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Seed of the Arctic Ice (Sequel to Under Arctic Ice)
by Harry Bates
Science Fiction Story: Killer whales and seal-creatures tangle Ken Torrance in an amazing adventure under the ice-roofed arctic sea.
Tags: Science Fiction Novel-Classic
Sleepily the lookout stared at the scope-screen before him, wishing for something that would break the monotony of the scene it pictured: the schools of ghostly fish fleeting by, the occasional shafts of pale sunlight filtering down through breaks in the ice-floes above, the long snaky ropes of underwater growth. None of this was conducive to wakefulness; nor did the half-speed drone of the electric engines aft and the snores of some distant sleeper help him. The four other men on duty in the submarine--the helmsman; the second mate, whose watch it was; the quartermaster and the second engineer--might not have been present, so motionless and silent were they.
The lookout man stifled another yawn and glanced at a clock to see how much more time remained of his trick. Then suddenly something on the screen brought him to alert attention. He blinked at it; stared hard--and thrilled.
Far ahead, caught for an instant by the submarine _Narwhal's+ light-beams, a number of sleek bodies moved through the foggy murk, with a flash of white bellies and an easy graceful thrust of flukes.
The watcher's hands cupped his mouth; he turned and sang out:
"K-i-i-ll-ers! I see killers!"
The cry rang in every corner, and immediately there was a feverish response. Rubbing their eyes, men appeared as if from nowhere and jumped to posts; with a clang, the telegraph under the second mate's hand went over to full speed; Captain Streight rolled heavily out of his bunk, flipped his feet mechanically into sea-boots and came stamping forward. First Torpooner Kenneth Torrance, as he sat up and stretched, heard the usual crisp question:
"Where away?"
"Five points off sta'b'd bow, sir; quarter-mile away; swimming slow."
"How large a school?"
"Couldn't say, sir. Looks around a dozen."
"Whew!" whistled Ken Torrance. "That's a strike!" He pulled on a sweater and strode forward to the scope-screen to see for himself, even as Captain Streight, all at once testy with eagerness, bawled:
"Sta'b'd five! Torpoon ready, Mister Torrance! Mister Torr--oh, here you are. Take a look."
Never in the two years of experience which had brought him to the important post of first torpooner had Ken failed to thrill at the sight which now met his eyes. Directly ahead, now that the Narwhal's bow was turned in pursuit, but veering slowly to port, swam a pack of the twenty to thirty-foot dolphins which are called "killer whales," their bodies so close-pressed that they seemed to be an undulating wave of black, occasionally sliced with white as the fluke-thrusts brought their bellies into view. Their speed through the shadowed, gloomy water was equal to the submarine's; when alarmed, it would almost double.
"Three more of 'em will fill our tanks," grunted Streight, his chunky face almost glowing. He bit on a<|fim_middle|> and the sight held him fascinated. He could see the very wrinkles of the monster's skin as it rushed in, with shadowy flukes thrusting behind; could see the lines of dagger-like teeth, the cavernous maw and gullet. And then all vision was blotted out as the jaws closed around the torpoon's nose.
Ken did not wait for those jaws to crunch shut. He gripped the nitro-shell gun's trigger and squeezed it back.
The weapon hissed, flung its shell. He reversed his engines to try and tear free. Seconds dragged by with no result. Then he felt a mighty jolt; his harness broke; and he was pitched into the torp's engine controls.
That was all he knew, save for a vague feeling of falling, falling over and over, which was ended when a second bone-shaking shock brought complete oblivion...
It was darkness that met his eyes when they opened, the eery darkness of the floor of the Polar Sea.
Darkness! Half-conscious as he was, he started in surprise. He looked for the torp's shaded control board-lights, but could not find them. Bewildered, he wondered what had happened, and then remembered the whale. In its flurry it had smashed him down.
Pain was thumping his forehead where he had struck the control levers; with a groan he twisted his body around and felt for his hand-flash. At any rate, there was no water inside the body compartment. The seams had resisted the blow. But why were there no lights?
He found his hand-flash, and its beam showed him the reason. Playing it on the small water-tight door which separated the main compartment from that in which the machinery was contained, he looked through its fused quartz peep-hole. He gaped in consternation.
There was, after all, a leak in the torpoon's shell, and a bad one. The machinery compartment was full of water.
"Gosh!" he muttered. "That means no light, no radio--no power! Guess I'm stranded!"
He considered the situation. It was not serious, for he had been in touch with the Narwhal after bagging the first whale and had given his position. The submarine would proceed to the kill immediately; then, after a while, not hearing from him, they would scour the neighborhood, just as they had hunted for Chan Beddoes when he did not return.
But they'd find him, Ken told himself--and soon. He had no idea how long he had lain unconscious, but probably by now the mother ship had already hooked onto the first whale; maybe she was already hunting for him.
"Well, I'd better get out and be ready to signal to 'em with the flash," he reflected. "They may miss me here in the mud."
Taking his sea-suit from a long narrow locker, he drew the stiff-woven fabric over his body, turned the air-units on, clamped the face-shield shut, and then, gripping his hand-flash, slowly opened the port in the shell's side.
A weird figure he was, fit for the mysterious gloom into which he came. With casque of steel and lead-weighted feet, staring face-shield and metal belt, and equipped with a knife and two or three emergency tools, the sea-suit transformed him into a clumsy, grotesque giant. He sloshed into the muddy sea bottom, stumbling at first from the heavy water resistance and hardly able to see anything. The torpoon itself was a hazy blur at a short distance, but up above the light was better, being almost bright next to the ice ceiling. He adjusted the air pressure inside his suit, floating his feet off the bottom. A few clumsy armstrokes and he went drifting gently upward.
Knowing that the "bends"--bubbles of air in a diver's veins--come from too rapidly changing pressures when rising, he made his ascent carefully. Up twenty feet, then a pause; twenty feet more and another pause. So he rose some ninety feet, and finally arrived at the underside of the ice floe.
Here he found the water a pale blue-green, increasing, at the limit of his vision, to impenetrable black. Nearby was a great dark blur which he recognized as the killer whale that had struck him down. It bobbed lifelessly against the smooth, light ceiling of ice. Slowly, he swam over towards it.
There was no mark of the havoc his last shot must have wreaked inside. He examined the body with interest, fingering the two inch-long teeth, which even the mighty sperm whale fears and flees from.
"Pretty wicked," he said aloud, just for the companionship of his voice. "And there's a lot of oil in this brute. Streight'll be glad to get him. Maybe he won't need a third to fill the tanks."
Thought of his captain made him look up and around, hoping to see the Narwhal's light-beams come threading through the distant murk. He did not see them, but what he did see caused his mouth to drop open, and his veins to chill with a cold that was not that of the sea nor the ice above.
"Good Lord!" he whispered. "That thing--again!"
Like a specter from the deep, some hundred feet away was a form, seal-like in appearance, yet not wholly seal. It poised there motionless, apparently looking straight at him.
Fear came over Ken as he studied it. Its body was perhaps ten feet long, and sleek and fat under a brown-colored hide. But its flippers were not those of a seal; they were too long and slender, especially the hind ones. They unquestionably bore a remote resemblance to human arms and legs.
"Yet it can't be anything but some kind of seal," Ken whispered to himself. "It must be!"
But then, too, it did not have the ordinary seal's bullet head, set squat between smoothly tapering shoulders, but rather something bulbous, half like that of a man, in spite of the layers of fat that stream-lined from it to the broad shoulders. It did have, however, two large, staring eyes, and slitted holes inches below them for nostrils--which showed that it breathed air and was therefore warm-blooded.
Quite motionless, each stared at the other, while minutes passed. Then the creature moved slowly up and forward, impelled by a graceful and hardly perceptible roll of its queer flippers. Very gradually it came towards Kenneth Torrance; and he, peering with fear-tinged curiosity at the animal's bold advance, saw two creases of fat that must have been lips slide open in the smooth brown face, baring strong, pointed teeth.
Not knowing whether it was an attack or merely inquisitiveness, he unsheathed his knife. At this the figure stopped and poised motionless again, perhaps fifty feet away, and after a moment turned its sleek head first to the left and then to the right. Automatically, Ken gazed around likewise. He drew in his breath with a sharp hiss.
Like shadows, additional figures had appeared in the distant murk. Silently they had come; he could see eleven--twelve--even more. He was surrounded! No longer doubting their purpose, he gripped his knife firmly. He knew he could never get down to the torpoon in time.
And then the circle began to close.
There was little he could do to resist them, he realized, for what he had seen of their movements told him that they were swift, effortless swimmers. But he braced himself as best he could against the dead whale, to protect his back. He would at least go down fighting.
As their spectral shapes slid slowly closer he noted something that had escaped his eyes before. Four or five of them were holding dim objects in their arm-like flippers. Spears, he made them out to be, rudely fashioned from bone. And others held dark-colored loops, which they were slowly forming into nooses.
"They're intelligent, all right," Ken muttered. "Spears--of whalebone, I guess. And ropes--probably seaweed. Weapons! Good Lord, what kind of seals are these?"
Easily, gracefully, the silent circle drew in to perhaps twenty feet of him, where they paused again, hanging motionless at regular intervals in the eery, wavering half-light. Ken licked his lips nervously. Then the one whom he had seen first moved its head slightly, in what was apparently a signal. And in a concerted movement, so bewilderingly rapid that his eyes could not hold them, they rushed him.
He had expected speed, but not speed such as this. He had barely swung his knife-arm up when the wave engulfed him.
Doubling, curving shapes looped around him; blubbery bodies pressed against him; eyes flashed by in streaks of brown; he knew that he was being tumbled and tossed and that his knife and hand-flash had fallen under the shock of the attack. And then there was a sharper sensation. As he struggled to break free, taut cords trussed his legs and arms like any captive animal's.
The stream of moving bodies slowed in movement and fell back from a breathless, dazed Kenneth Torrance. He then got his first clear view since the assault was unleashed.
He was upright, many feet away from the killer whale's carcass, his arms bound strongly to his sides with seaweed-rope, his legs locked close together. To one side he glimpsed several of the creatures fastening other rope strands to the whale's flukes. When they had finished, with smoothly thrusting flippers they began to haul the carcass forward, and he felt himself move feet first in the same direction.
He forced a wry smile to his lips. "A swell fight I put up!" he grunted. "Hold 'em off! Yeah--I bet I held 'em for a full tenth of a second."
He still could hardly believe what had so rapidly befallen him. It was difficult to credit eyes that showed him creatures whose bodies were mainly seal-like, and yet whose weapons and co-ördinated movements spoke for human intelligence. But they were certainly real. At his feet he could feel the pressure of a guard's flippers against him.
He was towed in this fashion for some distance when the pressure of the flippers suddenly tightened and he was pulled into a deep-angled swoop toward the sea-bottom below. Previously he had seen his captors' amazing speed, but now he felt it. Down and down he went, and at last, when it seemed he must crash into the sea floor, his momentum was quickly checked, and he found himself standing in the mud, from which position, lacking support from his guard, he drifted to a horizontal one, face up. And there, lying helpless on the bottom, he saw the reason for the sudden dive. Far to the right, piercing faintly through the murk, were two faint interweaving beams of white that preceded a slowly moving dark bulk.
The Narwhal! Wild hopes of rescue coursed through him.
Dimly, as he watched the beams, he was aware of the rest of the creatures dropping down, guiding between them the whale's carcass. Then a firm pressure was applied to his side, and he was rolled over, face down in the mud. Unable any longer to see his ship, his momentary vision of rescue vanished.
"Hopeless, I guess," he muttered despairingly. The darkness on the sea-floor was too thick, the wavering shadows too deceptive. And his hand-flash and knife were gone--probably knocked from his grasp during the struggle, he thought.
He realized that the seal-like animals were lying low until the submarine passed, its size having awed them. The color of the bodies blended perfectly with the gloom, as did that of his own sea-suit. His bonds prevented him from making even the slightest movement to attract attention.
Torturing thoughts raced through the torpooner's brain. He saw, in his mind's eye, straight above, a hazy bulk, with shimmering columns of white angling from its nose. His imagination pictured for him the warm, well-lit interior, and the bunks--the coffee steaming on the fire, the men at their posts and Streight's anxious, beefy face. He saw it all as plainly as if he were inside, cracking jokes with one of the engineers.
The minutes passed. The Narwhal must now be gone. Ken's cheek muscles stood out as he pressed his teeth together. "Well, go on!" he exploded in impotent rage. "What are you waiting for? Kill me! Eat me if you're going to!" And he cursed the silent forms around him till his ears hurt from the reverberation.
After the Narwhal had vanished in the gloom, the torpooner's captors lifted him from the bottom and propelled him leisurely forward again, the slight, graceful roll of their flippers slipping them along smoothly.
A dull hopelessness came over him. No longer could he hope that his submarine would find him. Only one thing was certain, and that was that death would soon come. For even if his captors did not kill him at once, he had but thirty-six hours before his air-units would be exhausted. Certainly, having captured him, the seal-creatures would not release him. And it was too much to expect them to realize that his sea-unit was only an artificial covering which enabled him to live underwater, and not his own flesh and blood.
And as for the chance of breaking loose--the idea was laughable. His speed was snail-like in comparison with theirs. Even if he did manage somehow to get away, what good would it do? How could he, a puny, helpless mite, ever hope to locate the Narwhal in this vast sweep of Arctic sea? His torpoon was wrecked, and he had no means of communication.
His situation was quite hopeless.
Far ahead, a dark shape grew in the foggy murk, and as they neared, spread upwards and outwards. They angled up and up; the sea-floor was higher there. Ken, peering as best he could, made out that the mountainous, looming bulk was the face of a giant underwater mound, whose uneven formation indicated that it was the result of some long-past upheaval. It was the first of a rolling series of such hillocks, six or seven in all, stretching back into the gloom. Their rounded peaks reached to within a few feet of the water's ice-sheathed surface. Surely the creatures' home was among these mounds.
He was skirted round the base of the first hillock and caught a glimpse of something in its face which was apparently of his captors' construction. It was a hole, dark, mysterious, perhaps fifteen feet in diameter, and barring it were three great gray stakes, reaching from top to bottom. Behind the stakes, Ken got a jumbled impression of a body, large and sleek, of black streaked with white, that moved restlessly back and forth in the hole and occasionally seemed to lash out in anger. He wondered what it was. Before long, he knew.
The party of seal-creatures stopped before the second of the row of hillocks. In its face, too, was a hole--a well of blackness--but with no stakes across it. He twisted his head back and saw the carcass of the killer whale he had slain being guided up to the entrance and shoved through. Then, from the upper rim of the hole, three stakes similar to the others he had seen slid down and barred it.
"Storehouses!" he muttered. "Storehouses, I'll bet anything. And killer whales are their food. They keep 'em in the holes until they're needed. But I'll swear it was a live whale I saw in the first one--and how in the dickens could they capture a mighty killer with their dinky spears and ropes?"
There he had to leave the question, for its answer implied greater intelligence in the creatures than he would admit.
Intelligence--in seals!
And now he was guided smoothly forward to the third hillock, where the leaders of the group glided through a V-shaped cleft in its face. His guards brought him along behind.
A wry smile twisted Kenneth Torrance's lips. To him, the cleft was more than an entranceway. To him it signified the beginning of the hopeless, lonely end of his life...
The cleft led into a corridor, and the corridor was softly illuminated with a peculiar light whose source he could not discover. It served to show him a passageway that was wide rather than tall, and gouged from the firm, clayey soil by blunt tools that had left uneven marks. Straight ahead it led, and, as they continued, the mysterious illumination brightened, until suddenly, rounding a turn, its source appeared.
Like will-o'-the-wisps, a score of arrows of light flashed softly into view down the corridor. They were of delicate green and orange and yellow, glowing and luminous, and hovering like humming birds between floor and ceiling. Ken looked at them in some alarm until his nearer approach showed him what they were, and then he exclaimed in amazement:
"Why--they're fish! Living electric bulbs!"
A school of slender, ten-inch fish they were, each one a radiant, shimmering, lacey-finned gem of orange or green or yellow. In concert they shot to the ceiling over the party of seal-creatures, who still swam impassively ahead, paying no attention to them, and from there scattered in quick darts in all directions, showering the cortege with washes of spectral luminosity. Then the corridor crooked again, and with one simultaneous movement they were gone. And the scene that lay revealed before Kenneth Torrance took his breath from him.
In the passageway he had seen a score of the living jewels; now he beheld hundreds. He peered up at a shimmering sheet of brilliance, composed of hundreds of the slender refulgent fish, all swimming in slow rotation. Below them was a large cavern, which he guessed had been created by hollowing out one of the underwater hillocks. The sides were rounded, and pitted with holes that represented other passageways, showing dark against the luminosity from above. And streaming out from these dark holes of corridors came dozens of the seal-creatures, gathering in response to some unheard, unseen signal that had called them to witness the strange captive their fellows had brought in...
Ken's guards gripped him more firmly and he was guided forward and downward to the smooth black floor of soil.
Scores of large, placid eyes stared at him from the slowly undulating, brown-skinned bodies packed close about him. The sight was so weird, so beyond his imagination, that he laughed a little hysterically.
"Dreaming!" he said. "Dreaming! But what a dream!"
Silently, a space cleared in the center of the horde. His bonds were taken away, the guards released his arms and he righted himself and stood there on braced legs, the object of a concerted gaze.
This, the torpooner felt, was the crucial period. Something was about to be decided. If it looked bad he would make a wild--and of course, futile--break for freedom, and die quickly when they punctured his suit. But meanwhile he would stick things out. Anything might happen in that fantastic convocation.
There came a stir in the tiers of brown bodies. An aisle cleared, and down it a single seal-creature glided slowly towards Ken Torrance--undoubtedly the leader of the herd, ruler of the underwater labyrinth.
Gracefully the creature glided up to the lone human, and when only a foot away extended one of its long upper flippers so that its webbed edge rested on his sea-suit's casque. And its placid brown eyes hung close to the face-shield and gazed through inquisitively, intelligently! Intelligently! No longer did Kenneth Torrance doubt that. As he held absolutely motionless under the close-searching scrutiny, his brain rang with the conviction that this creature, this thing of blubbery body and long, webbed flipper-arms and legs--this brown-skinned denizen of the Arctic underseas was, with all its fellows, related to him, a man of the upper world.
Men they were; or, rather, blubber-men!
Previously he had marveled at something suggestively human-like in their appearance; now he recognized human intelligence in his observer's peering brown eyes and questing movements of the flipper over his head casque and suit. Warm red blood flowed in its blubber-sheathed body; an intelligent brain lay in the fat round head. And why not?
Whales, ages ago, were land mammals, animals that walked on the soil of the dim, early world. They had taken to the seas in quest of food, had stayed there and never returned; and Nature had guarded their bodies against the cold and great depths by giving them layer upon layer of oily blubber. The ancestors of these creatures before him might well have lived on the soil, walked and run as he did; then, when the ice came, taken to the sea and made a new home for themselves.
They had enticed the splendent light-fish into their caverns to give illumination. Intelligence almost human. A brain not as highly developed as man's, but a human brain!
Ken Torrance had been almost apathetic toward his eventual fate, but suddenly, now, a great hope came to him--and twin with it, on its heels, came fear. If, or since, this creature inspecting him had an intelligent, human brain, in some way he might be able to correspond with it. He might be able to show that his real body was inside the sea-suit; that he had to have air; that he would die if he were kept underwater, that he could not survive as a prisoner. These creatures appeared to be friendly; seemed to wish him no harm. If he could show them that he was a man of the upper world, they might let him go.
If he could do it! He had to make known to the herd leader that he breathed air, and that he'd die if they didn't release him at once. On that depended life and death.
Ken trembled as he cast about for some way of putting over his idea, and then the plan came. Smiling through his face-shield at the brown eyes so close, he drew back slowly and took out a short steel crowbar from the belt at his waist. He bent over and made a line on the soft floor.
All eyes watched him; every creature held motionless, apparently interested, eager to understand. Under his suit-clad figure the crowbar traced a rude outline of a man in a sea-suit. The torpooner pointed to the drawing and then fingered his suit, repeating the gesture several times. Then he drew another figure in the soil, this one intended to represent him without the sea-suit. It was not as bulky; the features were sharper and thinner. Ken pointed to the twin dots standing for eyes, then tapped his face-shield; he did this again and again.
For a moment the leader did not move; but then he slid forward and stared through the shield. Rapidly Ken opened and closed his eyes, and pointed again to the dots on the drawing's face.
"Eyes! Eyes!" he said excitedly, voicing the thought his brain was making. "Eyes--inside the suit! The suit's not me; I'm inside! Eyes!" He waited for a reaction, tense and strained. The blubber-man reached out one flipper-arm and took the steel bar from his hand.
A thrill ran through him as the creature dipped its body down and began to draw in the soil. Laboriously, crudely, he outlined another sea-suit, and on the circle representing the face-shield marked two dots--eyes.
"He's getting it!" Ken cried.
The blubber-man went on drawing. He sketched a second suit, similar in all respects, and looked up at the torpooner, inquiringly, it seemed.
Ken nodded rapidly. He tapped the drawings, then his suit; nodded again. "The idea's over!" he told himself. "Now I'll make a move towards that corridor to show them that I want to go, and if--"
But before he could stir, the leader of the blubber-men, with one quick gesture, summoned two creatures from the innermost circle. Swiftly they placed themselves alongside Kenneth Torrance, lifted him and bore him forward, right across the cavern to another of the passageway-entrances.
It was so sudden that for a moment Ken could not think clearly. What had happened? Were they releasing him? Or was he still to be kept a prisoner? No doubt the latter. And he had been so sure that he was communicating with the blubber-man's brain!
His lips pressed tight in a hard white line. It was a tough blow to take.
"Well, that's that," he said. "It was all imagination."
He did not know that his drawings had signified something to the leader of the herd--that each had mistaken the meaning of the other. Nor did he have any inkling of the greatest surprise of all that now lay just before him.
The surprise lay in another cavern.
A quick turn through a cleft-like entrance brought them into it. The room was only a fraction of the size of the central meeting place, and its light, from but several of the light-fish, was dim and vague, barely enabling Ken to see what looked like a pile of rocks in the chamber, heaping upwards. The ceiling was flat and strangely blurred, a rippling veil. As he wondered what caused this, his guards lifted him rapidly towards it, up alongside the rocks.
Not only towards it, but through it! His head-casque pierced through; rivulets of water gurgled off it--and he realized that the blurred veil he had seen was the top plane of the water, which only filled three-quarters of the cavern.
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Home Top Harry Bates's Page | plug of tobacco, his eyes never moving from the screen. "Now, if only we hadn't lost Beddoes ... Y' think you can bag three, Mister Torrance?"
"Well, if three'll fill our tanks--sure!" grinned Ken.
The other's eyebrows twitched suddenly. "They're speeding up!" he shouted, and then: "That torpoon ready, there? Good." His voice lowered again as Ken pulled his belt a notch tighter and snatched a last glimpse of the fish before leaving. "I want you to try for three, son," he said soberly: "but--be careful. Don't take fool chances, and keep alert. Remember Beddoes."
Ken nodded and walked to the torpoon catapult, hearing Streight's familiar send-off echoed by the men of the crew who were nearby:
"Good hunting!"
The idea of an underwater craft for the pursuit of killer whales--tremendously valuable since the discovery of valuable medicinal qualities in their oil--had been scoffed at by the majority of the Alaska Whaling Company's officials at the time of its suggestion, but the Narwhal after her first two months of service had decisively proved her worth. She was not restricted to the open seas, now swept almost clean of the highly prized killers; she could follow them to their last refuge, right beneath the floe-edges of the Arctic Circle; and as a result she could bring back more oil than any four surface whalers.
With a cruising radius of twenty-five hundred miles, she stayed out from the base until her torpoons had accounted for anywhere from sixty to eighty killers. One by one these sea-animals would be taken to the surface and there cut up and boiled down, until her tanks were full of the precious blubber oil. Ever farther she pressed in her quest for the fish schools, dipping for leagues into a silent sea that for ages had been known only to the whale and the seal and their kindred; a sea always dark and mysterious beneath its sheath of ice.
The inner catapult door closed behind Kenneth Torrance, and he slid into his torpoon. Twelve feet long, and resembling in miniature a dirigible, was this weapon that made practical an underwater whaling craft. The tapered stern bore long directional rudders, which curved round the squat high-speed propeller: its smooth flanks of burnished steel were marked only by the lines of the entrance port, which the torpooner now drew tight and locked. Twin eyes of light-beam projectors were set in the bow, which was cut also by a vision-plate of fused quartz and the nitro-shell gun's tube, successor to the gun-cast harpoon.
Ken lay full-length in the padded body compartment, his feet resting on the controlling bars of the directional planes, hands on the torpoon's engine levers. A harness was buckled all around him, to keep him in place. His gray eyes, level and sober, peered through the vision-plate at the outer catapult door.
Suddenly a spot of red light glowed in it; the door quivered, swung out. A black tide swirled into the chamber. There came the hiss of released air-pressure, and the slim undersea steed rocketed out into the exterior gloom, her light-beams flashing on and propeller settling into a blur of speed as she was flung.
Ken turned on her full twenty-four knots, zoomed above the dark bulk of the slower mother ship, whose light-beams flashed across him for a second, and then straightened out in a long, slight-angled dive after the great black bodies ahead.
Aware that some strange enemy was on their track, the killers had become panicky and were darting away at their full speed, which was only slightly under that of the torpoon's humming motors, and which at times even surpassed it. Ken saw that it looked like a long chase, and settled his lean body as comfortably as he could.
His mind was not concentrated on the task ahead, for the first part was mere routine and he could follow his quarry almost mechanically. And so, as his steel shell drove through the ever-shadowed, icy sea, he began to think about the disappearance of Chan Beddoes, the Narwhal's second torpooner.
Dead, now Beddoes; it was a week since he had set out on the chase from which he had never returned. Ken could only conjecture as to what had stricken him down. There were countless possibilities: perhaps a blow from a dying killer whale's flukes bursting his torpoon's seams; perhaps a crash into underwater ice. Whatever it was, it had been sudden, for not even a faint radioed S.O.S. had trembled into the ear-phones of the Narwhal's radio-man. For two days they had held hopes that the second torpooner still lived, as the sea-suit stored in each torp contained air-units sufficient for thirty-six hours. But a whole week's passing told them that that vast stretch of glacial sea was now Chan Beddoes' grave.
Ken's reflections brought an urge to get the present job over with as quickly as possible. He squeezed another ounce of speed from the torpoon, taxing it to the limit and setting up a slight vibration; then he fondled the nitro-shell gun's trigger and studied the huge fish bodies ahead.
"Seems as if they're going to run forever," he muttered indignantly. "We'll be to the Pole if they keep it up!"
Already the Narwhal was miles behind. Through the torp's vision-plate a scene of ever increasing mystery and gloom met his gaze. The killers' course had brought them beneath a wide sheet of ice, apparently, for there were no more columns of pale sunlight piercing through. The quarter-light monotone was unbroken, save by deeper drifts of shadow, and as he drummed through it the torpooner wondered at its lifelessness. He discerned no more of the ghostly fish-schools that usually abounded. Some enemy possibly had driven them from the region; but not the whale he was pursuing, for they scorned such fare.
He was scanning the surrounding murk apprehensively, when, of a sudden, his brain and body tensed.
Off to one side, far to the right, he thought he had glimpsed a figure. It was hanging motionless, level with him; and at first it looked like a seal. But the flippers seemed longer than a seal's; moreover, no seal would be anywhere near a pack of killer whales; nor did they poise in an upright position. It couldn't be a seal, he told himself. What, then? Was it only imagination that made it appear faintly human-shaped?
He strove to catch it again with staring eyes, but it was gone, leaving only a jumbled impression of something fantastic in his mind, and the next instant the whole thing was forgotten in the movements of the killer school, now only a few hundred yards ahead.
They suddenly began a great sweeping curve to the right, a typical maneuver before standing for attack or breaking up. At once Ken swerved to starboard and drove the torpoon's nose for an advance point on the circle the fish were describing. His move swallowed the distance between them; the sleek, thick-blubbered bodies swept close by his vision-plate, their rush tossing the torp slightly. Twelve of them went past in a blur, and then came the thirteenth, the invariable straggler of a school. The thin light-beams pencilled through the darkness, outlining the rushing black shape; Ken gripped the gun's trigger and jockeyed the torp up a trifle in the seconds remaining, always keeping the sights dead set on the vital spot twelve inches behind the whale's little eye.
When only fifteen feet separated them he squeezed the trigger and at once zoomed up and away to get clear of the killer's start of pain and, if the shot were true, its following death flurry.
The shell slid deep into the rich outer blubber; and, wheeling, Ken watched the mighty mammal quiver in its forward rush. This was merely the reaction from the pain of the shell's entrance; the nitro had not as yet exploded.
Now it did. The projectiles carried but a small charge, in order not to rip too much the buoyant lungs and so cause the body to sink, but the killer trembled like a jelly from the shock. The heart was reached; its razor-sharp flukes thrashing and tooth-lined jaws clicking, the killer wheeled with incredible speed in its death flurry. A minute later the body shuddered a last time, then drifted slowly over, showing the white belly. It began a gentle rise up toward the ceiling of ice.
"One!" grinned Ken Torrance. He noted his position on the torpoon's dials and gave it to the Narwhal by radio. They would then follow and pick up the whale.
"I'll have the second in ten minutes," he promised confidently. "Signing off!"
Again the torp darted after its prey.
He found it easy, this time, to overhaul them. Not many minutes had elapsed before he again caught sight of their rhythmically thrusting flukes and the flash of white under-sides. Unaware that one of their fellows had been left a lifeless carcass by the steel fish again nearing them, they had reduced their speed somewhat.
Ken angled down a hundred feet into the deeper shadows, not wanting to apprise them of his presence. He continued at that level until the belly of the rearmost whale rolled white above him; then he veered off to the left, rising as he did so, in order to bring his assault to bear directly on the killer's flanks.
He swung back and streaked in for the kill. It looked like an easy one.
But he was never more mistaken in his life. For, as luck had it, he had chosen a tartar, a fighting fish--literally the "killer" which its kind had been named.
The torpooner knew what he was in for as soon as he fired his first shell. Its aim was bad, and instead of sinking into the flesh it merely ripped across the whale's back, leaving a ragged, ugly scar.
An ordinary whale would have been scared into panic by the wound and doubled its speed in an effort to get away; but Ken Torrance saw this one wheel its six-foot snout around viciously until its beady little eyes settled on the torpoon.
"I'll be damned!" he muttered. "He's turning to fight. All right, come ahead!"
He veered about and fired another shot that missed its mark by feet, but creased the whale's flukes. At once this terrible weapon lashed titanically up and down, and thirty feet of berserk killer came curving towards the lone man inside his shell of steel. Ken tensed himself for combat. He would have to keep a good distance from the fish and fire until he got it, as a square smash from its flukes might crumple the torp like an egg-shell.
[Illustration: _Thirty feet of berserk killer came curving towards the lone man_.]
But his foe gave him no chance. Crazy with pain and anger, it swept up and nipped his dive for the bottom with a fluke-blow that tumbled the torpoon over and dazed its pilot. Before he could get straightened out it was on him again, catching him up into a wild whirlpool, butting the shell and flashing round to get its flukes into position. With a wrench, Ken jammed the rudder over, shoved his accelerator flat, and got free just as the tail thrashed down. He was breathing hard and sweating as he banked around--to see once more the whale, its wicked jaws wide open, charging directly at him.
