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For everything from arena concerts to college football, thousands of spectators find reasons to fill sports stadiums across the United States. However, just how many spectators can the largest sports stadiums in the United States hold?
Surprisingly, some of these stadiums can reach record-breaking capacities when it comes to game days, holding populations that are larger than certain cities. With that in mind, let's take a look at the largest sports stadiums in the United States.
Michigan Stadium
This college football arena also referred to as The Big House, can hold 107,601 spectators, which is actually a decrease of 2,000 spectators since it was decreased in 2015. The stadium removed seats for accessibility updates. However, the renovation couldn't dethrone this football stadium from being the largest in the United States.
Ohio Stadium
This stadium located in Columbus forms part of the National Register of Historic Places and can seat up to 104,944 spectators. It also managed to move up on our list after renovations took place in 2016. The unique design, featuring a double deck horseshoe, will once again be renovated in 2019 which will decrease the seating capacity in the process.
Situated in Texas, Kyle Field managed to expand to facilitate up to 102,733 spectators after redevelopment took place in 2014/15 which cost a staggering $485 million. The stadium was named after Edwin Jackson Kyle. He was the president of the athletic council and the dean of agriculture. He managed to donate an area situated on the south side of the campus to establish the football pitch in early 1905 which has been the home of Aggie football since then.
Neyland Stadium
Located in Knoxville, Tennessee, the Neyland Stadium not only plays host to football matches but also hosts NFL exhibition games and large conventions. The stadium was originally built in 1921 and only held 3,200 spectators. However, after nearly 100 years of growth and renovations, the stadium now holds up to 102,455 spectators. The stadiums' signature look includes white and orange end zones in a checkerboard style.
Situated in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the Tiger stadium is home to the LSU Tigers which can facilitate up to 102,321 spectators on game days. The most notable match that was ever played on at this stadium was the Earthquake match that occurred in 1998 when the reaction of the crowd after a touchdown pass managed to register as an earthquake.
Situated in Los Angeles, California, the Los Angeles Memorial Stadium can fit up to 93,607 spectators which the USC Trojans call home. Unlike other college football stadiums, this venue is owned | 858 |
Stocks Tumble as Trump Suggests Delaying a Trade Deal With China Until After Election
WASHINGTON—U.S. stocks dropped sharply on Dec. 3 after President Donald Trump suggested a trade deal with China might have to wait until after the 2020 presidential election.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank more than 450 points in morning trading, recording its biggest fall in two months. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite also lost more than 1 percent.
"I have no deadline, no. In some ways, I think its better to wait until after the election with China," Trump told reporters in London, where he was due to attend a NATO leaders meeting.
"But they want to make a deal now, and well see whether or not the deals going to<|fim_middle|>: After a chaotic first wave, does bike-sharing have a decent second shot in Singapore? | be right; its got to be right."
In October, the worlds two largest economies announced they had reached a partial trade agreement, in principle, on intellectual property, financial services, and agriculture. Both sides have been working to finalize the phase one agreement for signing.
Trump earlier suggested that both leaders could sign the deal in mid-November at the Asia-Pacific leaders summit in Chile, but the summit was canceled by the Chilean government.
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Dec. 3 also commented on the China trade deal that contributed to the sharp drop in stock prices.
Ross told CNBC the United States was set to impose new tariffs on Chinese goods on Dec. 15 unless there was substantive progress in trade talks before then. He also said there were no planned high-level trade talks with Beijing before the Dec. 15 deadline.
"The presidents objective always has been to get the right deal independently of when or anything else like that," Ross said. "So his objectives havent changed, and if we dont have a deal, hes perfectly happy to continue with the tariffs as he had. So he feels were in a pretty good position one way or the other."
Ross also noted that the Hong Kong bills have complicated the trade talks.
"I think the new variable is the whole Hong Kong situation. That has complicated life for President Xi," Ross said.
"They got somewhat upset when the president signed the bill. Well, the reality is that the bill was going to be enacted anyway because they had a veto-proof majority in the Congress."
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The Memorial Avenue commemorates those who died in service or were killed in action during World War One.
The memorial avenue comprises thirty three trees leading past the School of Arts on Alexandra Street. The trees are native species consisting of brush box (LOPHOSTEMON CONFERTUS) and spotted gum. The names of the fallen were recorded on bronze plaques mounted on tubular steel frames in front of the avenue trees. Eight plaques were mounted between Gilliam street and John Berry Memorial Park with twenty one along the opposite side of the street and seven along the northern edge of the memorial park.
The Gardens surrounding the Cenotaph were extensively remodelled in 1992 and the plaques that originally stood at the base of the memorial trees were moved to the gardens where they were fixed to six sandstone freestanding walls that flank the cenotaph with eleven new plaques commemorating the World War Two dead.
At the Berry Council meeting, on Wednesday, Mr. J. Robertson attended as a deputation representing the branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, to ask approval for the erection of wire guards for the trees forming the memorial avenue leading from the railway station to the town. He submitted a plan, and intimated that the Diggers would see to the erection of the guards and to them being kept in order. He further asked that Council should permit of labelling the trees with the name of a fallen soldier and that the labels should be placed on a number of trees in the memorial park and that a couple of additional trees be planted to take the. place of some that had died. The total number of trees would be 36.
The Council decided to acquiesce in the requests made, on motion of Ald. Strong | 371 |
Flyers Notes: Simmonds has new role on left
PHILADELPHIA – Even 48 hours after being put on a new line, Flyers winger Wayne Simmonds was still noticeably excited about his promotion.
Coach Craig Berube is doubling down on his best players and stacking the top line with Simmonds, Claude Giroux and Jake Voracek.
So what if it means Simmonds is moving from the right side, where he's played his entire career, to the left side?
"It's awesome," said Simmonds, who was tied for the team lead in goals heading into Saturday night's game against the Colorado Avalanche. "Hopefully I can help those guys out and create even more space. Teams tend now to send three guys into the zone if there's a scrum and for me I try to go in there and loosen things up, take the body and get the puck loose."
Simmonds, Giroux and Voracek play together on the power play as well, which is part of the reason Berube thought the new unit might look. He came to this conclusion in Thursday's win over the Florida Panthers, leaving the experiment with Chris VandeVelde on the top line to last only two periods.
VandeVelde, who had been on the fourth line, is used to playing all<|fim_middle|> enough experience. He's been in this game long enough for our young guys to listen to what he has to say, regardless if he's playing or not."
"I don't know how much time I have left," added Briere, who is in the last year of his contract, "but I don't want to come to the rink and be miserable and not enjoying what's going on. I feel fortunate I'm still around and still playing in the NHL, so I'll take it all in and try to help out as much as I can. Right now all I can do is stay ready."
Recently it's been tough for Briere, who is very close with his three sons who still live in South Jersey. He hasn't seen much of them this season with the exception of a trip home when his oldest son Caelan broke his leg after taking a dangerous hit in a hockey game.
"It's tough to see, especially when you find out or hear he's been targeted because of his name," Briere said. "That's the tough part to deal with as a dad. But at the same time, unfortunately, it forces them to be tougher at a younger age."
Reach Dave Isaac at disaac@courierpostonline.com. | three forward positions. Simmonds is most definitely not.
"It's gonna take some time," Berube said, "but I think it's more just in our end on the walls and stuff like that. I think he'll be fine. In the offensive zone, it doesn't matter. In our end a little bit on the walls he's gonna have an adjustment there."
Simmonds has been one of the Flyers forwards doing a good job backchecking and helping out the defense, so a new assignment in his own zone may throw that off a tad.
The way the Flyers have been recently, they may not have to spend a ton of time in their end anyway. It's the offensive side of things that excites Simmonds, who hadn't scored in his last three games heading into Saturday night's affair.
"G and Jakey will do whatever they want," Simmonds said. "I'm gonna put my stick on the ice and go to the net."
He'll still go to his office, in front of the opposing net.
"I've got my skate protectors on," said Simmonds, who broke his left foot in the preseason. "Hopefully those guys start blasting them off my feet and in. I'll take them any way I can get them."
• Briere accepting of new role with Avs: When Danny Briere spent six seasons with the Flyers, his leadership usually came because of his play on the ice. Now a veteran in the waning years of his career at age 37, he's being asked to be a leader while a healthy scratch. Saturday night's game was his sixth consecutive contest he watched from the press box.
"When we made the trade it was for leadership and he's bringing the leadership," Colorado coach Patrick Roy said. "You're going to say, 'Yeah, but he's not playing.' Danny Briere has | 376 |
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Twelfth-seeded Oakmont Regional threw a scare at fifth-seeded Notre Dame Academy in tonight's Central Mass. Division 2 first-round game.
Fortunately for Rebels fans, the scare was short-lived.
Notre Dame, paced by the all-around brilliance of senior center Taylor McVey, overcame an early deficit with good play in the final minutes of the first period and exploded for 22 second-quarter points in a 57-37 victory.
The Rebels (16-5) will play at fourth-seeded Lunenburg High (15-5) in a quarterfinal at 7 p.m. Friday. The Spartans finished 9-11.
McVey finished with a triple-double of 12 points, 16 rebounds and 12 blocked shots. Senior guard Sarah Ducharme scored 10 points, while senior guard Jacqueline O'Connor added nine.
Junior guard Danielle Gaudette had nine points and six assists, while senior forward Jessica Snow added eight points for Notre Dame. Senior guard Jenny Foley supplied crisp passing and good defense.
After several lead changes, Notre Dame went ahead for good early in the second quarter on a 3-pointer by Gaudette. Oakmont got two points back before the Rebels put together a game-breaking 16-0 run, increasing their lead to 31-14. Six players scored in the spurt, capped by junior Nicole Weldon's three-point play. The Rebels led, 31-19, at the break.
"The whole point of a tournament game is win, survive and go onto the next one, and that's what we did," Notre Dame coach Peter Bogren said. "I don't know if we were tight early on, but give Oakmont credit — they were fired-up. Once we settled down and started to defend better, that opened things up on the break.
Oakmont got as close as 10 points early in the third quarter on baskets by sophomore Kayla Costa and junior Kathryn Leger. However, the Spartans didn't score again in the period. Two 3-pointers by O | 457 |
Hopewell wins Class 3 state title, 35-7
by: Natalie Kalibat
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – The Hopewell Blue Devils completed a perfect 15-0 season, winning the Class 3 state title over Lord Botetourt, 35-7, at Liberty University on Saturday afternoon.
TreVeyon Henderson rushed for 224 yards and finished with four touchdowns.
Henderson opened scoring with a 61-yard touchdown run, then added another from 16 yards away with eight seconds to go in the first quarter.
Henderson then caught a 23-yard touchdown pass from Joe Eliades on fourth down to increase the lead to 21-0 with 4:43 left in the third quarter and added his fourth and final TD on a 53-yard rush later in the quarter.
Lord Botetourt got on the board with an interception return, but Kaiveon Cox matched the defensive TD with one of his own, returning a fumble 30 yards to the end zone.
It's Hopewell's fifth state championship<|fim_middle|> the team was fined $100,000 by the league for violating coronavirus protocols, including a gathering in a hotel room.
In addition to three-time MVP Ovechkin — one of just eight players in NHL history with more than 700 goals — the Capitals joining the COVID-19 list were center Evgeny Kuznetsov, defenseman Dmitry Orlov and top goalie Ilya Samsonov. | overall and second in three years.
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. (AP) — Jaren Holmes had 18 points and nine rebounds as St. Bonaventure beat VCU 70-54. Dominick Welch had 19 points for St. Bonaventure, which earned its fifth straight win. Kyle Lofton added 12 points, and Osun Osunniyi had nine rebounds and four assists.
Nah'Shon Hyland had 16 points for the Rams. Vince Williams Jr. added 11 points, and Hason Ward had 10 rebounds and three blocks. VCU totaled 14 points in the second half, a season low.
Love, Bacot lead Tar Heels past Wake Forest
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WNCN) -- Freshman guard Caleb Love scored a career-high 20 points, while junior forward Armando Bacot turned in an efficient performance in North Carolina's 80-73 win over Wake Forest.
The Demon Deacons went into the halftime break up by two points, but it was a strong second half effort and UNC's willingness to get to the free throw line that helped them prevail, keeping Wake Forest winless in conference play.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin and three other Washington Capitals players were added to the NHL's COVID-19 list Wednesday and | 334 |
By Rebecca Harris December 11, 2017
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Ever-rising ocean temperatures are projected to have wide-ranging impacts on the fish and seafood sector
By Rebecca Harris
The oceans are warming up, and if temperatures continue to rise, the global fish and seafood industry will feel the heat. In 2016, the University of British Columbia forecast that global fisheries will lose approximately $10 billion in annual revenue by 2050 if climate change continues unchecked. And while 2050 may seem like the distant future, experts say the time to address climate change is now.
"The industry may perceive climate change as something that is far away and they have more immediate priorities," says William Cheung, associate professor at University of British Columbia's Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, and director of Science at the Nippon Foundation-UBC Nereus Program. "But fisheries can't wait for decades before they start to care. We're already seeing changes that are associated with [climate change] and [industry] needs to think about how to adapt to those changes."
Rising temperatures not only have dire consequences for marine life, but also for a global food system that relies heavily on the seas' bounty. "We need to make oceans a priority because they're often forgotten compared to land-based agriculture," says Sylvain Charlebois, professor in Food Distribution and Policy, and dean of the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University in Halifax. "We often think of fisheries as remotely located sources of nutrients and protein, and we think Mother Nature will take care of oceans," he continues. "But we're starting to realize that humans have had a huge impact on our oceans' ability to produce food for consumers. And given that 50 per cent of the world population relies heavily on fisheries to eat and survive, the stakes are quite significant."
How does ocean warming affect marine life? First, rising ocean temperatures change the chemistry and physics of the ocean, says Rashid Sumaila, professor and director of Fisheries Economics Research Unit at the University of British Columbia, and project director of research network OceanCanada Partnership. "It changes the pH, acidification and oxygen content, so clearly you are going to affect life in the ocean."
The second big impact is that fish from warmer parts of the ocean are relocating to colder waters. Since fish rely on their environment to control their temperature, "they try to move to the [right] temperature zone, if they can," says Sumaila. "So we see lots of movement of fish…away from the equator towards the poles."
The northern movement presents challenges for the fish and seafood industry. "As fish change their distribution, one of the more immediate responses [from fisheries] is to follow the fish stocks where they can find them," says Cheung. "But there may be implications for fishing quotas as well as [potential] increased safety risk if they need to go further off shore." And when fish stocks shift their distribution, "they don't respect political boundaries, like the border between U.S. and Canada," says Cheung. "That may create a limit to the extent that the fishing industry can adapt by changing their fishing grounds."
The changes brought on by climate change are projected to dramatically affect global fish catches. A study by the UBC Nereus Program suggests that if the global temperature increases by more than the Paris agreement target of 1.5°C by 2100, there will be significant decreases in catches, particularly in tropical areas.
The study used a numerical model to calculate what would happen if the planet warms at 1.5°C vs. 3.5°C. It is projected that for every degree Celsius warmer, about three million tons of fish will be lost from the ocean in terms of potential catches. "There are substantial benefits associated with achieving the Paris agreement for fisheries in terms of reducing the risk of decrease in fisheries catches as well as changes in the composition of the catches," says Cheung.
If 1.5°C warming is maintained, the findings show that the Indo-Pacific area would see a 40-per-cent increase in fisheries catches. Meanwhile, under the 3.5°C scenario, the Arctic region would have a greater influx of fish, but would lose more sea ice and face pressure to expand fisheries.
Another study by the University of British Columbia, in partnership with Vancity, looked at the impact of climate change on BC's staple seafood supply and prices. The study predicts that by 2050 there will be a 21-per-cent decline in sockeye salmon, a 15-per-cent decline in sablefish stocks, and a 10-per-cent decline in chum salmon.
Climate change will also contribute to an increase of more than 70 per cent in the price per pound (in 2015 dollars) of BC's iconic species such as sockeye and chum salmon. For the province's 10 staple seafood species, the net change in price attributable to climate change could cost British Columbians up to $110 million a year. "First, you have the change in quantity that will hit the industry," says Sumaila. "You have some increase in price, which will soften the blow. But net, the industry will lose — the quantity effect is bigger than the price effect."
The seafood industry could also take a hit from imports. "For example, shrimp is quite popular in North America and we get a lot of it from different parts of the world," notes Sumaila. "That means we not only have to think about the impact on our oceans and our fish, but also the places we import from. So if Thailand is affected, the industry is going to feel it here. They're going to pay more for whatever they can import and process here."
Some might argue that there are "winners" of ocean warming. The lobster market is booming in Maine, for example, as climate change is driving lobsters further north. But, in Sumaila's view, the movement of any species north doesn't look good in the long run. "People up north, like Canada, Norway and Iceland, say 'Why should we worry? All the fish will come to us.' And I say, who knows how long they will<|fim_middle|> believes industry can have a lot of influence on the government, and they can support regulatory efforts to mitigate climate change. "We have the Paris agreement, which is really in trouble now," he says. "Industry is influential, no question. So they could really play a role here."
Charlebois says food companies can engage with initiatives like the Ocean Frontier Institute — a research partnership between Dalhousie University, Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Prince Edward Island — for a better understanding of how climate change could affect their business. "It's very difficult for one business to get a grasp on something so vast," he explains, "so you want a collective of experts to look at this issue in a co-ordinated manner."
Cheung recommends that industry work with the DFO to understand the expected changes and how fisheries management will be able to adapt to the changes. "For example, if Pacific halibut is shifting their distribution from Europe to Canada, or Canada to Alaska, how would that affect the catch quota and the management of the fish stocks?" says Cheung. "I think it's a question for the industry to request and discuss with the [DFO] about how best to deal with that."
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The future is automated | come to you and stay? It's not like they come to the temperature they like and just stop there. Where will they go next? If you look long term and climate change continues unchecked, it will just empty the ocean of fish."
Geoff Irvine, executive director of the Lobster Council of Canada, says the Canadian lobster industry is definitely concerned about climate change, but it hasn't dramatically affected lobster fishing here — yet. "We have seen it in the U.S., but this is a very long-term thing: decades and decades and decades," he says. "There may be significant change, but it's something that people who are fishing today may never even notice. And it's too early to know what it really looks like."
Veronika Brzeski, executive director of the Cape Breton Fish Harvesters Association, points out that while fish harvesters are concerned about climate change, "we're very adaptable and flexible…We're multi-species fishermen who can adapt their gear to harvest whatever species are plentiful." The biggest worry, she adds, is the Department of Fisheries (DFO) and how it's managing those fisheries. For example, if there's an influx of invasive species — whether from climate change or not — no action can take place until they are monitored. "Science wants five years of data before they want to make a decision, which is understandable," she says. "But as the climate changes, we'll have to react to those changes a little bit quicker."
While the full effects of climate change may not be realized for decades, harvesters and processors can brace for change today. "Take all the science available and try to think of how to adopt and how to deal with the changes," advises Sumaila. "Are you going to move your business from somewhere in Chile to Norway, and what does that mean? Just having adaptation in their mind in terms of organizing their business would be helpful."
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The Kogi State Government on Thursday said all public and private schools in the state would resume academic activities on January 18th.
The State government urged all relevant stakeholders to strictly comply.
Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology in the state, Mr Wemi Jones, made the announcement during a news briefing in Lokoja.
Jones reiterated that all schools should resume on January 18 to continue the first term of the 2020/2021 academic session.
"It has become imperative for me to address the press to clear the air, so as to prevent confusion on account of school resumption in Kogi.
"I will like to state unequivocally that the resumption date for all schools in Kogi remains January 18, 2021.
"This applies to both public and private primary and secondary schools, and tertiary institutions of learning in the state," he said.
The commissioner said his ministry had revised the school calendar to accommodate and make up for the two-week break extension due to the lockdown that<|fim_middle|>olu gives herdsmen ultimatum to vacate Ondo forest
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He said the schools were initially scheduled to resume on January 4 for the continuation of the first term but that it was extended by two weeks due to the hardships caused by the pandemic and the lockdown.
He said Gov. Yahaya Bello had directed the ministry to comply with the two-week break extension in the state as advised by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19.
"The governor, thereafter, clearly stated that the state would not jeopardise the education of our children by extending school resumption beyond January 18, 2021.
"So, schools must resume in Kogi across all levels: primary, secondary and tertiary for both private and public schools, on January 18," Jones said.
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Taprobana (in greco antico Ταπροβανᾶ) o Taprobane<|fim_middle|>ante...!».
Per raccogliere l'oro, l'autore dei Travels scrive che gli abitanti di Taprobana scacciavano le formiche giganti attaccandole in groppa a cammelli, cavalli o altri animali. Adottavano anche una tattica più sottile, agganciando dei recipienti ai cavalli e mandandoli a pascolare sulle montagne d'oro. Quando le formiche vedevano i contenitori vuoti, accorrevano e li riempivano d'oro perché «hanno questa consuetudine di non lasciare niente di vuoto tra di loro, ma subito lo riempiono con qualsiasi cosa gli capiti».
Taprobana aveva anche fama di essere stata abitata dalla mitica razza degli Sciapodi, uomini con un unico gigantesco piede che usavano per ripararsi dal sole di mezzogiorno mentre stavano sdraiati sulla schiena. Gli Sciapodi sono menzionati da Aristofane nella sua commedia Gli uccelli e da Plinio nella sua Storia naturale, dove riporta resoconti di viaggiatori che avevano incontrato queste creature nella regione indiana; e nella medievale Mappa Mundi di Hereford c'è la raffigurazione di uno Sciapode nell'area dell'India. Sempre a proposito degli abitanti di Taprobana, nella sua descrizione delle Isole più famose del mondo, Tommaso Porcacchi ripete la descrizione di Diodoro Siculo, che parlava di gente con la lingua biforcuta: «doppia fino alla radice & divisa; con una parte parlano a uno, con l'altra a un altro». Porcacchi si scusa poi con il lettore per non essere in grado di localizzare l'isola.
Anche Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ne fa menzione nel suo primo Don Quixote (I, 18), per metatesi deformandone il nome in Trapobana, facendone il regno dell'immaginario imperatore Alifanfaron.
Benché non sia stato definitivamente stabilito quale isola possa rivendicare l'identità dell'antica Taprobana, molti hanno ipotizzato si trattasse di Sumatra, una conclusione cui giunse Niccolò de' Conti già nel XV secolo; e anche la mappa di Sebastian Münster suggerisce questa ipotesi con il suo titolo tedesco Sumatra Ein Grosser Insel. Ma la candidata più probabile è Ceylon: sulle mappe delle edizioni del XVI secolo dell'opera di Plinio la somiglianza è notevole, senza contare che un tempo lì c'era un grande porto con un nome vagamente omofono: «Tamraparni».
Taprobana è menzionata come Ceylon nella prima ottava del grande poema cinquecentesco portoghese "Os Lusìadas" di Louìs de Camões:
As armas e os barões assinalados,
Que da ocidental praia Lusitana,
Por mares nunca de antes navegados,
Passaram ainda além da Taprobana,
Em perigos e guerras esforçados,
Mais do que prometia a força humana,
E entre gente remota edificaram
Novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram;
Taprobana è anche il luogo in cui, agli inizi del XVII secolo, il filosofo calabrese Tommaso Campanella collocò la sua ideale Città del Sole.
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Uno dei primi autori greci a parlare di Taprobana fu, nel 290 a.C., il mercante ed esploratore Megastene, il quale scrisse che era divisa da un fiume e che c'erano molte più perle di grosse dimensioni e oro che in India. Successivamente venne descritta anche da Eratostene (276-194 a.C. ca.) e da Strabone (60 a.C.-24 d.C. ca.). Quest'ultimo afferma:
Plinio la identifica con il lontano «altro mondo» abitato dagli Antictoni, dove tutto è alla rovescia. In alcuni punti il mare tra l'isola e l'India presentava fondali molto bassi e in altri era così profondo che le ancore non riuscivano a raggiungere il fondo. Le imbarcazioni locali erano costruite con prue a entrambe le estremità per non dover virare negli stretti canali che i marinai di Taprobana navigavano orientandosi non con le stelle, ma con gli uccelli, liberandoli e seguendoli. Plinio ci fornisce anche particolari risalenti al regno di Claudio con la storia di un anonimo liberto che lavorava per un esattore dei tributi del Mar Rosso di nome Annius Plocamus. Mentre navigava al largo dell'Arabia l'uomo era incappato in una tempesta e dopo quindici giorni era approdato a Hippuri, un porto di Taprobana. Lì era stato accolto calorosamente dal re, che «si veste come il dio Bacco», e in sei mesi aveva imparato la lingua ed era riuscito a rispondere alle domande su Roma, con il risultato che quattro ambasciatori erano stati inviati nella capitale per allacciare relazioni. Da loro si era appreso che a Taprobana c'erano 500 città, la più magnifica delle quali era Palaesimundus, che contava 200.000 abitanti compresa la famiglia reale. Sul fondo dei loro mari, di un verde luminoso, crescevano foreste d'alberi che spesso spezzavano i timoni delle navi, e la popolazione si intratteneva cacciando elefanti, tigri e tartarughe così grandi che «nei loro gusci potevano essere ospitate intere famiglie».
Su Taprobana circolano molte leggende: nel XIV secolo il compilatore dei Travels of Sir John Mandeville la localizzava nel regno del Prete Gianni, sostenendo che aveva due estati e due inverni e che vi sorgevano montagne di puro oro custodite da formiche giganti che divoravano gli uomini. L'ultimo particolare era probabilmente ispirato agli scritti di Pomponio Mela, che descriveva formiche grandi come mastini: «Sull'isola Taprobana si ergono grandi montagne d'oro custodite con somma diligenza da formiche che sceverano l'oro puro dall'impuro. E queste formiche sono della grandezza di cani, cosicché nessun uomo osa avvicinarsi all'oro perché le formiche lo assalirebbero e divorerebbero all'ist | 843 |
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Today was the perfect day to dedicate<|fim_middle|> getting and some of those who I had spoken to had helped a lot after Katrina hit. Many of them were sincere in their wishes for a happy new year and thanked the Sisters and us profusely. This was a true adventure and experience in which I, and the other AWBers, learned a lot from.
~ Jenny Shub is from Puerto Rico and is now a sophomore at Emory University. | to those who could not share it with their families. The teens of AWB had been split up and assigned to either one of two old-age homes or work at a homeless shelter. My first request was the soup kitchen, and it was granted.
Upon arrival, grateful nuns welcomed us, thanked us for joining and gave us a tour of operations. The work the institution does and the services they provide are incredible. They attend to many of the less fortunate and restore the faith these persons had lost throughout their hardships. The organization helps first-time homeowners, provides medical attention, provides hygienic services, and, on weekdays from 12pm to 1pm, lunch.
After the tour, we AWBers gathered in the kitchen. We made an assembly line and got packing. We made over 100 plates to serve. As the guests waited on line to get their food, myself and other participants struck conversations with them and sung songs for the time of year. Once everyone got their food, participants moved to the eating area and conversed with the guests again.
Questions were flying in the atmosphere; stories were being exchanged. I had spoken to a couple – whose relationship status was unidentified – who had traveled from Texas to Florida, and everywhere in between. They seemed grateful for the company.
Next, I spoke to a man from Virginia and discussed the difference between Virginia and West Virginia. We had an intense and informative American History session.
The last man I spoke to seemed to be on his way out, in which I wished him a "Happy New Year." He stopped to chat however – which I did not expect. I asked how he liked the food, and from there we got to my pesquetarianism (vegetarian, but I eat fish). He seemed genuinely concerned with my health, thinking that it was in danger due to my lack of consumption of meat. He was quite relieved when I told him I ate fish.
We talked about languages, about the city of New Orleans (particularly the French Quarter and its history), but most of all, food. He must have "blessed" me ten times, asking God to have me eat meat. He explained where he lived, in the Swamp, where he had learned at 13how to kill a snake, eat it, and use it as a belt. He wanted to "go out on the town" with us, so he could show us the city, but we strategically avoided the arrangement. He thanked me for talking to him and went on his way.
Talking to the faithful people at Lantern Light was wonderful – the guests were very thankful for the meal they were | 535 |
This Week in Tokyo – 2 February 2021
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Welcome to 'This Week in Tokyo', a review of the Maction Planet week that was and a look ahead to what's coming up in the city. Hosted by Mac, our Founder and Lead Guide, you can check out photos from our tours and read insights into our explorations as we get under the skin of the World's Greatest Metropolis, and beyond! This week: Setsubun 2021; WandaVision hits Shibuya; Panda Onigiri make Mac smile; When you're overqualified for the job and Nyango Star x Judas Priest.
Setsubun 2021: Setsubun is a Japanese festival that marks the end of winter. The next day, the start of spring, was traditionally considered the start of the year. For more on the range of festivities that accompany the day, check out our 'Ode to Setsubun.'
Setsubun has typially been celebrated on 3 February for decades. However, in 2021, it falls on 2 February.
The traditional Japanese calendar divides the year into 24 sekki. The first of these is Risshun (the beginning of spring), which often starts on 4 February.
The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan calculates the moment that Risshun begins. They have announced that in 2021 it will take place at 23:59 on 3 February. There are 365.242189 days in a solar year vs. 365 days in the calendar year. Even accounting for leap years, a small difference remains. This is why Setsubun sometimes occurs on 2 or 4 February.
1984 was the last time Setsubun fell on 4 February. However, the last '2 February' Setsubun was in 1897! Due to the discrepancy described above, Setsubun will be celebrated on 2 February every four years for several decades.
Unfortunately, many shrines and temples have cancelled their Setsubun celebrations this year. However, as always, we have you covered. Check out these videos of Setsubun 2019 on the Maction Planet YouTube to experience the fun in Full HD glory!
Thank you to Yayu Wang from Yayaland Studio for the incredible featured photo, perfectly capturing all the at-home Setsubun traditions.
WandaVision hits Shibuya: Living suburban lives, the protagonists begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
No, I'm not talking to you, reader, regarding your 2020. I've just described the overarching plot of 'WandaVision', the new show on Disney+ set in the continuity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
This billboard, advertising the show, is in Hachiko Square, right next to world-famous Shibuya Crossing. In keeping with the insane world that Wanda and Vision occupy, you would, under 'normal' circumstances, expect this to be one of the busiest spots<|fim_middle|> our adventures on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Mixcloud and YouTube. | in the World's Greatest Metropolis and impossible for me to snap a clear shot like this. However, on Thursday lunchtime, it was so empty that I had to wait for someone to walk across in order to give the photo more character!
The building behind the billboard is the Tokyu Toyoko department store, which is being demolished as part of the ongoing 20-year redevelopment of Shibuya Station and its environs. For more on that project, and to see incredible art which plastered the walls of the Tokyu Toyoko department store during its last 3 days of opening, check out the video below:
Panda Onigiri make Mac smile: Super cute! I'll leave it at that…
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When you're overqualified for the job: This cat, guarding the moneybox at Gokokuji Temple on Sunday, was in a state of quiet alertness, ready to pounce at any moment. Thieves watch out!
Nyango Star x Judas Priest: Fresh off topping Ultimate Guitar's ranking of the 25 Most Underrated Drummers, we present a masterclass from the half-cat-half-apple, Nyango Star, in this exclusive footage from Maction Planet. Nyango Star is a yuru-chara (mascot) from Kuroishi City, Aomori prefecture Japan. In this video, he drums to Painkiller by Judas Priest at Nassyi Fes in Jingu Gaien on 14 July 2018. There's also a bonus cover of "Apple Talking to Itself' by TOKIOHEIDI. Very apt! Enjoy, and while you are there please subscribe to the channel! You'll make our, and (we assume) Nyango Star's, day!
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I should also tell you that one of the trainees reached out to me tonight to tell me how heartbreaking it was to see these adorable dogs begging for walks (many don't get out).
We cannot rest on our laurels with this group of 20 today. Please spread the<|fim_middle|>'s brown snake. She did and said that was what it was, a brown snake, and decided not to kill it but put in the woods. Yeah!
Dickinson Jewelers and its communities in Dunkirk and Prince Frederick raised $1,405 to aid the efforts of the Humane Society of Calvert County in finding every animal a forever home during the fourth annual pet adoption event.
With the help of numerous volunteers and families across Calvert County a generous amount of donations were made in both stores. The donation boxes overflowed with blankets, paper towels, canned dog food and chew toys to benefit the daily needs of the Humane Society of Calvert County.
Sincere thanks for joining this community event in support of the Humane Society of Calvert County.
Visit www.humanesocietyofcalvertcounty.org to find pets available for adoption as well as more information on your local Humane Society.
Perhaps like the birds and the trees you read the atmospheric signals: the darkening of the days, the illumination of the nights with Christmas lights, then, when the lights go out, the blackness of the sky dotted by semaphores of light we long to interpret.
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LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:
From NPR NEWS, this is WEEKEND EDITION. I'm Linda Wer<|fim_middle|> Will Shortz. So, Amy, are you familiar with the Indigo Girls?
Ms. HARTSHORN: I am, and I'm thrilled about all the presents.
WERTHEIMER: Not to mention, the lapel pin, of course.
Ms. HARTSHORN: That's right. That's right.
WERTHEIMER: So, Amy, what is your public radio station?
Ms. HARTSHORN: WHYY.
WERTHEIMER: That's in Philadelphia.
Ms. HARTSHORN: In Philadelphia.
WERTHEIMER: Amy Hartshorn from Wayne, Pennsylvania. Thank you very, very much for playing the puzzle with us.
Ms. HARTSHORN: Thank you.
WERTHEIMER: So, what's the challenge for next week?
SHORTZ: Yes, take the phrase, more corruptness, M-O-R-E C-O-R-R-U-P-T-N-E-S-S, rearrange these 15 letters to name a popular magazine. And it's a magazine this phrase definitely does not apply to. So this is more of an anti-gram than an anagram.
