thanks for the afternoon smiles.
I love every single one of these ideas! They are so unique.
These are such cute ideas for pregnancy announcements. I especially love the "getting me a human" one, that is funny.
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CARING IS CREEPY <|fim_middle|> is solid.
So what gives? Why the push for a committed kid away from a position of need now? Well, aside from the fact that the Rutgers administration is a tire fire, there's also this point--Iowa's last two starting QBs, Ricky Stanzi and James Vandenberg, both came from the last two classes where Iowa took two freshman QBs. And Vandenberg was just fine before he was placed in the Horizontal Death Offense.
So keep an eye on Wiegers. He's Rutgers-bound until anyone says otherwise, but Iowa seems to think his recruitment's not done. We'll see if there's anything to that. | 2014
Caring Is Creepy 2014: Have a Seat, CJ Hilliard
Iowa recruiter Chris White is on a roll, bringing in his second commitment in under a week. Bonus: it's a running back!
By Adam Jacobi Jun 6, 2013, 8:59pm CDT
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Any worries that Iowa's recruiting momentum had ground down as of late have been effectively allayed with the commitment of tailback CJ Hilliard, a 5'10", 190-pound prospect from St. Xavier High in Cincinnati, OH. Hilliard joins CB/WR Omar Truitt (a Monday commitment from Washington, DC) as not only verbal commitments to the 2014 Hawkeyes' class, but products of the recruiting efforts of Iowa assistant Chris White. And as the Gazette reports, White's history in the NFL was a strong factor in Hilliard's commitment:
Hilliard said White's, and head coach Kirk Ferentz's, NFL ties didn't hurt.
"They both coached in the NFL and Coach White was associated with Adrian Peterson at the Minnesota Vikings," Hilliard said. "He knows what it takes to get to the League and he told me straight-up that he'll give me a chance to get to the next level."
Hilliard is a consensus 3-star recruit, and Iowa beat out Indiana, Boston College and a handful of MAC-type schools for his commitment. Hey, Indiana's no slouch in recruiting these days.
Also worth noting—CJ Hilliard has a younger brother, Justin, who is a serious prospect at linebacker in 2015. He's already got offers from several SEC schools, including South Carolina, as well as half of the Big Ten. Oh, and that includes Iowa. So are we looking at a package deal?
CJ is downplaying the connection, saying he won't try to recruit his little brother ("I don't want to get in his ear because if that was me I would be pretty annoyed," he told Rivals.com), so he's a good big brother in that sense. And while pairs of brothers generally aren't package deals, Justin did tell HawkeyeReport.com that Iowa has "an edge/advantage" based on how much he and CJ enjoyed a recent unofficial visit.
Justin has not announced any leaders in his recruitment, and he won't be able to sign with anyone for 20 months. So y'know... don't read a whole lot into this situation yet.
Now, the key question is how will AIRBHG maim this poor kid can CJ Hilliard play ball? We would say so. Highlights here:
Marc Morehouse used the word "instinctual" to describe Hilliard's running style; that word came to mind early and often with us as well. He's definitely not near either end of the Fred Russell-Rob Thein spectrum when it comes to athleticism or running style, but he absolutely looks like a serviceable type of back, especially in a zone running scheme like Iowa's.
Hilliard has average speed for a running back, which sounds like an insult but isn't. Average speed for a running back is just fine. The two best running backs of the Kirk Ferentz era are Ladell Betts and Shonn Greene, and their straight-line speed was about that same average. Hilliard won't bust many huge runs, but what makes a running back valuable to a team is about far more than whether he can run a 4.4.
In fact, Hilliard's running style and athleticism makes his ideal comparison Sedrick Shaw—another medium-sized, one-cut guy who had a good, innate understanding of seams and rarely missed opportunities to maximize his yardage. Shaw was a more dynamic runner and had a really special determination, but we see plenty of instances where Hilliard puts his head down and gets yards after contact instead of running away from it.
Hilliard's size is not ideal for that style of running, but the good news is he'll have plenty of time in Iowa's weight program to get his body more in line with what a collegiate tailback's ought to be—especially if he redshirts, which as it stands right now is a good possibility. If he can maintain his speed and bulk up to the 205, 210 range (a physical development that is generally standard at this level of play) he has a chance to be a very good contributor in the backfield for Iowa down the road. Again, Sedrick Shaw is the ideal goal, and even if Hilliard falls short of that ideal, it's entirely plausible that he develops into a 1,000-yard rusher.
One last recruiting note to keep in the ol' brain parts over the next few weeks/months—per Todd Worly of 247Sports.com ($$-ish link, some posts in thread are behind a paywall), Iowa just sent an offer to 4-star QB and current Rutgers commit Tyler Wiegers. There aren't significant rumblings of a Wiegers decommit at this point, but Iowa must think something's up to go after a kid like this.
Also noteworthy—Iowa is pretty well-stocked with young QBs and already has a commit in the 2014 class: Jay Scheel. Scheel has outstanding athleticism but every indication is that he's being recruited as a quarterback. Also, his commitment | 1,147 |
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Description<|fim_middle|> evening star : mystery of the Incarnation | : 211 pages ; 22 cm
Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, now a major motion picture.
It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
"Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."
A tesseract (in case the reader doesn't know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L'Engle's unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time , winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.
A Wrinkle in Time is the winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal. It is the first book in The Time Quintet, which consists of A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters , and An Acceptable Time .
A Wrinkle in Time is now a movie from Disney, directed by Ava DuVernay, starring Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling.
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Praise for A Wrinkle in Time :
" A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT." --Meg Cabot
"A book that every young person should read, a book that provides a road map for seeking knowledge and compassion even at the worst of times, a book to make the world a better place." --Cory Doctorow
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At E3 the Sonic The Hedgehog team promised a big announcement that never came. Seeing as their track record as of late hasn't been too good, I assumed it was another spin-off of Sonic Boom or something that they wised up and brushed under the rug of shame. Turns out that news is pretty substantial after all!
Nintendo Life tells us straight from the mouth of Takashi Iizuka (current head of Sonic franchise) that a brand new entry in the franchise is being developed as well as a<|fim_middle|> game? You think it'll be the same old same old or something "new" as they promise? | feature length film!
We at Sonic Team – are developing a completely new game, as well as developing a full movie, actively done by Sony Pictures, and animation on Sonic Boom. We are also ready to improve sponsor ties. The most important thing is not the fact the series survived for 25 years, but how many games was developed. Our goal – add something new and overcome any potential hardships.
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NHF toured Army Research Labs (ARL) in Maryland. L to R: Dave Lyon, ARL Division Chief; John Sanchez, Lt. Governor of New Mexico; Lance Anderson, NHF Patent/IP Counsel; Fran<|fim_middle|>. Gov. John Sanchez presented NHF with a Letter of Support in making the NHF model available to other communities in the state.
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Matthew Geisel (left), New Mexico Cabinet Secretary for Economic Development, and Mark Van Dyke (right), chief of Staff in the Office of Lt. Gov. John A. Sanchez, with New Horizons Foundation Executive Director Dale Gannaway, holding the Letter of Support signed by Lt. Gov. Sanchez endorsing NHF's business model now being made available to communities all across the state.
In background, Ron Black, President of the NHF Board.
NHF executive staff toured the U.S. Army Armament, Research, Engineering and Development Center's Materials Corrosion & Additive Manufacturing Labs in New Jersey in December. The visit included discussions of possible NHF projects with ARDEC to address oil field corrosion challenges. From the left: Lance Anderson, NHF Technology Commercialization Counsel; Gary Pankonien, NHF Entrepreneur-In-Residence; Dr. Chris Haines, ARDEC Materials Engineer (Nanotechnology & Materials) and Jules Senske, ARDEC Materials Engineer (Corrosion).
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'Gourmet' Magazine: 1941<|fim_middle|>? | –2009
Ed Levine
Published: October 5, 2009 Last Updated: September 14, 2018
"For me Gourmet has always been the gold standard for food magazines."
The editor's letter from the premiere issue (January 1941) of Gourmet magazine.
By now you've all read the shocking news this morning, courtesy of the New York Times, that Gourmet is going to cease publication with its upcoming November issue. The news hit anyone with a love for great writing and seriously delicious food hard. Really hard. For many of us Gourmet symbolized much of what we love about food journalism: terrific writing, careful editing, and beautiful photos. In recent years Gourmet editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl has also added food politics and harder food news reporting into the magazine's editorial mix, which was much appreciated by me, at least.
With the uber-consulting firm McKinsey snooping around Condé Nast headquarters for the last three months, rumors have been swirling about the future of Gourmet and its sister publication, Bon Appétit. Although some people have expressed surprise that the powers that be at Condé Nast (that would be the Newhouses) decided to axe Gourmet instead of Bon App, I had always heard that Bon Appétit was in fact the more profitable magazine. When the bean counters are counting beans at a company like Condé Nast, the magazine with the biggest pile of beans behind the masthead is generally the one left standing. Even Reichl's undeniable rock star food-writer status could not stand in the bean counters' way.
"I can't talk about it now, it's too raw. I've got to pack up my office." —Ruth Reichl, on L.A. Times' Daily Dish
Some will undoubtedly point the finger at the popularity of the web as the principal reason for Gourmet's demise. I am sure it did play a role, but, truth be told, Condé Nast owners the Newhouses have never exactly embraced the digital world, so any finger-pointing in this situation would have to start with them. The reality is that Gourmet was built in a different time (1941 to be exact) for a very different sort of media universe. (See our post where we look at the first issue of Gourmet.)
For me Gourmet has always been the gold standard for food magazines. I remember how insanely proud I was when my byline first appeared in Gourmet. I have gotten to know many of the editors and writers at Gourmet over the years, starting with Ruth Reichl predecessor Gail Zweigenthal, and I have found them to be an extraordinarily talented and savvy bunch, a group that was equally passionate in discussing pizza and hamburgers as foie gras and caviar.
RIP, Gourmet. Serious eaters everywhere lament your passing.
Ed Levine Founder of Serious Eats and Missionary of the Delicious
Ed Levine is the founder and overlord of Serious Eats and author of multiple books, most recently Serious Eater: A Food Lover's Perilous Quest for Pizza and Redemption. He is also the creator and host of the Serious Eats podcast, Special Sauce. In 2016, Ed was inducted into the James Beard Foundation's Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America.
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Transforming robotics with biologically inspired learning models
Aisha Sohail describes the Neuromorphics Lab at CELEST and the work of building artificial brains to be used in robotics
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I walked into the building and there was a human-sized robot waiting to greet me.
It shook my hand, took my coat and brought me to sit in the room where my interview was going to be held. It asked me whether I needed a drink, and then proceeded to clean the countertops and water the plants. When I asked whether there was a reason it was working so hard, it simply said: "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do."
If you have ever seen Stanley Kubrick's tribute to humanoid computers, "2001: A Space Odyssey," then you already know I was merely making an allusion ...
What actually happened during my first visit to the Neuromorphics Lab at Boston University was a slightly different, though no less entertaining, scenario.
I walked into an office and there was a Roomba-like robot approaching and avoiding multicolored objects. It made its decisions based on a reward history ("bad robot" vs. "good robot").
On a desk, I noticed a dismembered radio control (RC) helicopter with half of its parts missing. Peeking into an additional room, I couldn't help but notice a toy car with a camera installed at the helm, and EEG electrodes hanging off on all sides. All around me, researchers were creating and refining artificial brain systems in virtual environments before deploying them in robots.
Even before sitting down to talk with anyone about job opportunities, I knew this was the place for me.
The Neuromorphics Lab is researching innovative robot learning-algorithms. Imagine having a cleaning robot that did what no other cleaning robot is currently able to do: learn. It could learn the one place in your house where your dog always loves to wipe his grubby little paws when he comes inside. It could learn that Tuesdays are softball practice, which means a certain trail of dirt leading up to your room.
The keyword here, obviously, is learning. The problem with the conventional approach to robotics is that it requires explicit programming for robots to carry out specific tasks, leading to a lack of autonomous, general purpose artificial intelligence, or AI.
Working in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard (HP) laboratories, the Neuromorphics Lab, part of the National Science Foundation- (NSF) sponsored Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science and Technology (CELEST), has undertaken the ambitious project of creating a brain on a chip--a fundamental predecessor to the design of autonomous robotics and general intelligence.
Researchers in the Neuromorphics Lab are closer than ever to being able to accomplish the goal of creating a general mammalian-type intelligence. Most people have never even heard of the term "neuromorphic"--which is a technology with a specific form ("morphic") that is based on brain ("neuro") architecture. The neural models being developed by the Neuromorphics Lab implement "whole brain systems," or large-scale brain models that allow virtual and robotic agents to learn on their own to interact with new environments.
Like any intelligent biological system, artificial-autonomous and adaptive systems need three things: a mind, a brain and a body. The CELEST models run on a software platform called Cog, which serves as the operating system within which the artificial "brain" is developed.
Along with the hardware--currently general-purpose processors to be augmented by innovative nanotechnologies under development at HP--Cog offers an ideal environment for the design and testing of whole-brain simulation. The work of the Neuromorphics Lab focuses primarily on engineering the mind of the adaptive system. Once complete, a virtual animat, equipped with the artificial brain, will be able to learn how to navigate in its environment based on its inherent capabilities for responding to motivations, evaluating sensory data, and making intelligent decisions that are transformed into motor outputs.
As a new employee of the Neuromorphics Lab, I recently participated in a demonstration of the adaptive robot. I watched as it was able to learn to distinguish and develop a preference for a set of multicolored blocks. Although this may seem like a trivial task, one that comes naturally to humans, the immensity of this task lies in the fact that the animat is not explicitly programmed to approach certain colored blocks, but rather to learn which objects to approach and avoid based on rewards and punishments associated with them. The process is similar to how animals learn by trial and error to interact with a world they were not "pre-programmed" to act upon.
Whole-brain systems are difficult to engineer and test. The Neuromorphics Lab accelerates these processes by training the animat brain in virtual environments. Not being bounded by a physical substrate such as a robot, researchers are able to test thousands of different brains in parallel on high-performance computing resources, such as NSF's TeraGrid, and use the best versions on the robot. The platform the developes selected is the iRobot Create, a robot that looks a lot like the Roomba vacuum-cleaning robot.
Since the animat is not explicitly programmed to solve specific tasks, there is greater flexibility for the robot's prospective functions. Eventually, it will function on an autonomous level and be able to take on more complex adaptive tasks such as intelligently interacting and caring for the elderly, autonomously exploring and collecting samples on an alien planet, and generally employing more humanoid behavior.
This is a challenge for any artificial intelligence program under development: it is simply impossible<|fim_middle|> a robot! That is why it is so important for the next generation of artificial intelligence to be able to learn throughout a lifetime without needing constant reprogramming.
Science fiction is rife with examples of learning robots and HAL 9000 from Kubrick's "2001 Space Odyssey" will forever come to mind as the media's favorite malfunctioning robot. Although confident about the advent of general intelligence machines in the near future, researchers at the Neuromorphics Lab are optimistic that misbehaving robots like HAL will live only in science fiction movies. Future robots will not be programmed, but will be trained. The key is to educate them well!
This work was partially funded by the Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science and Technology (CELEST), a National Science Foundation Science of Learning Center (NSF SMA-0835976) and by the DARPA SyNAPSE program, contract HR0011-09-3-0001. The views, opinions and/or findings contained in this article are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official views or policies, either expressed or implied, of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Department of Defense or the National Science Foundation.
-- Aisha Sohail, Boston University, aishas110@gmail.com
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LiveScience.com: Behind the Scenes: Transforming Robotics with Biologically Inspired Learning Models: http://www.livescience.com/14441-biologically-inspired-learning-robotics-bts.html
Neuromorphics Laboratory: http://cns.bu.edu/nl/
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Interview: David Starr on Music vs. Sports, New Album and New Community Awakenings
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When Americana Highways caught up with singer songwriter who recently toured with John Oates<|fim_middle|> colorado, colorado music, featured, grand mesa, john oates | , David Starr, he was in Arkansas. I noted his early gig times, and we both discussed the fact that many gigs start so late it's prohibitive for anyone to attend who has either kids or any kind of day job that starts early. "I've produced shows for years out in Colorado, so we often start at 7, because of the general age of the community. We try to finish around 9:30. It's been a good model to draw more of the community in."
David Starr recorded his recent album, South and West at Addiction Sound Studios in Nashville, although he lives in Cedaredge, Colorado. [For more about that album click any of these bolded words right here.] He wound up in Nashville by a rather serendipitous route. He says, "[The producer] Mark Wright and I grew up together in Northwest Arkansas and he settled in Nashville, several years ago I went down there are we recorded some demos together that turned into my first Nashville record, and I have continued to makes trips there and meet other musicians there, like John Oates."
"When I did some touring with John Oates and then went to do the album with him producing it, a year and a half ago, he wanted to use Addiction Studios, which is owned by Jonathan Cain, the keyboardist from Journey. David Kalmusky is the head engineer there and he built it with Jonathan, so we worked with him. It's such a nice facility so when it came time to do the solo album, even though John Oates wasn't producing this one, it felt familiar to return to that studio. I own a small condo in Nashville so now I have a base of operations there; I keep some guitars there and when I get there I can just go right to work."
He added, "All the guys on the album I've worked before. We spent two full days in the studio, which is rare these days when everybody can email and send the files back and forth. But there's a chemistry to having everybody together."
"The album title South and West is based on the idea that although I have spent the bulk of my time in Colorado, I also had written a couple songs with people out in California, and I was also trying to address the fact that I spend a lot of time in Nashville, and I'm from Arkansas originally, so. It was funny because I didn't think any of the song titles made a good album title. The cover was done by my friend Linda Marks. She is the wife of Dana Cooper, who's a great songwriter. We went back and forth a lot but she did a great job capturing that in a picture."
We got to talking about the Arkansas Americana music scene. Starr sketched out a picture of musicians hidden in the nooks and crannies of that state, and maybe every state. "When I was growing up in Fayetteville Arkansas there was a band called the Cate brothers http://theband.hiof.no/band_members/cate_brothers.html . These twin brothers had been playing in the northwestern Arkansas area, and part of that band was Levon Helm's nephew, Terry. So Levon hung out up there, Ronnie Hawkins hung out up there, and there was a musically rich group of folks in that part of the state, and then Little Rock also had great musicians, and by the way many states have similar histories, and you just don't know unless you've been there. But the Cates were the ones who were doing original stuff, and setting a good example for me growing up."
"My music falls in an interesting place, again which I tried to bring out in the album South and West. I grew up when Poco, and the Eagles and Flying Burrito Brothers were coming out of Southern California, and that stuff really spoke to me not only in terms of the songwriting but in terms of the singing. I'm a big fan of good singing. That's why I wasn't a big Dylan fan early on even though the songs are good because he's not known for his singing voice, even though it's very distinctive. He's a songwriter more than he is a singer. But I was drawn to Jackson Browne and Don Henley and Glenn Frey and guys who really sang well and wrote good songs, and they represent South and West also."
"Once you've been out there in the cool mountain air it's hard to be anywhere else. As soon as the time was right, I began to look for property out there, and found a place in a beautiful little town called Cedaredge. And now I have a guitar shop there (Starr's Guitars: https://www.starrsguitars.com/ ) and we just finished building a performance space there too. I've promoted shows there for years and I've done something no one had really done there before, which was to bring John Oates, and John McEuen from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dana Cooper and other people and people in town would just sit and listen and it worked."
Starr has recently worked to co-found the brand new Grand Mesa Arts Center: https://www.grandmesaartscenter.com/. When I wondered about how an arts performance space took hold in such a small community, Starr said: "There are so many talented people, really all over the country, maybe all that people need is for someone to say "yes, we can actually do this." I got together with my wife and some folks in town and we simply committed to creating a space where there can be concerts and dance and theatre and gallery space and teaching rooms for teaching kids' classes. We started working on it in November and just opened a couple weeks ago; it's kid of hard to believe it all happened that fast."
People seem worried, legitimately so, about big companies like Spotify, taking over artists' rights to their own music, and yet it seems that Starr has been applying a glass half full approach to this, supporting the local growth of music support, and it's been working. "I've chosen to look at it this way: 35 years ago you couldn't make a record unless you had a record deal. So that could only happen for a very limited universe of people. But now, anybody can make a record and some are better than others but I choose to think I can make a pretty good record if I'm careful and people can buy it, and I can go out and promote it and I don't need a big record company. On the other side of it, Spotify doesn't pay much, airplay doesn't play much."
But live music can still be supported with new rooms like the one Starr built. "The room that we built holds 175 people, and we can't support having it open every night but we can support a few shows a month, and rent it out in between, and it's starting to take hold, and pretty soon you've got an arts scene, not just a music scene."
"In the guitar shop we have guitar lessons, the arts center will host both children's and adult classes in painting and the arts but we'll also do some songwriting workshops there. Some of these artists I hire, could have a Saturday afternoon songwriting workshop and then the show that night. We want to inspire people as well as entertain them. Kids and young people are the next generation of songwriters. This is really important because this is what makes society civilized, and we're not very civilized these days, I don't think. We could use more civility. We built this thing but it's not for me, it's not for us, it's for that next generation of people we're here to foster."
"Arts and music play an important role in society, which is to remind us of our creativity and our humanity. If you look at a lot of great leaders throughout history, they weren't just good politicians, they were writers and thinkers and architects, and creative people. Creativity of any kind is a good thing, and it makes your brain work. I see too many kids staring at iPhones and iPads, and while I think there's a place for that too, I think piano lessons is a far better use of their time."
"Music is a culturally significant shared experience. Sports does that too but it's different. Our capacity to engage with music and the arts is badly in need of support. When we opened the arts space, the first few nights were sold out, and it hit me that we had created something that simply wasn't there 6 months ago, and then two nights in a row 175 people came, and they came together and shared an experience. It was an awakening, and people kept telling me they had 'seen what's possible.' We hope the arts can achieve even a proportion of the support that sports get in our society. There are so many rewards to come from the arts of all kinds."
David Starr is already working on another project with John Oates as producer, which is completely different, and based on a book Starr's grandfather wrote 40 years ago. Check out David Starr's next project and tour dates, here. https://www.davidstarrmusic.com/
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NRA Foundation Grants $252,000 for Ammo to USA Shooting
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To that end, The NRA Foundation Board of Trustees approved a $252,000 grant for USA Shooting to be used exclusively for the purchase of ammunition that will be used by the National Team, National Development Team, and National Junior Team.
"For decades The NRA Foundation has provided essential funding to benefit the shooting sports," said Tyler Schropp, Executive Director of The NRA Foundation. "When we were approached with this opportunity, it just made sense. Thanks to our generous and committed donors, we are able to fulfill this urgent need of America's aspiring Olympians."
USA Shooting athletes won a total of six medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, with four captured in Olympic shotgun events – Skeet (2 gold), Trap (silver) and Mixed Team Trap (bronze). This grant will provide the shotgun team with critical resources needed to continue their winning momentum in preparation for the 2022 World Championships and beyond.
"The last three years have posed tremendous challenges to our sport in the form of event cancellations, the postponement of the Olympics, and severe supply chain constraints on ammunition," said Buddy DuVall, USA Shooting Chief Marketing Officer. "We are thrilled to be partnering with The NRA Foundation to provide the very best training and competition ammunition to the shotgun team that has won 30 medals this year in World Cup competitions."
"We look forward to partnering with The NRA Foundation in the future on the shared goal of growing the shooting sports and putting American shooting athletes on the Olympic podium" said DuVall.
About The NRA Foundation
Established in 1990, The NRA Foundation, Inc. ("NRA Foundation") is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization that raises tax-deductible contributions in support of a wide range of firearm-related public interest activities of the National Rifle Association and other organizations that defend and foster the Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding Americans. Funds granted by The NRA Foundation benefit a variety of constituencies throughout the United States including youth, women, individuals with physical disabilities, gun collectors, law enforcement officers, hunters and competitive shooters.
About USA Shooting
USA Shooting, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation was chartered by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee as the National Governing Body for the Olympic Shooting Sports in April 1995. The organization develops and implements programs to promote growth in the sport and serves as a sanctioning body for local and national competitions. Headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado at the US Olympic and Paralympic Training | 600 |
[editor's note. In the wake of Marthe Reed's sudden and unexpected death earlier this month, I am opening Poems and Poetics to a commemoration of her work and spirit through the posting of an excerpt from a new book now awaiting publication. I had known Marthe Reed first as my student at UCSD San Diego and later as a dear friend and greatly admired poet. I would surely have published the following work ("Here and Not"), so expressive of her poetics and her project as a whole, under any circumstances, but coming so soon after her death, the sense of loss colors whatever reading I now give it. A fragment comes to mind from one of the poems in Ark Hive called "Th<|fim_middle|>uette, the beignets and hand pies calling from the counter. Français cadien. Old world French, 17th Century and code-switching French, 'Cadien. Mixed. Chatoui. Rat du bois. Bequine, plaquemine, rodee. Suce-fleur. Up the bayou. Make the bahdin. Five million nutra rats eating up the coast.
A friend invites us to dinner, her home a circle of rooms leading one into the next. No center, only the circuit: kitchen to living room to bedroom to bedroom to back room to kitchen. Did you miss me? The porch ceiling, painted "haint" blue, hints at sky warding off spirits who cannot cross water —Gullah knowledge carried across the south. Blue ceilings guard against insects also, mosquitos plying the air, owning the evening.