For a moment he was unable to move. Such a mode of attack was totally unexpected, | 2,480 |
First-round vaccine appointments canceled this week
Tight supply forces saving it for second doses
The top administrator at the organization that has been providing vaccines at Coulee Medical Center said Feb. 10 that existing appointments for a first-round vaccine against Covid-19 are to be canceled due to lack of supply.
"We don't have enough," said Theresa Sullivan, chief executive officer of Samaritan Healthcare in Moses Lake.
Apparently, the local area is not alone in that assessment. The state Dept. of Health state two days later, that second doses would be emphasized across the state this week in light of low supply.
"We are monitoring the distribution of doses closely and making adjustments as needed," said state Secretary of Health Umair A. Shah. "While the limited availability of first doses will be challenging this coming week, focusing on second doses will help pave the way for an improved and more sustainable allocation of vaccines in future weeks."
In Moses Lake, Sullivan told county leaders on a scheduled Zoom call last Wednesday that nearly 2,100 appointments for the first vaccine<|fim_middle|> not just their Moses Lake schedule, but also all those clinics scheduled for clinics further out in the county, including at Coulee Medical Center.
CMC had a drive-through clinic scheduled for Feb. 26. Those with appointments for a second shot should still keep that appointment. But people scheduled for a first-round shot will have their appointments canceled, Sullivan said.
"We get no notification," Sullivan said of the process through which vaccine supply comes from the federal government through the state.
That process is just now changing, noted Grant County Health District Administrator Theresa Adkinson. Instead of letting states know what their allocation will be for the next week, she said, the federal suppliers will now be setting up a three-week schedule.
Providers requested about 170,000 second doses for the week, DOH said, but the state had an allocation of only 92,325 second doses. The difference, DOH said, is likely is due to providers using doses for first shots that had been intended for the second shot.
Gov. Jay Inslee said in a press briefing Monday that the federal government had announced it will increase its shipments from 11 million doses of vaccines to 13.5 million this week, and it will double, to 2 million, the number being sent to pharmacies, bolstering an added channel for getting the vaccines out. | had to be canceled in order to make sure they have enough vaccine doses to meet commitments for scheduled second-vaccine shots.
The Pfizer vaccination is a two-shot process, with the second shot needing to be injected three weeks after the first.
"We will be close on whether we will be able to five all those second doses," Sullivan said.
Sullivan said those cancelations will include | 75 |
<|fim_middle|> here to remember. | My mom's brother, my uncle Tom Murry, passed away yesterday. Uncle Tom was a dentist by trade, but he was always an active jazz cornet player. As a kid, I was fascinated by Uncle Tom. He was a natural comedian. He always had time for us kids, loved to take us fishing, and talked constantly about music. He was the first person that I ever identified as having the same love of music that I did, and his constant references to this artist, or that recording or show, gave me permission & encouragement to make music a big part in my life. There is a good chance that I would not be writing this had things been different.
He was always interested in my bands, and when I quit graduate school to pursue matters musical, he was the only greater family member that I remember being immediately supportive rather than perplexed or disappointed. Uncle Tom and my Aunt Charlotte were the most 'in love' couple that I have ever known. They seemed to wear life easily when they were together, and it was immediately obvious to everyone that they liked each others' company and were deeply and passionately devoted to each other. They modeled the marriage that I now have, miraculously, with my wife Christi.
I'm still having a lot of sadness over his passing, but his generous and unique spirit will live on and ripple down the generations through many, many people. I will never really be without him. So, here's to Wm. T. Murry, II. I'll miss you Uncle Tom, but I know that you will be with us as long as we are | 325 |
Hi, My name is Larry. I guess you would say I'm from the "Old Dog" generation.. Ha..ha. I actually retired in 2005, "Kind of".
Actually I retired from California's Department of Water Resources where I was a manager for one of the Control System Sections. We developed and maintained large scale Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems used to operate large Power Plants and Pumping Plants throughout the state of California.
I said "Kind of" retired above because as soon as I retired, I kept getting consulting offers from private companies<|fim_middle|> Is it better to move websites from siterubix or stay there. I am new at this and had a problem with Amazon approving siterubix. They said it didn't meet their criteria and cancelled my account. I don't know if it was something lacking on my part. I would like to know if I am getting things right. I am following the training to the best of my knowledge. Sorry for such a long story.
Thanks Larry_T for dropping by, hope you are having great success here at WA. I am moving very slowly, just trying to get things going.
Larry, thanks for your follow. I'm glad that you like being close to your family. God bless you as you continue.
Hello Larry, thank you for the follow , you will learn a lot here at WA, as i have , and still much to learn for me, i wish you all the success here,.
Hello Larry! Nice to meet you and thank you for the follow!
Your only as old as you feel. There is no age limit to learning.
It is great to meet you! Am following back :) Wishing you all the best of success here at WA!
Thank you for the follow! Success to you!
Hello Larry, nice to meet you. thanks for the follow.
Hi Larry thanks for the follow - following you back :-). Greetings from Germany and all the best!
Thanks, Larry! Looking forward to seeing you around the site more! Best of luck!
Love your site Larry. Running a water supply business in California must be extremely stressful....you'll well out of it. I'm just about to populate my site with product so any tips of linking to Amazon would be welcome....from an even 'Older Dog' of 76. All the best.
so, one can teach an "old dog new tricks" after all! I just read your blog about giving oneself a break, and it is much appreciated as I have had the same experience and know where you're coming from!
Thanks for the follow Larry. I can almost taste the BBQ fish.
Hi Larry thanks for the follow, sorry for the late reply was off for a bit but now getting back at it.
Hello - from your site it does look like you've got the job doing the cleaning. I did notice wives wanting their husbands to do it. Same thing here in the UK.
Nice site and good idea with the content.
Hey Larry, thanks for the quick stop. Very cool website, nicely done.
Hello Larry!! and thanks for the follow, glad to have connected with you.. Happy online learning!
Thanks for the follow. You will surely learn some "new" stuff here. And you will also get all the help you need. Good luck!
Thanks for the follow. I write about an old dog, and I'm borderline old dog, so we may have something in common.
From one "old dog' to another - thanks for following.
Hi Larry. Thanks for the follow. Looking forward to working with everyone here at WA. Seeing as you've been here a little while, guessing this is a great place to stay and I don't plan on leaving. And like you, I want to be around like-minded people. The human aspect here is definitely going to be critical to my success.
Hi Larry, sorry for the late reply, I've been a bit busy recently... By the way thank you for the following!
Thanks for the follow! will hit up your site! Will leave comment. Thanks bro.
thanks for adding me back. Im sure you can learn plenty yet! Your website looks great.
Hi Larry, thanks for the follow! All the best! | that I couldn't refuse Ha..ha. The problem was that in order to complete these projects, I needed to be away from home a lot. Well, I got tired of being away from my family so I have pretty much stopped the consulting and now I am bored. :).
So I decided to try Internet Marketing and here I am, a 70 year old "Old Dog" wanting to learn new tricks. I've done a lot of research and have decided to try out Kyle & Carson's Wealth Affiliate Training Group.
I have a few hobbies that I am hoping to use as a basis for creating a Niche or two. Hopefully this will work into something that help others, make me a few bucks and keep me from being bored sitting around the house.
I know from experience that you are only as successful as the people around you. So I am looking forward to any help you can provide. This "Old Dog" is into learning new tricks.
Hi Larry !!! How is it going for you in WA, were you able to make your first sale ???
Looking forward to receiving your valuable feedback !!!
Thanks for the follow Larry. Hope all goes well with you at W.A. Looks like you've already had a full, busy life but it's not good for a person to not have anything to do. Hope this makes retirement fun for you.
Hi Larry, Thanks for following me. I checked out your website. I like the flame effect in the background.
Thanks for the follow...granted I am late on my part on the follow back. To your success.
Larry, thank you for following me. I am now following you as well. Happy Thanksgiving.
Hi Larry, thanks for the follow! I'll follow you back in return! Wish you the best here at WA!
"The desire for riches is simply the capacity for larger life seeking fulfillment. Every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibly to come into action; it is power seeking to manifest which causes desire."
I wish you the best of success, my friend! Namaste.
Great to have you in my network. Let's stay in touch.
Hey Larry! Thanks for following me. Great to meet you!
Welcome Larry and good luck to you. You will like it here at WA!
Hey there Larry, Thank you for the connection. I appreciate the follow and am now following you as well.
Hi Larry, thank you for following me back, I'm looking forward to following your success.
You have a great website. I got hungry just looking at it.
Thanks for the follow, Larry. BTW, I LOVE your spirit--keep it up!
Thank you for following me, I followed you back.
I like your post on "Hey dude, give yourself a break"
Good morning Larry from the great province of B. C., Canada. Maple Ridge to be more precise. First I wan't to say thanks for following me and second, I am 66 and started WA just a couple of weeks ago. It's pretty awesome in here and I am learning a lot. Am currently working on building content on my first site in between delivering phone books.
I see that you have been a member for a while now, How is it going??
Will try to maintain contact and will return the follow. Have an awesome day.
Hi Larry!! Thanks for the follow & I am following you back. I tried retiring at age 50 and it lasted about a year....lol Now at age 60, I am still excited about life and giving back to others. Best wishes for your success here at WA!!
Welcome and thanks for the follow. I checked out your site. My husband will really love reading it.
Hi Larry; thanks for the follow and back at ya. Blessings on your AD-venture here!
Hi Larry thanks for the follow! I am following you back! Best Success in your WA journey!
hi Larry, Thanks for following and now I am doing the same for you.
Hello Larry. Nice to meet you.Thank you for the follow and back at you.You will enjoy it here. Learning is a lifelong thing provided we are willing.I like your spirit.
Nice to meet you. Admire your spirit and determination to learn and here's wishing you success in your online business!
Hi Larry, thanks for following, good luck with your new projects !
Hello Larry. Thanks for follow. And welcome to WA. The cliche is you are never to old to learn something. Learning is a choice, you either want too or don't. In WA I'm learning something every time in click play on the training lessons. Best to you. And keep pushing on!!!
Hi Larry, thanks for the follow! As an AUstralian and a brewer, water management is very important to me, so I was iinterested in reading your profile.
I used to work in a brewery that used about 10 litres of water to make a litre of beer. I had just a little feeling of shame.
I also love your site - makes me hungry.
Thank You for the follow Larry! All the best to you!!
Hi Larry, thanks for the follow. I don't think that your to old to try something new.
I hope it's going well for you here at WA.
You will do fine and Wealthy Affiliate. Your experience will serve you well.
I wish you all the best with your WA journey.
Welcome to WA. I joined for much the same reason as you and am building one step at a time.
Larry, you have definitely come to the right place. My experience so far in 2 weeks is that it would be really difficult to get stuck & not find help unless ya didn't ask. Welcome aboard, and best of wishes in all you desire to accomplish here.
Hi Larry, thanks for the follow, and I wish you success with WA.
Hi Larry, thanks for the follow. It is much appreciated. Wish you all the best with WA!
Thanks for the follow Larry. I follow you back!
Nice to meet you here Larry, happy to follow you ! Have a great journey on WA !
Hi Larry: There are really good people here and if you don' t make it here, you won' t make it anywhere. This is the best. Welcome and thank you for the follow.
Thanks for the follow Larry. Got ya Back.
Thank you for the follow and I'm now following you as well.
Thanks for the follow.I wish you the very best.
Hi Larry, thanks for following me, I'm now following you back. Have a great day!
I'm new too and it's like travelling to a country where you don't speak the language. But keep your smile and determination and you'll be surprised how easy WA makes it.
Thanks for the following- I'm so glad that you have your niche.
Me too. I retired last year and hate the idea of becoming a couch potato. I've been looking at internet businesses for many years, and believe I have now found one that works. Best to you. I hope you have all the success you can get.
Hi Larry. Thanks for following me. Hope u all the best. See u at the top. Greg P.
Thanks for the follow! Best wishes to you!
Hey Larry, could you please visit my site and leave a comment on my latest 2 posts and I will respond in kind. Just leave me a link and let's drive some traffic! Stay Awesome!
Thanks for following me! Following you back and good luck here st WA.
Thanks for the follow Larry.. I'l follow you to see what tricks do you have and the new ones that you're getting too..
Thanks for the follow and I will follow you back. Your website is fantastic. Looks like you are doing very well for an old dog. Hope I can learn from you., cause I'm an old dog too!!
Thanks for the follow! I have returned the favor!!!!
Hi Larty_T, thanks for following me . Wish you the best here at WA.
Well, Old Dog, I'm not too far behind and also trying to learn new tricks. Best wishes, hope it works well for you!
Well Old Dog, we are about the same age, I am guessing. There is lots to learn and many challenges ahead. I really enjoy it- the web business, though I have not mad much money I am learning more every day. I like the challenge.
Hi Larry_T thank you for following me. With the track record of your career if applied at WA you are sure to succeed!!!
Thanks you for follow Larry. Good luck with your success.
Thanks for the follow Larry. Have a great day.
Thanks for taking the time for adding me to your network. we are stronger together. Happy to meet you .
Hi Larry, thanks for adding me to your network, wishing you the best.
Hi Larry, thanks for following and wishing you success and fun here at WA!
Hello Larry_T: Guess what, there's at leasr one more old dog here in the mix; I'm 72, and trying something new. So glad you joined the community.
Hi Larry, nice to meet you.
I can see why you are bored. Thanks for following me.
Thanks for the follow. What a great job that you had at Department of Water.
Wish you learn new tricks soon.
Thanks for the follow and wish you all the best. So nice to see some "old dogs" interested in learning new tricks. There are many that enjoy the same old tricks time and time again. Good luck and learn on!!!
Hi Larry, thanks for the follow and right back at you. I love your website. its so energetic!
Thanks for the follow! Cool website!
Now days If you can even retire you are lucky, and I want to be one someday too!
HI Larry, thanks for the follow - I am following you back. I am nearly 60 and just starting off on this adventure of trying to earn money online. I am sure I can benefit from all your experience.
I like your spirit age is just a number, there is no limit to learning.Thanks for following me.Wish you great success in the wealthy Affiliate family.
Thanks for the follow. One old dog to another. Let's make a lot of money and have a lot of fun.
Hi Larry, Thanks for the follow...from another old dog. Woof!
Larry thanks for the follow! From one "old dog to another"
Hi, Larry. Welcome to the club. We may be retired but we are never retarded. You look a lot younger. Have fun, buddy!
Hi Larry. Good to meet you. Thanks for the follow and best wishes for success here at WA.
Hi Larry,thankyou for following me and nice meeting you here at WA.
Hi Larry, thanks for following me here on WA.
I am 74 and using the internet to keep this old brain alive. It is the only challenge I have left.
welcome aboard, I wish you much success.
Hi Larry great to meet you on WA. You are no 'old dog' let's get working here in this wonderful community, be seeing you around. Blessings.
Hey thanks for the follow! Its a pleasure, man.
Hi larry and thanks for the follow. It is a please to to meet you.
You are not an "Old Dog". You are part of the national treasure of seasoned Americans who built this country. You have a wealth of knowledge that is priceless.
I would consider it a privilege to call you friend and to call on you for help when it is needed.
Remember, Larry, you are only a few days past 20 and you have the advantage of years of experience that younger people do hot have.
I thought I was the oldest dog on the block, I guess we will be vyiing for barking rights. I feel as sharp as I did years ago, I bet you do too.
I always say that we are all the same age we just started at different times. There will be lots of members looking for support and advice from you.
thx for the follow Larry! Yes Old Dogs can learn new tricks. In fact, that Old Dog life experience is priceless & a great rescourse. I am knocking on the door of 60 and learning all I can. Keep on keeping on!
Hi Larry, welcome to WA. I too am quite old school so technology isn't my thing. When I was a youngster nobody had a computer nor a mobile phone. In fact noone I knew had even heard of them. But we have to move with the times or we get left behind. WA can really make a huge difference to your success. The only problem I am having is getting my head around setting up my website and I was at the brink of giving up. I'm fine with following instrutions until something goes wrong, then I am well and truly stuck.
But, you have to make use of all the talent here at WA. Use all the resources available to you and always ask for help. Good luck.
Larry, you are just the right vintage for this business. Let's show those young whippersnappers a thing or two. I followed you.
Check out my first blog Why WA is an amazing community?
Hi Larry_T's I'm glad your following, I'm new myself It's best to "Getting Started" Right now I'm putting together my Website, I like that you have a few idea's for a niche, That's what got me going with WA I found a niche and got going with the lessons, So you are definitely ahead with your online marketing, I hope you the best.
Hello Larry! Thanks for the invite! Wishing the best you can be with WA!
Hey Larry, thanks for the follow, all the best with kinda retirement and hope your efforts on WA pay back soon!
Thank you for following me. I returned the favor. All the best!
Hi Larry, thanks for the follow.
Thanks for the follow Larry! I believe in learning new tricks, it keeps us young! Best wishes!
Thanks for the follow. Let's get rich together.
Hi Larry...thanks for the follow. I think you'll be really excited with all the knowledge and experience you'll find at WA. You'll have all the support you've ever desired and a future limited only by your vision. Good wishes for you in your ventures!
Hi Larry! Thanks for the follow. Still working on building my first website. Any tips?
Thanks for the follow Larry. Best wishes.
Thanks for the follow. Hope I give you something helpful.
tx for following me. How is your business running since you are one the go since Jan 2011. Would like to know. Financially are you free yet? and are you doing it full time ?
Sorry thanks for the follow and I am now following you. if you need help reach out to all these wonderful members.
Woof woof from one old dog to another. Hi Larry, I am also a newbie and working through level 3 and going OK. Go premium and try to do at least 10 lessons a week. I aim for two a day. Don't skip any tasks even if they seem daunting. Persevere and you will be on the success road.
Hi Larry thanks for following me , following you back . I wish you a successful journey here in WA :).
Hey Larry_T, James here again, I noticed that you have been here since January 2011. You probably can answer these two questions for me. 1. What is the average size images to use on a post? 2. | 3,187 |
"... this new version is up there with the best of them and could happily serve as a credible first choice"
"At first hearing, this disc suggested admirable directness and some very lyrical phrasing. With rhythmically taut and well-drilled orchestral support under Jakub Hrůša, Johannes Moser projects a full tone with no loss of presence when he ventures among the instrument's higher reaches. The opening four minutes or so of the Lalo should tell you more or less all you need to know with regard to Moser's supple approach and the watertight rapport between him and the excellent Prague Philharmonia. The central Intermezzo, so touching in its veiled melancholy, conveys the sort of warming introspection I associate with Pierre Fournier, whereas<|fim_middle|>-trot, Moser makes light of the various technical challenges that Dvořák poses him.
The recorded sound is, like the playing, absolutely top-notch. Rivals in the Dvořák include Alisa Weilerstein (who likes to live dangerously – and, as I've previously said in these pages, Jiří Bělohlávek's predominantly symphonic view of the score provides a powerful but disciplined framework for her spontaneous, tonally full-bodied playing), Truls Mørk and Mariss Jansons (light and felicitous), and Angelica May with Václav Neumann (the slow movement's cadenza especially affecting). But this new version is up there with the best of them and could happily serve as a credible first choice, at least in the digital stakes." | when Lalo switches to Andantino con moto (very muchSymphonie espagnole mode, this), Moser and his accomplices are admirably light and agile.
The Dvořák Concerto enjoys a symphonically conceived account of the orchestral part. Moser's first entry is strong and confident, and when he goes racing off into the main body of the movement, his playing is lively but without signs of either undue haste or excessive pressure. It's all so incredibly natural, the second subject as tender as anyone could wish for. Skilfully bowed arpeggios later on really glisten, and that elegiac passage at the first movement's centre (at 9'19") truly touches the heart. So does the Adagio (with beautifully balanced woodwinds at the outset), while in the finale, which sets out as a bracing jog | 180 |
Japan Lover Me is a great and wonderful blog where you can find all things kawaii, cool and otaku in Japan. The blogger writes very great<|fim_middle|> of her adventurous life in Japan! | insightful detail posts with a lot of pictures of the places she has visited in Japan (mostly in Tokyo) and they just make you want to go there sooooo badly! I only just recently discovered this blog while I was doing some research on places I want to visit in Japan and this blog is just way too cute!
Universal Doll is a lovely blog that focuses on Japanese gyaru fashion, cosmetic reviews, hair trends, nail art, Japanese clothing brands, and some travel stories of cute and kawaii shops or restaurants in Japan. It's a great blog to follow if you love Japanese fashion.
Micaela who is a youtube vlogger that I have been following for quite a few years now was an exchange student who studied in Japan. She currently works in Japan now doing various jobs such as modeling, filming travelling videos for Japanese TV, etc. She lives in the city of Fukuoka and often makes videos about the city which seem to be a very nice city in Japan with sunny beaches. She's also Canadian originally from Alberta! She makes videos in both English and Japanese. What I like most about her videos is that they always look so fun and laid back and she's got a great sense of humour too. I'm super envious | 250 |
A Top NYC Food Photographer's 5 Favorite Spots
By Lynne Lavelle
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Andrew Scrivani is<|fim_middle|>o Accanto -- a wine bar/restaurant that doesn't grate on demand. "If you want cheese," says Andrew, "the waiter will come over with the appropriate pairing, and downright refuse to add anything else." "This is my go-to spot," he adds. "My Cheers bar. And it has been here for more than 20 years, which is no small feat considering what this block was like back then. I love the versatility -- you can treat it as a wine bar, and have small plates, or go for the full restaurant experience. Regardless, everything here is absolutely top-flight."
Protip 4: Think context
"Find the scene, not just the pre-eaten plate. It's a lifestyle moment, so capture it that way."
Hasaki has been quietly serving up Edomae-style sushi with a subdued, insiders-only vibe since 1984, and needs no reservations system thanks to its steady repeat clientele. $50 will get you one of the best omakase (chef-selected menu) in the city. "Hasaki has some of the best tempura in town, and its sushi is super fresh and high quality. It's not super imaginative or gimmicky, but they do the classics and they do them really well."
Protip 5: Choose wisely
"Don't photograph in bad light, or food that tastes great but looks drab, or is badly plated, etc."
What he's wearing: The Manhattan Backpack in pebble leather, and the Leather Jean Jacket. | a photographer, director, and writer whose Instagram feed is 100 times more delicious than yours. Fact. Taking pictures of food all day also makes you an authority on where to eat it, so we got Andrew to take us around his favorite haunts in and around his hood, Manhattan's East Village, and give us his top five food photography tips along the way. To make sure he looked as good as the plates he photographs, we dressed him up in gear from Coach's new fall men's collection, and… resisted the urge to artfully sprinkle him with crumbs.
Ost Café
Any eating marathon, wait, any undertaking, must surely begin with a shot of caffeine, and Ost has been bringing it at its second location (the other is at 12th St and Ave A) since January 2014. While both are solid for their Eastern European-style pastries, and Intelligentsia coffee, frequently served with how-do-they-do-that leafy swirls on top, Andrew prefers this, the cozier iteration. "The original is great, but this is such an inviting, casual space. They also have the best almond milk lattes in the biz."
Protip 1: Night time? Forget it
"If you are really serious, then only go to places where you can photograph food during the day, when the light is good. And bring the food to the best light in the room, without being obnoxious."
El Castillo de Jagua
Sure, it looks like a straight-up diner, if gross underestimation is your thing. But to stick to the hungry man would be a mistake at this Dominican-Caribbean joint, when the wings, shrimp, and pepper steak are off the charts. Also, papaya shakes. "This place has been here for a long time and is just consistently good and represents the neighborhood. The food seems even more delicious when the bill arrives."
Protip 2: Hold the phone (flash)
"Never, ever use a flash... especially with your phone."
Minca Ramen
"Authentic" and "ramen" are an increasingly rare combination these days, but Minca's founder, Tokyo native Shigeto Kamada, set up shop to address his own despair at the lack of. His blink-and-you'll-miss-it joint takes ramen back to its roots as a no frills commuter food, with some of the best noodles, gyoza, and sake in town, with zero scene attached. For best effect, eat standing up. "I challenge anyone to make it to the bottom of a bowl and do anything but nap afterwards."
Protip 3: Bring white bounce cards
"They help push the light back on your subject. Or just use the menu, if it's white."
Il Posto Accanto
If you're in the habit of sullying pasta Bolognese with Boucheron, you'll find no takers at Il Post | 605 |
PACIF strongly recommends that whenever a municipal location or facility is rented for a special event, the renter (or "<|fim_middle|>IP) in an online process that automatically forwards proof of the coverage to the municipality.
For the Venue Name, type Vermont League of Cities and Towns into the "Search for your Venue" box, then select the municipality's location.
Follow the site's remaining instructions. When the renter has paid for the coverage, the municipality will automatically receive the proof it requires. | tenant user") be required to show that they have liability coverage that will protect the municipality from a third-party lawsuit if a damaging incident occurs at the event. Many renters can obtain this coverage through their existing insurance (with a rider, if necessary), and only need to give the municipality proof of this coverage. For the situations where no other liability insurance is available, PACIF makes it easy for renters to purchase a Tenant User Liability Insurance Policy (TUL | 90 |
Fishington Recognized as Webby Award Honoree
Fishington - 2011 Webby Award Honoree
April 2011 – Fishington – the Boating & Fishing Capital of the Internet, was selected as an Official Honoree in the Social Network category in The 15th Annual Webby Awards. The Take Me Fishing™ campaign's social networking site for boaters<|fim_middle|> based on excellence in the following criteria: content, structure and navigation, visual design, functionality, interactivity and overall experience. This recognition puts RBFF in an esteemed group of winners such as the American Dietetic Association, AOL, BabyCenter, CNN, Discovery Communications, Disney, E!, Google, Groupon, The Los Angeles Times, MTV Networks, The New York Times, Time Warner Cable, Twitter, WebMD, Weight Watchers and Yahoo!. | and anglers, which now boasts more than 100,000 members, was among the top 10 percent of all work entered that exhibits remarkable achievement.
"We are delighted to be recognized as a Webby Honoree for the third year in a row," said RBFF President & CEO Frank Peterson. "TakeMeFishing.org and Fishington continue to serve as important vehicles for providing boaters and anglers of all ages and experience levels with 'how to' and 'where to' information to help them successfully plan for a day on the water. And now that we've gone mobile, we're able to provide instant access to that information right in the palm of our visitors' hands."
Hailed as the Internet's most respected symbol for success, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including websites, interactive advertising, online film and video and mobile websites. The 15th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from all 50 states and more than 60 countries worldwide.
Webby winners and honorees are chosen by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. Websites are selected for recognition | 244 |
Covering an area of over 8,600 acres, the Hickory Creek Wilderness is one of only two specifically designated wilderness areas in the state of Pennsylvania with the entirety of its property located within the state borders. It was designated Hickory Creek in 1984 by Congress, and it is currently part of a system of 109 million acres of land protected under the National Wilderness Preservation Act of 1964 while being managed by the state's Forest Service.
Located within the Allegheny National Forest in the northwestern part of Pennsylvania, the Hickory Creek Wilderness boasts lush and dense wooded areas abundant with northern hardwoods and hemlock as well as a forest floor of flowers, ferns, shrubs and mosses. Wildlife within the designated wilderness area includes relatively high populations of bear, deer and wild turkey. The wilderness also supports a 12-mile loop of a hiking trail with a dedicated trail head located off State Route 2002, accessible only on foot.
There are many other conditions to follow regarding "Leave No Trace" techniques, all of which are accessible online.
The Wilderness Act of 1964 was designed and signed into law for the purpose of preserving select areas of nature "where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." In<|fim_middle|> urban development and modern-day commercialization of the United States, allowing consumers to enjoy such wild and natural areas for years to come. | the interest of maintaining some form of wilderness for generations to come, Congress had designated the 100 million plus acres of land protected under the Act for the sake of protecting it from development on any urban scale "for the permanent good of the whole people." While the wilderness areas can be utilized and enjoyed for recreational purposes by the general population, the Act only allows development within the areas that could benefit and enhance these recreational activities while still maintaining the general integrity of the nature and inlaying ecosystems. Under this Act, wilderness areas like the Hickory Creek Wilderness within the Allegheny National Forest can endure and thrive amid | 124 |
The Office of Planning and Economic Development houses a mic<|fim_middle|> Money Smart Curriculum; a business plan questionnaire to assist clients through the business planning process; micro-loan origination; and post-loan technical assistance for those that struggle to meet their business plan benchmarks and for those that are expanding their businesses.
For more information about our Microloan Program, please contactLashonda Fitch in our Office of Planning and Economic Development at LFitch@justinepetersen.org. | rolending program for small businesses. The program debuted in September 2015 with $1.7 million in start-up capital from local financial institutions and Community Development Block Grant Funds. The fund is facilitated by Justine Petersen, the largest SBA micro lender in the U.S., provides comprehensive micro-enterprise lending and training to small and start-up businesses including one-on-one counseling and technical assistance; credit building strategies; FDIC | 88 |
A unique opportunity to<|fim_middle|> The accommodation briefly comprises three bedrooms, kitchen/breakfast room, sitting room, second reception room and two bathrooms. An enclosed courtyard connects with the impressive studio. There is ample parking and the gardens extend into a paddock.
Set on the fringes of the popular small town of Chudleigh, surrounded by unspoilt Devon countryside. Chudleigh is a small town between Exeter and Newton Abbot, close to the edge of Dartmoor National Park and set in the popular Teign Valley. Dartmoor National Park is best known for it's striking granite tors, steep wooded river valleys and heather covered moorland. Offering a wide selection of recreational opportunities such as walking, cycling, riding and fishing on the River Dart. Many of the region's finest beaches are within easy driving distance. The well regarded Chudleigh Primary School is located in the town along with regular bus services to Newton Abbot and Exeter. For secondary schools you have the popular Teign School in Kingsteignton. Chudleigh offers a wealth of local amenities including shops, a cricket field, a swimming pool, football pitches, allotments, parks, a doctors surgery, a dentist and a library. For larger shops there are supermarkets in Kingsteignton, Newton Abbot and Exeter. The market town of Newton Abbot has a mainline railway station with direct links to London Paddington/Waterloo, along with Exeter St Davids Station. There is also an international airport in Exeter. The A38 (Devon Expressway) which by-passes the town provides good access to Plymouth, Exeter and the M5 Motorway network. And the A380 connects Torbay.
As soon as you arrive at the property you are immediately impressed with a beautiful hand crafted wooden front door with leaded glass into a generous entrance hallway with Oak veneer wooden flooring. An archway leads through to the farmhouse style country kitchen which has a good range of wall and base units with rolled edge work surface over, a Range cooker and a generous central island with a granite top and extra storage with deep drawers below. There are exposed wooden beams, artistic features and a fitted hand made oak dresser. Patio doors open out to the front of the property and a stable door to the Mediterranean feel courtyard with a gate to the parking area. There is a cloakroom/utility with a wash hand basin set into a feature vanity unit with cupboards below, WC and space and plumbing for a washing machine. There is a large storage cupboard which could potentially be incorporated into the cloakroom to house a shower if desired. A versatile reception room leads off from the hallway which could be used as a dining room, bedroom 4 or a study with garden views. Steps lead down into an impressive living room with hand crafted wooden doors, a vaulted ceiling, exposed A-framed beams and a wood burner set into a stone fireplace. This room enjoys a dual aspect overlooking the garden with sliding doors onto the patio and garden. Moving up to the first floor, all three bedrooms enjoy vaulted ceilings and exposed wooden beams. The master bedroom is a bright double room with a built in wardrobe and again has a dual aspect and a pleasant outlook across the garden. Accompanying the room is an en-suite bathroom with a corner bath with shower attachment, WC and wash hand basin set into a vanity unit with cupboards to either side. Bedroom two is another generous room with a dual aspect and a large built in cupboard. Bedroom three is again a double room with a built in wardrobe and window overlooking the side aspect. The family bathroom has a skylight and includes a wash hand basin set into a vanity unit, bath with an electric shower over and a shower screen.