WERTHEIMER: Huh.
SHORTZ: So, again, the phrase is, more corruptness. Rearrange these 15 letters to name a popular magazine. What is it?
WERTHEIMER: When you have the answer, go to our Web site npr.org/puzzle and click on Submit Your Answer. Only one entry per person, please. Our deadline is early this week. It is Wednesday at 3 p.m. Eastern Time. And please include a telephone number where we can reach you at about that time. We'll call if you're the winner, and then you'll get to play puzzle on the air with the puzzle editor of The New York Times and WEEKEND EDITION's Puzzlemaster Will Shortz. Will, thanks very much.
SHORTZ: Thanks a lot, Linda. | theimer sitting in for Liane Hansen. And joining us is Puzzlemaster Will Shortz. Hi, Will.
WILL SHORTZ: Hi, Linda.
WERTHEIMER: Now, before we get to the woman who's going to play the puzzle with us, we have some news for puzzle fans. Late this summer, NPR will release a CD of special puzzle moments from our show. And we want to put the word out that we need to hear about your favorites. Now, Will, I know for example that you liked the puzzle years and years ago when Edie McClurg was the player. Could you tell us about that? She's a sitcom actress.
SHORTZ: Actress, yes, sitcoms, also films. She was my all-time favorite player. And I gave her a puzzle in which every answer had lots of Ks.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Ms. EDIE MCCLURG (Actress): (unintelligible)
SHORTZ: How about a detective, famous bald detective?
Ms. MCCLURG: Oh, Kojack, of course.
SHORTZ: Kojack. A kind of kid's joke?
Ms. MCCLURG: Knock-knock.
SHORTZ: Uh-huh. And your last one, a toughie, TV character once played by Edie McClurg.
Ms. MCCLURG: Oh my god. It starts with K?
SHORTZ: Uh-huh.
Ms. MCCLURG: Venus Kallikak.
SHORTZ: Kallikak is correct.
Ms. MCCLURG: Oh.
Unidentified Woman: I can't believe you did that.
WERTHEIMER: And that was funny the way she hesitated. I mean she couldn't, she didn't get it for a second.
SHORTZ: It took her a moment to get her own character's name.
WERTHEIMER: And then, here's another one that I understand you like. It was a puzzle about - this is one I would not like - things in a purse.
Ms. CHRISTINE LAVIN (Musician): Money.
SHORTZ: Money, yes.
Ms. LAVIN: Underwear. You don't know how I live. Don't judge me.
SHORTZ: I was going for umbrella, but okay.
Ms. LAVIN: Crackers.
SHORTZ: Crackers? You have the most interesting purse.
Ms. LAVIN: I travel all the time.
SHORTZ: Most people would say cigarettes, credit cards, cough drops, checkbook. But okay, crackers. Now we need S and I.
Ms. LAVIN: Wait a minute. I've got my purse right here.
(Soundbite of rattling pill bottle)
Ms. LAVIN: Oh, Aspirin. No.
Unidentified Woman: Ibuprofen.
Ms. LAVIN: Oh, yes.
SHORTZ: Oh, excellent.
SHORTZ: Well, that was another celebrity guest. It was Christine Lavin, the singer. And the category was things in a purse. And my favorite part was when she got out her purse and jiggled it so we could hear her searching for answers.
WERTHEIMER: And hear all that rattling as well. So, if you have a favorite puzzle moment that you remember from our show, please help us out. Post them on our blog, npr.org/soapbox.
Now, onto the business at hand, Will, could you please remind us of the challenge you left us with last week?
SHORTZ: Yes. It came from listener Jack Lechner of New York City. I said, take the name of a country, change its first letter to a D, then read the whole thing backward and the result will be a creature that lives in that country. What is it?
WERTHEIMER: What is the answer?
SHORTZ: The answer is Brazil. Read it backward with a D and you get lizard.
WERTHEIMER: That is just so extraordinary.
WERTHEIMER: I mean, that somebody would think of that. Is there more than one?
SHORTZ: No. And if there were more than one I think we would've heard from listeners.
WERTHEIMER: We would've heard. Yes, because we received about 2,300 correct entries to the challenge. And our randomly selected winner is on the telephone, Amy Hartshorn from Wayne, Pennsylvania. Amy, hello.
Ms. AMY HARTSHORN: Hi.
WERTHEIMER: Amy, what do you do in Pennsylvania?
Ms. HARTSHORN: I'm a lawyer. And right now I'm on a contract project at one of the big firms in Philadelphia.
WERTHEIMER: Do you think a career in the law has prepared you for puzzling?
Ms. HARTSHORN: Well, I'd like to think so.
WERTHEIMER: Okay, Will, meet Amy. And let's play.
SHORTZ: All right, Amy and Linda. Every answer today is the name of a popular magazine. I'll provide anagrams of the titles, you name the magazines. For example, if I said weird, W-E-I-R-D, you would say Wired. And, by the way, I want to mention that the May issue of Wired is very cool. It's called the mystery issue, contains original puzzles by lots of different people, including one by yours truly.
Okay, here's number one, item, I-T-E-M. What magazine title is that a scramble of?
Ms. HARTSHORN: Oh, Time.
SHORTZ: Time is right. Number two is laurel, L-A-U-R-E-L.
WERTHEIMER: This is something I'm really no good at.
SHORTZ: Well, this is a women's magazine.
WERTHEIMER: Mm-hmm. I'm still not getting it.
Ms. HARTSHORN: Oh, Allure?
WERTHEIMER: There you go.
SHORTZ: Allure. Good. Here's your next one, adrape, A-D-R-A-P-E.
WERTHEIMER: And the first letter is?
SHORTZ: Well, I'll tell you, it's a magazine that might come with your Sunday newspaper.
WERTHEIMER: Oh, okay.
Ms. HARTSHORN: Parade.
SHORTZ: Parade is right. Queries, Q-U-E-R-I-E-S.
Ms. HARTSHORN: Esquire.
SHORTZ: Esquire. Good. Ten four, T-E-N F-O-U-R.
Ms. HARTSHORN: Fortune.
SHORTZ: Good. Sharper, S-H-A-R-P-E-R.
Ms. HARTSHORN: Harper's.
SHORTZ: Harper's is it. Good one.
WERTHEIMER: Okay.
SHORTZ: Try this one, brooked, B-R-O-O—K-E-D. And this one is a women's magazine. First letter is R.
Ms. HARTSHORN: Oh, Redbook.
SHORTZ: Redbook is it. Entraps, E-N-T-R-A-P-S. First letter is P, as in Peter.
WERTHEIMER: Is this a really hard puzzle or is it just us?
Ms. HARTSHORN: Oh, Parents?
SHORTZ: Parents is it, good. Senesce, S-E-N-E-S-C-E?
WERTHEIMER: I know this one.
Ms. HARTSHORN: S-E-N-E…
SHORTZ: S-C-E. Senesce, as in to…
Ms. HARTSHORN: Oh, Essence?
SHORTZ: Essence, good. And here's your last one. And it's a two word one. Your clue is modern tort, which I think sounds like a title of a magazine for lawyers. And the answer is a two-word name, five, five. Modern tort. And the subject is cars. How about if I tell you the initials of the magazine's name are M, T.
WERTHEIMER: Just like…
Ms. HARTSHORN: Oh, Motor…
SHORTZ: Yes, yeah. And the first letter is T in that second word.
Ms. HARTSHORN: Motor Trend?
SHORTZ: Motor Trend is correct. Good job.
Ms. HARTSHORN: Oh, whew, wiping my brow.
WERTHEIMER: Some of these, you know, some of these are just easy to - they just pop into your head and sometimes they just don't.
WERTHEIMER: But Amy, thank you so much for playing the puzzle with us.
Ms. HARTSHORN: Well, thanks for having me.
WERTHEIMER: Now, we have a couple of special musical guests to tell you what you win.
Ms. EMILY SALIERS (Musician, Indigo Girls): One, two, ready, and…
Ms. SALIERS: Hi, I'm Emily from the Indigo Girls.
Ms. AMY RAY (Musician, Indigo Girls): Hi, I'm Amy from the Indigo Girls.
Ms. SALIERS: For playing the puzzle today, you'll get a WEEKEND EDITION lapel pin.
Ms. RAY: The 11th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Ms. SALIERS: The Scrabble Deluxe Edition from Parker Brothers. The "Puzzlemaster Presents" from Random House Volume 2.
Ms. RAY: Will Shortz's latest book series, "Will Shortz Presents KenKen," Volumes 1, 2 and 3 from St. Martin's Press.
Ms. SALIERS: And one of Will Shortz's "Puzzlemaster Decks of Riddles and Challenges" from Chronicle Books.
WERTHEIMER: Thank you both very, very much.
Ms. RAY: Oh, we love Will Shortz.
Ms. SALIERS: We love Will Shortz.
SHORTZ: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
WERTHEIMER: How about that?
SHORTZ: Oh man.
WERTHEIMER: The Indigo Girls, they love | 2,132 |
Monroe High got off to a great start Monday night in the Class A volleyball District<|fim_middle|>trip of Monroe shot his second career hole-in-one Saturday on the 185-yard 17th hole at Green Meadows Golf Course. He used a 2-hybrid. | at Saline.
SALINE ? Monroe High got off to a great start Monday night in the Class A volleyball District at Saline.
Coach Corey Ness? Trojans swept Ypsilanti Lincoln 25-8, 25-14, 25-11.
Becca Alexander had 12 kills, Elise Zawacki 8 kills, Christine Tylutki 32 assists and Alex Stein 27 digs and 6 aces.
Monroe (13-22-6) advances to play Saline at about 8 p.m. Wednesday on the Hornets? home court. Bedford and Milan meet in the opener at 6 p.m. The final is at 7 p.m. Saturday.
University of Detroit Mercy?s Abby McCollum was named Monday to the Horizon League all-conference women?s soccer team.
The junior forward from Monroe shares the team lead in points with 4 goals and 3 assists as the Titans finished as co-league champions.
Last year McCollum led UDM with 6 goals and 8 assists and was the team?s Co-MVP. She also was named to the Horizon League Newcomer Team as a freshman.
She is the daughter of Becky and Charles McCollum.
The 9-6-1 Titans will play in the Horizon League tournament semifinals at 5 p.m. Friday in Milwaukee, Wis.
MACOMB ? Trinity Lutheran sixth-grader KC Thornton won the Grade 6-under two-mile race with a new overall girls state record of 12:41 Saturday in the Lutheran State Cross Country Championships at Lutheran North.
Madison Vore took third in the same race in 14:04.
Trinity?s Zac Jenkins placed fourth in the grade 7-8 race in 12:48.
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2020 Vintage Port: Noval, Fladgate, and Symington releases
By David Williams
Photography by iStock / Getty Images Plus
Quinta do Noval, Taylor's, and the Symington Family have all announced releases of 2020 Vintage Port.
The run of great Vintage Port years had to come to an end at some point. But if 2020 proved to be a difficult year in the Douro for a variety of reasons—not to mention being the smallest vintage of the 21st century so far—leading shippers have nonetheless used the traditional St George's date of April 23 to declare small quantities of 2020 Vintage Port.
Graham's Bicentenary Edition Vintage Port
Among the most intriguing of the 2020 Vintage Port announcements so far is a pair from the Symington Family.
Both releases, from Graham's and Warre's, are limited-edition special bottlings that celebrate significant anniversaries.
Graham's 2020 Bicentenary Edition Vintage Port is sourced from high altitude and northwest-facing vines in three of Graham's four estates.
The blend includes co-fermented Touriga Nacional and Touriga Franca, co-fermented Sousão and Touriga Nacional (from the stone terraces of Quinta dos Malvedos), old mixed vines, and Alicante Bouschet.
It is described by the Symingtons as "Opulent, intense, and fresh … with a unique aromatic complexity and beautifully layered fruit."
A total of 3,000 bottles (75cl), dressed with the traditional Graham's Vintage Port label used on such vintages as 1963 and 1970, have been released en primeur in 2022.
Warre's 2020 Vinhas Velhas 350th Anniversary Edition Vintage Port
Warre's 2020 Vinhas Velhas 350th Anniversary Edition Vintage Port is produced from deep-rooted, horse-ploughed, 80-to-100-year-0ld vines, some of the family's oldest, at the Warre's estates<|fim_middle|> released En Primeur in 2022.
Dow's 2020 Quinta do Bonfim
Alongside the two limited editions, the Symington will also be releasing small quantities of its Single Quinta Vintage Port, Dow's Quinta do Bonfim.
Located in the Cima Corgo—which the Symingtons believe was the best-performing of the Douro's sub-regions in 2020—Quinta do Bonfim has yielded a wine that is particularly marked by Touriga Franca, which did well in 2020.
The wine has "concentrated black fruit, balanced by a shaft of acidity and Dow's signature long dry finish," the Symingtons said.
"2020 was an especially challenging year in the Douro," said Symington head winemaker, Charles Symington.
"The region saw record heatwaves which substantially reduced yields compared to our initial forecasts—around 40 percent down.
"Grape varieties that usually ripen sequentially needed to be picked at the same time. We adapted to the conditions and picked parcels by their altitude and co-fermented select varieties together, producing incredibly complex and concentrated wines.
"I am very proud of the two limited Graham's and Warre's 2020 Vintage Ports. These wines demonstrate the benefit of our family's multi-generational knowledge of our estates and their microclimates, allowing us to produce such elegant wines in a year like 2020.
"I believe they are a fitting tribute to Graham's 200 years and Warre's 350 years and are destined to take their place among the greatest Vintage Ports from these two historic Port houses."
Taylor's 2020 Quinta de Vargellas
For the Fladgate Partnership, the "extreme conditions" of 2020 will be marked by the release of a Single Quinta Vintage Port from the celebrated Taylor's property, Quinta de Vargellas.
The Port is described by Taylor's as having an "intense, dark inky purple color with a very expressive nose of pure woodland fruit, hints of black cherries, raspberries, and a touch of liquorice.
"The floral notes, very much the hallmark of a Vargellas Vintage Port are prominent, as are the delicate violet fragrances which combine beautifully with the structured, berry fruit flavous.
"The linear tannins provide plenty of grip and attractive austerity to the profile of the wine. A harmonious, balanced and fine Vargellas Vintage Port."
Some 2,500 cases of the Port will be released "at a later date" with Taylor's managing director Adrian Bridge saying the company is "delighted" with the wine, "which shows the elegance and structure that we associate with this excellent property."
Quinta do Noval, Nacional, and Quinta da Romaneira
As has become traditional under the ownership of AXA Millésimes and the leadership of managing director, Christian Seely, Quinta do Noval has made a declaration for both Quinta do Noval Vintage Port and Quinta do Noval Nacional Vintage Port 2020.
"2020 was a hot and dry year, with a prolonged ripening period throughout the summer that led to an early harvest, as the grapes became fully ripe by early September," Seely said.
"The resulting wines are extremely rich and powerful, voluminous, sensual, with great density. Tannic structure is immense, but with remarkable finesse.
"We were aware from the beginning that the Nacional was outstanding, and the wine has developed wonderfully since the harvest.
"The Quinta do Noval Vintage is an unusually powerful and rich style for Quinta do Noval, but nevertheless retains the purity and freshness of Pinhão valley fruit that are typical of Noval wines."
Seely also declared a Vintage Port from his own estate: Quinta da Romaneira 2020 Vintage Port.
"The final blend, at 833 cases, represents a very small proportion of the total production of our 86-ha (213-acre) vineyard, and around 15 percent of our total Port production in 2020," Seely said.
"As always, selections were strict. The varieties are Touriga Nacional (60%); Touriga Francesa (34%), and Sousao (6%).
"Romaneira Vintage Ports are known for their elegance and seductive charm, and this is no exception.
"Nevertheless there is an exceptional intensity and profundity to the 2020 wine that makes it one of the most outstanding Vintage Ports we have ever produced."
David Williams is the deputy editor of The World of Fine Wine | of Quinta da Cavadinha and Quinta do Retiro.
The mixed vines have average yields that are up to a third of the usual for Vintage Port: a mere 310g per vine, or three vines per bottle, compared to the usual one vine per bottle.
According to the Symingtons, "The wine is intensely fruit-driven with unparalleled concentration and elegance that belies the conditions of the year."
A total of 2,400 bottles (75cl) are being | 103 |
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Our resolution addressed each of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 and covered areas including education, well being and civic empowerment as well as circularity, transparency and pollution. Following our presentation (which you can read in full below) Lise Kingo, Executive Director of the United Nations Global Impact invited us to present our resolution at the UN Global Compact Leader Summit in New York during the UN General Assembly. Kingo emphasised the need for a future where "sustainable business is mainstream business" and reminded us of our responsibility<|fim_middle|> the industry wake-up to the urgent for change. From the all the speakers, the message I took from the summit was the time for action is now.
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English Intellectual Antecedents to United States Prison Systems
The wiki article more fully articulates the intellectual history that accompanied the documents in this category, but in the main they are intended to demonstrate the evolution of incarceration, as a form of criminal punishment, in English penology--a potent intellectual source for prison efforts in the United States. The first document, the Statute of Laborers, is an early English vagrancy law that made "idleness" (i.e., unemployment) a status crime. Since English criminologists of the fourteenth and later centuries believed that "idleness" was the cause of crime itself, the punishments for vagrancy laws began to bleed into criminal jurisprudence more generally.
By 1530, English subjects convicted of leading a "Rogishe or Vagabonds Trade or Lyfe" were subject to whipping and mutilation, and recidivists could face the death penalty. During the reign of the Tudors, in the mid-sixteenth century, authorities in London, and then elsewhere in England, began to sentence vagrants to terms of imprisonment in a new institution--the workhouse. Thomas More's Utopia (1516), excerpted below, parses some of the intellectual principles that were at work in England's shift to "penal servitude." More's arguments in favor of penal slavery presaged a gradual yet broad shift to the workhouse as the primary means of criminal punishment in England, which took place over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and accelerated as England lost control of the territories where it had practiced convict transportation.
As the house of correction became more central to English criminal jurisprudence, philanthropist reformers like Samuel Denne and rationalist reformers like Jeremy Bentham began to theorize about refinements to the penal regime in these institutions. Reflecting contemporary reform ideals, both conceived of an institution where prisoners were rehabilitate through solitary confinement and strong discipline--albeit for very divergent ideological reasons. Denne's Letter to Lord Ladbroke (1771) advocates for increased use of solitary confinement in English prisons as a means of bringing convicts back to religious morality. Bentham's "Panopticon" was designed to permit a limited number of prison staff to monitor and control their criminal charges to the utmost in a rational and efficient manner.
All of these documents reveal, in the words of historian Adam J. Hirsch, the "antiquity, continuity, and durability" of rehabilitative incarceration ideology in Anglo-American criminal law.
Statute of Laborers (1351).
Excerpt from Thomas More, Utopia (1516).
Letter from Philanthropist Reformer Samuel Denne to Sir Robert Ladbroke Concerning the Necessity for Solitary Confinement in English Penal Institutions (1771).
Jeremy Bentham, Schematic for the "Panopticon" Prison (1785).
Jacksonian American Prison Reform
Jacksonian prison reform efforts followed a wave of statutory reform in the wake of the Revolutionary War that focused on curbing the corporal and capital punishments of the English penal code in favor of incarceration. But post-revolutionary reformers paid relatively little attention to the internal workings of their prisons. When statutory reform alone failed to reduce criminality in the expanding and increasingly mobile United States population of the early national period, civic reform organizations--like Philadelphia's Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons and the Boston Prison Discipline Society--emerged with a new approach. Both Societies--as well the vast majority of like-minded contemporary organizations--advocated for a more robust institutional response to crime in the form of the penitentiary.
The penitentiary was intended to provide convicted criminals with a sanitized moral environment, in which they would reflect on their sins and learn new habits in near-total silence, and without any knowledge of the outside world. The Boston and Philadelphia Societies both advocated for such a system; their only major point of disagreement, and the source of a major rift in early nineteenth-century penal reform efforts across the United States, was whether inmates should spend the entirety of their sentences in solitary confinement or be permitted to work (silently) in groups during the day. The Philadelphia Society supported perpetual solitude (and at great cost, since its model Eastern State Penitentiary, built in the early 1830s for the then-astronomical sum of $750,000). The Boston Society supported the "congregate" system in use at New York Auburn prison, where inmates worked in silent groups during the day. Ultimately, the Boston Society and the "congregate" system won out--largely for economic reasons.
The vast majority of penal reform during the antebellum period was driven by civic organizations like the Boston Society, whose tireless founder Louis Dwight engaged in an exhaustive campaign on behalf of the Auburn system. The documents below are notable for their grandiloquent prose as much as for their ideas. But both reflect the optimism that infected early penitentiary reform efforts, which at least a few supporters believed would<|fim_middle|>Design_for_Panopticon_(1785) props, move 350.4 K 04 Jan 2013 - 21:21 AndersPauley Bentham's Schematic for the Panopticon Prison (1785)
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_(1771).pdf props, move 2865.9 K 04 Jan 2013 - 21:20 AndersPauley Letter from English Philanthropist Reformer Samuel Denne Re: Utility of Solitary Confinement
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r3 - 10 Jan 2013 - 14:46:19 - AndersPauley | virtually eradicate crime. Though historian Adam J. Hirsch makes convincing arguments that Jacksonian prison reformers were not completely starry-eyed over their designs, these reformers were engaged in constant and bitter P.R. battles with their adversaries, and their official writings betray little hint of cynicism toward their proposed reforms.
Rev. D.D. Jenks, Boston Prison Discipline Society, Memoir of the Reverend Louis Dwight (1856).
Boston Prison Discipline Society, First Annual Report (1826).
Reconstruction-Era Prison Reform
The documents below reflect the paradoxical strains of Reconstruction-Era penological thought. On the one hand, documents like the National Congress' Declaration of Principles evoke a progressive optimism about the potential for rehabilitation of the individual. On the other hand, Charle Loring Brace's "Introduction" to The Dangerous Classes evokes the cynicism of contemporary "science" on race, heredity, and deviancy. It was during this period that the notion of a "dangerous class" posing a threat to society at large became a set one in American political and cultural discourse.
These opposing strains of thought do much to explain the brutal failings of prison administration during the Reconstruction Era--in both the North and the South--as well as the general socio-political apathy that permitted these failings to continue unabated. In essence, the new hopes that penologists of the day held for rehabilitation were reserved for a limited number of persons with certain genetic and racial traits. For those who fell outside of these narrow criteria--blacks, foreign immigrants, and the physically and mentally disabled--prison became a place for incapacitation, torture, and in some cases forced sterilization. The infamous "Black Codes" of the Reconstruction Era--Mississippi's version can be found below--were simply a more overt implementation of the driving penology of the period.
National Congress of Prison and Reformatory Discipline, Declaration of Principles (1870).
Charles Loring Brace, "Introduction" to The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them (1876).
Text of Mississippi "Black Code" (1866).
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Last year, having been invited to participate in a public discussion of the poet H.D., I decided to explore H.D.'s fictional works, virtually none of which appeared during her lifetime. Many of these, even just ten years ago, were available only to scholars willing to visit the Beinecke at Yale, where most of her manuscripts and papers are housed. But almost everything's in print now.
Though I admire H.D.'s poems, I did not expect my prose project to be pleasurable, and it wasn't. I don't know how many of her novels and novellas I read, but I found all of them (with one exception, dealt with below) annoying. Mainly they are exactly what people mean by "self-indulgent." The reader is exposed to the spectacle of the writer hunting around for a style worthy of her personal melodrama. Inefficiency and joyless obscurity abound. Even the one I liked is not a great book or anything.
But none of this matters. I say I didn't find the project pleasurable, but I did find it engrossing. I became very invested in coming to some kind of reckoning with H.D.'s personality, mainly because I saw that over the years I've known and been friends with quite a few H.D.s—at least four. The key difference being that the H.D.s in my life could never have written any of H.D.'s mature poetry. But all of them could have written her novels. Except for Bid Me to Live.
The public discussion came and went, and I have not stopped reading H.D. I can't wait till this semester is over so I can read some of these satellite materials that keep getting themselves mentioned in footnotes.
Anyhow, what follows is merely a set of hints and ideas and judgments I've been accumulating. Call it "H.D. Notebook: Part I." I'll post Part 2 in June.
Result? Ten people in the seminar, ten Sea Garden poems—all of 'em different, all of 'em more or less unmistakably written by H.D. in 1915. Apparently we had hit upon the right recipe.
This kind of thing would never work in a million years with Trilogy or Helen in Egypt. That it worked with Sea Garden makes me uneasy. The same thing could be done with my poems.
Lots of people read Sea Garden, then stop. This, even though they weren't fatigued or annoyed. They liked the book, but they go no further. I have a hypothesis as to why.
It's what happened to me with the first Smiths record. I intuited it would always be better simply to listen to The Smiths again rather than move on to whatever their second record was called, because (a) it seemed medically impossible the next album was going to be better and (b) in some sense, I always had unfinished business with the first album. I hadn't sufficiently digested it.
Sea Garden is like that. The poems are so similar to each other that you get the idea no growth is possible. And the poems are so pregnant with meaning, one never feels one has done them justice simply by reading them. One never really "knows one's way around" Sea Garden.
I don't like biographies wherein the subject has no stupid ideas, is never self-deceived, and is never a source of legitimate grievance to anyone. To watch a biographer protect her subject from<|fim_middle|> traits that seldom come together: narcissism (intense self-fascination, intense self-approval) and what I want to call personal pacifism—the unwillingness to fight with (or ever to interfere with) others. She simply never attacks anyone or anything for any reason. Not with malice, not with ideas, not with helpfulness. It's just not her way. And it's not because she's sweet; she wasn't. Anyone who thinks she was nice should read her novel Hermione (sometimes called HERmione and sometimes called Her). But this is what I'm saying. Most people who are as not nice as she was end up Susan Sontagging their way through life, dogmatizing and being contradicted, battling their way in and out of people's consciousness.
The mystery, the membrane-irritating mystery, is how someone with H.D.'s resources of elitism and self-love manages not to be aggressive.
She was a believer; she was born to believe. Anything ancient. Anything that looked like hieroglyphics, including a Ouija board. She was the kind of person who, in the car on the way to her wedding, might see a sign advertising a shoe outlet: WHY PAY MORE? DON'T DO IT! That "don't do it" could cause her to pull over and have a long, panicked, tearful meditation.
Any kind of chance homonymy. A pear tree would also necessarily be a "pair" tree. Hmm. Pair of what. Also people should consider carefully before they call a place "Pennsylvania." Sylvania—woods. Hmm.
She really was like this. Horoscopes, séances. Egyptological crapola in every flavor. And yet: mysticism doesn't have any kind of sustained presence in any of her books except The Sword Went Out to Sea and Magic Ring, neither of which were published in her lifetime (not that she didn't try).
It's like with Pound's fascism. It was supposedly so important to him, but the Cantos, if you actually bother to read them, are like a gallon jar of jelly beans with six or seven evil licorice ones in the whole jar. I never know what to make of this. It's certainly not that he was ashamed to own his views in front of the public. H.D.'s case—the shyness surrounding her mysticism—is probably easier to understand.
The most presentable face of her will-to-believe was Freudian psychoanalysis, a thing about which she knew quite a lot, having had no small number of sessions with Sigmund Freud himself. She regarded herself as one of his star pupils. | all negative interpretations, and even from the other characters in the story—this is a most unedifying spectacle.
Janice Robinson sheltering H.D. from Pound, for instance. Or urging H.D. into hand-holding with D. H. Lawrence. Massaging facts so they can have gone to bed, those two exotic, beautiful creatures. Caroline Zilboorg explaining away four fifths of Richard Aldington's character, so his marriage with H.D. can be viewed as a deep and mutually rewarding enterprise. And of course trashing Bryher.
Standing very far apart from those two is Barbara Guest's biography (Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World, 1985). Guest, whose own poetry I find unreadable, plays perfectly (to my mind) the part of the mature critic. She respects H.D., but H.D. is not her darling. Guest's tone is that appropriate to a conversation between friends A and B about absent friend C, whom they both love—but.
That, anyway, is the conversation I want to overhear. Not two people trashing a third, but two people soberly comparing notes, the better to understand the yes and the no of the person.
The photo on the back of Zilboorg's Richard Aldington and H.D.: Their Lives in Letters (2003) is almost too vulnerable to mention. A naked Richard Aldington, sitting in surf, fused with a photo of naked H.D., standing in what looks like the same water but which is actually a path through some woods. The original photos are provided in the book. Cropped out: the naked woman with whom Aldington was actually bathing, also the fact that Aldington was three thousand miles away when the H.D. photo was snapped.
A great many people felt the need to record and publish their impressions of H.D. during her lifetime. It's stimulating that these works were, generally speaking, satirical. The most famous of these is William Carlos Williams's bits about H.D. in his Autobiography (1951). He makes her out to be the kind of drama-queeny yo-yo who lifts her arms as it's beginning to rain and says, "Come, beautiful rain!" and insists on getting drenched.
She seems to have inspired rather a lot of this kind of portraiture. Lawrence put some ineffectual, indecisive, thwarted version of her into Aaron's Rod; John Cournos (who had also been a close friend) wrote a whole satirical novel about her (Miranda Masters, 1926); and even Frances Gregg, who was supposedly the female love of H.D.'s life (I forget who says this, but I pretty much buy it) wrote, in tandem with her husband, some long piece of fictional nastiness about H.D. Can't remember the title; it's hard to keep track of all this.
Seems everyone in her private life treated her roughly at some point, but the three people who at least never treated her roughly in public writing are Pound, Aldington, and Bryher. These last two genuinely revered her, thought she was a "genius" and all that crap. Surprisingly, only Pound seems to have declined to satirize her simply because he had better things to do. Or maybe she just somehow didn't annoy him as much as she annoyed other people. She drove Aldington and Bryher up the wall and into the chandelier.
Actually, I feel like underscoring a point very easy to miss. You can say what you like about Pound; at least he never wrote a roman à clef. Everyone else in that circle wrote a bunch of 'em. H.D. herself wrote at least six.
Part of why she made everybody crazy is she combined two | 788 |
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The Union Station in Denver is become the fulcrum of Denver, after a masterly restoration and re-evaluation. It's impossible not to pass by here and above all not come back to spend a bit of one's own time in its atmosphere.
Denver Union Station is not only a station, not only a passage place, not only a place of waiting. It's a mix of all this and much more.
You reach it easily from the Denver International Airport by the Airport Rail Line in 37 minutes with $9.
It's in the heart of Denver. It boasts a wide and famous choice of places, cafés, restaurants an stores where to get lost: from particular souvenirs to the local handicraft, the florist, the Terminal Bar, to the wonderful Tattered Covered Book Store branch.
Speaking of which, don't forget to go for a stroll in the historic seat in the 16th street. A charming and not to miss place.
Each of these places recalls the train, whether it is a huge mural (like at Snooze's) or something much more discreet and particular.
At Denver Union Station is simply beautiful to sit in the great central room to look around.
Of course it's a room with quick and working Wi-Fi (you connect to it with a click), recharge positions and sockets.
There are people studying, talking, meeting, waiting, watching. A myriad of eclectic characters to watch, taking a bit of that time always lacks travelling.
Some people even play a very particular game with the fiches: you'll admire them at the two huge tables provided at the center of the main room.
Inside Denver Union station it's possible to take part, too, into organized tours which last one hour about, to discover many unknown curious issues about this place.
There's also a Visit Denver desk to help travellers planning their own stay.
The whole theme of old days journey is recovered with a masterly skill in this station: from the welcome to the hospitality, to the care of details like the very beautiful original plan of the station which are hung to the walls along the stairs.
Do you know that the 105th terrestrial meridian passes right through the Union Station?
The California Zephyr, realized by Amtrak, is described by travellers like one of the most beautiful journey by train in the whole North America. It's possible to get on right here. There's a separate check-in desk and a baggage service similar to the airport's one.
What's the route of California Zephyr? Here it is: Chicago-Denver-Glenwood<|fim_middle|> 4000 international newspapers usable by guests.
Every room has one or more vintage advertising or original furniture historic pieces.
The loft rooms are divide into Superior, Deluxe and Premium. A loft with an original historic touch, a bricks vault, some wood beams perfectly integrated in the furniture and then some touches of modern art perfectly fit in.
Then the pride of the hotel are the LoDo Suite and the Crawford Suite: space, luxury, art and design merge respecting the original architecture of the spaces and combining with a masterly skill the modern comfort.
What you realize immediately going in is the silence: you abandon the buzz of the station and of the lively district where the hotel is to enjoy the peace and the calm.
Whether you stay in lively summer days full of people or you do it in the depths of Winter, maybe with a harsh weather, you'll enjoy the possibility to go out without go outside to walk among stores, places and people crowding the Union Station.
It couldn't miss, of course, the SPA that has an agreement, with a wide offer for every need, just there around the corner.
The Cooper Lounge inside the Denver Union Station is a timeless place. One of the most elegant and calmest rooms of the Union Station.
The furniture bewitches with the mix of the past periods, the seats recalling trains, then style suitcases and lamps.
It will be enough to sit at a little table and enjoy a cocktail in this place to immerge in the Orient Express atmosphere. Or in the California Zephyr atmosphere (it passes right by here).
The elevated terrace allows to the look to range over the central room of the station or to observe calmly the outside thanks to the wide windowpanes.
A unique style where everything is a really high level in an informal and relaxing atmosphere.
It is opened every day from 4pm: reservation is required (you can book directly on the website, too).
I already widely talked you about Snooze, the ideal place for breakfasts. Then another place not to miss, always inside the Union Station, is the Mercantile restaurant, elegant and informal, which deserves a calm dinner.
Outside the Denver Union Station, you are already directly in the heart of the city with stores, fashion streets and really many places.