I walk the woods spying for raccoon tracks (chatoui, cat yes), armadillo burrows, passerine fliers stopping over. Phoebes, flycatchers, nuthatches, sparrows. I purchase guidebooks for native trees and plants, native birds. In my neighbor's yard, bottle-brush hosts brown thrashers and ruby-throated hummingbirds; I once spotted a Baltimore Oriole, orange-and-black-bodied, among it brushes. Magnolia and live oak line the median of our street. In spring, the astonishing scent and size of magnolia blossoms, their sprawling, creamy tepals circling the green and gold "woman house" (gynoecium) and spikey yellow "man house" (andoceum). Seed-making and germination. Coming to know this place by means of books and my feet, listening: Atchafalaya pronounced uh-CHAF-uh-lie- uh not ATCH-uh-fuh-lie-uh. Puh-CAHN not PEE-can. Sound of squirrel scolds rain from the oak trees, cher become sha.
Lafayette is Catholic country, a tradition familiar and not, my mother's Episcopalian faith never rooted in me, nor Judaism in my husband. At school, our children navigate the shoals of piety among the faithful, vegetarianism among the carnivorous. Kin-less also, we orbit the edges of extended families upon which community takes form here. Outsiders-in-the-midst. Mike digs in, devouring mounds of boiled crawfish or trays of oysters half-shelled, drenched in garlic and tabasco, washed down with a bottle of LA 31. Oysterloaf in New Orleans, rabbit plate-lunch in Lafayette, hot boudin at the roadside stop. Praising their grandmothers' rice and gravy, dirty rice, or corn maque choux and shrimp, my students gape in disbelief when they discover I do not eat meat or seafood: "But what do you eat?" they wonder, amazed. Often Lebanese food, heritage of waves of Maronite immigrants from what would eventually be known as Lebanon. Local eggs, mirlitons, Cajun Country Rice™, roasted chilies and grilled okra, cornbread, collards, Creole tomatoes, muscadines. Sweet corn, sweet corn, sweet corn and peaches. Pickled okra, cheese grits or Zea's sweet corn grits with roasted red pepper coulis. Wild blackberries and pick-your-own blueberries in summer, oranges, Meyer lemons, satsumas in winter.
Writing Louisiana, outsider-inside, poles of affection and alienation push and pull against me. An astonishing and richly diverse region, both culturally and ecologically, its inhabitants have sold paradise for oil and gas money, ignored the most vulnerable, allowed schools, hospitals, and the poor to bear the burden of economic crises, crises often manufactured through tax-giveaways to the affluent and corporations, spending one-time monies as if they would last forever. Paradise is poverty-stricken, imprisoning its citizens at the highest rate in the country: 816/100,000 — far greater than even Russia's 492. Its waters, polluted and poisoned, its coastlines washing away at perilous rates — 2000 square miles in just 80 years. By 2050, if global temperatures rise just two degrees, erosion combined with Antarctic ice melt will reduce New Orleans to an island tied to land by a bridge-cum-highway, the state's coastline a series of slender fingers in the sea: New Iberia, Morgan City, Thibodeaux perched upon the flood.
Still, who am I to rebuke or challenge, to call into question? Is this my place, too, outsider-inside? I lived in south Louisiana eleven years, eleven years in love and in despair. Do those years cede me ground to write? No Cajun, no Creole, no Louisianan by birth or adoption? By what permission? Only love, heart broken open again and again.
Sky over New Orleans, that endless expanse of blue and cloud, high and wide as all the earth, or so it seems. Walker Percy had the way of it, "a sketch of cloud in the mild blue sky and the high thin piping of waxwings comes from everywhere." The soft mutterings of the Gulf, water lapping sand or mud, Kate Chopin's "voice of the sea whispering through the reeds that [grow] in the salt water pools," "white clouds suspended idly over the horizon."
The mass of vegetation composing a swamp: Lake Martin's bald cypress, water tupelo, and live oaks draped in Spanish Moss, seeds afloat on the water. Elm, ash, pecan, buttonbush, palmetto. Blue-eyed grass and red buckeye. Invasive bladderwort, water hyacinth, fanwort, coontail, duckweed, and hydrilla tangle the water where native lotus, yellow and blue flag iris, red iris and water hyssop thrive also. Powdery thalia. Sedges all along the lake's margin. The extraordinary population of birds inhabiting the lake: White Ibises, Anhingas, Neotropic Cormorants, Snowy Egrets, Little Blue Herons, Green Herons, Great Egrets, Roseate Spoonbills, Tricolored Herons, Cattle Egrets, Yellow-crowned Night-Herons, Black-crowned Night-Herons, and Great Blue Herons. Common Moorhen and American Coots, Belted Kingfishers. Along the levee trail: Pine and Yellow-throated Warblers, Northern Parula, White-eyed Vireos, and Indigo Buntings; flycatchers, woodpeckers, nuthatches, wrens. In the air and in the woods, Sharp-shinned Hawks, Cooper's Hawks, Broad-winged Hawks, Red-tailed Hawks, Barn Owls, Eastern Screech-Owls, Great Horned Owls, Barred Owls, Common Nighthawks. All these species and myriad others, the swamp a-thrum with life.
At Jefferson and East Main Streets, sunset rises over Pat's Diner, saffron and orange tumult of clouds towering. Cajun shaved ice stands: watermelon, raspberry, orange, and pink lemonade — or wedding cake, guava, piña colada. Drive-through daiquiri stands where, with a quick bit of tape on the lid, you're good to go. Fishing camps at the coast, hunting camps in the woods. Back yard gardens, back yard chickens: agriculture given way to oil field support. Last Borden's Ice Cream store in the nation. Dance the two-step at Blue Moon Saloon to Feufollet and Lost Bayou Ramblers. Krewes and courirs of Mardi Gras, beads stranded in the limbs of oak trees all year long. Kayak Lake Chicot, Lake Martin, Lake Fausse Pointe. Segregated city, de facto segregated schools: poor and black northside, affluent and white along the river. Meet in the middle? Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, Festival International. In the city, two public access points to the Vermillion, its winding swath obscured by private estates. Eluding silence, I write amid fragments, from journals, photographs, memory, archives — time capsule of a disintegrating world. A place and an idea impossible to reconstruct, it falls apart in my hands, its multitudes. What are these fragments, this narrative? I build a box of loose pages, maps, stray keys, and seeds. Memento mori. What to keep, what to give away? What will not come with me, or might? Here and not here, what to make of this place called home?
An archive is an act of memory and affection, of loss: adrift upon a skim of oil, a scud of cloud, fragments on the floating Gulf.
[N.B. Other poems by Marthe Reed appear here and here on Poems and Poetics.] | renody" [lament], also in this volume:
displacements
twist into light
warm water's
melancholy weather
like an afterimage of rain
where I find myself
bruised awake
giving way
Writes Amish Trivedi, assistant editor of this page and fellow poet, by way of introduction and tribute:
"The text presented here is from Marthe's Reed's Ark Hive, forthcoming posthumously from The Operating System. A poetic approach to life in south Louisiana, it's no wonder that Reed quotes poet C. D. Wright at the start of the work as Wright's work covering south Louisiana could no doubt be seen as a necessary prerequisite to Reed's own project. In the opening pages, Reed approaches her predicament as if she were a researcher placed in a foreign land, situating herself among her surroundings, in the midst of a condition of place that is both physically distant and so very different from the places she had previously lived. From there, she leans into language, the language of water, of floods and earth reclaimed, only to be lost again as the seasons change in places that are far away, the words occasionally scattered across the pages like the silt that drives the Mississippi water to the Gulf of Mexico.
Ark Hive is the memoir of a person but it is also the narrative of a place, how it came to exist in the time that Reed was living there. We traverse the geography as we traverse the culture, one affected deeply by Hurricane Katrina and also the governmental response to that disaster. Here the language is erased, something that nearly happened somewhere between the storm and the individuals in charge of helping those caught in the middle. The book ends in another crisis — one for her as 'nomadic wanderer' and for the Louisiana coast, changed by the oil spewing from the bottom of the ocean that no one could seemingly stop.
While south Louisiana went through change, so did Marthe, this project tying those changes together, through her own choices of form and thought and language to a kind of self-identification through place, through shared traumas. This was a place once foreign that by the end is reflective of the journey of an individual poet among many who witnessed along with her.
Marthe Reed passed away on April 10th with Ark Hive scheduled as part of The Operating System's 2019 'cohort,' a word choice Marthe would no doubt have loved for its sense of comradery among writers and those who publish them, something she embodied for the rest of us."]
Here and Not
However briefly I find myself in a strange place, I am intent on locating myself; where I came from at this point is portable; I carry it with me. — C. D. Wright
I was not there, yet I was there. — Ernest Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying
"Hub City," center of Acadiana and straddling the Vermillion River, Lafayette lies almost due west of New Orleans across the Atchafalaya Basin. The basin, formed by the Mississippi as it laid down successive depositional lobes — Sale-Cypremort, Teche, and Lafourche — the great river switching back and forth finding the shortest route to the Gulf, giving rise to the whole of south Louisiana along the way. If not for the Army Corps of Engineers, its locks and levees, the Mississippi would now enter the Gulf by way of the Atchafalaya Basin and River.
My own route to Lafayette took the long way around: from Western Australia by way of Indiana, by way of San Diego, by way of Providence, Rhode Island, by way of San Diego earlier on, by way of Central California farm, an almond orchard in the countryside near Escalon. Neither here nor there, though here nonetheless: eleven years in Lafayette. When the jet landed in New Orleans, July 2002, stepping outside our eye-glasses immediately fogged up, as when in winter elsewhere we had come in from the cold. Summer humidity in Louisiana does not rest, the evenings no less unrelenting than midday. Tomato plants give up come July, the heat of mid-morning through most of the night sapping their resilience. Wake up, stand outside in the shade, sweat. Summer teaches us to slow down, have a sno-cone: plan to exercise come winter. Here in the wet, green tangles everywhere in summer. Up telephone poles and along the wires, across bridges, through gaps in the asphalt and cracks in the sidewalk (where there are sidewalks, sometimes), wherever earth gathers unbidden in human spaces. No rooting it out. Green. Green verges beside roads and highways, ferns profligate across oaks branches, moss over wood railings, over brick and rendered walls. Green rice fields, green bottomland forest, green coastal seas, green marsh grass — prairie tremblant — shifting in the wet.
Being in, though not of this place, by what permission do I write about it, here where I live(d)? After school, I listen to the men cutting hair at Ike's Barber Shop, my child sitting high in the red chair listening also. Their talk flows around me, unfathomable, a French I can neither parse nor piece together, though it holds me still listening, as to the sound of water tumbling over root and rock. I overhear folk chatting in Poupart's Bakery, cups clinking against saucers, while I order epi or bag | 1,126 |
The journey to organizational excellence.
Leaders define organizational excellence. They do so by having a clear, concise picture of what it looks like and then thoughtfully designing a path by which to get there. They take action and execute, leading us carefully and with intent, along the way to that destination. Sometimes, often times, there are trying situations and difficult circumstances along the way. And it's precisely those opportunities that build the foundation needed to achieve excellence.
Organizational excellence starts from within.
As I led others during my time in the Army and even now as I continue to do research and grow as a leader in civilian life, I have come to know three things that happen along the journey toward excellence. These 3 things play a major role in a team's ability to change, adapt, have strength, remain committed to any given goal.
Developing members within your organization starts with deliberate efforts on the part of its leaders.
It takes a leader with a transformational mindset to align the vision for the destination with a focus on the development of teams, departments and individuals. The journey itself it what transforms your organization's culture. To establish a culture with a competitive advantage, organizational leaders need to be deliberate in their efforts to develop members. This transformation builds depth and sustainability throughout the organization, spreading and scaling excellence.
Transformational leaders align and prepare organizations for an increase in shared leadership with increased opportunities for innovation and change.
People are designed for the journey more than the destination. The ability to excel resides in all of us. The inspiration to tackle the challenges and ambiguities of life and work comes from the inside, not the outside. It is the supervisor, the leader's job to tap into the inspirational energy that already resides in his/her employees and provides the spark that lights the fire to fuel people to start the journey toward excellence, individually and as part of a team and larger organization.
As mentioned previously, leaders drive culture. Leaders should expect the best, and model for others what that looks like, providing the example and inspiration for others to follow. By operating with the mindset of excellence, leaders can more effectively transform a culture from mediocrity to organizational excellence.
A true leader provides the spark that<|fim_middle|> what situation awaits you on the other side.
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To extract the best from people, leaders and supervisors present the intent and outcome, and then utilize coaching techniques to guide team members to do their best thinking. By empowering rather than controlling, and with a focus on adaptability, leaders will raise their employees to a higher performance level, through encouraging the sharing of new ideas and solutions.
When leaders focus on the journey to excellence rather than the destination, teams and units will be developed to perform at their full potential when they encounter adverse situations.
Teams that perform well possess strong emotional bonds. (See my article Leverage Your Competition and Win). Leaders can facilitate the development of emotional bonds through conversations with team members that communicate the importance of their work to the overall mission and purpose.
From my own experiences in combat, it takes strong emotional bonds among members for units to perform well in incredibly adverse and ambiguous situations, to learn and adapt quickly to rapidly changing situations.
The journey is like a bridge.
The journey to organizational excellence is like crossing a bridge. You take one step at a time. It takes courage, but the act itself of moving forward is central to getting to the other side. The other side may not always be visible to everyone, it might be a gray with ambiguity at times. Still, you imagine getting there, you allow for creativity along the way, you encourage and empower others to participate.
As you and your team begin to cross "the bridge", learning and development begins. This journey presents an opportunity for you to build a solid foundation for excellence and outstanding performance, no matter | 326 |
With its stock price soaring Thursday morning, Twitter has finally shifted investor focus away from user numbers and on to platform monetization.
Twitter reported better-than-expected third quarter financial results Thursday morning, proving that it could increase revenue and profit despite a decline in user numbers. The key to Twitter's<|fim_middle|>, up 29 percent year-over-year.
Wall Street was expecting Q3 earnings of 14 cents a share with $702 million in revenue. Twitter's stock price was up nearly 15 percent Thursday morning. | revenue success boils down to its data and advertising strategy, which has helped the company shift investor focus away from user numbers and on to platform monetization.
Twitter said that its monthly active user (MAU) count -- the most watched user metric -- was 326 million in Q3, a bit below the 330.1 million expected and around 1 percent less than the year-ago quarter.
However, Twitter's revenue went up 29 percent year-over-year, and advertising revenue climbed to $650 million, also an increase of 29 percent year-over-year. Twitter also saw growth in its data licensing business, where revenue climbed 25 percent to $108 million.
Twitter told analysts last quarter to expect a sequential drop in MAUs due to a combination of account removals, GDPR compliance changes, and its decision to not move to paid SMS carrier relationships in certain markets. The company insisted that its crackdown on bots and fake accounts was only partially to blame for the user decline, since inactive or potentially spammy accounts were never included in its MAU tally in the first place.
Nonetheless, Twitter said it removed about 70 million accounts in May and June this year. The company has also doubled the number of accounts removed for violating spam policies as compared to last year.
On the conference call this morning, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey detailed additional platform "health" initiatives designed to curb abuse, misinformation, echo chambers and manipulation.
Dorsey said Twitter saw a 20 percent decrease in suspicious sign-ups since introducing more stringent account setup requirements. Most of the spammy signups happened on the web, leading to the decrease in web daily usage and the double-digit growth on mobile daily usage.
"We tend to see a lot more of the, sort of, scripted automation coming through the web versus the API," Dorsey said. "So this is pretty meaningful in terms of our objective around increasing health. And as an another reminder, we do see health as a growth factor over the long term."
The growth factor Dorsey is referring goes back to user engagement. The idea is to bolster confidence in Twitter as a source of information and place for conversation. In doing so, Twitter can sell itself to advertisers that want to use the platform to launch products or support a brand.
"One of our jobs right now is to make sure that we're understanding people's interest as soon as they sign up and matching them with the right events and the right conversations as quickly as we can," Dorsey said.
He continued: "We believe we have very different dynamics than what you would find on the typical social network. Twitter has become one of the best places to launch something new, whether it be products service or something around your brand. Not only to launch it but also to see the conversation, have a direct conversation with your customers or potential customers. and we're seeing that in our results as well."
Looking closer at the numbers, Twitter posted Q3 non-GAAP earnings of 21 cents per share on revenue of $758 million | 622 |
HAGERSTOWN, MD – On a crisp, early autumn evening, Jason Covert and Barry Miller parked their rides into victory lane at Hagerstown Speedway on September 30.
Covert began the march to his Super Late Model victory at the Hub City oval for the first time in 2017 from the fifth spot on the starting grid. Pole sitter Roy Deese, Jr. led the first lap before he was overtaken by three-time winner Gary Stuhler.
Covert moved up to third by the third lap, and moved around Deese for second on the eighth lap. A caution flag unfurled the same lap for Jerry Bard, who had a flat right rear tire.
This setup the only restart of the feature, and Stuhler was able to hold off Covert for several laps. Stuhler was rolling through the middle to the top groove as Covert kept circling around the bottom.
On Lap 18, Covert went low under Stuhler coming off of turn 4 to take the lead. Covert hit traffic a lap later and put some distance between him and Stuhler until the traffic got thicker. With the white flag waving, Stuhler had caught Covert, but just didn't have enough to reclaim the lead on the 25th lap at the checkered flag.
"I'll tell you what, I just want to say what a race track it was compared to the last few years<|fim_middle|> Models. | I was here….it had character tonight, and that's what makes racing good. The couple times I've been here this year has been absolutely phenomenal.", stated Covert.
Following Covert and Stuhler at the finish were Kyle Hardy, Brian Booze, and Kyle Lee.
Miller drove to his second Late Model Sportsman win of the season as part of the Mason-Dixon Shootout Series. The Three Springs, PA resident powered past Eric Irvin from outside the front row, and led all 20 laps in a flag-to-flag effort. An early restart and lapped traffic halfway through wasn't enough to slow Miller down as he took the checkered flag.
Irvin finished second, while Justin Weaver, Derick Quade, and Ralph Morgan rounded out the top five.
Notes: The two-division show was completed in less than 2 ½ hours, and featured a full 24 car field in each division.
Trever Feathers qualified in his own No.20, but mechanical issues forced him to borrow a ride from Brad Omps. Feathers tagged the rear of the field in 24th place and drove the Omps No.5 to a very respectable 10th place finish.
Tyler Bare made his first career SLM start at Hagerstown, and recorded a solid sixth place finish in his debut. Bare is the son of Booper Bare, and grandson of Tommy Bare. The third generation Virginia racer has done quite well in Crate Late | 302 |
Today we'd like to introduce you to Kate Kelton.
Born in Bamberg, Germany after her parents escaped Czechoslovakia, Kate spent her early years in a VW bus traveling Europe with her artist mother. Settling in Toronto, Canada at age seven, she attended the Etobicoke School of the Arts as a Visual Arts Major and received a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Film from Ryerson University. Kelton has had two successful solo shows at LA's Gabba Gallery, and she has also shown her work at Art on Scene in Beverly Hills; La Luz de Jesus and Durden & Ray in Los Angeles; New Walk Museum & Art Gallery in the UK; Gallery 1988 in New York, Venice and West Hollywood; Galerie F in Chicago; Lawless Concept Gallery in Montreal; and The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, Canada.
and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
I'm going to defer to the wonderful writer Micah Chaim Thomas here, because I believe he summed it up the absolute best with: "Apotheosis through reclaimed, reapplied Art Nouveau: Who says we aren't gods? Like a DJ sampling the Detroit sound, mixing it into an updated groove, Kelton samples her own lineage, her DNA, and transforms a historical body of work, itself a thing of lasting beauty, into a message for today. Artists, armed in the garb of the ages, eyes open and taking in the new world, are new gods, measuring out their judgement and craft upon you, the viewer.
"Bad presidents make for great art." But wouldn't you rather life be easier for artists? Cities can always choose to use their wealth of infrastructure to ensure equal and fair representation in curation, in the hopes of staying the slide into outright fascism, all while emboldening the heroes of our daily life.
I don't but my client Chuck D has an art show June 1-16 at Mr Musichead Gallery in LA! His next show of watercolors is called, "Artput," a testimony to his unbelievably prodigious output. We have 45 new originals debuting at Mr Musichead Gallery in June 1st, and several limited edition prints to choose from as well.
Opening night reception: 7-10pm. June 1st, 2018.
With ARTPUT, Chuck D cracks open his unique access to the worlds of Rock and Hip Hop again, this time with laser sharp detours into sport and social commentary as well. His off-the-cuff, courtroom sketch aesthetic belies an innate, distinctive, and prodigious compositional sensibility. Chuck pours forth a here-to-fore undocumented aspect of pop culture history: the<|fim_middle|> of Public Enemy. Each piece is thereby imbued with an incomparable vitality, having in some instances been created while ON stage, as well as the unparalleled provenance of an instant entertainment artifact. | point of view of one who has lived it.
Much of the work was completed while on tour, most recently in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and Korea, with Prophets of Rage, and members | 42 |
February 20, 2013 FIN – Aztech Locknut Company is probably the first fastener manufacturer to achieve ISO 50001 energy standard certification. But it's unlikely to be the last.
Aztech's energy cost savings may lure other companies to start the process.
Aztech president Mark Kaindl calculates energy saving at his Aurora, IL, facility as 8% of payroll.
Overall, his energy use over recent years is down 60%.
In addition, he learned when refinancing the 60,000 sq ft building last year that<|fim_middle|> standards – may improve a company's operations and thus in the long run may save money, but savings may be difficult to calculate, he noted.
The Aztech energy savings process began more than a decade ago with his dissatisfaction with the building's HVAC system.
In 2009 he decided the HVAC system was outdated and should be replaced with something more desirable.
"I wanted our facilities to be more comfortable," Kaindl told FIN. "Warm or cool," he added.
The architects planning building changes for an extensive new system, which required construction such as new holes in walls, suggested Aztech go after LEED-EB Gold certification.
With just "a little more documentation" of the process, the 1996 building qualified for the environmentally responsible rating.
While he received a few tax credits for light fixtures, almost all of the energy investments justify themselves without subsidy, Kaindl added.
Then when ISO 50001 was announced, much of the work on Aztech's building had already created the basis for the new certification.
Beyond what Aztech has already done, ISO 50001 also looks to the future – "whether it is small or big things," Kaindl said.
Upcoming small things include switching to electric hand dryers instead of cloth or paper towels. The key is "net efficiency," Kaindl said.
Bigger projects could someday include solar panels for the company roof.
"The solar panel technology has improved, just as battery technology," Kaindl observed. He expects solar technology to "reach a point" of being financially justifiable.
More difficult to quantify are potential sales gains from customers "impressed by environmental responsibility," Kaindl noted.
It is estimated that ISO 50001 will eventually influence up to 60% of the world's energy use.
"Our LEED-EB Compliant facility, combined with existing certifications to AS9100C, ISO 17025 and ISO 14001, demonstrate how Aztech Locknut's business practices and quality programs lead the way in the fastener industry," the company stated in its ISO 50001 announcement. | energy efficiency has increased his property value.
ISO 50001 requires continuous improvement in energy efficiency, security, use and consumption.
What Aztech has done is just the beginning, as ISO 50001 is a process, Kaindl told GlobalFastenerNews.com.
ISO 50001 is different from other International Standards Organization programs, Kaindl explained.
In contrast to energy savings, other ISO programs – such as quality | 94 |
The London Institute of Photography was founded by award-winning advertising photographer Holger Pooten in London's dynamic Shoreditch district.
<|fim_middle|> Hoxton Street Studios. For location shoots we use the vibrant local neighbourhoods of Brick Lane, Shoreditch, Spitalfields and the Barbican, among others. | At LIoP we look to nurture the creative talent of each and every student, a talent built on sound technical skills. Our courses look to take you to a professional level in the shortest possible time.
Our students come from diverse backgrounds and from around the world; they are united by an aspiration to take better, more creative photos.
As well as the Professional Photography Course, we offer 12 Individual Courses. We also offer Taster Workshops, covering 4 key areas of photography.
LIoP is about helping our community of photographers explore and evolve their photography during and after their course. As revered US landscape photographer Ansel Adams said: "You don't take a photograph, you make it." And to 'make' a photograph, the learning never stops.
Don't forget to check out our monthly LIoP Challenge for a chance to win course vouchers.
An award-winning commercial photographer, Holger loves to share his passion for photography and impart his knowledge and vision. Holger has over 20 years' experience as a photographer and has an MA in Photography from the London College of Communication. Prior to founding LIoP he was a university lecturer. His work has won numerous awards and is represented by agents around the world. Recent commissions include projects for Nikon, BMW, Nestlé, Nike, Adidas, The Guardian and Der Spiegel.
LIoP offers a vibrant space to hone your photography skills in the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, ten minutes' walk from Liverpool Street underground and train station. Most courses are held in the main classroom. Studio courses, such as Fashion Studio Photography and part of Portrait Photography, are held in the state-of-the-art | 337 |
Diamonds that Made Headlines in 2020
2019 was a big year for the diamond market with some of the largest and rarest stones being discovered and offered for sale. Let's take a<|fim_middle|> Here's Some Important Advice
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1. Big Blue
A type IIb blue diamond was discovered in the Cullinan mines in South Africa. The mine is owned and operated by Petra Diamonds. The gem-quality rough stone an anonymous buyer bought the stone for $14.9 million which amounted to $742,032 per carat. The blue diamond weighed 20.08ct.