The studio is accessed via double doors from the enclosed courtyard. There is an additional door to the front providing complete separate access from the main house. The ground floor benefits from windows to the front, wooden flooring and exposed beams. A hand made stair case rises to the first floor which is a large and impressive working area with a vaulted ceiling and further exposed beams. There is a shower room with a corner shower, WC, wash hand basin and heated towel rail. The kitchenette has wooden work surfaces and base level units, a butler sink with mixer tap over and space for a fridge. Door with Juliet style balcony. Further patio doors open out onto a terrace, the perfect spot for a table and chairs to enjoy views of the neighbouring fields. This studio would make an excellent annexe, subject to the necessary consents.
Approached via the entrance drive leading to a parking area with space for several vehicles providing access to the property, courtyard, studio and gardens. To the front of the property is a beautiful garden arranged with established flowerbeds and lawn. The garden then divides into two levels with the higher including a summerhouse, lawns and a vegetable plot. The lower level is the formal garden laid to lawn with floral borders. From the formal gardens the plot extends into a small paddock with mature trees. A walled courtyard with a Mediterranean feel gives access to both the Barn and the Studio. The secluded sitting area with shell feature water fountain provides a great space for entertaining. There is a covered area under the ballustraded terrace which leads off the first floor of the Studio. A door from the driveway leads to a separate boiler room and oil store.
From Exeter proceed on the A38 South towards Plymouth. Take the B3344 exit from the A38, continue along the B3344 for roughly 1 mile. Turn left and proceed up the drive, parking can be found on the right after roughly 40 feet. | purchase both a detached 3 double bedroom barn conversion along with a substantial 2-storey Oak framed studio set in 3/4 of an acre. The barn has immense character along with many beautiful artistic additions. | 43 |
In an age where its raining cybersecurity threats, the search for the best free malware protection (to protect your networks and enterprises) can seem elusive. Because what works today may not be that effective tomorrow, considering the pace at which the cybersecurity threat landscape keeps changing. But fear not, there are always certain security features to look out for (when selecting malware protection software), which stand the test of time and help you tackle various security threats – including zero-day attacks.
Let's take a look at some of the free malware protection tools which possess the above-said qualities making them the best free malware protection tools in the current IT security market.
Comodo Internet Security: This security tool comes equipped<|fim_middle|> pretty innovative as well as effective. And No. 4 in our list, closely following malwarebytes anti-malware.
SpyBot Search & Destroy: Lesser known of all in the list but certainly not less effective. Released in 2001, this has been around for quite some time now and many security experts suggest that it was probably the first security suite to successfully prevent adware campaigns.
Why Comodo Internet Security (CIS) Tops The List?
Default Deny Approach – for denying entry to unknown files and applications until they prove themselves to be harmless or benign. Pretty useful in detecting and preventing zero-day attacks.
Defense+ Technology – another defense mechanism which combines 3 different technologies (VirusScope, Containment, and HIPS) and successfully combats both inside as well as outside threats.
Enhanced Firewall: Comodo firewall which comes equipped with impressive security features like Stealth Mode, Auto-detection of Trusted Zones, predefined firewall policies etc., ensure traffic (both incoming and outgoing) gets regulated efficiently.
Virtual Desktop – Comes in handy to prevent hackers from breaking into your PC(s).
Cloud-Based Instant Malware Analysis – instant cloud-based malware analysis ensures zero-day attacks get thwarted easily. | with an impressive security stack which places it at the top spot. Technologies like Default Deny Approach, Defense+ Technology, HIPS, Containment etc., which accompany this antivirus package helps subscribers to successfully combat the rapidly changing cybersecurity threat landscape of today.
Kaspersky Internet Security: The fact that US government has officially banned this security product from being used by its governmental agencies has done little to suppress its popularity. Apart from the fact its been around for a long time in the IT industry, the security features it offers place it right behind Comodo Internet Security.
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware: Another powerful anti-malware tool in the IT security market. Primarily a scanner for scanning and removing malware, it also protects you from other malicious software like adware, spyware and is equipped enough to even resist zero-day malware. Therefore easily makes it to our list.
BitDefender Antivirus: Founded in 2011, this security company is expanding its security portfolio, although its Antivirus Software still remains the primary attraction. Probably the only antivirus company to offer 'family packs' (for home users), BitDefender is | 230 |
By The Meadow returns for its sixth edition this weekend. Co-founder Cameron Wade reflects on how the boutique event has grown over the last half dozen years.
Bambra is situated in the Otway hinterland, roughly 90 minutes out of Melbourne. Offering exceptional views and ridiculous sunsets, By The Meadow has blossomed since moving to the Bamb<|fim_middle|>zi.
You can also catch some artists in the early stages of their career like Sydney's Not A Boys Name and local folkies Grand Pine, as well as circuit doyens The Vasco Era and Collarbones.
There'll be ample food and drink options available across the weekend, predominantly sourced from local businesses.
The festival runs from early Friday evening until just after midday on Sunday. There is music for the majority of that time, but it's not an overwhelming program. It all happens on one stage and everyone camps at the event site.
"It's really based on events that we've really enjoyed going to. We're a very young festival compared to a lot of successful events that we love so we have the luxury of being able to pick and choose the things that we like from other events, and atmosphere is one of those things," Wade says.
By The Meadow comes to Bambra in the Otway hinterland from Friday March 29 to Sunday March 31. Check out the lineup and grab your tickets via the festival website. | ra farmland site.
Headlining this year's edition are swamp rockers The Murlocs, US indie songwriter Lucy Dacus and jazzy dance musician Harvey Sutherland. There's plenty of depth to the rest of the lineup, from alt-R&B singer Thando to afrobeat-inspired psych rock band The Seven Ups and party oriented inclusions, Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange and DJ Roza Teren | 82 |
Artificial Intelligence and the Cyberpunk dream
by Laura Boemo , Front-End Themer
I was always amazed at the way the media convinced me that Artificial Intelligences would think, behave and act like human beings. That made me look forward to our Cyberpunk future. But at some point, I started to research more and realized that I wouldn't see robots walking down the street with their robotic dogs (also capable of thinking like dogs) too early.
For the eventual dreamers of a future in which human beings and machines live as a society in harmony who appears in this blog: cheer up! I'll give you a brief introduction to why our dream is still far away (or closer than you might think).
Ok, soo, first stop: what is Artificial Intelligence? Machine Learning? Deep Learning?
Artificial Intelligence is the biggest concept. Machine Learning is a<|fim_middle|> computational power and a lot more data to run deep learning algorithms. In Deep Learning, we have techniques like CNN for image data, RNN for time series data, we also have techniques like transfer learning.
All those techniques in Deep Learning and Machine Learning are for achieving our main goal, which is to derive AI applications.
Second stop: so now we know Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning, how does Data Science work?
Basically, Data Science is the technique that tries to apply all those particular approaches in Machine Learning and Deep Learning, and also uses some mathematical tools like statistics, probability, and linear algebra to solve business problems.
Data Science is the technique that tries to apply all those particular approaches in Machine Learning and Deep Learning, and also uses some mathematical tools like statistics, probability, and linear algebra to solve business problems. Attention on: "solve business problems"! That is our focus, as described in The Journal of Data Science:
"Data Science is almost everything thas has something to do with data: Collecting, analyzing, modeling... yet the most important part is its applications -- all sorts of applications"
Attention again: "all sorts"... like Machine Learning! So, at this point, all theoretical papers about recurring neural networks support vector machines became physical, in other words, there is something that can change the way we live and how we experience things in the world.
Last stop: Nowadays, Deep Learning became a tangible useful call of Machine Learning that would affect our everyday lives. But not like human robots as I said in the beginning, it is more like: "Alexa, turn the lights off". It is not hard to look around and find Artificial Intelligence, see that and comprehend what we are living with that is a vow of pride and hope: pride in how far our genius minds have come, and hope for much more to come (please, thinking robots...).
Laura Boemo,
Authored ByLaura Boemo, Front-End Themer
Laura Boemo, Front-End Themer | subset of Artificial Intelligence, and Deep Learning is a subset of Machine Learning. Artificial Intelligence enables a machine to make its own decisions, with is the final goal of creating an AI application, such as a Self-driving car: it makes decisions while driving without human intervention.
As a subset of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning provides the tools to explore and understand particular data. By achieving this, machine learning has different approaches: supervised learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, and hybrid learning methods.
Ok, and what about Deep Learning? The main inspiration behind deep learning was to let machines learn like human brains (but unfortunately now we know they work differently). These days, Deep Learning is the most used technique and has replaced many other Machine Learning algorithms like regression and decision trees. The reason is that now we have much more | 163 |
Gentlewasher: The Company that is Cleaning up the Environment and Your Clothes
By Sam Brake Guia - August 3, 2017
There are a number of companies hoping to make a difference for the environment, and one startup hoping to make a change is Monono's Gentlewasher.
Washing machines are notorious for their non-environmentally friendly qualities, and it is estimated that the average household's water consumption for garment washing using a top loading machine is at 13,500 gallons of<|fim_middle|> Central and South America searching for new adventures and amazing stories.
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By Maria Delgado December 1, 2022 | water per year. Gentlewasher, however, provides a more compact and environmentally friendly option for getting your laundry done.
The Gentlewasher is a portable washing device that requires no electricity while saving water and soap. This unique apparatus can clean your clothes in five minutes while only using 4.8 gallons (18 Litres) of water per load. And It's hand operated use also means it is ideal for clothes which are far to delicate for a standard washing machine, making it perfect for fashion conscious individuals with delicate clothes.
Because of it's size it is perfect for anyone that requires clean clothes while traveling or if you just have little space. It's patented, honeycomb shaped drum creates a multidirectional flow of water which adds to the washing process in multiple ways.
Primarily, the drum creates an additional layer of water, which makes garments float when they tumble. This saves the garments from the common wear and tear usually faced with machine washing. Secondly, it enables a deep but gentle cleaning of the garments because the user dictates the movement of the drum.
It also requires less water due to the fact water is utilized more effectively, and finally, because the water and detergent is mixed more effectively with the clothes it takes just five minutes for a 6 lbs (3kg) load or 12 t-shirts.
The device was inspired largely by the environmental challenges we face today. "During college, I watched a TED talk by the legendary Hans Rosling on the energy challenges of the 21th century," says founder Coen Vermeer. "In the talk, he playfully explained the impact the washing machine had on the empowerment of women and electricity usage. That inspired me to create a sustainable and timesaving solution in the washing space."
Vermeer also wanted to make something that is more effective and sustainable. "Most people prefer not to use washing machines for delicate clothes, because the chances are high the clothing will get damaged. Alternatively, dry cleaners are expensive and hand-washing is very time consuming. That's when we saw that the market was crying out for Gentlewasher", he explains.
In our modern world we often find that being environmentally friendly comes at a cost of convenience. Dividing up recycling, remembering to turn off light switches and taking the stairs instead of the elevator, all chores we are told we must do if we want to keep the planet in a good condition for future generations. Now there appears to be a device which helps save the environment while also providing a quick method for washing your clothes.
This device is also a huge help for those in developing countries such as India due to its simplistic design and portability.
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Sam is an energetic and passionate writer/blogger, always looking for the next adventure. In August 2016 he donated all of his possessions to charity, quit his job, and left the UK. Since then he has been on the road travelling through North, | 596 |
A pay raise? In a time of economic downturn? When we have a hiring freeze in place to try to keep<|fim_middle|> in for a makeup workout on Sunday. You might remember Dave O'Brien – the loud Noo Yawker who used to haunt City Hall every other Monday and harangue Walker and the two girls, excuse me, Mrs. Dowdy and Mrs. Smith, for me letting myself get carried away there, about anything and everything, really. He briefly and publicly considered running for city council this year, and said when he talked to the paper about the matter that he would do it for free.
Yes, indeed, it does look like the mayor is starting to realize that. God love him, because I know his heart is in the right place. But it was clearly easier to be on the other side of the fence when the two, ahem, ladies and Tom Reynolds were calling the shots, and Williams was pretty much a silent-movie type of city councilman, in that we never heard much from him even as we saw him on the big screen on TV every two weeks. You can't run for re-election promising to micromanage City Hall with the goal in mind of squeezing the ink out of every last dollar and then turn around six months later and say that you're going to need more money to do it because it's taking up all of your free time.
We – and I say we, because remember, I was in the hunt for one of those seats, too – we all know that going in. I remember telling people when I was running that I wasn't doing it for the big bucks that they pay you. Maybe it was just me, but I actually meant it when I said it. | city spending down? How dare those liberals on city council propose such a thing! And how brazen! I mean, it'd be one thing if we were talking about $1,000 a year across the board, but doubling their salaries – actually more than doubling their salaries?
This just in. It wasn't the two girls, Chris.
It was one of the guys?
But … it couldn't be.
"I think we just need to be sensitive that we're giving up personal time, and our own personal businesses, to be here," said Mayor Tim Williams, who is pushing the issue on city council, and pushing the ire of city residents who think they were sold a bill o' goods this spring when they voted in what was advertised as a conservative city council that has proven to be anything but.
"If Mayor Williams finds his job requires too much time and responsibility and is dissatisfied with what the position pays, he should resign and focus on running his business," city resident Byron C.T. Spicer wrote in a letter to the editor of The News Virginian published today. "I am amazed at the audacity of the mayor and the City Council! Does anyone remember Election Day? A new majority was created. New leadership. A new day dawning for the city. Hooray! Right?" former city resident Tim Harrison wrote in a letter to the NV also published today in which he raised issue with the expensive forced departure of former city manager Doug Walker and the aforementioned hiring freeze and on the flip side the water and sewer rate hikes that are being implemented by City Hall.
"Hooray for new leadership?!? Hmmm," Harrison wrote.
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A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs Series #17)
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In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire—the fastest fighter aircraft in the world—to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in the disappearance of a fellow soldier who is missing.
Tragedy strikes two days later, when another ferry pilot crashes in the same area where Jo's plane was attacked. At the suggestion of one of her colleagues, Jo seeks the help of psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs. Meanwhile, Maisie's husband, a high-ranking political attaché based at the American embassy, is in the thick of ensuring security is tight for the first lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt, during her visit to the Britain. There's already evidence that German agents have been cir<|fim_middle|>et Evanovich Collection: Full Bloom & Full Scoop & Hot Stuff
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To guarantee the safety of the First Lady—and of the soldier being held in police custody—Maisie must uncover that connection. At the same time, she faces difficulties of an entirely different nature with her young daughter, Anna, who is experiencing wartime struggles of her own.
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Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Consequences of Fear, The American Agent, and To Die but Once, as well as thirteen other bestselling Maisie Dobbs novels and The Care and Management of Lies, a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Jacqueline has also published two nonfiction books, What Would Maisie Do? and a memoir, This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing. Originally from the United Kingdom, she divides her time between California and the Pacific Northwest.
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A superb combination of mystery, thriller, and psychological study with an emphasis on prejudice and hatred." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"In A Sunlit Weapon, Maisie's pluck, intelligence and moral fortitude are on full display." — Washington Post
"Winspear weaves the many components of this mystery together skillfully to create another riveting entry in this long-standing series." — Library Journal
"Over 16 novels spanning three decades, Winspear's Maisie Dobbs has lived. In real life, her quiet bravery, compassion and dogged pursuit of the truth would have made her one of the Greatest Generation, a lesson in survival under the grimmest circumstances. The lessons are hard-won in The Consequences of Fear, set in the fall of 1941 but no less relevant today…. Fans and newcomers to the series will root for Dobbs and the other well-drawn characters." — Los Angeles Times on The Consequences of Fear
"Outstanding…. Maisie and her loving family of supporting characters continue to evolve and grow in ways sure to win readers' hearts. Winspear is writing at the top of her game." — Publishers Weekly, starred review on The Consequences of Fear
"Fast-paced… Winspear never sugarcoats the horrors of war, and alongside the camaraderie shown by these characters and the Londoners surrounding them deliver terrible truths that must be endured…. also recommend it as a less- weighty read-alike for Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See." — Booklist, starred review on The Consequences of Fear
"A fast-paced tale of mystery and spycraft whose exploration of inner doubts and fears makes it much more." — Kirkus on The Consequences of Fear
"Series fans will find the characters' personal development gratifying." — Publishers Weekly
"'Sunlit' sheds light on the United States' slow entry into the war, as well as the British response to that, while taking Maisie in bold new directions, personally and professionally." — Star Tribune
"There's a lot going on in the seventeenth Maisie Dobbs mystery starring the intrepid investigator… Winspear manages the multifarious narratives with aplomb." — Booklist
"No one writes historical mysteries quite like Jacqueline Winspear, and her latest Maisie Dobbs novel should be a fitting continuation of the series, this one featuring a drop-in from none other than Eleanor Roosevelt (and we all know how good Winspear is at writing strong women with wit and verve)." — CrimeReads
"With so many strands … it is hard to anticipate a satisfying conclusion. But Winspear pulls it off brilliantly." — Daily Mail, UK
"Profoundly humane and unflinchingly honest, A Sunlit Weapon marks another stellar installment in Winspear's luminous body of work." — The Free Lance Star
Fast-paced… Winspear never sugarcoats the horrors of war, and alongside the camaraderie shown by these characters and the Londoners surrounding them deliver terrible truths that must be endured…. also recommend it as a less- weighty read-alike for Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See.
starred review on The Consequences of Fear Booklist
Over 16 novels spanning three decades, Winspear's Maisie Dobbs has lived. In real life, her quiet bravery, compassion and dogged pursuit of the truth would have made her one of the Greatest Generation, a lesson in survival under the grimmest circumstances. The lessons are hard-won in The Consequences of Fear, set in the fall of 1941 but no less relevant today…. Fans and newcomers to the series will root for Dobbs and the other well-drawn characters.
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Agatha Award winner Winspear ups the ante for Maisie Dobbs in her suspenseful if flawed 17th mystery featuring the British psychologist/investigator (after 2021's The Consequences of Fear). In 1942, ferry pilot Jo Hardy consults Maisie after the plane she was flying over southeastern England was shot at by someone on the ground. The unidentified shooter was at a farm, and when Jo visits the scene, she finds a Black American private, Matthias Crittenden, bound and gagged in one of the buildings. Despite that condition, Crittenden is suspected of being involved in the disappearance of a fellow private and is taken into military custody. Maisie's probing uncovers some coded messages at the spot where Crittenden was held captive, which her husband, Mark Scott, an American political attaché, discloses relate to a German plot to kill Eleanor Roosevelt on her goodwill tour of Britain. Meanwhile, Dobbs must also address her adopted daughter Anna's disturbing clingy behavior. The plot has more than its fair share of contrivances, including one involving the headmistress of Anna's school that almost drags down the entire book. Series fans will find the characters' personal development gratifying. (Mar.)
In A Sunlit Weapon, Maisie's pluck, intelligence and moral fortitude are on full display.
In the 17th title in Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series (after Consequences of Fear), Maisie is newly married to American Mark Scott and they have formally adopted young Anna to create a blended family. The first strand of mystery comes from Officer Jo Hardy, a female pilot who ferries various aircraft in the war effort. She has a friend who crashed and died in an apparent accident while ferrying a Spitfire. Jo is convinced a mysterious male figure shot at her on an earlier flight in the same area. As Maisie investigates, she wades into murky waters when a U.S. serviceman is found bound and gagged and another person goes missing in the same spot as the crash. Things get muddier still because Mark is working on the security for Eleanor Roosevelt's visit to the UK, and information Maisie reveals spells trouble for the first lady's safety. On the home front, Maisie must decide how to handle her adopted daughter's ill treatment at school. Is it just schoolyard bullies, or bad leadership? VERDICT Winspear weaves the many components of this mystery together skillfully to create another riveting entry in this long-standing series.—Kristen Stewart
★ 2022-02-05
In 1942, Maisie Dobbs gets embroiled in diverse cases that involve her own family.
Jo Hardy, a pilot for Britain's Air Transport Auxiliary, is ferrying a plane across England when she's shot at from the ground. When Jo and a friend return to the spot to investigate, they find a Black American soldier tied up in a barn who claims that his White soldier friend has been kidnapped. Later, Jo realizes that in the segregated American Army, Pvt. Matthias Crittenden is in deep trouble, and he'll be held for the murder of the missing soldier. After Jo's friend is killed during another plane delivery, Jo calls on Maisie, who's living with her extended family in Kent, to investigate. Only the pull of Maisie's highly placed American husband, Mark Scott, allows her to question Crittenden. Meanwhile, Maisie, who hates injustice of any sort, learns that her own adopted daughter is being bullied in school, another problem she resolves to straighten out. Maisie visits the barn and finds new evidence that may prove a connection between Charlie's disappearance, whoever shot at Jo's plane, and the impending visit of Eleanor Roosevelt, which worries Mark because of a credible threat to Maisie's safety. Maisie's ability to talk to all sorts of people and discern the truth helps her untangle a complicated mystery involving miscreants whose lives have been so warped that they've lost all empathy for others.
A superb combination of mystery, thriller, and psychological study with an emphasis on prejudice and hatred.
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Q: Does d3 have api which similar with jQuery.closest(selector)? DOM like this:
<g.module>
<g.control>
<rect>
I didn't find the closest API:
https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/API-Reference
How can I get the nearest matched elements from it's parent? Just like this:
var module = d3.select(".control").closest(".module");
A: Browsers now have closest method on DOM node:
d3.select(rect.node().closest('svg'));
and similar code to @JayB with this method:
d3.selection.prototype.closest = function(selector) {
var arr = [];
this.each(function() {
arr.push(this.closest(selector));
});
return d3.selectAll(arr);
};
that allow to use just: rect.closest('svg');
the only problem is that it's not supported by IE
A: If your DOM is really that specific example, you can select parent nodes with D3 as noted in their docs here:
You can see the parent node of each group by inspecting the parentNode property of each group array, such as selection[0].parentNode.
So in your case, var module = d3.select(".control").parentNode; should work.
A: You could add "closest" to the d3 selection prototype like this:
d3.selection.prototype.closest = function (selector) {
var closestMatch = undefined;
var matchArr = [];
this.each(function () {
var elm = this;
while (typeof elm.parentNode.matches === "function" && !closestMatch) {
elm = elm.parentNode;
if (elm.matches(selector)) {
closestMatch = elm;
matchArr<|fim_middle|>.
var selection = $('.control').closest('.module');
var module = d3.select(selection);
This may or may not work depending on what you need it for, but might be a simple workaround.
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}
}
closestMatch = undefined;
});
return d3.selectAll(matchArr);
}
A: You can make the selection with jquery and pass that to d3 | 41 |
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From the cash flow identity given earlier, we know that this $87 cash flow from assets equals the sum of the firm's cash flow to creditors and its cash flow to stockholders. We consider these next.
It wouldn't be at all unusual for a growing corporation to have a negative cash flow. As we see next, a negative cash flow means that the firm raised more money by borrowing and selling stock than it paid out to creditors and stockholders during the year.
A Note on "Free" Cash Flow Cash flow from assets sometimes goes by a different name, free cash flow. Of course, there is no such thing as "free" cash (we wish!). Instead, the name refers to cash that the firm is free to distribute to creditors and stockholders because it is not needed for working capital or fixed asset investments. We will stick with "cash flow from assets" as our label for this important concept because, in practice, there is some variation in exactly how free cash flow is computed; different users calculate it in different ways. Nonetheless, whenever you hear the phrase "free cash flow," you should understand that what | 265 |
Universities give Łódź bright ideas
With strong industrial and international connections and a pool of intellectual talent, Łódź is giving Poland's other academic strongholds a run for their money. Sebastian Shehadi reports.
Łódź is one of Poland's major academic centres, with almost one in seven of its population a student. The city boasts 19 institutions of higher education – including an internationally renowned film school – as well as 30 R&D centres. It is not hard to find talent in the city, which also has a growing tech and start-up sector.
Like many of Łódź's institutions, the University of Technology is internationally oriented, with a strong student exchange programme. The vast majority of young people in Łódź speak English and/or German as a second language.
Due to its strong research focus, the university's tech transfer centre has produced many spin-off companies – such as Advanced Graphene Products, which makes highly refined carbon materials and is valued at €1m. Other innovations are market-ready but awaiting funding, such as Gust, which produces urban wind turbines. This student project has won the Netherlands' International Small Wind Turbine Contest for three years in a row. Meanwhile, Łódź Solar Team, the biggest student project team in Poland,<|fim_middle|>ń.
Łódź University of Technology's industrial thinking | has prototyped an electric car powered by solar panels. The vehicle is carbon dioxide-free and has a range of 450 kilometres at night.
"Our university has huge co-operation with industry and business; they train us in their company labs. We have a special business council with Procter & Gamble, Bosch, Airbus Helicopter and others," says Łukasz Kaczmarek, associate professor at Łódź University of Technology.
Łódź's Medical University is the largest of its type in Poland. The institution is part of a world-class network combining academia and business, and includes EIT Health's 150 European partners, which is composed of leading universities and global companies such as Thermo Fisher and AstraZeneca.
The university has gained international recognition for its pioneering research on ageing. Łódź expects one-third of the city's population to be over 65 by 2035. The Medical University has responded to this local and global challenge, as have companies who see a local healthcare market for elderly people.
"Łódź has a tradition of collaboration with business – more than 70% of our students train with companies. Our courses are adapted for the businesses in the region," says Lucyna Wozniak, vice-rector for research and international relations at the Medical University of Łódź. Switzerland's Roche is one company that recently began researching with the university.
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Tech research is booming in the city. For example, US electronics company Harman International has expanded from 100 to 400 engineers in Łódź over the past two-and-a-half years.
"The R&D being done at Harman's centre in Łódź is amazingly innovative thanks to the talent. [We're very happy with the city's] proximity and connectivity to Warsaw and major European cities, and Łódź offers the right work-life balance," says Sanjay Dhawan, president of connected services at Harman, which is a subsidiary of Samsung.
There is also a growing tech and start-up scene in Łódź, which has blossomed in no small part thanks to significant financing for these sectors from the EU and the Polish government. The mix of different universities also provides excellent crossovers for innovation.
These sector opportunities were not in Łódź 20 years ago, according to Rafal Janczyk, CEO and co-founder of Enigma Patterns, an SME focused on big data and machine learning.
"Łódź is a great place to start a company. We have more students than Kraków – the same size as [Łódź] – but fewer companies here and no monolith tech company recruiting everyone. So there's a lot of talent here. Plus, we spend half as much on rent as we would in Warsaw – and I can [go everywhere] on foot," says Mr Janczyk.
He notes that Łódź has a good start-up community, albeit less developed than those in Kraków, Warsaw or Pozna | 681 |
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Speaker: Dr. Janese Swanson — Girl Tech
Technology is becoming increasingly integral to our lives. It is vital for young girls become familiar with technology and to have positive role models if they are to reach their full potential in today's society. Dr Swanson will discuss her research findings and strategies for encouraging girls in technology use.
Dr. Swanson's research on children's play patterns and use of technology has revealed:
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As a senior product manager at Broderbund Software, Dr. Swanson produced the popular Carmen Sandiego ™ Macintosh series. Through her company Kid One For Fun, she developed and licensed electronic toys, including the Yak Bak™ series and TalkBoy FX™. Dr. Swanson founded Girl Tech in 1995 after finding that so many wonderful technology products were developed for and marketed solely to boys. Since then she has produced the first of a series of books, Tech Girl's Internet Adventures; which won Dr. Toy's 100 Best Products for 1997 and the Parent Council Award; developed the popular www<|fim_middle|> GirlZine: A Magazine for the Global Girl ®.
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It can be diagnosed on the basis of physical examination, interview, lab tests as well as imaging studies like X-rays etc. But homeopathic treatment is the best form of solution available at present to treat Rheumatoid Arthritis. | disease causing chronic inflammation of joints. RA also causes inflammation of tissues surrounding the joints and other organs of the body. Inflammation is generally caused by the response of immune systems to 'assaults' including wounds, infections and foreign substances. In this form of arthritis, the inflammation misdirected attacks the joints. The disease can be caused at any age, but it is mostly found in the people ranging between 40 years and 50 years. As per the research, the disease is found three times more in women when compared to men.
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Priyanka Chopra<|fim_middle|> row as there were on the runway. (Supplied)
The offering was also rife with second-skin gowns in rich fabrics like duchesse satin and chiffon, sequin-encrusted jumpsuits, belted minidresses with dramatic padded shoulders, crystal embellished jackets, sequined silk tulle numbers with slit sides and billowy, sheer chiffon trains and shimmery skirts paired with equally shimmery crop tops.
Murad referenced those with some Deco Egyptian detailing, sending out a shape of various hieroglyphics. (Supplied)
There were almost as many sequins in the front row as there were on the runway — an indication that the designer's latest offering is sure to delight his loyal clientele of A-listers and royals. A white embellished evening gown with a criss-cross bodice and thigh-high slits on either side practically screamed, "wear me now, Jennifer Lopez."
Added to the harmonious color palette of gold and ivory were coral, crimson and scarab blue. (Supplied)
Added to the harmonious color palette of gold and ivory were coral, crimson and scarab blue.
Even the bride was an Egyptian queen. Wearing a bejeweled headdress, the model emerged on the catwalk wearing a heavily-embellished, haute couture take on the kalasiris, evoking a modern day Cleopatra. The crystal-emblazoned wedding dress featured a floor-trailing train, dramatic attached cape and a glimmering collar that imitated Ancient Egyptian necklaces.
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Priyanka Chopra was honored at the 2019 Marrakech Film Festival for her outstanding contributions to cinema. AFP
It's been an awards-filled week for Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra
Shortly after she was bestowed with UNICEF's Humanitarian Award, the star flew to Morocco where she was honored at the 2019 Marrakech Film Festival
DUBAI: Shortly after Priyanka Chopra was bestowed with UNICEF's Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award in New York last week, the Bollywood star flew to Morocco where she was honored at the 2019 Marrakech Film Festival on Thursday for her outstanding contributions to cinema.
The Indian star took to Instagram to share the exciting news, uploading a photograph of herself on the red carpet wearing a golden-hued, crystal embellished sari by Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla paired with Lorraine Schwartz jewelry and proudly brandishing her new accolade.
"To think that my career started nearly 20 years ago is surreal. I am honored and proud to be recognized tonight at the Marrakesh Film Festival," she wrote alongside the image. "Thank you, truly, to everyone who came out to Jemaa Al- Fna Square,"the 37-year-old added alongside a #grateful hashtag.
Chopra was feted alongside iconic Hollywood actor Robert Redford as well as French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier of "Let Joy Reign Supreme" fame. AFP
Two of the actresses' hit movies, the 2013 superhero film "Krrish 3" and 2015's "Bajirao Mastani," are being screened at the event.
It's been an awards-filled week for Chopra, who collected the Humanitarian award at Tuesday evening's 15th annual UNICEF Snowflake Ball in New York for her philanthropic work with the charitable organization over the years.
The former "Quantico" star has been a Goodwill Ambassador for more than a decade, traveling to support the organization's work in her native India and other developing nations.