The urban furniture is created to be lived during more than 300 sunny days in the year that Denver boasts.
It's a city whose downtown is to enjoy on foot. What are you waiting for to leave in exploration?
This entry was posted in America, USA United States and tagged colorado, denver, station, train. Bookmark the permalink. | Springs-Emeryville (San Francisco).
The complete route of California Zephyr lasts 4 days with daily leavings. Obviously it's possible to get on and off when you want, stop for activities and excursions and take it again the following day or to have longer stays.
There are several accommodations and purchasable tickets, from the cheapest ones to the most luxury ones, for any need. The cars have the panoramic rooftop and make the experience a total wrapping.
The California Zephyr winds for almost 4000 km, from the heart of the Rocky Mountains to the snow-covered Sierra Nevada and it allows to admire by the windows the desert of Utah. It's a unique journey among breathtaking views. The longest route of Amtrak.
It's planned to cross the most wonderful landscapes by day and just left from Denver Station it goes up the Rocky Mountains.
The Crawford Hotel in Denver Union Station shows itself immediately in a particular way: "like any other hotel" and I assure you…trust it. But let's go in order.
First of all it's the only hotel inside the Denver Union Station: a luxury hotel combining the historical elements of the past splendors and the modern comfort and convenience.
It's in Denver downtown and just around the corner there's almost everything, to explore on foot or by bicycle: the hotel is a right stop, a break in the frenzy of a visit in Denver.
Here time flies by slowly. The different typologies rooms are cared in details and the art with its features delights the customers.
The hall is on the first floor and the Pullmann Rooms combine the idea of a luxury sleeping car and the art deco: all with avant-garde solutions like the TV set turning to be comfortably watched from every perspective or the techno station offering online services and more than | 365 |
So I learned something useful this past week after my son came down with a bad case of poison ivy (not unusual this time of year) around his mouth (that was unusual as I know he did not eat any poison ivy and that's how it looked). It was bad enough for him to stay home from school and when he asked for a mango as a<|fim_middle|> | snack, a friend who happened to be over said to be careful of the rinds of mangoes because they contain the same chemical as poison ivy.
I looked it up and what do you know, "The sap of the tree [of poison ivy] and the rind of the mango fruit contain urushiol, the oil that causes the poison ivy rash. The pulp of the mango fruit does not contain urushiol." And who had been eating mangoes right from the rind all weekend long as another friend had given us a box of them? My son. Hence the horrible poison ivy like rash all around his mouth. Lesson learned.
Wendy Weldon will have a show of new work at the Chilmark Library from May 3 to May 22. The show will contain acrylics on canvas and mounted monotypes. If you cannot make it to the show, check out her website at wendyweldon.com.
At the Library this Saturday at 2 pm there will be a workshop for adults about container gardening. On Saturday, May 10, from 12 noon to 2 pm, there will be a kid's craft, "Mugs for Mothers" in honor of Mother's Day. Then at 2 pm there will be a traditional tea party with proper tea and scones. No fancy hat required but certainly don't feel shy about donning your best hat if you do have one. Creativity is always encouraged at the library.
Pizza is on at the Orange Peel Bakery. Stop by on Saturdays from 12 noon to 3 pm (but NOT this Saturday, when Juli will be out of town bringing her daughter Ella home) for some delicious pizza and great company. Pizza night on Wednesdays will resume in mid-May.
The public is invited to a Candidate Forum on Wednesday, May 7, at 7 pm at the Old Town Hall in Aquinnah. The evening is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Martha's Vineyard. The forum will offer an opportunity to hear statements from those running for office and to ask questions on topics of your interest. Be sure to attend and bring your friends. The only contested race is for a seat on the board of selectmen, which Beverly Wright and Juli Vanderhoop are vying for.
I just got word that the Aquinnah Shop is aiming to open tomorrow, May 2. Let's hope everything goes according to plan. The Dreamcatcher on the cliffs will be opening for the summer season on Saturday, May 17 (weather permitting) and Dona Perry told me she and Gordon are looking forward to serving and seeing their local customers and friends. Faith Vanderhoop has not set an opening date for Faith's Seafood Shack but will be open by Memorial Day at the latest.
Happy Birthday to Ella Mahoney who celebrates today and who will be coming home from her first year at school this weekend. I hope that the adjustment from the big city to the little town is not too much for her. Jim Wallen's birthday is Friday and Alex Taylor's is on May 6. Happy birthday to all! | 641 |
Although wedding decorations may seem like something you need to buy, you can actually make beautiful decorations yourself for a fraction of the cost that are a perfect fit for your wedding.
Floral letters are a simple way to decorate the walls of your wedding or reception venues. You could spell out the names of you and your spouse-to-be, your initials, 'xoxo', or any number of other words. All you need are paper mache letters from the craft store, florist's foam, a glue gun, fake flowers, and a pair of scissors.
First you cut off the front of each letter. You then cut pieces of the florist's foam to fit the empty space inside each letter and fasten it securely with the glue gun. After this you cut the stems off of your flowers, leaving a couple inches. Insert your flowers into the foam close enough together to hide it and reinforce with more glue if needed.
You're then free to hang them in any formation you'd like, and because they're made with artificial flowers you could save them to use in your home after the wedding.
Rustic decorating is incredibly popular right now, especially for outdoor weddings. Barns have become a popular wedding venue as a result, but not everyone has access to one or wants to use a whole barn, as they can become uncomfortably hot during the warmer months. Barn doors are a great way to incorporate that rustic look without the discomfort.
One of the best ways to do this is to build an entrance to the area outdoors you'll be holding your wedding. Not only can guests enter through it, but it can be closed shortly before the ceremony and opened to reveal the bride as she heads down the aisle. The closed barn door entrance could also be used as a backdrop for photos afterwards.
You can either use old barn doors if you're lucky enough to find them, or build your own (out of reclaimed wood to keep them rustic). Your frame should be built of wood,<|fim_middle|> day.
Another simple wedding DIY decoration is hanging floral displays; a wedding can never have enough flowers, and because you're making these yourself, you can save a ton of money on your florist bill.
All you need to make these is styrofoam balls of various sizes, silk flowers, scissors, and ribbon. If you make the floral monograms, you could use any leftover flowers for these (and they'd match!).
Like with the floral monograms, you trim the stems of your flowers down to an inch or two then insert them into the styrofoam balls, reinforcing with hot glue if necessary. You then attach your ribbon and hang them from where ever you please! You could also forego the ribbon and place these on top of vases or grouped together as table centerpieces.
Washi tape can be used to decorate a plain table runner, giving it a splash of color. You could incorporate colors from your centerpieces or your wedding colors. Washi tape can also be used to decorate chairs, walls, backdrops, vases, glasses, and nearly anything else. Washi tape can be found in nearly any color and also comes in countless patterns as well, making it an easy and inexpensive way to decorate many different things for your wedding. | which you can easily do yourself. But be careful to make sure you properly reinforce it so it remains stable. To keep the doors in line with the rustic style, you'll need to buy barn door hardware which can be purchased in many styles from old-fashioned to modern at nearly any large hardware store as well as online. The hardware is simple to install; just follow the included directions.
Barn doors have become popular for use in houses, so you can easily re-purpose them after the wedding where they will double as a unique souvenir from your special | 109 |
No – we are not grandparents yet.
But Carl is often mistaken for a grandparent when out with his young charges.
He was at the Seattle Center with one, playing with a ball in the Center House.
A few other youngsters approached (balls and kids often attract each other) and he shared the 3-4 balls that he brought. He had 4 small children running around (exercise) and playing together, or at least in the same vicinity. Carl felt this was a good outing, a positive experience.
Needless to say, this stung a bit<|fim_middle|> their bathroom on a long walk. This time we took the plunge and had breakfast. Although it is very close to the UW, the prices were slightly above what I would expect a student to want to pay, but not horrible. Generally focused on organic, local, low impact food. And the food was really good. We will visit here again.
And then we continued on toward home, stopping at the evil empire for coffee, the Farmer's Market for potatoes, and the corner organic store for a pomegranate.
Football anyone? The afternoon of watching grown men pummel each other into oblivion awaits.
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Did Carl ask the woman why she thought he was a pathetic grandpa?
There was some sort of exchange, but no real information provided.
I had that somebody ask if I was Mouse's grandma one time and I was only about 40. I was mad! I had gray in my hair but I did not (and *do* not) move like a grandma! A pox on that woman!
I mean "I had somebody", not "I had that somebody".
tell Carl I don't think he is pathetic. | . Good times to bad times.
There has been much talk about civility in government recently.
Perhaps that should extend to the general populace.
We took a walk this morning – finding the hours when rain was least likely to fall.
We also took a breakfast out at the Portage Bay Cafe. We have passed this location many times, and there is frequently a line out the door. The only previous time I had been inside was to borrow | 88 |
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Best Italian Clothing Brands: List of Top 8
January 10, 2022 by Charles Ruecker
Are you looking for some fashion pieces to make the most of the wardrobe? As for sartorial style, nothing is better than other Italian clothing brands. High quality has always been appreciated in Italy, and such labels have contributed to the shape of style today.
You probably know their names, but not their success stories. With that in mind, we shall guide you to the top Italian clothing brands and how they made their names.
Top 8 Best Italian Clothing Brands You Need For Your Wardrobe
1. Prada (1913)
2. Giorgio Armani (1965)
3. Kappa (1978)
4. Missoni (1953)
5. Moschino (1983)
6. Valentino (1960)
7. Bottega Veneta (1966)
8. Versace
Prada, which got founded in 1913 by Mario Prada, has become one of the globe's most influential fashion names. He opened his first luxury store known as the Galleria Vittoria Emanuele II in Milan, Italy. It mostly sells premium leather suitcases, bags, and accessories. Prada got into a new phase in the 1970s as his daughter inherited the family business.
That's when she injected modern energy into the label, making it the icon of timeless and chic designs. Miuccia Prada and her husband Patrizio Bertelli brought the brand from leather trends to runways.
They brought Prada to the world of contemporary art. This led to its exclusive collection of over 700 masterpieces by talented artists. Nowadays, people can find bold designs with distinct colors and eccentric flair for all clothing designs from this brand.
Among Italian clothing brands, Armani is the name that we don't have to share much about. It's one of the most renowned fashion houses in the world. And the man behind that success, Armani, is also the iconic person. He began designing clothes in 1965 and met Sergio Galeotti, an Italian architect and co-founder of the brand.
Through their hands-on experience, they become the pioneers in bringing the trend of luxury to the masses. For them, it's also their chance to be the number one instead of taking a risk.
Their apparel comes with great aesthetics, luxury, and a unique sense to suit the elite of society. It's all about elegance and sophisticated styles found in clothing for men and women. Coming with Giorgio Armani, you get to find timeless values along with quality, ranging from expensive garments to sparkling jewelry.
Another contemporary lifestyle clothing made in Italy deserving attention is Kappa. The brand is one of the leading names in sportswear and high street fashion worldwide.
In 1978, Kappa was born in Turin, Italy, and then became famous for producing slimline garments with distinct traits. Speaking of its logo, it appeared by chance during a photoshoot for Beatrix.
At that time, the shadow got cast by a man and a woman who leaned against each other. And then, the idea suddenly turned into Kappa's logo today.
From the start, the company focused on making socks and underwear. Today, the brand is the leader in sports textiles with good features, including UV protection, moisture-wicking, and anti-microbial.
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Having the base in Milan, Italy, Missoni is renowned for ready-to-wear jackets, coats, and knitwear designs. The brand made its name through the zigzag styles, but the success lies in Italy's most fashionable family. Their business got established in 1953 when Rosita Missoni and Ottavio (Tai) built a knitwear workshop in Gallarate.
His workshop firstly made and launched tracksuits. And two of them later aimed at more modern options and artisanal approaches. They kept growing their major in waves, striping, and jacquard fabric with dots.
With the use of various materials, Missoni knows how to create the best designs that attract attention. As a result, their products are always at the top of the wish lists.
Like some other famous Italian clothing brands, Moschino is widely known for its creative innovation and eccentricity.
Founded in 1983, the brand never fails to add a bit of fun to the whole fashion industry. It was also the time when the first collection for women got launched. This marked a big breakthrough and success later on.
According to Franco Moschino, he began with the vintage trends like the lady Chanel suit for instance. There are many expensive accessories and stuff made with decent materials you can find here.
If high street fashion is your favorite, then count on Love Moschino! It's another name from the Moschino house but sells more affordable items for women's daily use.
After finishing his education in Paris, the famous designer Valentino Garavani opened his fashion brand in Rome in 1960. Valentino soon became a favorite one of the globe's best-dressed women in the 1960s. In 1962, his clothing launch entered international stardom after his debut in Florence.
From his early shows, he gained a reputation for the unique reddish color in dresses. That's also known as the 'Valentino Red' collection today. What makes Valentino famous is its high-end fashion design! It finds no difficulty in drawing women's attention from different parts of the world.
The brand also connected to some of the most influential women by designing their wedding dresses. They're Anne Hathaway, Elizabeth Taylor, and Princess Madeleine of Sweden.
By catching up with the recent high fashion, Bottega Veneta is reputed for its artful styles and fantastic craftsmanship.
Rooted in 1966 in Italy, the brand got established by Michele Taddei and Renzo Zengiaro. At that time, its main products are high-end leather goods and accessories. Since then, the brand has built a new standard for luxury, applied style and innovation to its offer.
In the 1990s, the label welcomed more trendy design elements but then witnessed a decline in popularity afterward. In 2001, the Gucci Group acquired Bottega Veneta, which helped to give new strength to the brand.
Nowadays, the brand stays on the highest pinnacle of quality. You can see it from iconic leather accessories to ready-to-wear clothing pieces.
Gianni Versace moved to Milan to work in fashion design. But it wasn't until 1978 that he had his boutique here, which soon revolutionized this industry. Four years later, Versace placed its name on some accessories, home stuff, and furniture.
Gianni then launched silky outfits with leopard skin and prints before got famous as haute couture. In the 1990s, Versace showed its remarkable designs with brightly colored suits and eye-catching blazers.
And the most renowned fashion show from the label is called the 'bondage'. In this event, models catwalks in dark dresses along with golden, diamond buckles.
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Terra Firma is the return to the farm in Brazil where Couto grew up, accompanied<|fim_middle|> disappointment. It was a peaceful epilogue. What is then the process of crystallization; Is it beauty beyond change? However, beauty should not be fetishized, commodified, mummified. What is a crystal if not a memento that captures longing for the past and future together, a stand against entropy? This event is about communal listening to the silence of the set of mementos." | by the two men who built it, now in their late seventies and nineties. Like her, both men carried thirty years of absence. Terra Firma explores displacement, ecology and memory. The artist captured the friendship between the two men, their mutual shared stories and the changes in the landscape.
"I recognize clay, hands dirtied by earth, years passed in silence, nostalgia, saudade, inaudible melody for flute, conspirationally produced sounds, eternal stones resisting entropy. Pathetic human short-lived memories vis-à-vis all-knowing never-forgetting Nature.
Memento: I was taken by a sentence written by Couto: "The House was smaller than I imagined." It encapsulates years of nostalgic longing and the final juxtaposition of fantasy and reality. In her dreams, the house of her childhood was big imposing building once revisited, a decade after seeing it for the last time, the house did not appear big. I was just an ordinary farm house. But this realization was not a | 204 |
Marquette Tops Georgetown in Big East Opener
Milwaukee, WI – Playing before an energized home crowd of just under 15,000 fans, Marquette jumped out to an 11-0 lead, saw Georgetown cut the lead to five at halftime before pulling away behind the play of freshman point guard Markus Howard and senior wing Jujuan Johnson to post a 76-66 victory in the Big East opener for both schools on Wednesday night.
"Obviously, both those kids (Howard and Johnson) were fantastic," said Marquette Coach Steve Wojciechowski. "For Markus as a 17-year old in his first big East game to come out like he did, there were no nerves. When JJ plays at the level he's capable of playing on at both ends of the floor, we're a completely different team."
Howard, who led Marquette with 23 points, and Johnson, who chipped in 20, combined to score all of Marquette's first 11 points as the Golden Eagles jumped out to their early lead.
Howard's game starts with deadly shooting from behind the three-point arc. Coming into the game, the native of Chandler, Arizona and graduate of Findlay Prep had connected on half of his 42 attempts from distance, good enough to tie for fourth among Big East three-point percentage shooting leaders. Howard shoots off the bounce, off the catch and needs just a sliver of space to release his shot. He opened the scoring on Wednesday night by connecting on<|fim_middle|> to our RSS feed from the upper right corner of our home page, follow us on Facebook, or on twitter.
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Howard played consistently from tip to buzzer. He scored 12 of his 23 points in the first half and came up big when Georgetown threatened to cut into the Marquette lead in the second half. With the Marquette lead reduced to eight at 72-64 with three minutes left in the game, Howard converted a lay-up and followed up a Georgetown basket with two free throws to extend the Golden Eagles lead to an insurmountable 76-66 with just over a minute left in the game.
Asked if Howard projected as a cornerstone player for Marquette, Georgetown Coach John Thompson III chuckled and said, "That's obvious, isn't it? Howard's a tough kid who knows how to play and he puts the ball in the basket."
Johnson represents the last holdover player from the Buzz Williams era at Marquette and came to Marquette as a heralded recruit out of Memphis, Tennessee. He struggled to find his footing his first two years in Milwaukee, but established himself as a team leader in the second half of last season, and his strong play has carried over into this season.
Johnson is a stats stuffer. He entered the game tied for first in the Big East in steals (2.2), 11th in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.4) 13th in assists (3.0), 15th in field goal percentage (.516) and 19th in scoring (13.3). He scores at all three levels and found big-time success taking the ball to the rim against the Hoyas. He brought the Bradley Center crowd to its feet with three dunks. In the first half, he beat his defender off the dribble in half-court offense and when the seas parted and his path to the rim opened, Johnson continued on to throw down a powerful, one-handed dunk. He finished above the rim twice more in the second half, one time leaking out to play ahead of the Georgetown defense and another time after stealing a front court pass and beating the Georgetown defense to the rim.
Johnson is a rare player who impacts the game on both ends of the court. Just as some players hunt shots, Johnson hunts steals as his four steals on Wednesday night and his league-leading average attest. He's equally adept at jumping passing lanes as he is stripping the ball from the player he's guarding. "Jujuan Johnson is a very good basketball player," said Thompson. "On the defensive end, when you get careless, he goes for steals like he did in the second half."
"When JJ plays at the level he's capable of playing on both ends of the floor, we're a completely different team," added Wojciechowski. "You guys (media) were there. He brings something to the table that we don't have when he brings the focus and concentration on both ends that he did today".
Marquette entered the game second in the Big East to Creighton with an 85.9 point per game average. But in allowing 71.1 point per game, the Golden Eagles sat seventh in the league. The low point of Marquette's defensive struggles came when the Golden Eagles allowed Wisconsin to erupt for 58 second-half points in overcoming a five-point Marquette halftime lead to beat Marquette 93-84 on December 10.
Although failing to reach its scoring average against Georgetown, Marquette tightened its defensive effort on Wednesday night. After allowing Georgetown to shoot 47 percent in the first half, including a scorching 54 percent from behind the three-point arc, the Golden Eagles limited the Hoyas to 41 and 30 percent figures from the field and behind the arc, respectively, in the second half.
"In the second half, when scoring became a little more difficult for us, it didn't affect our defense and that's something that has happened at different time this season," said Wojciechowski. "I didn't feel like that happened tonight and that shows some growth and maturity and I'm proud of that."
Georgetown tied the score one time at 26-26, but never led in the game. The Marquette victory overshadowed the tremendous effort of Rodney Pryor, the Georgetown 6-5 graduate transfer who was at Robert Morris for four years before joining the Hoyas this fall.
Pryor, who attended high school in Evanston, Illinois, about 60 miles from Milwaukee, showed the Bradley Center crowd that his league leading scoring average of 20.5 was no fluke. A powerfully build wing, Pryor is a left-handed shooter with a game similar to former Milwaukee Bucks star Michael Redd. Pryor scored from distance and in the midrange with a collection of pull-up and stepback jump shots. He finished the night 9-of-18 from the field and f4-of-9 from behind the arc. Especially impressive was Pryor's ability to make contested shots as many of his makes came with Marquette defenders draped over him.
"We have to stay together," said Pryor. "We have issues to fix and we can fix them."
Pryor's 23 points led Georgetown. Second on the Hoyas scoring list were center Jessie Govan and forward Marcus Derrickson. Govan, a 6-10 sophomore, started his scoring with a running hook shot in the paint and later dropped in a three-point shot. Derrickson, a 6-7 sophomore, helped rallied Georgetown from its first-half deficit by knocking down two shots from distance, one from each corner.
"We have to have a lot more poise," said Thompson. "In this league, teams will make runs. We have to limit other team's runs. I'm still confident in this group. We are going to regroup and bounce back."
Georgetown closes out 2016 when it hosts Xavier on December 31. Marquette returns to action on January 1 with an away game at Seton Hall.
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Concerts on the Dock: Tremble Weeds
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Join us for an outdoor this evening with the Tremble Weeds! This two-piece Indie rock n' roll band, consisting of Dylan Fox and Nick Barnett, have an impressive rock catalog with elements of blues and rockabilly; think Flat Duo Jets, White Stripes, and The Gories. The duo have been playing together since they were kids. In 2015 they moved to Joshua Tree and got right to work printing demos and eventually recorded two albums that are available on vinyl<|fim_middle|> for eight weeks in the Spring and eight weeks in the Fall. Concerts on the Dock are always free to attend though we do charge $5 for parking on property. Please Carpool!
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This year marks our 11th annual Concerts on the Dock and it is sure to live up to it's longevity! As per every proceeding year we will continue to strive to bring our music loving community the freshest sounds available without sacrificing quality for quantity. Our mission is to bring all who attend the best in local, regional, and national acts they simply would not see anywhere else in town and provide those acts with a gracious built in audience hungry for the next big thing.
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This is a small sampling of the voluminous correspondence of Gregory Bateson. This correspondence, along with all the rest of Bateson's professional papers, films, and tape recordings, is in the process of being organized and catalogued, following which a volume of the correspondence will be edited for publication.
The three letters in this selection were written in 1967, during the highly fertile period which preceded the publication of Steps to an Ecology of Mind (NWEC, p. 28). At this time Bateson was increasingly turning his attention away from the dolphins with whom he had been working since 1963 and towards the thinking which reached a peak in the 1968 Wenner-Gren Conference on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation, the conference described by Mary Catherine Bateson in Our Own Metaphor (Alfred A. Knopf, 1972). These letters offer an illuminating glimpse into the evolution of ideas which preceded that meeting.
The first two letters - vintage Bateson - were written to Bateson's neighbor and friend, the novelist-essayist Philip Wylie, stimulated by a reading of the latter's The Magic Animal (Doubleday, 1968). Attentive readers will recognize an early, and much more colorful, version of the myth offered in 'Conscious Purpose Versus Nature' (Steps, pp. 434-436).
In the third letter, to neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch, Bateson expands some of the thinking in the Wylie letters to arrive at a new way of analyzing religious ideas and behavior.
I want to get this written down while I have it vivid in my head.
I have read about half of Magic Animal and these are first reactions. Of course, as you know, I agree with nine-tenth of it and am delighted with much of it. You have said many things which I never knew how to say - some which I never knew.
But I want to write about points of disagreement. There are two points, and both of them derive from the same philosophic roots.
My colleagues and Darwin and Ockham always spit at me for saying these things - but I am willing Darwin should borrow O's razor to slit his own throat.
A. Rats have an instinct for spacing themselves, and when this is thwarted by overcrowding, complex confusions occur in their life processes, so that they die of endocrine imbalance. Or B. Rats have an instinct for endocrine imbalance, which is touched off by overcrowding. Failing such stimulation, the rats are forced into all the complex business of living - the symptoms of thwarted instinct for death by crowding.
Now, if I were an engineer, I would build rats on one or the other of these two systems, according to what specifications I had to meet. But, pace Darwin and the whole industrial revolution and Ockham, evolution is not an engineer; and I do not believe that<|fim_middle|> which appears upon the 'screen' of consciousness, is, for the most part, those bits and pieces which will inform our purposes.
We never see in consciousness that the mind is like an ecosystem - a self-corrective network of circuits. We only see arcs of these circuits.
And the instinctive vulgarity of scientists consists precisely in mistaking these arcs for the larger truth, i.e., thinking that because what is seen by consciousness has one character, the total mind must have the same character.
Freud's personified 'ego', 'id', 'super-ego' are, in fact not, truly personified at all. Each of his components is constructed in the image of only consciousness (even though the component may be unconscious) and the 'consciousness' does not resemble a total person. The isolated consciousness is necessarily depersonified.
The whole iceberg does not have those characteristics which could be guessed at from looking only at what is above water. I mean: the iceberg does - mind does not. Mind is not like an iceberg.
But the vulgar scientist talks and plans as if mind resembled iceberg. He plans and acts upon his plans. Invents atom bombs and feels hurt when a beneficient deity screws up international relations and sends fall-out.
Now you are ready to think about religion and magic.
The instinctive, innate barrier between consciousness and the rest of mind is very old (though its effects have recently become disastrous through the technological implementation of consciousness). Even before man chipped flint, it must have been necessary to correct for the murderous destructiveness which necessarily goes with conscious, calculating and common-sense policies. If bacteria, or Jews, or rats offend you - import mongooses to exterminate them. Of course. This is Nazism and the bacterial theory of disease. As they say of Skinner's operant conditioning, 'It works'. But this theory, even in the Stone Age, would not work between people.
Love is contrary to conscious common sense because love involves the total systemic mind.
Cain was, appropriately enough, an inventor. He invented agriculture. God (Cain's total systemic mind or the systemic human ecosystem in which Cain lived) refused the cabbages, which Cain sacrificed. God then told Cain that Abel loved him (Cain). 'His desire shall be unto thee and thou shalt rule over him.'(cf. the curse on Eve in previous chapter - 'Thy desire shall be unto thy husband and he shall rule over thee.') This was the last straw because love is precisely that to which the pragmatic, headstrong, purposive consciousness must always be allergic.
So Cain picked up a big stone and smashed Abel's skull.
A more modern deity would have thrown a bucket of fall-out over the both of them.
But that's only a parable. Of course! The point is that, even before modern technology, something had to be done about the innate split between consciousness and the rest of the mind, because the unaided consciousness would always wreck human relations. Because the unaided consciousness must always combine the wisdom of the dove with the harmlessness of the serpent.
And I will tell you what they did in the old Stone Age to deal with that split.
It's that simple, and religion is whatever they could devise to beat into man the fact that most of him (and, analogously, most of his society and the ecosystem around him) was systemic in nature and imperceptible to his consciousness.
This included dreams and trances, intoxication, castration, rituals, human sacrifices, myths of all sorts, invocations of death, art, poetry, music and so on.
And of course, they did not and could not really say or know clearly what it was they were doing or why. And, often, it did not work.
Darwin says somewhere in the autobiography that as he got more famous (or old or something), he became less and less able to read poetry.
'Dost thou know when the wild goats of the rock do calve? Or knowest thou when the hinds bring forth?' And so on.
I was delighted by what you said about the morality of animals!
But magic is something else again.
You describe magic as the voluntary parent of religion, but this is surely wrong.
Magic is what the vulgar and purposive consciousness snipped out of religion. (Just as the viruses are DNA that came unstuck.) The use of quasi-Religion to bolster priesthood is, of course, an another vulgarity.
So, you see, my objections to the vulgar scientific theories of instinct and my view of the nature of magic both spring from the same philosophic roots.
Now hurry back from Kauai so we can talk about all this before you leave Hawaii.
P.S. I keep meeting people who think that the opening words of Genesis are 'In the beginning was the Word ... etc.' I hope you are not guilty of this error.
In the beginning, all was mush; and the mush was without form and void. And God brooded on the face of the mush, as it is written. 'A hen is an egg's way of making another egg.' And as he brooded, so the mush divided itself and became many small pieces of mush. And God looked and saw that it was good.
And behold the Name of that God was called Tinkertoy and Tinkertoy had a grab bag in which were very many handy little magical tricks.
And each small piece of mush reached into the grab bag to see what it could get. And the lucky got more tricks than the unlucky. As it is written: To him that hath shall be given, but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he seemeth too have.
And God called the tricks adaptations, and god looked and saw that it was good.
And after that they ran around, each according to his kind. And they did eat each other. And some kinds did eat their own kind. Only the dog did not so.
And God looked and saw that it was good and God said: Behold these creatures, which I have created in the image of Charles Darwin. How cleverly they do steal each other's ideas.
And it came to pass that, between meals, they all played a game. Each against all, and all against each.
And the name of the game was 'Free Enterprise'. And each played as dirty as he could according to the tricks which he had received.
But God always won because he played zigzag as a snipe flies.
So they threw him out.
I have told you the story of the Creation. Here is: 'The Garden of Eden' - The myth in biblical form is (as is so often the case) upside-down. Adam and Eve ate the fruit of knowledge. An apple, high on the Tree. They had to place one box on top of another in order to reach it. They then ate it - the sweet reward of a successful short-sighted scheme consciously planned. This, as you suggest, no doubt made them drunk, with partial arrogance.
In this arrogance, they threw out all the rest of themselves - thus breaking up the total systemic thing they called 'mind'.
I.e., They threw god out of the garden.
After that, the ecosystem of the garden got out of kilter - because God is the inner and the outer systemic character of everything - mind and garden.
After the loss of the rich topsoil, of course gardening became very hard work, and Adam sweated (especially and the brow).
Eve began to resent the processes of coition and reproduction, which always somehow reminded her of that larger life, which Adam had sacrificed in order to buy her a washing machine - which she had asked for.
So she experienced a good deal of pain in childbirth, and felt that the capacity and need for love was God's curse on women, which was true in an upside-down way.
Adam managed to get some vengeful satisfaction out of the game of Free Enterprise - killing everything in sight.
But the customs of that benighted time did not permit Eve to do this.
So she joined a bridge club.
Finally, god sent his only begotten sons, Wylie and Bateson, to try to unravel the whole mess, and I'd hate to tell you what happened to them.
I begin to wonder whether I am mad or have hit on an idea which is much bigger than I am. Of course these are not mutually exclusive alternatives but I would like your confidential judgement as to whether one of these alternatives is true to the exclusion of the other or in what proportions they coexist.
You have had a memorandum which I prepared as a springboard for our summer conference in Austria. And what I am now thinking is a development from that memorandum. I suggested in that memorandum that the lineal arguments of human purpose necessarily conflict with the cybernetic arguments of physiology, sociology, and ecology, and that therefore, following his purposes, man almost inevitably messes up his own physiology, social system, and ecosystem.
I had joked, though not in my memorandum, about the idea that Original Sin was the discovery of planned purpose; and that, following this discovery, Adam and Eve expelled God from the Garden. This led to the loss of topsoil, etc. the general notion was that God symbolized the systemic and cybernetic nature of the environment which inevitably took vengeance on man's short-sightedness.
It occurs to me now that this little parable can be considered to be a serious truth - especially if we turn it upside down.
I suggest that one of the things that man has done through the ages to correct for his short-sighted purposiveness is to imagine personified entities with various sorts of super natural power, i.e., gods. These entities, being fictitious persons, are more or less endowed with cybernetic and circuit characteristics.
In a word, I suggest that the supernatural entities of religion are, in some sort, cybernetic models built into the larger cybernetic system in order to correct for noncybernetic computation in a part of that system.
I do not believe anybody has said this but I do not think that this view of religion contradicts what has been said by others - the religious, the mystical, and the scientific. There is therefore no conflicting hypothesis against which mine can be tested.
I have been reading over The Cloud of Unknowing2 and most of the traps against which the author warns the would-be contemplative are precisely the patterns of purposive thought.
If I am right, my hypothesis will provide an almost totally new way of analyzing religious ideas and religious behavior. We shall have to ask, for example, what sort of corrective is introduced into an otherwise purposive system by the Mass. In this connection, it looks to me as though the whole Catholic insistence on the 'reality' of the metaphoric statement 'This is my body' is a command to approach the ritual in terms of primary process.
Totemism in its preheraldic forms also seems to be a constructing of cybernetic models using identification or empathy with animals.
There are also a lot of questions regarding psychotherapy. When the therapist catalyses group processes, is he in fact demonstrating a cybernetic model to his patients?
Are there any cybernetic systems made of hardware in which cybernetic models have to be embedded in order to correct for lineal computation?
I wonder a good deal how much of this should be considered at Burg Wartenstein.
Our conference comes along pretty well. We now have fairly sure affirmatives from Peter Klopfer, Gertrude Hendrix, Will Jones, Taylor Pryor, Erik Erikson, Barry Commoner, Ted Schwartz, and Geoffrey Vickers, and doubtful affirmatives from Anatol Holt and Konrad Lorenz. These, at any rate, are sufficiently affirmative for their names to be given out. Donald MacKay unfortunately could not come, nor Evelyn Hutchinson.I am looking for a good theologian, preferably one who will combine both comparative religion and pastoral experience. Aoki would have been wonderful and wanted to come but could not.
Well, please tell me what you think. I think that the idea which I have sketched above is the biggest thing I have bumped into yet. May the seasons make sense to you and yours.
1. For more on Lorenz's drawings see Bateson's Mind and Nature (NWEC, p.28), p. 156.
2. The Cloud of Unknowing, author unknown (probably a late fourteenth century parson); translated by William Johnston; 1973; $ 3.95 post-paid from Doubleday and Company, 501 Franklin Avenue, Garden City, NY 11530. | rats are built on either of these principles.
The engineer's question is: on which side of the fence do you want to place the complexity? Is normal life simple and pathology complex? Or vice versa?