2. Colossal constellation
In September, a 313-carat emerald diamond of VVS clarity was the biggest D color diamond in history. The diamond was presented by Nemesis International and was one of the 8 stones cut from the constellation rough that was 813 carats. The diamond was bought in a partnership between Nemesis International and de Grosogono of Switzerland.
3. Magnificent Jewel
A 10.64 carat, fancy vivid purplish pink, internally flawless diamond was the highlight of the Sotheby's Hong Kong magnificent jewels auction held in October. The diamond sold for $19.9 million or roughly $1.9 million per carat.
4. Manami star
Also, at the Sotheby's Hong Kong auction that took place in April of 2019 was the Manami star. The oval brilliant cut diamond was a D color grade, 88. 22 carat, flawless, type II diamond. It sold for $13.8 million.
5. Lasting legacy
In May of 2019 Petra diamonds offered a 425-carat diamond for sale. It was a stunning D color type II flawless diamond and sold for $15 million. The lasting legacy was bought collectively by Stargems group of Dubai and Choron from Switzerland.
6. Lesedi La Rona
Another of the largest diamonds of 2019 was the Graff Lesedi La Rona, a huge 302.37 carat, D color emerald cut diamond. This amazing stone was cut from an equally amazing 1109 carat rough stone. The rough stone also produced 66 other diamonds of varying sizes.
7. Argyle Octavia
The Rio Tinto Argyle mines which will be closing in 2021 unearthed a 28.84-carat diamond rough. This was the largest gem-quality diamond that the mine has ever produced.
8. Sewelo
Lucara mining company unearthed a huge 1738 carat diamond of near gem quality in a mine in Karowe in the April of 2019. It is the second-largest rough stone ever discovered. Previously that title was held by the Lesedi la Rona.
Many other diamonds were found in mines all across the world. The third-largest diamond unearthed in 2019 was a 374 carat rough stone that also came together with another 123-carat rough. The diamonds were mined in the Karowe mines of Botswana owned by Lucara diamonds.
The karowe mines also produced the 4th largest rough diamond of 2019. The stone is 240 carats and is top white.
Russian mining giant Alrosa discovered a 232.4-carat gem-quality diamond at the Udachnaya mine. It is the largest stone found in the last 3 years from the mine.
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In October Russia's Alrosa discovered a diamond within a diamond. It was named Matryoshka diamond and was the first diamond of its kind to ever be discovered.
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Figure 2. The small Babcock cylinder press.
The smaller poster, popular for their affordable price and ease of hanging in public spaces, are printed on absorbent paper known as Revolución. The combination of their modified ink formula that dries almost instantly, and the agility with which Juan Carlos designs posters, make it possible to respond to customer requests in just a few hours.
In terms of style, there are two kinds of posters: those made with movable type, usually containing a large amount of information, that may or may not include a vignette, and those that feature illustration printing blocks as the central element. While the characteristic rectilinear structure of letterpress printing is present in both posters, they are far from rigid. On the contrary, the rhythm and play of contrasts are apparent—the result of using various typefaces necessary to complete the text that also emphasizes the hierarchy of the information. (Figure 3)
Figure 3. Examples of the two styles of posters printed at Imprenta Enlace.
Juan Carlos only relies on a computer to design logos that he then traces onto synthetic leather, hand cut, and mounted on chipboard. He has reproduced or created hundreds of these printing blocks. The shop has a small collection of metal and wood typefaces—and a couple of fonts made of plastic which are used a lot. Juan Carlo has expanded his resources by carving logos and missing type sorts.
In the posters that reproduce logos of musical groups, one can see the direct connection between the work of Imprenta Enlace and the hand-painted signs on neighborhood walls to promote parties and popular dance events, as well as the graphic style of the sonidero culture.1 In them, contour typography, shadow effects, three-dimensionality, and negative letters on various background forms are used to achieve maximum visual impact while allowing interaction with the gradient colors. (Figure 4)
Figure 4. Left, a hand-painted wall in Xalapa shares common features with lettering in the poster at right.
The illustrations included in the posters are also directly related to popular Mexican graphics. The masterful black and white linoleum cut possess a subtle grace and humor. Unlike the work of other letterpress printers, Enlace does not use photoengraved plates since Juan Carlos can design and cut any image in high contrast. (Figure 5)
Figure 5. Examples of the images that illustrate the posters.
Recurring themes and representative clients
One factor contributing to this print shop's flourishing in producing letterpress posters is the lively character of the region. Veracruz is a state comprising indigenous, Afro-American, and mestizo communities where dance events, religious festivals, Lucha libre, and other amateur sports are an important part of social and economic life. Most likely, this diversity and the attachment to tradition and celebration fueled the demand for images that share its aesthetics and essence. The events the posters promote are usually as eclectic as Mexican society.
In addition to the recurring party and sports themes, Imprenta Enlace has attracted new clients and audiences such as visual artists, rock groups, bars, schools, government institutions, social activists, and others interested in including the aesthetics of Juan Carlos's posters in their projects.
Recognition and preservation of the trade
In opposition to the dominance of digital media and full-color printing, Imprenta Enlace is a guardian of the heritage of letterpress printing in Mexico and a resistance against the homogenization of graphic languages caused by globalization. Rather than prioritizing precision, their posters are a visual expression of Mexican culture. (Figure 6)
Figure 6. Esteban and Juan Carlos Romero with their large format Babcock cylinder press.
Imprenta Enlace's posters belong to the street; they come to life in the eyes of passers-by and instill satisfaction in those who commission them. The success of the Romero family´s print shop is due to their love for letterpress, their people, music, and traditions. The endearing aesthetic of their posters will connect with different generations and audiences for many years to come.
1 A sonidero is a disc jockey, engineer, or entertainer who plays recorded music in public, mainly cumbia, salsa, guaracha, and their subgenres.
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Belinda Ugalde Mellado is a graphic designer and educator at the Universidad Anáhuac Veracruz. Her projects include visual identity and books for commercial and public institutions. She also designs posters focused on social and cultural themes. From 2016 to 2018 she developed handmade books and promoted workshops for beginners and students of graphic design at the letterpress shop in La Ceiba Gráfica art center. She is currently doing research on Mexican letterpress printing. She presented Imprenta Enlace: A Live Tradition of Mexican Letterpress at the 2021 conference.
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Figure 1. Lucha Libre poster. (All photos by Manuel Manero.)
In an era defined by digital media, it is extraordinary to find letterpress print shops in Mexico that have managed to endure and preserve the typographic arts without the support of cultural institutions. Such is the case of Imprenta Enlace, a print shop in the city of Xalapa run by the Romero family. For more than 35 years, they have printed typographical posters with a distinctive aesthetic that is part of the visual identity of popular festivals and events in numerous towns in the states of Veracruz and Oaxaca. It is probably the last shop of its kind in the region and one of the few still operating commercially in the country.
The posters produced by Imprenta Enlace stand out for being printed using centuries-old technology and for their level of experimentation and creativity. Their expressive force comes from using color, typography, and image and incorporating resources from other visual manifestations, such as hand-painted mural advertising and vernacular graphics. It is also worth noting their range of themes and diversity of clients.
The origin of the Imprenta Enlace
To speak of Imprenta Enlace is to talk of two lives dedicated to letterpress printing: Esteban Romero and his son Juan Carlos. Esteban Romero began working in newspapers at an early age. When newer technologies displaced typographic printing in the 1980s, he decided to establish his own business with the equipment he received as compensation from his former employer. Initially, he associated with some journalists to publish an independent newspaper that they named Enlace. It folded within a few years. Esteban then began designing and printing typographic posters for popular dance events that would eventually become the workshop´s main product.
From an early age, Juan Carlos Romero helped his father in his spare time until he joined the business full-time in 1993. His involvement guaranteed the continuity of the family project and brought on a stage of growth and creativity. Juan Carlos began to experiment with the design of letters and logos, which enriched the visual proposal of the workshop. Currently, he is in charge of the printing press while his father, Esteban, is now retired but still assists his son when the workload demands it.
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When entering the print shop for the first time, one is impressed by the age and beauty of the equipment. There are two early twentieth-century Babcock cylinder presses. One has a maximum print size of 18½ × 25″ and the other 27 × 37″. Up to 15 posters can be printed daily with a print run of 100 | 600 |
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The Navajo Nation's Inaugural Poet Laureate Shares Words and Wisdom
Luci Tapahonso uses her inimitable storytelling to connect with students, fellows, and the public
Luci Tapahonso (Navajo) met with Harvard students over lunch on the day of her reading. Tapahonso's reading was part of the Roosevelt Poetry Readings--made possible by a gift that helps bring poets of recognized stature to the Radcliffe Institute--and was cosponsored by the Harvard University Native American Program.Photo by Kevin Grady, Radcliffe Staff Photographer
By Pat Harrison
AT MOST POETRY READINGS, the audience maintains a solemn silence between poems, digesting the writer's words. But when Luci Tapahonso read her work at the Radcliffe Institute this past spring, the crowd enthusiastically clapped after each poem.
To introduce the poet, Kristiana Kahakauwila—the 2015–2016 Lisa Goldberg Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute and an assistant professor of creative writing at Western Washington University—explained Tapahonso's effect on people. She said she had discovered Tapahonso while researching communal storytelling. "The act of reading—usually done individually, silently—felt with Luci's work to be communal and raucous, as if the entire household of relatives were there speaking, and I was in the hogan with them," Kahakauwila said.
The inaugural poet laureate of the Navajo Nation, from 2013 to 2015, Tapahonso is a professor of English and the director of the creative writing program at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Some of the poems she read at Radcliffe were about her family—including her mother, her father, and a granddaughter who attended the reading with her. Family is extremely important to Tapahonso, who proudly declared that she and her husband have five children and nine grandchildren.
Tapahonso also read work about her hometown on the Navajo reservation of Shiprock, New Mexico, before ending with a prayerlike poem: "We must always remember the worlds our ancestors traveled. Always wear the songs they gave us. Remember, we are made of prayers. Now we leave, wrapped in old blankets of love and wisdom." Each poem, its topic deceptively simple, conveyed profound meaning.
Before her reading, Tapahonso met with students over lunch and described her path to becoming a poet and a professor. She grew up in a rural household with 11 siblings and a lot of relatives around. English was their second language. At the Methodist boarding school she attended in Farmington, New Mexico, she and her classmates weren't allowed to speak Navajo. Only at recess and in the evenings could they speak their native language with one another. Unaccustomed to Christian ideas, Tapahonso told the students, she was fascinated by the notions of heaven and hell—"that if you thought a bad thought or did a bad thing, you could go to hell." Returning home to Shiprock one Thanksgiving, she warned her brother that he would go to hell for eating with his mouth open. Her parents explained to her that such ideas were for school, for her life around white people.
After attending high school in Shiprock, Tapahonso went to the University of New Mexico, where she gravitated to writing and met her mentor, Leslie Marmon Silko, in a poetry class. Tapahonso published her first book of poetry, One More Shiprock Night (Tejas Art Press) in 1981, a year after she graduated.
After earning a master's in creative writing, Tapahonso taught at the University of Kansas and the University of Arizona. She has written three children's books and four more books of poetry, including Blue Horses Rush In (University of Arizona Press, 1997), which received the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association's 1998 Award for Best Poetry.
Today, Tapahonso lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband, Robert G. Martin, a Cherokee from Oklahoma who directs the Institute of American Indian Arts. She drives to Albuquerque two or three times a week to teach at UNM, a journey the reader can join her on through her poem "Prayer."
By Luci Tapahonso
I have spent many hours driving
the road between Santa Fe and Albuquerque
early morning late afternoon
It must be tiring, people say
about 100 miles a day
nothing much on that road
But I enjoy it
that road had a lot
of good poems and songs
discovered while driving
through softly curving hills
dotted with tufts of piñon and tumbleweeds.
I even left some thoughts musing,
lingering around a small white cross
beside the northbound lane
and I say:
bless me hills
this clear golden morning
for I am passing through again.
I can easily sing
for this time is mine
and these ragged red cliffs
fl owing hills and wind echoes
are only extensions
of a never-ending prayer.
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For its next big release, Jim Beam is turning to that old touchstone — the Repeal of Prohibition, which celebrates its 85th anniversary this December. Jim Beam Repeal Batch is appropriately old-timey — both outside the bottle and within.
Today, Jim Beam, the world's No. 1 bourbon, is announcing the release of Jim Beam Repeal Batch, a non-chill filtered, 86-proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey inspired by the same liquid produced by the Beam family following Prohibition's repeal. This limited edition offering, with a label inspired by post-Prohibition Jim Beam bottlings from the 1930s, celebrates the 85th anniversary of Prohibition's repeal and the perseverance James B. Beam put into rebuilding the Jim Beam distillery in 1933 – a feat accomplished in only 120 days.
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Jim Beam Repeal Batch is aged four years, similar to Jim Beam Bourbon, however this unique liquid is non-chill filtered, resulting in a bourbon with fuller mouthfeel and tasting notes that include char, oak and caramelized tones. It has a light amber color, with an aroma that carries oaky notes, balanced with light vanilla and a hint of brown spice.
The key points in that: This is non-chill filtered bourbon (unlike most standard Beam offerings), and while there's no formal age statement on the label, Beam says it's a four year old spirit.
One could assume that in the days following Prohibition, any whiskey consumed was rather young, and Jim Beam Repeal Batch certainly doesn't dissuade that notion. The nose is youthful but fresh, with clear popcorn and peanut notes. Some of those corny notes have a charred | 231 |
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The Delta Breeze Lacrosse Association strives to eliminate the financial barriers that often prevent local youth from participating in valuable athletic programs. The roots of the game of Lacrosse lie in Native American culture. The game is full of tradition and was used to settle tribal disputes and determine hunting grounds. The values of honoring your opponent and respecting the game are inherent in the tradition of the sport. Learn more by reading The Spirit in the Stick by Neil Duffy. Providing financial support to players in need is consistent with Delta Breeze's values as an organization and those of the sport itself. This program will seek to offset a portion of registration costs for players who would otherwise be unable to afford to play lacrosse.
The scholarship fund was established in 2020 to encourage participation in lacrosse for the inaugural season of the Delta Breeze teams<|fim_middle|> practices prior to a final decision.
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Scholarship recipient's parents/guardians will be required to volunteer their time to assist with game management and general support of the teams. Each recipient must contribute $100 toward registration fees, purchase a US Lacrosse membership ($30), and the balance due ($200) will be covered by the Delta Breeze Scholarship Fund and the Northern California Junior Lacrosse Association.
Applications are due no later than January 20, 2020, and will be evaluated by the Delta Breeze Board of Directors, with award decisions distributed no later than February 15, 2020. Applicants will be able to join us for | 177 |
This past weekend I was lucky enough to see Katy Perry live in concert twice! The Prismatic World Tour was full of bright sets, extravagant props, incredible backup dancers, and beautiful costumes. All of Katy's costumes were custom made for her tour by designers such as Valentino, Moschino, and Roberto Cavalli just to name a few. Earlier in the year, Katy took to instagram to give her fans<|fim_middle|> flowed gracefully across the stage.
The other standout fashion moment was the beautiful ball-gown skirt and jumpsuit adorned with bright and colourful fireworks for the encore of her inspirational hit Firework designed by Todd Thomas. The dramatic outfit was the perfect end to an amazing night!
As Katy's outfits changed throughout the night so did her hair. She wore several wigs during the show including a multicoloured pastel wig, but her famous blue wig never made an appearance. In the middle of the concert she took some time to talk and interact with the crowd even handing out a hawaiian style pizza to young fan who turned out to be a vegetarian! Overall the show was a spectacle of lights, glitter, and of course great music! Katy truly puts on a fun and exciting tour and never leaves her fans disappointed.
Check out some of the photos from the night below! | a preview of what was to come by revealing the designers' sketches. Seeing those sketches come to life was absolutely amazing! The two hour set included almost all of her singles all the way from I Kissed a Girl to her latest song Birthday with a focus on songs from her most recent album Prism.
One of my favourite looks for the night were a gorgeous Valentino gown with a butterfly cape worn for her acoustic portion of the set. The cape glittered beautifully in the light and the dress | 98 |
Hidden deep among Michigan's forests, rivers, and the trails that wind over them is Gaylord. For the outdoorsman's vacation, an adventure through this Northern Michigan town is essential. Check out these awesome Gaylord outdoor activities.
With endless miles of scenic trails and challenging routes, Gaylord is the perfect place to spend the day on a bike. Beautiful views will ensure that the journey is as breathtaking and satisfying as the exercise itself<|fim_middle|> crosscut with hiking trails, jaunting off in every direction. These trails stretch through some of the country's most beautiful landscapes which are home to the largest herd of wild elk this side of the Mississippi, miles of towering trees, and rustic campsites along the way. You can spend an hour or several weeks on the trails that cut through Gaylord. Find the Otsego County Area hiking trails that will best fit your plans here. | . Spend your day rolling through the Northern Michigan woods or tearing past peaceful countryside. Map your journey here.
You'll be in no rush to escape the Gaylord outdoors, and you won't have to. The town is home to six campgrounds and caters to tents, trailers, and RVs alike, so you can spend your entire Northern Michigan vacation fully immersed in the outdoors. A complete list of the city's campgrounds can be found here.
Though located much farther inland than coastal Northern Michigan cities, Gaylord still finds itself with plenty of venues for water adventure. Gaylord and its surrounding areas sport five rivers: Black River, Pigeon River, AuSable River, Manistee River, and Sturgeon River. You'll find many businesses in and around Gaylord, all dedicated to helping you explore these Northern Michigan waters in kayaks and canoes. Find a list of kayak and canoe rental businesses here.
Many refer to Gaylord as "America's Golf Mecca." Home to 15 of the country's finest courses, the city has surely earned this title. Gaylord's golf courses manage perfectly manicured greens, while blending this atmosphere with genuine, rustic Northern Michigan outdoors. Find your favorite of Otsego County's golf courses here.
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The Horley Town Management Group (HTMG) meets regularly to discuss and take action on improvements to Horley Town Centre. A particular concern has been improving the town centre so that more events take place, more facilities are developed and more people are aware of what Horley has to offer.
The aim is to create a more vibrant environment and ensure that more people visit Horley. With this in mind, the shops and businesses will continue to thrive and Horley will continue to be a great place in which to live and work.
Over the last two years consultations with local people, local shops and businesses have taken place. From these consultations a document has been produced that outlines a range of proposed improvements. Work is now starting on these projects to turn these ideas into action.<|fim_middle|> the results of the consultations that took place in 2014. Click here to download the document (1.3 mb). | We will report on each project on this page and on the Horley Town Facebook page.
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In the city center they found a long-simmering volcano. A deep and narrow crater whose sides had clearly been dug in to carve paths down the main vent to where the surface of the magma should be, but it was presently even lower. From their vantage point, one Poria made the observation that lava had cooled over part of the lower pathway. The—apparently—remaining lead researcher handed the research journal to Alhicj and took another pori down the path, where they were able to consume enough lava to be near "full". Alhicj handed the journal back and took the remaining pori to do the same. Upon their return, the three researchers spread out among the inner city, and Alhicj kept watch with Mik. | food left either, nor can you eat ro—" Alhicj cut himself off, turning his head towards the other pori, where one of them was trying to get their attention, but it was barely louder than he and Mik were speaking.
In a few minutes the remaining five made their way through the | 61 |
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This is where DLC can help. Through our Public Conservation Areas Program DLC offers expert assistance to towns interested in acquiring important open space land for passive, public recreational use. Our goal is to help communities throughout the County create Public Conservation Areas so that people will have more chances to enjoy the outdoors such as hiking, bird watching or simply having a picnic. Towns can turn to DLC for help to successfully achieve the acquisition, protection and management of important public recreational land.
This program is locally driven, with municipalities identifying potential projects and then asking DLC to help complete them. DLC can assist towns with obtaining an appraisal, negotiating with the landowner, securing an option to purchase, raising necessary funds, protecting the land with a conservation easement, closing the deal, preparing a management plan, hosing an official grand opening and orientation hike to introduce citizens to their new conservation area.
DLC's success in this area includes our work with the Town of Dover and the Friends of Dover Stone Church (an all volunteer commu nity group) to acquire, preserve, and protect the unique and historic Dover Stone Church property in 2004. Together we teamed up to successfully purchase these 58 acres adjacent to the Village of Dover Plains.
The Dover Stone Church is a geological formation of metamorphic rock located on the Stone Church Brook that formed a natural cavern and waterfall that has been attracting people across the region since the 1800's. Its first known reference dates back to the 1600's, when legend states that Pequot Indian Chief Sassacus and his warriors hid in the cave to escape capture and death by the English Army.
Through this team approach the property is preserved forever and open to the public for passive recreational use. In 2009 DLC accepted a conservation easement protecting the viewshed from Stone Church and the Town of Dover accepted a fee gift of an additional 6 | 445 |
The return of the legendary harmonica giant from the 1950s Chicago blues scene. "A triumphant comeback"--Billboard
"A wonderful new disc"--Living Blues
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Produced by Randy Chortkoff
Recorded by Glenn Nishida at Pacifica Studios, Culver City, CA
Additional recording by Julian Herzfeld at Acme Stud...
Additional recording by Julian Herzfeld at Acme Studios, Chicago, IL
Mixed by Julian Herzfeld at Acme Studios, Chicago, IL
Mixes supervised by Randy Chortkoff and Bruce Iglauer
Photography by Peter Amft; Cover design by Matt Minde
Production coordination by David Forte
Billy Boy Arnold: Harmonica and Vocals
Zach Zunis: Guitar
Chris Faulk: Guitar (6, 12, 13)
Mike Flanagan: Guitar (7)
Rick Holmstrom: Guitar (1, 4, 9-11)
Willie Brinlee: Bass (6, 7, 12, 13)
Pete Cosey: Bass (14)
Tom Leavey: Bass (1-5, 8-11)
Jimi Bott: Drums (2, 3, 5-7, 12-14)
Lee Smith: Drums (1, 4, 8-11)
Andy Kaulkin: Piano (2, 4-6, 14)
Rob Rio: Piano (3, 12, 13)
Lester Butler: Harmonica (7)
Randy Chortkoff: Harmonica (10, 11)
Hook Herrera: Harmonica (8)
Speak face to face with bluesman Billy Boy Arnold and after a while you have the feeling that something about him doesn't quite add up. This man looks to be in his early forties, with a steady gaze, articulate speech, unlined face, trim build and a head of hair devoid of grey. Isn't this the singer and harmonica player who's near sixty and has been recording since the 1950s? They are one and the same. Billy Boy may have aged over forty years since he began playing the blues, but, like his appearance, his music is that of a mature bluesman who is still full of youthful energy.
This 57-year-old native Chicagoan was a key player in the development of both Chicago blues and early rock 'n' roll. He got his first harmonica lessons from John Lee Williamson, the original Sonny Boy. Billy was an important member of the early Bo Diddley band and, later on, a star in his own right with his widely influential recordings for the Vee Jay label, made between 1955 and 1957. Billy's records and original compositions have made him a significant figure in the blues world; his songs were covered by British bands of the1960s like the Yardbirds and the Animals (I Ain't Got You and I WishYou Would , respectively). Also, he is a highly individual harmonica stylist who chose to utilize Sonny Boy's fluttering "wah wah" vibrato even after Little Walter's "Louisiana Saxophone" style became dominant in Chicago.
So why isn't Billy Boy Arnold a household name? Why wasn't he able to parlay the adulation of young Brits into a solid career as a performer and songwriter? Why is his profile as a nationally touring performer just now emerging? Maybe this release, which is Arnold's most significant recording in almost thirty years, will bring him the recognition he's always deserved. It should make it clear that Billy Boy Arnold is back where he belongs.
Although his family was from Georgia, Billy was born in Chicago in 1935. He literally grew up at the same time as that city's important postwar blues developments. As a Chicago native, Billy had no Southern musical baggage that he had to adapt to meet the demands of an urban musical environment. His chief role model on the harmonica was, and remains, Sonny Boy Williamson I. It was Sonny Boy who showed an admiring twelve-year-old Billy how to "choke the harp" and showed the boy the advantages of playing Marine Band harmonicas. Their meetings were few, however, and Williamson, whose citywide fame and popularity were unmatched by any blues performer of the late 1940s, met with a violent end. This didn't deter Arnold's passion for the blues (he knew most of Sonny Boy's recorded work by heart) and its makers.
The teenaged Billy was tall for his age and baby-faced. In the company of older musicians like Louis Myers, he began frequenting the tough blues clubs like the original Sylvio's at Oakley and Lake Streets. Here he heard blues masters like J.B. Lenoir, Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers, Robert Lockwood and Johnny Jones. Billy's first paying jobs as a musician were a series of one-nighters with the likes of veterans Johnny Temple<|fim_middle|> version and you'll see that the years have added a depth of expression that is out of a young man's reach. It's that maturity that is the hallmark of this recording. You can hear it in the vocals, the harp playing and Billy's songs, especially the newer ones. If you're only familiar with Billy's older recorded work, let this serve as your reintroduction to a worthy talent. If this is your first meeting with the music of Billy Boy Arnold, this recording can act as his calling card, his resume and his creed. It signals that he's back in the blues game for good. He's back where he belongs.
-- Kirk Silsbee
Kirk Silsbee writes about jazz and blues from Southern California for a number of local and national publications.