Ahead of her red carpet appearance in Marrakech, the Bollywood beauty swung by the "Conversation with" series wearing a sleek white Prabal Gurung trouser suit that featured floral embossing. She elevated the classic look with a pair of cream-colored pumps and a swipe of hot pink lipstick.
Chopra was feted alongside iconic Hollywood actor Robert Redford as well as French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier of "Let Joy Reign Supreme" fame.
Moroccan actress Mouna Fettou, who served as the host of the annual film festival in 2006, is also being celebrated at this year's edition.
Also at the star-studded event in the North African nation's historic Jemaa El-Fna Square in Marrakech's old town were actresses Tilda Swinton, who is head of the competition jury, and Marion Cotillard.
British actress Naomi Watts, who celebrated her milestone 50th birthday in Morocco last year, also made a special guest appearance on the red carpet on the opening night of the 18th edition of the cinematic event.
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Zuhair Murad showed his Spring 2020 collection at Paris Couture Week. (Supplied)
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Zuhair Murad referenced his offerings with some Deco Egyptian detailing, sending out a dazzling gold number that was bejeweled with hundreds of tiny red, blue and purple sequins and beads
PARIS: In recent collections, Zuhair Murad has riffed on imperial Russia, Native American culture and sea life, but on Wednesday he looked to Egypt centuries ago.
With the magnificent setting of the former 19th century palace Hotel Potocki in Paris as the backdrop for his eponymous womenswear label's latest couture offering for Spring 2020, the Lebanese designer showed off a glamorous homage to Ancient Egypt.
Wearing a bejeweled headdress, the model emerged on the catwalk wearing a heavily-embellished, haute couture take on the kalasiris, evoking a modern day Cleopatra. (Supplied)
As the Ras Baalbek-born couturier knows well, the North African nation has intrigued fashion designers for centuries, most notably in the years immediately following Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, which was filled with the treasures that were intended to guide the monarch to the afterlife.
The offering was also rife with second-skin gowns in rich fabrics like duchesse satin and chiffon. (Supplied)
Murad referenced those with some Deco Egyptian detailing, sending out a dazzling gold number that was bejeweled with hundreds of tiny red, blue and purple sequins and beads that took the shape of various hieroglyphics, tomb paintings, scarabs and eagles to kick off the collection.
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because frankly we can all use a laugh
This past weekend was a holiday one in Ottawa, and I went to visit my friends Jenn and Nadine, recently married, ENTIRELY due to my goading them into dating each other, an act for which I have earned life-long bragging rights. I hadn't been to their place since before the wedding, and an odd addition to the refrigerator door caught my attention.
"Hey," I said, "Why do you have the words 'gradually watermelon' on your fridge?"
They burst out laughing in that way you do when someone points out a ludicrous part of your life which you've stopped really noticing.
They went on to explain that their nieces and god-daughter had shared a video with them — a video they would share with me now — which contained the phrase.
Perhaps you already know the video. Perhaps you are among the six million two hundred and fifty six thousand and four people who have already sampled its delights. I was not — and only dimly aware of the phenomenon of Google Translate Sings, where a tremendously charismatic young woman runs the lyrics of popular songs through multiple iterations of Google Translate until what comes out is amusing gibberish, and then sings it.
This was explained to me. Then Jenn and Nadine played me the video, which I shall play for you now.
Here's the thing. I'm not particularly familiar with the works of Ed Sheeran, to the point where I didn't know what he looked like until I watched Yesterday (a very charming film!) in which Ed Sheeran plays himself. His self-portrayal in that film did not lead me to think of him as a writer of sexy songs. No doubt this is my own failing. But actually reading the original lyrics (faintly pictured at the top part of the screen), which are very… body-forward, shall we say, and reconciling them with Ed Sheeran from the film, was extremely weird, especially as I find Malinda<|fim_middle|>GOTTEN IT AGAIN! Memories flooded back, remember, yes, THE WHOLE REASON I was shown this video, the words on the fridge —
and then the watermelon
gradually
CAME INTO VIEW
and somehow I had forgotten that too, and began laughing so hard I couldn't breathe, completely helpless before that sluggish squash, that careful canteloupe. Stu, at this point, was laughing more at me than the video. Eventually it ended, and I was released. I explained what I'd forgotten.
"You know," said Stu, thoughtfully, "you really have a thing with slow-moving food."
It took me a second, and then I remembered Parks & Recreation, and the scene that sends me into stitches if I just think about it too long.
That scene is this.
I immediately needed to watch it again. I did so. I laughed so hard I was in a thickness of tears — the kind of tears you cry when confronted with an enormous truth, when you learn something deep and irrevocable about yourself.
Slow-moving food is funny.
Gradually watermelon.
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All to say, there was a lot of cognitive dissonance going on, and so focused was I on the video that I completely forgot the reason I was watching it in the first place.
I experienced "gradually watermelon" in waves. First, the lyrics — "ah! THIS! Right!" — then the dead seriousness of the faces — "ha!" — then — then.
The watermelon.
Gradually.
Comes into view.
I absolutely lost it. I could not stop laughing. I was destroyed by the watermelon, rising with the inexorable slowness of a moon, and all the subsequent shenanigans therewith.
That was three days ago.
This morning, I woke with "I like shapes" stuck in my head. Remembering with a dim fondness the experience of the weekend, I decided I had to show it to Stu, who usually hates what he terms "comedy songs," but will occasionally indulge me.
I put it on. I grinned my way through, more focused on Stu's reactions — and explaining my Ed Sheeran confusion — than particularly paying attention to the song. Stu chortled appreciatively a couple of times.
Then "gradually watermelon" started again.
It shocked me! I HAD FOR | 277 |
I love the smell of wet earth. The smell of the ground after the rain, while it is still damp and rich with the smells of life.
I mowed my lawn last evening and it was still not completely dry after the tropical storm induced rains of the past weeks. The smell of the new mowed grass combined with the damp earth--there was standing water in some places, created a combination of intoxicating odors for my nose to enjoy as I rode the John Deere around the yard.
I marveled at how there could still be so much water in my lawn and rejoiced that I was not being covered in the dust cloud that mowing my lawn usually creates. The thick cloud envelopes me, the tractor, and the pool causing me to wonder how the simple act of mowing could produce so much dust.
Not yesterday! The earth was damp and in places soggy. I could see the out lines of the tractor tires in some parts of the lawn.
But I got the job done.
Not too many more times I expect I'll be mowing the yard before the seasons change and the grass no longer grows.
But yesterday, the sun was beating down on me<|fim_middle|>I walked back to the center of the yard to enjoy that scent one more time. The wet earth and mowed grass.
Savoring the memory for a time, not too far away, when I will long to be mowing the yard on my John Deere. | as I reveled in the warm day and the rich of odors. Sometimes, I think I can catch scents of the earth in some of the wines I drink.
I enjoyed being alone on the tractor yesterday, too. I looked at the house, the yard, the gardens and the area around the house marveling at the blessings that have been given to me. I vowed to notice them more and appreciate them more rather than letting them become a dim addition to the crowded landscape that is my life.
And then, almost too soon, it was over. I dumped the last of the clippings from the bagger and drove the tractor into the garage. Funny, I keep the tractor in the garage, but only one of my cars. Someone told me it was a two car garage. I guess it is a one car garage plus workshop/tractor shed/storage area.
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Video games around the world edited by mark j p wolf foreword by toru iwatani thirty nine essays explore the vast diversity of video game history and<|fim_middle|> the internet with this rise in game production many more countries have their own video game industries and their own national histories of video games | culture across all the worlds continents. From pong to overwatch the astounding growth of video games has spawned an industryfirst commercialized in the early 1970s video games have since grown into big business generating over 90 billion in revenue in 2016 alone as games jockey for positions across platforms and genres some become fan favorites while for others its game over. Edited by mark j p wolf video games around the world covers gaming in areas as disparate and far flung as argentina and thailand hungary and indonesia iran and ireland on national video games day mark j p wolf reflects on the ambitious project of bringing together leading experts and game designers to discuss video game history and culture across all the worlds continent. Small video game companies are appearing all around the world each hoping for a hit that will bring it international attention and fame both of which can grow much faster due to | 181 |
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Passenger Tracking Provide Airports With Insight Into Ever-Changing Consumer Demands, Standards
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BY SHAFER ROSS for AX News
7/27/2022 @ 9pm EDT
Before the pandemic, security in public spaces was a hot-button issue. Meta, nee Facebook, was and has continued to be in hot water over the third-party collection of user data, while heavily surveilled cities like London, U.K., were defending against accusations that the mass use of CCTV to combat and reduce crime was too invasive. Then Covid swept the globe and convenience became king. Convenience, of course, had always been a priority, though in the years preceding the onset of the pandemic, it became so ubiquitous that consumers almost seemed to take it for granted that their airport experience could happen, for the most part, on their time. Now, as the smoke from the worldwide crisis clears, people want to travel, they want to travel now, and they don't want to wait, even if it means giving up some data to get a more streamlined experience.
"As consumers, we are used to being 'tracked' and we volunteer for it with apps like Google Maps because those provide a benefit to us in our daily lives," says Tara Richards Biondolillo, director, strategic accounts – aviation and entertainment for Atrius, provider of insights into facilities' performance through use of AI-powered location tracking. "When the value of enabling location services is clear to the passenger, as well as the option to turn off tracking when they're not using the app, we see a lot of success. It requires transparency and trust, as well as true value to the passenger." Passengers have been clear that they value a streamlined and pleasant experience from the moment they arrive on airport property, and they've acclimated to many new technologies and capabilities just over the last two years to get it.
Building the Experience
"We knew that we had to come out of the pandemic a different airport," says Lynette DuJohn, vice president of innovation at Vancouver International Airport (YVR). AXN reported in May that YVR had completed the production of the campus' digital twin – a virtual world designed to accurately represent the airport, its grounds and facilities, and incorporate real-time data to keep airport officials apprised of where people are and what they're doing. "How could we leverage technology to serve our strategy as an airport? That's where the concept of the digital twin came from. "When we started out, our first [focus] was situational awareness," she continues. "So, basically, we have a tool that allows us to understand how passengers are moving through the terminal. Not specific passengers, but numbers of passengers that are moving through different processes at the airport, whether that be security, or customs, just how people move on the curb."
This data, vast and varied as it is, creates an image of the airport's current conditions for management, allowing resources to be reallocated as needed for optimal service. Cody Flores Shulman, president of Xovis, believes "passenger tracking is really about passenger flow, queue management." Xovis is a crowd flow management service and platform started in Switzerland over a decade ago to track and analyze how people move through public spaces in large numbers. "It's about first being able to identify people in a space – making sure that they're not luggage or other things – and then taking that a step further to know how they're behaving, whether they're moving about, whether they're in a queue, whether a space is full or there's extra capacity and that can apply really anywhere that's a significant touchpoint in an airport.
The obvious choices are security, immigration, check in, but those could also be those waiting to board a jet bridge or shopping at a retail space or standing in line for a taxi," he says. In a<|fim_middle|> looking at improving passenger experiences by offering someone a direct path to their gate from where they are standing, or even precisely locating a lost bag or sending the nearest airport staff member to a problem in the airport, location services offer so much potential to airports and airlines to improve their processes. "There are many benefits to passengers to enabling location services – those benefits need to be clear to the user," she adds.
Products like Thanks Again from GlidePathCX, which provides ecommerce solutions in airports, prove their value in the form of a rewards program active in many airport shops and restaurants around the country, which can provide discounts, loyalty points and other savings in exchange for access to user data. "In return for being able to gain insight into members' transaction activity, we provide points and special offers that are targeted to those particular members," says Edmund Puckhaber, president and COO of GlidePathCX."
The Airport Side
GlidePathCX also provides insights to their airport clients, a far more vast selection of data than what a typical [airport] would ever need to see. "We have a real comprehensive approach to being a one-stop shop for airport data, providing the airport executives one place where they can log in to see a comprehensive view of what's going on at their airport," says Puckhaber. "We provide all that in a comprehensive data dashboard called Insight360. The airports can log in, they can see what's happening on the loyalty side of the equation, they can see what's happening on the surveys…they can also look at additional KPIs or metrics according to different input data that we receive from third-party sources, the airport itself, and airport vendors."
Varied in style, approach and medium though they are, all these players seek to answer a common question: where is the passenger going, and what are they doing there? "'Tracking the passenger' is really about providing important services to the passenger," says Atrius' Richards Biondolillo. At YVR, this is something the digital twin technology excels in. "We're putting it in the hands of our guest service agents, so they know where there are chokepoints, where there is congestion within the terminal, and it tells them where they need to go to be able to help people move through the airport more effectively." Accessibility for disabled travelers and those with conditions that make travel extra-stressful, like autism, could also be an important use-case for this kind of technology, DuJohn says.
While most agree that technological additions won't replace a human workforce, United Airlines' Cozzi says it can lessen the burden on short-staffed teams. "Operationally, while our customer service team is always available, Terminal Guide, in addition to other recent launches like United's bespoke Agent on Demand service, helps reduce customer service wait times and gives employees more bandwidth to focus on providing excellent customer service to those situations that are a bit more complicated. "Additionally, the information gathered via Terminal Guide can be used to dispatch staff to areas where we might need extra focus in a real-time manner, such as large groups checking in, flight delays, lines and more. We can also leverage passenger trends, volumes and other insights for future planning," he adds. That kind of actionable information is more valuable than some may even realize, according to Xovis' Flores Shulman.
"As soon as someone's wait exceeds ten minutes in a security queue, they'll spend about 30 percent less money once they get through it," he says. If that's the case, technologies that both allow the traveler to take the journey back into their own hands, while also providing airports the insights they need to properly staff their facilities, may be the golden goose many are searching for coming out of the pandemic slump. To that end, the many stakeholders in the airport space may have to collaborate more than in previous years to meet elevated customer standards. "We see this as a critical collaboration opportunity between airlines and airports," says Richards Biondolillo. "We are hearing from our global airline partners that innovation is back, customer experience and loyalty are again the number-one goal, and to get where they want to go, airlines absolutely need their airport partners to be a part of enabling the future."
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About the Author: glidepathcx | letter to shareholders published earlier in 2022, biometric security company CLEAR reported that in the year prior, total enrollments in the program – which allows users to bypass the traditional airport security checkpoint and breeze through with a simple scan of their eyes, fingers or documents – increased by 112 percent, from just over 5,500,000 users in Q1 2021 to nearly 12,000,000 by the end of the same period in 2022. "The magical experience we deliver in airports and the trust we have built with our members has earned us the right to expand in travel, to enter new verticals and to bring the CLEAR experience to new industries. We give members back their most precious asset – time," said Caryn Seidman-Becker, CLEAR co-founder and CEO, in the letter. "We remain bullish on the travel recovery as there is significant pent-up demand for experiences such as travel. March was our best CLEAR Plus enrollment month on record and that strength has continued into Q2."
This abrupt jump in usership reflects not only on the viability of programs like CLEAR and TSA PreCheck, which allow users to provide additional access to their information in exchange for a smoother security process, but the willingness overall of travelers to be more open with data they may not have been comfortable sharing in the time before Covid. "It's a hot topic in the age of self-service and touchless [tech]," says Xovis' Flores Shulman. "Even in the U.S., where airports are publicly owned, they're basically shopping malls that have flights. That's where their money is. It is in their best interest to make it as smooth and functional and clean for the passenger as possible."
Passenger-Facing Insights
United Airlines announced in September 2020 a feature within its app to allow users to navigate around the airport and take care of necessary tasks. "With the Terminal Guide [feature], we now offer customers personalized, valuable information, like estimated time to leave for the airport or where to check bags, to make their travel day less stressful and more efficient," says Anthony Cozzi, director of digital products, mobile/travel for United Airlines. Cozzi and Atrius' Richards Biondolillo spoke at the Passenger Terminal EXPO in Paris in June to discuss the feature, as well as the role technology will play in the airport experience looking forward. In an interview with AXN, he says, "To [provide this convenience], we use information from a customer's booking, like their airport, gate and number of checked bags, paired with location-based services on the mobile device of passengers who grant permission for us to do so. Customers can easily access this information on the home screen of their United Mobile app."
Being honest with customers about how and when their information is being used, and to what end, has built a level of trust, and consumers are willing to trust if the value is there, Cozzi says. Atrius' Richards Biondolillo adds, "The new frontier in aviation will, we believe, be driven by location services. Whether you're | 657 |
It may have been a small crowd, but we had a great time at Wild Goose Creative over the weekend. We met some new folks, talked for hours about Vietnam, French history and the craft of writing, and Ed had a chance to polish his Seven in a Jeep presentation. I'd say a good time was had by all.
Our thanks go out to the Wild Goose Creative staff for providing the space, and a special thanks goes to Andrew Anderson and Tyler Day for making us feel welcome. Hopefully we'll be back soon, and can meet even more of the awesome Wild Goose crowd.
As the summer gears up, you'll have a chance to see Ed at several more speaking engagements throughout the central Ohio area. Updates to come soon, but we're hammering out the details for a book signing at The Book Loft next month. We'll let you know as soon as a date and time are set.
Now that a little bit of buzz has started with Seven In a Jeep, Ed's going<|fim_middle|> he's even got a slide or two to show (if you follow the Facebook page, you've seen some of these already). He'll also be signing and (hopefully) selling a few books afterward.
Stop on by if you're in the area, to meet Ed or to just find out what Wild Goose is all about. The more the merrier! There's also a few more public events at which Ed will be presenting in the coming month; we'll update you on those once they're set in stone. | to be speaking at a number of locations around central Ohio in the coming months. One that we're especially excited about is this Sunday, at the Wild Goose Creative in Clintonville.
Ed's speaking from 6-8 pm this Sunday, June 23, for WGC's writing group. He'll talk about about his experiences in Vietnam, his writing process, and | 75 |
I thought if I went at things with fervor, especially if it was something I knew I was good at like writing or publishing, I could earn God's smile.
All that changed when I went on my weight loss journey and realized I had been doing it all wrong. I was a very good dieter. I could lose weight only to gain it all back as soon as I went off the diet and began eating anything with sugar. I was trying to do it my way.
So I surrendered to God's ways. I admitted my weakness for sugar was controlling me. I realized, "My grace is sufficient for you for My power is made perfect in weakness"2 means His grace-power activates in my life only when I admit I need it.
My answer was small things like being able to walk, shop, buy smaller clothes, feel my husband's arms around me, but the question has been rolling around in my brain ever since.
Then it hit me, my biggest change is I have finally become self-sufficient in Christ's sufficiency.3 It is not because of anything I have done. I need<|fim_middle|> and you get two months FREE in Sweet Change Weight Loss Group. This is our best one-two punch for YOUR weight loss journey. Now with easy three-payment option. Click on the link to get started today!
It is my great privilege and honor to do so. I always say if something I write causes someone to laugh or cry, I have done my job. So thank you for crying. Tears wash the soul. | only look at myself in the mirror and have undeniable proof that God keeps His word when I do my part.
I am not afraid of taking the next step if I know God is leading me. It's not self-sufficiency. It is that I serve a more than sufficient God.
The words came out of my mouth easily. God has called me to minister to people. This was just another open door.
Each time He has opened a door, He has equipped me and provided the help I needed to walk through it. I had no doubt He would do it again.
It comes from 30 years of running from what He told me to do in regard to my health. When I finally did what He said, mainly stop eating sugar, everything changed.
God never deprived, limited or forced me. He simply handed me the keys to my freedom.
How has God been sufficient in your life?
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Dons' goalkeeper David Martin has fractured his hand.
The 30-year-old suffered the injury in training and is undergoing further assessment.
A timescale for Martin's absence has not yet been determined but he is set to see a specialist to ascertain the extent of the damage.
Elsewhere, winger Rob Hall will undergo<|fim_middle|> into the game with Fulham – there is a vibrancy and buoyancy about the players. | an MRI scan after suffering a knee injury in training.
However, Karl Robinson has centre-back Joe Walsh and midfielder Jake Forster-Caskey available again for selection after recovering from hamstring and foot injuries respectively.
Robinson told MK Dons PlayerHD: "Losing Dave is a big blow to everybody. Dave has been excellent for us this season and there's no doubt we are going to miss him.
"Cody came in as the number 2 but he's the number 1 now and he has to take that opportunity. I've got tremendous faith in him – he's a good young goalkeeper.
He added: "These are obviously two negatives but we are positive going | 135 |
Denny's restaurant sign falls on car in Kentucky, killing 1 and injuring 2
January 20, <|fim_middle|> at a Denny's restaurant in Kentucky fell from a post and crashed into an occupied car below.
Police responded to A. Dennis in the 2000 block of North Mulberry Street in Elizabethtown at 1:30 p.m. In a report on Thursday, Dr.
Photos show signs on top of a blue car with parts of the roof crushed
First responders pulled two women and a man from the wreckage and took them to a local hospital. Where the 72-year-old victim died, Elizabethtown police said in a news release.
The condition of the other two victims was not immediately clear Friday morning.
An investigation into what caused the sign to collapse is ongoing. But police say wind from the fire likely contributed to the incident.
Suggested "I'm going to say the choppy wind was a factor. A very, very unfortunate situation," Elizabethtown police spokesman Christ Denham said.
Peak winds are gusty winds
A Denny's spokeswoman said the restaurant chain is aware of the incident.
"Safety is our top priority, and we are working with the authorities to bring LEDs in these situations.
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When a sign | 75 |
It is a father's role to help their children become responsible adults. In the process, many fathers regularly offer their children advice in the form of clichés. If your Father's arsenal of euphemisms included "because I said so" you yourself may have been inclined to ignore some of dear-old-Dad's advice; understandable since even the most loyal child can't always help but roll their eyes with Dad says "you'll thank me later." However, before you disregard every pearl of wisdom<|fim_middle|>, honor your Father by revisiting some of his financial clichés. You may be surprised to discover that there are some valuable lessons conveniently packaged in those easy-to-remember phrases.
A penny saved is a penny earned basically means that you should pay yourself first. In fact, financial experts agree with Dad; you should have three to six month's living expenses saved in an accessible account. This is in addition to your long term savings vehicles, such as your 401k.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush means that what you currently possess is worth more than the possibility of possessing more. In conjunction with the grass is always greener on the other side, Dad may have been telling you to want what you have. Many experts believe that this is the key to happiness.
Money doesn't grow on trees is a seemingly simple expression that illustrates the value of money and hard work. One way to apply this to your life is to remember that credit cards are a tool of convenience and not an extension of your income.
There's no such thing as a free lunch goes hand in hand with you reap what you sow. If you heard this while growing up, Dad was probably trying to tell you to stop looking for the easy way out. Most people will never win the lottery. In most cases, you will only get out of something what you put into it.
The very definition of a cliché suggests that a phrase is overused and has lost its originality. On the other hand, you might consider that there is a reason the expressions are spoken so often. So next time you are concerned that you are beginning to sound like your Father, remember that just may be a good thing. | your Dad ever quipped, you should know that many do deserve your attention. This is especially true for clichés about money.
The subject of money is often emotionally charged and can be a difficult one to discuss. By offering tried-and-true financial expressions during the course of your lifetime, your father may have taught you more than you realize. This Father's Day | 73 |
Abdul Ahad (18 January 1918 – 14 May 1996) was a Bangladeshi composer, music director and singer. He was the recipient of Independence Day Award in 1978. The Government of Pakistan awarded him Tamgha-e-Imtiaz in 1962 and Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 1969 for his contribution to music.
Early life
Ahad was born in Rajshahi in the then Bengal Presidency<|fim_middle|>18 births
1996 deaths
People from Rajshahi District
Bangladeshi male musicians
Bangladeshi music directors
Recipients of Sitara-i-Imtiaz
Recipients of Tamgha-e-Imtiaz
Recipients of the Independence Day Award
Honorary Fellows of Bangla Academy
20th-century male musicians
Pakistani musicians | . He took lessons from Ustad Bali and Ustad Manju Sahib. He took part in the All-Bengal Music Competition in 1936 and stood first in the Thumri and Ghazal section. In 1938, he won a scholarship from Shantiniketan as the first Bengali Muslim student. In Santiniketan, he sang the song Diner Por Din Je Gelo and was beloved by Rabindranath Tagore.
Career
After spending four years at Santiniketan, he joined Master's Voice in Calcutta in 1941 as a music teacher. Artistes including Pankaj Mullick and Hemanta Mukherjee recorded Tagore songs under his direction. In 1941, Ahad joined HMV Calcutta and gradually became a music director for the recording industry as well as the film industry. He got success as a music director in feature films such as Duhkhe Jader Jiban Gada, Asiya (1960), Nabarun and Dur Hyay Sukh Ka Gaon. After the 1947 Partition of India, Ahad joined Radio Pakistan and became a key person in the musical arena of Dhaka. He introduced many new talents to the music world, composed numerous songs and wrote several books on Bengali music.
Some of his compositions include:
Ami shagorer o neel
Amar desher matir gondhey
Onek brishti jhorey tumi eley
Bhramarer pakhna jotodur jak na
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These machine-cut paper strips are suitable for making Moravian Stars.
Paper strips come in a pack of 100 strip of 8 colors.
- magenta, mauve, pink, & pale pink.
It takes 4 strips of paper to make one Moravian Star so this pack of<|fim_middle|> a pack of 100 strip of varying colors based on availability.
Paper strips come in a pack of 100 strip of 9 or 10 shimmery pastel colors.
Paper strips come in a pack of 100 strip of 3 colors.
Paper strips come in a pack of 100 strip of 5 colors.
Paper strips are translucent (opaque, semi-transparent) and come in a pack of 100 strip of 15 colors.
- blazing sun, cobalt, kiwi, petal pink, vermilion.
These are discontinued, only one pack left of each size. Get them before they are gone!
Shipping to USA is $3.50 for first pack and an additional $1.50 for subsequent packs. Shipping everywhere else is $10 for first pack and an additional $4 for subsequent packs. Shipping is via US Postal Services "First Class" mail. Payment is by PayPal only. No PayPal account? Sign up for an account here. | 100 strips can produce 25 stars.
Warning: the 1" paper strips are JUST long enough to complete a German Star. There will be almost no excess paper to cut off after a star is complete. Some crafters use forceps to pull the paper strips through.
Paper strips are 24 inch long except for the Forest Green which are 23 inch.
Warning: the 1" x 23" paper strips are JUST long enough to complete a German Star. There will be almost no excess paper to cut off after a star is complete. Some crafters use forceps to pull the paper strips through. Unfortunately, this is unavoidable because there is no paper supplier which offers dark green longer than 23"
Paper strips come in a pack of 100 strip of 6 colors.
- cocoa, tan, light brown.
Paper strips come in | 181 |
This week Scoil Shan Nichlos blog update is provided by Molly Walsh in 6th Class.
Hi again! I hope everybody had a great St Patrick's weekend. On Monday we<|fim_middle|> members welcome back in October. ....Sunshine until October so ! | had no school but we were back to work on Tuesday. Then on Thursday, 5th & 6th classes made sock puppets while we watched Glee Lurgan (Seachtain na Gaeilge abu!). You can see from our photos that the other classes made lovely things in art this week too. On Friday, Mrs Malone organised a treat for us for taking part in Peace Proms – we got to watch the Sound of Music on dvd. We have Easter holidays now for two weeks. Have a great Easter and enjoy your Easter eggs!!
This week was very exciting for the pupils in Second Class because on Friday 15th they made their First Penance in Windgap church. The thirteen children were practicing like mad all week with Mrs Malone. Some of them had to tell the story of Zacchaeus, others had to say prayers. They also did some lovely art which is in the church. Their parents were all very proud of them. The school choir sang and we played some music when the children were telling Fr Flavin about their sins so that we could not hear.
As part of the celebrations for the Gathering,We intend to hold a street market,this is a great opportunity to display and sell your wares,so if you can make a jam,jelly,bake a cake knit,sew or craft and would like to take a stall,Please apply for an application form by contacting Tess at crossart77@fsmail.net or telephone 086 2265558.
The foggy glen on Saturday morning did not deter the community spirit of the locals who set off enthusiastically on all roads leading to Windgap to start the spring clean.An Taisce had supplied litter bags,gloves,aprons and litter pickers,However the supply of bags filled very quickly and thanks to one local resident who came to our aid with additional supplies.Forty three bags full of all types of waste await collection.A fantastic result for 2 hours work well done to everybody.Watch this space for the next phase of clean up in Windgap.
ANNIVERSARIES: Jimmy & Eileen Cody, Coolhill, mass at 10.00 a.m. Sun. 17th; Edward Meehan, Cossan, mass at 10.00 a.m. Sun 17th; Daniel & Josephine Cronin.
Nellie & Neddy Ryan, mass at 9.00 a.m. Sun. 24th; Patrick Lee, Coolhill, mass on Sun. 24th at 10.00 a.m.
MASS FOR CHILDREN WHO DIED IN INFANCY AND/OR PRE BIRTH will be celebrated on Saturday 23rd March in St. Eoghan's Church, Kilmoganny at 7.00 p.m.
*************************************************************************************** MASS FOR CHILDREN WHO WILL RECEIVE FIRST HOLY COMMUNION next May will be celebrated on next Sunday Palm Sunday at 10.00 a.m. in St. Nicholas' Church Windgap.
*************************************************************************************** APPEAL FOR SUPPORT: Local man Canice Hickey will be travelling to Zambia during Easter 2013 and 2014 for two weeks. The trip is part of the Coláiste Éaman Rís Immersion Programme which will see 10 students from the school going to Zambia to experience Zambian life. In order to raise the necessary funds for the trip the group will be holding a number of fundraisers over the next 12 months. The first of these will be a bag pack in Super Valu, Callan, on Fri 15th and Sat 16th March. The group will also be holding a bucket collection outside the Kilkenny V Waterford game at Nowlan Park on Monday 18th March.
THE NEXT MEETING RE DEVELOPMENT will take place in the G.A.A Clubrooms at 8.00 p.m. on Tuesday 26th March. You are welcome to attend.
PEACE IN CHRIST DAY OF PRAYER on next Sunday, Palm Sunday 24th March from 10.30 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. will be led by Rev. Martin Delaney. Cost €30.
***************************************************************************************SOUTH OSSORY PIONEER ASSOCIATION IS holding a vigil in Owning House Chapel (formerly Sue Ryder) Owning on Friday 22nd March at 8.00p.m. All are welcome.
Windgap's 2nd class of 2013 made their first confession in St. Niochlas's church Windgap today at 1.30 pm. Ceremony was conducted by Fr. Nicholas Flavin. PP Dunamaggin and Windgap. Congratulations to all....including the sound man Zach, teachers, staff, and parents.
Wingap Musicans for Concert in honour of Father Martin Cleere in Brewery Lane Theatre.
Paddy Walsh, Aoife Ryan, Marie Duggan, Mary Hennessy, Tom Dunne, Maria O'Shea and John Ryan and just some of the local musicians and singers giving their time to support Brewery Lane in a St Patricks Eve concert this weekend, Sat 16th March. See details on links below.
This Saturday March 16th, 2013 Brewery Lane is hosting a St Patrick's Eve Variety Concert. This concert is dedicated to the late Fr Martin Cleere P.P of Windgap and is in aid of Brewery Lane Theatre Renovation Fund.
Courtesy of the Kilkenny reporter !
Another winter comes to an end. The badminton club tell us that this is the last week of the season.
All existing and new | 1,188 |
If you are having a trouble with your digital camera metering modes, we are here to help you. First of all you should know what metering mode is. Basically, metering mode is the way your camera determines the exposure. Read How To Use Camera Metering Modes.