Now, we know from genetics that there are some cases in which a single gene determines a definite (?single) characteristic; and my namesake Gregor Mendel (my namesake is bigger than yours, Dr. Skinner) was lucky enough or cunning enough to happen on some of these. But, as genetic progresses, it becomes clearer and clearer that the characteristics of animals are determined by complex, interacting, overlapping and 'redundant' ( in the technical sense) constellations of genes. And this probably is progressively more so as we approach more 'fundamental' characteristics (the great homologies, symmetry, etc.).
If this be true of physical characteristics, it is probably also true of behavioral-physiological characteristics, and it then becomes nonsense to ask the engineer's question, above. The complexity is on both sides.
And I do know this, that the older an automobile gets and the further it is from the engineer who designed it, the more complex it gets with multiple 'pathologies' and the more it takes on characteristics of a living thing - moods, caprice, etc. New cars are 'it' but an old car is 'she'.
So - I personally avoid the word instinct because it suggests to the reader a specific tag or gene or something which determines directly a specific 'piece' of behavior. There may be such tags for the dancing mice, but I doubt it for such constellations of behavior as are denoted by words like territory.
Norbert Wiener once described ants as 'cheap mass-produced articles,' and it may be true that insects with their extremely economical circuitry are constructed on the engineer's plan but even this I doubt.
Consider the lilies of the field - they are not racked by separable purposes; and yet neither Darwin nor B. F. Skinner was ever arrayed like one of these.
The innate component of this vulgarity is relational. It is the relation between mind and consciousness - a relation of partial separation. You and I and Darwin and Skinner are all genotypically built upon a plan whereby that small selection from mind | 465 |
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Ray Harryhausen Set the World in (Stop) Motion
With imagination and innovation, Harryhausen changed the way that movies are made.
A massively influential artist and filmmaker who inspired some of the greatest talents in the field, Ray Harryhausen was born 100 years ago today. He's perhaps best known for his innovative work in stop-motion animation, particularly his own technique, dubbed Dynamation.
Stop-motion refers to the process of shooting one frame of a model, making adjustments, and then shooting another frame. As film moves at 24 frames per second, you created the illusion of motion. This technique was used by Willis O'Brien on 1933's King Kong. That film inspired Harryhausen, and O'Brien became an early mentor, offering advice and critique of Harryhausen's early work and encouraging him to take sculpture and art classes. After working on films for the Army during World War II, Harryhausen got his first featured job as assistant animator to O'Brien on 1949's Mighty Joe Young. The film won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
The trailer for The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (which mentions the Post). (Uploaded to YouTube by Warner Bros.)
Harryhausen would push the envelope of effects in 1953. When he was given complete control over the effects in The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, he was able to fully integrate his Dynamation process into the film. The technically demanding work involved shooting live-action backgrounds, then animating the stop-motion in front of those backgrounds to make it seems as if the action was occurring in a real-world location. Then the foreground action would be shot and added over the other footage, making it seems as if the live actors and backgrounds were existing in the same space, and interacting with, the models. On a theoretical level, it's similar to what's done today with shows like The Mandalorian, which shoot large chunks of scenes in a studio space called The Volume, employing previously shot footage that makes up a virtual background environment.
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is near to the heart of The Saturday Evening Post as the original Ray Bradbury story ran in the June 23, 1951 issue. In fact, by the time that Harryhausen worked on the film, he and Bradbury had been friends for years. The original title of the film was to be Monster from the Sea. When the studio discovered that Bradbury's story also featured an undersea monster drawn to a foghorn, they bought the rights and retitled the film after Bradbury's short. Ironically, the story would later appear in anthologies as "The Fog Horn," rather than the film name. Nevertheless, the movie was a major hit at the time, opening more opportunities for Harryhausen and allowing him to continue to innovate with his techniques.
Throughout his career, Harryhausen displayed his genius for creature design and animation in films like It Came from Beneath the Sea, Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, and 20 Million Miles to Earth. All three of those were produced by Charles H. Schneer and became the foundation of a long-lasting and successful partnership. The duo also worked together on a trio of well-received (and much-loved) films based on Sinbad the Sailor of Middle Eastern legends: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958); The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974); and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977).
However, the film that Harryhausen himself thought of as his best was his 1963 collaboration with Schneer, Jason and the Argonauts. Directed by Don Chaffey, the film features several classic Harryhausen effects sequences. Empire magazine cited Talos from the film as the second greatest movie monster of all time in 2004. The film also contains the praised "skeleton army" sequence, winged harpies, and the many-headed hydra. Despite the advances in technology, the film retains a strong reputation; it was nominated for the American Film Institute's Top 10 Fantasy Films list in 2008.
While some films were still using techniques that were similar to his, different methods pioneered by the very people whom he had<|fim_middle|> today in a variety of ways. The various "walkers" of the Star Wars universe are a tribute, and Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong was directly inspired by O'Brien and Harryhausen. With his wife of 50 years, Diana, he started the Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation, which curates his collection and promotes stop-motion animation; his daughter, Vanessa, remains a trustee. His models and work continue to be exhibited at major museums, while books and podcasts are devoted to his artistry. Over time, he's accumulated everything from induction into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, to a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, to a special achievement awards from both the BAFTAs and the Oscars. The special effects of today may be so smooth as to almost be indistinguishable from reality, but it was the talent and inventiveness of people like Harryhausen that led, and by example continue to lead, the way.
Featured image: A scene from Jason and the Argonauts, where Jason combats a Hydra (Columbia Pictures / Public domain)
(Nearly) Everyone Loves Greer Garson | inspired were replacing the kinds of effects that Harryhausen used. The list of those who say that they owe a debt to Harryhausen is staggering, including the likes of Tim Burton, Peter Jackson, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Guillermo del Toro, and Wes Anderson. Burton and director Henry Selick would collaborate on films like The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach that used stop-motion techniques. When Harryhausen passed in 2013, Lucas released a statement that included a simple but massive truth, "Without Ray Harryhausen, there would likely have been no Star Wars."
The legacy of Ray Harryhausen can be seen | 131 |
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Philips Reports Overall, Q4 CE Profit.
Steve Smith ⋅ Published: January 22, 2007
Amsterdam, The Netherlands — Royal Philips Electronics reported a fourth-quarter net profit that was up by 2 percent, which doubled the previous year's figure.
In consumer electronics, Philips reported slightly lower sales for the quarter, at $4.23 billion, down from $4.9 billion worldwide last<|fim_middle|> still subject to finalization.
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Philips CE Sales Drop 18% In Q2, CE Net Off $422M | year. But the category's operating profit before interest and taxes (EBIT) was $335.7 million, up from $303.3 million during the previous year's fourth quarter.
Gerard Kleisterlee, president/CEO, commented, "Our consumer electronics division was able to post a full-year EBIT margin of 3.9 percent, amid tough market conditions. This again shows the robustness of our CE model."
For North America in all categories Philips reported that sales were $3.02 billion, up from the prior year's fourth-quarter's $2.29 billion. North America was the second-highest sales region for consumer electronics, with 23 percent of the company's $4.23 billion in sales during the fourth quarter.
Philips expects the first quarter to be "challenging" due to continuing pressure on margins as supply of flat TVs outstrips market demand. But helped by the introduction of a new range of Ambilight televisions, the division expects to achieve an EBITA (net profit after interest and taxes) of about 3 percent in 2007.
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Though he was not a conventional, church-going believer, religious music was important to Kenneth Leighton and he composed some significant pieces of church music, as this CD makes abundantly clear. His experiences, in his formative years, as a chorister at Wakefield Cathedral stayed with him throughout his life, as Andrew Burn points out in his exemplary booklet note. In fact, there's a direct Wakefield connection with one of the works included in this present programme.
All the music chosen by Matthew Owens for this disc makes a strong impression. For example, O God, enfold me in the sun, is a piece in which, as Burn says, "the music bounds along pulsing with light in response to the poet's images." This work, written for a church in York, sets a text by Jacqueline Froom. It's a short piece but an impressive creation nonetheless and both the Wells choir and organist David Bednall give it a performance of great energy and sweep.
From the same year comes the set of Morning Canticles. The Venite is a splendid piece. The music of the opening pages strides along with purpose and confidence. This is celebratory and exciting music and in this performance it's put across with impressive fervour. Leighton builds up to a majestic climax at the words "Today, if ye will hear his voice, ye shall know his power" and then rounds off the piece with a thrilling, affirmative doxology. Stirring stuff indeed. By contrast, the Te Deum opens quietly but the tempo soon picks up and with it the fervour of the music increases. There's a memorable, lyrical melody at "We therefore pray thee, help thy servants" which Leighton uses to build inexorably to a swelling, grand climax at "O Lord, in thee have I trusted." This fine set of canticles is completed by a setting of the Jubilate. As befits the text, the music is extrovert and joyful though Leighton opts to end with a quieter, reflective doxology, which is all the more effective for being somewhat unexpected.
Leighton, it seems, had a lifelong fascination with hymns and this musical trait comes out in the remaining works on the disc. His Chorale Prelude: Rockingham is a meditative little gem on the tune to "When I survey the wondrous cross." The well-known melody is seemingly ever present yet never dominates. The piece is sensitively played by David Bednall.
At either end of the programme are placed substantial works, each of which makes telling use of a hymn tune. Sequence for All Saints is the piece with the Wakefield connection to which I referred earlier. It was commissioned for the West Riding Cathedral Festival, a festival that brought together the cathedral choirs from Bradford, Sheffield and Wakefield. Fittingly, the première was given in Wakefield Cathedral. The work is in five sections, all separately tracked here, and sets words from the medieval plainsong Sequence for the feast of All Saints, as given in the English Hymnal.
Leighton's setting is at times exciting and at other times beautiful. What he does do throughout the piece is to provide music that's entirely apposite to the words. The organ is an important protagonist in the piece and David Bednall's contribution is superb. The work begins in hushed tones, the choir singing "Gaudeamus", but before long their music becomes more intense and after a short, but important organ solo an ecstatic paean of choral praise erupts. Interestingly, however, the music dies away a little unexpectedly at the words "and glorify the Son of God" – one might have expected loud music for these words but Leighton knows what he's doing.
The second section begins with an expressive baritone solo, interspersed with seraphic "alleluia" interjections from the trebles. As the full choir takes up the argument the textures become even richer and the music grows in intensity. The third section features what Andrew Burn rightly describes as a "serene" melody for unison trebles. Here Leighton conveys a marvellous sense of space and of wonder before the majesty of God. It's an impressive movement. For me the fourth section is at the heart of the whole composition. It begins with an organ solo, which is pregnant with hushed anticipation and meditation; one can almost smell the incense. The solo baritone, the excellent Stephen Foulkes, sings those marvellously consoling phrases, beginning: "The souls of the righteous are in the hands of God." Leighton's music at this point is profound and full of mystery. The unaccompanied choir takes over at 4:25. From hushed beginnings Leighton builds a short but remarkably effective climax after which the choir's music retreats to a wonderful quiet final cadence. The last word in this superb movement is given to the organ.
The finale opens with the same quiet music – "Gaudeamus" - that we heard at the beginning. There follows a lively, syncopated outpouring of praise – this is a real choral dance of joy. Then (at 2:35) comes a masterstroke. We hear the first verse of Isaac Watts' fine hymn "Give me the wings of faith", decorated by ecstatic alleluias. Immediately a series of majestic organ chords presage the hymn in all its splendour. It's a marvellous, genuinely moving moment as Watts' triumphant, broad hymn tune rings out, the cathedral choir reinforced by the members of Wells Cathedral School Chapel Choir. Leighton's use of the hymn is an inspired borrowing from the past – how often did he sing the hymn as a chorister at Wakefield, I wonder? There's nothing fancy about the treatment of the tune. Instead, we are reminded how thrilling it can be to hear unison voices singing a noble melody. The organ part underneath the voices reinforces and embellishes the melody quite splendidly. I was a little surprised that Leighton doesn't round off the work with a final "Amen" but no matter. This Sequence is a very fine work indeed and it receives a first class performance.
The World's Desire brings together in a very interesting way the different slants on the Feast of the Epiphany that are to be found in the Western Christian and Eastern Orthodox liturgies. Once again Leighton employs a fine and well-known hymn. In this case he uses Bishop Reginald Heber's "Brightest and best of the sons of the morning", using the tune 'Was lebet, was schwebet' – some may associate that melody, as do I, even more with another great Epiphany hymn, "O worship the Lord in the beauty of hol<|fim_middle|> It's an imaginative device, well executed here.
The second section consists chiefly of what Andrew Burn calls an "ardent unaccompanied carol." This is a setting for the choir of words by Richard Crashaw (1613-1649) It's a very arresting piece, containing some marvellously intense harmonic language and it would make a fine anthem in its own right. The second verse of the hymn is tacked onto this and then the choir and congregation (in this case the Cathedral School Chapel Choir) sing the first three verses of the hymn in unison, with organ accompaniment, to conclude Part I.
Part II opens with a raptly beautiful setting for unaccompanied choir of verses by G K Chesterton ("The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap"). The last verse of this is ravishing with a solo soprano – the excellent, pure-voiced Léonie Maxwell – soaring ethereally above the choir. The next section, Section IV of the work, contains more narration by the two male soloists against a potent organ accompaniment. The tenor solo is particularly ardent. At the end of this section we hear the choir, divided into seven parts, in splendidly mystical music.
The concluding section brings East and West together in the shape of words from the Liturgy of the Feast of Theophany, which links the Epiphany to Christ's baptism in the River Jordan, and the remainder of Heber's hymn. First, the choir sings words from the Eastern Orthodox liturgy and Leighton builds up both textures and tension masterfully, achieving a thrilling climax on the last line, "Thou art my beloved son, with thee I am well pleased." The organ leads back to a reprise of the third verse of the hymn, which is sung slowly, almost as a backdrop to the organ part. Then we hear more from the Orthodox text - an exultant, frequently unaccompanied setting of words beginning "Today the grace of the spirit in the form of a dove descended on the waters". The music now has immense power, culminating in the last two verses of Heber's hymn, the second of which is decorated by exuberant carolling in descant by the trebles and altos. The whole piece is performed with burning conviction and it rounds of the programme splendidly.
This is a superb disc. Though I know some of Kenneth Leighton's church music all the pieces included here were new to me and they make a strong impression. That is due not just to the high quality of the music but also to the tremendous performances that Matthew Owens and his Wells forces provide. In the past there have been some fine recordings of Leighton's church music, not least the excellent Naxos CD from St John's College, Cambridge (see review). However, this new disc serves his music in a quite exemplary fashion. In addition to the excellent performances this Hyperion package offers first class sound and a most interesting and readable set of notes by Andrew Burn. Hyperion and the Wells musicians have done Kenneth Leighton proud. | iness" but it fits either hymn text very well.
The work is in two parts and five sections – again, each is separately tracked. One important difference between this work and the Sequence is the inclusion of narrative about the Epiphany story, especially the visit of the Magi to King Herod. This narration, in the first and fourth sections, is shared between the choir and two soloists from within the choir, a tenor (Ian Milne) and a baritone (Christopher Sheldrake). Leighton's music for these narrative sections is very dramatic. It sounds to me if Christopher Sheldrake just tries a little too hard and, as a result, he gives the impression of forcing his tone a little, which is a pity. Towards the end of Section I the tenor has an impassioned passage of narration ("When they had heard the king, they went their way"). It is at this point that Leighton introduces the first line of the hymn. The choir meditates on this against the soloist's music. | 214 |
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BARTON, BERNARD (1784-1849), English poet, was born at Carlisle on the 31st of January 1784. His parents were Quakers, and he was commonly known as the Quaker poet. After some experience of business, he became, in 1809, clerk to Messrs Alexander's bank at Woodbridge, Suffolk, and retained this post till his death. His first volume of verse—Metrical Effusions—was published in 1812. It brought him into correspondence with Southey, and shortly afterwards, through the medium of a set of complimentary verses, he made the acquaintance of Hogg. From this time onwards to 1828 Barton published various volumes of verse. After 1828 his work appeared but rarely in print, but his Household Verses published in 1845 secured him, on the recommendation of Sir Robert Peel, a Civil List pension of £100 a year, £1200 having already been raised for him by some members of the Society of Friends. Barton is chiefly remembered for his friendship with Charles Lamb, which arose, curiously enough, out of a remonstrance addressed by him to the author of Essays of Elia on the freedom with which the Quakers had been handled in that volume. When Barton contemplated resigning his bank clerkship and supporting himself entirely by literature, Lamb strongly dissuaded him.<|fim_middle|>11:People:Individuals:Europe:Britain:Poets | "Keep to your bank," he wrote, "and the bank will keep you." Barton died at Woodbridge on 19th February 1849. His daughter Lucy married Edward FitzGerald.
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With a goal to provide better, faster, and more cost-effective human capital solutions than any of its larger rivals, one top HR search firm dives into the expanding world of talent consulting services.
February 25, 2021 – The Christopher Group, a boutique HR executive search and business solutions firm, has launched an HR consulting services division. The firm named Pam Noble as president of the new unit as well as practice leader for the firm's expanding diversity, equity, inclusion and engagement practice, which will now be part of the consulting services division. In addition, Tobin Anselmi joins the firm as the unit's talent management practice leader.
The new service offering was designed to help institutions with systems, tools and processes to deliver effective human capital solutions and leadership enabling them to retain, motivate, engage, develop and compensate the highest performing professionals, said the search firm. The new unit will work with leaders and teams to transform their organization enabling greater efficiencies, lower costs, improved agility, expanded innovation, and significantly improved individual and collective performance. "The reality is that we have been providing these services in a demand-pull capacity to our clients for many years and it was time to formalize the offering and practice," said Tom Christopher, founder and CEO. "The big consulting houses are all excellent firms but when we spoke to our clients there has been a longstanding frustration with the quality of the consultants actually doing the work, the never-ending cost escalations, poor responsiveness, and 'one-shoe-fits-all' approach."
Within the consulting services division, TCG practice specialties will include HR audit, compliance, labor/employee relations; DEI&E; talent management and organizational effectiveness; total rewards and HRIS; talent acquisition; and the CHRO Academy.
A Star Performer
"With a soft launch in 2020, a global pandemic sweeping the globe, and little to no marketing for the consulting services division, we were able to witness the concept establish itself as a star performer and high growth engine for the firm" said Mr. Christopher. "We are most excited about the leaders who will run the division, the respective practice areas, and the incredible consultants that have joined our team. Our goals are going to be simple; we are going to provide better, faster, and far more cost-effective human capital solutions than any of the 'big box' competitors. Period!"
In her new role, Ms. Noble will be responsible for the overall strategy and fulfillment of the division and leading the intellectual property, research, and fulfillment of assignments within the new unit's DEI&E practice specifically.
Ms. Noble, who joined the firm a year ago, brings over 25 years of comprehensive human resources leadership to The Christopher Group. Prior to joining TCG, she was senior vice president of human resources and chief engagement officer at Asurint, responsible for designing and delivering the company's human capital strategy focused on energizing the employee experience and driving business outcomes. She has also served as global director of organizational development and internal communications at Lincoln Electric, global vice president of human resources at AkzoNobel, senior vice president of talent, succession and performance management at National City Bank, director of human resources at Agilysis, and vice president of strategic staffing, training, and management at Citibank.
"I have had the opportunity to work with Pam on several significant consulting projects. She is selfless and a great fit with our company culture of servant leadership," said Nat Schiffer, recruiting services division co-president and managing director. "Additionally, Pam has dedicated her career to diversity, equity, inclusion and engagement initiatives as evidenced by her hard work and pursuit of her doctor of education degree from Wright Graduate University in transformational leadership."
A Gifted Leader
Mr. Anselmi, who will report to Ms. Noble, has held a variety of leadership roles with companies such as Aon Consulting, Frito-Lay, Dell, Microsoft, and Materion. Most recently he was the vice president, global talent management at Diebold Nixdorf, where he led the talent acquisition, learning and development, and talent management teams.
For more than 30 years, Mr. Anselmi has served as a consultant to organizational leadership on human capital management issues such as talent selection, performance management, development, and movement, organizational effectiveness, change management, and leadership development.
"I have had the honor of knowing Tobin for over 10 years and I am thrilled to announce he is joining the TCG consulting services division," said Ms. Noble. "He is a gifted talent management and organizational development leader with global experience. Additionally, his expertise in the areas of talent assessment, performance management, and succession planning, organizational effectiveness, and change management is unmatched. More importantly, at his core, he is a true servant leader."
Founded in 1998 by Tom and Paula Christopher (former HR executives with GE, Pepsi, Progressive Insurance and Citigroup), The Christopher Group is a boutique HR executive search and staffing solutions firms. It is a highly specialized organization, staffed by former HR professionals and highly trained search practitioners who use proprietary, scientific, and industry-leading systems, tools and processes. The firm has offices in Willoughby, OH; Sarasota, FL; and Kansas City, MO.
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This meditation begins by recalling your benefactors. Your benefactors are those who have held you in a wish of love, the simple wish for you to have happiness and wellbeing. Those who hold you in that wish are often the ones you especially like to be near. So one way to identify your benefactors is to recall people that you liked very much to be near at any point in your life. You might recall a dear relative, a friend of your parents that you adored being with, a favorite teacher or professor, a camp counselor or coach; you might recall a friendly stranger you encountered for even a moment in the store or at the park. Benefactors are people whom you enjoy bringing to mind, because their wish for your happiness, their simple wish of love, makes it feel so good to be in their presence.
In addition, also try bringing to mind a few spiritual figures as your benefactors, people who embody for you a stable and impartial love that seems to include everyone in its scope. Spiritual benefactors are those who have inspired and blessed you, through their<|fim_middle|> components to spiritual practice: Wisdom and Compassion. Associating with people, especially in difficult situations, helps us grow Compassion.
"Sky-Gazing Meditation" By Lama Surya Das: Lama Surya presents a path to accessing the sky-like nature of the Buddha Mind.
"Mindfulness in 2 Minutes" by Chade-Meng Tan: To "just be" is simultaneously the most ordinary and the most precious experience in life.
"Walking Meditation" by Steven V. Smith: Meditation doesn't always require you to sit still: walking meditation brings mindfulness to every step. | words, writings or the quality of their presence to you. You might recall a mentor who has been a key touchstone in your spiritual life. You might also recall people who have inspired you from afar, like Shakyamuni Buddha, Jesus, the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, or Martin Luther King.
As you follow the meditation instructions below, pause after each demarcated subsection (marked with a dashed line), to give yourself time to dwell on the instruction at hand.
Sensing these wonderful people before you, gently open to their wish of love. Imagine their wish as a gentle energy, a soft radiance, like a tender shower of healing rays. Bathe your whole body and mind in that tender radiance, all the way down to your toes and fingertips—communing with your benefactors in their wish of love for you.
Bask in the gentle, healing energy of that radiance. As other thoughts or feelings arise, let them be enveloped in that loving luminosity. No matter who you think you are, or what you think you deserve, all such thoughts are irrelevant now—just accept the benefactors' wish for your deepest happiness. Trusting this wish more than any limiting thoughts of yourself, receive it into your whole being.
Be at ease, open, and accepting, like a puppy lying in the morning sun, passively soaking up its rays. Communing with your benefactors in this way, absorb the soft, healing energy of their love into every cell of your body, every corner of your mind. Bathe in this, heal in this, rest in this.
After a little while, join your benefactors in their wish for you. While receiving the energy of their love, mentally repeat the wish for yourself, like this: "May this one have deepest well-being, happiness, and joy." Affirm the words repeatedly in your mind. Try to mean them as you say them, like your benefactors mean them for you, acknowledging the basic goodness of your being that always deserves such love. Repeat the wish for yourself while receiving your benefactors' love even more deeply into body and mind, communing with them through its radiance.
Finally, let go of yourself and merge into utter oneness with the radiance, dropping the visualization of benefactors and releasing any attempt to hold onto any sense of separation or any frame of reference. Let everything be just as it is within that gentle, luminous wholeness, beyond separation of self and others. Enjoy just being thus for a little while, at ease, at rest, complete.
This practice of rediscovering benefactors who have held you in their love, communing with them, and merging into oneness with them in the ground of such love provides the entryway into future meditation practices (described in this article). How so? When we feel alone, isolated, cut off and unloved, we cling tightly to our ego-centered thoughts of self and other for protection, to make our thought-made sense of self feel real and unassailable. When we feel loved just as we are, we sense that we don't have to make ourselves more real, more acceptable. We feel safe enough to let our minds relax into their underlying wisdom beyond self-grasping—to be given over to the mystery of our deepest awareness that is already endowed with capacities of impartial love and compassion. From there, we can let our innate capacity of love extend naturally to others in wider and wider circles of communion, in meditation sessions and then throughout our day. The love and wisdom of those practices empowers our minds to become newly conscious of layers of suffering we have repressed, layers that we share with all others, and of our shared capacity for deep inner freedom.
This becomes a bridge of empathy and communion with others in compassion and wisdom.
This article is excerpted from "Teaching Spiritual Practice: One Contemporary Buddhist Approach" (.pdf).
John Makransky is a professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College and a spiritual teacher within the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the guiding meditation teacher of the Foundation for Active Compassion. His books include Awakening Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness and Buddhahood Embodied: Sources of Controversy in India and Tibet.
"Cultivating Compassion: Meditation for Better Relationships" by Chade-Meng Tan: There are at least two | 891 |
Q: What is the difference between Ring, Field and Groups in abstract algebra? Groups, rings, fields all seem similar to me. I don't get the difference between them.
What is the difference between them algebraically and graphically?
Please give suitable example.
A:
Groups, rings, fields all seem similar to me. I don't get the difference between them.
Similar in what sense? The difference between a group and a ring is fundamental: a group is a pair $(G, \circ)$ with some additional axioms. A ring on the other hand is a triple $(R, +, \cdot)$ such that $(R,+)$ is an (abelian) group and some additonal axioms on $\cdot$.
Fundamentally a group has only one binary operation while a<|fim_middle|>)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(mathematics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_(mathematics)
| ring is a set equipped with two binary operations.
For example the set $\{-1, 1\}$ together with usual number multiplication is a group. Another example is a group of all permutations over a finite set $S_n$. On the other hand integers $\mathbb{Z}$ together with usual addition and multiplication is a ring. Note that this implies that $\mathbb{Z}$ is also a group if you look only at the addition.
Now a field is just a special ring: the one where every non-zero element is invertible (with respect to the second binary operation). For example $\mathbb{Z}$ is not a field, because $2$ has no multiplicative inverse (being $\frac{1}{2}$) but the set of rationals $\mathbb{Q}$ is a field. You can also think about fields as rings where division (by non-zero elements) is well defined.
To fully understand these definitions you need to read some sources. Wikipedia is a good place to start:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_(mathematics | 218 |
Marie-Elsa was interviewed by the Cumberland News a week before the Words By The Water Literary Festival in Keswick where she was interviewed by Peter Stanford.
You might expect someone who is a priest in the High Church, a therapist who helps people deal with dark personal crises and who has suffered a childhood tragedy to be stern, serious and even frosty.
The Rev Marie-Elsa Bragg is serious, but in a thoughtful, rather than a humourless way.She picks her words carefully, but there is lots of laughter and plenty of giggles as she recalls her younger self growing up in Cumbria.
She is warm and open and funny, with a ready laugh that makes you want to join in with her.The voice is soft and easy-going, perfect for radio and with tell-tale catches of Cumbrian to remind you of her 'home'.
Though she went to Oxford and has lived and worked in that city and in London for much of her life, Marie-Elsa is still firmly and happily rooted to the county.
Her mother, the French artist and writer Marie-Elisabeth Roche, committed suicide in 1971 when Marie-Elsa was six. Much of her childhood was spent in Wigton with her father's parents, Mary and Stanley, and great aunts and uncles. She remembers the time with them with huge affection and returns to Cumbria regularly to stay at the family cottage in a nearby village.
Crummock Water is her favourite area and the landscape of her debut novel.
Towards Mellbreak pays tribute to those who work the land and also to Cumbrians generally.
The book was written as a release. It started three summers ago. It had been a tough time, Marie-Elsa has been working on women's rights in the church.
She needed to regroup and recuperate and went on a spiritual retreat.
The retreat was in Stroud, Gloucestershire. 'Home' was a 250 mile journey by road, but just a blink of the eye away in her mind. Her thoughts turned into a story of a man's struggle to keep his farm and maintain the traditional ways.
The novel starts in 1971 as Harold inherits the family farm from his father.
He hopes that with the help of his grandmother and his Uncle Joe will be able to take the farm forward and prosper. But farming is undergoing huge change and increasingly harmful intervention.
The farm is under Ard Crags, near Crummock Water."The book goes from Ard Craggs, or Sail, down through Rannerdale, down the side to Crummock around the lake and to Mellbreak. It's a walk really," says Marie-Elsa.
How many times has she done the walk? Too many to remember.
"Crummock is my favourite lake, I can't count how many times I've been there, or how many times I've gone out on a boat. As a kid I would take flowers or things on the lake and throw them in," a giggle ripples out from her. "There's a bizarre collection of memorabilia at the bottom of the lake," the giggle is now a wave of laughter. She surfs the wave and thinks her relatives allowed her to do it "to keep me quiet".
The book is also a return to a time of happiness conjured from tragedy and grief. "When my mum died, my grandma became my second mother. I spent holidays and sometimes a lot longer in Wigton," she says. "They had a sweetshop and I used to get paid with Midget Gems for serving in the shop.
"The silver lining of my life is that I was really taken into my grandparents' life.
She aimed to portray those traditional ways and those who are so close to the land that there is a spiritual link with it.
"I started creative writing about the fells and felt it was really helpful. It is a wonderful way to think things through. Later I thought 'this might be a novel'. To write about the fells was very natural, to just write about what I know.
A second is due to be published next year and a third is also planned.
She had written before, but just for herself, as a way of "working things out".
She will be previewing the book at the Words by the Water festival where she will be in conversation with Peter Stanford about 'A Cumbrian Way of Life' and then at the Hay festival in May where she will be interviewed by former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. She is wary of the attention her novel will bring. Celebrity does not appeal, though that doorway to a shiny and often harsh world is now ajar. Certainly the idea of following the footsteps of her famous author and broadcaster father does not appeal, though she has had a taste of broadcasting.
The writing has to fit in around her work.
The Rev Bragg lives in London and is duty chaplain of Westminster Abbey.
<|fim_middle|> is published on Thursday, April 6.
Words by the Water book festival runs from Friday, March 3 to Sunday, March 12 at Theatre by the Lake. Visit www.theatrebythelake.com for the programme and to book.
Marie-Elsa will be talking to Peter Stanford about 'A Cumbrian Way of Life' at 2.30pm on Saturday, March 11. Tickets £10. Call 017687 74411. | She has been a Spiritual Director for over 20 years, a retreat leader for 18 of those years and a therapist and coach for 10 years, advising and counselling people of all faiths and none.That has involved talking with women of orthodox religions who have suffered domestic violence.
Towards Mellbreak is an accidental book, born out of Marie-Elsa's desire to recharge and refind herself. She showed the finished novel to her tutor and to her agent - but her acclaimed novelist father still has not seen it.
"Poor dad still has not read it," she confesses.
"I think it was important. I'm the next generation down of Cumbrian writers, he does things his way and I need to be clear it is absolutely my voice. I want to do well by Cumbria and express my Cumbrian heritage the best way I can.
Towards Mellbreak | 179 |
Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality
Dan Edelstein,
Anton M. Matytsin, editors
Johns Hopkins University Press, page(s): 312
According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment, Anton M. Matytsin, Dan Edelstein, and the contributors they have assembled deftly undermine this simplistic narrative. Emphasizing the ways in which religious beliefs and motivations shaped philosophical perspectives, essays in this book highlight figures and topics often overlooked in standard genealogies of the Enlightenment. The volume underscores the prominent role that religious discourses continued to play in major aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thought.
The essays probe a wide range of subjects, from reformer Jan Amos Comenius's quest<|fim_middle|> religion was central to Enlightenment thought. The term "enlightenment" itself had a deeply religious connotation. Rather than revisiting the celebrated breaks between the eighteenth century and the period that preceded it, Let There Be Enlightenment reveals the unacknowledged continuities that connect the Enlightenment to its various antecedents.
Contributors: Philippe Buc, William J. Bulman, Jeffrey D. Burson, Charly Coleman, Dan Edelstein, Matthew T. Gaetano, Howard Hotson, Anton M. Matytsin, Darrin M. McMahon, James Schmidt, Céline Spector, Jo Van Cauter. | for universal enlightenment to the changing meanings of the light metaphor, Quaker influences on Baruch Spinoza's theology, and the unexpected persistence of Aristotle in the Enlightenment. Exploring the emergence of historical consciousness among Enlightenment thinkers while examining their repeated insistence on living in an enlightened age, the collection also investigates the origins and the long-term dynamics of the relationship between faith and reason.
Providing an overview of the rich spectrum of eighteenth-century culture, the authors demonstrate that | 93 |
Excellent location for<|fim_middle|> Croagh Patrick awaits with invigorating hikes and stunning views. There are also mapped mountain and forest walks locally, including the Western Way and Tawnyard. For a memorable day trip, why not head south into County Galway, just over half an hour's drive away, with magnificent coastal scenery and the world renowned Connemara National Park? | all the stunning scenery and seascapes that County Mayo has to offer.
Where the majestic Croagh Patrick mountain overlooks beautiful Clew Bay at Murrisk, Westport Co.
Mayo, you will discover Reek View Apartment.
Situated in the grounds of the owners house, amidst mature gardens with babbling brook, this little gem oozes charm.
The interior has been lovingly decorated and furnished to provide comfort and quality during your stay.
With one double and one twin room, and a bright, airy, open plan kitchen/dining/living room, this cosy apartment is the perfect retreat to drop the luggage and explore this fantastic location.