"A triumphant comeback"
- BILLBOARD
"A wonderful new disc"
- LIVING BLUES
"Undeniable force and impassioned intensity…Arnold's harmonica is the epitome of the blues"
- DOWN BEAT
Track Name Duration
Your browser does not support the audio element. 1 I Wish You Would
Author/Publisher: Arnold, Conrad Music, BMI
Your browser does not support the audio element. 2 Move On Down The Road
Author/Publisher: Kaulkin & Arnold, Andy Kaulkin Music, ASCAP/WBA Music, BMI
Your browser does not support the audio element. 3 Fine Young Girl
Author/Publisher: Rio, Boss Rio Publishing, BMI
Your browser does not support the audio element. 4 You Got Me Wrong
Author/Publisher: Cryor, Conrad Music, BMI
Your browser does not support the audio element. 5 Fool For You
Author/Publisher: Arnold & Zunis, WBA Music/Eyeball Music, BMI
Your browser does not support the audio element. 6 Wandering Eye
Author/Publisher: Arnold & Wade , WBA Music, BMI
Your browser does not support the audio element. 7 Shake Your Hips
Author/Publisher: Moore, Avi Music, BMI
Your browser does not support the audio element. 8 Whiskey, Beer And Reefer
Author/Publisher: Arnold, WBA Music, BMI
Your browser does not support the audio element. 9 Prisoner's Plea
Author/Publisher: Hawkins, Conrad Music, BMI
Your browser does not support the audio element. 10 High Fashion Woman
Author/Publisher: Leavey, Bocka Music, BMI
Your browser does not support the audio element. 11 Young And Evil
Author/Publisher: Chortkoff, Eyeball Music, Bmi
Your browser does not support the audio element. 12 Shake The Boogie
Author/Publisher: J.L. Williamson, Public Domain
Your browser does not support the audio element. 13 Worried Life Blues
Author/Publisher: Merriwether, Duchess Music/Wabash Music, BMI
Your browser does not support the audio element. 14 Streetwise Advisors
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Johnny Jones With Billy Boy Arnold | , Johnny Shines and a very young Otis Rush. A chance encounter led to Billy's association with guitarist Ellas McDaniel, later to be known as Bo Diddley. In the fall of 1954, Billy joined Bo's band, then a street corner outfit that often set up shop in front of Ada's Lounge at 51st and Prairie. The give-and-take between Arnold and Diddley was meaningful; electronics buff Bo fabricated Billy's first amplifier (out of an orange crate!) and Arnold wrote the tune that would later become Diddley Daddy , one of Bo's signature songs. Arnold was a creative source of rhythmic input to what came to be known as "the Bo Diddley beat;" his stop time harp phrases gave Bo's music an extra rhythmic layer.
The band attracted the attention of Leonard Chess and they recorded I'm A Man and Bo Diddley in February of 1955. (Two sides under Arnold's leadership were also cut but remained unissued until one was included in this year's Chess Blues Box on MCA.) A misunderstanding ("Leonard don't like you," Bo told Billy) sent Arnold across the street to Vee Jay to seek his own record deal. The resulting body of recorded work made young Billy Boy (the label gave him the nickname) a blues star on Chicago's South Side. He shared bills with Howlin' Wolf, Junior Wells, Little Walter and other legends of the late 1950s, at clubs like McKie's Lounge, Club Columbia and the Rock 'n' Roll Lounge.
Arnold continued working as a regular on the Chicago blues scene into the 1960s but seldom ventured out of town to work. He recorded infrequently but sometimes quite effectively (his 1963 album for Prestige/Bluesville is ripe for reissue). Billy didn't venture to Europe until 1974 and by this time his music career was an avocation. Career work as a truant officer, a bus driver and with the State of Illinois as a counselor to women parolees kept Arnold's musical aspirations at bay. Until now, that is.
For this recording, producer Randy Chortkoff put Billy in the company of Randy's band, The Taildraggers (guitarist Zach Zunis, pianist Andy Kaulkin, bassist Tom Leavey and drummer Lee Smith), a respected Los Angeles blues aggregation. This core group is augmented throughout the fourteen songs with key players from L.A.'s thriving blues scene. The material performed represents a wide range of blues-related forms and musical sources. I Wish You Would, You Got MeWrong, and Prisoner's Plea are from Arnold's Vee Jay years. Shake The Boogie is Billy's nod to his mentor, Sonny Boy Williamson; it's one of the latter's great jump tunes. Big Maceo Merriwether's Worried Life Blues is a tribute to Merriwether, the tremendous barrelhouse pianist and one of Williamson's Chicago contemporaries. Slim Harpo's Louisiana mantra, Shake Your Hips, is turbo-charged by Zunis' rocking guitar work. The structure of Kaulkin's Move On Down The Road recalls Chuck Berry's Almost Grown while Art Wade's and Billy Boy's joint composition Wandering Eye is reminiscent of Willie Dixon's Hoochie Coochie Man. Billy's own Whiskey, Beer And Reefer suggests John Lee Hooker's modal vamps. Arnold's contribution to the Bo Diddley beat is summed up on I Wish You Would, propelled by Zunis' tough guitar riffs. Billy considers Rob Rio one of the most inspiring pianists he's ever worked with; Rob's keyboard contributions to Fine Young Girl summon the memory of the late Memphis Slim. Fool For You is a recent composition by Billy, who thought so much of Zunis' guitar contribution to the tune that he cut him in on composer credit. San Diego bluesman Art Wade came up with the title Wandering Eye, and Arnold liked what the phrase suggested so he wrote his own lyrics. Lester Butler of the Red Devils achieves a train-like harmonica on Shake Your Hips with the help of a "bullet" mike. "I think," says Arnold, "that Lester is one of the greater harp players that I have heard and I appreciate his participation in this album."
As an indication of Billy's influence, harpist Hook Herrera cheerfully states his own debt to Arnold: "I've been ripping him off for years, man." Herrera respectfully plays in the Sonny Boy/BillyBoy vein on Whiskey. Prisoner's Plea is the kind of one-chord ramble that would have been right at home on a Howlin' Wolf show. It also serves as a reminder of just how far Billy has matured as a vocalist. Compare the original Vee Jay | 1,009 |
Your Face Is Not A Floor!
When I was fifteen, I took a modeling course that was offered at my school during lunch hour. My teacher was a model, herself,<|fim_middle|> water after your cleansing routine.
That's my first Beauty TidBit! Til next week! And remember, Your Face is NOT a Floor!
I'm no beauty Queen but I do have a few tips I would like to share. Some are from when I took my modeling course in High School and some I discovered along the way.
Every woman deserves to feel her best and beauty starts with how we feel about ourselves. | and she was teaching us the tricks of the trade.
One of the most important lessons I remember is when she was telling us about skin care. She said (and I must translate this because she spoke French); "Your face is not a floor, you must never use soap on it".
She explained how soap was too harsh on the skin and that the best way to wash your face was to first use hot water and a facecloth, give your face a good scrub (this is after removing all the make-up with a proper make-up remover) and then wipe your face with cold water. What this process does is the hot water will open your pores and you give a deep cleaning. Then rinsing with cold water closes your pores to keep your skin protected against the elements and when you apply your moisturizer and make-up it doesn't get into your pores. Acne and other skin problems are often caused by dirt and make-up getting into the pores. You can completely avoid these problems by simply rinsing your face with cold | 206 |
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The practice of various massage techniques can be traced though human history and nearly every culture. Artwork and literature from many civilizations show that nearly all ancient cultures practiced massage in some form. This is shown in cave drawings by out prehistoric ancestors, ancient Chinese books dating back as far as 3000 B.C., medical textbooks by Greek and Roman physicians written in the millennia preceding Christ, Indian and Hindu tradition and literature dating back over three thousand years. | like to share what you can do to balance yourself out when you do. You know, we're all about giving you options for self-care!
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How one VC firm wound up with no-code startups as part of its investing thesis – TechCrunch
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Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It's broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading.
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How one VC firm wound up with no-code startups as part of its investing thesis
Throughout all the chaos of 2020's economic upheaval in the startup world, I've worked to pay more attention to low-code and no-code services. The short gist of chats I've had with investors and founders and public company execs in the past few weeks is that market awareness of no-code/low-code terminology is starting to spread more broadly.
Why? Again, summarizing aggressively, it seems that the gap between what different business units need (marketing, say) and what in-house or external engineering teams are capable of providing is widening. This means there is more total pain in the market, hunting for a solution, often with a tooling budget in hand.
Enter no-code and low-code startups, and even big-company services alike that can help non-developers do more without having to beg for engineering inputs.
I spoke with Arun Mathew this week. He's a partner at Accel, a<|fim_middle|> then I shouted about it here.
We got data on Boston's venture capital results in 2020, broken down by month. Hot damn, that wasn't really what we expected.
The JFrog IPO pricing dance is going to tell us how much profits are worth in the SaaS world.
And Zoom's insane, bonkers, hell-yeah quarter.
And with that, we are out of room. Hugs, fist bumps and good vibes, and thank you so much for reading this little newsletter on the weekends. It's a treat to write, and I hope you like it.
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June 23, 2020 user 0 | venture firm that has invested in all sorts of companies that you've heard of — including Webflow, which raised a $72 million Series A last August that Mathew led for his firm. (More on the round here, and notes from TechCrunch on Webflow's early days here, and here, if you are curious.)
More interesting than that single round is how Accel wound up building a thesis around no-code startups. According to Mathew, Accel had made large investments into companies like Qualtrics, for example, when they were already pretty big and had found product-market fit. That same general approach led to the Webflow deal last year.
At the time, Webflow "wasn't really defining what they were doing as n- code, they just said 'we have a very simple drag and drop UI, to build websites, and soon full web applications, very simply,' " he told TechCrunch. But, according to Mathew, what Webflow was doing "lined up really well" with the "rising movement of no-code."
From there, Accel "made a couple [more no-code] investments in Europe where [it has] an early-stage team and a growth team," along with a few more in India. In the investor's view, some of the investing activity was "thesis driven because we think [no-code is] a really interesting theme," but some of the deals "happened opportunistically" where Accel had found "really talented founders in the space that we thought was interesting, executing on a vision that we found appealing."
In the "span of a year, year-and-a-half," Accel totted up "seven or eight companies in this no-code space," which over the last five or six quarters became "a real thesis" for the firm, Mathew said. Accel now has "a global team" of around a dozen people "spending a lot of our time in and around no-code" he added.
Apologies for the length there, but what Mathew said makes me feel a bit less behind. After dipping a toe into learning more about no-code services and tooling (and, yes, low-code as well) it felt somewhat like I was playing catch-up. But as I covered that Webflow round and have since started paying more attention to no-code as well, perhaps you and I are right on time.
(We also recently ran an investor survey on the no-code topic, so hit it up if you want more VC scribbles on the topic.)
Market Notes
For Market Notes this week, we have four things. First, riffs from chats with two public company execs about the software market, some public market stuff and then some neat Airbnb spend data by which I am confounded:
I spoke with Apple MDM company Jamf's CFO Jill Putman this week, after her company reported its first set of earnings as a public company. I wanted to know a bit more about the education market — a hot topic here at TechCrunch, given outsized rounds and huge market demand — and the medical world.
Regarding the software market for education, Putman noted that schools are buying lots of hardware, and that software sales should follow. Our read from that is that the boom in education software is not going to slow for some time as schools work on reopening.
Ditto the medical market, where Jamf has found uptake as hospitals roll out hardware to patients and families thereof to facilitate all sorts of demand that COVID has engendered. (Hardware needs software, enter Jamf!)
Chatting with the CFO our key takeaway was that there are still sectors that could generate a continued COVID tailwind, even if not all Jamf customers fit that bill. For startups that did catch a wave, this is probably good news.
And then there was Yext, a company that helps other companies' customers find accurate information about them around the Web, and has recently gotten into the search game. Yext launched at a TechCrunch conference back in 2009, which is a neat bit of history. Anyway, Yext is public company now and we wanted to chat about which industries are driving growth for the former startup, and how the general climate for software is for the company, so we got on Zoom with its CEO, Howard Lerman.
So, which sectors are accelerating from Yext's perspective? Government, education (again), insurance and financial services. Let that guide your take on the health of various startups.
Turning to the business climate, Lerman had some notes: "I will tell you in Q2," he said, "things came back a bit from Q1." In what sense? Retention rates, for one, according to the CEO. A return to form is welcome, but Lerman did caution that some companies were slower to "pull the trigger on big deals."
Lerman also said that his perspective on the macro-climate has bounced back as well from a local-minima set around 30 days ago.
Public company execs are pretty guarded in how they talk because they have to be. But what Putman and Lerman seemed to intimate is that economic damage — provided you are selling to business, and not individuals — seems more contained on a per-sector basis than I would have anticipated. And that there are some good things ahead, at least in a handful of hot sectors.
Opening our aperture a bit, some SaaS companies struggled this week to meet investor expectations, even as more companies added themselves to the IPO queue. It's going to be very busy for a few quarters. (Speaking of which, you can find the good and bad from the new Sumo IPO filing here.)
The economy is still garbage for many, but at least for companies it's improving. And on that note, some data regarding Airbnb. According to the folks over at Edison Trends, things are going better for the home-booking site than I would have guessed. Per the group:
Airbnb's bookings recovery outstripped its traditional rivals, growing "32% week-over-week" from late April into early June.
And, most critically: "Airbnb spending in July was up 22% over the previous July, and spending the week of August 17 was 75% higher than the equivalent week in 2019."
Wild, right? Perhaps that's why Airbnb has filed to go public.
We're a tiny bit short on space, so I'll keep our V&S dose short this week to respect your time. Here's what I couldn't not share:
Read this a16z post on the IPO market. It does a great job pulling the Twitter-bullshit out of regular IPO complaints to make some salient points about what is actually good, and bad, about the venerable initial public offering.
And then read this Fred Wilson piece on SPACs, and how he thinks about them today.
Fast made a bunch of noise this week, launching its checkout product after a lot of hype. I thought they were doing something more than a product launch, given the sheer number of tweets I kept seeing. Not sure how I feel about the final thing, but I covered their raise earlier this year, so wanted to flag this all the same.
And, finally, Palantir. In a new S-1 filing, Palantir kinda fessed up to the fact that its structure makes it look like a controlled company. Danny did the digging on the matter here. And | 1,530 |
Located on the edge of a thriving market town with panoramic views, this lovely property offers modern design, underfloor heating, full double glazing and fantastic outside space with pool - all within walking distance of the pretty town centre.
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On the ground floor is an entrance hall, cloakroom, a large airy L shaped living room to include a lounge area with dining space, a further dining area and an individual designed bespoke fully fitted kitchen.
Also on this floor is an office/third bedroom with a Moroccan Styled en-suite shower wet room, a laundry room and the access to the cellar.
On the first floor are two double bedrooms, each with a wet room bathroom en-suite, fitted to luxury hotel standard including feature corner baths and multi function body jet showers. Each bedroom has fitted wardrobes and its own individual outdoor terrace reached through large patio doors overlooking the glorious views.
This is a wonderful easy care home which has been finished to the highest standard. The building of the house was completed in 2005. Some of the fittings include a complete house water softener, oil boiler which controls the hot water system, the heating for the pool, and the underfloor heating which is fitted under all of the floors in the house. The house is also fully Air Conditioned which can be reversed to provide heating also. There is total security with a lock and leave system with electronically controlled shutters and doors. The gates and the garage doors are also electronically controlled with a video entry system monitored internally from the entrance hall. Security lighting is operated automatically at the approach to the gates and along the driveway.
The individual designed bespoke kitchen has top of the range built in fitted appliances , coffee machine, microwave, halogen hob, oven, dishwasher, waste disposal and lighting at floor level, as well as granite worktops.
The attractive blue retractable awnings fitted separately across all of the balconies are electronically controlled to allow each one its own settings.
The individually controlled air conditioning units in every room are fully reversible cold and hot and the ceiling windows in the entrance hall and dining area have electronically controlled shutters as do all of the windows and patio doors.
Entering the property from the paved patio to the bespoke front door into the ground floor area which is fully tiled.
Entrance hall with glazed panelled ceiling, electronic shutters and outdoor camera and voice security intercom.
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The summer dining room Abre, open on two sides, has been built in French barn style, with open beams and a Mediterranean style tiled roof, the floor is fully tiled and this space offers fabulous shaded summer dining.
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Door into an internal lobby with the bespoke staircase at the side rising to the first floor. There is lighting at the side of some of the treads.
Laundry Room - double bowl porcelain sink, work surface with cupboards under and plumbing for washing machine and tumble dryer | 162 |
Fittingly, two of the hottest dresses from last night's red carpet just happen to be crimson-hued. But first, let's talk about Kate Hudson's designer-looking evening gown that seems to have a zero missing from its price tag.
The actress and Ann Taylor collaborator and spokesmodel stunned in an evening gown from her LBD Collection for the retailer—and you can buy it for $198. The iconic Hollywood view from the Chateau Marmont makes for a perfect backdrop too—think she ran into James Franco at the pool?
As for the ladies in red, Elle Fanning paid homage to the '90s in a slinky red slip dress from the Versace fall 2014 collection. She accessorized with matching bronze Christian Louboutin So Kate pumps and a Brian Atwood Ottavia minaudiere.
Zoe Barnes Kate Mara was color twinsies with Elle at the party in a Dior tuxedo dress. She accented the look with Rupert Sanderson platform sandals and a gilded Dolce & Gabbana clutch.
Model-turned-actress Brooklyn Decker went with lemon yellow lace from the Valentino resort 2014 collection. I'm really digging these Valentino rompers lately (see: Bella Thorne at the Nickelodeon<|fim_middle|> chose an edgy leather-paneled color-block number for the Cinema Society and Montblanc red carpet.
Another situation I'm into: Anne Hathaway's recent sartorial outings. She dropped by Good Morning America wearing an abstract-print jacquard dress from the Mary Katrantzou fall 2014 collection. While she looks more autumn than spring, she's totally giving me something to look forward to come September. | Kids' Choice Awards).
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Launching a wild new product line When Discovery Communications wanted to create a new line of Animal Planet products, they looked to us for help.
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We established an editorial and visual approach for the line, developed packaging, named the toys, and produced an innovative and award-winning style guide that shows licensees how to implement the program with spirit and a sense of fun.
While officially called a Style Guide, we think of it more as an "Attitude Guide."
The document provides guidance on how to develop toys for the line, how to promote them, package them, and even name them.
We worked with Toys "R" Us in launching the line, naming the products, and developing packaging for over 150 toys.
Prototype retail display from the style guide.
Some of the products developed for the initial launch.
Prototype store design
Concept boards showing a range of Animal Planet products we developed for consideration, some of which made it to market.
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Director: Han Jae-rim Screenwriter: Han Jae-rim Cast: Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, Jeon Do-yeon, Kim Nam-gil, Im Si-wan, Kim So-jin, Park Hae-joon Distributor: Showbox Running Time: 147 min. MPAA: Not Rated
It may sound surreal to speak of a blockbuster-style disaster film like Emergency Declaration as a routine picture involving a deadly virus. Yet there's also some catharsis in its staging where an outbreak happens on a plane, and a vaccine is found before it lands. For as dangerous, chaotic, and intense as this film is, there's perhaps a twinge of hope in its made-to-order thrills that come with this familiar genre.
Song Kang-ho plays the devoted detective Gu In-ho, trying to track down a killer who has been murdered with a rare virus. That murderer has already boarded a plane leaving South Korea and plans to unleash this virus on the passengers. After delivering some creepy threats, it isn't long before one of the passengers has an eyeball explode, and the whole plane erupts into terror. While the crew and passengers struggle to handle this terrorist and keep those aboard safe from the virus, South Korean law enforcement and political officials scramble to track the cure and convince the government to allow the plane to land.
The premise itself is rather thin. The intentions of the virus-holder are fairly basic as a mix of organizational corruption and disillusionment with the world. His "let the world burn" mentality makes him a threat who can't be reasoned with, which is fine, although it makes for a rather simplistic instigator of the inciting incident. That's fine, though, as too many other characters crowd the screen. There's a former pilot who is nervous about the flight but forced to take control when the pilot falls ill, drawing obvious relations to Airplane and Zero Hour. There are family members aboard the plane who try to contact their loved ones and make tearful goodbyes fearing they won't make it<|fim_middle|>ly comforting motif of going back to business as usual for films involving planes, international problems, and deadly viruses. At least in this film the plane lands, an outbreak is prevented, and the corporate stooges are held accountable for their actions that led to this happening. Someone is probably going to take a bit of wish-fulfillment pleasure out of that type of film.
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For as stock as this type of film sounds, it mostly delivers on what it promises. The scenes of the flight going awry are intense with the shifting gravity of the plane itself and the bickering among passengers praying not to come down with the virus. One scene involves the plane attempting to make a landing in Japan, leading to the Japanese military firing warning shots and culminating in a game of chicken between the jet and the jet fighter. I also dug the car chase for a potential suspect that did not go according to plan. Most of the dialogue is par for the course as characters spend so much time discussing exposition and who is where at any given moment. I'm so torn about whether there should've been more time to get to know the characters but, then again, the film is already 2.5 hours long and has a massive ensemble cast that includes Lee Byung-hun, Jeon Do-yeon, Kim Nam-gil, Im Si-wan, Kim So-jin, Park Hae-joon, and so many more.
Despite feeling like a routine exercise in disasters of the plane and virus variety, Emergency Declaration is a passable dose of high-flying thrills that moves fast enough to work. There's nothing all that groundbreaking here, and you can probably connect the dots if you're seasoned in these types of films to recognize all the tropes at play. You could practically turn it into a drinking game without how many conventions are thrown into the mix. The film is perhaps more admirable because it holds together after being released so close to the Covid-19 pandemic. As so many aims for a sense of normalcy after the pandemic lockdowns, something as routine as Emergency Declaration has a weird | 392 |
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Q: Custom 'typesafe' Int Types What I would like to have is two different integer types which are semantically distinguishable.
E.g. in this code a 'Meter' type and a 'Pixel' int type
typealias Meter = Int
typealias Pixel = Int
fun Meter.toPixel() = this * 100
fun Pixel.toMeter() = this / 100
fun calcSquareMeters(width: Meter, height: Meter) = width * height
fun calcSquarePixels(width: Pixel, height: Pixel) = width * height
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
val pixelWidth: Pixel = 50
val pixelHeight: Pixel = 50
val meterWidth: Meter = 50
val meterHeight: Meter = 50
calcSquareMeters(pixelWidth, pixelHeight) // (a) this should not work
pixelWidth.toPixel() // (b) this should not work
}
The problem with this solution is
(a) that I can call calcSquareMeters with my 'Pixel' type which I don't want to be possible and
(b) that I can call the toPixel() extension function which I only want to have for my '<|fim_middle|> types. When you add typealias Predicate and use Predicate in your code, the Kotlin compiler always expand it to (Int) -> Boolean. Thus you can pass a variable of your type whenever a general function type is required and vice versa
This means that there isn't possible check over your typealias, and you are rally declaring your extensions functions as:
fun Int.toPixel() = this * 100
fun Int.toMeter() = this / 100
fun calcSquareMeters(width: Int, height: Int) = width * height
fun calcSquarePixels(width: Int, height: Int) = width * height
I fear the only way to achieve that you want is implementing an extra class for each type.
A: I would also go with the solution from TheOperator. But I would like to add the inline keyword to the operator functions. By doing so you could avoid a virtual function call when ever you use this operators.
inline operator fun <T : MetricType<T>> T.plus(rhs: T) = new(this.value + rhs.value)
inline operator fun <T : MetricType<T>> T.minus(rhs: T) = new(this.value + rhs.value)
inline operator fun <T : MetricType<T>> T.times(rhs: Int) = new(this.value * rhs)
| Meter' type on my 'Pixel' type which I don't want to be possible.
I guess this is the intended behaviour of typealias, so I guess to achieve my goal I have to use something different than typealias...
So how can I achieve this?
A: In addition to the existing answer: If you have a lot of common functionality between the two types and don't want to duplicate it, you can work with an interface:
interface MetricType<T> {
val value: Int
fun new(value: Int): T
}
data class Meter(override val value: Int) : MetricType<Meter> {
override fun new(value: Int) = Meter(value)
}
data class Pixel(override val value: Int) : MetricType<Pixel> {
override fun new(value: Int) = Pixel(value)
}
Like this, you can easily define operations on the base interface, such as addition, subtraction and scaling:
operator fun <T : MetricType<T>> T.plus(rhs: T) = new(this.value + rhs.value)
operator fun <T : MetricType<T>> T.minus(rhs: T) = new(this.value + rhs.value)
operator fun <T : MetricType<T>> T.times(rhs: Int) = new(this.value * rhs)
The combination of interface and generics ensures type safety, so you do not accidentally mix types:
fun test() {
val m = Meter(3)
val p = Pixel(7)
val mm = m + m // OK
val pp = p + p // OK
val mp = m + p // does not compile
}
Keep in mind that this solution comes at a runtime cost due to the virtual functions (compared to rewriting the operators for each type separately). This in addition to the overhead of object creation.
A: Indeed, typealiases don't guarantee this sort of type safety. You'll have to create wrapper classes around an Int value instead to achieve this - it's a good idea to make these data classes so that equality comparisons work on them:
data class Meter(val value: Int)
data class Pixel(val value: Int)
Creation of instances of these classes can be solved with extension properties:
val Int.px
get() = Pixel(this)
val pixelWidth: Pixel = 50.px
The only problematic thing is that you can no longer directly perform arithmetic operations on Pixel and Meter instances, for example, the conversion functions would now look like this:
fun Meter.toPixel() = this.value * 100
Or the square calculations like this:
fun calcSquareMeters(width: Meter, height: Meter) = width.value * height.value
If you really need direct operator use, you can still define those, but it will be quite tedious:
class Meter(val value: Int) {
operator fun times(that: Meter) = this.value * that.value
}
fun calcSquareMeters(width: Meter, height: Meter) = width * height
A: There is a proposal (not yet guaranteed to be accepted) to add inline classes for this purpose. I.e.