Incident metering reads the intensity of light falling on the subject that you are taking a photo of and it provides accurate exposure of the its tone, color and contrast despite the background color, brightness or subject texture.
Reflective metering reads the intensity of the light that is reflecting off of the subject that you are taking a photo of, so it can be easily fooled by its tonality, color, contrast, textures, shape and background brightness. Reflective meter<|fim_middle|> I hope that you understand now how metering works and that it just takes practice. Now go and play with the exposure!
Chelsea Lothrop is a New England-based photographer specializing in equine, pet, and portraiture photography. Her love for animals is complemented with a unique ability to capture the bond between people and their beloved pets. When she's not behind the camera or on a horse, Chelsea can be found writing tutorials on her photography blog . Make sure you visit her Portfolio here. | ing reads that reflected light very well, but the problem is that it doesn't take any other factors of the scene into a count.
In order for you to understand, we should start with the basics which is TTL (through the lens) metering. You know that cameras have built-in light meter that tells the camera how to set the aperture and shutter speed in the exposure triangle. But how does that work? Well, TTL metering is actually reflective light metering so when the light comes in from the source (the Sun, the light in your home…) it reflects off of your subject. Than that reflection comes through the lens in to your camera and in to the light meter that measures all of that light. What meter is looking for is middle grey (18% grey), so it takes all the light values (all the bright and dark tones) and blend them to get that middle grey. Your light meter finds the middle grey of your scene and according to that color it sets the exposure.
With spot metering your camera actually takes a small area of your scene, about 1-5% of the scene, usually right in the center, and takes those luminance values and figures out what middle grey would be on that. Some, but not all cameras allow you to move that spot around, based on your auto-focus, to be more accurate. Spot metering mode is being used when you want to focus to one specific area in your scene and want to meter that part correctly. A lot of people use this type of metering for the zone system. Tricky part is positioning the test area over the correct part of the subject. If you learn how to do that you will have good exposure based on the mid-tone.
Partial and spot metering modes work very similar. The only difference is that the partial metering takes larger area of the scene, about 10-15%.the best situation for using partial metering is when the background is a lot brighter than the subject, unless you want to get just a silhouette. It's a really good solution to back lightning problems. It's also really good when you want to meter someone's face correctly or something that you want in focus or even nature and wildlife photography.
Average metering has been around for ages. It takes the entire scene and it blends all of the tones to find that middle grey, but it tends to get things wrong. If you have, let's say, a Sun just in the corner of your scene, well it gets just as much mixed into blending, so maybe the rest of the scene can be a little unexposed.
Center weighted average metering was made as a better solution for average metering. It takes about 60-80% of the scene (it feathers out as it goes) and it's positioned in the center (that's why it's called center weighted), so it uses that area to determent exposure. It works a lot better than average metering because a lot of people point their cameras at their friends or family and position them in the middle of the scene. Advanced photographers use center weighted average metering sort of like spot metering or partial metering to figure out which part of their scene they want to measure.
Matrix (evaluative) metering (also called pattern metering, honeycomb, esp -electro selective pattern, segment metering), is newer way to meter light that uses all of the processing power of your digital camera. It breaks your scene in to different zones or smaller sections, and uses them to evaluate your scene. Than it puts it into algorithm that different camera manufactures have created, which gives much more intelligent exposures (because maybe one of the zones is really bright and others are darker…). This metering highly recommended because it's the most advanced.
So, basically, your cameras built-in light meter averages everything to a middle grey to determent proper exposure, but also because of that, you meter could make a mistake. You can correct your cameras errors using exposure compensation. But what is exposure compensation, you might ask..
If you are beginner photographer that just replaced your point and shoot camera with a DSLR, this might sound confusing, but it's actually really simple. Exposure compensation is a feature on your camera that allows you to tell your camera to take what it thinks is correct exposure and overexposed or underexposed by a certain amount. You will find the exposure compensation button on your camera with "+/-" icon ( if you can't find it check in your user menu where exactly to find a dial, because it's not the same for all cameras). This option gives you a lot of power as a photographer to fine tune your exposure, especially in low- light and high-contrast scenes.
What a PLUS (+) setting does is making your image brighter and MINUS (-) setting is making it darker. Each movement of brightness is called "STOP". A full stop change doubles or halves the amount of exposure depending on weather it's a plus one (+1) or minus one (-1) adjustment. Adjustment of +1 EV will give you an image that is twice as bright as the base exposure, and obviously, adjustment of -1 EV will give you an image that is half as bright as the base exposure.
One of the situations in which you might want to use this basic technique for adjusting the exposure is when your subject is brighter or darker than the entire scene or when your subject has a lot of light on it but the rest of the scene is dark. If your subject is backlit, when the camera meters the backlight, it will make your subject darker (that could be corrected by increasing the exposure compensation +1 EV or +2 EV). Also, when the subject is in dark area you should get the exposure right for the subject and then let the background be as dark as it needs to be ( you might want to dial exposure compensation down by -1 EV or whatever feels right).
as separate devices, also used to measure the amount of light and to determine the proper exposure. Metering is very simple with light meter.
It's very important that your exposure triangle (shutter, aperture and ISO) is set exactly the same on your meter and your camera. A lot of meters, out of the box, are set it half-stop increments, but most of the cameras move in third-stop increments. It's very important for this to be set correctly too, so you should adjust your meter to either move in half, full or third-stop increments, according to your camera.
Normally, when you use a light meter you are using incident metering where the light hits the LumiSphere. If you want reflective metering that is a little bit different. For that kind of metering you use a spot meter that a lot of meters got built-in. you hold it up to your eye and when you see a little circle target you place it exactly where you want to meter. The light that is coming and hitting your subject will bounce off and come in to the meter itself.
So, once again, metering is nothing but measuring the light that falls on or reflects off of your subject. | 1,450 |
Quaresma Breaks Croatian Hearts in Stoppage Time
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Croatia 0-1 Portugal (Extra time)
Ricardo Quaresma sent Portugal through to the quarter-finals of Euro 2016 as his header with little time remaining thwarted Croatia after a fairly dull affair in Nice.
He nodded in from close range after Ronaldo's shot was parried by the keeper in the attack that followed Croatia hitting the post, just as penalties looked inevitable after both sides struggled to impress.
Image: UEFA.com
Following a powerful rendition of Lijepa naša domovino, Croatia got the ball rolling, holding possession confidently in the early stages while trying to exploit space with long balls towards the left flank. Meanwhile their opponents had trouble stringing passes together in a somewhat tentative start to the game, as both nations were aware of the risk and magnitude of the 39th game of the European Championships.
But when Fernando Santos' men began to flow with their play, a gaping opportunity would arise. João Mário whipped in a free-kick from the left, which went over the defence and towards Pepe who headed over the crossbar, taking advantage of a slip from an opposing player in the area.
Though soon enough there would be something to worry about at the other end, when Ivan Perišić broke free down the right, surging towards the box where he moved on to his left boot, unable to find the near post as he dragged it towards the side netting. The Croat was sporting a patriotic haircut of red-and-white checkers on the side.
It was an opening period for the purists, essentially, with mostly half-chances comprising the bulk of the first 45 minutes. Despite looking good in the final third, Croatia made sloppy mistakes while the Portugese did offer some substance going forward, but not enough to threaten the goal of Danijel Subašić. Both teams had a lot more to offer going into the interval, and it was down to the managers to make sure they showcased it.
With the game demanding more urgency in the second half, Croatia upped the tempo with their pressing before a chance came for Brozović who couldn't find the target. They had more of the desire to get into attacking positions although Portugal themselves were beginning to stretch their legs going forward.
Renato Sanches, fresh off the bench after replacing Gomes, exhibited his danger early on with some quick footwork to dazzle his opponents outside the area, before he gave it to João Mário who rolled it off for the shot, but the 18-year-old was unable to cleanly swipe it and it rolled wide.
Back at the other end, Domagoj Vida would produce the closest chance of the game yet, just after the hour-mark when his header flashed past goal. Srna's cross from the left was nearing Mandžukić<|fim_middle|>16/06/euro-2016-croatia-vs-portugal.html | , but Vida propped up before him and knocked it just wide of the post. Things were beginning to open up, with Nani then landing off target after getting on the end of a long ball. Perisic then volleyed wide as both sides deployed their resources to steal the game.
A back injury for Mandžukić in the late stages of regulation would eventually force him off, as both sides battled throughout and with 3 minutes of stoppage time, a late set piece by Rakitić was firmly headed away by Ronaldo. 90 minutes had passed, and extra time was now in store.
What followed was a drab first half of the extra-time allocations and still no shots on target followed; neither side showed they really had the intent as penalties loomed in Nice. Croatia did have more control, but all was still to be decided.
After Nani came close, a header went over the bar from the Croatians, before the closest chance of the game presented itself to the white-clad contenders, when a looping header struck the post. Immediately, Portugal attacked at the other end with searing force provided by Sanches. It was played out to Nani on the left, who scuffed his shot so it ran along the ground to Ronaldo, who was stopped by the keeper, but the rebound came out kindly to Quaresma who headed in from close range as Portugal booked their spot in the quarter-finals.
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Croatia were not done though, and would continue to throw the kitchen sink at their opponents to force penalty kicks. Vida scooped just wide of the goal as it fell down to him in a corner kick after a prolonged period of pressure. The game ended up picking up in the final minutes, but Croatia could not get the goal back, and Portugal made their way to the quarter-finals.
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"As if we were trying to understand each other's heart"
Your<|fim_middle|> the United States flow all the way to this lost province of Cambodia, and come back enriched with images, dances, joy, words and drawings. | donations allow for the circulation of the resources of dance and expression through art to underprivileged children and teenagers, offering them moments of peace, joy and freedom in a burdened life, as well as greater inner strength to face the challenges of their future. I see these children explore, change; I see their joy, the moments of letting go, the moments of peace. They offer me an invaluable gift: I see that even when the body is weak, when the tummy is hungry, when life is tough, when wounds are plenty, the soul is ready to shine the moment a door opens. The essential being is there, intact, and nourishing it is as important as nourishing the body.
To transform this adventure into a long-term project, I needed a structure, I needed funds, I needed help. The structure is a French non-profit organisation and the name came to me from the other side of the Channel one morning: Dancing Across Borders.
I haven't yet found the way to fit into the right boxes for government funding. So I turned to those people I know can understand and support this project: to you who dance, move, sing, paint, and know how precious this experience is, how transformative it can be.
It has been wonderful to feel energy from France, Germany, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Switzerland, | 270 |
Dunn Played Well
January 26, 2010 College-related Publications, Wheaton College Archivesadmin
Canadian Bruce Wallace Dunn, responding to a question on his Wheaton College application regarding his choice for location after graduation, wrote, "California – otherwise no preference." As it happened, Dunn's career did not move him westward but straight south to Peoria, Illinois. As road-weary vaudevillians used to say, "If it'll play in Peoria, it'll play anywhere." There Dunn's fruitful ministry "played" for decades not because of chance, but as the result of, as he observed, "…many prayers, much planning, and sacrificial giving by hundreds of people." Born to a godly family of Scottish heritage in Toronto, Ontario, Dunn was the first boy in Dr. Oswald Smith's Sunday School class at the famous People's Church. Regularly attending for years but still unsure of his beliefs, Dunn finally walked the aisle in 1936, publicly declaring his faith in Christ after hearing former hoodlum Anthony Zeoli testify to God's grace.
Offering his life to God, Dunn enrolled at Wheaton College where he robustly participated in campus life, involved with cheerleading, tennis, ping pong and the Aristonian Literary Society. In addition to sports, he reported for the Record, traveled with the Ambassadors (Wheaton's musical evangelists) and served on the Men's Interhouse Council. Earning his B.A. ('40) and M.A. ('46), he transferred to McCormick Seminary in Chicago and then Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he acquired his Th.D. After serving briefly in Iowa, Wisconsin and Chicago, Dunn in 1951 accepted a call to pastor at Grace Presbyterian in Peoria. A few months later he inaugurated a radio broadcast, later moving his congregation to a larger building and a successful television ministry called Grace Worship Hour. He enjoyed a national reputation as a powerful speaker, preaching for conferences like Moody Founder's Week, Moody Keswick, Winona Lake, West Coast Prophetic Congress and many others. Specializing in prophetic interpretation, he stressed the need for continual evangelization.
Occasionally his sermons were published as pamphlets, such as The Ecumenical Dream…One Big Church!, reflecting his alarm over ill-considered ecclesiastical mergers and unions. In 1960 Wheaton College awarded him its Centennial Award for his uncompromising testimony; and in 1968 he delivered the Baccalaurate address for Taylor University<|fim_middle|>989, her graveside service occurring on the 48th anniversary of their wedding. Dr. Bruce Dunn retired from Grace Presbyterian in 1991, continuing with writing and periodic speaking engagements until his death in 1993. His funeral address was delivered at Grace Presbyterian Church by Dr. Joseph Stowell, president of Moody Bible Institute. | . Dunn's wife, Eileen, graduating summa cum laude from Wheaton College in 1947, was employed as a librarian at Bradley University for 25 years. She died in 1 | 44 |
Door leading to lounge, door to kitchen/dining. Stairs to first floor.
Good size lounge with double glazed window to front elevation, central heating radiator.
Range of cream wall, base and drawer units, complementary worktops, stainless steel sink and drainer, tiled splashback, integrated four ring gas hob with built-in electric oven, breakfast bar with storage under, stone flooring, double glazed window to side elevation. Door to useful storage cellar. Space for dining table and chairs.
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Three piece white suite comprising bath, wash hand basin and low level WC, central heating radiator, tiled flooring, window to front elevation. | Two separate rooms providing a useful storage area.
Central heating radiator, stairs leading to occasional loft bedrooms 3 and 4.
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St. Gerard Church
Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 26 October 2006.
Website: http://www.parishesonline.com/scripts/HostedSites/org.asp?ID=15865
The research was conducted by The University of Michigan-Dearborn Pluralism Project
History and Description
In June 1950, Father Joseph J. Dion was appointed to begin a new parish to serve the many Roman Catholics who were moving into the working- and lower-middle-class residential neighborhoods of northwest Detroit. On April 29, 1951, Father Dion and Father Jim Downes celebrated the first mass for the newly created parish. In 1962, plans were developed to build a church and rectory. The church was dedicated on August 7, 1965. By the mid-1960s, the parish had 1500 families. By the mid-1980s, however, membership had dropped to about 300 families as a function of "white flight" to the suburbs. Currently St. Gerard Church has approximately 700 households drawn from a wide variety of ethnic groups, including recent immigrants from Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Granada, Trinidad, Jamaica, St. Vincent, Guyana, Mexico, Panama, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Scotland, Poland, and Korea.
There is a school, preschool to grade 8. The current student body is all black, with eighty percent being non-Catholic. The school has in addition to classrooms, a gymnasium and a library.
Activities and Groups
The church has a Women's Club, a Youth Group, Club Fifty for adults over the age of fifty, and faith sharing groups for adults. The various parish commissions include the Christian Service Commission to address basic human needs and issues of social justice in both local and global contexts; the Education Commission is responsible for ongoing Christian formation and education of all members; the Worship Commission is responsible for coordinating all aspects of the liturgy.
St Gerard's Church is currently associated with New Hope, a non-profit housing project that renovates homes and assists<|fim_middle|> | first-time homeowners. In addition, there is a food depot, which distributes food on Saturday morning to residents of metropolitan Detroit who have emergency food needs. St Gerard Church, along with St. David's Episcopal Church in Southfield, have sister parishes in Haiti. Fund raising and missions to Haitian parishes have assisted with church renovations, building schools and a health clinic.
Due to the shortage of priests, St. Gerard now shares two priests with two other Roman Catholic churches in Detroit.
Mass and Schedule
Masses at St Gerard are on Saturday at 4:00 p.m., and Sundays at 8:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. The liturgy draws on tradition Catholic hymns and African American hymns from the African American Catholic Hymnal, "Lead Me, Guide Me."
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Project management has changed a lot in the last couple of decades. I guess you can say that about a lot of professions, because of the impact of technology, but in project management there are more factors at play. It started with the emergence of Agile as an alternative to traditional, plan driven project management (often referred to as waterfall). While Agile started life as a way of delivering software development projects, it is now a mainstream approach that lives alongside waterfall, increasing the ability to choose the right approach for the right project. More recently Agile and waterfall have been combined in a number of different hybrid variations, further diversifying the number of approaches that can be used to deliver projects and changing project management.
But there is more to the evolution of the discipline than simply new methods of working. There has also been a fundamental shift in the purpose of project management and that's far more significant. When I started working as a project manager the holy grail was to deliver a project on time, on scope and on budget – the so-called triple constraint. Today, there is a recognition that, while the triple constraint may be an effective way of controlling work, it has nothing to do with defining success. Instead, successful projects are the ones that deliver 'on benefit'. That is to say, they allow the organization to gain the business performance improvements that were the reason why they invested in the project in the first place.
To use a simple example, consider a new product development project. Regardless of whether it's delivered using waterfall, Agile or hybrid, the goal is to deliver a solution that customers will respond positively to, generating sales, capturing market share, and improving company revenue and profitability. If all of that happens, no one will care if it was a little bit late, a little bit too expensive, and a little bit light on features. On the other hand, if it delivers all the bells and whistles on the exact day it was supposed to and for the exact budget allocated but the product doesn't sell, well, then it's a failure.
Organizations are increasingly recognizing that there must be a connection between the work done on the project and the work done to leverage the output of that project – the operational work that occurs downstream of the project. If these two elements are not closely aligned, the likelihood of organizational success is greatly diminished.
There are implications to this. The structure of projects must be more flexible, even in a plan driven approach. With technological advancements are redefining what is possible on a regular basis, with increasing competition in virtually every industry, and with shorter customer satisfaction windows than ever before, it is impossible to accurately forecast what the 'perfect' product output is when planning occurs twelve months or more prior to completion. Instead, project management must embrace greater levels of change, driven not by variances in performance, but<|fim_middle|> portfolios in Europe and North America in industries as diverse as investment banking, software development, call centers, telecommunications and corporate education.
Andy is an in demand speaker and author who delivers thought provoking content in an engaging and entertaining style, and is also an instructor in project management related disciplines including a new portfolio management course on LinkedIn Leaning / Lynda.com. He always strives to provide thought provoking presentations that drive his audience to challenge accepted norms while providing actionable content that can be applied in the real world.
Yada is not just the leader of the Project Management Training Institute (PMTI). He helped to write significant portions of the project management standards worldwide. He shares his wisdom with readers via the PMTI blog.
Project Management – What is Project Management? | by the need to maintain alignment between the work being done and the purpose of that work from a business benefits standpoint.
All of this means that project management must be much more of a business discipline than has historically been the case, focusing more on delivering something that can be leveraged by the business owner or customer to improve performance. The focus must be beyond the work required to generate outputs and more on the work required to deliver something capable of generating outcomes. Project managers, and their teams, are becoming owners of business success, engaged in ensuring there work is helping the business succeed.
At the same time, the work of project management on a day to day basis is changing. Modern project management software is much more powerful than ever before. It automates much of the work of tracking and reporting that formed much of a project manager's working day in the past, lightening the administrative load and freeing project managers to focus on their teams. This, in turn, is resulting in a project management role that is much more focused on individual and team leadership, and much less on work management. Project managers succeed by creating an environment where their teams can work effectively and efficiently, and by providing those teams with the information and context required to deliver solutions that are best able to enable business results.
This is a far cry from the days of managing defined work plans against a fixed schedule and budget, and personally, I feel it has made project management a much more valuable and rewarding discipline. It has also changed the type of person who can excel in project management. Today's project managers must have strong business acumen, be strong leaders, and be comfortable with uncertainty and change. They must believe in their abilities to deliver, confident in the relationships they have developed with all stakeholders, and willing to be accountable for key decisions made in less than perfect circumstances. They are much more focused 'out' from the project towards the stakeholder community than was the case previously.
This evolution continues. Just as project management today is very different than it was even five years ago, so it will be different again five years from now. Technological advancement continues and is driving significant change – emerging and disruptive technologies from artificial intelligence to green energy will impact virtually every industry and will force organizations to further shift project delivery to maintain the best possible alignment between the work done and the purpose behind that work. Business transformation will become a continuous process and that in turn will make effective project execution even more critical to organizational success. This will result in projects that are shorter, minimizing the delay between the identification of an opportunity and the delivery of a solution. It will also result in even more reliance on project managers to deliver outputs aligned with outcomes – the shorter timelines and faster pace will leave little room for mistakes.
As far as I am concerned, there has never been a better time to be a project manager. The discipline is more important to organizations than it has ever been before with project managers truly making a difference for their employers. At the same time, it's a discipline that is evolving much more rapidly than many other professions and will continue to do so. If you want a rewarding challenge, continuous variety and a chance to make a real difference then project management may well be the right career choice.
Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras based management consulting firm with a strong emphasis on organizational transformation, portfolio management and PMOs. Andy has a track record of success managing business critical projects, programs and | 697 |
Nolina (Nolina A. Michaux) – rodzaj roślin z rodziny szparagowatych (Asparagaceae). Należy do niego 21, 23 lub nawet 30 gatunków. Zaliczane tu dawniej rośliny o zgrubiałej nasadzie pnia wyodrębniane są w rodzaj bokarnea Beaucarnea, w tym bokarnea odgięta B. recurvata, zwana noliną, często uprawiana jako roślina doniczkowa w klimacie umiarkowanym. Do rodzaju nolina należą kserofity południowej części Ameryki Północnej, rosnące w środkowej i północnej części Meksyku oraz w południowo-wschodniej i południowo-zachodniej części USA (na północy po Karolinę Południową, Oklahomę, Kolorado i Nevadę).
Liście niektórych gatunków (N. longifolia, N. microcarpa) wykorzystywane są do wyrobu mioteł, w plecionkarstwie i koszykarstwie. Niektóre gatunki uprawiane są także jako ozdobne. W cieplejszym klimacie umiarkowanym rosną w ogrodach m.in. N. longifolia i<|fim_middle|> durangensis Trel.
Nolina erumpens (Torr.) S.Watson
Nolina excelsa García-Mend. & E.Solano
Nolina georgiana Michx.
Nolina greenei S.Watson ex Wooton & Standl.
Nolina hibernica Hochstätter & D.Donati
Nolina humilis S.Watson
Nolina interrata Gentry
Nolina juncea (Zucc.) J.F.Macbr.
Nolina lindheimeriana (Scheele) S.Watson
Nolina matapensis Wiggins
Nolina micrantha I.M.Johnst.
Nolina microcarpa S.Watson
Nolina nelsonii Rose
Nolina palmeri S.Watson
Nolina parryi S.Watson
Nolina parviflora (Kunth) Hemsl. – nolina długolistna
Nolina pollyjeanneae Hochstätter
Nolina pumila Rose
Nolina rigida Trel.
Nolina texana S.Watson
Nolina watsonii (Baker) Hemsl.
Przypisy
Szparagowate | N. nelsonii znoszące spadki temperatur nawet do -12°C. Ze względu na zawartość saponin sterydowych noliny są trujące dla owiec domowych.
Nazwa rodzaju upamiętnia francuskiego botanika i szkółkarza Abbé Nolina z XVIII wieku.
Morfologia
Pokrój Rośliny wieloletnie o drewniejącej łodydze lub o pędzie skróconym i wówczas kępiaste. Słabo rozgałęzione, choć zwykle występujące w koloniach kilku lub wielu rozet. Pędy osiągają zwykle do 2,5 m wysokości. Czasem pień bywa zgrubiały na poziomie gruntu lub już poniżej niego.
Liście Skupione w gęstą rozetę u N. bigelovii osiągającą nawet do 3,6 m średnicy. Liście równowąskie i siedzące, o nasadzie rozszerzonej. Blaszka gładka lub piłkowana na brzegu.
Kwiaty Jednopłciowe i obupłciowe zebrane w okazałe wiechy. Łodyga kwiatonośna osiąga od 0,5 do 2,5 m wysokości, a sam kwiatostan od 0,3 do 1,8 m. Kwiaty skupione po 2–5 w węzłach wsparte są odpadającymi, rzadziej trwałymi przysadkami. Okwiat z 6 białymi lub kremowymi listkami osiągającymi tylko 1,3 do 5 mm długości, na końcach szczeciniasto gruczołowatymi. Zalążnia górna, trójkomorowa.
Owoce Trójkomorowe torebki zawierające nieliczne (1–3), kulistawe nasiona. Torebki są często rozdęte i oskrzydlone. Ściany cienkie lub grube, ząbkowane u dołu i na szczycie owocu, pękają zwykle nieregularnie.
Systematyka
Rodzaj z rodziny szparagowatych Asparagaceae reprezentujący podrodzinę Nolinoideae Burnett, a w jej obrębie plemię Nolineae S. Watson (tworzy je wspólnie z rodzajami bokarnea Beaucarnea, Dasylirion i Calibanus). Plemię to w niektórych ujęciach było wyodrębniane jako rodzina Nolinaceae Nakai.
Wykaz gatunków (nazwy zweryfikowane według The World of Plants Online)
Nolina arenicola Correll
Nolina atopocarpa Bartlett
Nolina azureogladiata D.Donati
Nolina beldingii Brandegee
Nolina bigelovii (Torr.) S.Watson
Nolina brittoniana Nash
Nolina cespitifera Trel.
Nolina cismontana Dice
Nolina | 717 |
Pace is an estate agent & letting agent for tenants & landlords in Southend on Sea, Leigh on Sea, Shoeburyness, Rochford and Westcliff. We also provide a range of effective and reliable services for leaseholders and freeholders such as block management in the South East.
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As a family-run firm of estate agents, letting agents and property management specialists we are able to offer a flexible, personalised service to customers across Southend-on-Sea, Thorpe Bay, Shoebury and Westcliff. Our staff are highly trained, industry qualified and here to assist you every step of the way - a reflection, we believe, of why so many people trust in Pace.
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Landlords have for many years been obliged to ensure that the electrical installation in a rented property is safe when tenants move in and maintained in a safe condition throughout its duration but they have not been legally obliged to have an official test, in the same way that the gas safety must be certified.
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Sara is my dedicated property manager and has been for some time. I have always found Sara to be a very professional member of staff. Sara always keeps me informed and provides regular visit reports, which is important for any landlord. Sara deals with any problem that befalls her, contacting me if she needs to. Sara will discuss any problem and invariably come to a solution.
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We cannot stress how much we appreciate having a dedicated property manager for our properties. We live 350 miles away and also spend a great deal of the winter out of the country. To be able to phone our manager who understands our properties and how we operate is for us complete peace of mind.
I was extremely thankful I chose PACE to conduct the sale of my property and extremely grateful to Sue Mellor who worked very hard to ensure a smooth transaction. She was most knowledgeable and professional throughout, always reachable and approachable. She was able to answer all the questions I posed.
I've recently purchased a property with the help of Pace. I found the staff extremely helpful and friendly. My first contact was Katie, she showed me around the property and liaised with the vendor. After, I dealt mostly with Sue Mellor. She was very knowledgeable and helpful. She kept me informed throughout the process and was the first to congratulate me on completion.
I just thought I'd drop you a line about Adele Moore who is managing my flat. Adele is doing a great job and is a credit to Pace. She has done, and continues to do, exactly what she says she will do and as a customer that is exactly what I want. Adele doesn't take things at face | 939 |
Sergio Pagni's tips to Indian compound teams
Two-time Archery World Cup winner says India has good balance between young and experienced archers.
KOLKATA 27 August, 2018 19:41 IST
The men's compound team is the defending champion with Abhishek Verma and Rajat Chauhan being the two members of the gold-medal winning trio in Incheon. - PTI
Two-time Archery World Cup winner Sergio Pagni said the Indian compound teams should not get bogged down by expectations and enjoy shooting when they face South Korea in the finals on Tuesday at the 18th Asian Games.
Both the men's and women's compound teams will be under pressure after India failed to win any medal in recurve, in a repeat of their Incheon Asiad flop-show.
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Asian giants Korea is standing in the way of both the men's and women's teams in the compound finals on Tuesday and Pagni, who coached the Indian compound archers in the build-up to the Asian Games, says it's about living in the moment.
"Maybe the statistics are in favour of Korea, but India have a very good balance between young and experienced hands. They can do very well," the <|fim_middle|>joy'. During a final it is very important to find a way to stay together and enjoy. Enjoying is a very efficient way to get success," said Pagni, who spent two weeks training the archers at the SAI training centre in Sonipat earlier this month.
The men's compound team is the defending champion with Abhishek Verma and Rajat Chauhan being the two members of the gold-medal winning trio in Incheon.
The women's compound team is currently World No. 1 with Jyothi Surekha Vennam as the sole member of the bronze-medal winning team in 2014.
Pagni didn't want to predict any result, saying it will come down to mental strength.
Jyothi Surekha Vennam
Rajat Chauhan
Abhishek Verma | 39-year-old said from Legnica on the sidelines of day one of the European Archery Championships.
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I can hardly contain my excitement! How IS it that Easter is just a little over two weeks away? My husband's family and my family are from the same hometown and literally live minutes away from each other. We're so blessed to be able to see both sides of our family over every major holiday. I'm thankful for the holidays because they bring us all together. It's crazy how busy life gets and how little we see each other, even though we live only about 30 minutes away!
It's something I think about so very often. Really, it comes down to just making and taking the time. The laundry can wait, the overflowing<|fim_middle|>z & Giggles! I hope you enjoy checking them all out!
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Eekkk, I love all of these ideas!! | closet isn't going anywhere and the haircut can wait a few more days. This weekend my family and my sister's family are heading to my parents house for our annual Easter egg decorating day. My mom is busy hard-boiling eggs as we speak and I have the food coloring already packed in my bag. . .along with removable tattoos, crayons, stickers. . .all sorts of fun things for the kids to use when decorating the eggs.
I've received my marching orders for our family's Easter dinner as well this year. I'm bringing the dessert – for both sides of the family. No worries. I can handle that!
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You can generally gauge the type of sanding that will be needed by thinking about the type of surface you'll be working with.
Not much sanding is typically needed unless you have dings, nail pops, or a hole. If you do, you'll need to do some patching and then sanding prior to painting.
You might want to do a light sand with fine abrasives to remove any small imperfections and to ensure better paint adhesion.
If you do a light sand, choose an abrasive sheet that attaches easily to a hand or pole sander. If you're spot-sanding dry mud or patching compounds, consider an abrasives sponge that resists loading. And be sure to tack off any sanding dust using a tack cloth.
If it's new, there won't be much sanding required. You might want to do<|fim_middle|> up the entire surface to absorb new stain.
Sand – again, with the grain – between coats of polyurethane.
Always work through a sequence of abrasives grits, from coarse to very fine, skipping no more than one grit between stages. | a light sand with fine abrasives to remove any imperfections.
If you do a light sand, be sure to tack off any sanding dust using a tack cloth.
If it's been in place a while, you'll need to sand out any scratches. Any holes should be filled with wood fillers, and you'll want to sand that to smooth out the surface.
Strip off any old stain.
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Olivia Jean Austin, Pearlie H. Brown, Richard Taylor Campbell, Ethel L. Crockett, Mattie Edwards Keeler, Linda Ralston Melton, Cecil Gibson Melton, Lynn Upshaw, Eddie 'Chank' Willis, Rosie L. Hartman-Wilson, Willie W. Windham, G.T. Wright
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Olivia Jean Austin
Olivia "Jean" Austin, 73, died Aug. 26, 2018, at Methodist University Hospital.