The front gardens have wonderful views of the Atlantic ocean whilst the towering Croagh Patrick mountain paints the backdrop to the rear of the apartment.
The bustling town of Westport is a short drive away and is brimming with wonderful cafes, shops and restaurants.
Spend some time at nearby Bertra and Old Head beaches, golden sands, sea breezes, wonderful landscapes.
Travel on to Louisburgh along the coast and nearby Roonagh Pier, where the ferry will take to Clare Island and Inishturk Island.
Both are inhabited and offer a wonderful opportunity to savour island culture and traditions.
Fancy a climb to the summit of Croagh Patrick where the views over Clew Bay are astonishing.
Take a day trip to Clifden, passing by Kylemore Abbey with its victorian walled gardens, and Connemara National Park with its many treks and trails.
Plan your Mayo adventure at Reek View apartment...you won't wish your holiday to end !
All ground floor accommodation. Entrance hallway. Two bedrooms: 1 x double, 1 x twin. Bathroom with shower, WC and basin. Open plan living area with kitchen, dining area and sitting area.
The popular town of Westport offers a wide range of shops, restaurants, pubs and bars, and is alive with traditional music and rich Irish heritage. There are also good fishing rivers and lakes within easy reach, including the Erriff River, approximately three miles away, the Delphi River, approximately six miles away in the Doolough Valley and Moher Lake with boat rental four miles away. For those who enjoy a good walk, nearby, | 460 |
I found the case interviews to be straightforward. If you prepared, you'll be fine. Even if you didn't prepare much but you're just used to thinking on your feet, you'll probably be fine.
One where<|fim_middle|> equation is in front of you and you have agreed with the interviewer on it, you'll find it translates to a fairly easy, common sense discussion. In general in any R2 interview, structure and communication skills are supreme.
Glassdoor has 1,976 interview questions and reports from Associate Consultant interviews. Prepare for your interview. Get hired. Love your job. | there is a established base for interaction, but I am allowed to tailer my interaction to the customers needs.
What is the most innovative invention of the recent decade?
Why do you want to work here? Where have you worked before?
What is the one thing that you want me to know about you at the end of this interview?
This question was really unexpected because it is so broad. I tried to incorporate both my technical skills and people skills into the response.
At 9am today, how many airplanes are in the air are at gates in the USA? Show the though process of how you would go about creating this estimate.
There is no right or wrong answer, it is important to show the methodology of how you would attempt to calculate this number.
A round 2 case with the Partner. Case was about VAT (sales tax) recovery option for foreign tourists in a country. The agency that handles the VAT recovery is an investment target for a private equity firm. The task was to suggest growth strategies to the pr.eq. for the agency's business. Note the deliberate use of multiple confusing layers, and bringing up an industry that you are sure never to have heard of. The challenge is to be able to deal with such situations.
Think step by step. Cut down to what growth means, numerically and non-numerically, for a firm like this. Try to lay it out in the form of an equation / framework, and use the terms in the equation as drivers to growth. Remember to prioritize these drivers (esp in R2!!). Once this | 315 |
So I wasn't able to finish all the books on my TBR for the month. I'd wanted to read two books each by six different authors I'd come across in college or through blogging, but I fell short of that. I read a pair of books by Italo Calvino, Clarice Lispector, Qiu Miaojin, and Haruki Murakami, but only a single book by Marguer<|fim_middle|> 1947 and Voices from Chernobyl!
I haven't read much poetry in translation either, beyond what I read in college, and I'll be sure to check out Akhmatova's and Tsvetaeva's work.
Clarice Lispector is a tough one for sure. I remember hesitating over the stars rating when I finished The Passion According to G.H. What the heck rating would I even give that book? And I can't even tell you now what I went with – it could have been anything from 1 to 5 stars! It was a provoking and very unusual book, but I don't know that I can say I enjoyed reading it or that I agreed with much of what she says. She has passionate devotees and angry detractors (I found them all online) but I'm a little in the middle. I may need to read more.
You still managed to read a lot in January – good list!
Haha, I had the same reaction to The Passion According to G.H. Rating the book felt arbitrary, just because it's so unusual and really in a class of its own. Her work does seem to polarize people, and I'm glad to know that I'm not alone in feeling somewhere in the middle. From what I've read I think her stories are a bit more accessible than her novels, but I could just feel that way because they're shorter and less of a time commitment.
Thanks! I have a feeling February will be much less productive.
Excellent approach to balancing your to be read books. You really are inclusive! | ite Duras and Maryse Condé.
Since the two books out of twelve I didn't finish were written by women, Duras's War and Condé's Segu, I'll add both to my list of books to read in August for Women in Translation month. The length of Segu, at just under 500 pages, deterred me from completing the book, which is a bad reading habit I'd like to overcome this year, and it took me weeks to track down a copy of War.
I was a bit surprised that I didn't like all the books on my list. So many people whose tastes I respect love Clarice Lispector and Italo Calvino, but neither made a lasting impression on me and I'll have to revisit their work after some time has passed. I've also heard great things about Murakami, but his style struck me as very much like Fitzgerald's or Salinger's—and I'm not a fan of either author.
Throughout January I also checked out a few novels in translation that weren't on my initial list: Han Kang's The Vegetarian, Iwaki Kei's Farewell, My Orange, and Niviaq Korneliussen's Last Night in Nuuk (published in the UK as Crimson). I'd encountered these novels over the past few months through blogging, and they turned out to be some of my favorite titles from the month. For great full reviews of each, respectively written by Cathy, Claire, and Paula, just click on the links above.
Toward the end of the month I also read and reviewed Kamala Harris's The Truths We Hold and Rebecca Solnit's Wanderlust. I'm planning on shifting to reading memoir in February, and these offered a nice transition, though Wanderlust didn't include as much personal narrative as I'd expected.
Having a monthly theme to my reading worked really well for me, and I'm definitely planning on continuing that throughout 2019. So long as I'm open to reading things that aren't on my initial monthly list, I don't think I'll grow bored or fall into a reading slump.
If anyone has any suggestions on books in translation written by women, whether they're fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, I'd love to hear them! I'm trying to compile a full list for August, and any recommendation would be helpful.
Thanks so much for the link Michael – I'm really glad you enjoyed The Vegetarian. If you are compiling a list, I would recommend Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes, or anything by Yoko Ogawa. Look forward to seeing what you choose!
The Vegetarian definitely was a great read with an unforgettable ending. Both authors sound really interesting — thanks for the recommendations!
Poetry-wise I love the Russian poets, like Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, that era. I think they're affecting even in translation, especially considering translated poetry is so tricky!
Thanks for the link — that's super useful as a reference! I've been searching for nonfiction in translation, but it's hard to find anything unless you already have a topic in mind. Keen to read | 646 |
Back in the old days, when an album cover and a name were enough for a chance purchase, this is the album you'd bring home to hear from a band called something like The Physics of Meaning. With silhouettes of a winged creature and a snake on the front and back covers, respectively, it portends a fantastic tale whose drama rolls in like summer stormclouds, dark, sudden and fierce. You wanted to explore.
Snake Charmer and Destiny at the Stroke of Midnight is the second album by Daniel Hart's loose musical collective, Chapel Hill's The Physics of Meaning. Sometime violinist to St. Vincent, John Vanderslice andmore to the pointThe Polyphonic Spree, Hart delivers a moody, dynamic epic<|fim_middle|> you listen to, which might sound strange, except music's more an accessory or soundtrack these days than the central locus. People don't want to explore as much. Like his rich lyrical metaphors ("Where's the snake charmer who can cure the venomous heart?") and multi-movement passages, Hart's latest requires time and attention to fully digest. Effort, though, is a chief constituent in most things of value. | here, its swooning, fevered, 12-song course often seeming better-suited for the theater than the club. Like the Spree, Hart likes big tapestries and stages and screens. But if the Spree once made Jesus Christ Superstar, Hart's latest is Tristan und Isolde.
Indeed, this richly orchestrated rock-opera focuses on a pair of seemingly star-crossed lovers, who, in a familiar glyph, discover each other only to be pulled apart. Hart employs 20 additional instrumentalists and almost as many vocalists on an album whose scope and dynamics suggest a major motion picture. Its ambition recalls the progressive rockers of the '70s, and Hart is, not coincidentally, also a student of classical music, fashioning several moments of elegant delicacy showcasing such influence.
Though the album definitely rocks at pointslike the trilling-cello that's the racing heartbeat beneath "No More Sleeping in the Shadows"those moments have quieter counterparts, even within the same song. On tracks such as the harp- and harmony-driven lullaby "Around the Bend," the cinematic swell feels almost Hollywood.
This isn't a strict criticism, though, as Snake Charmer is wonderfully crafted and gracefully executed. But its pacing and texture are considered enough to risk becoming lost as background music. This is music that | 273 |
Curtains: David Barker's Dodging Bullets at ASU Tempe
Julie Peterson | April 17, 2009 | 12:21<|fim_middle|> Tickets are free, first come, first served, and parking can be tricky, so plan to arrive early. | pm
A theater experience always includes, at a minimum, you and a performer. Ideally, you both emerge transformed.
It doesn't get much more perfectly bare-bones than Dodging Bullets, a one-man show by ASU prof and local theater artist David Barker. In 65 minutes on a nearly empty stage, this apparently average middle-aged guy takes you through his interior and exterior life so far, spiraling out from and obsessively returning to one indelible moment in 2004 -- when his brother-in-law tried to kill Barker and his sister.
When Barker embarked on the sabbatical that was to result in Dodging Bullets, he and the university had agreed that he'd develop a show that was "more personal and revealing" than his solo work up to that point. He knew he was turning 50 soon and worried that nothing that had ever happened to him was worth presenting to an audience. Life, as it tends to do, picked that summer to raise the stakes and provide him with a story he's compelled to tell.
David Barker is a professional mime, a fight choreographer, a trained classical actor, and a teacher of stage movement, among other talents. You'd be hard pressed to find another arts practitioner in the Valley (or maybe anywhere) who knows more about the use of the instrument that is the human body, or who has more access to physical range and control, as well as an understanding of how perception, thought, and emotion dovetail with the body's systems.
But Barker's a human being, too. It's fascinating to watch as he portrays his struggle to deal with the impact of the violent, traumatic event on himself and his family. While it's probably extra-interesting for his fellow artists and for other survivors of violence, it's an evening that everyone can relate to, largely because of Barker's clarity and humility as a performer and Ben Tyler's sympathetic, pinpoint direction.
When all of the well-crafted loose ends have been pulled together and Barker takes his bow, all he's really revealed about himself is that he meets the criteria for a diagnosis of PTSD and that his faith in God is a positive, powerful force in his life, helping him become a better artist and a better man. But considering what Barker and the audience have just been through together, that's enough for now.
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Kudos for chasing down this story. My partner recalls the Simpson Garden. Says it's where Osh is now (he lived in the trailor camp where Target now is). As a kid, he and his friends snuck in after hours to spend the night. They got busted and kicked out. He remembers the birds.
btw: My grandfather lost his home to the 210 freeway also. Little white clapboard house centered on a large lot he dedicated to growing his victor garden. I remember it as such.
Perhaps, the Parrot s/b named the official city Bird?!
If a booklet on Pasadena Parrot history hasn't been written, then it should. And, I think I've just read the outline to begin the process for it.
Thanks, Sarah. You know, I enjoy the parrots very much and have waited a long time for a photo that justified a post. Luckily I got an obliging parrot.
PA, I always appreciate your insights. Your comment makes me curious to know the story behind the 210, the businesses and homes that were lost.
The parrot presence has been quiet on the northwest side, lately. I was worried about them. Now I know where they went. They must have eaten all the berries here and they're off to decimate your part of town.
I had lunch with my daughter in Jamul a couple of Sundays ago. I didn't realize the Simpsons' tradition was being carried on there.
My dad, who just turned 90, was the insurance adjuster who handled this fire claim in 1959 (although he thought it was 1957) says the cages were opened during the fire so the parrots could escape and survive. He was working for LibertyMutual at the time.
Interesting side note on the parrots. In their native land, NE Mexico, they are endangered and the feral populations are larger than the native populations. The SG Valley group may be the largest remaining group for the entire species.
A lot of the parrots live in the Arboretum on Baldwin. I grew up in E.Pasadena in the 60's and remember Simpson's fondly. I used to go to the lawnmower shop and druel over his mini-bike inventory. That was a good neighborhood before the freeway. Bob's Big Boy, Besse Park, Boys'Club,Hastings Drive In, the motorcycle shop on Colorado and Madre, Moonlight Rollerway with a Chicken Delight stand out front. Another world.
My name is Dillon Novak and I have found your article in my OWN search for the origins of these magical parrots.
I am a film director here in Pasadena and I would say my number one favorite thing about living here is these wonderful green and red squawking friends. I could go on and on about them, but I guess that is why I have fiercely decided to begin a documentary about them.
Thank you for your lovely post, it has been the best told and most accurate accounting of the story that I have found.
I would love to talk more about them with you and would be honored if you could be a part of the telling of their story.
Please let me know if this would be something that you'd have fun doing. I think there are a lot of people in our community that are big fans of them and would enjoy seeing an exploration into their special story.
I do hope that you will reach out. Thank you for your time.
I just shared your story with a young lady in the office I work in. She did not know where the Parrots came from, and I did. I was born and raise in Pasadena from 1956. And even as a little girl, I never forgot the first at Simpsons. We lived right down the street from it. My Mom always went there at least twice a month for item, and I always enjoyed the birds. They had a talking Mina bird, though I cannot remember its name. I remember crying when we saw the fire, and thinking they were all killed. And then we heard they had opened the cages and the birds were freed. But not all of them made it. And the Parrots who made it, nobody held out any hope that they would survive in the concrete jungle<|fim_middle|> in El sereno/Alhambra area and love seeing and hearing them. I am amazed that while most of the nation is dealing with harsh weather, I able to experience a flock of at least 50 or more parrots fly from tree to tree. Hope their legacy continues for ever. I don't understand how their are people that lack empathy and want them out of their neighborhoods. Give our green friends a break and learn to coexist with each other.
I grew up in pasadena, going to Simpsons with my mother. After the fire in 1959 they rebuilt on the same lot, then suffered a second fire, once again turning all the birds loose. I know this fact because I always took my own daughters, who were born in the early 1960s, there. They loved it and remember it welll, visiting the various birds for sale. They were so sick, thinking at first that the birds had perished. Besides the parrots Simpson's had then a Java myna bird with an entertaining list of words and phrases such as saying in a woman's voice, "Call the dog! Call the dog!"; and in a gruff older man's voice, "Hello, George! Hello, George!" I can still hear that bird today! They also turned loose that time a large sulphur crested cockatoo that flew around the skies of Pasadena and Altadena for years and years. I got to see it fly in to land on the spiky tip of a tall juniper that grew in the neighbor's yard behind my own. As the tree grew too tall, he would land and perch on the side of it. I guess that area was the same number of feet above sea level - why else? Simpson's also had freed a huge, gorgeous, blue Amazon parrot that second time. For years we often saw it flying though the parking lot when we went to The Huntington Gardens. Just think: if that cockatoo and that blue Amazon had mates, what might be flying today in the skies of Pasadena and Altadena, shrieking like no other birds now in our skies and trees. | of southern California. Everytime I hear them, and then see them, I smile and thank God that they are around, love them.
Born in Pasadena in 1955, I remember visiting Simpson's regularly with my Mom and enjoying looking at the parrots. I Also remember the fire the release of the parrots. They flourished, visiting the tangerine tree next to my bedroom window. When in the area Now, I enjoy hearing them and look forward to seeing them.
Fun fact: Amazon parrots can live up to 100 years old in the wild. Some of the parrots in Pasadena are STILL the original parrots.
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Ellie and Luke get back into town today, but not until this evening, so this morning was set up perfectly for a second straight week of the rarest of the rare...a Saturday morning run. For the past several days, I've been suffering from something that I can only equate to one of Moses's plagues upon Egypt.<|fim_middle|> was a pleasant run. I did a quick spin around Wash Park, and then decided to run through some of the neighborhoods surrounding the park. I passed by a few churches that looked really cool in the Saturday morning light. I'm not sure the reason, but I thought that Platt Park Church looked especially nice. It made me feel good just seeing it. I think it's how the light blue on their doors and sign contrasts with the brick. It's a good look.
At around the five mile mark, I did something I have never done on one of my runs before. I wiped out. I was running south on York, and clipped my shoe on an uneven sidewalk and didn't even come close to gathering myself and before I knew it I was on a collision course with the sidewalk. I was actually rather proud with how well I rolled into the fall. It didn't hurt all that badly, although my arm is a little sore now, but I'm sure I'll be fine. Mostly it was a combination of embarrassing and surprising. I couldn't believe it had happened. I sat on the sidewalk for about 15 seconds before getting up, looking around to see if anyone had witnessed my act of extreme grace, and thankful that it appeared I had succumbed to gravity in relative privacy, I quickly began running down the road again. The run must go on, after all. | It manifests itself in a horrible rash that forced me into a dermatologists' office yesterday. They have me on creams and pills, which hopefully will take care of things, but in the mean time, a bit of exercise does NOT improve things, as I discovered on this run.
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Onboard the Gravytrain: I have never seen so much snow!
Thankfully, I have made it back to Brooklyn. I was worried that the blizzard which dumped about 18 inches of snow on New York City the day after Christmas would severely disrupt my flight back. I was one of the lucky ones and flew out of Nashville with only a slight delay. The terminal at Newark Airport was packed with people when I arrived. I can't imagine having your flight cancelled and being stranded for so long! Hopefully things have been straightened out for all<|fim_middle|> mess outside? Make food, of course! I have been cooking up a storm the last day and a half. Check the fruits of my labor out here, here, and here. | those travelers!
I really had no idea what to expect when I arrived home. We had been watching the news stories in Alabama about the snow and poor plowing but it didn't really click until I was trudging from the subway to my apartment. Most of the streets in my neighborhood had been plowed but huge banks of snow had piled up along the sidewalks, making it super tricky to cross at intersections. Then there are deceivingly deep puddles filled with slush and freezing water that you don't see until you are ankle deep in them. And this was 3 days after the storm! I can't imagine what it was like early in the week. If I had been around, I think Aubie and I would have buckled down and not left the apartment for days.
Here are some photos I took around the neighborhood on Thursday, December 30th. I don't think this snow is going anywhere soon!!
I think I know why Puerto Rico does it better...just a guess.
Snow piled up as high as street signs!
Meadow in Prospect Park and sledders!
Slushy mess! I could do without this "winter" thing!
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Many workers are unhappy and discontent in their job. Cases of failing performance and low productivity in employees, as well as workers quitting, are attributed to chronic unhappiness at work. It is estimated that a workforce that is happy at the job is 12% more productive since they can use their time effectively.
One of the most effective ways of plowing happiness in employees is through the establishment of a positive work environment that helps increase the productivity and active engagement of the employees. Such a work setting will, in turn, lead to significant satisfaction among the staff and this translates to improved business returns. Companies can achieve such a fit through various methods. Working with the Clarity Clinic can result in your staff feeling more content, therefore more productive. Below are three strategies that have been found to have a profound impact in cultivating happing at the workplace and promoting employee wellbeing.
For many in employment, balancing their work life and personal life is a difficult thing. Businesses are investing in ways of improving this situation, but strike that elusive balance proves a daunting challenge. The positive thing to take home for this is that the overall objective is to provide some relief to workers who feel stressed and overworked. It is a move that seeks to help employees work at the most opportune time when<|fim_middle|> engagement, increasing their productivity, and keeping them happy thus maintaining their loyalty to the company. Some of the benefits of working for the company that businesses can offer their employees include free gym memberships, paid vacations, company cars, and housing among other things that workers have high regard for compared monetary remuneration.
Today's workforce mostly constitutes of millennials, and these are a butch that is more than happy to change jobs every few years as they seek something new, different, exciting, and rewarding. By adding a few compelling benefits, companies can have a better grip on things regarding retaining such a workforce.
Richard Branson advises organization to train people well enough for them to leave, but also treat them well enough for them never to want to go. It is all about improving employee engagement and making them happy in their jobs; this should be the top priority for any company that seeks to have a content and productive workforce. | they are at their most receptive thus aiding to increase or maintain their productivity.
Concentration over long periods is something that many people find hard. It is such facts that are the basis of research that suggests that shorter working days could have a role in driving up productivity.
Embracing a more flexible working culture that allows employees to have some time away from the office can help increase their efficiency and productivity at work. If they perceive the workplace as a conducive environment, they are more likely to be engaged and happier thus more productive.
Aside from wanting more flexibility at work, today's employees also want recognition for achievements made as well as better opportunities for professional and personal development. Such things are a sharp contrast to the financial incentives and companies are quick to offer.
80% of the workforce today is likely to stay longer in employment in a company if they see promise in a growing career in the organization. But the disbandment of traditional career ladders, showing such a possibility within the future of the business is something that companies are finding a challenge. However, they can help improve employee retention by allowing them to explore their desired professional roles within the business. The provision of learning and development programs can help workers see where they are at, where they want to go in their careers, and the gaps they will have to fill along the way. The programs should be gateways through which employees can have access to relevant resources for learning what they need to know about progressing their careers.
Technological advancements continually necessitate the need for routine training across different sectors. The same gains have helped establish platforms and processes that workers can access information and develop their knowledge and skills. Therefore, the HR departments in companies should have automated processes of monitoring the progress of employees to identify areas where they need help to help them improve at a personal and professional level. It will help keep the company's staff motivated and productive and less inclined to seek employment and better opportunities elsewhere.
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SXSW Film Review: Ron Howard's 'We Feed People' Spotlights Chef José Andrés
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Making its debut at SXSW 2022 was Ron Howard's entertaining and exciting documentary about celebrity chef José Andrés and his World Central Kitchen, leaping fearlessly into disaster areas to provide comforting food to survivors.
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When We Feed People opens, a vehicle is being violently tossed around in floodwaters. It seems as if it's going to tip over, and someone inquires, "Can everybody swim?" It's the voice of chef José Andrés as he and his team are attempting to bring meals to people in North Carolina after Hurricane Florence left a path of destruction. Thus begins Howard's intimate documentary about chef José Andrés and his laudable efforts to bring a warm meal and, hopefully, some comfort to displaced people all over the world.
Raised in Spain, Andrés came to America and became a culinary superstar. He wrote cookbooks, won awards, ran successful restaurants and was a ubiquitous presence on television food shows. Then,<|fim_middle|> 1
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Andrés understood that food is just as important as anything else survivors need, and he set out to deliver just that. And these aren't baloney sandwiches and a bag of chips. They're hot meals, prepared according to the tastes of the particular culture of the people they happen to be feeding. He achieves this with the help of local cooks who know how to make the food their people want to eat, "and not the way some white savior thinks it should be cooked."
This is not to say that everything is a breeze. When he needs to, he bulldozes his way through, even when it involves bending the law. "It's easier to ask forgiveness [later]," said one of his team members. Playing fast and loose with rules is how he gets things done. If he waited for bureaucratic red tape to be clipped, people would suffer more — perhaps even starve. "I'm good at seeing big problems and seeing they have very simple solutions," he said.
Although the film mostly steers clear of politicization, footage of then-President Trump cynically flinging rolls of paper towels at Puerto Ricans is contrasted with Andrés actually on the ground doing something. Howard's film runs a tidy 87 minutes, telling the story of this (literally) bigger-than-life man who seeks to do good in the world. Well photographed by Kris Kaczor, it is truly a bird's-eye view into the efforts of the organization.
Andrés had received several offers to document his exploits, but he turned them down. It was only when Howard approached him that he thought that he didn't want to be 90 years old and say, "Shit, and I told Ron Howard no."
The film includes interviews with his wife and children. While offering him unconditional support, they worry that he's burning himself out, and he worries about being away from them for too long. But then there's another disaster to handle. As a matter of fact, when We Feed People was making it SXSW debut, he was providing sustenance for the people of Ukraine.
Feature image: José Andrés carries a tray of food in a field from a helicopter. Sam Bloch, WCK's Director of Emergency Response, follows behind him (Sebastian Lindstrom).
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Q: What's the (business) term in English for an action where a customer returning product to seller because they are not<|fim_middle|>or recalled) to the supplier on a mass scale typically due to the discovery of some sort of serious defect or problem in them:
A product recall is a request to return a product after the discovery of safety issues or product defects that might endanger the consumer or put the maker/seller at risk of legal action.
A: "Return" is the correct word. "Return" is a verb. We say, "The customer returned the product". We DO NOT call it "a return order". You can call it "a returned item" or "a returned product", or simply "a return".
Yes, a "repeat order" is ordering the same thing again, ordering something you had previously ordered again. There is no ambiguity with "return". We do NOT say "a return order" to mean ordering the same thing again. I suppose you could say, "The customer returned to the store and bought the same item again", but it would be "returned to the store [or, our web site] and made a repeat order", NOT "made a return order".
| satisfied? The closest term I can find is "return order", but I feel that it's very similar with "repeat order", so I'm afraid it has a double meaning.
A: I'm not saying that I'm one hundred percent sure whether this is the precise term they use in the business world, but purchase return is what instantly came to mind when I saw your post:
A purchase return occurs when a buyer returns merchandise that he or she has purchased from a supplier.
Another similar term would be product recall, but product recall usually only applies to situations where products are returned ( | 117 |
'Star Wars' Director Reveals What's Next For Princess Leia In Episode IX Following Carrie Fisher's Death
Sunday, December 17, 2017 - 11:42
In the months leading up to the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Lucasfilm released some moving footage from the set of the film that showed Carrie Fisher in all her warm, goofy glory working alongside members of the cast and production. Fisher wrapped shooting for The Last Jedi before she passed away on December 27, 2016, and the film is now a bittersweet tribute to Fisher, as a dedication to her takes up the screen shortly after the credits start rolling.
When Johnson returned to work on The Last Jedi at the start of 2017, "the very first conversation" he had with Lucasfilm had to do with whether or not he'd make any adjustments or major changes to the film following her passing. The short answer to that complicated question? He had no intention of changing The Last Jedi, because Fisher's final turn as Leia is pretty much perfect.
"I felt really strongly that what we have here is so beautiful and the way that the character develops, the way it's paid off, and not only that, the horror of trying to manufacture something that — I don't even know what it would have been," Johnson told The Hollywood Reporter in a new interview, confirming that there was really no alternative to working with what he had. "I think it will mean a lot for them, that ray of hope from Leia. For all of those reasons I felt really strongly that we had to let this fly."
As for what comes next for Fisher and J.J. Abrams's yet-to-be-titled Episode IX, Johnson has the utmost confidence that he'll handle the next chapter of Leia's story with care. (Shortly after her death, Lucasfilm confirmed that they would not digitally recreate the late Fisher for The Last Jedi or any film following it.)
"Luckily we have a fantastic storyteller in J.J. Abrams who is going to figure out a way to bring it home in the end, that's going to be satisfying, I know he's going to," he said. "With this movie I just wanted audiences to have this performance."
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A Dog's Purpose - With all the animal cruelty talk surrounding the movie, we didn't know what to think while watching those cute puppies.
Life - Another lost-in-space movie that we only saw for Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds.
mother! - A bit of a mind f*ck
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - Not even Captain Jack could patch this sinking ship...
Baywatch - With so much hype about a remake, nothing beats classic Hoff and Pam.
The Great Wall - A lot of white-washing controversy surrounding this movie made it hard to get excited for it's release.
Transformers: The Last Knight - Unless Shia Labeouf is yelling "You can do it!" we're not too interested.
The House - With a crazy funny cast people were definitely expecting to be laughing the whole time...
Flatliners - Sometimes we shouldn't try to remake a classic...
Daddy's Home 2 - We absolutely love everyone in the cast, but that wasn't enough to make up for the cheap jokes and reused plot.
The Mummy - This movie only got 16% on Rotten Tomatoes which isn't great for Tom Cruise's record...
The Circle - Another near future science fiction movie that seemed epic in the trailer, but just didn't quite get there in the end.
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Two days ago, Benjamin Nowack announced the re-release of Knowee, a distributed social web address book. Knowee started out as a project supported by the W3C Semantic Web Interest Group and will also available for download soon. This means you can install it on your own server, if you like.
Knowee is somewhat similar to NoseRub as it aggregates many of your profiles from popular social networks and applications like Twitter, Identi.ca, or Delicious. But Knowee adds a lot of semantic wizardry to all the data its bots collect over time. Among the technologies employed are FOAF, RDF, Microformats, OpenID, Google's Social Graph API, and SPARQL. The latter makes it easy to re-use the aggregated information in other applications. Without digging too deep into all these formats and APIs, let me say this seems to evolve into a very powerful tool, far more than a simple address book. For more info, read the introductory blog post, or simply take a shot at it<|fim_middle|>. | .
That being said, I'm a little irritated about how little buzz Knowee has created so far (only 4[!] hits on Technorati?). Is everyone simply fed up with yet another social network aggregator? Or am I just a little bit too impatient? I don't know, but I know that Knowee deserves more attention even if it's still in an early stage. Especially since I'm sure that Benjamin will add more useful features soon, e.g. the integration of MyBlogLog.
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The majority of work orders that Biomedical Engineers in hospital receive are a result of operator error or physical abuse. These issues add up to major costs for a hospital, when all that's necessary to "fix" the device is to give it a restart, or ensure all device wires are connected properly.
Developing an experiment to look into how a simple change can have impact. The research study would use control groups of medical devices in various different hospitals, changing the beginning of the day check-up for every other device.
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The disinfectants used to sterilize medical devices often cause damage that result in the device becoming unusable.
Research current standards around the issue. Figure out how standards can be developed that ensure disinfectants meet infection control procedures and don't cause device<|fim_middle|> that needs to be resolved is communication between Biomedical Engineering Departments in a hospital with United Hospital Services (UHS), since usually these loaner or demo equipment is managed by UHS.
There needs to be standard documentation procedures across hospitals in the way that they input data into their databases so that they can be analyzed easily for future research and learning.
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Unowned equipment coming into the hospital (e.g. loaner and demo equipment) need to be documented and the safety of the device needs to be ensured.
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Welsh ragga metallers SKINDRED are the kind of band you just have to go and see live. They raise the roof in any venue they play. Their heady, unique fusion of music styles and vibrant creativity, alongside their aim of bringing people of all backgrounds together, and achievements doing so, drew Ross Holland — head brewer of Box Social Brewing — to want to work with this iconic band.
Ross, founder of Box Social Brewing — a 15-barrel U.K. micro-brewery based in Newburn, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne — has also always aimed to bring people together over a good beer. SKINDRED's seamless blend of metal, ska, rock, hip-hop and more resonated with him, hence he got in touch with their charismatic, larger-than-life frontman Benji Webbe.
Walking down to see the band play their Newcastle gig, Ross thought about how amazing it would be to create a unique beer with the band, whose seven albums he had heard dozens of times each.
Following SKINDRED's performance, Ross talked with both the band and 7PM Management, working out how to make a beer that could represent the band and brewery both. Eventually, they settled on a particular recipe: a complex, unique beer, that unites both rich roasted bitter flavors, with the sweetness of vanilla and the spice of Jamaica. This beer is a harmonious blend of different flavours — a fitting tribute to the band, uncompromising on flavour and texture, yet equally unique, inviting and open to everyone.
But what to name it? The moniker they hit on was Union Black after SKINDRED's fourth album: A complex, unique beer, that unites both rich roasted bitter flavors, with the sweetness of vanilla and the spice of Jamaica. The beer is a harmonious blend of different flavours, a fitting tribute to the band, uncompromising on flavour and texture, yet equally unique, inviting and open to everyone.
"This beer is the perfect representation of Box Social Brewing and SKINDRED," says Ross, "And can be enjoyed by all people, together. Best enjoyed listening to their unique sound, we hope you like it!"
For anyone wanting to order the beer or to know more about Box Social Brewing, go to www.boxsocial.pub.
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He's putting a ring on it!
What royal engagement?
Kyle Sandilands revealed plans to propose to his girlfriend of six years, Imogen Anthony, while walking the ARIAs red carpet on Tuesday.
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Q: Port existing php application in spark streaming We have a huge existing application in php which
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*Accepts a log file
*Initialises all the database, in-memory store resources
*Processes every line
*Creates a set of output files
Above process happens per input file.
Input files are written by a kafka consumer. Is<|fim_middle|>You can use this library for your need:
https://github.com/Lazyshot/storm-php
Then you will also have to find a PHP Thrift client to interact with the Storm cluster.
The Storm Thrift definition can be found here:
https://github.com/apache/storm/blob/master/storm-core/src/storm.thrift
And a PHP Thrift client example can be found here:
https://thrift.apache.org/tutorial/php
Now putting these things together you can write your own Apache Storm app in PHP.
Information sources:
http://storm.apache.org/about/multi-language.html
http://storm.apache.org/releases/current/Using-non-JVM-languages-with-Storm.html
| it possible to fit this application in spark streaming by somehow not porting all the code in java? For example in following manner
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*get a message from kafka topic
*Pass this message to spark streaming
*Spark streaming somehow interacts with legacy app and generates output
*spark then writes output again in kafka
Whatever I have just mentioned is too high level. I just want to know whether there's a possibility of doing this by not recoding existing app in java? And can anyone please tell me roughly how this can be done?
A: I think there is no possibility to use PHP in Spark directly. According to documentation (http://spark.apache.org/) and my knowledge it supports only Java, Scala, R and Python.
However you can change an architecture of your app and create some external services (ws, rest etc) and use them from Spark (you can use whichever library you want) - not all modules from old app must be rewritten to Java. I would try to go in that way :)
A: I think Storm is an excellent choice in this case because it offers non-jvm language integration through Thrift. Also I am sure that there is a PHP Thrift client.