@InlineOnly inline class Meter(val value: Int)
will really be an Int at runtime.
See https://github.com/zarechenskiy/KEEP/blob/28f7fdbe9ca22db5cfc0faeb8c2647949c9fd61b/proposals/inline-classes.md and https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/issues/104.
A: From kotlin doc:
Type aliases do not introduce new types. They are equivalent to the corresponding underlying | 739 |
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Late Winter, Early Spring at Taughann<|fim_middle|> John Denver's songs by his concert and album music arranger, Lee Holdridge. Lee was a long time friend and collaborator who came out with an album of John Denver's songs performed by an orchestra he conducted. I have the original vinyl record. I am guessing when John saw the final video I have linked to below, he would have uttered his famous line, Far Out! Enjoy!
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Just re-read this and the following post . . . and I like this image best. Carl Sagan would definitely think an alien race had lived here.
Scott, the waterfall is gorgeous, especially with the wall of ice on both sides. | ock Falls State Park near Ithaca, New York. Nikon D700/28-300VR, 4s, f/22, ISO 200, EV 0, 28mm focal length, tripod.
In John Denver's Rocky Mountain High album, he wrote a series of songs and music called the Season Suite. The track titled Late Winter, Early Spring was a guitar instrumental and is a lovely piece of music which captures the feeling of time between the snow melt of winter and the greening of springtime. This is the music that was going through my head as I was photographing at Taughannock Falls last weekend.
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I am a huge advocate for skin care. Not only should our body's outer layer be protected and nourished but a skin care routine is also part of self-care. I look forward to my morning and<|fim_middle|> absolutely love using.
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For a few years now, I have made the switch to green beauty. With that switch came a lot of trial and error, figuring out with brands, products and ingredients worked well for my skin and which didn't.
I have been really enjoying my morning skin care routine lately, so I thought I'd share with fellow beauty buffs what I've been doing.
I just warm a tiny amount of the cleansing oil in my palms and massage it into my face. (Facial massage is also excellent for lymphatic drainage!) Then I take a warm wash cloth, ring out the excess water and press it onto my face. Letting the warmth sit against my skin for a few seconds. It just plumps up your skin a little with some moisture and helps to start the day off right.
Next, I spritz my face, neck and chest with a homemade toner. It is mostly rose water I made from roses in our garden, a little witch hazel and a little apple cider vinegar. I find these three ingredients really help to keep acne at bay.
While my face is still a little wet from the toner, I go in with my Aloha Ambrosia facial serum from Leahlani. Again, the scent with this is heavenly! Instantly, it takes me to a warm kauai beach. I like to apply it before allowing my face to dry completely because it really locks in the good ingredients and moisture from the prior steps.
You could do all the preventative skin care measures you want, but if you neglect using SPF, you're going to show signs of aging faster. Sun damage is no joke. Once you have it, it's so hard and sometimes impossible to reverse it. I make sure to apply a clean SPF all over my face, neck, chest, ears and pretty much any areas that will be hit by the sun at some point during the day. I really like this SPF from Mad Hippie.
This last step isn't actually skin care related, but it's part of my routine so I wanted to include it. That is, applying my signature scent. Putting on some kind of perfume or fragrant oil is just kind of the cherry on top that wraps up the whole routine. I've tried many fragrances but I often find myself getting tired of them quickly. This is not the case for my all time favorite scent, Bless by Leahlani. If you like jasmine or plumeria, you'll love this one! They also have a multipurpose balm with the same scent that I | 518 |
For the past few months I have felt like a part of me has been emotionally paralyzed. As my friends sent their kids off to college one by one, I remained numb. I wouldn't allow the reality to sink in. My first born was heading to college and I didn't quite know how to process that an<|fim_middle|> just waiting to break loose.
Our girl is more than ready to fly. She's been dreaming of this day for a long time and I couldn't be more excited for her. She is a girl born for adventure and she has so many passions to pursue. Yet, my heart is breaking. All of those daily moments I too often have taken for granted, are no longer; the late night talks, the laughter, and the sibling banter. Then, I think of all of the things I wish I would have done; more girl nights, more talks, more hugs, more belly laughs. How could 18 years go by so fast? Could I have done more? Could I have done better?
All those questions aren't going to turn back time, and I wouldn't want them to. My heart knows that she is exactly where she should be and that it is time for her to spread her wings. We've prepared her for this; she's ready. However, I will let the tears flow because I know that there is no stopping them anyway. Today I will mourn an end of an era....tomorrow I will celebrate the beginning of a new one. | era was ending. Now as we drive away from Portland State with an empty seat in the car, the tears are flowing like a river. I feel like they've been building up | 36 |
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After watching jets take off for a couple hours from the air-traffic control center, I turn to my chaperone: Can I fly in one those? I cannot. I do the next best thing and drive 12 miles south to the Military Aviation Museum, which harbors the world's largest private collection of antique planes. The majority of them apparently still fly, and I aim to take a ride.
At the museum, I find Hellcats and Corsairs and German fighter planes with swastikas painted on the wings. "Some of these airplanes were shot down by the enemy, and some were shot down by Americans," says Jerry Yagen, the museum's founder. "Even in the woods around here, I could show you crashed planes that still haven't been recovered."
The Military Aviation Museum is largely run by a group of about 200 volunteers, many of them veterans, who give tours, maintain and restore planes, and generally share their passion for military history.
After touring the hangers, I climb into the open cockpit of a WWII Boeing Stearman. The wings are little more than wooden ribs covered with fabric, paint, and glue. "It was designed for student torture," jokes the pilot.
Even though it's fully restored and freshly painted, the old plane seems rickety to me. I ask Yagen if today's military jets are any safer. "I don't know," he says. "They're still dangerous. You can only die once."
That reply makes me wonder what it would feel like to smash into the ground at several hundred miles per hour. For a moment, I consider skipping the flight. But that would be crazy.
I climb into the Stearman, and we bounce down the grass runway, building speed until we're airborne. Seconds later, I understand what it means to fly by the seat of your pants. The term stems from the old navigation strategy of using your ass to feel changes in course. It was the only reliable way to fly during the days when planes rattled around like airborne T-Model Fords with no ground communication. And as we whiffle and lurch through the air, I feel every adjustment in real time.
My Stearman flight doesn't provide the sort of stomach-churning G-force I imagine I'd experience in one of Oceana's F18 Hornet jets, but it's one hell of a good time. And when we land, I jump out with a new appreciation for the feeling of earth beneath my feet. A half-dozen volunteers laugh as I struggle to pull my wingsuit off over my boots, but I'm grateful to amuse them. They seem like a close bunch, and it occurs to me that they've probably spent the bulk of their lives working on flight decks and runways. These are the guys I should thank and blame for the jets that fly overhead.
As I leave the museum, I hear a jet fly overhead. And I smile as I notice that it's bound for Oceana.
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At times, Virginia Beach sounds like a cappuccino machine as it foams milk – with the racket turned up to the volume of thunder and blasted down every street in the city. You can hear it from the northern border of North Carolina all the way out to the other side of Chesapeake Bay. It's a sound that I recall with fuzzy nostalgia: I lived in Virginia Beach as a kid. Noise from fighter jets was normal and unexceptional as spring showers or Richard Simmons. (This was the Eighties, mind you.)
I lived in Virginia Beach for the same reason most people do: The U.S. Navy brought me there. My dad served for six years before I was born, and then spent another 12 working for a company contracted by the military. But my family moved away when I was ten years old, and I hadn't been back for more than two decades. A few weeks ago, that changed: I visited the city with a plan to make sense of my noisy childhood memories.
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As I rode through town, this time as a visitor, I noticed the military murals and serious men with cropped haircuts traveling in groups. Looking back, I remembered that my friends' dads would disappear for months at a time. As I imagined it, they were sailing the seven seas, doing heroic deeds and singing songs as they polished their medals and toiled under the hot sun. And, like my dad, they might soon join the ranks of the city's veterans. Today there are more than 60,000 living in Virginia Beach. That's a big number: Other similarly sized cities – Atlanta, Long Beach, Raleigh – have roughly a third that many former military members.
But my romantic childhood notions about military life were misguided, and I learned this by visiting the source of that cacophony, Naval Air Station Oceana. The 74-year-old base handles more than 60,000 takeoffs and landings a year. Add in the other bases in Virginia Beach – Dam Neck, Little Creek, and Fort Story – and you have the city's biggest employer by far. Oceana alone requires the help of nearly 15,000 military personnel and 2,000 civilians.
On the day of my arrival, the public affairs office is working with the city on damage control following a massive oil spill. Two days earlier, 94,000 gallons of jet fuel had leaked from one of Oceana's tanks and spread to nearby waterways. But that hasn't slowed down the day-to-day operations: Fighter jets are taking off and landing every few minutes, while on the other side of base, dogs in training are attacking men in protective marshmallow-men suits. Meanwhile, in the commons, a young petty officer stands before his peers, pledging another four years of service, while Oceana administrators prepare for a hurricane drill at ten-hundred hours.
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This is the best phase for me as an<|fim_middle|> could do so," he said.
He credits frequent collaborator, filmmaker Priyadarshan, for trusting him with light-hearted movies.
"I also have to thank David Dhawan who gave me 'Me Aur Mrs Khiladi' and Rajkumar Santoshi for 'Khakee'. Things started changing since then," he added.
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Mumbai: Akshay Kumar says he is in "the best phase" of his career as he is now getting to an opportunity to do different types of films.
Regarded as an action star in his early days, the 50-year-old star has cemented his place in the industry over almost three decades by featuring in romance dramas, comedies and issue-based movies.
"This is the best phase for me as an actor. I was always wary of having an image. When I came in the film industry I was given action hero tag, no one would offer me a romantic or comedy film, only action films were offered to me.
"I kept doing action films for 14 years. There was no growth. I would call this as the best phase as I can do lot of things like 'Kesari', as an action film, 'Housefull 4' as a comedy film and some socially-relevant movies. I get to play so many characters and do all kind of films," Akshay said in an interview here.
The actor said it was tough for him to break out from the action hero mould.
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<|fim_middle|> a joint venture, the companies will provide geothermal developers with advanced tools that will help make commercialization possible.
The problem of expensive drilling could be solved with new "hammer" drilling tech.
According to technology news site, Gigaom, the two companies intend to use a new drilling technology called a "water hammer" drilling machine. With this tech, the companies believe that they can solve the problem of costly drilling.
The drilling machine hammers down fast on the rock surface with a force so powerful it causes huge vibrations, pulverizing rock. This technique differs from the typical drilling method that uses a rotary bit to break down rock.
Rotary drilling, on the other hand, does not perform well when faced with hard surfaces. Drilling is slow and the bit requires replacement because the hard rock rapidly wears it out. Due to these issues, it is not easy for geothermal developers to reach depths that exceed 10,000 feet, which is what is needed for enhanced geothermal systems (EGS).
While hammer drilling can achieve these deep depths at a faster rate, the trouble this technique has faced in the past is it depended on extremely large air compressors to deliver the pressure to the drill bits. This made the process more expensive. However, the water hammer drill from Hanjin D&B uses water to deliver the pressure to the bit. Compared to standard drilling, the water hammer drill can reach depths of over 12,000 feet, ten times faster, and up to 50% of the cost.
The joint venture may lead to cost reductions in the geothermal energy industry.
According to the Business Wire press release regarding the partnership announcement between AltaRock Energy (a next-gen geothermal startup), and ON Energy (the American supplier of Hanjin D&B, a South Korean drilling company), the companies plan to take a leadership role in commercializing products for deep geothermal reservoirs.
The CEO at AltaRock Energy, Aaron Mandell, said that "ON Energy has demonstrated excellence in bringing down the cost of hard rock drilling and we see this as the critical next step in deploying geothermal power at a scale that can displace coal."
Mandell added that the companies will be able to provide a new price structure for geothermal energy development by combining deep drilling and integrating geothermal simulations into one offering. He explained that the goal "is to reduce the overall risk of exploration by reducing the cost of constructing a reservoir."
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Redcar's Kirkleatham Owl Centre has just welcomed three adorable baby meerkats.
Born to proud parents Bob and Ursula, they're the first babies born to the centre's meerkat group for five years.
And even though the six-week-old triplets have only just started venturing outside, they're already proving hugely popular with the centre's visitors.
The centre's Craig Wesson said: "It's the first time in over five years that we've had babies born in our meerkat group, mainly because we had dropped down to a few males. But last year some young females arrived from another collection and these babies are the result.
"They've just started to venture outside but already they're proving hugely popular with our visitors.
Meerkat babies are born after a two month pregnancy and although it's<|fim_middle|>'re getting used to solid food too, with beetles, worms, crickets and other invertebrates on the menu.
The owl centre is open Tuesday to Sunday during the summer school holidays and has a packed schedule of daily activities, including daily flying displays, meerkat "feed and talk" sessions, animal encounters and "meet the baby owls".
For more Information, call 01642 480512, visit wwwkirkleathamowlcentre.co.uk or see Facebook/kirkowls. | the group's dominant male and female who breed, all group members help to care for the babies.
The youngsters spend the first few weeks of life in the safety of the burrow before venturing out at four to six weeks.
And they | 48 |
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Fourth of July Myths
What better way to celebrate the fourth than revealing the truth of some common American independence myths:
1.) Independence Was Declared on the Fourth of July.
Wrong! Independence was declared by the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776. This is the day according to a letter written by John Adams to his wife Abigail that "will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival." So, why do we celebrate the fourth?
First of all, the Declaration of Independence was adopted on the fourth which is indicated on the document itself. It is believed that is where some of the confusion lies. Basically, the day the document was announced has overshadowed the event itself. Americans first celebrated independence on July 8th with a big party including a parade and firing of guns in Philadelphia.
Secondly, to add to the confusion, a scholar in the nineteenth century came across the letter mentioned above and quietly "corrected" it. So, Adams festival prediction would take place on the fourth instead of the second.
2.) The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4.
A canvas painting by John Trumbull hangs in the grand Rotunda of the Capitol of the United States. It depicts the signing of the Declaration ceremony which supposedly took place on July 4th. Too bad it never happened.
The actual event wasn't all that spectacular. Most delegates signed the document on August 2nd, the same day a clean copy was finally produced by the assistant to the secretary of Congress Timothy Matlack. Several signed later. Their names weren't released to the public until around January 1777. The truth about the signing was discovered in 1884 by historian Mellon Chamberlain.
3.) The Liberty Bell Rang in American Independence.
The story goes that a young boy with blond hair and blue eyes was supposedly posted in the street next to Independence Hall to give a signal to an old man in the bell tower when independence was declared. This scene never happened either. The story was made up by nineteenth century writer George Lippard for a book intended for children called Legends of the American Revolution.
The bell wasn't even named in honor of American independence. It received the moniker in the early nineteenth century when abolitionists used it as a symbol of the antislavery movement. As for the famous crack … it was a badly designed bell and it cracked. End of story.
4.) Betsy Ross Sewed the First Flag.
The house where Betsy Ross supposedly lived may not have been hers. In 1949, the Joint State Government Commission of Pennsylvania concluded in a study that there is no proof she even lived there. If that's not true then what else have we been lied to about?
The story of Betsy Ross sewing our first famous symbol of freedom isn't authentic either. It was made up by her descendants in the nineteenth century. She was just a simple unheralded seamstress.
So, who actually sewed the flag? No one knows. However, we do know who designed it. Records show that in May 1780 Frances Hopkinson sent a bill to the Board of Admiralty for designing the "flag of the United States." While with the hype of the Betsy Ross story he may not get much credit, a small group of his descendants work hard to keep his name alive.
Although the flag we know today was designed by a Ohio high school student in 1958 for a class project. There had been no changes to the flag since 1912 and Robert Heft believed Hawaii and Alaska would soon become official states. His teacher wasn't impressed and gave him a B- but later agreed to bump it up to an A if he could convince Congress to adopt the design. He took on the challenge and a year later Heft asked his congressman, Rep. Walter Moeller, to take the flag to Washington after Alaska and Hawaii were admitted to the union. Early in 1960, Heft received a call from President Dwight Eisenhower who told him his flag design had been chosen from more than 1,500 entries. Heft was in D.C. on July 4th for the adoption ceremony of his flag. Today, that flag design turns 50 (and yes Robert Heft did get that A)!
5.) John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Died on the Fourth of July.
This one is actually true. Adams and Jefferson within hours of each other both died on July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the adoption of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. While this is accurate, there is no proof that Adams dying words were "Jefferson survives." Jefferson actually died hours prior to Adams. So, if he did say it, his final statement would have been false. Also, James Monroe died on July 4, 1831.
6.) July 4, 1776, Party Cracked the Liberty Bell
They may have had cause to celebrate but these patriots didn't ring the Liberty Bell until it cracked on July 4, 1776. The bell itself was poorly made and cracked shorty after its arrival in 1752. Since then, it has been recast and recracked on more than one occasion. The infamous crack it possesses today happened sometime in the 19th Century, an exact date has yet to be agreed upon. The Liberty Bell received it's beautiful name from the abolitionists.
7.) The Declaration of Independence Holds Secret Messages
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Reader Submission - I am a Ghost Magnet | it seems the film National Treasure is pure fiction. Unless it's one of the best kept secrets in our lovely country, there is no map on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Same goes for secret messages. None to be found. However, there is something written on the back of the document: "Original Declaration of Independence dated 4th July 1776." Why? It acted like an identifier when the document was rolled up for travel and storage.
8.) America United Against the British
A film about the Revolutionary War may gotten a thing or two right. During this pivotal moment in history Americans were pitted against one another. About 15 to 20 percent of all Americans were loyal to the crown. An estimated 50,000 served as British soldiers or militia. Adam Baldwin played such an American in the film The Patriot. They were forced to fight against around 100,000 soldiers in the Continental Army while others tried to stay out of the fight altogether. They must have had their share of awkward moments.
Now that you know the truth behind some of the lies we've been told over the years, have a safe and joyous 4th of July, even if independence wasn't declared on this day.
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Manchester is a big hen and stag party city, with lots of great restaurants. However, not all restaurants are created equal so we've put together a handy guide of some of the best Stag & Hen Manchester restaurants for you. We assume you're going to be eating quite a few meals whilst your visiting Manchester so we've come up with a list of the hottest spots with great reputations<|fim_middle|> get their name on the waiting list. Honestly, it's worth it.
Lust Luck Liquor Burn is a super hip little spot serving up burritos, tacos, burgers and generally yum Mexican food all round. Its cool and quirky and is a must for a brilliant stag or hen weekend in Manchester. We think it's a great spot for lunch, make sure you call ahead though if your party is bigger than 10 people!
Every food guide needs a pub offering classic pub grub! An authentic pub with a delicious pub grub menu that deserves to be on this guide is The Famous Sam's Chop House! This is a delightful pub with a wonderful truly British menu! Really well presented and in a lovely rugged earthy setting. Think country pub established in the 19th century! It really is a bit special! Make sure you get a visit in for a gorgeous roast on Sunday! IT will finish your hen or stag weekend in Manchester perfectly!
We at, Mersey Games, hope this guide helps you choose the best Manchester bars and clubs! We have loads of information about the nightlife scene so if you want to know more, or have a chat with us, feel free to give us a call, we are always here to help to make your stag or hen weekend one to remember!
If you enjoyed reading this guide on Manchester Bars. Why not check out our other Manchester Guides below for more top tips and best places to visit around the city. | and excellent customer service, for you to get involved with on your wicked Manchester weekend with your hens or stags!
First up is Revolucion De Cuba. Now, we are aware that this is a chain of restaurant/bars, but this one in Manchester is a really good one for catering to everyone while on your stag or hen party. Plus, its quite well priced for what you get. The drinks can be flowing along side your meal and honestly, it's a really good shout for starting the weekend out right! The small plates are great for sharing and there's a large hint of Mexican going on, basically, there's something for everyone and it's all reasonably priced! Result!
Almost Famous has made quite a name for itself over the last few years in Manchester! This cheeky little place has some of the best burgers in the north and they should definitely be on your hit list for places to eat while on your hen or stag weekend in Manchester. With a kind of street food vibe and cool, graffiti style décor, the venue is awesome and with a wicked cocktail list that puts a spin on the old classics, you won't be leaving disappointed! It's all a bit tongue in cheek here, perfect for a stag or hen weekend!
Reds True BBQ is another show stopper in Manchester. You literally cannot complain at all. Ribs. Burgers. Wings. Pulled pork. Ok we admit it isn't great for the veggie in the group but honestly, we've never had a bad meal here! They do cater for vegetarians by the way but it's not the best menu we've seen. The customer service is great, these guys can't do enough for you, which we liked a lot and then there's a decent cocktail list and some nice beers on tap which can accommodate everyone in your party too.
Going a little bit more up market now, we have the beautiful Australasia. Set in a futuristic building with stunning décor, this restaurant boasts relaxed elegance and laid back luxe. The words couldn't be truer. With a sumptuous seafood menu and a beautiful drinks list to go with it, you can't really go wrong if you're after a bit of star quality! This restaurant is gorgeous inside and out, so make sure you wear your smart clothes and be on your best behaviour! Definitely the place to be if you're after a bit of class!
If breakfast isn't included in your accommodations, then you'll be needing a seriously thorough hangover cure! Fear not! We have you covered! Moose Coffee is absolutely the best possible shout for breakfast on your weekend in Manchester! Both stags and hens will be satisfied with this brilliantly put together feast of a menu inspired by American and Canadian traditions. They don't take bookings, so its best for someone to just pop down there and | 571 |
Behind French Garden Walls: A Bit of Silk Mill History
By Barefoot Blogger on November 15, 2018 • ( 8 Comments )
When driving down the backroads of France near Uzés,<|fim_middle|> history to learn yet. Lyon is a great place to go for another part of the silk story.
John Stewart says:
Love the history and photos, as usual well written and fascinating !
Glad you've had a chance to see these beautiful stone walls near Uzés for yourself, John. Thanks for staying in touch. | it's a common sight to ride alongside tall stone walls. You know these beautifully laid stones must conceal something amazing. Perhaps behind French garden walls there's a story to be told.
Behind French Garden Walls
Not too long ago I was privileged to be invited to visit inside the stone walls of a property I'd passed by often. I was given a tour through the magnificent seventeenth century home and the gardens, as well.
It was everything I'd imagined. And more.
The home is owned by a charming Belgian woman whom I've been privileged to know over the last two years. She bought the property in 1992.
Built in 1684, the house was part of a farm that later was devoted to the production of silk worms. A "Magnanerie" to the French.
My friend was unsure of the dates the property was used for silk worm farming, but during a period of time after the house was built, the silk industry in France was heavily supported by the government. "There were 2000 mulberry trees planted on the property at one time," she said.
History shows that under Louis IV, grants, free water usage, interest-free mortgages and more were offered to encourage silk production.
By 1815 the French were dominant suppliers of silk traded around the world. There were over 2300 communes in France that cultivated mulberry trees and milled silk, employing up to 350,000 people. More than half of them were in and around the Cevennes.
In 1809, the Prefect of the Gard counted 1,140,680 mulberry trees and 4,713,000 in 1831.
Silks from France experienced a blow in the mid-nineteenth century when an epidemic fatal to silkworms hit the region. Never fully recovered from the setback, the Franco-Prussian War, the opening of the Suez Canal, and the introduction of nylon, were the final death knell to the silk industry France had known.
A vineyard of 1200 apple trees replaced the chestnut trees behind the garden wall sometime during the twentieth century, my friend said. She removed most of them to install an array of gardens, filled largely with roses.
Today the garden and house are open only to invited friends and visitors. I visited in the Fall then asked for photos taking of the gardens during the summer. So you can see how the seasons change so beautifully around the Magnanerie.
The interior of the home is arranged and decorated just as artistically as the massive property.
I hope you have enjoyed this visit behind one of the garden walls of France. For any who might be more than intrigued, the home and property are for sale.
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Liane 😇 says:
I drool profusely. What a stunning property.
Barefoot Blogger says:
You would love it, Princessa. You must come again to visit!
Ginny Blackwell says:
What a beautiful spot. Thanks for the lovely presentation.
I loved seeing this up close. When are you back in France? Thanks for the note.
Keith Van Sickle says:
Beautiful! And the history of silk in France was very interesting; I didn't know that France had been such a big silk-producing country.
Thanks, Keith. There's a lot of | 858 |
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Oh, and if you're writing a story, then you're not a wannabe writer, you're a writer, period. :) The "title" does not come with a publisher, it comes with the work you're doing.
I've just checked the page, this is really cool ! Assuming that I could do a work that is maybe less "children oriented", yeah, I'd be happy to participate if I find the time.
Let me know if you have ideas.
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Yep, I've thought about hats or shirts, but that would defeat the purpose.
I guess that's better if people do it themselves and write on hats or shirts.
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@Gynux right now I'm working on a story aimed towards young adults with another artist. If you'd be interested, we could try doing something together, but I don't have any precise ideas at this point - whatever you would feel comfortable with.
So I'll wait (figuratively speaking) for a precise idea then ;) I'm a bit "lost" if I don't have something precise enough to evaluate the amount of work.
Actually, for me that's a mandatory point before saying yes or no with a client.
Your project is different, but still, I don't want to say "let's go" without info, because I don't want to realize afterwards that the only options I have are to lose some sleep with overwhelming work or let you down. Either options are not cool.
I'm struggling to not go over 500chars.