She was born Aug. 20, 1945, in Grenada. Survivors include daughters Penny Peeples and Amy Carr-Turnpaugh; son Doug Austin, all residents of Memphis; brother George Johnson of West Memphis and sister Mae DeShields of Memphis.
Services were Wednesday at Forest Hill Funeral Home and Memorial Park – East.
Pearlie H. Brown
Funeral services for Pearlie H. Brown of Grenada are Saturday at 11 a.m. at New Life Christian Fellowship Church with burial in Haven Rest Cemetery.
Mrs. Brown died at her home on Aug. 24, 2018. She was born on Feb. 17, 1944.
Clark-Williams Funeral Home is in charge of services. Online condolences may be made at clarkwilliamsfuneralhome.com.
Richard Taylor Campbell
Richard Taylor Campbell, 9, of Coffeeville, passed away Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, at the University of Mississippi Medical Center Grenada.
He was born Jan. 23, 2009, in Oxford to Troy Taylor Campbell and Kristy Melton Campbell. Taylor was a third grade student at Grenada Elementary School and attended First Baptist Church in Coffeeville. An avid outdoorsman, Taylor loved to hunt and fish. Above all, he enjoyed spending time with his family.
Funeral services were Thursday at First Baptist Church in Coffeeville with the Rev. Craig Baker and the Rev. Truman Scarborough officiating. Interment will follow in the Coffeeville Cemetery.
Survivors include his parents, Troy and Kristy Campbell of Coffeeville; four brothers, Josh Campbell, Blayne Baker, Payton Campbell and Bryant Campbell, all of Coffeeville; one sister, Krystle Harris of Grenada; and his aunts, Annice Kyle, Sheila Pinnix, Harriet Campbell and Kim Ayers.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Richard and Clarice Campbell and Charlie Melton; and a special uncle, Ronnie Campbell.
Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.mckibbenandguinn.com.
Arrangements have been entrusted to McKibben and Guinn Funeral Service in Grenada, 662-307-2694.
Ethel L. Crockett
Funeral services for Ethel L. "Goat" Crockett of Duck Hill, formerly of Kilmichael, are Saturday at 11 a.m. at Wilkins Chapel Church with burial in Binford Cemetery.
Mrs. Crockett, 85, died of natural causes at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford on Aug. 25, 2018. She was born on April 26, 1933. Mrs Crockett was a homemaker and enjoyed sewing quilts.
Mrs. Crockett is survived by three daughters, Ann Herrod and Phyllis Oliver, both of Grenada, and Teressie Matthews of Warner Robins, Ga.; son, Leon Crockett Jr. of Duck Hill; five sisters, Lydia M. Hymond of Williamston, N.C., Sallie Nash of Highland Park, N.J., Kathleen Wiggins of Brunswick, N.J., Lucy M. Chy of Carrollton, and Bertha M. Raliff of Duck Hill; three brothers, Walter B. Davis of California, Fred Davis of Joliet, Ill., and Jim Earl Davis of Duck Hill.
Mattie Edwards Keeler
Funeral Services for Mattie Lee Edwards Keeler are Saturday, at 11 a.m. at Winona Baptist Church.
Mrs. Keeler, 71, of Coffeeville, died Aug. 26, 2018, at Alliance HealthCare System in Holly Springs.
She is survived by her husband John Keeler of Coffeeville; three sons, Gary Keeler of Madison, Gabriel Keeler of Southaven and Vinci Keeler, Hattiesburg; daughter, Vanessa Keeler of Oxford; brothers, O'Neal Edwards Jr. and Eddie Joe Edwards of Detroit, Alvin Edwards, Elyria, Ohio; sisters, Obbie Della Woods and O'reva Marzette of Detroit, Celestine Luckett of Southaven, Tracy Edwards of Winona, Barbara Hunter of Douglasville, Ga. Beverly Bobb of Jonesboro, Ga.; seven grandchildren.
Visitation is Friday from 3 to 7:00 p.m. at Prospect Baptist Church and Saturday from 10 until 10:55 a.m. at Winona Baptist Church.
To view and sign the online guest register, visit: www.robertsandsonsmortuary.com.
Roberts and Sons Mortuary is in charge.
Linda Ralston Melton
Mrs. Linda Carol Ralston Melton, 67, of Gulfport, formerly of Grenada, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018. at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport.
She was born Nov. 15, 1950. to Robert Elton and Dorothy Earline Melton Ralston. Mrs. Melton was a devoted homemaker and a loving mother and grandmother who set a wonderful Christian example for her family. Linda was a member of First Baptist Church – Gulfport.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, at McKibben and Guinn Funeral Service in Grenada with the Rev. Rick Carter officiating. Interment will follow in the Grenada Memorial Garden. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday and one hour prior to the service Saturday all at McKibben and Guinn.
Survivors include her husband of 46 years Donald Melton; three daughters, Kristen Perry of Grenada, Shannon McCully (Drew) of Birmingham and Lauren Melton of Gulfport; one son Richie Melton (Angela) of Gulfport; one sister Reba Matthews (Jody) of Grenada; two brothers, Larry Ralston (Jo) of Grenada and James Ralston (Dorinda) of Hattiesburg; and nine grandchildren, Devin Blackwelder, Dallas Dauwer, Colton Perry, Zachary Dauwer, Landon Perry, Hannah McCully, Hailee McCully, Kayman Melton and Kinsley Melton.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Pallbearers will be Dusty Blackwelder, Dallas Dauwer, Zachary Dauwer, Tyler Gore, Kaymon Melton, Colton Perry and Landon Perry.
Cecil Gibson Russell
Cecil Gibson Russell, 71, of Grenada, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018, in Grenada.
He was born Aug. 29, 1947, in Cincinnati<|fim_middle|>s. He was known for his signature style of muted guitar riffs that added a distinctive tone or "color" to the beat, often timed with the snare drum. He played on hundreds of hit songs recorded at Hitsville USA for Motown artists. Mr. Willis also played on an album for Phil Collins that featured Motown and 1960s soul classics, Going Back
Mr. Willis received numerous awards, including three Grammy Awards, the highest honor given in American music. The Grammys, including one for Lifetime Achievement, were related to the critically-acclaimed documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown. He also received the Mississippi Governor's Award for Excellence in Music, was awarded the key to the City of Grenada and had a county road named in his honor. The Funk Brothers were awarded a star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Mr. Willis was preceded in death by his sister Mary Willis.
His survivors include by his wife Rosemary, two sons, Micheal Willis of Detroit and Rroice Willis of Gore Springs; three daughters, Terez Willis of Redford, Mich., Julie Brock of Houston, Texas, and Kristy Young of London, England. His legacy includes grandchildren: Talia, Christopher, London, Fairen, Steve Austin, Oliver Jason, Kimberly, Ashley, Dewan, Lakesha, Nakisha, Micheal, Ravin, and Zakiraha; one great-grandchild Kason.
He is also survived by his siblings, Mamie Ledbetter, Juantia Willis, Linda Faye Evans, Felecia Ann Hughes, Cheryl Wilson (Norman), Thomas Willis (Mary), Eddie Lee Willis (Tanya), and Charles Willis (Mozelle), and special friend Hattie Mae Hankins, Geneva Brown, Wardeen Butler, Vatimon Holman, Dennis Willis; sister-in-law Eileen Totzel and a host of nieces nephews, cousins, and many special friends.
Funeral services are at 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 3, at Washington St, Church of Christ. Visitation is from 2 to 7 p.m. on Sunday at Hughes and Sons Funeral Home.
Rosie L. Hartman-Wilson
Funeral services for Rosie L. Hartman-Wilson of Grenada, formerly of Chicago, are Saturday at 3 p,m. at Greater Pine Hill M. B. Church with burial in Haven Rest Cemetery.
Mrs. Hartman-Wilson, 57, died of natural causes at Grenada Living Center on Aug. 27, 2018. She was born on Oct. 3, 1960. Mrs. Hartman-Wilson enjoyed crotcheting, jewelry making, and cooking.
Mrs. Hartman-Wilson is survived by her son Willie Hartman of Southaven; four sisters, Pearlie Simmons and Ethel Lee, both of Grenada, Mary Ann Jones of Las Vegas, and Lorene Hartman of Chicago; and brother, Frank Hartman.
Willie W. Windham
Willie W. Windham, 83, of Southaven, formerly of Grenada, died Aug. 26, 2018, in Southaven.
He was born April 7, 1935, in Leflore County to Vernon Otho and Ida Blakely Windham. He graduated from Gore Springs High School. After graduation, he entered the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany. He later worked for Mississippi Power & Light Co. from 1957-1994. Mr. Windham enjoyed golfing, bowling, fishing and hunting, flea markets (even having his own stall for a while). Willie also loved to tinker on anything that needed to be fixed (many times it was something he himself had broken). "Sometimes" he didn't quite finish his projects. He attended Leflore Baptist Church and Providence Baptist Church.
Funeral services were Wednesday at McKibben & Guinn Funeral Service. Interment was in Red Hill Cemetery in Duck Hill.
Survivors include his wife of 61 years Mary Ethel Hardwick Windham; son Greg Windham (Mar-g) of Hernando; two daughters, Cheryl Hope (Randy) of Oxford and Brenda Hammer (John), eight grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, two brothers, James Windham and Dudley Windham of Grenada, and one sister Barbara Nail (Buddy) of Clinton.
He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Paul Windham and Vernon Windham; sisters, Sue Dogan and Azilene Rayburn and grandchildren, Taylor and Tyler Windham.
Arrangements were entrusted to McKibben and Guinn Funeral Service in Grenada, 662-307-2694.
G.T. Wright
Funeral services for G.T. Wright of Holcomb, formerly of Charleston, are Saturday at 11 a.m. at Union Grove M.B. Church with burial in the church cemetery.
Mr. Wright, 57, died at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford on Aug. 25, 2018. He was born on April 10, 1961. Mr. Wright was an auto mechanic and worked for Kirk Auto and Earl McKay.
Mr. Wright is survived by his mother Lula B. Wright of Charleston; his wife Gloria Govan Wright of Holcomb; daughter Tiquilla A. McDowell of Holcomb; eight sisters, Verna Wright of Detroit, Vernice McKelpin of Chicago, Peggy Totten of Memphis, Lula Ervin, Brenda Wilson, Glenda Hodges, Linda Hodges and Codie Holman, all of Charleston; five brothers, Charles Wright of Freeport, Ill., Richard Wright of Tupelo, Roger Wright, Timothy Wright and Michael Holman, all of Charleston.
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Robert C. Bates, Albert Dewey Moorman, Horace Allen Simpson, Jennifer M. Sprouse, Deborah K. Wilfong
Frances Simpson Johnson, Arthur Thomas Miles, Estelle W. Rivera, Larry Swearengen, Flora Evans Welch, James Oliver Williams
Jerry B. Caldwell, Charles Thomas Lockett, Dortha May Myers, Roselyn V. Power
Joyce Lynn Anderson, Josie McDaniel Baker, Willie Earl Black, Annie Ruth Howard, Robert M. Mohead
Peggy Braswell, Kathryn French, David Lee Kincaide, Virginia Rogers Reese | to Cecil and Carrie Lillian Gibson Russell. Cecil had worked for many years as a hospital administrator across Mississippi.
A private memorial service will be held at a later date.
Survivors include two daughters, Clancy Sohn (Lyle) of Grenada and Lauren White (Scott) of Brandon; two sons, Dale Russell (Dawn) of Madison and Hunter Russell of Waveland; and five grandchildren.
Lynn Upshaw
Graveside services for Lynna Upshaw of Coffeeville are Saturday at 3 p.m. at Coffeeville Cemetery.
Ms. Upshaw, 45, died at UMMC-Grenada on Aug. 28, 2018. She was born on Sept. 21, 1972.
Eddie 'Chank' Willis
Eddie "Chank" Willis, a noted American musician, died peacefully at home on Aug. 20, 2018.
Mr. Willis was born June 3, 1936, in Grenada County and resided near Gore Springs.
Mr. Willis played electric guitar for Motown Records in-house studio band, The Funk Brothers, during the 1960s and early 1970 | 256 |
Professional assassin Helena is<|fim_middle|> done the job. I will make sure you are well paid for this little bit of extra work." Helena saw Ashall disconnect the call.
It did not take Helena long to find the weapon on Felipe.
"How did you get this past security?" she asked.
Beads of sweat had begun to form on Felipe's forehead and he looked as if he might vomit.
"You have experience of this sort of work?" This time Felipe's head just dropped till his chin touched his chest.
Helena and Felipe left the reception and headed out the main entrance of Roger de Llùria building, turned left across the concourse and Calle Wellington into Ciutadella Parque. They found a seat with some shade. Felipe sat quietly nursing his injured hand while Helena rang Ian.
"What the hell are you up to now?" Ian said.
"My phone." Felipe held out his good hand.
"No, I'll keep that, I am sure that Ashall has paid you something already and you never know he might even cough up for this." Helena tapped the picture on the phone and smiled. "Buy yourself a new iPad or whatever it is you young people want these days." She proffered a gloved hand, Felipe hesitated for just a moment and then took it.
Helena watched as Felipe unsteadily made his way across the Parque towards the cascades before she rang Ian.
In Part Three find out whether Helena takes her revenge. | in Barcelona on a job. At the last minute within feet of the target she receives a text message. There's been a change of plan.
Helena drained her glass and with the caution of years of experience slipped it into her bag as she moved behind one of the pillars. She dialled. The call was picked up immediately.
"What's going on Ian?" Helena said in a whispered voice to her assistant back in London.
"Message left on secure line from Ashall, the client has cancelled the hit." Ian informed Helena.
"When was the message left?" Helena asked.
"Did the client give any reason?" Helena asked.
Helena was silent for a few seconds, clicking her fingers.
"Poor choice of words there in the circs." Ian interjected.
"I know, I know, relying on me to go quietly. Helena said.
"Not sure yet. Need to think." Helena said.
She slipped her phone back into her pocket and began to circuit around the edge of room, she still kept an eye on her target. She felt someone move near to her and a hand brush too close to her jacket. Her instincts were on high alert so without looking round she swung out her arm in a karate move and at the same time kicked her foot out in a tripping movement. She heard a cry of pain. She recognised the voice. It was Felipe, the young man from whom she'd collected the invitation earlier that morning.
"Ashall…" Felipe began, but Helena interrupted him.
"Where is he?" This time she had Felipe's right arm behind his back. Gripping her fingers into the soft flesh. He did not answer. Then harder onto the bone. He still did not reply. She moved her hand down to his hand and in one swift neat movement snapped back his little finger. There was the sound of a bone cracking and Felipe's face grimaced. "Don't make me ask again." Felipe hesitated, Helena cracked back the next three fingers.
Keeping a firm grip on Felipe, Helena pushed him behind a pillar and with her free hand dialled Ian.
"Put me through to Ashall so he can't trace the call." Helena said.
After a few minutes Helena's phone buzzed signalling the connection had been established.
She slipped her phone back into her pocket and holding Felipe firmly by the elbow moved further behind the pillar into the shadows. From here Helena watched Ashall press a series of buttons on his phone. Seconds later the phone in Felipe's left jacket pocket began to vibrate.
"Answer it." She demanded, "But put it onto speaker." Helena indicated with her finger not to divulge she was listening to the call.
Felipe stared at his phone, but Helena nodded for him to answer.
"Kill her. You know what she looks like, follow her, then kill her. She's not as young any more, you shouldn't have a problem. I want to see proof you have | 595 |
Description: This yearly event provides two options: running a 10K or running or walking a 5K through beautiful forest trails to raise money for the Burns Bog Conservation Society.
Time: I went at a relaxed pace (this is a very laid back event) to enjoy the scenery and finished the 10K in just over an hour. Other finisher times were really variable. People tend to take longer on this than most 5K/10K runs because it's more about raising money for charity than running a competitive race.
Cost: $45 for the 5K and $50 for the 10K if you register early; add an additional $5 to those prices if you register within a month of the event. If you raise at least $100 for the charity on your own, your registration fee will be waived.
Difficulty: This can be as challenging as you want to make it. There is no pressure to break records at this event. Just<|fim_middle|>.
The event started 30 minutes later than advertised.
Use the washrooms at the onsite hockey rink before heading out – there are no washrooms along the trails.
For more information, see the Burns Bog Conservation Society's Jog for the Bog page.
For more running events and hikes in BC and Washington, see the main Activities page.
*Prices and conditions may have changed since the time of this writing. | go at your own pace and enjoy the gorgeous scenery.
Required Equipment: Running shoes, comfortable workout clothing.
The event raises money for a great charity.
The atmosphere is fun, friendly, and relaxed.
The forest trails are beautiful.
There are three water stations along the trail.
In addition to live music, there are booths at the event site offering free stuff and activities (such as bouncing on a big rubber trampoline).
You get a free pancake breakfast after your run (alas, no bacon, but in addition to the all-you-can-eat giant fluffy pancakes, there were cinnamon rolls, fruit, lemon sorbet, and coffee). Spectators can enjoy the same breakfast for $5.
You get a free T-shirt (made from sweat-wicking fabric, so good quality, though covered in charity sponsor logos).
Poor directions on the website made it challenging to find the right turn-off for the place | 182 |
Fellow lower-limb amputees often ask me how they can increase their activity level. Nothing spectacular or out of the ordinary; just some ideas to identify an entry point to have a more active life-style. And then see what develops out of it.
For me that is an easy question to answer. Start walking more. Do more things on foot. No matter how much you walk at the moment, for most of us it's easy to increase our current level, even if only by 15 or 20 percent. Once you have a regular walking routine, try to walk faster, try to walk with a backpack, try to walk on increasingly difficult terrain and in more and more remote areas. The possibilities are endless.
Why Is Walking The Ideal Way To Start An Active Amputee Life-Style?
Sooner or later, every lower-limb amputee needs to get back into walking after the amputation. Full stop. So make a conscious decision that you want to be able to do things on foot again as soon as possible after the limb loss. And make a decision that you want to walk again not just to cover all the necessary distances to manage your daily routines, but to be able to cover any distance to fully participate in social life and fully enjoy your life.
<|fim_middle|> with heavy boots. You build a memory of various experiences. These experiences and continuing practice will translate into new skills.
New skills and a pool of experiences are a necessary pre-condition to increased confidence in your day to day use of your prosthesis. Seeing an increase in the distance you are able to walk, the difficulty of the terrain you are able to safely and securely navigate or the load you are able to carry is directly reflected in a higher level of confidence and trust in your own abilities as well as in your prosthetic device.
Regular walking helps to develop a "Yes, I can do that!" mindset.
I mentioned earlier that walking is great because there is no need for any special gear. Once you start wondering off the beaten tracks and begin to walk on muddy paths, rocky hill tracks or on snow and ice, you might want to consider getting yourself a pair of hiking poles.
In my eyes a pair of high quality trekking poles is the most important piece of gear for any active amputee. I love them as they opened a new world for me. And I encourage others to use them. If you get a pair, I strongly recommend to invest in good ones and to skip the temptation to buy them from any of the discounters. You might be fully dependent on them in some situations. So getting a decent pair of trekking poles is money well invested.
They help with the balance, especially on uneven ground.
They help when walking on smaller boulders, scree, wet/slippery surfaces, ice and snow.
They help getting down from a hill as they take load of your remaining leg/knee, thus preventing injuries.
They help getting up a hill as you can use your arms/upper body to push yourself forward.
And last but not least (and this is an important one): With my microprocessor knee I have the problem that walking uphill on steep slopes - with most of the weight slowly moving to the toes - tricks the knee into thinking that I walk on even ground and are just about to initiate the swing phase to bring the leg forward. This means that the knee suddenly bends unexpectedly and leads to rather clumsy attempts on my side trying to prevent a fall. Especially when I'm carrying a backpack. Using my trekking poles helps me to make sure that the sensors in the prosthesis do not get this kind of wrong information.
Any other questions around hiking or useful gear for active amputees? Please do not hesitate to contact me any time. | Walking can easily be done without any special - and often expensive - equipment. In the beginning a pair of shoes is all you need to get started. And even in more challenging settings, there is not much more you need.
Walking can be done without a coach, a physiotherapist or any other person to assist you.
Often a walk can be integrated into our daily schedule, turning it from something you do every once in a blue moon to a regular routine.
Stating the obvious: Walking helps you to stay generally fit. In addition, walking helps to exercise your residual limb. It helps to sustain existing and build-up new muscle.
Walking helps you to develop new knowledge and skills. The more you use your prosthesis, the more you learn how it behaves in different scenarios; e.g. on muddy paths, on wet leaves, on snow or ice, when you are tired and concentrating less on how you place your foot, | 189 |
We provided grants directly to carers who live inn Argyll and Bute.
We provided grants directly to carers who support those affected by mental illness living in Scotland.
We provided a fully-supported, managed, all-inclusive residential multi-sports and activity camp for 35 youngsters at the newly refurbished accessible Inverclyde Centre in Largs.
The camp was four days long and provides a positive, inclusive and active environment for youngsters aged 10-18 with a physical or sensory impairment.
We provided five residential 5 day sail training voyages for young carers in 2017.
<|fim_middle|> monthly peer support group for parent carers. The group has given parents the opportunity to meet for peer support, to chat and share experiences, and develop friendships.
We also provided wellness and relaxation opportunities to parent carers and organised a weekend family group trip.
We delivered a monthly Youth Club, a weekly sports club (term time), the Zone Club in partnership with Active Schools, one-to-one support and a monthly Parent Forum.
CLASP Cornerstone supports children with disabilities and their parents/carers in Argyll and Bute. The service supports 36 children between the ages of 5-19 through a variety of services.
We worked with St Roch's After School Club to provide a wide variety of fun & stimulating activities and opportunities for our deaf young people, from all over the West of Scotland and beyond.
They met and mixed with an age appropriate peer group while their carers enjoyed a break from their caring roles. This helped alleviate the isolation and loneliness they experience in a hearing world, builds confidence & self esteem, fosters life long friendships and helps our young people to see their deafness in a more positive light.
West Scotland Deaf Children's Society provides social and emotional support to deaf children, young people and their families. For many of our families the clubs provide the only social activity and meaningful peer interaction that the children and young people have, and the only break their carers are able to actually relax and benefit from.
"Thoroughly enjoyed the total relaxation and the time spent away from home. Did me a power of good - I am now a Pampered person! - Thank you" | The holistic voyage experience sailing around the Scottish coast enabled young carers to develop new interests and skills, lasting friendships, and lead their own life outwith their caring responsibilities.
We provided a 3 day residential to Ardroy Outdoor Centre for young carers aged 8-12 years from Cowal & Bute.
The young people took part in Canoeing, Jacob's Ladder, Splosh, Labyrinth and other activities! In addition, the project supported young carers aged 12-18 years to attend the Scottish Young Carers Festival.
We provided a weekly social club for adults who are socially isolated due to reduced physical and mental well being we gave their carers time to have a break from their caring responsibilities.
We organised a programme of short breaks (residential and day events) for carers, and those being cared for, from the Gypsy/Traveller community in rural and urban areas of Scotland.
Each break was designed to reduce isolation, promote wellbeing and improve knowledge of mainstream carer-related services.
We provided a | 214 |
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After a pure two-tone fruity-vanilla start reminiscent of tasting straight from the barrel in a cold cellar*, it found a balance point exactly where satsuma, lemon curd and Comte cheese meet. In the current trend for leaner Chardonnay but more balanced on the side of sweet fruit and oak<|fim_middle|> reason I kept thinking Yves Confuron from Confuron-Cotetidot would enjoy this…. | , it is happily supple (and definitely not fat). Made by Taras and Amber Ochota, and you can find their story here, this couple is a talented and well-traveled lot, who chose to dig at a hard spot for Australian Chardonnay (this is a difficult price point in the UK) and hit upon gold in the Adelaide hills. The wine did not reveal itself fully until the next day, which reminded me not to drink big white wines under screw cap without at least a good swirl in a decanter first (a decanter is not just for red wines).
*After being immersed in months of Burgundy 2012 en primeur, it was great to taste an Australian Chardonnay. For some | 153 |
The Great Stone Face: The Life And Times Of Buster Keaton, Part 2
Read Part I here.
Buster Keaton was born to a show-business family before movies even existed. He was raised on the Vaudeville stage, performing pratfalls in a family show with his parents. His acrobatic ability and iconic deadpan expression were perfect for the up-and-coming medium of film. He started as a gagman working for Fatty Arbuckle, but by the 1920s, he had his own film production company, Buster Keaton Productions, and his career really began to take off.
Keaton had been doing wild stunts for several years, but he didn't ease up once he gained creative control—in fact, his setpieces and pratfalls only got more outrageous. As his popularity grew and he achieved more financial freedom, Keaton decided to really put his body on the line and see just what he could get away in the name of entertainment.
Keaton sat, completely untethered, on the outside of moving trains. He jumped into moving cars and out of second story windows. He dangled off of buildings and soared through the air—all with his trademarked morose expression, as if telling us the world is so completely absurd that even these wild antics don't merit a reaction.
Forget about CGI, movie-making in Keaton's day lacked even the most rudimentary safety equipment. So when movie audiences watched a house fall on him, only to see him survive by standing in the exact spot where an empty window-frame landed, they were watching a man who was literally risking life and limb for his art.
Many cinephiles today lament the use of computer imagery over practical effects—and there was nobody as practical as Keaton. Someone without his lifetime of tumbling practice would have been killed a hundred times throughout the man's filmography, but Keaton made it through each time, and then turned around and tried something even more daring.
That's probably why his movies, while nearly a century old, still hold up today. Keaton believed that audiences wouldn't be fooled by hackneyed special effects—it had to be real. His films have an unparalleled sense of danger because the man on screen really was in danger. That's an experience that never really gets old. It can be hard to sit through many films of the silent era today, but Keaton's work still shines.
That's not to say that the Great Stone Face made it through his film career unscathed. He was good at staying in one piece, but no one could live a life like his and avoid injury completely. The worst likely came on the set of his film Sherlock Jr., when Keaton broke his neck after a massive torrent of water from a water tower was unleashed directly on his head. Yet, in typical Keaton fashion, he didn't even know the injury occurred, remaining completely unaware for years afterward.
Buster Keaton, Captain Lew Cody and Jimmy Durante
Keaton's remarkable streak of films in the 1920s made him a star near the level of Charlie Chaplin. At his peak, he was earning $3,500 a week—enough to build his legendary $300,000 home in Beverly Hills. He was also married for the first time in the 20s. He wed Natalie Talmadge in 1921, and the couple had two sons together. By all accounts, the Jazz Age was a magical time for Keaton—yet few good things last forever. By the end of the decade, Keaton's life began a serious downturn, and he fell into obscurity and alcoholism.
In a cruel twist of fate, Buster Keaton's fall from grace began with the best film he ever made. The General, released in 1926, was Keaton's most ambitious project to date. Set during the Civil War, Keaton used every cent of the film's (then-unheard of) $750,000 budget, culminating with $42,000 spent on a single shot of an actual train<|fim_middle|>1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6, 7, 8
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Jamie Hayes is no fun to be around at parties. He stops conversations dead when someone misquotes a movie or gets a fact wrong. He likes to think his interests are broad, but he always ends up writing about military history. | plunging into a river when the bridge it's crossing collapses (no second takes there).
Remember, this was a time when the only way to achieve realism was to film real events. This is what made Keaton's work so remarkable—but it didn't come cheap. He kept pushing the envelope further and further, until he bet it all on The General. Unfortunately, audiences didn't react the way he'd hoped.
In fact, though it's lauded as one of the greatest films of all time today, The General was an utter disappointment at the box offices. People came in expecting a light-hearted comedy, and evidently, the movie's dramatic notes were an unwanted distraction. The film bombed spectacularly, and the future of Keaton's career was suddenly up in the air. He was still one of Hollywood's greatest stars, but producers began to question whether giving him financial and creative freedom was a good idea.
Buster Keaton and Donald O'Connor
Trouble at Home
The General's failure was hard on Keaton, and it was made even worse by his personal problems behind-the-scenes. His marriage had been on the rocks since the birth of his second son. He and his wife had begun sleeping in separate bedrooms, and her extravagant spending habits never sat well with him.
Keaton and Talmadge separated in the mid-20s, and after a couple feeble attempts at reconciliation, she left him in 1932, taking most of his fortune with her and refusing to allow him any contact with his sons, whose last names she had legally changed to Talmadge. He wouldn't see the boys again for a decade.
Buster Keaton with his wife, Natalia Talmadge
Keaton's home life was already a mess, and The General irreparably harmed his professional life to boot. After the movie's enormous financial loss, his distributor started insisting that all of Keaton's films have a production manager to monitor every last dime spent. Unsurprisingly, his creative work suffered under this penny-pinching, and as the film-industry moved from the silent era to "talkies," one of Hollywood's greatest stars fell into obscurity.
In 1928, Keaton made what he considered to be the worst mistake of his life: he signed with MGM to make a series of sound pictures. The studio took it upon themselves to "improve" upon Keaton's sense of humor—to update it to the modern era. As one can imagine, they didn't do a good job of it.
Keaton's MGM movies did fine at the box office but were never anything more than mediocre slapsticks. The man whom Roger Ebert called "the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies" was reduced to producing forgettable fare, and his star grew dimmer than ever before.
While the 1920s saw Keaton's meteoric rise to fame, the 1930s saw him crashing back down to earth. His wife had left him, he had no contact with his sons, and he'd lost control of his creative life. Blow after blow took their toll on him, and the usually exuberant and cheerful Keaton became deeply depressed.
Less than two decades earlier, as the movies left his Vaudevillian act obsolete, Keaton's father had fallen into alcoholism. Now here was Buster, the silent-film star who seemingly couldn't adapt to the world of talkies—and he too fell into the drink like his father.
The 30s were the darkest period in Keaton's life. He was briefly institutionalized—though, in the middle of the harrowing experience, Keaton managed to wow his doctors by escaping from his strait-jacket with tricks learned from Harry Houdini. He might have been down, but Buster Keaton was still Buster Keaton.
By 1934, he was in the middle of yet another failing marriage when he filed for bankruptcy with just $12,000 to his name. The little money he earned was going to the bottle. Things looked grim for the one-time star—but it wasn't time for Keaton's curtain call just yet. Soon, a series of remarkable events would see this cinematic legend get the final act that he deserved.
Continued in Part III
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Tens of thousands of geese fill Ketchikan skies
Posted by Maria Dudzak | Apr 19, 2016
Greater white-fronted goose. Photo courtesy of Andy Piston
Tens of thousands of migratory geese flew over Ketchikan Monday morning and early afternoon on their way to breeding grounds farther north. Residents went to social media to post photos and videos of the event.
Local bird expert Andy Piston says conditions were just right for migration.
"We're right in the peak timing, especially for geese. We should start seeing big movements this time of year and I think the weather change we got today and that big storm sent them over Ketchikan."
A storm on Sunday led to 3 point 5 inches of rain with sometimes strong wind. Piston says most of the birds were greater white-fronted geese.
"Some people call them speckled bellies. They're a little bit smaller than Canada geese, and they're moving through by the tens of thousands today. There are also Canada geese and cackling geese in some of these flocks. Some of the flocks had a few snow geese mixed in with them."
Within a two-hour period, Piston says he counted at least 35,000 birds but estimated there were likely more than 40,000. He says the different species of geese and ducks he observed are<|fim_middle|> in most years, at least for a couple of days, but this is definitely a very, very good one."