So basically what you have to do is finding a ShellSpout and ShellBolt written in PHP (this is the integration part needed to interact with Storm in your application) and then write your own spouts and bolts which are consuming Kafka and processing each line.
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Distillers in Houston, statewide team up to advocate for tax relief
June 03, 2020 7:34 PM | Anonymous
By Laura Gillespie
– Reporter, Houston Business Journal
Jun 3, 2020, 2:39pm CDT
Distillers across the state are asking Texas' members of Congress to provide relief in light of the coronavirus pandemic, which has proved devastating to their businesses.
The Texas Distilled Spirits Association, the Texas Whiskey Association and the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States co-signed a letter asking the Texas congressional delegation to provide tax relief.
That includes providing federal excise tax relief, deferring federal excise taxes, suspending tariffs on distilled spirits and creating an industry stabilization fund.
Carlos de Aldecoa, CEO of Gulf Coast Distillers in Houston, chiefly wants to be treated the same as local breweries and wineries in terms of legislature. De Aldecoa cites a number of rules imposed upon distilleries that breweries and wineries don't have, like limiting the number of bottles they can sell per person per month.
"Why should distilleries be treated differently?" De Aldecoa said. "That's really the biggest issue. It's not a matter of wanting to reinvent the wheel; it's really wanting to have a fair and level set of rules."
De Aldecoa estimates his company has donated $800,000 of hand sanitizer to various organizations, including first responders, the Houston Zoo, nonprofits and oil and gas companies. Because of that, he believes his economic impact is worth acknowledging.
Michael Langan, head of distillery at Yellow Rose Distilling, also believes there's a disparity in how breweries and wineries are treated versus distilleries.
"The parity between spirits, wine and beer, it just doesn't exist," Langan said. "There's just a huge differential in how these things are looked at and assessed, very much to our disadvantage."
His industry has been fighting federal excise taxes for five years, he said, and with revenue greatly reduced this year, paying those excise taxes could be devastating.
"Many distilleries fear that return to 'normal' operations will be closely followed by a scheduled tax increase at the end of the year, creating further financial turmoil," the letter submitted to Congress said.
Both de Aldecoa and Langan have seen their businesses suffer due to Covid-19, though they've both pivoted into making and selling hand sanitizer. At Yellow Rose, half of the staff was working from home, orders had dried up, and there was no opportunity to offer the hospitality side of its business, such as tastings. Normally, this time of the year is very busy as it ramps up to the third quarter, Langan said.
De Aldecoa has seen his suppliers affected. He's unable to get ingredients and materials from China or from shuttered local facilities.
"The whole supply chain, employee management and employee safety (issue) has been quite a challenge," de Aldecoa said.
Distillers, Relieved Over Extension Of Federal Tax Reductions, Promise To Fight To Make Them Permanent
December 19, 2019 9:14 AM | Anonymous
Forbes - Tara Nurin
Congress gave distillers a reprieve Thursday by voting to extend critical tax breaks to the spirits industry for one year. By passing one of two remaining spending packages by a vote of 71-23, senators affirmed a vote their House colleagues took Tuesday to let the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 2019 (CBMTRA) contained within it sunset on December 31, 2020, instead of at the end of this year as previously determined by the passage of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017. It headed to the president's desk Thursday for his expected signature Friday.
For Scott Harris, co-founder of the ten-year-old Catoctin Creek Distillery in Northern Virginia, failure to pass FET reform would have meant potentially reducing employees and shifts in production. Now, he plans to add equipment and 1.5 to 2 sales positions this year.
"With it now," he says, "we are able to keep going full steam ahead."
"We are so delighted that the FET relief was included in the appropriations bill," adds his wife and head distiller, Becky Harris. "Making this relief permanent is our next priority so we can plan with more confidence every year."
In an unprecedented show of solidarity between the spirits, beer, wine and cider industries, together with their raw material suppliers, six trade representative trade associations have<|fim_middle|> more to toast at the party than his new spirit.
He had hoped that the Texas Legislature would have given and other craft distillers in the state a break from archaic liquor laws that are making it hard for them to grow their businesses.
Of the 100-plus alcohol bills that were introduced this past legislative session, only one priority bill of craft distillers made it into law.
That legislation, known as "sampling of product," was co-sponsored by GOP state Sen. Kelly Hancock of North Richland Hills and GOP state Rep. Charlie Geren of Fort Worth. It allows a distiller to directly offer product samples to a retailer, restaurant or hotel without the presence of a wholesaler.
The top priority bills for craft brewers though died without a vote.
The "bottle bill" would have been a huge boon to the craft distilling industry by raising the limit on the number of bottles distillers could sell from their distilleries.
The current law restricts distillers to selling two bottles per person a month from distilleries, up to a limit of 3,500 gallons per year.
The Texas Distilled Spirits Association, a trade group of craft distillers, has pushed unsuccessfully since the 2015 legislative session to allow distillers to sell two bottles of each product – instead of two bottles in total – that they manufacture within a month.
"We have never asked to raise the 3,500-gallon limit," said Mike Cameron, president of the distiller spirits association. "Most of our distilleries don't get close to reaching that limit and this would give them the opportunity to do that."
Some of the smallest among the 140 permitted distilleries and approximately 100 active operators don't have tasting rooms to introduce their products to the public, Cameron said. In those cases, customers who stop by those distilleries have to buy without tasting.
Further crippling small operators, wholesalers select a limited number of products such as key lime rum from producers for display on liquor store shelves, he said.
"They have no way to market their products," Cameron said. "We suspect that a lot of them will be out of business by the time of the next (legislative) session in 2021."
The other top priority bill that failed would have allowed distillers to sell their products at festivals and events similar to the rights given to wineries.
That would have been another marketing opportunity for struggling operators.
Craft beer brewers, who faced similar struggles without ability to sell beer to-go from their breweries, finally prevailed after multiple repeated attempts to lift the ban on to-go sales. Beer to-go from breweries will become legal in Texas on Sept. 1
Craft distillers faced opposition from two powerful lobby groups, the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of Texas, representing distributors, and the Texas Package Store Association.
The retailers group has strongly opposed a legislation that would impact the three-tier system, which is the foundation of Texas alcoholic beverage laws.
In a statement regarding direct sales to consumers, the package store group said direct sales pose a safety risk to consumers.
"The direct consumer sales make the consumer vulnerable to potentially unsafe or tainted alcohol," the group said. "The single stream system used in markets such as Europe, India and Mexico have no checks and balances to ensure the products are safe to consumer and that tainted alcohol can be tracked back to the source."
The group also said that the three-tier system provides "checks and balances in the way that alcohol is distributed and sold."
Craft distilling has come a long way in Texas during the past five years and now ranks as the third largest in the country behind California and Florida, according to the craft distilled spirits organization, which is undertaking an economic impact study to determine its value and worth to the Texas economy.
For Gregory, who is adding his fifth product to his lineup, the failure of the festivals and bottle bills "stifles my ability to grow and market my products."
With the rapid growth of the craft distilling industry in Texas, producers are challenged more than ever to find adequate liquor store shelf space to build their brands, Gregory said.
And, that is ironic.
"If any manufacturing industry came to our state and offered to build in excess of 100 factories, the economic support would be overwhelming from all state and local leaders," Gregory said.
"Guess what, we are already here, but struggling with laws created in 1933 that did not forecast the craft distillery movement and anticipate supporting the local manufacture of alcohol in Texas," he added.
Woman Crush Wednesday: Samantha Olvera
June 14, 2019 9:32 AM | Anonymous
It's Woman Crush Wednesday and we were so happy to have our woman crush in-studio with us! Samantha Olvera is the first woman to distill bourbon from grain to glass in Texas, and she came over from Hye to talk to us about how she got started in this majority-male business.
Samantha is currently Nighttime Distiller at Garrison Brothers Distillery, the first corn-to-cork bourbon distillery in America opened outside of Kentucky, and the first legal whiskey distillery in Texas.
She recently spearheaded a successful effort to bring a branch of the Bourbon Women Association to Texas. Learn more about that organization at www.bourbonwomen.org.
Samantha is obviously partial to bourbon — but it's especially easy to celebrate on National Bourbon Day, which is June 14th!
To learn more about where Samantha works, Garrison Brothers Distillery, check them out in person in Hye in the Hill Country. For more information about their whiskey, go to www.garrisonbros.com, or follow them on social media, @GarrisonBros.
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www.texasdistilledspirits.org | worked together for the past several years to lobby Congress for federal excise tax (FET) relief. They won their first major battle in December 2017 when Congress voted to implement their requested reduction for two years. This year, they hoped to make the changes permanent but will have to settle for what they got, for now.
"It has been a long, hard fight for this one-year FET extension, a critical relief that will protect our industry in the near-term, and we look forward to working towards FET relief permanence as together we protect the future success of craft spirits and the peripheral industries we support," says Margie Lehrman, CEO of the American Craft Spirits Association (ACSA), which represents the nation's 2,000 small, independent distillers.
With taxes set to revert to their pre-2018 levels if this hadn't passed, most of the nation's small distillers faced what would have amounted to a 400% federal increase. Though brewers and winemakers would have also suffered grievously, distillers pay a far higher tax rate than the others. Not only is this the ACSA's top ongoing legislative priority, its executives warned in statements earlier this week, "These numbers are grave, and the threat is real and imminent."
The numbers they reference come from a poll of 100 ACSA members taken before the vote. In their words:
· 100% of craft distillers report that the tax hike will negatively impact their small businesses.
· More than 50% of craft distillers will take action to immediately cut jobs.
· 15% of craft distillers will cut production.
· 12% of craft distillers will halt any expansion efforts.
· 13% of craft distillers will increase pricing.
· 11% will cancel or stop negotiating equipment purchases.
· 5% will cut grain purchases, creating a direct impact on U.S. agriculture.
· 5% will close their operations altogether.
Says Ryan Perry, master blender for Bob Dylan's Heaven's Door line of whiskeys, "With our brand built in part on collaborations with smaller brands, anything that helps the industry grow is a positive. Everyone will capitalize on the reduction in a way that allows them to put money into interesting and cool things."
Perry and Dylan have based their brand in Tennessee. Next door, Virginia boasts an extremely proactive industry association that arguably works harder than most to promote the commonwealth's whiskey history, along with its 70 craft distilleries.
Says Virginia Distillers Association (VDA) executive director Amy Ciarametaro:
"Tax reform uncertainty is the single greatest threat faced by American craft distillers. It's been an emotional whirlwind, continually asking Congress to support FET reform since the original passage in 2017 and now the pending one-year tax extenders package. While we are grateful for the one-year extension, it continues to be an interim fix."
Despite ranking 46th in the nation for spirits consumption in 2016, Virginia's distillers contributed $163 million in economic impact to the commonwealth in 2018 and anticipate spending $86 million on capital investments by 2021. Yet even before factoring in federal taxes, the state's distillers net a mere $4-$7 per $30 bottle sold. FET uncertainty has created what Ciarametaro calls "an industry-wide bottleneck" because distillers can't accurately budget for the future.
"Our industry is abnormally capital intensive; couple that with state-by-state regulations that severely impact the economics and then compound that with the highest federal tax rates across the various beverage sectors. If the tax rate reverts back to pre-2017 reform, or $13.50 per proof gallon, that's an additional expense of approximately $3/bottle in expenses. That doesn't leave a lot of wiggle room for additional expenses to support employees, capital investments, brand development, etc.," she emails.
Both of Virginia's (Democratic) senators voted to pass the bill, as did all seven Democratic congressional representatives. The commonwealth's four Republican representatives voted no, however CMBTRA's inclusion in a much larger tax package makes it inaccurate to gauge a lawmaker's support based on his or her vote. In fact, all three Republican co-sponsors (of the seven total from across party lines) voted no, and all but one of the representatives who didn't co-sponsor voted yes. The lone nay-sayer comes from within Republican party ranks; the rest are Democrats. Neither senator co-sponsored.
According to Ciarametaro, some members of Virginia's delegation opposed CMBTRA because they mistakenly believe it almost exclusively benefits multi-national distillers rather than independent American ones. The Brookings Institution is among those making this case in an argument against giving tax breaks to foreign importers and large U.S. producers that don't need it.
In a lengthy web article entitled, "How to close the loopholes in the Craft Beverage Modernization Act," the author writes, "According to estimates from the Joint Committee on Taxation, updated to reflect what they've learned from the tax cut's first-year impacts, most of the $1.2 billion cost of a one-year extension of the bill is associated with producers of distilled spirits who use this loophole, rather than true craft distillers."
He describes this loophole as one that "allows large producers of distilled spirits to ship their product tax free through smaller firms, importers, or even shell company intermediaries, allowing them to claim the lower tax rate that was supposed to be reserved for small, craft businesses."
He points to distilleries that legally buy and blend and/or bottle product from others while branding them as their own. The sticking point comes as a result of the act's three-tiered approach to the tax cuts, which assesses distillers at $2.70 per proof gallon on the first 100,000 to leave the production site or warehouse, and $13.34 per proof gallon on the first 22,130,000 after that. Anything over 22,130,000 proof gallons gets taxed at the pre-2018 rate of $13.50.
Brookings advocates several alternatives, including lowering the first-tier ceiling to 10,000 proof gallons instead of 100,000. But what the think tank doesn't take into account is that the bill likely wouldn't have passed in the first place if it weren't for these specific numbers, which might be viewed as a necessary evil that convinced large spirits corporations to compromise and join ranks with their smaller peers in getting behind just one tax reform bill rather than diffusing their power into multiple ones.
Plus, according to ACSA, 92% of craft spirits producers remove 10,000 proof gallons from bond annually, and just two percent remove more than 100,000. So while large-scale producers do benefit enormously from the tiered structure, almost every craft producer gets to take advantage of it as well.
In Virginia, 69 of 70 distilleries fall entirely below the 100,000 level.
"Having worked with Virginia distillers for some time now, I hear and see the economic pains they face on a continual basis," says Ciarametaro. "They're not running out and buying yachts as a result of tax reform."
TDSA Newsletter - November 2019
October 31, 2019 2:09 PM | Anonymous
We are please to present the November 2019 TDSA Newsletter. Inside you will read:
November Election Information
Federal Update - CBMTRA & USMCA
Spirits United
HB 1997 Implementation
October 2019 Principal Member Meeting Recap
New Member Welcome
Winter Social & Prospective Member Reception
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Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, Texas Distilled Spirits Association and Texas Whiskey Association Announce Partnership on "Spirits United" Grassroots Platform
WASHINGTON – The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS), America's leading advocate for the distilled spirits industry, today announced that the Texas Distilled Spirits Association (TDSA) and the Texas Whiskey Association (TXWA) have joined Spirits United as partners to expand the grassroots network in the Lone Star State.
The Spirits United platform features important information on key issues facing the spirits industry, hospitality professionals and consumers, and provides advocates with an easy-to-use website to weigh in on issues that matter to them. DISCUS launched the platform in August with founding partners American Distilling Institute and TIPS.
"We are thrilled to have TDSA and TXWA join DISCUS, ADI and TIPS as Spirits United partners. Texas is a vital market for small and large distillers. Both organizations have a critical role in advocating for the distilled spirits industry in the Texas State Legislature, and they will be valued partners as we work together on market modernization opportunities for the industry in the state," said Chris Swonger, president and CEO, DISCUS and Responsibility.org.
"The distilled spirits industry is a major contributor to the Texas economy. We support more than 82,000 jobs and make a $7.5 billion impact on the state's gross domestic product," said Swonger. "We invite all Texas adults who are passionate about spirits to join Spirits United, including distillers, supply chain partners, bartenders, mixologists and consumers. We need everyone's participation to pursue a competitive and free market to benefit consumers and businesses in Texas."
"Spirits United is an exciting new way to mobilize advocates for the distilled spirits industry in Texas, and we look forward to partnering with our industry colleagues on this innovative initiative," said TDSA President Mike Cameron. "Expanding this grassroots network in Texas will help our distillers grow and bring adult consumers more convenient access to their favorite distilled spirits products, many of which are made proudly right here in the Lone Star State."
"In Texas, we have a great amount of pride for the whiskey we produce," said TXWA Executive Director Spencer Whelan. "We are excited to join Spirits United to harness that pride and turn it into action on issues like the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act and market modernization in our state. Texans are brought up with a spirit for freedom, and we are the best and most passionate advocates for this industry.
Spirits United Continues to Mobilize Support for Craft Beverage Bill
Spirits United already has begun mobilizing advocates in support of the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (H.R. 1175/ S. 362), legislation making permanent the federal excise tax cut on distilled spirits that was enacted in 2017. Without congressional approval, the tax cut will expire on December 31, 2019. Using the Spirits United platform, advocates are actively sending letters to their members of Congress urging passage of the legislation.
"We urge Congress to act as soon as possible on the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act to ensure that distillers in Texas and across the nation can continue to invest in their businesses, hire more employees and boost tourism and economic development," said Swonger. "Through Spirits United, we are working to get as many letters, social media interactions and phone calls to Congress as possible in support of this bill."
Commitment to Responsibility
A strong commitment to responsibility is the foundation of Spirits United. Through Spirits United's social media content and information on its site, spirits advocates will be encouraged to join industry efforts to prevent underage drinking and drunk driving and to promote the responsible consumption of beverage alcohol.
Join Spirits United
Spirits United is an inclusive community for anyone and everyone over the age of 21. To join Spirits United, please click here. Spirits United is also on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Watch "I am Spirits United" here.
About the Texas Distilled Spirits Association
The mission of TDSA is to grow the market for Texas spirits through education, marketing and regulatory influence.
About the Texas Whiskey Association
The Texas Whiskey Association is established by a group of whiskey makers with the common goal to promote Texas Whiskey, educate consumers and support distilleries that produce whiskey all within the territorial boundaries of the State of Texas.
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We are proud to be Spirits United
October 15, 2019 8:59 AM | Anonymous
Today, we are thrilled to announce our partnership with Spirits United Texas, along with the Texas Whiskey Association.
As you know, craft distillers in Texas play a unique and powerful role in the distilled spirits industry by creating diversity, excitement, and increasing the spirits consumer base. Craft distillers attract visitors with their specialized spirits and create jobs, thereby increasing tourism and enhancing the economy in their local communities. The distilled spirits industry would not be as strong and vibrant as it is today without Texas craft distillers like you.
However, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. and at the Texas Legislature in Austin, laws are enacted and kept in place that can have an impact on your business, like bans on Sunday Sales and punitive federal excise taxes.
Here's the good news: you have the power to change these laws. You can educate our lawmakers on how these laws harm us and the best policies to ensure you can succeed – and now you have the tool to do so! TDSA is proud partner with Spirits United Texas, with special thanks to Responsibility.org.
Spirits United Texas is a community of advocates united to harness the great pride and political equity within the industry to ensure adult consumers can enjoy distilled spirits where they want, how they want, and when they want. At Spirits United, you will be able to send PRE-DRAFTED letters and tweets, as well as make phone calls, to your elected officials on the various issues that impact your business. It's simple and takes less than five minutes to do.
Craft distillers are a critically important and powerful part of that community. Your strong, collective voice should be heard by elected officials to ensure your business is well represented at all levels of government!
Join Spirits United TODAY by visiting SpiritsUnitedTexas.org.
BENDT No. 5 American Blended Whiskey Launch in Lewisville, TX
September 16, 2019 9:58 AM | Anonymous
BENDT Distilling Co Launches BENDT No. 5 American Blended Whiskey
Launch Party Includes Craft Cocktails, BBQ and Live Music
What: BENDT Distilling Co. will host a launch party on September 21st for the introduction of BENDT No. 5 American Blended Whiskey – the first-ever blend of five distinct small batch Texas whiskeys (Bourbon, Rye, Malt, Wheat, Light) distilled, aged individually and blended together under one roof in Lewisville, Texas
The family-friendly event is free to the public and will include the following:
· BENDT No. 5 craft cocktail menu, samples and snow cones
· Custom hand-etched bottle engraving by Air Style Art
· Live music from Hightower Band and Denver Williams Band
· BBQ by Chasin Tail BBQ
· Behind-the-scenes whiskey production tours (21+)
· Photobooth by Smile for the Camper + Texas Photobooth Company
Who: Co-Founders Ryan and Natasha DeHart will raise a glass to celebrate the launch of new BENDT No. 5 – a smooth, perfectly balanced blended whiskey that captures the essence of each whiskeys finest characteristics
Why: BENDT No. 5 is perfect for diverse whiskey drinkers seeking a smooth, flavorful and balanced blend of hand-crafted whiskeys. As one of the few female distillery founders and whiskey blenders in the U.S., Natasha DeHart is elevating the category of blended whiskey beyond neutral or artificially flavored whiskey-based spirits. BENDT No. 5 American Blended Whiskey is all grain, all whiskey
When: Saturday, September 21, 2019
Where: BENDT Distilling Co (formerly Witherspoon Distillery)
225 S. Charles Street
Instagram: @bendtno5
Contact: David Abrams, StuntmanPR
david@stuntmanpr.com, 201-993-8426 (mobile)
Urgent Action Item -- Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act
August 27, 2019 11:21 AM | Anonymous
As you may be aware, one of the most important pieces of federal legislation for our industry is currently being proposed in DC. The Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (HR 117/S.362) will make permanent a federal excise tax of $2.70 per proof gallon. If this legislation is not passed, the federal excise tax will increase 400% to $13.50 per proof gallon. Members of Congress return to Washington DC on September 1st. Now is the perfect time for you to send a letter to your member of Congress and US Senators explaining the importance of passing the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act.
Click here for a sample letter for you to use when contacting your member of Congress. We also ask you to send letters to both US Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. Here is a list of addresses for the Texas federal delegation. You may use this website to help you find your member of Congress: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative.
TDSA also sent a separate letter to each member of Congress and US Senator urging the importance of this legislation. If you have any questions or concerns on how to contact your federal representative, please call Amber at 512-617-4523 or email her at ahausenfluck@mwcllc.com.
TABC - Excise Tax Enforcement – Summary Suspension of License/Permit
July 15, 2019 10:53 AM | Anonymous
INDUSTRY NOTICE
Excise Tax Enforcement – Summary Suspension of License/Permit
To: Holders of a manufacturer's license, brewer's permit, winery permit, distillers and rectifier's permit, distributor's license, wholesaler's permit, general class B wholesaler's permit, or brewpub license.
On September 1, 2019, TABC will begin actively enforcing existing laws that suspend a licensed/permitted business's ability to operate while that business is delinquent on its excise tax payments or reports. This action is necessary to address a growing number of excise tax delinquencies and to ensure future compliance.
Certain license/permit holders in the manufacturing and distributing tiers of the alcoholic beverage industry are statutorily required to make monthly excise tax payments on the "first sale" of certain alcoholic beverages (Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code, Chapters 201 and 203). These licensees/permittees must also submit monthly excise tax reports to TABC (Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code §§ 201.06, 201.48, and 203.10).
Summary Suspension Process
TABC will initiate a process to summarily suspend a license/permit if the holder is delinquent oh excise tax payments and/or has unfiled excise tax reports, or defaults on an executed agreement to repay delinquent taxes (Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code, §§ 201.075, 201.53, and 203.13). If a licensee/permittee remains delinquent or in default after initial notifications from TABC:
TABC issues an Order of Summary Suspension to the licensee/permittee.
Licensee/permittee has 3 days to cure all deficiencies cited in the Order.
If the licensee/permittee has not cured all such deficiencies on the 3rd day after receiving the Order, TABC will suspend the license/permit without a hearing.
TABC will lift the suspension only when the licensee/permittee submits all reports and tax payments that are due.
Follow These Steps to Keep Your Business in Compliance
Excise tax reports and taxes are due and payable on the 15th of the month.
Excise tax reports are due even if no taxes are due.
TABC grants a 2% discount on the taxes due if the report and payment are submitted before the 15th of the month.
If you have any questions or need assistance, you may contact TABC in writing at P.O. Box 13127, Austin, TX 78711, Audit & Investigations at 512-206-3300, or by e-mail at excisetaxsummarysuspension@tabc.texas.gov.
In Market: Texas distillers thrive, but hoped for more from state
Fort Worth Business Press
BLK EYE will have the official bottle release party for its BLK EYE Spirit Number 5 on Saturday June 22 from 2pm till 9pm. Bottle Sales, Limit two per person. $45.00 per bottle. Get Free Tickets - reserve your Saturday spot on our Facebook Event Page. If there is a line, all ticketed fans will be given priority entrance at the distillery.
Since his new specialty distilled beverage was first barreled in 2017, Todd Gregory has been looking forward to the day it would make its debut.
That would be Saturday June 22 when BLK EYE Distilling Co. scheduled a release party to celebrating the launch of BLK EYE Spirit Number 5, made with black-eyed peas and corn.
Because black-eyed peas are not a grain, the new product can't be called whiskey, explained Gregory, co-owner of BlackEyed Distilling Co., which produces award-winning BLK EYE Vodka and a whiskey in a converted historic firehouse in Fort Worth's Near Southside.
"But it looks like whiskey, it smells like whiskey and it tastes like whiskey," said Gregory. "In fact, we think it is one of the best things we have tasted in a long while."
Gregory has plenty to be proud of with this new unique new product that has been aging in heavy-charred American oak barrels for more than 24 months. The yield is 598 bottles of a spirit that is 46 percent alcohol and 92 proof.
But Gregory was hoping that he would have | 4,784 |
I Can Excel (ICE) FSH's premiere after-school program that improves student academics, encourages active lifestyles, and strengthens leadership skills in girls ages 6-18.
Students enjoy a daily variety of academic enrichment classes and cultural trips followed by skating instruction, participating in a total of 35 hours per week.
Figure Skating in Harlem introduced Harlem Ice Synchronized Skating in 2006 to help students perfect new skills on the ice and continue to learn invaluable lessons in leadership & teamwork.
Figure Skating in Harlem introduced synchronized skating in 2006 to help students perfect new skills on the ice and continue to learn invaluable lessons in<|fim_middle|>12. They made their debut at the Lee Ann Miele Synchro Open and won a gold medal. | leadership and teamwork.
More than 40 students ranging in age from 7 to 18 years make up our three Harlem Ice synchronized skating teams.
Students audition each season for a coveted spot on the teams. These girls represent some of FSH's most dedicated who practice additional hours on and off the ice each week and compete at least twice per year up and down the eastern seaboard. We provide team skating costumes, music and choreography for our medal winning teams.
All students who travel to off-site skating competitions must maintain a B+ average in school.
Student's interested in audition for the 2019-2020 teams must contact our Program staff.
Inspired by the Open Juvenile team's bronze and silver medal success in 2010-2011, FSH added a second team in 20 | 173 |
Cooling Off With Cucumbers
January 8, 2014 · by Salette Andrews
Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) share the genus Cucumis with cantaloupe, horned melons, winter melons, and bitter melons. All these fruits in turn belong to the family belongs to the family Cucurbitaceae, along with chayote, squash, and watermelon.
Cucumbers originated in India from Cucumis hystrix. They have been cultivated for at least 3,000 years.
Cucumbers are listed among the foods of ancient Ur (ca. 3800 BC-500 BC), and the legend of Gilgamesh—a Uruk king who lived around 2500 BC in what is now Iraq and Kuwait—describes people eating cucumbers. The Sumerians of Mesopotamia, the first to establish a written language, grew cucumbers as early as 2400 BC. One of their cuneiform inscriptions dating back to<|fim_middle|> actively studying one cucurbitacins in cucumbers in the hope that their research may lead to development of new anti-cancer drugs. Cucurbitacins belong to a large family of phytochemicals called triterpenes. Cucurbitacins block several different signaling pathways required for cancer cell development and cancer cell survival. A second group of cucumber phytochemicals that fight cancer are the lignans pinoresinol, lariciresinol, and secoisolariciresinol. Bacteria in your digestive tract take hold of these lignans and convert them into enterolignans like enterodiol and enterolactone. Enterolignans bind onto estrogen receptors, reducing your risk of estrogen-related cancers, including cancers of the breast, ovary, uterus, and prostate. Pinoresinol in cucumbers may also fight colon cancer. Oxalic acid in cucumbers is believed to be successful in fighting several kinds of tumor cells.
Boost your immune system. Iodine in cucumbers supports your immune system. The vitamin C in cucumbers supports your immune system, processes toxins for elimination, and acts as an antihistamine.
Nutrients in 100 Grams Raw Cucumber With Peel
16.4 µg
7 µg
.5 g
0.041 mg
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The states of Florida and California provide U.S. consumers with fresh cucumbers for most of the year (from March through November). You can find imported cucumbers from Mexico during the winter months of December, January, and February.
Always buy organic cucumbers, as conventionally grown ones normally rank among the produce highest in contaminants. For a full list, check out the Environmental Working Group's Dirty Dozen. Choose firm, dark green cucumbers with no wrinkles or spongy spots. Smaller cucumbers contain fewer and tinier seeds. The skins contain vitamin A, so buy unwaxed cucumbers, whose skin you can eat.
Because cucumbers thrive in temperatures just over 40º F, keep them in a bag on a shelf toward the front of the refrigerator, which tends to be warmer. Cucumbers will last three to five days.
Unwaxed cucumbers need only a light scrubbing. Cucumbers are tastiest served raw. Enjoy a sliced cucumber salad with wakame, dressed with rice vinegar and soy sauce. Puree tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, and scallions together in a food processor and season with herbs and spices of your choice to make the refreshing cold soup, gazpacho, for summer. Combine dill weed with soy yogurt and chopped cucumber for a delicious cooling dip.
Try cucumbers in some of these recipes:
Cucumber Hummus
Korean-Style Cucumber and Edamame Salad
Layered Salad with Black Beans and Mango-Cucumber Salsa
This blog uses the latest nutritional data available from the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), and the FDA (United States Food and Drug Administration), as well as nutritional data provided by food growers and manufacturers about their products. We believe the information on this blog to be accurate. However, we are not responsible for typographical or other errors. Nutrition information for recipes is calculated by Living Cookbook based on the ingredients in each recipe based on statistical averages. Nutrition may vary based on methods of preparation, origin and freshness of ingredients, and other factors.
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Powering Your Body With Pinto Beans » | 2400 BC read, "The oxen of the gods plowed the city governor's onion patches. The onion and cucumber patches of the city governor were located in the gods' best fields."
The Book of Numbers (11:15) mentions that after the Israelites left Egypt (around 1446 BC), cucumbers were one of the foods they greatly missed, along with leeks, garlic, onions, and melons.
Han dynasty representative Jang Qian brought cucumbers to China about 100 BC, along with pomegranates, grapes, peas, coriander, walnuts, alfalfa, and caraway seeds.
According to Pliny the Elder (The Natural History, Book XIX, Chapter 23), the ancient Greeks grew cucumbers, and there were different varieties in Italy, Africa, and Moesia. Pliny reported that the Emperor Tiberius (42 BC-37 AD) had cucumbers on his table daily during summer and winter. The Romans reportedly used artificial methods (similar to the greenhouse system) of growing to have cucumbers available for Tiberius every day of the year: "Indeed, he was never without it; for he had raised beds made in frames upon wheels, by means of which the cucumbers were moved and exposed to the full heat of the sun; while, in winter, they were withdrawn, and placed under the protection of frames glazed with mirrorstone." Cucumbers were also reportedly cultivated in cucumber houses glazed with oiled cloth known as "specularia."
Pliny described Italian cucumbers as a "wild" variety considerably smaller than the cultivated one. He also wrote about several other varieties of cucumber, including the cultivated cucumber, and remedies prepared from the different types. The Romans are reported to have used cucumbers to treat scorpion bites, bad eyesight, and to scare away mice. Wives wanting children wore them around their waists. Cucumbers were also carried by midwives, and thrown away when the child was born.
Cucumbers were probably introduced to other parts of Europe by the Greeks or Romans. Records of cucumber cultivation appear in France in the 9th century, when Charlemagne had cucumbers grown in his gardens.
Cucumbers were reportedly introduced into England in the early 14th century, lost, then reintroduced approximately 250 years later.
Christopher Columbus brought cucumbers to Haiti in 1494.
The small variety of cucumber is illustrated in an Herbal of the 16th century, which advises, "If hung in a tube while in blossom, the Cucumber will grow to a most surprising length." Throughout the 16th century, European traders and explorers bartered for produce with the Native Americans, who had obtained cucumbers and watermelons from the Spanish, and added them to the crops they were already growing, including several varieties of corn and beans, pumpkins, squash, and gourds. In 1535, Jacques Cartier mentioned seeing large cucumbers being grown in what is now Montreal, and in 1539 Hernando de Soto found Native Americans in Florida growing cucumbers that were "better than those of Spain."
In 1630, the Reverend Francis Higginson produced a book called New England's Plantation in which, describing a garden on Conant's Island in Boston Harbor known as The Governor's Garden, he states: "The countrie aboundeth naturally with store of roots of great varietie and good to eat. Our turnips, parsnips, and carrots are here both bigger and sweeter than is ordinary to be found in England. Here are store of pompions, cowcumbers, and other things of that nature which I know not…" William Wood also published in 1633's New England Prospect (published in England) observations he made in 1629 in America: "The ground affords very good kitchin gardens, for Turneps, Parsnips, Carrots, Radishes, and Pompions, Muskmillons, Isquoter-squashes, coucumbars, Onyons, and whatever grows well in England grows as well there, many things being better and larger."
In the later 17th century, a prejudice developed against uncooked vegetables and fruits. A number of articles in contemporary health publications warned that uncooked plants brought on summer diseases and should be forbidden to children. Cucumbers kept this undeserved reputation for a long time: "fit only for consumption by cows," which some believe is why it was called "cowcumber." Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary on August 22, 1663: "this day Sir W. Batten tells me that Mr. Newburne is dead of eating cowcumbers, of which the other day I heard of another, I think."