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Volleyball Sweeps Virginia Saturday<|fim_middle|>, before going on to take the first set, 25-15. Freshman Ashtynne Alberts led the way in the opening set with five kills on eight attempts. Additionally, freshman setter Lisie Kit made her 2018 debut in the first set and chipped in two assists. The Tigers won set No. 2, 25-19, getting a nice lift from their serve game, registering three aces. Clemson took care of business in the third, 25-22, outhitting the Cavaliers, .353 to .242 to win its first match in Mem Gym since 2012.
"I thought our first contact game in general was very on point tonight. From the service line to serve receive; it allowed Madi Howell, Torie Frederick, Emily Curtis and Katelyn DeGuzman to come in and serve aggressive for us. That's our back row core. They did a good job tonight, stepping up and taking care of business on our side of the net, which allowed Gabby [Easton] to take care of things offensively."
Up next, Clemson plays host to Wake Forest (9-18, 4-11) in Jervey Gym on Friday, Nov. 16. Friday's matchup against the Demon Deacons is slated for 7 p.m., and is set to stream on ACC Network Extra.
For complete coverage of the Clemson volleyball team, follow @ClemsonVB on Twitter and Instagram, and @ClemsonVolleyball on Facebook. |
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Freshman Solei Thomas (14 kills) and redshirt sophomore Brooke Bailey (11 kills) combined for 25 of Clemson's 42 kills en route to sweeping Virginia, 25-15, 25-19, 25-22, Saturday evening in Memorial Gymnasium. With the win, the Tigers improved to 15-13 overall and 6-9 in ACC play, while Virginia slipped to 8-18 overall and 4-12 in conference matchups.
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'Eua is an ideal destination for those wanting adventure, to be in touch with nature, to experience the daily life of a different culture and to relax.
'Eua is perfect for hiking, climbing, caving, bush walking, bird watching, mountain biking, horse riding, whale watching<|fim_middle|>'ao.
Cycling is a great way of getting to a number of 'Eua's spectacular attractions and the local beaches. Hire bikes at the local Arts and Crafts store.
Arrange boat fishing and/or reef fishing trips at Taina's Place.
Taina can arrange horse hire for a half or full day.
The Maxi Disco on 'Eua, which Taina started, took its name from her pet cat in Germany! Taina's extended family run the island's disco on a Friday and Saturday night. You are more than welcome to attend. Just let Jasmin and Fe'ao know that you want to go!
Hear the heavenly church choirs on Sunday.
Sunday in Tonga is devoted to going to church and relaxation. The harmonized singing, clanging of church bells and the beat of the "lali" (wooden drums) are all familiar sounds of a Tongan Sunday. On a Sunday, the streets are empty, all businesses (except those for visitors) are closed, sports are prohibited and even planes don't fly. Even contracts signed on a Sunday are void. It is inadvisable to create any disturbance, operate noisy equipment, or be loud on Sundays.
'Eua is famous for its great hiking. Borrow Taina's excellent laminated map(with detailed information) for FREE. (See an interactive version of the map here). Explore 'Eua independently. Or hire a local guide and get to know 'Eua through the eyes of a local, who can take you to our various sites while explaining their history and cultural significance.
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Beaches not far from Taina's make for good half day trips. You can snorkel, enjoy the vast stretches of white sand, discover a small ancient Tongan stone quarry and see the fascinating variety of coral fossils etched in the reef rock.
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Arrange a four wheel drive with Taina's Place.
Check out Ohonua, the main town of 'Eua.
Visit at the marketi and falekoloa (local corner store).
Taina's Place sells a variety of handicrafts.
These handicrafts are amongst the best quality and value handicrafts in Tonga. All payment goes directly to the crafts people. | , snorkeling and scuba diving.
Magnificent humpback whales swim close to 'Eua Island on route to and from breeding grounds around the Kingdom of Tonga from July to November. Relax on a cliff top or on the beach and watch the powerful aerial displays of one of the largest marine mammals in the world. To get closer, arrange for a whale watching* boat trip. Taina's Place has a whale watching operating licence.
*Note: With Taina's Place whalewatching tour, there is no swimming with whales. Swimming with whales is allowed in Vava'u because the sea is calmer and more sheltered in the harbour. However, around 'Eua, the conditions are too dangerous for swimming. Hence, Taina's only conducts "watching" tours.
Dive in the largest underwater cave in the South Pacific.
Yes, 'Eua's 'Cathedral' lives up to its name, with natural light illuminating a 20 – 30 metre deep underwater amphitheatre teeming with dynamic coral of all the colours of stained glass windows. See lobsters clustered on cave walls and the big fish and sharks that live near the second deepest Trench in the world.
Sam Tatafu, owner and operator of Deep Blue Diving, served in the Tongan Navy for 15 years and retired as Lieutenant Commander. Sam and his instructors are PADI qualified and teach PADI diving courses. All safety equipment is current and operational.
Ask Jasmin or Fe'ao for more details and to arrange your scuba diving trip.
Ask Jasmin or Fe'ao to take you on a local tour to experience aspects of the more traditional 'Euan way of life. The tour includes the making of tapa cloth, kava and handicrafts.
Also let Jasmin or Fe'ao know if you'd like to visit and participate in a local evening kava party. Cost: Please ask Jasmin or Fe | 397 |
Python's major strength lies in its ecosystem. There's the community, the quality of documentation, the PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals, or white papers that suggest improvements), and PyPI, or the Python Package Index. PyPI contains almost 80,000 packages, meaning<|fim_middle|> formatted in a standard mode; or you can have the code search a block of text to extract phone numbers. It includes over 100 MB of geocoding data.
Genaa is short for "generate ascii art," but really it just puts text in boxes. There are other styles, allowing # and adjustable width and height, as well as text alignment.
PyPI has a lot of packages. It can prove confusing at some moments, but persevere: there's some very good stuff in there that will simplify your programming life. | that everyone who works with Python will find something useful here.
So you have a large codebase and want to improve it by eliminating some of the technical debt, which is inevitable on projects involving many different developers over a long period of time. In order to reduce the debt, developers need a "flag" that indicates when a function or class is deprecated, so they can avoid it.
DebtCollector accomplishes that end by allowing developers to rename or move functions, read-only properties, classes, and other elements so that a "This function is deprecated" message appears whenever they're called. It's such a neat idea, I wish it could be implemented in other programming languages.
This package is half a gigabyte in size, making it one of the larger ones on PyPI, but it's mostly data, not code.
Have you ever wondered how astronomers calculate where celestial bodies are located on a given date, so that spacecraft can navigate accurately? That's the purpose of an ephemeris, which is a record or model of astronomical objects. The Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) Development Ephemeris, for example, models the solar system for spaceship navigation over a given period. And now the JPL DE is available as a Python package.
The data in the JPL's DE422 package provides calculation of the positions, velocities and accelerations of objects (planets and asteroids) over the period -3000 to 3000. There's a smaller shorter-period ephemeris 423, covering 1800 to 2200. You might not be launching a mission to Mars anytime soon, but this is nonetheless a fun package to tinker with.
Ever had to check if international phone numbers are in a correct format? If I did, I would trust Google to get it right. This library is a Python-based translation of Google's libphone number. Once a phone number is validated, it can be | 401 |
So here I am in this ancient land.
After what I've been through, it<|fim_middle|>ADelaide Fest then! | seems to be a miracle. Missed flight because of the lack of a student visa, in spite of applying for it many weeks earlier. Information that the next flight will be available in a couple of weeks, which equalled missing enrolment at La Trobe University and in fact failing to meet the requirements of Border Crossing Exchange Program. Visa granted the next morning and an immediately found and booked flight for the same day, thanks to Ms Iwona, who managed to dispatch it… in Singapore.
Two hours later I was on the airport, promising myself that I'll never be stressed again. I decided to relax for the next 28 hours of travel, which actually consisted of 3 flights. The first of them, from Kraków to Frankfurt, was rather a big leap than a flight if compared to those in the right, Eastern direction, to Singapore and Melbourne. It was a day without morning, lost somewhere along the way because of the time change. The next sunrise came when I was flying over the Australian bush.
So in a mysterious way I've managed to come here… Was it just luck or am I on a mission from God here – time will tell. The year without spring has begun.
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Is Adelaide fun? I'm gonna check it next weekend, there'll be this massive WOM | 299 |
The article [written by S. M. Abdullah, Abul Kalam Azad, Salina Siddiqua] has been published in Business and Economic Horizons, Volume 14(4), 2018.
Abstract: The impact of fiscal deficit measured by deficit in national budget on the growth of respective economy has been a widely researched area with plenty of debatable results. Shedding light in search of the optimum level of budget deficit, the current paper tried to contribute to the field of literature on this issue which is perhaps inadequate as far as Bangladesh economy is concerned. A total<|fim_middle|> percent of GDP.
Citation: Abdullah, S. M., Azad, Abul Kalam; Siddiqua, Salina, 2018. Budget deficit and growth: in search of ceiling for Bangladesh. Business and Economic Horizons, Vol.14, Issue4, pp.743-765. | of 40 years of time series data spanning form 1975 – 76 to 2014 – 15 has been employed. Identification of integration order of the variables was examined performing Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF), Phillips-Perron (PP) and Kwiatkowski-Phillips-Schmidt-Shin (KPSS) tests. Establishing the existence of cointegration among variables following the Johansen's procedure, long-run cointegrating vector has been estimated depending on VECM. The threshold has been identified solving the estimated long-run cointegrating relationship for a local maximum. Findings can be summarized by saying that the long run impact of budget deficit on growth would remain positive; nevertheless, there would be no short-run adjustment. Depending on the model definition and the particular exogenous variable(s), the threshold budget deficit has been measured to range between 4.55 to 5.0 | 194 |
Perfect pick for year-end fun
Posted on October 25, 2019 October 25, 2019 by sosuterbill
A scene from the Santana tribute sequence in Live in Vegas, now at Durban's Barnyard Theatre at Suncoast Casino.
Stage: Live in Vegas – Barnyard Theatre, Suncoast Casino, Durban
REVIEW BY BILLY SUTER
THE level of theatricality that has been injected into recent shows performed at Durban's Barnyard Theatre at Suncoast Casino continues to rise. This latest compilation production there, booked in until January 12, is a case in point – and gets my vote as the most impressive show at this venue since Rhythm of the Night.
Packed with hit songs by various artists who have performed in Vegas, beautifully lit, and with props including a bench, an illuminated mini baby grand, canes, a large picture frame, prison cells and wing-capes festooned in fairylights, this is a colourful, slick show with wide appeal.
Dancer Marcella Solimeo in the Cher sequence from Live in Vegas.
It is sure to prove a popular choice for end-of-year functions as it has a bit of everything, performed well by a talented, 10-member cast headed by a vivacious vocalist who has perhaps the best female voice I have heard to date on the Barnyard or Rockwood theatre circuits – and I have seen 'em all.
She is Elizca Coetzer, who won a Naledi Award in 2007 as best female newcomer, for her lead role in Richard Loring's production of Hairspray. She has also featured in High School Musical, Hair, Footloose, Chess and other stage successes.
Coetzer is the clear vocal standout in Live in Vegas, blessed with a powerful mezzo-soprano that wraps itself particularly well around the hits of Celine Dion and Jennifer Lopez, but which also<|fim_middle|> the Sunday matinees offering a low price (when tickets are half-price for pensioners and free under-12s).
For prices and other details ring The Barnyard Theatre at (031) 940 0500.
The Viva Las Vegas finale in Live in Vegas, at Durban's Barnyard Theatre at Suncoast Casino.
James Dobson salutes Elton John in Live in Vegas, in Durban until mid-January.
Posted in MusicTagged Ashleigh Bradford, Barnyard, Bee Gees, Cher, Cole Adams, Drew Mathie, Duck Chowles, Elizca Coetzer, Elvis Presley, Las Vegas, Live in Vegas, Michael Jackson, Naledi, Simone Youtlon, Suncoast Casino, Wayne Cummings
Thought-provoking play in Durban
Delightful comedy of manners | suits songs associated with, among others, Shirley Bassey and Cher.
The show loses points for some cheesy, totally unnecessary, linking patter by Wayne Cumming, whose poor attempt at an American accent, as the show's MC, gets worse as the show progresses. Fortunately, he fares much better as a versatile vocalist.
Wayne Cumming and dancers perform Elvis Presley's Jailhouse Rock in Live in Vegas.
He is joined on vocals by a pint-size newcomer to Durban, Capetonian Cole Adams, who first appears performing Tutti Frutti as Little Richard, albeit that he more closely resembles a very juvenile Prince.
Adams is much better with his Lionel Richie medley and later, performing with the whole cast, in a showstopping Michael Jackson medley that is imaginatively lit, very well choreographed and rates as the best tribute to Whacko Jacko seen on a Barnyard stage.
The show, produced by Duck Chowles and with choreography by Drew Mathie, also benefits greatly from three attractive and energetic dancers – Dylon Daniels, Marcella Solimeo and the super-sexy Simone Youtlon – who perform throughout in varying combinations and as a trio.
Live in Vegas makes good use of a changing backdrop of various illuminated Vegas venues, with headliner acts at these venues echoing the acts being saluted on stage. This backdrop also often gives way to other visuals, including a jail cell for Cumming and dancers' fun Elvis Presley tribute that features Jailhouse Rock and Burning Love.
Wayne Cumming and guitarist Mike Raven in the Burning Love sequence from Live in Vegas.
Costumes by Ashleigh Bradford are excellent, the only exception being an unflattering, awkward, blue, sequinned get-up that poor Coetzer has to wear for her medley of Cher's I Found Someone, Bang Bang and Strong Enough.
Bonus points for fine contributions by Mike Raven on lead guitar and James Dobson on keyboards – the former excelling throughout in guitar solos, a top-notch Santana tribute and on vocals for Smooth; the latter wowing as Elton John (Rocketman and Sad Songs ) and also delivering gutsy vocals on Aerosmith's I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing and Def Leppard's stomping Pour Some Sugar On Me.
The show also features Rohan Blignaut on drums, with bass in the hands of Lihle Ndimande.
Among other highlights in a highly enjoyable production are Coetzer and Cumming's brilliant delivery of Shallow from A Star is Born; Cummings' Fly Me to the Moon performed alongside dancers Dylon and Marcella, in a nod to the bench scene from La La Land; and Coetzer's Celine Dion tribute featuring I'm Alive and A New Day Has Come.
Also standouts are Cumming alongside dancer Simone, with large, feathered fans, for Maria Maria; a fun Bee Gees sequence that opens the second half; and the sequinned-and-feathered Viva Las Vegas finale that follows Cummings and Adams performing Sinatra's New York, New York.
Performances of Live in Vegas are every Tuesday to Sunday, with a buy-one-get-one-free offer on Tuesday nights, and | 647 |
Home-baked holiday desserts in South Jersey: Hot cocoa bombs, cakes, cupcakes and cookies
Celeste E. Whittaker Gabriela L. Laracca
Cherry Hill Courier-Post
Michele Edwards began baking when she was 6 years old and received an Easy Bake Oven for Christmas.
That little oven sparked what has become a lifelong passion. When she was 10, she baked loaves of banana bread at the holidays for the church congregation at Calvary Baptist Church in Merchantville where her father, Rev. Herman S. Henderson, Jr., has served as pastor for the last 25 years.
Her mom, Carolyn, would help her package, label and deliver orders.
Years later, in 2019, Edwards established Shelly's Sentiments. Shelly is a childhood nickname given to her by her dad.
"As a self-taught baker, I started making my children's birthday cakes and offered banana pudding cakes for family events and occasions," said Edwards, who resides in Camden but grew up in Pennsauken and graduated from Pennsauken High School in 2008.
"My passion ignited with the pandemic when more people were looking for cakes to celebrate family events at home. I would bake and decorate cakes for my family to practice my skills. My husband and three young children would help with developing new flavors."
In October, the state Department of Health published rules on its website that allow New Jersey home bakers to apply for a "Cottage Food Permit," making baking from home for profit legal.
Home bakers can purchase two-year permits for $100 and sell baked goods from home, farmers markets or events, with a yearly income maximum of $50,000. Online advertising also is permitted.
That update to the DOH website came after the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law published the ruling that was reviewed in July by the state's Public Health Council, officially legalizing homemade baked goods sales.
Edwards specializes in custom birthday cakes and wedding cakes, but offers holiday favorites such as Shelly's sweet potato pie, sweet potato cheesecake and banana pudding. Customer favorites also include Some of her customer favorites include cookies n' cream cake and banana pudding cake.
Cake prices start at $65 and vary depending on design requests. For example, a small 6-inch cake would cost $65 or more, or a designer purse cake or sneaker cake would cost $200 or more, she<|fim_middle|> bakers in South Jersey and some of their treats, all of which can make for great holiday gifts:
Cakes A Bake, Gloucester Township
Autumn Miller officially started Cakes A Bake about nine years ago and has had an LLC for the last four years, but she's been baking for more than 20 years, she said.
The Gloucester Township resident said her mom baked a lot when Miller was younger and she loved baking with her.
"We would make cookies all the time," said Miller, who attended Overbrook High School in Pine Hill, then Camden County College before graduating from Rowan University.
"She would make us homemade cakes for our birthdays. My fave was yellow cake with chocolate icing,'' she recalled. "After getting married and receiving a KitchenAid mixer as a wedding gift, I started watching a lot of Food Network and teaching myself pro techniques building off of what my mom taught me as a child. I then decided to take a couple of professional cake decorating courses, which really helped me get better with the presentation of my baked goods."
Miller says people love her custom birthday cakes. Her sweet potato cheesecakes are another customer favorite and one of her favorites to make.
"I also have a heart for motherhood, so I started making lactation cookies to help moms with breastfeeding," she explained. "They increase your milk supply immediately after consuming to help moms get more milk for their babies.
"I also make amazing custom hot cocoa bombs," she added.
The cost of her desserts vary depending upon the type of cake, and what kind of decorations or embellishments are requested.
She does smash cakes for babies starting at $50. Her cheesecakes are between $40 to $50.
Lactation cookies are $22.50 for 15 cookies. "That is a steal, especially because they work so well," she said.
While Miller works full time for the corporate headquarters of Spirit Halloween in the marketing/creative department, she finds time to bake about four or five orders each week.
"Although maybe one day I will transition to baking full time, who knows?" she mused.
Customers can reach out to Miller for orders via Instagram: instagram.com/cakes_a_bake or on her website at cakesabake.com
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Cuppy Cakes, Woodbury
Elena Franqui (pronounced Frankie) was pulled into baking about seven years ago.
"It's literally the most cliché story," said Franqui, who was born in Camden and attended Pennsauken Tech. "Years ago, when 'Cake Boss' was the rage, my husband (Will) actually took me to a cake class out in his (Buddy Valastro) store in Hoboken. We had a one-on-one cake class with all the people from the show, so it was awesome. Since then, that's kind of what got me into it. I was like, 'This is fun. I can do this'."
Cakes are her "top thing" that she does, in addition to sugar cookies, decorated to any theme and cupcakes.
"I'm busy all year round," said Franqui, who bakes about three days per week.
"During the holidays, I like to slow down for myself so I can really sit back and enjoy. But I do usually offer cookie decorating kits as we get closer to Christmas and the same for Thanksgiving. Sometimes, I do theme cakes."
Prices vary and are based on design. Basic cupcakes are $15 a dozen or $35 for detailed handmade toppers. Smaller, two-tier cakes start at about $135. A regular round birthday cake starts at about $50.
Customers can order via Facebook at facebook.com/cuppycakesbyelena/ or Instagram: instagram.com/_cuppy_cakes/
Liyah's Sweets & Treats, Willingboro
Nicole Tyler has been baking for about 23 years and it's something that soothes and relaxes her.
Tyler bakes every day, she says.
"I work for the post office," Tyler explained. "Every day I go home, I bake. It relieves stress. When I leave here (her job) I'm tired but when I get in my kitchen, my stress is out of the window. It's good once I start baking.
"Someone asked me to make a red velvet cake. That's my signature cake, that's where I started,'' she explained. "Now I've branched out and have multiple cakes … I do all occasions now."
That means cakes for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries and more are made by Liyah's Sweets & Treats (named for Tyler's granddaughter Aaliyah).
She said customer favorites other than red velvet are blueberry-lemon cake, vanilla cake, strawberry crumble cake and her banana pudding.
"Those are the main ones that I sell," said Tyler, who also whips up a mean banana pudding cake. "I don't make pies or cheesecakes. I kind of stick with cupcakes and cakes. Eventually, I will graduate and try to learn pies and so forth."
Her cakes tend to range between $40 to $50.
"I am super busy," Tyler added. "People have already put in their orders for Christmas."
To order, customers can reach out by email at ntalley54@gmail.com, Facebook at facebook.com/nicole.talley.58, Instagram at instagram.com/liyahssandt/ or by phone at 609-414-9595.
Music Mama Sweets, Cape May Courthouse
Sarah Kennedy is a music maker by day, and a home baker by night.
She officially started her business in November, after obtaining her Cottage Food Operators license.
While she spends most of her days teaching chorus, band, music and guitar to the preschool through eighth-grade students of Crest Memorial School in Wildwood Crest, she spends her free time baking custom-ordered sugar cookies from her home in Cape May Courthouse.
This mom of two wanted a hobby other than her main job, so Music Mama Sweets was born. She always loved to bake, but it wasn't until at-home baking was legalized in New Jersey that she decided to start her own business, with the encouragement of her coworkers, who love her baking.
This mom of two explained that she finds a lot of her creative ideas online, especially on TikTok.
One product she offers, which her children love, is the paint-your-own Christmas cookies, topped with white frosting that come with a washable paint brush, as well as a tiny cookie paint palette with M&M's on top.
By dipping the brush in water, at-home crafters can take color from the M&M's on the palette, paint their gingerbread man and then eat the whole lot (palette and all).
"For now, I'm just making sugar cookies, since I'm just starting out, but I plan on adding more flavors in the next year," she said.
She also makes Christmas-themed cookie platters for the holidays, and custom cookies all year round.
"The [cookies] really do make nice, personalized gifts and I feel good providing that for people, who are then so excited to give their gift to someone," said Kennedy.
For more information, visit musicmamasweets.com. | added.
Her other treats by the dozen are available starting at $25, including cupcakes, chocolate-covered pretzels, chocolate-covered strawberries and more.
By day, Edwards is a certified activity director for an adult medical center in Camden County. But she finds time to bake weekly for weekend events such as birthdays, anniversaries and weddings.
Orders can be placed through Shelly's Sentiment's social media pages: Instagram: instagram.com/Shellyssentiments; Facebook: facebook.com/shellyssentiments1/ or by calling or texting 856-295-1599
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spread the nuts on a sheet pan<|fim_middle|>oss the salad gently to evenly dress all the greens. Divide among 4 plates and serve immediately. | in a single layer. Bake, shaking the pan occasionally, until the nuts are toasted and fragrant, about 7 to 10 minutes. Let the nuts cool, and then coarsely chop.
Trim the stems of the watercress and arugula. Wash and dry the leaves.
Meanwhile, whisk the vinegar and mustard together in a large salad bowl. Season with the 1/4 teaspoon salt and some pepper. Gradually whisk in the olive oil, starting with a few drops and then adding the rest in a steady stream, to make a smooth, slightly thick dressing.
Halve the endive lengthwise, cut out core, then thinly slice crosswise and add all the lettuces to the bowl. Quarter and core the unpeeled pears and thinly slice; add to the salad. Scatter the cheese and nuts over the salad, and season with salt and pepper, to taste. T | 186 |
Announcing Launch of "Digital Disruptions for Sustainability"
Future Earth announces launch of "Digital Disruptions for Sustainability", a game changer on climate.
The report, Digital Disruptions for Sustainability (<|fim_middle|> challenge. Rather than focus on the high carbon-emitting sectors, the Agenda focuses on the rules, norms, power structures, and mindsets underpinning all sectors and constraining climate actions.
Please access the report here: https://sustainabilitydigitalage.org
An animated video can be accessed here: http://bit.ly/2VnZRe7
Future Earth partners in the launch of new program to train sustainability leaders in the digital age
CIFAR AI & Society Workshop: Sustainability in the Digital Age
Sustainability in the Digital Age I: Resilience facing Global Changes | D^2S) explores and highlights the research, innovation, and actions needed to drive societal transformations in support of a more sustainable and equitable world. The report was developed over a year-long collaborative process with input from more than 250 sustainability and digital experts worldwide from academia, business, and civil society.
"Climate strategies tend to focus on targeting investments on emission reductions by sector," says Amy Luers, Executive Director of Future Earth and the project's leader.
"This sector-based work is critical, of course, but insufficient to meet our climate goals. This is because while research indicates that deep decarbonization is technically possible, we have not yet figured out how to steer society onto a deep decarbonization path. More research and innovation on this issue are urgently needed."
This is the focus of the D^2S Agenda. It approaches climate as a social | 174 |
University of Sioux Falls Cougars visit Moorhead hoping to snap losing streak
Cougars haven't lost three in a row since 2011
University of Sioux Falls Cougars visit Moorhead hoping to snap losing streak Cougars haven't lost three in a row since 2011 Check out this story on argusleader.com: https://www.argusleader.com/story/sports/college/university-of-sioux-falls/2018/10/19/university-sioux-falls-cougars-visit-moorhead-hoping-snap-losing-streak/1670527002/
Matt Zimmer, Sioux Falls Argus Leader Published 1:53 p.m. CT Oct. 19, 2018
Ricky Powell and the Cougar defense will try to fire up USF when they face Moorhead(Photo: Briana Sanchez)
SIOUX FALLS (4-3) AT MSU-MOORHEAD (5-2)
WHEN/WHERE: 2 p.m. Saturday at Alex Nemzek Stadium in Moorhead, Minn.