Piston says the birds didn't stop in the First City because there is no extensive, quality goose habitat along the Ketchikan road system. He says many of the birds likely will feed and rest in the Stikine River area for a few days before moving on. Piston says the next three weeks are peak migration times not just for geese, but shorebirds and other species breeding in Alaska.
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NextOne injured in early-morning Craig house fire | heading to various locations in northern Alaska, Canada and Russia. Piston says the greater white-fronted geese migrate to several areas.
"There are a couple of different races of greater white-fronted geese. A lot of them breed through Arctic Alaska, Western Alaska, and there's a race that breeds in the Cook Inlet Area as well."
Greater white-fronted geese migrating. Photo courtesy of Andy Piston.
Piston says this was one of the best movements he's seen, but large migrations are not uncommon.
"We do see huge movements like this | 113 |
The true nature of mind has two major components: emptiness and awareness. We have discussed emptiness earlier, and in this blog we will turn to awareness, the second aspect of mind.
We can think of awareness from either an everyday or enlightened perspective. For most people, what experiences the world feels like something they possess and then use to discover<|fim_middle|> is the pivotal insight in Ati Buddhism, where it is known as Rigpa. Rigpa is what results when awareness becomes aware of itself. Even that description is misleading and dualistic, however, because it doesn't actually see itself but becomes itself. In any case, seeing the true nature of awareness is one of the most important insights in Buddhism, and without it there can be no enlightenment. | what is outside of them, like carrying a flash light to see objects in the night. This is everyday awareness. Enlightened awareness is different. It has no owner, and as a result is known as self existing or existing on its own (ego is long gone at this point.) It is also experienced as empty, meaning it lacks the qualities of a thing such as size, shape, or color, an important and difficult insight to appreciate. We all know there is awareness or we couldn't read this, but only a few of us know awareness's essence, which is empty. Using water as an example, if we were from Jupiter and first saw water we would know what it looked like, but until we touched it we wouldn't know that it was wet, which is like knowing that there is awareness but not that its essence is empty. In other words, we may know what awareness does but not what it IS.
Enlightened awareness is also nondual, meaning that it isn't split into something inside of us that is applied to something outside. It is undivided (this is a different kind of undivided attention.) Furthermore, it is not separate from what it is aware of, therefore what we perceive IS awareness, and there is no difference between perceived and what perceives.
Finally, enlightened awareness isn't aware of anything in particular, although it does notice everything that comes within its range. It is like a mirror that reflects all that lies before it without rejecting or becoming attached to any reflection. Similarly, enlightened awareness exists in a state devoid of any bias toward what it experiences. In its light everything is That, not as in that car or that house, but simply as a non differentiating That.
It is very important to experience that we ARE enlightened awareness. It | 361 |
Photos from my trip to Europe as part of the George Mason University Northern Virginia Public Service Fellows Program, through which I earned a master's degree in public administration (MPA).
This sign, which warns that unauthorized persons are prohibited in the nuclear scanning tunnel operated by the Dutch Customs Administration at the Port of Rotterdam, appears to take advantage of the common Dutch fear of space aliens
Advertisement outside the Gare de Luxembourg (Luxembourg Railway Station)
This sign, across the street from the Palais de Justice in Paris, appears to be the universal symbol for "If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it's yours. If not, it was never yours to begin with."
This sign in Paris appears to encourage parents to keep their children close to avoid being hit by bicycles
Sign at the nuclear scanning tunnel operated by the Dutch Customs Administration at the Port of Rotterdam. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, for his discovery of x-rays. The röntgen, named after him, is a unit of measurement for exposure to radiation, and "straat" is Dutch for "street."
Sign directing visitors to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
This sign, along the Champs-Élysées around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, warns drivers that the traffic circle is difficult to navigate
Rue du 8 Mai 1945 (May 8, 1945 Street) in Paris, named after Victory in<|fim_middle|> to The Hague
This sign explains the ground rules to visitors to The Hague
These signs show the distances to world cities from The Hague City Hall
Warning labels on cigarettes in Amsterdam's Schiphol Aiport include "Smokers die younger," "Smoking kills," "Smoking clogs the arteries and causes heart attacks and strokes," and "Protect children -- don't make them breathe your smoke."
Poster in Barcelona
Warning labels on cigarettes in Amsterdam's Schiphol Aiport include "Smoking seriously harms you and others around you," "Smoking causes ageing of the skin," "Smoking kills," and "Smoking can cause a slow and painful death"
Banner on a house neighboring Park Güell in Barcelona, reading "Why call it tourist season if we can't shoot them?" | Europe Day
The McDonald's slogan "I'm Lovin' It" translates into French as "It Is All That I Like"
Sign at the Antwerp, Belgium train station on the way from The Hague to Brussels
Sign at the Dusseldorf train station, on the way from Cologne back to The Hague
Many street signs in Europe, like this one in Luxembourg City, give a brief explanation of the person in whose honor the street was named
For some reason, this no-smoking sign in our hotel in Cologne was shaped like an ashtray
Many street signs in Europe, like these in The Hague, give a brief explanation of the person in whose honor the street was named
This sign in Cologne points the way to several German landmarks
Traffic circle in Rijnland, Netherlands
This sign, on the sidewalk outside the Danish Embassy, apparently requests that dogs be placed there
Sign at the train station in Gouda, on the way from Cologne back | 197 |
The war of 1866, fought between Austria and Prussia, along with their respective allies, has sadly been a struggle underrepresented in English language literature. Clearly overshadowed by the longer and more dramatic Franco-Prussian War, it is nonetheless just as important, if not more, in the development of Germany as the unified nation it became. Much of what is currently available in print and in English, focuses on the primary theatre of operations in Bohemia, with scant reference to the war as it played out in Italy and western Germany.
Embree gives the struggles between the Prussians and allies against the Federal German forces a very thorough examination, detailing decisions and battles The stage is set, both politically and militarily and the reader is given a clear picture of how events unfolded<|fim_middle|> hostilities began, with the Prussian invasion of the Kingdom of Hanover, and the Electorate of Hesse-Cassel.
This volume chronicles the conflict over the unification of Germany which actually occurred on German soil. The campaign in southern and western Germany ensured that political control of German affairs would be firmly in Prussian hands, controlled by Bismarck, in much the same way that the great battles between Prussia and Austria in the east would exclude Austria from German affairs altogether.
The detailed story of this, the war of unification within Germany itself, is narrated here, compiled from numerous published and unpublished sources, including many contemporary and first-hand accounts, as well as official reports. The importance of the campaign, far too often ignored, is told here. This is an invaluable resource for any student of European military history of the mid-19th Century.
Key topics include the historical background to the conflict, the political crisis of 1866 in the "German Parliament" and the build-up to war, full descriptions of all military forces involved, the various phases of the campaign. The book includes comprehensive orders of battle, informative maps, numerous illustrations (some in colour) and photographs, many informative charts and diagrams. The author also presents a detailed analysis of contemporary and later sources. | .
In the spring of 1866, the so-called German Confederation, then a loose organisation of autonomous states, was thrown into crisis by a rift between the two largest members, the Austrian Empire, and The Kingdom of Prussia. Since the founding of the Confederation, in 1815, it had been tacitly accepted that Austria was the overseeing authority. Now, however, a more belligerent Prussia sought a leading role. Under a new and ambitious Chancellor, the ruthless Prince Otto von Bismarck, Prussia would no longer accept a secondary role.
This vital question of leadership naturally affected all member states, and none could ignore it. Matters had, however, moved beyond discussion, and, in June, | 154 |
I've been working with venomous snakes since 1971 and started work on venom chemistry in 1975.
Don't tread on me: How well do we really understand stingray venom?
Wading in slow-moving, shallow water on a beach along a tropical river sounds like an idyllic vacation, but last summer,<|fim_middle|>ing from his friend, toxinologist Nelson Jorge da Silva, Jr., he agreed to write a manuscript. Nelson, in turn called upon his colleague, OIST's Steve Aird, and physician Raimundo Pinto to help. Nelson reviewed the stingray biological literature while Steve evaluated the toxicological and medical literature. Their combined efforts and Kalley's case history will soon be published in the journal, Toxins. What they discovered came as something of a surprise. Many Brazilian emergency medical personnel have no idea how to treat freshwater stingray stings, largely because so little is known about stingray venoms. In fact, it is far from clear which of the envenomation sequelae arise from toxic substances produced by the stingrays (venom and mucus) and which come from the great variety of bacteria that inhabits the mucus covering the rays. By reading this brief paper and perusing the gory photos of Kalley's foot, you can enjoy the trauma vicariously,… which is probably the best way to do it.
You can read this paper online for free in Toxins. | for Brazilian Kalley Ferreira, doing so turned into an unbelievable nightmare. He felt something move under the sand beneath his feet, but before he could react, that unseen something stabbed him in the arch of his left foot. Despite indescribable pain, he still managed to get a good look at the perpetrator, an adult freshwater stingray more than 60 cm wide, flapping silently away. Because he is a physician, Kalley wrote the most detailed case history to date and after prodd | 102 |
On April 17th, we left Ann Arbor after an early breakfast because we wanted to get to the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, Michigan, when it opened at 9 a.m. Even with the early start and staying until it closed, we didn't see all of it. The Museum was<|fim_middle|> a three-course breakfast in jail and then drove to O'Hare Airport for our trip home.
Thanks for reading this travelogue.
Thanks for your response Janice. | opened on October 21, 1929, and was originally called The Edison Institute in honour of Thomas Edison whom Ford greatly admired. It's now the largest combined indoor-outdoor museum complex in the United States at 254 acres and has approximately 1.7 Million visitors each year. The Ford Plant that manufactures F150 trucks is also located onsite.
Some highlights on display: The Kennedy Car, the 1961 Lincoln in which President Kennedy was assassinated November 22, 1963; several artifacts from Chicago's Century of Progress held in 1933-1934 which my Grandparents Lohr, Great-Grandfather George Lohr, and my Father attended; a diner hauled in from Hudson, Massachusetts where Doug and I enjoyed 'real' milkshakes; a history section on Women's Rights, actually the lack of them; and, of course, more cars and contraptions than anyone could imagine and not just Ford vehicles. The highlight for me was the bus where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery Alabama. Doug and I sat in Rosa's seat on the bus as a guide talked about that event.
After the day at the museum, our plan was to drive to Toledo, Ohio, and stay in a historic bed and breakfast there. Well, we drove to Toledo but ended up at the best-rated hotel at 3-stars in Toledo, a new Renaissance. As the voice on the GPS took us into a very rundown area of Toledo, Doug wondered where I was taking him. We located the bed and breakfast which was historic all right, but not in a positive way. The innkeeper met us there and gave us a tour of the first two floors—the upper floors are still being redone and the place is for sale. We decided to pay for the room but stay elsewhere as we didn't think it was a safe area. Skip Toledo if you're in the region although we did have a good seafood meal at a restaurant along the Maumee River.
Doug was disappointed, but the receptionist told us that we could tour the Oliver House as the head guide was still at work. The Oliver family was famous for the invention of the chilled plow and the nearby plant produced farm equipment. Oliver solved the problem of soil sticking to a plow because the metal was cooled rapidly—chilled—so that the blade had a hard smooth surface. By 1900, the manufacturing plant was producing about 300,000 plows a year.
Next door to the Oliver House is a restaurant in the original 24,000 square foot home of the Studebaker family built between 1886-1889. The building is now called Tippecanoe Place: http://www.tippe.com/ We just walked across the lawn and up the short driveway next door for our dinner.
After a lovely breakfast on April 19th at Oliver House, we set out on the interstate on our way to Mount Carroll, Illinois. As we drove, we were surrounded by semis, the most we've ever seen on any highway. The traffic was heavy, but we arrived in Mount Carroll in time to meet extended family on the Lohr side for lunch.
My Great-Grandfather, George W. Lohr, was born in Centre County, Pennsylvania, and moved to Mount Carroll, Illinois, with his family when he was three years old. One of his older brothers, Solomon (Sol) Lohr, remained in Mount Carroll. The people we met for lunch and a visit are descendants of Sol.
Two of my Great-Grandfather's brothers were killed in the Civil War. The photo on my home page shows a monument to the soldiers from the Mount Carroll area including Israel Lohr (May 6, 1841 - May 5, 1862), buried in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, and Jeremiah Lohr (1839 - August 1, 1862), buried at Columbus, Hickman, Kentucky.
My Great-Great Grandparents, Jacob Lohr (June 10, 1819 – July 3, 1904) and Margaret Anna Emerich Lohr (October 26, 1817 – August 25, 1905) are buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Mount Carroll. We visited their graves as well as those of several other extended family members.
Then we went to the home of one of my Mount Carroll relatives where we looked through photo albums and family history documents. They made copies of several obituaries, letters, and other print materials. As well, they gave me two photos that I had never seen before: one of my Grandfather Lester Lohr in his christening gown and one of my Great-Grandparents and their young family, including my Grandfather, before they left Illinois for South Dakota and then Canada in 1900.
In the late afternoon, Doug and I drove to Galena, about 45 miles northwest of Mount Carroll where we checked in at the Jail House Inn: https://jailhillgalena.com/ This luxury bed and breakfast has been totally renovated and is owned and operated by a cousin's son of my relatives in Mount Carroll, only on the other side of the family. Anyway, this building was used as a jail for 100 years, and the room we stayed in had initials of some of the prisoners still carved in the beams. We've stayed in many bed and breakfasts around the world during our travels, but that was our first time in jail! And, what a luxurious jail it was with every detail considered.
Galena is a resort town and although it was quiet because it was April and the weather was cool, we were told it gets very busy on weekends and holidays. We spent some time walking around the town the next morning after | 1,257 |
The park is found within the western side of the central Omo Gibe basin, in southern Ethiopia. The park is located southwest Addis Ababa. It covers an area of 1215 km2 that ranges in altitude form 700 to 2450 meter a.s.l. This park is one of the relatively untouched,<|fim_middle|>) which are reason for the rich wildlife resources of the area. Zigina River is rises from the north east highlands of the area and cross the central part of the park(north to south) and feeds the Omo River ( there are also different perennial rivers feeding Omo River crossing the park). Shoshuma River is rises from the northwestern highlands of the Konta area highlands cross the northeastern part of the park and mixed with Zigina River in side the park, which go down together to Omo River.
The prominent topographic features is unique & highly attractive and characterized by unique and highly heterogeneous and hilly terrain, few flat lands and highly undulating to rolling plains with incised river and perennial streams, valley and gorges.
Access to arrive Chebera-Churchura National park is not a problem. One can reach to the park following either the Addis-Jima-Ameya road or Addis-Shashemene-Sodo-Waka-Tocha. The internal park road is under study however there is some 80 km rough dry weather road crossing the western sides of the park and show the entire park view or it is also possible to trek in side the park following foot paths avilable in the park but with help of local Guide.
So far, 37 larger mammals and 237 species of birds have been recorded in the different habitats (Highland & Rverine forest and savanna and bush lands) of the park. White-cliff chat, banded-barbet, wattled ibis, black-headed forest Oriole and thick billed Raven are endemic birds for the country. | recently discovered and rich wilderness areas but the list visited and known park in the country. The Park is fortunate in possessing numerous rivers and streams and four small creator lakes (Keriballa, Shasho, Koka) which are reason for the rich wildlife resources of the area. The topography of the park is so unique and highly heterogeneous and hilly terrain, few flat lands and highly undulating to rolling plains with incised river and perennial streams, valley and gorges.So far, 37 larger mammals and 237 species of birds have been recorded in this park.
The Park is fortunate in possessing numerous rivers and streams and four small creator lakes (Keriballa, Shasho, Koka | 146 |
How to Scare a Ghost
By (author): Reagan, Jean
Illustrated By: Wildish, Lee
Subject: JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Themes)
JUVENILE FICTION / Holidays & Celebrations / Halloween
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Size: 11.00in x 8.50in
From The Publisher* From the creators of the New York Times bestsellers How to Catch Santa and How to Babysit a Grandpa comes a silly (and not-too-spooky) send-up of Halloween...and ghosts!
Who says ghosts get to have all the fun on Halloween? In this humorous new addition to Jean Reagan and Lee Wildish's bestselling How to... books, the kids are in charge! But in order to scare a ghost, you might<|fim_middle|> the summers, they serve as backcountry volunteers in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. To learn more about Jean and her work, please visit JeanReagan.com.
LEE WILDISH has illustrated a number of children's books, including Twosomes by Marilyn Singer on the Knopf list. To learn more about Lee and his work, please visit WildishIllustration.com. | have to find one first. Guided by a tongue-in-cheek instructional style, two children show young readers how to set the stage for a spooktacular Halloween by carving pumpkins, playing games, and even reading scary stories. Has a ghost showed up? Great! Now the fun--er, the scaring--can really begin. Filled with charming role-reversal humor, creative ideas, and lots of holiday spirit, How to Scare a Ghost is sure to delight kids, parents, and things that go bump in the night.
Biographical Note JEAN REAGAN was born in Alabama but spent most of her childhood in Japan. She now lives in Salt Lake City with her husband. In | 145 |
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John Williamson Australia's True Blue Balladeer
Eric Bogle Probably his best known song is "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", which confirmed it's iconic status by appearing as a question in the Australian version of Trivial Pursuit! Some of his other songs , "No Man's Land"(The Green Fields of France) "Leaving Nancy", "Now I'm Easy" "Shelter" "If Wishes were Fishes" are now beginning to rival "Matilda" in the icon stakes.
Ted Egan, an old bushy who lives in Alice Springs in the Centre of Australia. Ted has been fascinated by Australian history, its unique people and the Australian way of life, in this, perhaps the most multi-cultural nation on Earth.
Graeme Connors , as one of Australia's most loved songwriters, he creates cinematic-style stories with music that we can hold on to; songs that somehow make sense of our lives even when we can't.
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Jon Doust has written quite a few books, including Boy on a Wire, 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award long listed and last year's Return Ticket. In this episode of Local Talent, Barry Green attempts to get him to focus and answer some hard questions, not an easy task because he worked as a comedian for about fifteen years. Jon born in Bridgetown and has brothers and cousins scattered throughout the south west and great southern.
Maya Ixchell A little soul, a little pop, a little fun, somewhere in this down to earth, quirky singer's repertoire there is a song for everyone. Whether a large audience or small, singer/songwriter Maya Ixchell loves to share emotions and stories with her music.
Linda Stanley Author of Walking with Angles and Grandy's Long Walk
Ray Jones An established singer songwriter, Ray will bring you along on a soul fuelled journey through sharing his original music and the stories behind them. Working alongside some of Australia's great country artists, Ray holds his own as a natural storyteller, and will deliver a mesmerising performance
Studio 90 a collaborative studio project born when songwriter/guitarist, Dave Meek asked vocalist and saxophonist and long-time friend, John (JB) Hayes to listen to some songs he'd been working on with a view to doing the vocals on them. "Sign me up!" JB said as soon as he heard them.
Ornella Ornella's Debut Single: Golden Boy Described as an anthem for the dreamers of the world, a fun song about city life and people chasing their wildest dreams eventually evolved into something more.
Stephen Crabbe author of Song of Australia, published in 2013, followed by Conflict on Kangaroo Island,
Ron Watkins, innovative organic farmer from Payneham Vale Organics at Frankland River
Darren McCagh Filmmaker at Farm House Films
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Josh Langley author, illustrator and daydreamer. After failing high school twice and spending a ridiculous amount of time being unemployed, Josh went onto create a successful career as an award winning radio creative writer spanning 20 years.....
Patricia Negus is a well-known watercolour artist . Pat specialises in paintings of local birds, wildflowers, fishes and shells also her popular chooks and ducks!
Linda J Bettaney Australian Fiction Novels, which tap into historical secrets, set in the pioneering world of Western Australia. Secrets Mothers Keep and Wishes for Starlight The Apple Core Wars
Tom Ansell Sugito and Busselton sister cities 20th Anniversary Mural
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John Ratcliffe Author of The Art of Diet and Low Carb Made Easy.
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Chris Scott Horse Vision A talk with Chris Scott about her Horse Vision program
Ian Andrew Author of A Time to Every Purpose and Face Value
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Victor Churchill Dale A renowned contemporary Aussie poet, Vic Dale is an ordinary bloke with extraordinary insight into life and human character. He has the ability to portray the stories of the bush in a unique, down-to-earth style, with a sense of humour and sensitivity to the spirit of people from all walks of life.
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Eric Bogle And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Gina Williams Guitar brilliance and pure, haunting vocals. These exceptional performers connect and capture audiences through the power of song. And it's made even more special when it's sung in rare Noongar language.
Kelly Newton-Wordsworth her songs Lest We Forget and The love of Flowers,
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Sigari Luckwell knew from a young age that we are all connected. It is from this inner space of emotional resonance that Luckwell shares a sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant compilation of poems and songs intended to inspire and awaken hearts and souls and remind us of our global nature.
Merome Darvill Author and illustrator, of Ripples, Join the ripples as they travel the seven seas, discovering the many wonders of the oceans and then return safely back to the shores on which you began.
Nina Smith, Author Bloody Fairies: A crooked treasure hunter. Organised crime. Political dissidents. A powerful sorcerer. Invading vampires - and a sweet, innocent fairy with a vampire eating spider. Book 1 in the dark comic fantasy series Shadow.
Bunbury Men of Song are about music for enjoyment – the enjoyment we derive from singing in the classic male voice choral tradition and the enjoyment people get from hearing us do so. Our Choir was formed in 1998 and is proud of our history and we are looking forward to a wonderful future.
Lukas D'aqui CD's available at Josephines Restaurant in Bunbury
James Depiazzi has released an annotated autobiographical anthology containing over 350 poems and reflections.
Two Bob Millionaires Donnybrook "World Music" group.
Andy Michaels Andy composes songs about Australian events or history that inspire him.
Slim Dusty Australian Bush Balladeer and a voice of Regional Australia The Slim Dusty Centre
Greg Hastings The Wandering Man "Bringing the Heart of Australia into the Hearts of Australians."
Mike Goodwin, singing the Gun Shearer, written by Mal Hart in 1953
The Brookhampton Bellringers are a unique group of tintinnabulating musicians who perform throughout WA bringing the pleasure of beautiful handbell music to one and all. We are one of a very few teams in the WORLD who play in the "off the table" method of bellringing and we live in your neighbourhood in the lovely Southwest of WA.
Corey Colum Corey's latest media single 'Outback Justice' is approaching the Top 20 on the Country Tracks Chart.
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Song of Australia, (a story by Stephen Crabbe) puts the reader in the shoes of remarkable characters confronting the difficult life of the home-front during the First World War.
Terry Bennetts Terry and Jenny have recorded three award winning CDs, won twenty one (mainly songwriting) awards and have had over twenty of their songs recorded by other Australian Country Artists. They hope you enjoy their easy listening Bush Ballad songs and instrumentals.
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Peter Perez is a Professional Entertainer Singer Songwriter and has been entertaining and performing in many different places. He gets a huge amount of enjoyment watching his audience respond to his original shows and his repertoire will touch crowds that love a great party.
Savvy Trio The trio are a versatile group of singers / Musicians / Composers and Dancers able to traverse serveral genre which is demonstrated in the shows they have developed thus far.
Sydney or the Bush showcases Australia's heritage live on stage featuring a special Anzac 10th Light Horse tribute. In a light hearted Aussie larrikin style the hosts: Sydney & Kim take the audience for a trip back in time- a time when all Australians rode on the sheep's back, began to shape this nation and call themselves Australians; our Golden Fleece era.
Bernard Carney is a great all-round musician in the tradition of the folk troubadour. He has a unique talent as songwriter, guitarist and singer all peppered with passion and humour
Voices of the Vasse was formed in 1999. Our mission statement is "Voices of the Vasse will work as a team with a positive attitude to improve sound, fellowship and performance skills in harmony". We are now | 1,903 |
The only Canopy tour located 100% in primary Monteverde Cloud Forest.
Selvatura Adventure park is located in the heart of Monteverde Cloud Forest, and is one of the best epicenters of the adventure in Costa Rica. Selvatura Park has for you an the spectacular zip line adventure, in addition to Hanging Bridges, butterfly garden, herpetarium, restaurant and etc. The hummingbird garden in Selvatura deserves special mention, a hummingbird perches on your hands to drink the nectar of a flower, is something sublime.
In this adventure park everything is well organised with strong focus in customer service. Safety is the main priority here.
Selvatura has the privilege of been located in a beautiful valley on the top on the Monteverde mountain range, so the forest here grows is majestic. Tall trees are protected from strong winds and the constant mist of the clouds provided the humidity for a unique, lunch, exuberant and almost surreal tropical forest.
Make sure you visit Selvatura Adventure<|fim_middle|>everde cloud forest in Selvatura and treasure and experience that worht to remembering forever.
The Park was amazing... Well planned and laid out. A little something for everyone. It was mystical and magical and almost surreal. Think Avatar..... I had one of the best days of my life here. Saw and did things I never dreamed I would get to do. The zip lining was beyond amazing. The butterflies were lovely. And to have a humming bird sit on your finger?? YES!! A thousand times YES!
This is a great place to go if you only have one day in the area and want to see as much as possible. There is a huge butterfly enclosure, a reptile exhibit, a fascinating insect collection, a beautiful hummingbird garden, a lovely canopy walk with 8 suspension bridges, and canopy zip lining for the adventurous.
We spent a whole day here. Walking the hanging bridges was a lot of fun. It was beautiful to see the rainforest scenery. WE did see monkeys which added to the exploration. We did not hire a guide for this activity and not sure that you really need one here. Another activity we did was of course the zip lines. I have done this before in the states but here at Selvatura, it really exceeded my expectations. The staff kept every one moving from one platform to another. I think there was a total of like 11. One was as long as a mile. It was so peaceful to fly over the canopy of the rainforest. I would highly recommend. We had 4 teenagers in our group who loved this activity!!!
One of the best Canopy tours in Costa Rica, Safe & Family Friendly, Operated multiple times every day, Free Transportation from you Hotel, Tarzan Swing, Right in the Cloud Forest, 1 km superman Cable available.
4. You pay in reception of Selvatura park on the day.
5. Cancel 12 hours before the tour without any penalization.
The walkway consists of 8 suspension bridges connected by trails covering 1.9 miles (3km). wide, the bridge system is the widest and sturdiest in Costa Rica.
Visitors have the option of taking a self-guided treetop tour, or of joining a guided Natural History Tour. The hanging bridges can be enjoyed by visitors of all ages and physical conditions. Tours last up to 2.5 hours. Again.
It is recommended to bring: long pants, suitable shoes and waterproof jackets.
All Tours Includes Free Transportation from Your Hotel in Monteverde and Santa Elena. | Park during your trip to Monteverde, this is the adventure par excellence in the cloud forest, a lot of fun for every family member, this is a very is a special way to experience the Costa Rica forest in a Safe way, enjoy a natural adventure, great fun, good service and efficiency.
If you have little time in Monteverde, come to Selvatura, here you can make the most of your time doing quality attractions like Canopy Tours, Hanging bridges, Colibri Garden and more. All in one single location. Free transportation from your hotel is available at multiple times so logistic is not a problem. Come to Selvatura and enjoy a tropical adventure without comparison, enjoy the Mont | 142 |
Claudia Alonso (11) poses with her host family. Alonso came to America one week before school started.
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Leaving Spain to study abroad for ten months was frightening for Claudia Alonso (11), but the ten month mark to head back home is approaching. The transition for Alonso was difficult at first, but as month passed, she adapted to the culture and life here in America.
"The first months were really hard for me and I wasn't 100 percent comfortable until February. Winter was pretty hard for me because of the weather and I wasn't with my family. I don't regret coming here though. I would do it again and I think it was amazing,"<|fim_middle|> became way more independent because I didn't have my family here and when I was having a hard time, it wasn't that easy to call them. If something bad happened, I had to learn how to solve the situation by myself," Alonso said.
The memories that she made for the past few months were unforgettable for her. Alonso was able to experience new things like play a sport for school and attend her first school dance. After living a part of her life in America, she will have to become accustomed to everything back in Spain all over again.
"My favorite memory was during spring break when I went to Mexico with my friend. I'm leaving May 31st to go to New York and I'm going to miss a lot of people really bad. I think that the first month back [in Spain] will be really hard. I know that it's my country and my friends and family are there, but I'm going to miss a lot of people here. It'll be hard because I'm going to have to get used to everything again," Alonso said.
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After Alonso moved into her new home, she became more independent and overcame challenges on her own.
"I was independent before, but I | 30 |
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Tituba of Salem Village, A Novel Based on the Witch Trials of 1692 by Ann Petry (1956)
I read this for two reasons, one I've been wanting to read Ann Petry for a while, The Street and The Narrows were republished in 2020, so I'm looking forward to reading them, but the main reason I chose this title is because I'm an avid reader of Maryse Condé, who wrote I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. One of her inspirations was this book written for young people by Ann Petry, which predates her novel by 30 years, so it made sense for me to read this one first.
For her the story of Tituba was a story of courage in the face of adversity. It was a lesson of hope and dynamism.
Witch Trials of Salem, History
The witch trials of Salem began in March 1692 with the arrests of Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and the black slave, Tituba, based on forced confessions. The trials were started after people had been accused of witchcraft, primarily by teenage girls, though traced to adult concerns and adult grievances. Quarrels and disputes with neighbors often incited witchcraft allegations.
Women who did not conform to the norms of Puritan society were more likely to be the target of an accusation, especially those who were unmarried or did not have children.
It marked the beginning of a period of paranoia in which nineteen women and one man were hanged, before the governor of the colony sent a report to London about the cases of 50 women and a general pardon was granted, putting an end to a disturbing chapter in the history of the village, subsequently renamed Danvers.
Though Tituba was acquitted, prisoners were required to pay the cost of their stay in prison, including the cost of chains and shackles. She was eventually sold for the price of those fees, though it is not known to whom. Ann Petry shares her theories, which we discover here, and Maryse Condé has another.
It is one of Colonial America's most notorious cases of mass hysteria, a cautionary tale about the dangers of isolationism, religious extremism, false accusations, fake news and lapses in due process.
I had read nothing about the witch trials before, though I'd heard of them, but I'm glad that this was my introduction, to see this little segment of American history, through the eyes of the innocent black slave, Tituba and her husband John.
As the book opens and Tituba and John are in the kitchen of the Barbados home they live in, the scene is so evocative, you can't imagine how their lives are going to change so abruptly, having been so stable for so long – but then the harsh reality of them being commodities, slaves, sold like jewels, to pay a debt, their lives irrevocably changed, within 24 hours they are on a ship heading for the Bay Colony of Boston, their new owner the Reverend Parris.
Her husband instills in her the importance of staying alive and maintaining good health.
"Remember, always remember, the slave must survive. No matter what happens to the master, the slave must survive."
Petry's descriptions of the environment are so evocative, the contrast so great, from the warmth of the island to the damp, unwelcoming cold climate of Massachusetts.
Tituba is caring and empathetic, she has a traditional knowledge of herbs from the island, learned from the women in her family, in Boston she searches in the woods for substitutes and is helped by another woman with knowledge of herbal medicine. She is sensitive to people, animals and the environment.
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Sometimes if she stood still, used all her senses, sight and sound and touch and small would make a place speak to her. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
She decided it was not an evil house. It was sad and gloomy. Nothing about it suggested happiness in the future. It had been a long time since anyone had been happy in this house. People leave something of themselves in a house, and the spirit of this house was frighteningly sad.