A copper etching made by Maddalena Bouchard between 1772 and 1793 shows this plant to have smaller, almost bean-shaped fruits, and small yellow flowers. Cucumbers were grown in many gardens, and are mentioned in several 18th-century advertisements. The 'Early Cluster' variety was introduced prior to 1800.
In 1806, Bernard M'Mahon, in his American Gardener's Calendar, named eight varieties of cucumbers. In his 1848 catalogue, David Landreth II, described three varieties, two principally used for pickling (then the most popular use for cucumbers) and one used for slicing. Botanist Charles Victor Naudin described the 'Early Russian' hybrid in France in 1859. Modern cucumbers gradually evolved from these and other European varieties without planned hybridization, or much selection. Joseph Tailby of Massachusetts developed 'Tailby's Hybrid' from a cross between American and English cultivars and introduced in 1872. The success of 'Tailby's Hybrid' encouraged new cultivars, and in the following decade, 'Arlington White Spine,' 'Boston Pickling,' and 'Chicago Pickling' were introduced.
Most of the kinds of cucumbers now grown have originated since 1900. The National Pickle Packers Association commissioned George Starr of Michigan State University, who bred and introduced a new pickle variety, 'National Pickling' in 1924. Breeding cucumbers for disease resistance began in the late 1920s, when R.H. Porter of Iowa State University brought seeds resistant to the cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) from China to the United States. Russell M. Bailey released 'Maine No. 2' in 1939, which was the first American cucumber resistant to scab. In 1941, Dr. Henry M. Munger used it to breed 'Yorkstate Pickling', and other varieties. The Asgrow Seed Company introduced 'Marketer' in 1943, a slicing cucumber, and 'Model' in 1946, a pickling cucumber with white spines and dark green color. Both 'Marketer' and 'Model' were popular for many years, but eventually were superseded by disease-resistant varieties. Porter bred 'Shamrock' in 1943. W. C. Barnes combined resistance to downy mildew and powdery mildew in 'Palmetto' (1948) and 'Ashley' (1955). John Charles Walker combined resistance to scab and CMV in two varieties released in 1955, followed in 1958 by two additional varieties. Barnes added resistance to anthracnose for the 1961 release, 'Polaris', which is still popular today. Munger bred slicing cucumbers with a higher level of CMV resistance, 'Tablegreen' in 1961 and 'Marketmore' in 1968. Genes for resistance to additional diseases were identified and combined, culminating in the development of 'Sumter', with resistance to seven diseases, and 'Wisconsin 2757,' resistant to nine diseases: CMV, scab, anthracnose, downy mildew, powdery mildew, bacterial wilt, angular leaf spot, target leaf spot, and Fusarium wilt.
Today, in California alone, about 6,600 acres are planted with slicing cucumber varieties and 4,400 with pickling cucumbers. Worldwide, China is by far the largest producer of cucumbers, and provides about two-thirds of the global supply. Iran, Turkey, Russia, Egypt, Spain, Mexico, the Ukraine, Japan, Indonesia, and the U.S. all participate in the world cucumber market, with an especially high number of exports coming from Iran, Mexico, and Spain. Annual production of cucumbers worldwide is approximately 84 billion pounds.
Cucumbers can:
Promote cardiovascular health. The vitamin K in cucumbers allows your blood to clot normally and helps prevent calcification of your arteries. Potassium in cucumbers regulates muscle contraction, including heart rythym, and lowers blood pressure by counteracting the detrimental effects of sodium and regulating fluid balance. Campesterol in cucumbers prevents the absorption of "bad" LDL cholesterol, balances blood cholesterol levels, and displays anti-inflammatory properties, which may make it beneficial for arthritis and cardiovascular diseases, among other health conditions.
Build strong bodies. The vitamin K in cucumbers helps protect your bones from fracture and helps prevent postmenopausal bone loss. Iodine in cucumbers is required for the synthesis of thyroid hormones, for mammary and salivary glands, and gastric mucosa. The vitamin C in cucumbers helps produce collagen, which supports strong bones, muscles, blood vessels, gums, mucous membranes, corneas, joints, and other supporting cells and tissues and helps you absorb iron and calcium. Potassium in cucumbers stores carbohydrates for muscles to use as fuel, promotes regular muscle growth, and maintains the density and strength of bones by decreasing urinary calcium loss. Manganese in cucumbers facilitates protein and carbohydrate metabolism and formation of bone.
Fight free radicals. Cucumbers are a valuable source of conventional antioxidant nutrients including iodine, vitamin C, beta-carotene, and manganese. Iodine in cucumbers is an antioxidant. The vitamin C in cucumbers functions as an antioxidant and prevents oxygen-based damage to your cells. Manganese in cucumbers is a co-factor for the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase. In addition, cucumbers contain numerous flavonoid antioxidants, including quercetin, apigenin, luteolin, and kaempferol.
Fight chronic inflammation. Fresh cucumber reduces chronic inflammation by inhibiting the activity of pro-inflammatory enzymes like cyclo-oxygenase 2 (COX-2), and by preventing overproduction of nitric oxide when it could increase the likelihood of inflammation.
Fight cancer. The vitamin K in cucumbers provides possible protection against liver and prostate cancer. The vitamin C in cucumbers helps prevent cancer by neutralizing volatile oxygen free radical molecules and preventing damage to your DNA that can lead to cancer, and by destabilizing a tumor's ability to grow under oxygen-starved conditions. Many pharmaceutical companies are | 2,386 |
Crane Co. Reports 2016 Results; Q4 Sales In Payments And Vending Segment Increase; Asbestos Liability Estimate Extended To 2059
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Fourth Quarter and 2016 Highlights:
» Fourth-quarter, after-tax net asbestos provision of $125 million, or $2.13 per share; estimate of asbestos liability now covers pending and projected future claims through 2059.
» Full-year 2016 GAAP earnings per diluted share (EPS) of $2.07, compared with $3.89 in 2015. Excluding Special Items, EPS of $4.23 increased 3%, compared with $4.13 in 2015.
» Full-year sales of $2.75 billion increased slightly, compared with 2015, with core growth of 2%.
» Introducing 2017 EPS guidance of $4.30-$4.55, with expected sales of $2.7 billion, including core sales in a range of flat to +2%
STAMFORD, CT -- Crane Co., a diversified manufacturer of highly engineered industrial products, reported a fourth-quarter 2016 GAAP net loss of $1.09 a share, compared with earnings of $1.11 per diluted share in the fourth quarter of 2015. Fourth-quarter 2016 results include an after-tax net asbestos provision of $125 million, or $2.13 per share, and fourth-quarter 2015 results include net after-tax "special items" of $1 million, or $0.01 per share. Excluding special items, fourth-quarter 2016 earnings per diluted share were $1.02.
Fourth-quarter 2016 sales were $681 million, approximately flat, compared with the fourth quarter of 2015. Core sales increased $17 million, or 2.5%, mostly offset by a $16 million, or 2.4%, impact from unfavorable foreign exchange.
Full-year 2016 GAAP EPS was $2.07, compared with $3.8<|fim_middle|> through 2021.
Click here for Crane Co.'s full 2016 and fourth-quarter report and financial tables.
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Generation Next Pilots Print Mates Kiosks At Bed Bath & Beyond | 9 in 2015. Special items in full-year results include an after-tax net asbestos provision of $125 million, or $2.11 per share, and a $3 million net after-tax legal settlement charge, or $0.05 per share. Special items in full-year 2015 results include $14 million in net after-tax charges, or $0.24 per share. Excluding special items in both years, 2016 EPS was $4.23, a 3% increase, compared with $4.13 in 2015.
Full-year 2016 sales of $2.75 billion increased slightly, compared with $2.74 billion in 2015. Core sales growth of $56 million, or 2%, were mostly offset by a $48 million, or 2%, impact from unfavorable foreign exchange.
Crane Co.'s four divisions are Fluid Handling, Payment & Merchandising Technologies, Engineered Materials and Aerospace & Electronics. The Payments & Merchandising segment is comprised of two companies, Crane Payment Innovations, which makes payment systems for unattended sales applications, and Crane Merchandising Systems, one of the world's largest vending machine manufacturers.
"Results exceeded our guidance and initial expectations entering 2016, and we were able to deliver adjusted EPS 3% above 2015 levels despite continued weakness in Fluid Handling end markets and a substantial impact from unfavorable foreign exchange," said Crane Co. president and chief executive Max Mitchell. "Adjusted operating margins increased 20 basis points compared to last year, driven primarily by very strong execution at Payment & Merchandising Technologies, and I am particularly proud that we delivered free cash flow of $267 million."
Crane said sales in the Payments & Merchandising segment increased $21 million, or 12%, driven by $28 million, or 16%, of core growth, partially offset by a $7 million, or -4%, impact from unfavorable foreign exchange. Operating margin expanded 310 basis points to 19.7%, driven primarily by integration synergies, the higher core sales and strong productivity.
"At Payment & Merchandising Technologies, we are seeing accelerating demand for productivity solutions, and we expect a third consecutive year of substantial growth and margin expansion in 2017," Mitchell said.
Crane Co. said it has extended the time horizon of its estimated asbestos liability through the generally accepted end point in 2059, reflecting stabilization in key trends such as indemnity and defense costs, and the number of claims filed against the company. As a result, the fourth quarter of 2016 included an after-tax net asbestos provision of $125 million, or $2.13 a share. The prior liability estimate, recorded as of Dec. 31, 2011, covered costs related to claims filed and projected to be filed | 622 |
'Retro Roadtrip' captures scenic tour of southern Maine
KENNEBUNK, Maine – At first, Joshua Hrehovcik began taking pictures of sites throughout southern Maine and posting them on Instagram because he was trying to persuade his relatives in New Jersey to come up to Vacationland to see how beautiful it is here.
Turns out, Hrehovcik's relatives weren't the only ones seeing those photos. Geraldine Aikman, a local graphic designer and artist, liked what she saw, reached out to Hrehovcik and offered to design a book of his pictures.
Hrehovcik said when a talented artist such as Aikman approaches you with an idea, there's only one right answer.
"I'm not the smartest guy, but even I knew to say yes," Hrehovcik said.
The result? A new book, "Retro Roadtrip: Maine, Kittery to Portland," available now.
According to Hrehovcik, the book is "part travel guide, part photo essay and, hopefully, people will find it humorous." The humor can be found in the few sentences that accompany each photo.
"The idea was to share this part of the world with people, but do it in a lighthearted way," Hrehovcik said.
Aikman said she designed the book so that images were as large and colorful as possible. The cover is awash in the bright red of the seats at Blast from the Past Diner in East Waterboro, complemented by the popular eatery's black-and-white-checkered floor.
"What draws me to Josh is his ability to take photographs of ordinary places you've driven by a dozen times, and yet he makes them fresh and interesting," Aikman said, adding that she also enjoys his sense of humor.<|fim_middle|> cinema programs," he said. "Unfortunately, I was not one of the top cinema students."
That said, art runs in Hrehovcik's family. His father, Steve Hrehovcik, of Kennebunk, paints and does pen-and-ink drawings and more.
"If I could have one-tenth of his creativity, I'd be pretty satisfied," Hrehovcik said.
If you live here, "Retro Roadtrip" is designed to make you appreciate your surroundings. If, like Hrehovcik's relatives in New Jersey, you do not, then the book is aimed at bringing you here.
"This part of the world is beautiful," he said.
And photo opportunities are everywhere, he added, not just on road trips, but close to home, too.
"You don't have to venture far to find something interesting," Hrehovcik said. "Sometimes you just have to walk out the front door. Some of my pictures are from just around the corner."
As far as Kennebunk goes, Hrehovcik's book has shots of the Mousam River Dam, Gooch's and Mother's beaches, the Spirit of Massachusetts, and the Lafayette Center. There's a colorful shot of Garden Street Bowl, with four balls in the forefront, waiting to be plucked and rolled toward the pins in the distance. There's an autumnal shot of the town pump, strewn with fallen leaves.
The book also offers glimpses of the surf at York Beach, Fort McClary at Kittery Point, and shops in Ogunquit, among other quaint or picturesque attractions. There are two spreads, one of Goodall Park, home of the Sanford Mainers, in Sanford, and another of the Seashore Trolley Museum.
"I could spend days taking pictures at the trolley museum," Hrehovcik said. "It's loaded with history. The grounds are great for exploring."
The book gets its title from Hrehovcik's eye for yesteryear.
"I like to find the old-school stuff," he said. "That's why we call the book 'Retro Roadtrip''"
Hrehovcik said he takes his photos with a digital camera or his cellphone. "Nothing special," he noted, adding he found inspiration for his modest means of picture-taking in something singer Annie Lennox said on a show he watched on television.
"I was watching a documentary about the history of recorded sound," Hrehovcik explained. "There was a discussion about whether it's better to record on analog or digital. Annie Lennox came on and said, 'I don't care how you make it. I'm only interested in how it makes me feel.' That gave me a lot of relief and freedom."
The book was released in May. Hrehovcik said the response so far has been positive.
"People seem to like it," he said. "People have bought it on Amazon who don't have my last name, which I find surprising and encouraging. Mostly surprising." | "On Instagram, when I come across one of his photos, I know it's his without seeing his name."
The book is available for $26 at The Wright Gallery at 5 Pier Road at Cape Porpoise in Kennebunkport; Morph Gallery and Emporium at 155 Port Road in Kennebunk; The Seashore Trolley Museum at 196 Log Cabin Road; and The Early Bird at 241 Main St. in South Berwick. You also can order a copy at Amazon for $24.95. For more information, visit retroroadtripper.com.
Hrehovcik – pronounced like "he-wrote-a-check," he said – started snapping photos a couple of years ago "strictly as a hobby." Photography "just became something I did on a regular basis." He said he is not a professional photographer but drew upon his film studies in college to help develop his eye.
"I went to the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, which at the time had one of the top | 219 |
This is the first grain-free cake I have made so far that is so delicious, you would never know it's grain-free!
Combine dry cake ingredients and blend well.
Add wet cake ingredients to dry cake<|fim_middle|>ity line (oils FDA approved to take internally) to jazz up the cake! | mixture and blend until smooth by hand or with food processor/mixer. Place in fridge for 3 hours or overnight (this helps fully saturate the coconut flour).
Blend Cinnamon topping ingredients in small bowl and set aside.
Grease a 9×9" baking pan and line the bottom with parchment paper.
Pour half the cake batter in the pan, then drizzle half the cinnamon topping on top. Carefully spoon the remaining cake batter on top of the first half and drizzle the remaining topping over the final portion of batter.
Use a toothpick, knife or fork to blend the topping into the batter.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 35-45 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
Store covered for a few days at room temp, seal and store in the fridge for two weeks, or seal and freeze for a few months.
Tip: I added 8 drops of orange essential oil to the cake mix and it was delicious! Add any of your favorite essential oil flavors from Young Living's Vital | 211 |
Native American pottery is fun to collect. There are so many different pueblos, and each one has its own style of pottery. While collecting the pottery, you are also learning a lot about Native American art and culture.
This form of art has been practiced for thousands of years. Yet it is constantly improving as modern artists are experimenting with new techniques and designs. You can purchase antique pottery or modern versions, and each has its pros and cons. Of course, the older pottery is much more expensive, if it is in good condition, because of the value as an antique. But the newer pottery can be just as beautiful or even more so. It is important to collect what you like and can afford.
The first thing you should do is visit some websites and look at photos of Native American pottery. WHen you see enough good quality pottery, you will train your eye to recognize what is good. Be sure to read some books on the subject as well.
If you can visit New Mexico or Arizona, be sure to visit some of the pueblos where the pottery is made. Often the pueblo will have a cultural center where they display works of the local artists, along with a lot of information about their history and crafts. This will help you get a feel for the pottery as well.
You can purchase pottery at these cultural centers, but you might be better off buying the pottery directly from the artist. For sure, you should not buy the pottery at the expensive shops in the tourist areas of Santa Fe or Albuquerque. It will be marked up a great deal there.
You can also purchase pueblo pottery online. You can often get some good discounts at online sites. Of course, you can't handle the pottery then, so be sure that they have good photos of the pottery at the website.
Try to get the largest examples of pottery you can afford. It should not have any chips or cracks, as that will reduce the value. Also, some pottery is made from molds, which is ok, but the hand made pottery is more valuable. In any case, even the pottery made from a mold should be hand painted beautifully by the potter.
It is fun to collect pottery from the different pueblos. It is amazing how different they can be. The differences could be in the color of clay used, the shapes of the pottery, the subject matter<|fim_middle|> of carving on the piece, the style of painting, and so on. Get a good book showing the various styles. It wll help you a lot.
There are many different types of pottery too. Some are ollas, bowls, seed pots, traditional wedding vases, story teller figurines, figures of animals, and many others.
Some of the Native American potters have become quite famous, and their work can be very expensive, but it is also extremely beautiful. But the work of lesser known potters can be lovely as well, and is much more affordable. You can always start out simply and purchase more expensive pottery as you get more familiar with it.
Enjoy your new hobby of collecting Native American pottery!
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The Creator of Assassins Creed Reveals His New Game, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Assassin's Creed was such a better name.
Posted By Pram<|fim_middle|>30 Best Games of the Decade – Part 2
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Assassin's Creed may have been milked into the ground by Ubisoft now, but once upon a time, it was a promising franchise with a vision for its gameplay and story. That was when it was under the stewardship of its creator, Patrice Desilets. Desilets ultimately left Ubisoft, and apparently, he has since been working on his next game along with his studio, Panache Digital Games.
Now, speaking at the Reboot Develop event in Croatia, he announced his newest game- Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. A trailer accompanied the announcement, but it didn't offer much information on the game itself. Suffice it to say, the game looks to have a historical framing perspective, and might be offering a look at the future of mankind and its inevitable technological progress.
No gameplay footage was available, and no further gameplay details were announced. We did not even get a firm date for the game's release.
That said, I will be greatly interested in this title whenever it is made available. I just hope that they manage to come up with a name that's less of a mouthful, is all.
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The<|fim_middle|> +31203892030 | first of three planned volumes covering Nan Hoover's art work is now available: Leach, Dawn (2017) Nan Hoover: Catalogue Raisonné (original publication on /oops/), URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:715-oops-34632
The e-publication contains all works in the estate of Nan Hoover. In addition, it provides a review of the reception history of Hoover's work along with biographical information and lists of publications, exhibitions and performances. Images of most of the works and some documentation are also included (courtesy of the Nan Hoover Foundation).
Download the PDF at oops.uni-oldenburg.de/3382/
Video edition
A compilation of the late Nan Hoover's most significant video works from 1974 to 2002 was produced in 2009. This edition - conceived by Nan Hoover herself shortly before her death in June 2008 - is limited to 15 copies and is available exclusively to international museums and selected collectors. Exclusive DVD box with essays by Heiner Holtappels, Rob Perrée and Renate Petzinger.
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Schizachyrium sanguineum (Retz.) Alston
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Faiquete, Vilanculos, Inhambane, Mozambique
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Synonyms: Andropogon semiberbis (Nees) Kunth
Rottboellia sanguinea Retz
Schizachyrium lindiense Pilg.
Schizachyrium semiberbe Nees
Loosely caespitose perennial, eventually reddish throughout; culms up to 160 cm high, erect, branched; internodes terete. Leaf sheaths both shorter and longer than the internodes, occasionally villous towards the top; laminas 12.5–30 mm × 2.5–6 mm, keeled, tapering to a fine point at the apex. Racemes 4–18 cm long, exserted from the linear spatheoles, occasionally long-exserted; peduncles longer than the racemes; internodes and pedicels flattened, usually ciliate along both margins with hairs 2.5–4 mm long. Sessile spikelet 5.5–10 mm long, 1/2 as long again as the pedicel, narrowly lanceolate, laterally compressed, pointed at the base; inferior glume strongly convex, glabrous; superior lemma<|fim_middle|>anguineum
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Schizachyrium sanguineum
Kew Monocotyledon checklist: Schizachyrium sanguineum
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Schizachyrium sanguineum
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Wikipedia: Schizachyrium sanguineum
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Caprivi: Species information: Schizachyrium sanguineum.
https://www.capriviflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=108750, retrieved 27 January 2023
Site software last modified: 2 April 2018 10:49pm | bifid in the upper 3/4; awn 10–22 mm long, geniculate; anthers 2.5–3.8 mm long. Pedicelled spikelet male or occasionally sterile, 4–7 mm long; inferior glume with an awn 1–4 mm long; anthers 1.3–2.3 mm long.
Derivation of specific name:
Habitat: Sandy, gravelly and rocky soils in open woodland and grassland, and as a weed of cultivated fields
Worldwide distribution: Pantropical
Growth form(s):
Endemic status:
Red data list status:
Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 32.
Cope, T.A. (2002). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(4) Pages 83 - 85. (Includes a picture).
Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 109.
Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 144.
Timberlake, J.R. & Childes, S.L. (2004). Biodiversity of the Four Corners Area: Technical Reviews Volume Two (Chapter 5-15) Appendix 5-1: Plant Checklist Occasional Publications in Biodiversity 15 Page 192.
Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 86.
Other sources of information about Schizachyrium sanguineum:
Flora of Botswana: Schizachyrium sanguineum
Flora of Mozambique: Schizachyrium sanguineum
Flora of Zambia: Schizachyrium sanguineum
Flora of Zimbabwe: Schizachyrium sanguineum
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Schizachyrium sanguineum
African Plant Database: Schizachyrium sanguineum
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Schizachyrium sanguineum
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Schizachyrium sanguineum
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Schizachyrium sanguineum
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Schizachyrium sanguineum
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Schizachyrium sanguineum
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network): Schizachyrium sanguineum
iNaturalist: Schizachyrium sanguineum
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Schizachyrium sanguineum
JSTOR Plant Science: Schizachyrium s | 706 |
The basis of this recipe came from this cake at A Hint of Honey . I really only make cakes for birthdays, and I wanted to be able to put it in the kids lunches. So I made some alterations to make it work for me. The results are really very yummy. Such a nice recipe for Fall when apples are in season.
Wheat (and other grains) is the basis for any home storage system and is of course very nutritious. It contains high amounts of protein, calcium, niacin, riboflavin and thiamin. When it is sprouted, it also contains vitamins A and C in increased amounts. Not all wheat is the same however<|fim_middle|>. We like it better as it is lighter in color and milder in flavor. | . Even the hard red or white wheat comes in different qualities and packaging. A good price does not always guarantee a good product. You also have to add in the cost of packaging. Wheat in buckets or cans will cost you more, but will store better in the long run. Try the Hard White wheat as an alternative to the hard red. If it is packaged and stored well, its shelf life and nutritional value is the same as the hard red wheat | 91 |
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Maintenance does more than guard your air conditioners efficiency: it prolongs its service life, reduces repair needs, and protects it from abrupt breakdowns. | Air conditioners in Las Vegas run longer and harder than almost anywhere else in the country. It's likely that you have your AC running right now. Most home owners turn the cooling on and hope for the best. Without a maintenance visit from a trained technician, they are likely to receive a lot less than the best.
Routine professional maintenance is essential for maintaining air conditioners energy efficiency. Studies have shown that an AC that receives an inspection and tune-up once a year will retain 95% of its efficiency throughout its service life. One that doesn't will, on average, lose 5% efficiency per year. This yearly decline means that it only takes four years without maintenance to turn a 20 SEER air conditioning system into a 15 SEER system.
Maintenance cleans important components in an AC Unit. A build-up of dirt and dust along engines and fans will make them work harder, draining power. An acid wash along the outdoor condenser will remove obstructions that can block airflow and lower efficiency.
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The Birth of "I Got This"
January 16th at 12:51pm a Good Decisioner on day 15 of her 30-Day No Sugar Challenge journey wanted to quit.
She had previously lost all the weight she wanted to lose, she experienced it: The energy, lightness of being, and the sheer joy of weightlessness. Until life had some major bumps and she plunged into the sugar to cope.
She said, "I'm so worn out from stopping and starting. I just don't have the willingness to do it on my own. I have not been able to manage without sugar so I don't believe it is<|fim_middle|>my worth is not determined by anything outside of myself" "I am worthy just because I am" and some of the first sensations that return from this wonderful place are inner peace and simple knowing, "I Got This."
Whether You Quit or Not, The Journey Will Continue
I told her, "You will continue on this journey whether you want to or not." The illusion of giving up is just a temporary release for a weary soul who doesn't know the inner resources she has available to her.
Purpose Unfolds
You can do this. Your inner warrior is calling you to do this and knows that once you overcome, you will have much to teach.
The Birth of "I Got This"
From the moment I laid down my pen I knew that we had given birth to the meaning of "I Got This" and what it will mean to the Good Decisions tribe moving forward.
The Meaning of "I Got This" Within the Good Decisions Tribe
When you say out loud, "I Got This" what you really mean is "I have tapped into my innermost being, that deepest part of me that knows, no matter what, without a doubt, everything will be ok. Who I am is bigger than anything that could ever happen to me."
The Meaning of "You Got This" Within the Good Decisions Tribe
And when one Good Decisions member say's to another, "You Got This" what they are really saying is, tap into your innermost being, that deepest part of you that knows, no matter what, without a doubt, everything will be ok. Who you are is bigger than any thing that could ever happen to you."
When we rely on our inner resources, our inner knowing, we can drop the need for outer resources, and sugar becomes something we enjoy every once in a while because we want to, not because we have to.
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I knew right away that she needed some inner resources. She needed to know she had other things she could reach for instead of sugar, and I knew a hot bath and a good book just wouldn't cut it.
It was then that I realized sugar was not the enemy she thought it was. Sugar had given her so much of what she needed at a very deep level.
Sugar is Not The Enemy
Sugar is beautiful. It comforts us, it can wrap itself around us and nurture us and sway with us back and forth, until the fire of emotion die down and all that is left is an empty wrapper and powerful emotions that have been spent. It is like a lover who caresses us, loves us, and leaves us spent. Too spent to think, to spent to feel, too spent to deal.
Unfortunately, some of the first sensations that return to us from such wonderful place are guilt and shame.
A Powerful Secret
We are not taught something very powerful in school; it is a secret many of our parents never knew. And the secret is this: When life get's tough, it is calling us to become something greater than we are.
We are not taught that we have the ability to tap into our innermost being, that deepest part of us that knows, no matter what, without a doubt, everything will be ok. That nothing that life throws at us can ever really hurt us. That while this moment seems scary; who we are is bigger than any thing that could ever happen to us.
We are not taught that we have the ability to wrap the arms of our inner being around us, and rest in those arms. This is a beautiful place where we can cry, throw a fit of anger and scream at the world, or just feel our own inner love and reassurance.
Then, after our emotions are spent we can murmur our truths without blaring trumpets or super hero poses. We can murmur the once unspeakable truth that, " | 405 |
Trial-by-trial motor adaptation: a window into elemental neural computation
Kurt A. Thoroughman, Michael S. Fine, Jordan A. Taylor
How does the brain compute? To address this question, mathematical modelers, neurophysiologists, and psychophysicists have sought behaviors that provide evidence of specific neural computations. Human motor behavior consists of several such computations [Shadmehr, R., Wise, S.P. (2005). MIT Press: Cambridge, MA], such as the transformation of a sensory input to a motor output. The motor system is also capable of learning new transformations to produce novel outputs; humans have the remarkable ability to alter their motor output to adapt to changes in their own bodies and the environment [Wolpert, D.M., Ghahramani, Z. (2000). Nat. Neurosci., 3: 1212-1217]. These changes can be long term, through growth and changing body proportions, or short term, through changes in the external environment. Here we focus on trial-by-trial adaptation, the transformation of individually sensed movements into incremental updates of adaptive control. These investigations have the promise of revealing important basic principles of motor control and ultimately guiding a new understanding of the neuronal correlates of motor behaviors.
Theoretical Insights into Brain Function
Paul Cisek, Trevor Drew, John Kalaska
Progress in Brain Research
motor learning
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American Shorthorn Association Elects New Board Members and Officers
Posted on November 17, 2021 November 17, 2021 by Cassie Reid
Front row (l to r): Dave Greenhorn Executive Director, Waynesville, Ohio; John Sonderman, Vice President, Columbus, Neb.; Joe Bales, President, Morristown, Tenn.; John Russell, Caldwell, Texas. Back row (l to r): Montie D. Soules, ASA Executive Secretary/CEO, Skiatook, Oklahoma; Jerrell Crow, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Lee Miller, Millersburg, Ohio; Toby Jordan, Rensselaer, Ind., Jeff Bedwell, Isabella, Okla. Not Pictured: Mark Gordon, Middletown, Ill.
During the American Shorthorn Association Annual Meeting on October 23, delegates from across the country gathered to elect new ASA board members and officers at the Hilton Kansas City Airport.
The nominating committee submitted three candidates for the available positions. Jeff Bedwell of Isabella, Okla., Toby Jordan of Rensselaer, Ind. and John Sonderman of Columbus, Neb. All three will serve a three-year term; Bedwell will serve his first term, Jordan and Sonderman will serve their second term.
The board elected new officers for the nine-member board. Joe Bales of Morristown, Tenn. was elected president and John Sonderman of Columbus, Neb. was elected Vice President. Dave Greenhorn of Waynesville, Ohio was appointed as the Executive Director. They serve alongside Board Members Toby Jordan of Indiana, Jerrell Crow of Oklahoma, Lee Miller of Ohio, John Russell of Texas, Mark Gordon of Illinois and Jeff Bedwell of Oklahoma.
During the meeting, the association recognized Hugh Mooney of Calif. for his six years on the Board of Directors. Most recently, Mooney served as President following his time as a director and Vice-President.
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American Shorthorn Association Announces Release of "Shorthorn and the American Cattle Industry"
Posted on September 24, 2021 November 17, 2021 by Shelby Rogers
"Shorthorn and the American Cattle Industry" will be released Saturday, October 23rd as the American Shorthorn Association kicks off their Sesquicentennial year as America's First beef breed association. Written by Dr. Bob Hough and Dr. Bert Moore, this coffee table style book is unique without a doubt.
"Writing this book was a labor of love for Dr. Bert Moore and me." Said Dr. Bob Hough, "We had the time, curiosity and backing of the Association to dig deep into all aspects of the breed and our industry to reveal the important, but often forgotten events and people that have made the cattle business what it is today."
Comprised of 26 chapters, 270 pages and over 800 photos, the commissioned book exemplifies the American Shorthorn Association's prestigious position in the history of the animal breeding industry.
Andy Frazier, author, livestock historian and host of the Podcast, "Top Lines and Tales" of the United Kingdom was "amazed at the depth of research the authors have gone to in order to underpin the origins of the Shorthorn Breed." He adds, "the opening chapters of this book are as equally fascinating to the non-agriculturist as they are to the cattle enthusiast in general."
"This book depicts not only Shorthorn, but the American cattle industry as a whole." states Executive Secretary/CEO of the American Shorthorn Association, Montie D. Soules. Soules goes onto say "This becomes a must read for anyone who has ever had an interest in the purebred cattle industry. I doubt there will ever be another book written with as much detail as Dr. Hough and Dr. Moore have done. The authors did a great job."
Limited-edition books are available now at shorthorn.org for ordering, with multiple pickup or shipping options to meet your needs.
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National Junior Shorthorn Show & Youth Conference Reports Record Breaking Entries
The American Junior Shorthorn Association (AJSA) will host the "Shorthorn Safari" National Junior Shorthorn Show & Youth Conference June 20-26, 2021, at the Kentucky Expo Center in Louisville, Ky.
This year, a record breaking 932 entries will be exhibited in Louisville. Over 450 Junior Members from 28 states have entered Junior Nationals. In totality, these numbers are a significant increase over previous years.
"The NJSS is such an important event for the youth and future of the agricultural industry, so it is exciting to see how our show grows each year", says Shelby Diehm, Director of Marketing, Communications and Youth Activities. "In the last five years we have more than 100 additional youth participating, and cattle numbers have risen even more. I can't wait to see where it continues to go."
The AJSA strives to engage its members in opportunities that develop character, promote valuable skills and build life-long friendships. The National Junior Shorthorn Show & Youth Conference promotes these goals by bringing members together to participate in shows and educational contests.
This year, junior members will participate in the following contests in addition to the Shorthorn Show: Art & etc., beef cook-off, career development, cattleman's written test, digital photography, graphic design, herdsman quiz bowl, junior herdsman, livestock judging, photography, promotional poster, showmanship, speech, state basket, state cook-off/tailgate party, team fitting and team salesmanship contests. High Point Awards will be presented based on participation and placing in these contests.
In addition, $18,500 in scholarships will be presented to AJSA members through the Shorthorn Foundation.
Election of four new AJSA Directors will occur during the Junior National Youth Conference. Three of the elected directors will serve a three-year term and one will serve a one-year term to make up the nine-person board. The election process is based on application, interview, and delegation vote.
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US Beef Breeds Council Elects ASA Executive Secretary/CEO as President
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (May 17, 2021) – The US Beef Breeds Council (USBBC) met in late May electing new officers to preside over the organization and discuss upcoming goals. The American Shorthorn Association's Executive Secretary/CEO, Montie D. Soules was elected President and will serve a two-year term.
The USBBC is comprised of United States beef breed executives and oversees the appointment of the Ultrasound Guidelines Council (UGC) executive director and board of directors. Past-President, Wade Shafer, PhD., of the American Simmental Association oversaw the meeting and election of new officers.
"Using the strength of all beef breeds in a united way allows us to show our elected officials wrongful claims in our industry can hurt the income and longevity of our members of all US Beef breeds." said Montie Soules, Executive Secretary/CEO of ASA and President of the USBBC.
Robert Williams, PhD. of the American Wagyu Association was elected Vice President of the USBBC. "This is a great organization bringing together strong breed executives representing the purebred cattle industry that will have the abilities to carry forward our goals."