RADIO: KWSN-FM 98.1/AM 1230
COACHES: USF – Jon Anderson (2nd year, 13-6); MSUM – Steve Laqua (8th year, 34-50)
SERIES: USF leads 3-0
LAST TIME: USF beat the Dragons 42-21 in 2016 in Sioux Falls
LAST WEEK: SCSU beat Wayne State 23-17; USF lost 25-21 to Bemidji State
RANKINGS: Neither team is ranked
More: St. Cloud State hands USF Cougars rare home loss
ABOUT USF: The Cougars have dropped two straight, and a trip to Moorhead won't be<|fim_middle|>IC, but making the leap from middle of the pack to playoff contender has been harder. This year, they appear to be on the cusp, and a win over USF would be a big step, as so far they've mostly beaten up on weaker teams. They were hammered 60-7 by Duluth and 42-20 by Mankato.
The Dragons are seventh in the league with an average of 28 points per game, while they rank 12th among the league's 16 teams in total defense, allowing 403 yards per game.
Quarterback Jakup Sinani has thrown for 1,334 yards and 10 touchdowns with two interceptions, while Zach Simons leads the team with 381 yards and seven touchdowns on the ground.
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USD signs Nielson, Williamson to extensions | easy. A loss would give them their first three-game losing streak since they started 0-3 in 2011, their transitional year between NAIA and Division II. It would also drop them to 4-4 and endanger their streak of 24 straight winning seasons.
On the other hand, the Cougars' three losses have come by a total of eight points. They still have an outside shot at postseason play.
USF has leaned on bruising running back Gabe Watson all season, and that doesn't figure to change Saturday. He leads the NSIC with 1,197 yards and 16 touchdowns, and there's still four games to go. The Cougar ground game has been so good, in fact, that their No. 2 running back, Colton Myles, has 531 yards on the season.
The Cougar defense has been pedestrian over the last two weeks, and could use an improved pass rush. Through seven games USF has eight sacks – one each from eight different players.
ABOUT MSUM: The Dragons are enjoying one of their better seasons in recent memory – their 5-2 start is their best since 1999. In Laqua's eight years at the helm the Dragons have clearly risen from their previous place at the bottom of the NS | 270 |
Allison+Partners named Public Relations AOR for Blueair LLC
by Bulldog Reporter | May 24, 2021
Blueair LLC has named Allison+Partners public relations AOR. The Unilever brand and world-leader in air purification for home and professional use turned to Allison+Partners after a year of explosive growth due to the West Coast wildfires and COVID-19 pandemic.
"Blueair is a great addition to our expanding line of home brands including Seventh Generation and Behr Paint," said Anne Colaiacovo, president of North America for Allison+Partners. "The mission-driven program for Blueair is the perfect union of our practice leaders coming together to execute a truly integrated program across media relations, advocacy, social media, influencer, creative and social-good."
The<|fim_middle|> educate consumers on the importance of clean indoor air."
Blueair is a significant addition to the agency's consumer client list, which includes Behr Paint, Budweiser, DanoneWave, Driscoll's, Impossible Foods Inc., Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP), and Seventh Generation Inc., among others. | company first partnered with Allison+Partners in Q4 2020 to lead its CSR efforts to give away more than $1 million in cash to schools in areas hardest hit and hospitals across the U.S., where funding was needed most for patient care and to fund research, such as an epidemiology study, to trace the spread of COVID-19 in schools.
In January 2021, the relationship expanded to name Allison+Partners as official agency of record for the company. The scope of work includes campaign development, overall brand and product PR, integrated marketing strategy, and projects, including video development, influencer relations and social media campaigns. The agency will also elevate the brand's global advocacy program focusing on Clean Air for Children in the U.S., maintaining its CSR program and building a thought leadership platform for the company.
The account will be serviced out of the agency's Washington, D.C. office.
"We are thrilled to work with Allison+Partners, a dynamic agency with a proven track record in elevating brand awareness and visibility," said Suzy Kwiecien, head of brand and product marketing North America at Blueair. "We look forward to collaborating and developing integrated communications programs that will connect with and further | 252 |
We'll take any excuse to eat greasy drive-thru food and National Fast Food Day on Friday almost requires that we do so.<|fim_middle|> the drive-thru is too much of a commitment for you then no worries, stay put. Chick-fil-A is offering a free chicken sandwich with any order placed through DoorDash. Use the promo code 'CFADELIVERY' through Tuesday to take advantage of this deal.
It's deals-galore at Burger King. Get three pancakes for 89 cents, 10-piece chicken nuggets for $1, or who cares, get both!
Pizza Hut is dishing out a $5 Lineup Menu. You can get two or more items from medium one-topping pizzas to wings for only $5 each. | Many chains are even offering deals on food for the holiday, so if you need us we'll be 50 fries deep in a value meal, likely covered in Big Mac sauce.
Wendy's is giving away a free Junior Bacon Cheeseburger with any purchase to guests who order through their app. Plus, they have any size fries for a dollar, so may as well.
Speaking of fries, McDonald's is offering a small or medium fry for $1 through their app according to Delish.
If | 102 |
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Geisinger Medical Center's ES team lives its motto
Bob Kehoe
Serving about 2.6 million residents of northeastern and central Pennsylvania, Geisinger Health System has long been recognized as one of the more innovative care delivery systems nationally. The physician-led organization was reshaping its care delivery models well before the Affordable Care Act became part of health care's vocabulary.
Geisinger is squarely focused on improving quality, satisfaction and efficiency by redesigning and re-engineering care delivery. It offers bundled pricing for many of its ProvenCare procedures, which are centered on administering a coordinated bundle of evidence-based best practices.
This organizational commitment to quality and safety extends far beyond the operating room. At Geisinger Medical Center (GMC), the system's 560-bed flagship hospital campus in Danville, the environmental services (ES) team employs a "bundled cleaning" approach to patient rooms.
ES associates follow a carefully defined six-step cleaning process with checklists for patient rooms, created by researcher Philip Carling, M.D. Every cleaning cart has a visual and text chart of Carling's 14 high-touch points that need to be cleaned as well as infection control checklists for daily cleans, discharges and isolation rooms. Supervisors use fluorescent marking gel and ultraviolet light to measure cleaning thoroughness of the high-touch points.
"We conduct 14 high-touch point fluorescent marker inspections, which are generated and then recorded into spreadsheets in various forms for reporting out to our infection control and performance improvement committees," explains Jack VanReeth, GMC's director of ES and surgical cleaning services.
Bundled cleaning
This bundled cleaning approach has become part of GMC's culture. The ES team has a consistently high success rate: More than 90 percent of GMC's rooms are 100 percent compliant for thoroughly cleaning all 14 high-touch points, ES department data from 2012 show.
Elsewhere, ES leaders working with the infection prevention team have widely implemented other technologies to improve safety.
Automated room sterilization technologies are deployed routinely to combat Clostridium difficile, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other health care-associated infections. GMC uses three ultraviolet-C (UVC) light units and three hydrogen peroxide (HP) vapor sterilization units across its facilities.
"The primary focus is on isolation discharges of various types and also to see if a room needs to be treated retroactively," VanReeth says. "All patient room isolation discharge cleanings always include wall washing and changing cubicle curtains. General isolation discharges receive a supplemental UVC disinfection. C. difficile discharges after the regular isolation cleaning receive a supplemental disinfection with a sporicidal product. Then, as a final step, the C. difficile room receives a hydrogen peroxide fumigation treatment."
High-tech sterilization
The HP vapor units take far longer to sterilize a room — typically 90 minutes to two hours. VanReeth notes that it's because there is no short-term exposure time limit established with HP, which is one part per million. As such, once the room is decontaminated, patients aren't admitted until the space reaches the one-part-per-million threshold or less.
This closely monitored approach and careful coordination with the infection prevention team is paying dividends. Since implementing the HP vapor system in mid-December 2011, GMC's C. difficile rate has been cut by 30 percent to 0.23 percent of unit discharges, VanReeth says, adding that no other changes were made to cleaning protocols. Since implementing UVC technology in 2012, MRSA rates have decreased 25 percent to 0.4 percent of discharges, again with no other changes to established cleaning and disinfection protocols.
This commitment to performance improvement on reducing health care-associated infections (HAIs), consistently adhering to defined protocols and overall safety is one key reason GMC has been selected winner of the 2013 ES Department of the Year competition. Presented by Health Facilities Management and the Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE), the award is sponsored by Cintas Corp.
"Achieving ES Department of the Year status is no easy feat. The determination of the Geisinger Medical Center ES team is outstanding," says Patti Costello, executive director of the AHE.
Training is key
That GMC has seen such consistent results on room cleaning and working closely with the infection prevention team to reduce HAIs can be traced back to the fundamentals. Detailed training of new hires from ES team leadership helps to set the tone for expectations and departmental standards. Current staff also participate in regular training.
"Our greatest strength is our people. We have to invest as much as we can in our staff because it's a service we're providing and people are providing the service," says Tamara D. Almquist, Geisinger Health System senior director of environmental services and surgical services.
That investment starts before employees are hired. GMC, which is one of the employers of choice in this economically challenged area of Pennsylvania, developed a departmental recruitment video. It's used to help give applicants comprehensive information to determine whether to proceed with the application process.
Once on board, new hires go through intensive education at a training site off campus.
"It's a classroom style with eight modules presented by the ES management team. There's a session where they observe a discharge room being completely cleaned and an occupied patient room being cleaned," says Jane Martin, R.N., CIC, manager of performance improvement, projects and training for Geisinger System environmental services.
Attendees also are taken through a product display room to learn about the cleaning and disinfectant agents they'll be using in their daily routine. Once entered into the workforce, ES associates log into the hospital's online education program goals system and take a survey. Based on the answers provided by the associate, a list of hospital courses are provided that the employee will need to take on an annual basis. Continuing education expectations are similarly high for experienced employees.
Based on GMC data, this approach to giving ES associates a strong foundation in working efficiently and effectively is connecting with staff. GMC's ES associate retention rate over the past three years has averaged nearly 80 percent. And many of those who end up leaving the ES department moved on to higher positions within GMC.
More importantly, having well-trained and motivated staff has helped GMC to maintain a consistently strong success rate in reducing room turnaround and response times to meet the demands for increased throughput on this extremely busy campus.
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Blanchard Valley Hospital ES team goes the extra mile
In the ever-expanding world of health care marketing, physicians, nurses and executive leaders are getting plenty of face time these days. At Blanchard Valley Hospital (BVH) in Findlay, Ohio, things are different.
There, the community is just as likely to hear from environmental services (ES) associates and other department-level staff in TV and radio spots that trumpet the organization's vision: "Extraordinary People. Exceptional Care."
It may seem like a little thing. It's not. Not to those featured in the spots and not to the ES department leadership.
"What these associates do every day, what they bring to this job — they have the ability to be out there and to be recognized as partners vs. being an employee. They're not at the bottom of the totem pole," says Robin Cramer, manager of environmental services and communications.
The bottom is one place you'll never find the BVH ES team when it comes to performance and improving safety.
Compiling a stellar record in areas like patient satisfaction on room cleanliness and courtesy, reducing room turnaround times and maintaining a 95 percent hand-hygiene compliance rate, Cramer and her colleagues for the second straight year received the Finalist award in the 2013 ES Department of the Year Award competition. They earned the top score among hospitals with 150 beds or fewer.
The award, sponsored by Cintas Corp., is issued jointly by Health Facilities Management and the Association for the Healthcare Environment and recognizes top-performing environmental services teams based on 14 criteria measured in entrants' applications.
Judges recognized the BVH ES team for continuous performance improvement throughout the 150-bed facility and its ability to continually expand services to meet patient and organizational needs.
This latter point perhaps best illustrates what makes the BVH ES team so successful. They continually work with other departments to improve overall performance, often expanding their responsibilities in the process.
The ES team complements nursing by responding to call lights, spending time with patients to help them order meals and understand how to use safety pull cords or the television controls. ES associates, or "hospitality associates" as they are called, stepped in to cut the time it takes to get med-surg and orthopedics/neurology patients who are discharged to their cars from an average of roughly 25 minutes to five to seven minutes.
Elsewhere, ES staff collaborated with nursing, quality and patient safety leaders to identify patient fall risks. The effort led to a 10 percent reduction in patient falls last year. ES teamed with nursing to implement a quietness campaign in 2012 that boosted HCAHPS scores in this area to 76.7 percent from 71 percent the prior year.
The ES team's willingness to help others, whether patients or other staff members, is reflected in BVH's Press Ganey and HCAHPS scores. Its HCAHPs top box scores for room cleanliness, meaning patients surveyed indicated the room was "always" clean, hit 83 percent in 2012, up slightly from the year prior. Press Ganey scores for room cleanliness and courtesy of the person cleaning the room were both in the 98th percentile, nearly identical to the year before.
"Our associates create that emotional connection with patients that gets us those top box answers," says Leslie Theis, R.N., service excellence and patient relations liaison at BVH. "One reason the department is so successful is because [staff] are consistent every day, every shift. Their message is the same. They hold each other accountable and take great pride in their work and that goes from the top down and the bottom up."
So whether it's using adenosine triphosphate to measure cleaning thoroughness of high-touch points in patient rooms or teaming with inpatient and wound care nurses on assessing mattresses and linens to help reduce pressure ulcers, the front-line associates drive continuous improvement.
"The front-line people have brought us to where we are," Cramer says. "If they didn't go into those rooms, talk with those patients and if their work ethic wasn't what it was, we would have a black hole. Depending on them is key to what we do."
Bob Kehoe is the associate publisher of Health Facilities Management.
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"This is a significant responsibility for us because, being a regional trauma center, our emergency rooms are constantly packed and we have very busy operating rooms, so turnover is absolutely critical," VanReeth says.
And with an extensive array of tertiary facilities, including ever-expanding outpatient services, GMC's ES department is responsible for covering a lot of ground outside the main hospital walls — all of which can make maintaining consistently high levels of patient satisfaction challenging.
After achieving Press Ganey Associates Inc. room cleanliness scores in the 89th percentile for institutions with 500 beds or above in 2011, GMC's numbers dipped in 2012.
But as with other areas of operation, the team leadership has taken steps, in working with the Studer Group, Gulf Breeze, Fla., to implement training and tracking mechanisms designed to boost performance on cleanliness and courtesy. Finally, GMC's ES team continues to make significant strides in environmental stewardship. An effort to reduce regulated or red bag medical waste, begun in 2011, led to a reduction of 584,000 pounds or 292 tons of this waste for an annual savings of about $82,000. In 2012, red bag waste was reduced by another 160 tons, bringing additional savings of nearly $45,000.
The effort to reduce red bag waste involved ES employees throughout the campus. As with its other areas of operation, it's an example of how GMC's ES team lives its motto of "We make the difference."
Bob Kehoe is associate publisher of Health Facilities Management.
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Trade Fair's English-trained six-year-old Trade Storm finished brilliantly to win the $C1 million Woodbine Mile in Toronto, Canada, yesterday. (September 14)
Trade Storm, prepared by David Simcock for Qatar Racing and ridden by retained jockey Jamie Spencer, was slow away from an inside draw in the 11-horse field and settled ninth under a solid pace set by the US three-year-old Bobby's Kitten, who went through the first half mile in 47.52sec. under Kentucky Derby-Dubai World Cup winning rider Joel Rosario.
Spencer made his move with 1 1/2 furlongs to go but Trade Storm did not hit the front till the final 75 yards. He beat the top Canadian hope, Kaigun, by a half length with Bobby's Kitten 1 3/4 lengths away third.
Trade Storm had finished third to dual US Horse<|fim_middle|> 23.
Trade Fair's winning international run continued when Liman won the Prix de Buzenval (one mile) by four lengths at Saint-Cloud in France yesterday. (monday) | Of The Year Wise Dan in last year's Woodbine Mile.
He now gains an automatic start in the $US 2 million Group 1 US Breeders Cup Mile at Santa Anita, California, on November 1.
"That's special," said Simock, who trains at Newmarket. "He's one of my all-time favourite horses.
"He travels strongly when there's a lot of pace. He's got nice pick-up speed. All he needs is the gaps to open."
It was a real special night for Simock. He had earlier won the Group 1 Northern Dancer Turf Stakes (12 furlongs) with Sheikhzayedroad, his only other starter at Canada's showpiece meeting.
"The ground was a little softer than ideal for him but I always felt confident he was going to pick them up," said Spencer, who will retire from racing riding at the end of the year to take up a management position with Qatar Racing.
Champion Candian jockey Patrick Husbands, who Kaigun, paid Trade Storm a rare compliment. "The winner was simply fantastic," said Husbands, a seven time winner of the Sovereign Award for outstanding Canadian jockey.
Trade Storm's previous best win was in the Group 2 Zabeel Mile in Dubai. He went to Canada after two lead-up races in England having finished a half length second to Professor in the Abacus Securities Stakes (seven furlongs) at Haydock on July 19 and a neck second to Custom Cat in the Group 3 Strensall Stakes (nine furlongs) at York on August | 331 |
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This 1960s Deli In Alabama Makes One Of The Tastiest Sandwiches You'll Ever Eat
Alabama is filled with a variety of great places to eat, including several sandwich shops. One place in particular is Sol's Sandwich Shop & Diner. For information about Sol's Sandwich Shop & Diner, including its delicious sandwich you'll want to order again and again, take a look below.
Sol's Sandwich Shop & Deli is located in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Since opening in 1968, this<|fim_middle|> to 4:00 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, closed.
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From its casual atmosphere to its delicious food, Sol's Sandwich Shop & Deli is a must-visit whenever you're wanting a quick bite to eat.
Speaking of delicious food, this well known sandwich shop offers a variety of made-to-order dishes. With that being said, one of its most popular menu items is the Muffaletta Sandwich.
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This customer favorite consists of ham, salami, provolone cheese, and a tasty olive spread. It's available in three sizes: whole ($16.99), 1/2 ($10.99), and 1/4 ($8.99).
Don't forget to save room for Sol's Sandwich Shop & Deli's famous cobbler. If cobbler isn't really your thing, other desserts are available such as cakes, pies, cookies, and homemade pastries.
For more information about Sol's Sandwich Shop & Deli, you can view its website here and its Facebook page here. You can visit this popular eatery at 2 20th St. N, Suite 120, Birmingham, AL 35203. Its hours are as follows: Monday-Friday, 7:00 a.m. | 290 |
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Are Slideshows Necessary for Landing Pages?
Landing pages are arguably among the most important parts of your website because if they aren't compelling enough, people will just click to other places on the Internet rather than seeing what your particular page offers. Put simply, good landing pages should feature characteristics that grab interest. Maybe that means listing the logos of big-name clients on your roster or featuring a call to action that speaks to consumers' most pressing needs.
Besides considering the content of landing pages, however, it's also necessary to think about how they function. One of the major questions you'll likely answer is whether it's best to have a static landing page or one that displays several images in a slideshow format. It's not always easy to decide, but the information below might shift your preference toward using a slideshow.
Slideshows Work Well to Give a "Wow!" Effect
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Slideshows Help You Generate Interest
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Maybe you're designing a website with pictures featuring awe-inspiring scenery. In that case, a slideshow could be a useful<|fim_middle|> is helpful in case someone heard about an upcoming show at the venue in passing, but they don't remember the event's full or official name.
If you're building or managing a website with an extensive inventory, slideshows are especially effective for letting current or prospective customers know what's in stock so they can decide whether to continue browsing. Let's analyze the advantages of the landing page for CJ Pony Parts, a car parts and accessories website:
The central frame rotates through several images, and it lets shoppers know about new products or special offers. All the images stimulate interest and make people curious about what's available.
The arrows on either side of the slideshow images allow people to control the speed at which the pictures change, but otherwise, images automatically shift from one to the next every few seconds. The timing allows people to read all or most of each image, but it isn't so slow they become bored.
As the slideshow changes, the bar underneath that shows the shop's top-selling brands stays constant. This section, along with the black bar above the slideshow that lists some leading car manufacturers, gives shoppers an idea of if this website has the parts needed to revamp their rides.
When dealing with a website that covers an extensive topic, it's often hard to figure out how to organize the information so it's user-friendly and simple to digest. A website promoting Philadelphia tourism utilizes a slideshow to reveal top attractions to prospective tourists, without making them lose their wanderlust due to wavering attention:
Ask someone, "So, what does your organization do?" and you'll likely get a very lengthy answer. That's because it's often impossible to discuss all the areas of focus within a few short sentences. However, it's easy to use a slideshow to help website visitors understand what an organization is about. Look at this slideshow for Open Society Foundations:
Each slide describes a cause or subject associated with the organization, from women's rights to drug policy reform. Supplementary links invite those interested to instantly find out more about topics they want. Furthermore, after someone clicks the "reveal image" link on the bottom right, they'll see a caption for the respective photograph, including attribution. Although the slideshow plays automatically, users can go faster through the images by clicking on the squares on the bottom right.
Although the images change every few seconds, the top portion of the website, which includes the drop-down menus and social media sharing buttons, stays constant. That design choice helps users click to various sections without getting lost.
Finally, look at how the image expands beyond the slideshow frame. That element creates a panoramic effect, which captures attention.
Ultimately, slideshows are a great aspect of beautiful landing pages, as long as they're used appropriately. For best results, don't include too many images in each slideshow, or you'll risk making people feel flustered. Also, pay close attention to the slideshow's pacing. If the images switch too fast or too slow, viewers might become frazzled or get bored. Buttons to pause or fast-forward the image progression help customize the viewing experience.
Also, a couple of examples above creatively gave image attribution without being intrusive. If you don't take a similar approach to those examples, at least have another section on your website where people can go to find out which photographer shot each slideshow image.
Strive to pay close attention to user experience first and foremost when creating a slideshow. If slideshow images don't enhance the website, do without them.
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Freelancing4 Simple Solutions to Working from Home | tool that draws people into the rest of your content. Consider building a slideshow that takes up most or all of the screen in a horizontal orientation. Take a look below at the landing page slideshow for Patagonia, an outdoor clothing and gear company:
The top and bottom bars are static, while the center image rotates to show several versions. Viewers can click the circles in the bottom left corner to move through the images at a chosen speed, but this slideshow plays automatically otherwise. Also, when a person clicks the camera icon in the bottom right, photo accreditation appears. That tactic is a particularly clever one because it gives credit where it's due, without being intrusive and distracting people from the glorious images.
You'll likely have instances where you want to display a lot of media on the landing page, but only if it's possible to do that without being overwhelming. Consider having two slideshows on the landing page that change in sync.
The website for Gretsch Guitars & Basses succeeds in showing how visually appealing the company's musical instruments are, plus how sweet they sound:
The top bar stays constant as the other parts move together, so users can easily navigate to the website's main sections. The center slideshow shows the brand's most recent and sought-after instruments, and the bottom slideshow scrolls through several videos and other interactive links demonstrating the characteristics that make these instruments sound so special.
Also, when you put your cursor over any of the center slideshow images, arrows appear on either side of the picture. They allow you to click through the slideshow faster if desired, although it plays automatically if left alone.
As mentioned earlier, good landing pages must pull people in and make them want to know more. Slideshows could help you do that by featuring upcoming events.
Some businesses, such as performance venues, have lists of upcoming events that expand almost every day because the establishments are in great demand. When you want to convey the breadth and depth of something, slideshows are superb. Take a look at how The Southern Café & Music Hall, a venue in Charlottesville, VA, uses both image and text-based slides:
The "just announced" text on the black top bar changes every few seconds to reflect the most recent shows added to the venue's calendar. At the same time, the image and text in the center of the page shifts to show some of the hottest upcoming events. Whether people want more information about a show or decide to take action by purchasing tickets, the respective links are easily accessible.
It's also useful to note how the upper black bar features social media logo buttons and a search box. Concerts quickly generate buzz when hundreds of thousands of people in a community start posting about them on social media. This slideshow facilitates that type of promotional gesture. Furthermore, the search box | 561 |
The cast of Jersey Boys musical.
Oh what a night, late March, back in twenty eighteen, what a very special time for me ... it doesn't quite have the same ring to it!
But it sums up<|fim_middle|> cleverly told in four acts - Spring, Summer, Autumn (or Fall, as they say across the Pond) and Winter - corresponding to the birth, rise, demise and resurrection of the band, and each narrated by a member of the four-piece. They tell a gritty tale born in the tough streets (and prisons) of Newark, New Jersey, not one of glamour and fortune, but of huge debts, break-ups, gambling, gangsters and relentless toil.
But out of that creative maelstrom emerged a catalogue of classic songs that have truly stood the test of time. And we were treated to at least snippets of most of them - the three chart-toppers that kick-started their glory years, Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry and Walk Like a Man; the pop standards December 1963 (Oh What a Night) and My Eyes Adored You; and the song that launched Valli's solo career, Can't Take My Eyes Off You.
The linchpin of the band and the musical, Francesco Castelluccio, as he was born, was played with unerring accuracy by Dayle Hodge, who was standing in for the UK tour's principal Valli, Michael Watson. Hodge was excellent, possessing an amazing vocal range comparable to the man himself, including that trademark falsetto. He was assured, yet exposed his character's vulnerable side in equal measure.