During the May meeting, the USBBC discussed goals moving forward and plans to unite all US beef breeds as a strong front against those opposing the animal agriculture and meat industry by attempting to advertise non-beef products as beef products.
Soules adds, "All of our members are affected in the same way. If we unite, we will be able to use all of our strengths in multiple ways."
American Shorthorn Association Announces 2022 Cattlemen's Congress as Super National Shorthorn Show
Posted on April 8, 2021 September 27, 2021 by Shelby Rogers
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (April 8, 2021) – The American Shorthorn Association Board of Directors met to discuss the Shorthorn breed participation at the 2022 Cattlemen's Congress and 2022 National Western Livestock Show.
The Board of Directors unanimously approved the 2021-2022 ASA Point Show System recognizing the 2022 Cattlemen's Congress as a super national and the 2022 National Western Livestock Show as a regional show. The National Shorthorn Summit Sale will be held at Cattlemen's Congress.
The approved show system will recognize five regions, each having two regional shows, one super regional show and one national show. Regional Awards for the five regions will use the four shows in each region for point calculations. The American Shorthorn Association will recognize one national show within each region and two super national shows for a total of seven shows used for National Award calculations.
"We are excited<|fim_middle|>aning, the calves were moved to the beef farm on campus for the feeding trial and finishing phase. The cattle were on feed for a slightly longer time period than in the past. You will see this longer feeding period reflected in weights on these animals. Below are data compilations of all the sires from the 2019 calf crop. Data is broken down into steers and heifers by sire.
I want to thank all the breeders that participated in this program over the past three years. It has been very rewarding to see Shorthorn-sired cattle perform to industry standards and validate that this breed deserves a chance to play a role in the commercial cattle industry in the United States. Without the help and cooperation of Dr. Dan Shike at the University of Illinois, we wouldn't have been able to make this project happen. Special thanks to him and his team for all their work, data collection, and being a gracious host and partner over the years of the NST.
New Staff at ASA
Posted on March 1, 2021 September 27, 2021 by Shelby Rogers
March brings spring and a time for new beginnings, including some changes at the American Shorthorn Association!
Emily Velisek, the ASA Director of Events, Show and Membership activities left her job at the ASA at the end of February. Emily joined the ASA staff in July of 2017 and we watched her grow in her position during her time here. We enjoyed working with her and wish her all the best for her future in Iowa! She will be missed but we know we will see her down the road.
Matt Woolfolk, the ASA Director of Performance Programs, Performance Data and Commercial Acceptance recently got engaged and will be leaving us in April. He will still continue to work in his current position. We look forward to our continued work with Matt, even if it isn't full-time. We are so excited for him and his future with his soon-to-be bride. Congratulations Matt!
Cassie Reid has joined us as Customer Service Specialist and Co-Director of Shows, Event and Membership Services. In this position she will provide customer support and assist with press releases and eblasts. She will also coordinate shows, events and communicate with membership.
Reid comes to the American Shorthorn Association from the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds & Event Center(OEF) in Springfield, Mo. where she served most recently as the Livestock Director. During her 6-year tenure at OEF, she was active with the International Association of Fairs and Expositions (IAFE), graduating from the Institute of Fair Management in December of 2018. Most recently, Reid served on the IAFE's Young Professionals Initiative Steering Committee. Reid began her career in 2014 as the Assistant Ag Director at OEF. She is a 2015 alumna of Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo. with a Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Communications. Reid originally hails from Bosworth, Mo. on her family's diversified row crop and cattle farm. As a 4-H & FFA member, Reid primarily exhibited Shorthorn & Charolais cattle & Boer Goats throughout her youth.
"I look forward to engaging with the members of the American Shorthorn Association and seeing success throughout all aspects of the breed," Reid said. "My experience in the fair industry provides the confidence needed to see association goals flourish, from start to finish."
Wade Minihan has joined us as Customer Service Specialist and Co-Director of Shows, Event and Membership Services. In this position he will provide customer support, assist with DNA and weights and measurements management for performance data. He will also coordinate shows, events and communicate with membership.
Minihan grew up in Blaine, Kansas on a Commercial Cow/Calf and Registered Hereford cattle operation. While growing up, his family showed cattle at the state and national level. He was an active member of the American Junior Hereford association, as well as, the Kansas Junior Hereford association where he served on the junior board. Minihan graduated from Fort Hays State University, with a bachelor's degree in agribusiness, with a minor in marketing. While at FHSU, he was involved in many clubs/organizations on campus. Minihan was an intern in 2019 at the American Shorthorn Association.
"I think my internship gave me good knowledge and helped prepare me for this position," Minihan said. "My internship gave me knowledge of the Shorthorn breed and many connections with people involved in the association. I am excited for this new opportunity and look forward to working with the breeders."
The ASA is excited to welcome two new members to our team. We may go through a small transition period at ASA during training of our new staff members, but we still will be available to assist our membership! After the two new staff members are trained, you can call in and receive assistance from anyone in the office. All staff will be trained to assist you in the registry.
AMERICAN ROYAL SHORTHORN SHOW DOUBLES HEAD EXHIBITED
Posted on October 26, 2020 September 27, 2021 by Shelby Rogers
Shorthorn exhibitors gathered in Kansas City, Mo., on October 22 for the American Royal National Shorthorn Show.
Cattle and exhibitors experienced a long day of showing due to an exponential growth in number of head exhibited for the National Shorthorn Show. In 2019, a total of 128 cattle were exhibited in the junior and open Shorthorn and ShorthornPlus shows. This year, the Shorthorn breed more than doubled total for all the shows with 272 cattle shown.
The junior Shorthorn and ShorthornPlus shows were judged by Chris Cassady of Iowa.
"I think for me personally it is cool to be asked to judge Shorthorn shows because it goes back to my roots," Cassady said. "As a young kid I showed many Shorthorns. It is how I got started. I enjoy looking at these cattle. I don't care if they are red, roan or white. The good ones are good."
The open shows were judged by Scott Werning of South Dakota.
"I had a blast sorting through these cattle," Werning said. "I was really impressed with the quality. This is actually the breed that started a fire in me for this industry. I would see Shorthorns in magazine and thought they were the coolest thing. Some of my first show animals were Shorthorn. I have a long history with this breed."
The American Shorthorn Association (ASA) has five national shows each year, as well as several regional and super regional shows. Exhibitors can attend these shows to receive points and be awarded National Show Animal honors. Due to COVID-19, the point shows have been adjusted but the ASA plans to resume normal show points in the 2021-2022 show season.
"It is exciting to see our breed continue to grow and as the shows get larger, the quality improves," said Emily Velisek, ASA Director of Events, Shows and Membership Activities. "Even with the challenges we have faced in 2020 it is nice to see the breed coming together and showing up."
The next national show for the ASA will be in Louisville, Ky., for the North American International Livestock Exposition. Cattle will be exhibited on November 14, 15 and 16.
American Shorthorn Association Launches Locally Raised Beef Program
Posted on October 1, 2020 September 27, 2021 by Shelby Rogers
Shorthorn breeders unite to promote fresh, quality beef to consumers.
In the early days of the global coronavirus pandemic, many Americans faced an unsettling reality: empty grocery store shelves.
Dramatic changes set in almost overnight and left families spending all of their time at home, limiting trips to the store and buying in bulk to prepare for the unknown. While the pandemic sent shockwaves across all levels of the U.S. economy, it also provided the chance to serve consumers in new and creative ways.
The American Shorthorn Association (ASA) recently launched an initiative to promote members who are offering beef products directly to consumers.
It's called Shorthorn Beef — Locally Raised.
"During the pandemic some consumers faced food shortages, and this brought to light the importance of having a local source for beef," says ASA President Nancy Grathwohl-Heter. "A local program is appealing to consumers, because they know where their meat is sourced and how it is raised."
The Shorthorn Beef program is an avenue for connecting the breed's cattle producers with those interested in buying locally raised beef. The effort includes promotional opportunities through social media, the ASA website and other media platforms.
"It's really about families supporting families," says Montie Soules, ASA executive secretary and CEO. "When you purchase Shorthorn Beef, you're supporting a family farm and their livelihood. We hope this program continues to open doors between the community and livestock producers."
When buying directly from a local farmer or rancher, Grathwohl-Heter says consumers can purchase a quarter, half or whole Shorthorn beef and receive great-tasting, healthy products at a reasonable price point. She and her family manage DTR Cattle Company near Raymond, Kansas, and were early participants in Shorthorn Beef — Locally Raised.
"Our family has been raising Shorthorn cattle for four generations, and we strive to produce a tender and delicious product that exceeds consumer expectations," Grathwohl-Heter says. "We enjoy having a conversation with consumers and sharing our story as a family-owned Shorthorn cattle operation."
The gentle, quiet Shorthorn breed — ideal for family-focused farms and ranches — has long been known for its superior-quality beef, ASA says. The breed also has a unique ability to produce high levels of marbling combined with greater levels of muscling than other breeds.
"Shorthorn cattle have always been known for producing tender and highly marbled beef," Grathwohl-Heter says. "The Shorthorn Beef program highlights the breed's great end product, and helps breeders create more value and demand for Shorthorn genetics."
Participating members will receive marketing support and be featured on the ASA website among the growing directory of Shorthorn breeders with beef to sell. They will also be able to brand their product using the program's official logo.
"Through this new effort, we hope to provide a niche market for fresh, high-quality local Shorthorn Beef," Soules says. "Our more than 6,000 adult and junior members from across the country are committed to raising the best possible Shorthorns and supporting the way of life they enjoy. We want to share that message with consumers."
In addition, Soules sees the effort behind Shorthorn Beef — Locally Raised as an extension of the breed's American legacy. The Shorthorn was country's first beef breed and traces its U.S. history to the 1780s.
Next year, the organization celebrates its 150th anniversary — making ASA the nation's oldest beef cattle association. Go online to access the list of Shorthorn Beef participating breeders or contact ASA for more information on how to get involved in the new program.
Posted in ASA, ASA News, Featured, Industry News, Press ReleasesLeave a comment | to announce Cattlemen's Congress as a super national show for our membership," said Montie Soules, Executive Secretary/CEO of ASA. "Our new show system expands the available point shows to allow more breeders to exhibit across the country. We look forward to seeing our show participation grow for the 2021-2022 show season."
The complete ASA Point Show System will be announced to our membership in the May/June issue of Shorthorn Country and will be available at shorthorn.org. The announcement will include participating shows for the 2021-2022 show season and point distribution for each show level.
The American Shorthorn Association's mission is to serve all members and enhance the value of the Shorthorn breed by managing data, maintaining the integrity of the herdbook, educating members and communicating the value of Shorthorn cattle resulting in the expanded use of Shorthorn genetics in the U.S. beef industry. Visit www.shorthorn.org to learn more.
American Shorthorn Association : 7607 NW Prairie View Road, Kansas City, MO 64151: Phone 816.599.7777
2019 ASA National Sire Test Performance Review
Posted on March 16, 2021 September 27, 2021 by Shelby Rogers
The National Sire Test (NST) program has been a valuable tool for testing the ability of Shorthorn genetics to perform in a real-world setting. The third and final year of the NST and our partnership with the University of Illinois provided us with more data on a genetically diverse bunch of Shorthorn sires. Once again, we were able to collect a full set of data on Shorthorn-influenced cattle from birth to rail. The NST provides breeders the opportunity to test the genetics in their breeding program in a real-world setting while gaining more progeny data on their sires. From a big picture standpoint, the NST gives ASA more information on the breed to show to the industry that our cattle have the capability to be used as a profitable piece of their breeding program.
As was the theme with just about every walk of life in 2020, the National Sire Test experienced some unexpected hiccups and changes to plans. With the Tyson plant in Joslin, IL having capacity cut due to Covid-19 restrictions, the cattle had to stay on feed longer than anticipated before they were able to be harvested. Like previous installments of this program, the ten enrolled sires were bred to 200 U of I cows at their Dixon Spring research farm in December 2018 for these fall-born 2019 calves. After we | 570 |
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Title: Emile Berliner
Subject: Phonograph, Timeline of the telephone, Elliott Cresson Medal, Gyro Motor Company, Henry Berliner
Collection: 1851 Births, 1929 Deaths, American Agnostics, American Inventors, American People of German-Jewish Descent, Burials at Rock Creek Cemetery, Discovery and Invention Controversies, Elliott Cresson Medal Recipients, German Agnostics, German Emigrants to the United States, German Inventors, German Jews, Jewish Agnostics, Jewish Inventors
May 20, 1851 (1851-05-20)
Hanover, Kingdom of Hanover
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Cora Adler (1862–1942), m. 1881
7 children including Henry Berliner, Oliver Berliner (1887–1894)
Samuel and Sarah Fridman Berliner
Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929), originally Emil Berliner, was a German-American inventor. He is best known for inventing the phonograph record (called gramophone record in British English and originally also in American English) and the phonograph (gramophone in British English and originally also in American English). He founded the Berliner Gramophone Company in 1895, The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897, Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898 and Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899 (chartered in 1904).
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Berliner was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1851 into a Jewish merchant family. Though raised in a Jewish family, he later became an agnostic.[1][2] He completed an apprenticeship to become a merchant, as was family tradition. While his real hobby was invention, he worked as an accountant to make ends meet. To avoid being drafted for the Franco-Prussian War, Berliner migrated to the United States of America in 1870 with a friend of his father's, in whose shop he worked in Washington, D.C..[3] He moved to New York and, living off temporary work, such as doing the paper route and cleaning bottles, he studied physics at night at the Cooper Union Institute.[4] After some time working in a livery stable, he became interested in the new audio technology of the telephone and phonograph, and invented an improved telephone transmitter (one of the first type of microphones). The patent was acquired by the Bell Telephone Company (see The Telephone Cases). But on February 27, 1901 the United States Court of Appeal declared the<|fim_middle|>887, refiled September 1887, issued November 8, 1887
U.S. Patent 382,790 Process of Producing Records of Sound (recorded on a thin wax coating over metal or glass surface, subsequently chemically etched), filed March 1888, issued May 1888
U.S. Patent 463,569 Combined Telegraph and Telephone (microphone), filed June 1877, issued November 1891
U.S. Patent 548,623 Sound Record and Method of Making Same (duplicate copies of flat, zinc disks by electroplating), filed March 1893, issued October 1895
U.S. Patent 564,586 Gramophone (recorded on underside of flat, transparent disk), filed November 7, 1887, issued July 1896
^ "Concerning Emile Berliner, The Jew TO BE a Jew may mean one of several identities. For example, the Jew, Emile Berliner, the late inventor, called himself agnostic." B'nai B'rith, The National Jewish monthly: Volume 43; Volume 43.
^ "In 1899, Berliner wrote a book, Conclusions, that speaks of his agnostic ideas on religion and philosophy." Seymour Brody, Jewish heroes & heroines of America: 151 true stories of Jewish American heroism (2003), page 119.
Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry at the Library of Congress including audio archive and family tree
Emile Berliner: Inventor of the Gramophone (Library of Congress)
Berliner timeline and patent list
The Berliner helicopters at the National Air and Space Museum
Berliner helicopter at College Park, Maryland
Berliner in the Inventor's Hall of Fame
Illustrated Berliner page
Contents of Berliner's case file at The Franklin Institute contains evidence and correspondence with Berliner regarding the award of his 1929 Franklin Medal for acoustic engineering and development of the gramophone
Musée des ondes Emile Berliner in Montreal, Quebec contains over 30,000 recordings and other artifacts
Website Emil Berliner Studios in Berlin, Germany – The History of the Record by Peter K. Burkowitz (the other side)
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Washington, D.C., United States, North American Aviation, Smithsonian Institution, Emile Berliner | patent void. Berliner subsequently moved to Boston in 1877 and worked for Bell Telephone until 1883, when he returned to Washington and established himself as a private researcher. Emile Berliner became a United States citizen in 1881. Berliner also invented what was probably the first radial aircraft engine (1908), a helicopter (1919), and acoustical tiles (1920s).
1897 Berliner Gramophone record
In 1886 Berliner began experimenting with methods of sound recording. He was granted his first patent for what he called the "Gramophone" in 1887. The patent described recording sound using horizontal modulation of a stylus as it traced a line on a rotating cylindrical surface coated with an unresisting opaque material such as lampblack, subsequently fixed with varnish and used to photoengrave a corresponding groove into the surface of a metal playback cylinder. In practice, Berliner opted for the disc format, which made the photoengraving step much less difficult and offered the prospect of making multiple copies of the result by some simpler process such as electrotyping, molding or stamping. In 1888 Berliner was using a more direct recording method, in which the stylus traced a line through a very thin coating of wax on a zinc disc, which was then etched in acid to convert the line of bared metal into a playable groove.
By 1890 a Berliner licensee in Germany was manufacturing a toy Gramophone and five-inch hard rubber discs (stamped-out replicas of etched zinc master discs), but because key US patents were still pending they were sold only in Europe. Berliner meant his Gramophone to be more than a mere toy, and in 1895 he persuaded a group of businessmen to invest $25,000, with which he started the US Berliner Gramophone Company. He began marketing seven-inch records and a more substantial Gramophone, which was, however, still hand-propelled like the smaller toy machine.
The difficulty in using early hand-driven Gramophones was getting the turntable to rotate at an acceptably steady speed while playing a disc. Engineer Eldridge R. Johnson, the owner of a small machine shop in Camden, New Jersey, assisted Berliner in developing a suitable low-cost wind-up spring motor for the Gramophone and became Berliner's manufacturer. Berliner gave Frank Seaman the exclusive sales rights in the US, but after disagreements Seaman began selling his own version of the Gramophone, as well as unauthorized copies of Berliner's records, and Berliner was legally barred from selling his own products. The US Berliner Gramophone Company shut down in mid-1900 and Berliner moved to Canada. Following various legal maneuvers, the Victor Talking Machine Company was officially founded by Eldridge Johnson in 1901 and the trade name "Gramophone" was completely and permanently abandoned in the US, although its use continued elsewhere. The Berliner Gramophone Co. of Canada was chartered on 8 April 1904 and reorganized as the Berliner Gramophone Co. in 1909.
Berliner with an experimental disc and Gramophone he exhibited in 1888
Berliner's other inventions include a new type of loom for mass-production of cloth; an acoustic tile; and an early version of the helicopter. According to a July 1, 1909, report in The New York Times, a helicopter built by Berliner and J. Newton Williams of Derby, Connecticut, had lifted its operator (Williams) "from the ground on three occasions" at Berliner's laboratory in the Brightwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
In fact between 1907 and 1926, Berliner dedicated himself to improving the technologies of vertical flight through the development of a light-weight rotary engine, which he improved upon throughout the 1910s and 1920s. With R.S. Moore, also a Scientist and Inventor, as his chief assistant, Berliner obtained automobile engines from the Adams Company in Dubuque Iowa, manufacturer of the Adams-Farwell automobile. This car used air cooled three or five cylinder rotary engines which were developed in-house by Fay Oliver Farwell (1859–1935). Berliner and Farwell adapted them for use in perfecting "machines" produced for vertical flight. His realizations allowed him to move away from the heavy in-line engines to lighter rotary models, which led to the invention of a 6-hp rotary engine for the improvement of vertical flight. It was these experiments that led to the formal creation of the Gyro Motor Company in 1909. And it was the creation the 6-hp rotary engine that initiated the use of rotary engines in aviation. The Gyro Motor Company manufactured these and other improved versions of the Gyro Engine between 1909 and roughly 1926. The building used for these operations exists at 774 Girard Street, NW, Washington DC, where its principal facade is in the Fairmont-Girard alleyway.
Adams-Farwell rotary engine redesigned for use in a gyrocopter (1909)
By 1910, continuing to advance vertical flight, Berliner experimented with the use of a vertically mounted tail rotor to counteract torque on his single main rotor design. And it was this configuration that led to the mechanical development of practical helicopters of the 1940s. When the Gyro Motor Company opened, Spencer Heath (1876–1963), a mechanical engineer (among other things), became the manager. Heath was connected with the American Propeller Company, also a manufacturer of aeronautical related mechanisms and products in Baltimore, Maryland. Both R.S. Moore, Designer and Engineer, and Joseph Sanders (1877–1944), inventor, engineer, and manufacturer, were involved in the original operations of the company. Berliner was president of the newly founded Gyro Motor Company and much of his time was spent dealing with business operations. which merged to become Berliner-Joyce Aircraft
On July 16, 1922, Berliner and his son, Henry, demonstrated a working helicopter for the United States Army. Henry became disillusioned with helicopters in 1925, and in 1926 founded the Berliner Aircraft Company,[5] which merged to become Berliner-Joyce Aircraft in 1929.
Berliner, who suffered a nervous breakdown in 1914,[6] was also active in advocating improvements in public health and sanitation.
Berliner was awarded the Franklin Institute's John Scott Medal in 1897, and later the Elliott Cresson Medal in 1913 and the Franklin Medal in 1929.
Emile Berliner died of a heart attack at the age of 78 and is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., alongside his wife and a son.
Emile Berliner with a veiled woman
Conclusions, 1902, Kaufman Publishing Co.
The Milk Question and Mortality Among Children Here and in Germany: An Observation, 1904, The Society for Prevention of Sickness
Some Neglected Essentials in the Fight against Consumption, 1907, The Society for Prevention of Sickness
A Study Towards the Solution of Industrial Problems in the New Zionist Commonwealth, 1919, N. Peters
Muddy Jim and other rhymes: 12 illustrated health jingles for children, 1919, Jim Publication Company.
Marker for the Berliner family in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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U.S. Patent 199,141 Telephone (induction coils), filed October 1877, issued January 1878
U.S. Patent 222,652 Telephone (carbon diaphragm microphone), filed August 1879, issued December 1879
U.S. Patent 224,573 Microphone (loose carbon rod), filed September 1879, issued February 1880
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On a blazing hot day in late July, I decided to go hunting for raspberries at a local orchard. I love all the summer berries, but raspberries are my favorite. I had a feeling I missed the peak window for raspberry picking, but I also had a feeling if I searched hard enough for long enough I could still find plenty. Because what can't be accomplished through sheer determination?
An hour later, I had about a dozen raspberries, and half of them were duds.
This was a little disappointing, mostly because I was really hoping for raspberries. But it also flies in the face of a commonly held American belief: You can have anything you want, anytime you want it. You might have to put a lot of effort into it, but in the end, you can have anything you are willing to work for.
And I could have had raspberries. I could have gone to the grocery store and bought a pint of raspberries shipped here from California or Mexico or somewhere else where they grow nearly year-round. Because I live in America, I really can have almost anything I want, almost anytime I want it—at least when it comes to material things.
But instead of rerouting to the grocery store, I took a walk past the blueberry bushes. And it was kind of<|fim_middle|> they come via shortcuts, like Mexican raspberries in a tiny plastic container.
The best things happened naturally. The best jobs, the best people, the best memories—all of those things were out of my control. They were a product of being faithful in doing everything I could and God being faithful in doing what He could—namely, being sovereign. The best things grew and thrived because it was their season to do so.
Maybe changing seasons—in life, in fruit, in everything—would be a little bit easier and a little bit better if, instead of pretending I have a level of control I truly don't have, I chose to want the things that are naturally happening in this moment, in this season.
Thanks, Beka. This is the second time this week that God has told me to look to Him and what He has for me in this season. It's exhausting looking back at seasons past, or looking forward to seasons to come, all the while missing out on his good grace for this season. God bless you.
Kwaku, I'm so glad you stopped by! Your blog of letters is so sweet and I can't wait to follow along. And your comment made me go back and look at this post again and remember what I had already learned and already forgotten 🙂 Thanks for that. God bless you!
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YOU. Don't be a controversy starter, Ben Martin! | like the Vegas Strip lit up at night. There were blueberries everywhere. I filled the whole basket in a quarter of the time it took me to pick 12 sad raspberries.
I didn't necessarily want blueberries, but blueberries were in season. And there is a different kind of joy that comes with gratefully accepting what is right in front of you, ripe for the taking.
The season of life I'm currently in probably won't go down as one of my all-time favorites. And while part of that is a natural response to change, I wonder if a larger part of my discontentment is that I'm trying to force raspberries in a blueberry season. Maybe I'm searching so hard for remnants of a season that has passed that I'm not fully embracing what is here right now, waiting to be enjoyed for what it is, not what it isn't.
This concept—choosing what I have instead of forcing what I want—feels like a slant route to me. Our cultural motto is usually "You can have everything you want!" and not "You can want everything you have!" Honestly, it feels a little complacent—like if I'm just choosing what I already have, then I must not be working hard enough for what I really want.
But when I look at my life in the rear view mirror, it's easy to see that none of the best things happened because I white-knuckled them into existence. Nor did | 299 |
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Cranberries are a standard Thanksgiving ingredient that most people think came from the New England area. But the Ojibwa and Sioux of the northern plains taught early settlers how to harvest cranberries. Today, Wisconsin is an important cranberry | 244 |
IKEA, the traditional furniture retailer with 75 years history, is now planning a digital platform to co-create products and innovations with third-party designers, startups, and customers.
"We are launching 'Co-Create IKEA', a digital platform where customers will have the possibility to develop and test new products … a bit like the open-source development within IT," Torbjörn Lööf, chief executive of Inter Ikea, said.
The "co-create IKEA" platform will be looking into five areas: product ideas, Bootcamp, collaborating with university students, and connecting with innovation labs and makerspaces around the world.
The platform of "Product ideas" will soon be launched and it will be a place for everyone who has a passion for furniture design and who wants to turn daily needs or frustrations into solutions to take part in the development and testing of new products. IKEA hasn't disclosed many details but a product they just launched in early 2018 might be helpful for us to imagine how will the co-creation work – Delaktif is an "open source" sofa launched recently, and IKEA opens the door for customers to experiment their ideas, allowing third-party designers, manufacturers, or anyone, to create complementary products that can attach to the sofa or modify its use (see picture below).
"Bootcamp" is a platform opens up for curious and motivated startups to solve IKEA's big problems. In 2017, IKEA launched its first Bootcamp, 1200 teams submitted their applications online and 10 selected projects, from smart home system to bicycle trailers, will be working with IKEA design team in IKEA Design center for 3 months. IKEA may license their technology or product, or be an investor in the future.
Like the case of Threadless and Tongal, these participants appreciate the opportunity to work with IKEA on product innovation. IKEA is the world's largest furniture retailer, and designing a product for IKEA will be a social proof or help the career development for these participants.
Participants can get the reward. Participants will get money if their ideas work. In addition to that<|fim_middle|> hackers share their ideas and was built by IKEA fans. I think we can foresee that many people, including these hackers, will have incentives to participate because they just enjoy doing it, making their ideas happen and sharing great ideas with others in the community.
The creative ideas from the crowd can help IKEA on their continuous innovations and achieve their mission of proving affordable, accessible and environmental-friendly products for more customers.
Involving customers in the design can actually enhance customer satisfaction and help build deeper and sticker relationships with customers.
Crowdsourcing ideas can help IKEA save some R&D cost and monetize on ideas and products contributed by the crowd.
Like other traditional retailers, IKEA was actually slow in migrating to digital. I am wondering whether IKEA can have the digital expertise and capability to build their "co-create IKEA" an effective digital platform to connect and manage the participants around the world and whether the platform can continuously offer enough challenges to motivate people to participate over time. Since this is a new initiative of IKEA, I am looking forward to seeing what will happen and how will it impact my experience as an IKEA customer.
Thanks for your post, Ting! When I first read it, I thought the bootcamp concept would only apply to crowdsourcing ideas for furniture, but I think it's very interesting that IKEA is also testing on other parts of their business, such as their food store. Apparently, the concept of bug-filled meatballs and algae products comes also from bootcamp! Not sure how sustainable or scalable this model actually is, since the bootcamp finalists have to travel to Sweden and work in the implementation with them, but it's anyway a very interesting form of sourcing new ideas.
Ting, this is super interesting! I was wondering for "Product Ideas" – how big the number of furniture designers / creators there are in the world. This obviously requires a high level of expertise to engineer furniture in addition to the design creativity. I wonder if similar to Tongal, they could almost un-bundle the design / creative element and then the engineering / construction portion. Then maybe you would get more engagement from the broader creative community, such as interior designers.
Love the post! I was especially impressed with the Ikea hackers' community – it shows an impressive brand loyalty and engagement and it is great that IKEA found the way to harness it! I agree with your points regarding the cost-minimization and the community satisfaction as a result of this innovation! What I think IKEA should be careful with is protecting its visual and design identity while outsourcing its designs from all over the world. This would mean setting up very clear design requirements and choosing criteria for the participants, yet not restricting the creative freedom. Outsourcing design also requires a clear agreement on the IP ownership to avoid any negative PR that can affect its reputation (we had a similar project with Absolut vodka back at Chivas Brothers and the legal context is quite tricky and requires a lot of attention).
I really like the idea. I think there is a lot of potential here. One of the main problems that companies like IKEA face as they scale is maintaining a local feel while leveraging global scale. I think this bootcamp will increase their flexibility and their responsiveness to changing trends. In addition to the IP rights, I think it's important to consider how the ideas will be vetted to ensure the quality that is associated with IKEA. Their brand image can be damaged if they are not careful in curating only the best ideas. Thanks for sharing! | , IKEA provide many resources, like test labs, prototype shop and knowledge, to help selected participants create their products/ideas.
Participants have strong Intrinsic motivations to do so. IKEA has long inspired a "hacker community" where people are passionate about modifying IKEA furniture and share their ideas. For example, https://www.ikeahackers.net/ is a website for | 77 |
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Covid-19 Series: Genius Brands Talks Adaptability and Weathering the Storm
Posted by Rebecca Ash | Apr 7, 2020 | Articles |
Jon Ollwerther, EVP, Global Brand & Business Development, Genius Brands International spoke to Total Licensing about the challenges, strengths and long-term effects that the crisis will have on the industry
It is very early days in the crisis, of course, but could you outline the measures you have put in place to ensure business keeps moving?
JO: "One of the most important factors that determines whether a person or a company survives a crisis or emergency is how quickly they identify it as such. Months ago, our current reality was hard to even imagine. At Genius Brands we watched closely as the crisis unfolded in China, and we were very on guard so we were in a position to react quickly when it became clear it was heading towards a global crisis.
Our first priority was the safety of our employees. At the same time, we focused on liquidity—this is not a secret formula, companies that have strong balance sheets fare best in recessions. We also made early and frequent check-ins with our key media and licensing partners on the consumer products and distribution sides of our business. Keeping a frequent and open dialogue with, specifically, our licensees and the retail community has helped us maintain a strong position and up-to-date awareness in an ever-evolving situation."
What initial effects is the virus and the 'global shutdown' having on your business?
JO: "The first and most apparent effect of COVID-19 and the 'global shutdown' is our corporate cultural and habit shift from a primarily office-based culture to an entirely work-from-home culture, but that is not unique to Genius Brands. We were able to adapt very quickly to this change and quickly shifted our focus back to our own IPs, our content partners, licensees, and tv network partners."
How are you still managing to engage with fans?
JO: "We're a global children's media company which produces animated content so we have ramped up the volume of content we offer on YouTube and through our own network of digital channels, which reaches over 100<|fim_middle|>ING
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Finally, and most importantly, we are very proud to have swiftly produced a series of animated PSAs teaching kids how to be safe during this pandemic, starring Jennifer Garner (Netflix's Llama Llama and Warren Buffett (Amazon Prime's Secret Millionaires Club), both of whom donated their time to the project, as well as the team of producers. Genius Brands is offering the PSAs for free to any and all broadcasters, educators, and parents to use to improve child and family safety. You can check them out at https://www.gnusbrands.com/PSA."
Conversely, are there any areas of strength that have surprised you?
"Genius Brands has always fostered a very entrepreneurial spirit; for example, we don't have a culture of assistants, and we outsource our IT. There is no culture of "pass the buck." This mindset has served us well as we've transitioned quickly to a work-from-home organization. We made this transition with virtually no disruption to our workflow. This enabled us to be on email and phones right away, and setting video conferencing meetings to keep our clients and our partners updated on the business."
What do you see as both the immediate and long-term challenges of this?
JO: "The long-term challenge is without question the macroeconomic shift that has occurred as a result of COVID-19. I have no doubt that the global community will pull together and take control of the medical challenges, though, sadly there will no doubt be much more suffering before that happens, both in the human too and economically. The economic challenges, however, will take much longer to course correct.
As I write this, in the last two weeks in the United States alone, 10 million people have filed for unemployment. Those hard-working people fuel the economy. Many others still have suffered reduction in pay. These people watch TV, they eat out in restaurants, and they spend money for consumer products in stores. For the last ten years, we've been in a period of economic expansion, where consumers have felt extra money in their wallets for discretionary spending. There also seemed to be a "sugar high" mentality in the United States, where the average household savings is under $9000, yet the average car loan stretches for over 70 months. The scary thing is that we will inevitably see even greater unemployment figures in the weeks to come.
Yes, these people will get back to work, but that will not happen overnight. Just this week, for example, Macy's furloughed the vast majority of its 125,000 employees. It will take time to get these employees back to work and time still for them to recover from their financial loss and hardship before they can even consider discretionary spending. Further delaying recovery will be the fact that many jobs that existed just a few weeks ago may not exist again. There will be enduring shifts in our economy following COVID-19—will shopping among large crows bear as much appeal as it used to? Will going to a crowded concert feel as fun? I live in both New York and LA, where large, long, communal dining tables have been a growing trend for the last decade. This is great for restaurateurs who can make each square foot of their restaurant more productive, but will diners continue to embrace it? How much consumer spending will shift online and stay online?
The good news for many in the licensing industry, however, compared to dining for example, is that many of the goods we market to consumers at a lower price point than a meal, and unlike a meal or an experience, there is a greater measure of practicality in a durable good like a garment, or a toy, that can be used again and again. This, in my opinion, will minimize the damage to these categories and will also make them early to bounce back."
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