He was supported by three great talents in Simon Bailey (who played baritone Tommy DeVito), Declan Egan (tenor Bob Gaudio) and Lewis Griffiths (bass Nick Massi), whose deep, raspy tone sent a joyous shiver down the spine. Their harmonies were jaw-dropping and the chemistry between them fizzed. Musically, they were on point, and their acting would take some beating, as they switched effortlessly between the two.
I couldn't take my eyes off them - their nifty dance routines were captivating.
The fab foursome were ably backed up by the remaining cast, with special mention to James Alexander Gibbs as a young Joe Pesci, the Oscar-winning actor, who was instrumental in the formation of the Four Seasons when he introduced them to singer and songwriter Bob Gaudio.
Particular praise, too, for the orchestra, who were very much part of the performance, with some being wheeled around on stage to suit each scene - a technical headache that was flawlessly executed.
The production was quite a surprise to me - it was less jukebox than I had imagined and more storytelling - and there was little in the way of a rousing, dance-along finale reprising all the favourite numbers, which is commonplace in musical theatre. As such, it was more solid drama and less sugar-sweet musical. Even the grimy, industrial-style set gave it a real edge.
As we headed off into the chilly night surrounded by people singing those endearing and enduring tunes, I thought to myself there will be many who'll be working their way back to the Empire for another dose of '60s and '70s memories.
Jersey Boys runs at the Sunderland Empire until Saturday, March 31, with performances at 7.30pm every evening except Sunday, and 2.30pm matinees on the Wednesday and both Saturdays. Visit the online ticket office for more information or to book. | what was a nostalgic and thoroughly entertaining evening at the Sunderland Empire - what a night indeed!
Jersey Boys is a biographical journey through the rollercoaster rock and pop life of The Four Seasons and their lead singer Frankie Valli, from their struggles in the 1950s as The Four Lovers (among other guises) to the original line-up's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
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Barney Keepagami wriggled his fingers into the soil, searching for the fine thread-like feeder roots of the genetically modified plant. There were machines that could handle such simple tasks but he liked to dig. His finger brushed an invisible<|fim_middle|> looking enforcer wander through the indoor forest. "Officer Solorzano?" Barney called.
Barney had seen the news. The entire affair had been so shocking and aberrant. So inexplicable. The investigation was still open. There were clues out there, answers to be found. An old stirring welled up inside of him. | string and when he closed his eyes he could trace it back, branching like a fractal, to the heart of the plant. He slowly pulled away the dirt and exposed the tangled roots to the light.
He grabbed a handful of dry Eclectia soil and packed it around the roots, praying that the plant would not choke on the orange grit. He hoped that one day these hybrids, part ancient earth plant, part alien plant, would find purchase on the planet below.
He held up a small pot containing one of the grey alien weeds that clung to the planet's barren surface. It was useless for agriculture, yet Barney admired its tenacity. If mankind hoped to last on Eclectia they could learn much from this dauntless creature.
Barney left the experimental agriculture lab, passing through a series of decontamination chambers. He finally emerged with a whoosh, stepping into the space station's massive greenhouse. He took a deep breath of air and held it, savoring the fresh clean taste that was so rare on Avenir.
The thick canopy of plants purified the air supply and provided the luxury of fresh food to the lucky few who could afford it. It was a marvelous system, and Barney knew that the seaweed aquaculture labs of the underwater cities were even more abundant. Barney dreamed of a future beyond stagnant space stations and dank underwater cities. He dreamed of a lush and verdant Eclectia, a place where people could cultivate the soil, live off the land and make a real connection with their world.
A whiff of stale air assaulted his nose and he turned around in time to see a tired | 330 |
A Flutist's Unplanned Future
A Flutist's Unplanned Path to Success
Internationally renowned flutist Jodie Rottle '10 advises undergraduates without a clear plan to pause, make slow progress and explore as many new possibilities as they can. (Photo courtesy Jodie Rottle)
Jodie Rottle '10 Finds Fame Even Without a Direct Roadmap
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As far as Jodie Rottle '10 can recall, she started to play the flute because her sister randomly suggested it.
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• An April 2014 interview with Kupka's Piano.
Rottle, who lives in Brisbane, Australia, no longer just plays the flute; she has perfected it—and she's also seriously expanded her musical repertoire:
• Rottle is a soloist, a chamber musician, a music teacher and a contemporary-music specialist who has premiered works by jazz and classical composers from around the world.
• She has performed at venues as varied as the Brisbane Festival of Toy Music, Town Hall Seattle and New York's Le Poisson Rouge.
• She's a member of the Steve Newcomb Orchestra and a past member of ensemble mise-en and the Olympia Symphony Orchestra.
• She has held artistic residencies at The Banff Centre and the Bang on a Can Summer Institute.
• She was a finalist in the 2013 Seattle Flute Society Young Artist Competition and the winner of the 2009 Coeur d'Alene Symphony Young Artist Concerto Competition. That's quite a résumé for anyone, but it's especially impressive for someone who wasn't quite sure what she was doing in college."When I was at PLU, I didn't really have a vision of what I was going to do. That pressure is crippling," Rottle said. "I appreciated that PLU focuses more on vocation and not worrying about your career, per se, your financial stability, but more of what are you doing as an individual and how that take can you to the next place that will assist you with your income."Part of that focus at PLU involved hour-long private flute sessions with Jennifer Rhyne, affiliate artist and senior lecturer in flute. Even now, Rottle cites Rhyne on her website, and it would appear the impact is mutual.
"Jodie has the magical combination of not only being very talented but, more importantly, being highly intelligent and hard-working," Rhyne said. "She takes advantage of every opportunity presented to her, which is a necessity in the music business."
Rottle made her mark onstage at PLU, too.
"There are several performances of Jodie's I remember quite well," Rhyne said. "One was as the principal flutist in PLU Opera's production of Die Fledermaus – I got multiple comments that the flute section was a highlight of the show. Another was her role as flute soloist with the PLU orchestra in a performance of Debussy's groundbreaking tone poem Afternoon of a Faun, in which the flute solos are the most prominent feature of the work. Jodie's limpid, sensuous tone and her innate sense of expression suited the piece perfectly, and it was a very memorable performance. I also remember fondly her stellar performance of Prokofiev's wickedly difficult Sonata for Flute and Piano in her senior recital."
So while Rottle's PLU plan might have been a little up in the air, one thing was<|fim_middle|> also means you can't always see the end of the dotted line—and that's absolutely OK, too. Rottle never saw her successful, busy, musical life coming.
She advises undergraduates in similar circumstances to pause for a second, make slow progress and explore as many new possibilities as they can; it's important not to overcommit and not to let opportunities slip by.
"Don't worry too much about what you would do after PLU," Rottle said. "Don't let it consume you. Because you will eventually do things that you never thought you'd do."
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"Being a student, you need to get the credentials and skills," Rottle said. "Especially being a performer, it is less about the academic side of it; it is more about the training."
So after PLU, Rottle entered a one-year program at Purchase College, State University of New York, to work toward a Performer's Certificate with a teacher she had met at a music festival in Canada. From there, Rottle was admitted to the prestigious Manhattan School of Music to complete her master's degree in Contemporary Performance.
"Studying for that year between PLU and doing the master's was really eye-opening," Rottle said. "It was inspiring as an artist just to see what I could do with my career and take it to the next level."
While in Manhattan, Rottle and a couple of friends from the master's program— Meaghan Burke (cello/voice) and Tristan McKay (piano/harpsichord/toy piano)—founded the new-music ensemble Dead Language, a trio that "seeks out music that has something to say, and says it." And if that sounds a little wide-ranging, so is Dead Language: The ensemble improvises and performs interdisciplinary works that include everything from literature and white noise to toys and wolf howls. (The music is hauntingly original and, trust us, made to be heard rather than read: Listen here.)
Manhattan, in fact, turned out to be quite the meaningful stop for Rottle: She also met the man who would become her fiancé, a jazz musician originally from Australia who was pursing his doctorate at the School of Music.
After moving to his home continent, Rottle continued networking and ended up filling in as the flutist for Kupka's Piano, a contemporary music ensemble. She's also involved in a new ensemble program and plans to perform with it for the next few years. And—coming back to the income part of vocation—she works as the manager of another local chamber ensemble.
"It's like connecting dots; one incident leads to another," Rottle said.
That | 456 |
The good tidings that the Sufi Message brings to the world is the recognition of the Divine in the soul of the human being. Humanity is one body, the whole of life being one in its source and in its goal, its beginning and its end.
The Sufi Order International (SOI) is is a nondenominational spiritual organization rooted in the Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan, a musician and spiritual teacher from India who first brought Sufism to the West. There are several local centres of the SOI in the Toronto area, operating under the authority and umbrella of the<|fim_middle|> excuse for your wrongdoing. | international organization.
This section of our website is continuing to expand and evolve, but we intend it to introduce the Sufi Order International, and briefly describe some of the activities and materials that are common to all the SOI Concentrations. It will also provide links to various pages that present more specific and detailed material.
The Three Objectives Murshid established for the Sufi order that he founded.
The Daily Bowl of Saki is a set of aphorisms for inspiration and meditation.
The Silsila of the Sufi Order traces its initiatory lineage.
The Abode of the Message is a spiritual, intentional community founded by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, which hosts many Sufi Order events.
A map showing the location of Sufi Order centres worldwide.
A video introduction to the Sufi Order, presented as a set of five clips.
A short history of the Sufi Order International and the origin of some of its traditions.
Short biographies of Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan (founder of our order), and his successors Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, and Pir Zia Inayat-Khan.
An introduction to the role of initiation and the teacher-student relationship in this spiritual path.
A history of the Sufi Order in Toronto.
A glossary of terms commonly or uncommonly used in Sufi Order work.
A great deal of additional information is available at the Sufi Order International website. For questions and discussion of general subjects and issues regarding the Sufi Order International and its Toronto centres, members of this website can post to the General Sufi Order Topics discussion forum. Otherwise, you can write to us using our Contact Form.
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New on Pure Pop Radio 5.16.18: Lisa Mychols, David Myhr, Vanilla and Ken Sharp
By: Alan Haber's Pure Pop Radio Posted on May 16, 2018
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio
Spins and Reviews | 5.16.18
Lisa Mychols | Sugar (2018)
Scheduled for release on June 15 and just in time for summer's arrival on June 21, Sugar is perhaps the most appropriately titled album of the year–a joyous, harmony-filled singer's showcase, imbued with sweet songs sung sweetly. This is the sound of pure pop made for a life under sun-drenched skies spreading light and love over lazy mid-year, carefree days.
Sugar is nothing less than Lisa Mychols' greatest achievement, and that, as has been said before, is really saying something.
One part girl-group aesthetic and one other part sunshine pop, Sugar's songs, built around gorgeous, rich harmonies and Lisa's most assured vocals ever, should have no trouble lifting spirits as they entertain. It would be impossible to deny the pleasing power of beauteous creations such as "Loving You" and the full-on, sugary sweet uptempo wonder "Don't Wanna Close My Eyes."
And then there is "He's Got Me Dreaming," a girl-group confection running atop a steady rock beat, "Domino," within which rock steady verses meet pop choruses, and "Next to Impossible," a sweet, bluesy ballad.
It's a wonder to behold, this album full of wonders. This is your summer album, sung sweetly by one of melodic pop music's most enduring, endearing talents. Steve Refling produced, played all of the instruments, and co-wrote all of the songs with Lisa. Sugar is sweet. Don't miss it.
Now Playing in Rotation on Pure Pop Radio: "One Revolution," "Loving You Baby," "Domino," "Don't Wanna Close My Eyes," "Goodbye to All Carousels," "Next to Impossible," "He's Got Me Dreaming," and "Into Oblivion"
Where to Get It: Check back soon for purchase links
David Myhr | Lucky Day (Lojinx, 2018)
A beautifully rendered selection of melody-rich songs from one of melodic pop music's greatest practitioners, Lucky Day is the sound of a master songwriter's loving embrace. It is a warmhearted musical journey you will want to take over and over again.
Lucky Day's 10 lovingly crafted songs, eight written with some of pop music's top talents while David was on a trip to the United States and two self-scribed, speak to the heart of what matters to melodic pop music fans; all feature beautiful melodies and top-notch playing and singing. All contribute to one of this year's best albums.
"Room to Grow," written with Pure Pop Radio favorite Bill DeMain, is about giving a romance all the chances it deserves to prosper. Listening to this song, I hear a rhythmic kinship to Paul McCartney's "Arrow Through Me." The background vocals, as the song progresses, suggest a 1930s sort of vibe. The gorgeous harmonica solo, very Stevie Wonder-like, is played with heart and great skill by Mikael Bäckman. It's quite a delectable stew.
The pretty ballad "Lovebug," written with another Pure Pop Radio favorite, Linus of Hollywood, who sings background vocals, came about when David arrived at Linus's home and said hello to the family dog. Linus's wife said the dog was a lovebug, and therein lay the inspiration for the title of this classic piece of songwriting. The music is pretty, while the lyrics tell a different, bittersweet story–one of a disconnected romance: "I'm under the water and fighting for air/But your gravity's pulling me down/They tell me I'll live but I don't feel alive at all." It's quite an achievement.
"The Perfect Place," one of two songs on Lucky Day written solely by David, soars with an affecting melody, an ultra-catchy chorus, and live strings that ingeniously bring the number to a satisfying, unique conclusion.
And on and<|fim_middle|> instrumental duties and Ken sings his Beatle-loving heart out. Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Pure Pop Radio plays the greatest melodic pop music from across the decades, 24 hours a day. Listen by clicking on the Live365 Listen Now button at left. Hear us once and you'll be a listener for life. Join us, won't you? You'll be glad you did!
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Categories: Album Reviews, New on Pure Pop Radio Tags: alan haber, Album Reviews, david myhr, ken sharp, lisa mychols, New on Pure Pop Radio, pure pop radio, Vanilla
Your Lucky Day: David Myhr Guests on Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation. World Radio Premiere: Vanilla's Small Faces. This Week's Specialty Shows are All Too Beautiful!
Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation Podcasts: David Myhr (Airdate: May 16, 2018) | on the album goes–one great song after another that you will treasure forever. Produced by Brad Jones, Andreas Dahlbäck and David Myhr, and recorded at Jones's Alex the Great Recording in Nashville and at studios in Stockholm, Sweden, Lucky Day is a wonderful gift to lovers of melodic pop. And speaking of gifts, CD purchasers should stay tuned after the 10th song plays; a lucky gift awaits.
Now Playing in Rotation on Pure Pop Radio: "Jealous Sun," "The Perfect Place," "Lucky Day," "Wait Until the Moment," "My Negative Friend," "Room to Grow," "If You Really Think It's Over," and "Lovebug"
Where to Get It: Preorder at Lojinx, and at Amazon and iTunes; stream the album at Spotify, Tidal, Deezer and Apple Music, beginning May 18.
Vanilla |"Itchykoo Park" | Mystik Knights of Takoma (2018)
(World Radio Premiere on Alan Haber's Pop Tunes Deejay Show, Thursday, May 17, 8 pm ET on Pop that Goes Crunch Radio)
Jayson Jarmon's always intriguing outfit returns with another song slated for inclusion on the group's upcoming Mystik Knights of Takoma collection. This time around, the Vanillians transform the Small Faces' classic song "Itchykoo Park" by applying a glittery coat of glam inspiration and a straight-ahead rhythm. The result is almost otherworldly, as they gather to breathe new life into Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane's 1967 masterpiece.
Sung with his usual invested, emotional connection to both music and lyrics, guest vocalist Regan Lane, from Strangely Alright, grabs both with total conviction. In the process, he transforms "Itchykoo Park" into a contemporary, psychedelic parable. "It's all too beautiful," Lane sings, and he means every syllable. It's another can't-miss slice of Vanilla.
Now Playing on Pure Pop Radio
Where to Get It: Available May 18 at Vanilla's Bandcamp site
Ken Sharp | "She Hates the Beatles" | Single, 2018
After musician and co-producer Fernando Perdomo suggested the title, Ken ran with it and conjured up a guy's ultimate fear: that the girl he loves hates the Fab Four. From that scary conjuring comes this upbeat, catchy pop song that lyrically, and with a healthy dose of jocularity, pounds the ceremonial nail into a relationship's coffin.
The song's lyrics get into the down and dirty of this doomed pairing: "She don't know John from Paul/But baby what's the worst of all/She thinks Wings is a TV show and Lennon is a Russian mole." And, what's more, to drive her point home even further, the narrator relates that "…when she turns on the radio, she makes me listen to Barry Manilow." Now, that hurts!
Never mind that "She Hates the Beatles" sounds more like a mashup of '70s, Partridge Family and Todd Rundgren aesthetics than Beatlesque–this is a fun, catchy ride. Ken and Fernando split the | 667 |
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Dakar rookies climbed up to 35th in overall standings with a total time of 75:01:41 at the wheel of their Buggy.
Today's two stages in Mali and Guinea were a real challenge and Sperrer and Floene had a trouble free day onto their best stage finish of the rally so far.
Today we arrived in Guinea and everything worked perfectly, � Sperrer said. � We made no mistakes and we're delighted with the great result. These 368km went<|fim_middle|> a lot of dust, which means overtaking will be difficult, but Raphael and I are ready for the challenge. | by really fast and we never thought we could be so high up the order! We repaired the suspension overnight after it was damaged at the start of yesterday's journey.
Today it held out and we had no problems at all. The path was really narrow and there was plenty of deep water to negotiate. We had to be very careful while still pushing very hard. Ola's navigation was again excellent. We started fast and kept that pace up until the end. For the last few days we just have to stay completely focused and not make any mistakes.
Ola Floene added : � It was another difficult stage which I'm happy is out of the way. I'm really delighted we got a result above our goals and expectation. We want to see Dakar and are determined to make it to the finish. There's not far to go and when we reach Tambacounda tomorrow we'll be only 744km away from Dakar. It will be a mountain stage so it will be tough and the air might get quite thin as we will be driving at quite some altitude. The road will be narrow and there will be | 228 |
ABMS Home / About ABMS / Governance / Statement of Shared Values
The medical profession has traditionally held itself accountable for providing quality care to patients. At a time of rapid change in health care, it is the goal of physicians, specialists, and health systems to keep up with the explosion of knowledge, advances in technology, and changes in health care delivery systems. Demonstrating competence in the modern era is uniquely challenging, but fundamentally important.
What has not changed, however, is a set of shared foundational values that will continue to shape the practice of modern medicine. These values include a commitment to professionalism as demonstrated by the following:
Staying current with changes in medical practice through lifelong learning
Regularly assessing medical knowledge, judgment, and skills
Practicing safely and avoiding harm
Improving patients' health and well-being
Constantly improving communication with and care of patients
Incorporating the values and preferences of patients in the delivery of care
The 24 ABMS medical and surgical specialty Boards and their volunteers are<|fim_middle|> signatures | proud to serve as a vehicle through which we demonstrate to ourselves, our patients, and the public that we are committed to these shared values.
The rapid changes in and complexity of medicine mean that the standards set by our Boards will require constant evaluation and adjustment to meet the changing landscape, and we, as the medical and specialty Boards, hold ourselves accountable for continually improving our programs.
View statement and | 78 |
Hannu Taina (* 21. März 1941 in Helsinki, Finnland) ist ein finnischer Designer, Grafiker, Illustrator und Autor.
Leben
Taina studierte in den Jahren von 1959 bis 1962 an der Hochschule für Kunst und Design Helsinki der Aalto-Universität in der Hauptstadt Finnlands. Seit 1963 ist er als Grafiker und Buchillustrator bekannt, unter anderem für die Werke der Kinderbuch<|fim_middle|>: Arja Tahvola: Markku ikmies. Sanoma, Helsinki, ISBN 951-9135-52-9.
1985: Elina Karjalainen: Uppo-nallen kootut runot;U ponneen kanseu lauluja. Söderström, Porvoo. ISBN 951-0-12838-4.
1984: Bo Carpelan: Pitza, aus dem schwedischen übersetzt von Tuomas Anhava, (Originaltitel: Gården). Otava, Helsinki, ISBN 951-1-07681-7.
1983: Ritva Toivola: Kapteeni Vaskiparta. Weilin + Göös, Espoo, ISBN 951-35-2935-5.
Weblinks
Verlag Werner Söderström Corporation (en.)
Designer
Zeichner (Finnland)
Illustrator (Finnland)
Autor
Finne
Geboren 1941
Mann | autorin Elina Karjalainen und ihre Figur Uppo-nalle.
Preise und Auszeichnungen
Seit 1973 wurde er sowohl national als auch international für seine grafischen Arbeiten ausgezeichnet. Dazu gehören
1976, 1986 und 1987: Rudolf Koivu-Preis für finnische Grafiker.
Werke
Eigenes Buch
1992: Matti ja krokotiili.
deutsch 1994: Matti und sein Krokodil, Bohem-Pres, Zürich/Kiel/Wien 1994, ISBN 3-85581-259-4.
1994: Matti ja kaikkien aikojen kesä.
2002: Matti ja salakallio.
Illustrationen
1988: Raija Siekkimen: Die Schönste im ganzen Land, nacherzählt von Gina Ruck-Pauquet. Neuer Finken-Verlag, Oberursel, ISBN 3-8084-1154-6.
1987: Raija Siekkimen: Tyttö, puu j peili. Otava, Helsinki, ISBN 951-1-09729-6.
1987: Elina Karjalainen: Uppo-nalle ja erakko. Söderström, Porvoo/Helsinki, ISBN 951-0-14606-4.
1986: Raija Siekkimen: Herra kuningas. Otava, Helsinki, ISBN 951-1-08755-X.
1985 | 389 |
For those of you traveling from out-of-town, we are so grateful that you are making the trip to Alexandria for our wedding celebration!
We have<|fim_middle|> internet access in guest rooms (value of $9.95), nightly reception with select beer, wine, and light snacks, and discounted overnight parking rate of $18.00 (originally $28.00) per vehicle, per day. | reserved rooms for your convenience on the weekend of our wedding, May 29-31 2015. Please be sure to mention group name "Estorninos Perez Wedding" (Group Code: EPW) to reserve your room at the special discounted rate. The cut-off date is Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Make your reservation by either calling Embassy Suites Old Town Alexandria toll free 800-362-2779 or visiting our group webpage.
Embassy Suites is just across from the King Street-Old Town Metro Station, which is two stops away from Ronald Reagan National Airport. Upon your arrival at DCA, you may take either the Blue Line toward Franconia-Springfield, or, the Yellow Line toward Huntington.
Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. and check-out is 12:00 p.m.
Your reservation includes: hot buffet breakfasts, | 197 |
As the peak body for our industry, our role is to protect and promote the interests of<|fim_middle|> world-class shows.
Our work in this area includes a 2019-20 pre-budget submission, supported by economic modelling by Ernst and Young.
Click below to read submissions to government on this topic. | our Members. This includes:
Formulating industry codes of practice for areas such as ticketing, censorship, auditions, arts access, privacy and child employment
Sitting on relevant government and industry committees and working groups
Making submissions to government on behalf of our industry on current issues
Lobbying government on issues such as venue infrastructure and investment incentives for live productions and events
Conducting research and collecting data for the benefit of our Members and the industry. This includes the annual Ticket Attendance and Revenue Report, which values the overall worth of the industry to the cultural, economic and social life of Australia
Creating effective partnerships and strategic alliances with like-minded bodies and complementary industries
We provide information and advice on ticketing and consumer-related matters, promote consumer awareness of safe and fair ticketing practice, and work with federal and state governments to improve regulations to protect consumers.
Compliance with our Ticketing Code of Practice is mandatory for all Members. It has two parts:
the industry code, which provides guidelines on complaint handling procedures, ticket proceeds handling protocols, advertising, ticket pricing and other industry practices
the consumer code, which covers consumer rights
The Ticketing Code is independently reviewed and re-issued every three years. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission provide feedback as part of the review process.
Our information for consumers includes the Safe Tix video, which is a companion to the Safe Tix Guide, and the Consumer Guide: Buying and Selling Tickets in the Ticket Resale Market.
Click below for the Ticketing Code of Practice and other information on ticketing and consumer issues.
We support and undertake research integral to building knowledge and promoting the value of our industry.
Our annual Ticket Attendance and Revenue Report is the most comprehensive report of ticket sales for Australian live performance events and is drawn upon extensively by the industry, government, media and business.
We periodically produce an economic study – The Size and Scope of the Live Performance Industry – which calculates the industry's economic contribution in terms of gross output, value add and full time equivalent employment.
Click below for the latest reports.
We actively engage with government, specifically focusing on cultural policy, industrial environment and conditions, infrastructure and cultural precincts, and investment in the performing arts.
We work with other industry bodies such as MEAA and SPA to provide a united industry front and lobby Federal Government, and we frequently make submissions to federal and state governments.
Click below for past submissions.
We care about the environment as much as you do. Our Greener Live Performance platform helps you reduce the environmental footprint of your event, venue, production or tour.
The platform includes:
guidelines and checklists
greenhouse gas calculator
information about potential funding sources for sustainability projects
video interviews with participants
Our resources section includes a range of guides on industry issues such as employment, touring, privacy, arts access and content warnings.
Click below for all our guides.
We represent and actively support our industry in copyright related matters. We consult and negotiate with copyright collecting societies, including APRA and AMCOS, to represent the rights and interests of Members (licensees).
We also provide information and advice on all copyright licensing matters.
It is becoming increasingly problematic for our industry to finance new productions due to the high cost of pre-production and the difficulties in attracting the required level of incentive.
We have been lobbying the Federal Government to provide tax incentives for pre-production costs, similar to those offered to screen producers, to attract the level of investment required to produce and stage | 696 |
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