However, these people live in fearful times and among people whose belief system instills fear and suspicion. They bear children whose imaginations run wild, their behaviour's running even wilder.
She finally accepted the fact that Abigail was her enemy, and though young, a dangerous enemy. On the other hand, Samuel Conkin, the weaver, was her friend, and though a new friend, a very good friend.
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Tituba is a wonderful character, depicted with compassion and understanding, put in a situation where young people are drawn towards her but unable to overcome their own inner hurts, exaggerate and invent scenarios, combining imagination and superstition, creating drama that spirals out of control into very real consequences for those accused of "witching", until the farce that it is, becomes all too clear, though not without lives having been lost.
Elena Ferrante in The Lying Life of Adults shows that sometime erratic behaviour of an adolescent and its consequences. Ann Petry shows how childish games, immaturity, attention seeking and hurt can claim lives, and though her book offers a message of courage in the face of adversity, it also offers a warning to that same youthful audience, that lives can be irrevocably damaged by the actions of a few.
I loved the character Petry created, her many talents and her resilience and the imagined appreciation that did exist, even if that might have been willful fantasy, knowing that in the era in which she lived, it was rare indeed for any person who purchased a slave to treat them as her weaver did.
Petry offers perhaps the most persuasive explanation of all—that cruelty begets cruelty, among children as well as adults. At least half the novel takes place before the trials, building the case for the horrors that follow. Anna Mae Duane, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Johns Hopkins University Press
Article, Smithsonian Magazine: Unraveling the Many Mysteries of Tituba, the Star Witness of the Salem Witch Trials by Stacy Schiff; Nov 2015
Play: The Crucible (1952), by Arthur Miller
Essay: Ann Petry
Story of the Week: Harlem Ann Petry (1908-1997)
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November 9, 2020 by Claire 'Word by Word'
The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela (2015)
Earlier this year I read my first book by Leila Aboulela Bird Summons (2019), a wonderful novel about three immigrant women, born in different countries but living in Scotland, setting off on a holiday in the Highlands, to pay homage to Lady Evelyn Cobbold, the first British woman convert to Islam to perform the pilgrimage to Mecca.
I really enjoyed it for many reasons, confirming I wished to read more of her work, thus I chose The Kindness of Enemies as her next book to read, one I have had my eye on for some years, having refused to buy earlier because of the dreadful cover. That may sound whimsical, but I think that earlier cover does this book a great disservice, the way it turns readers away.
Being Muslim and an Academic in 21st century Scotland
I was completely drawn into the dual narrative story and loved both parts of it, modern day Scotland and mid 1800's Russia and the Caucasus.
The contemporary story centres around Natasha Wilson (born Natasha Hussein to a Russian mother and Sudanese father, themselves the product of a Russian university education, her name is changed when her mother marries a Scot). A university lecturer in Scotland, her research concerns the life of the Caucasian Highlander, Shamil Imam.
Natasha is friends with Malak, of Russian/Persian parentage; her son Oz, is in her class and they possess a historical artefact belonging to Shamil Imam, due to an ancestral connection. Natasha is in their home when Oz is arrested for downloading materials related to jihad and she too comes under suspicion, her telephone and laptop seized.
"I was seeing in these awkward composites my own liminal self. The two sides of me that were slammed together against their will, that refused to mix. I was a failed hybrid, made up of unalloyed selves. My Russian mother who regretted marrying my Sudanese father. My African father who came to hate his white wife. My atheist mother who blotted out my Muslim heritage. My Arab father who gave me up to Europe without a fight. I was the freak. I had been told so and I had been taught so and I had chewed on this verdict to the extent that, no matter what, I could never purge myself of it entirely."
Meanwhile, in Sudan, her father whom she hasn't seen for 20 years is dying and there is pressure for her to go and see him, along with feelings of resentment and ill-will, demanding her to stand up for herself and her existence, a daughter of mixed heritage, living a life she has created for herself.
"It was an effort formulating this summary, explaining myself. I preferred the distant past, centuries that were over and done with, ghosts that posed no direct threat. History could be milked for this cause or that. We observed it always with hindsight, projecting onto it our modern convictions and anxieties."
Being Muslim and a Caucasian Highlander in the 19th century
Interwoven between chapters of Natasha's story, we are transported to the Caucasus territory in the 1850's, to a period during the conflict between the Highlander mountain men lead by Shamil Imam who were resisting Tsarist Russia from expanding into their territory.
Shamil Imam, the Chieftan of Dagestan, led an armed resistance for thirty years, he appears in Leo Tolstoy's classic posthumous novella Hadji Murad. Through imagination and historical fact, Leila Aboulela enters his territory and home, bringing us a view from the spaces women and children inhabit, not just that of men, as Tolstoy does.
In earlier years, to settle a conflict, Shamil was only able to negotiate peace by surrendering his son Jamaleldin, who for the next ten years or so was raised as part of the Tsar's family (as his godson). Now Shamil's men have captured the Russian Princess Anna (previously of Georgia – her grandfather Gregory XI, the last King of Georgia, ceded the territory to Russia), her French governess and two children Alexander and Lydia.
"Nothing has caused me so much pain as treachery. If the Russians would fight me honourably, I would not mind living the rest of my life in a state of war. But they tricked me; in Akhulgo they treated me like a criminal, not a warrior, and they sent my son far away to St Petersburg."
The Kindness of Enemies follows these stories and although one carries the heavyweight magnitude of a well-known story of significant characters in history, the foreshadowing of it by a modern story, brings to light the many aspects of the past, whose threads might be seen as being current today.
Kindness and Empathy, Another Perspective
Much of the literature of the Caucasus in the literary imagination is told from the Russian perspective, by grand novelists like Tolstoy and Pushkin, whereas Leila Aboulela, by setting this historical period during the time of the Princess's capture, takes us on that journey, re-imagining events that took place, understanding better the complicated and mixed sympathies of Princess Anna, a young mother, exploring her loss and how those eight months in captivity might have changed her.
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She also presents the perspective of young Jamaleldin in another light, how his childhood memories lie dormant yet present, his mixed feelings of the return, his strange and estranged reality of feeling part of himself belonging to both worlds, the Highlands and to St Petersburg.
There was a time when it had all been much simpler. He rescued from the wild, Nicholas the benevolent godfather. He the pet, Nicholas the mighty. He the puppet, Nicholas the conductor, the thrower of crumbs, the arranger of roles, the changer of destinies. Jamaleldin the chess piece, and now Shamil had changed the rules of the game.
In the contemporary world, Natasha experiences something of the same, born of culturally different parents, spending her childhood in one country, her adulthood in another. She must create her own sense of belonging, to find peace of mind somehow. Being neither one thing or the other, having no one place called home, hers, by necessity is a spiritual journey, determined by the need for the soul to find home, rather than body or mind.
"I said that I was not a good Muslim but that I was not a bad person. I said I had a brother that I wanted to keep in touch with. I said that I wanted to give up my share of the inheritance to him. Apart from my father's Russian books and Russian keepsakes, I wanted nothing. I said that I did not come here today to fight over money or for the share of a house. I came so that I would not be an outcast, so that I would, even in a small way, faintly, marginally, tentatively, belong."
My Reviews of Interest
Bird Summons by Leila Aboulela
Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina tr. Lisa Hayden
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
There Once Lived A Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself, Love Stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Further Reading/Watching
Interview: Leila Aboulela Discusses The Kindness of Enemies The Arab Weekly
Review: For the Joy of Reading: The Kindness of Enemies by David Kenvyn
Documentary: Mountain Men and Holy Wars – film-maker Taran Davies traces the life and legacy of Shamil Imam
Article: Why do we Continue to Use the Word Caucasian? by Yolanda Moses, Professor of Anthropology
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June 19, 2020 by Claire 'Word by Word'
The Ferryman's Daughter by Juliet Greenwood
Hester is the ferryman's daughter, it is Autumn 1908 and she lives in a Cornish seaside village with her family, whose lives are soon to be forever changed when her mother dies.
Working Class Women
A working class family, her mother warns her against getting close to those living in the big houses, who employ but rarely befriend those deemed beneath them in status.
They are not like us. They will never be like us. However much they may try not to be, they see us as a convenience, the people who clean their houses and draw their baths and make their life comfortable. It doesn't really enter their heads that we are as real as they are, with dreams and ambitions and a desire to also walk in the sun. And that can make them cruel, even if they don't mean to be. You remember that and don't ever be distracted from the path you wish to take.
Hester takes over the household domestic duties and then her father's job becoming a ferrywoman, when he is invalided. Despite her ability to cope, her father is taken in by the wily Jimmy, who continually ignores Hester's refusals and worms his way into the family and their business.
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After performing a rescue at sea, Hester experiences for one night what it is like to be waited on, to sink into a hot bath and rest, sleep, with nothing else to do.
Her eyes closed, savouring the stillness. 'This is what I want,' she said aloud. She had no hankering to be waited on like a queen, as she had been this evening. She just didn't want to spend her life as a drudge, the one who got up first, who went to bed last. The invisible hand who did the cleaning and the cooking and the mending, along with the juggling of a meagre budget, the conjuring up of meals out of the barest of essentials.
She is a young woman working against the odds that would normally pull her towards accepting a fate confining her to care for younger siblings and a wayward father. She manages to keep alive her ambition to become something more than what society, her father and Jimmy expect from her, to develop independence without neglecting those who rely on her, finding those who see her for who she really is, even when she loses sight of that herself.
Dad saw reliance on a daughter as humiliating, a lessening of his manhood. Reliance on a son-in-law, particularly one who would, in turn, be reliant on his instruction and his expertise, would restore the natural order of things. Her feelings on the matter were irrelevant.
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Women During the War
Eventually circumstances including the outbreak of war provide her an opportunity to pursue her first love, to cook wholesome homemade food from the abundance of the gardens of Afalon, the big house where her grandmother had been head cook. She will be tested and confront challenges she thought she'd left behind, but doing so leads her towards a desire inherited from her mother she is determined to pursue.
A refreshing protagonist, living in an era where few women escaped the narrow role society decided for them, until war gave them a chance to show what were capable of. Hester paves the way in setting a new example for those who experience setbacks, showing how they can be overcome and the importance of working with and being supported by like-minded women.
Historical Fiction With Empowered Female Characters
Another captivating novel from Juliet Greenwood, set in her familiar locale of Cornwall, with her trademark, capable, independent woman protagonist exploring an alternative way of life than 'the pursuit of a husband' in an era where rejection of a man's attentions was perceived as a mark against the character of a woman, who ought not to think so highly of herself as to be capable of surviving without him. A refreshing representation of the rise of the empowered woman.
N.B. Thank you to the author Juliet Greenwood for providing me with a copy of your new book.
Further Reading/Reviews
Review of Eden's Garden by Juliet Greenwood
Review of We That Are Left by Juliet Greenwood
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April 24, 2020 by Claire 'Word by Word'
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
A New York Times Bestseller, Pachinko is a work of historical fiction set in Korea and Japan that follows the lives of one family and how their circumstances and choices continue to reverberate through the generations.
It demonstrates how discrimination towards 'perceived outsiders' and their descendants becomes so deeply ingrained within a culture it distorts the way people live, even when from the outside there is no visible difference.
I won this book from the publisher after answering the question, "What do you think Min Jin Lee wanted to express with her first line of the book?" I hadn't read the book then, but I liked how thought-provoking the first line (below) was. I'll share my response at the end of the review.
History has failed us, but no matter.
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When we meet the family it is 1910, an ageing fisherman and his wife live in Yeongdo, a coastal village near Busan in Korea. They decide to take in lodgers for extra money. They've had three sons, but only Hoonie, (27) the eldest and weakest survived.
Hoonie was born with a cleft palate and a twisted foot; he was however, endowed with hefty shoulders, a squat build, and a golden complexion. Even as a young man, he retained the mild, thoughtful temperament he'd had as a child.
1910 was the year Japan annexed Korea. After years of war, intimidation and political upheaval; the country would be considered a part of Japan until 1945.
Hoonie went to school long enough to learn to read and write Korean and Japanese well enough to manage the boarding house ledger and do sums so he wouldn't be cheated in the market. They raised him to be clever and capable ensuring he'd manage when they weren't around. One day a matchmaker paid them a visit.
We cannot help but be interested in the stories of people that history pushes aside so thoughtlessly.
Marriage in that era was like a business transaction, a person's chances were attributable partly due to physical attributes and mostly by their family's potential for a dowry and gifts. Hoonie was fortunate, he married Yangjin who after losing her first three, gave birth to Sunja, her fourth child and only girl. When she was 13 her father died of tuberculosis.
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Sunja and her mother work hard running the boarding house; her life is turned around when at 16, she is cornered by a group of boys on her way<|fim_middle|>unes, inland from the river, where there is a natural spring and if enough rain, plentiful opportunity to grow what they need to survive.
Sister Salt remembers everything. The morning the soldiers and the Indian police came to arrest the Messiah, Grandma Fleet told Sister Salt to run. Run! Run get your little sister! You girls go back to the old gardens! Sister Salt was big and strong. She carried Indigo piggyback whenever her little sister got tired. Indigo doesn't remember much about that morning except for the shouts and screams.
When the girls are with their Grandmother and return to the gardens they have a purpose, they learn when and how to plant, to prepare food, to stock it, to identify edible plants, they are natural foragers. When they are removed from their natural home, they have to find other ways to survive.
Sherman Institute, Riverside, California
At times it has been necessary to flee, when there is insufficient rain or when pursued by authorities, who effectively kidnap Indian children, separating them from their families and way of life to put them into institutions, forcing another form of education on them, removing their connection to their culture.
The authorities judged Sister Salt to be too much older than the others to be sent away to Indian boarding school. There was hope the little ones might be educated away from their blankets. But this one? Chances were she'd be a troublemaker and might urge the young ones to attempt escape. Orders were for Sister Salt to remain in custody of the Indian agency at Parker while Indigo was sent to the Sherman Institute in Riverside, California.
American Indian Girls in a state run Laundry
Sister Salt is sent to work in an Indian laundry in the vicinity of water dam projects of the Southwest; she and twin sisters she befriends decide to set up their own laundry service, living near one of the dam construction sites, becoming knowledgeable of the needs of the men working there, finding protection and collaboration with the chef Big Candy, the girls surviving together, supporting each other.
Throughout the novel, the men are involved in moneymaking projects, whether it's Edward collecting orchid samples, his companions seeking rubber plant specimens, the men at the dam with their side interests in illegal gambling, brewing beer and the laundry.
The dam project diverted water to Los Angeles and made Indian lands less productive, initially it provided employment, but slowly the people realise what it is taking away from them, their land, their homes, their riverside livelihoods. Those with profit making motives have little or no concern for the destruction and loss caused in their wake. But they too risk falling victim to their own kind, Silko doesn't miss the opportunity to make them suffer the consequences of their own greed.
Most native tribes did not adhere to the European view of land as property. For most Indians, land was communal, and its resources were to be protected and shared. This was in direct contradiction to European notions of land as individual property.
Ancient Minoan Snake Goddess
It's far-reaching in its geographic span and themes, which through adept storytelling are repeated via the behaviours of characters. Women stick together, collaborate, survive and when not separated from each other, begin to thrive, though they remain wary of those from other tribes or cultures. Exploitation, greed and corruption are everywhere, interfering in the way people try to live their lives, imposing their ways, trying to keep people(s) separate or making them conform to a perceived way of being.
Indigo never loses the essence of who she is, despite being groomed and dressed like a white American to accompany Hattie and her prospector/explorer husband and being taken far away to Europe, her heart is like a magnet, she never ceases thinking of her intention to find her sister and mother.
Fortunately, Hattie is a sensitive and intelligent woman, who though the child brings out a maternal response and desire, promises to help her find them when they return. Hattie's father was a free thinker who encouraged her higher education giving her access to libraries of friends to pursue her studies. She is sympathetic to their ways, but will also confront barriers when trying to cross over in her efforts to support them.
It's a brilliant depiction of so many issues around origins and identity and the ways people survive and thrive, in particular women. We witness their attempts, how they are thwarted, see them compromise and discover that being with other women provides them with a force, even when they are from different tribes or cultures, sometimes that is a necessary element to their survival, to learn from other women, from other experiences, to share what they know.
Despite being a relatively long read (477 pages), it felt like it could have gone on, some threads leave the reader wondering what happened next, endings come about a little quickly. It could easily have been more than one book.
The final page and the closing sentences are beautifully given over to nature, to a demonstration that though we may grieve at what is passing, nature will always ensure that new life prevails, that something will survive from the ruin. That hope can manifest, though it may not be what we expect.
"Nearly all human cultures plant gardens, and the garden itself has ancient religious connections. For a long time, I've been interested in pre-Christian European beliefs, and the pagan devotions to sacred groves of trees and sacred springs. My German translator gave me a fascinating book on the archaeology of Old Europe, and in it I discovered ancient artifacts that showed that the Old European cultures once revered snakes, just as we Pueblo Indian people still do. So I decided to take all these elements – orchids, gladiolus, ancient gardens, Victorian gardens, Native American gardens, Old European figures of Snake-bird Goddesses – and write a novel about two young sisters at the turn of the century." – Leslie Marmon Silko, Gardens in the Dunes (1999)
"I suppose at the core of my writing is the attempt to identify what it is to be a half- breed or mixed-blooded person; what it is to grow up neither white nor fully traditional Indian. It is for this reason that I hesitate to say that I am representative of Indian poets or Indian people. I am only one human being, one Laguna woman." – Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Woman (1974)
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Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina (Russia) tr. Lisa Hayden
Last year my favourite read Kintu, by Ugandan author Jennifer Nansubuga Nakumbi was published by OneWorld Publications. This year, I enjoyed another of their award winning titles The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al-Rawi (Iraq) (tr. Luke Leafgren) and now I am adding to that list, this wonderful historical fiction epic, Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina (Russia) translated by Lisa Hayden.
The Russian Gulag – Labour Camps
April 2019 is the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Gulags in Russia. Gulag is an acronym for Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or Main Camp Administration, they were a system of forced labour camp, a kind of re-education in a prison-like environment.
The Gulag was first established in 1919, and by 1921 the Gulag system had 84 camps. But it wasn't until Stalin's rule that the prison population reached significant numbers. From 1929 until Stalin's death, the Gulag went through a period of rapid expansion.
At its height, the Gulag network included hundreds of labor camps that held anywhere from 2,000 to 10,000 people each. Conditions at the Gulag were brutal: Prisoners could be required to work up to 14 hours a day, often in extreme weather. Many died of starvation, disease or exhaustion— others were simply executed. The atrocities of the Gulag system have had a long-lasting impact that still permeates Russian society today.
Kulaks and Dekulakization
The first people to be interned in these camps were known as kulaks (literal translation – fist, as in tight-fisted) meaning affluent peasants – originally the term referred to independent farmers in the Russian Empire who emerged from the peasantry and became wealthy, but the definition broadened in 1918 to include any peasant who resisted handing over their grain to authorities and under Joseph Stalin's leadership it came to refer to peasants with a couple of cows or five or six acres more than their neighbors and eventually any intellectual who offended him.
Portrayed as class enemies of the USSR, the process of re-education was dekulakization the campaign of political repressions, including arrests, deportations, and executions of millions of prosperous peasants and their families. It is these people, decreed kulaks in the 1930's, that are the subject of this novel.
Book Review – Zuleikha
As soon as I read premise of this novel, I wanted to get it, one of my favourite books The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth was set in a Russian gulag, though these are very different books. And there is nothing quite like being swept away by those wonderful character-lead novels such as Dostoevsky's The Idiot and Tolstoy's, Anna Karenina and the provocative poetry of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin that have entertained us and demonstrated important aspects of creating characters in literature, and who could forget one of the highest grossing films of all time, Doctor Zhivago.
While we may not quite reach the heights of the masters, we are offered a refreshing and unique perspective in this compelling novel about a Tartar Muslim woman named Zuleikha, whose independent farmer husband has been accused of not having collectivised his property, resulting in her being sent away to be dekulakized.
They encounter the Red Army and their leader Comrade Ignatov as they return from hiding provisions, a meeting that will forever be etched in the minds of both Zuleikha and Ignatov, the latter becoming an equally important protagonist in the novel, which charts the journey and evolution of both characters.
They travel the same paths in opposite roles, one of the ironies of the novel to see how imprisonment in many ways improves the life of Zuleika, and control of the camp significantly diminishes the life of her captor. Effectively she is rescued from a tyrannical husband and mother-in-law, having been married off at the age of fifteen (he 30 years her senior) where she was little more than a slave in their household, having also given birth and lost all her babies in that period.
Unlike some gulag stories, the people in this novel who are sent to be dekulakized are not sent to an existing facility. They spend months on a long train journey, where many will die, some escape, getting to know each other and then just as winter sets in they're put on a barge, travel up a river and are dumped there. In order to survive, they must build shelter and find food, so their fate also extends to the leader who oversees them, Ignatov.
Although Zuleikha arrives in an emaciated state, she soon attains strong motivation to remain healthy, she finds solace in her role in the kitchen and ultimately strength in her eventual role as a hunter, venturing into the forest every day to set traps and capture wildlife to keep them all from starving.
Whereas Ignatov, who has enjoyed relative freedom and even privilege in his previous role, riding across the country rounding up suspected kulaks, is unhappy with orders to take on the role of Commandant to accompany these people to an unknown destination. His transformation is more of a decline from his lofty position of power, he loses faith and no longer commands the same respect he had, even for himself.
On the cover of the book and mentioned throughout the text, are Zuleikha's intense green eyes, other versions of the novel are entitled "Zuleikha Opens her Eyes", this transformation of character through having her eyes opened is one of the themes of the novel, she sees beauty as well as suffering, she will experience true love and profound heartbreak. It's about a woman who comes out from having been defined and used by men, into finding new strength and her own role. It is a form of emancipation, albeit it a preliminary one.
Yusef runs away from Zulaikha
One aspect of the novel I haven't seen discussed anywhere is the significance of the names, Zuleikha and Yuzuf. I had a sense that those names somehow went together and I discovered an epic poem of the same name written in 1483 AD by the Sufi poet Jami.
It is an allegorical poem about the pursuit of love and of God, which also covers the allure and the suppression of love, the suffering of slavery and in aspects of this poem, I find aspects of three characters in the novel, Zuleikha, Ignatov and Yuzuf and I end my review with an ambiguous extract that may refer to a lover or a son, from the poem that reminds me of the closing pages of the novel.
The novel is unique in that it is written (and translated) by a woman who makes a young woman the centre of such an epic story, in part inspired by the actual memories of her own grandmother. She hasn't set out to recreate the dire, conditions and cruelty of the camps, we witness a tale of survival, and through the eyes of a woman who already had a dire life, despite being the wife of an affluent peasant.
Guzel Yakhina's grandmother was arrested in the 1930's, taken by horseback to Kazan and then on a long railway journey (over 2,000 miles) to Siberia. She was exiled from the age of 7 until 17 years, returning to her native village in 1947. It was these formative childhood years that were in a large part responsible for her formidable character.
Upon her death at the age of 85 years, the author realised the importance of her early life and thus began her research and determination to understand how her grandmother operated, bringing her back in part through the inspired creation of the extraordinary character Zuleikha.
"I realised it would be impossible to remember the things she said as her stories were not recorded," Yakhina says. "There was a feeling of guilt."
A thought-provoking, interesting story and reflection, not at all brutal or hard to read, the author writes with compassion for her characters and brings out something very different from what we have come to expect from stories set in prison-like environments.
Zuleikha and Yusuf – extract from the epic poem
"The one sole wish of my heart," she replied,
"Is still to be near thee, to sit by thy side;
To have thee by day in my happy sight,
And to lay my cheek on thy foot at night;
To lie in the shade of the cypress and sip
The sugar that lies on thy ruby lip;
To my wounded heart this soft balm to lay;
For naught beyond this can I wish or pray.
The streams of thy love will new life bestow
On the dry thirsty field where its sweet waters flow."
Jami, Sufi poet (tr. Charles Francis Horne)
My Reviews of Novels set in Russia
Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela
The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
Review: Lisa Hill's review of Zuleikha at ANZLitLovers
Article: The Calvert Journal: "Learn to live with it, even forgive." – Guzel Yakhina on the traumas of Soviet history
Article: Peninsula, Qatar: Russian novel tells story of survival, love in Stalin's camp
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N.B. Thank you to OneWorld Publications for providing me with an advance reader's copy of this novel.
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"Perhaps the compulsion to lay a woman's life before me and slowly explore each layer started in the dissection room; so many of our most steadfast patterns are begun in those years between childhood and adulthood."
Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
Potiki by Patricia Grace
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat (2019)
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When she learns of his wife and family in Osaka, she severs contact and accepts an offer of marriage from a Isak, a gentle, young man recovering from illness in their boarding house, soon to depart for Osaka to be with his brother and take up a role as assistant minister in the church.
Isak noticed that when Sunja worried, she furrowed her brow like she was trying to see better. He liked being with her; she was capable and level-headed. She was not helpless, and that was appealing because, although he wasn't helpless himself, Isak knew that he was not always sensible. Her competence would be good for what his father had once termed Isak's "impractical nature".
The couple move to Osaka and live with Yoseb and his wife and discover life is more difficult than Isak realised. Survival is already a challenge, but being outside their native country they encounter for the first time that they are foreigners, perceived differently.
Living everyday in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage.
After giving birth to her son Noa, they have a son together and the boys are raised as if Isak is father to them both. Sunja's affinity for hard work and her ability to negotiate and stand up to situations, leads her and her sister-in-law into working to support the family despite resistance from her brother-in-law.
Isak knew how to talk with people, to ask questions, and to hear the concerns in a person's voice; she seemed to understand how to survive, and this was something he did not always know to do. He needed her; a man needed a wife.
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The women in this lengthy saga are stalwarts, it is their story, their trials and tribulations that carry the narrative and make it unique. This could easily have been a story about the underworld inhabited by men who survive and thrive on the other side of the law; instead the author ventures into the lives of women, showing how they support and strengthen families.
It is a story of their endurance and survival and how perceptions change as one generation segues into the next and yet shame and stigma continue to exert their undermining influence.
I loved the book and the immersive experience it offered due to the combination of carefully drawn characters, the attention to the detail of their lives and the expectations under which they lived.
It is clearly a work of great dedication and love, the author originally wrote a version called 'Motherland' which was completely rewritten after living in Tokyo for five years, meeting and interviewing many Korean-Japanese people, discovering how much more complex their lives, identities and connections to both countries were. It necessitated a complete rewrite, taking the story back to 1910, resulting in this extraordinary, all-encompassing, immersion into a rich cultural and familial history.
The Title
It is not until page 142 that we come across 'pachinko', the Japanese name for pinball, a huge industry in Japan at the entry into the workforce of Sunja's son Mozasu.
We discover the difficulty Korean-Japanese citizens have in the workforce, unable to work in ordinary professions, pushed out to the margins of society where they become street traders or involved in 'less than ideal' industries such as pachinko parlours. Many Korean-Japanese person she met had a historical or social connection to pachinko.
It is a metaphor for the predicament of Koreans in Japan, caught in the aftermath of historical conflicts as they win, lose, struggle to survive, sometimes thrive and sustain their gains.
I did not know until I lived in Japan that it was a business dominated by the Korean Japanese. It's also seen as very second class and kind of vulgar and dirty and dangerous business," said Lee, adding that these sorts of words and attitudes are still commonly associated with Korean Japanese, even those who have lived in Japan for decades.
My Response to That Question
On the opening line of the novel: History has failed us, but no matter.
History refers to the past and it seems that there are situations or circumstances that have been lived through before, whose lessons have not filtered through to future generations. Tragedy, destruction, suffering and corruption continue. Certain people of every generation encounter inequality and discrimination, no matter what they do to blend in.
However, we should not lose hope, as somewhere in our subconscious we carry the will to survive and thrive no matter what the circumstance. The future belongs to all of us, as yet unknown, to be ventured forth into without preconception.
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April 1, 2020 by Claire 'Word by Word'
The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
I absolutely loved this book, it was such an immersive experience, I could feel myself slowing it right down not wanting it to end.
I read it over a weekend and what a memorable Sunday I spent reading through the 1930's, every time a singer, song or musician was mentioned I could easily look them up, so I played Bessie Smith's blues, watched Cab Calloway sing and dance Minnie the Moocher, listened to Lucille Hegamin and admired Bill Robinson's stair dance.
What makes this work of historical fiction even more interesting, is that it was inspired by a number of the author's own family and ancestors. With an interest in geneaolgy that has seen her collecting bits and pieces of their stories for over 20 years and an interest in the little known dark history of black people in Europe who were snatched by the Nazis and thrown into camps, she weaves the thread of a what had been a developing story into that of her own family, with a version of her mysterious grandfather Harold (who becomes Harlan) in the lead.
I love stories. I love backstories. I don't want to just give you character and not give you the background of the character, for me a story is like a tree, where you have the bark, the limbs and the roots and I need to be able to put all that down on paper. Bernice McFadden
McFadden writes short three page chapters and doesn't waste words, she's descriptive, informative, atmospheric and knows how to move a story along through time with sufficient essential and sensory detail to create well formed characters and a sense of place.
Emma is the youngest child and only daughter of the Reverend, who installed her as lead organist in the church from the age of seven. She and Lucille, her choir singing best friend secretly love another type of music, demonized by the Reverend.
On the outside, Emma didn't seem to want for anything, but let's be clear – she was starving on the inside. Not the coal-burning-belly type of hunger of the destitute, but the agonizing longing of a free spirit, caged.
Harlan is her son, an only child his story begins in 1917 Macon, Georgia where he will spend his formative years with his grandparents while his parents seek their fortune elsewhere, intending to send for him. By they time that happens he doesn't want to leave, but the bright lights of New York and an introduction to the musical world of his mother's friend Lucille, help him adjust.
Lucille's choir singing pays off, she becomes the second African-American blues singer to record; when Harlan drops out of school at 16 she proposes to his concerned mother that she take him on tour, with his guitar. Being on the road changes him, exposing him to things that seduce and overwhelm him that he indulges anyway, though shocked to find Lucille has her limits to her tolerance, and packs him off home.
When Sam comes home and finds his wife in tears, we learn it is September 1937 and Bessie Smith (43), Empress of the Blues, has sung her last lament.
At this point the story line swerves and introduces us to another family, we meet sisters Gwen and Irene, their mother Ethel and father Aubrey, fresh off the boat from Barbados.
The memories of the crossing, those first hard years, were still fresh in Ethel's mind; she could recall them with ease, as if she'd just stepped off the ship last week.
Gwen takes classes at the Mary Bruce School of Dance and after a short while her parents receive a letter suggesting that she might better suited to tap dancing than ballet, which delights her, as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was her hero.
Gwen had gone to see the movie The Little Colonel four times, committing to memory Robinson's famous step dance, which she then reenacted for her parents, Mary Bruce, and anyone else willing to sit and watch.
We come to know the family and observe Gwen resist and then fall for Harlan's charms.
Harlan meets Leo, a musician everyone calls Lizard and they start a band together, his life gets back on track, even if his habits don't change much. Lizard's story is unique, he and Harlan are bound together by some strange twist of fate, a connection that will run deep and silent within Harlan his entire life, until finally he is released from the pain of it.
When Harlan and Lizard respond to an invitation from Eugène Jacques Bullard to come to Paris and play in his club in Montmartre, it's like a dream come true, except that it was the wrong time in history (1942) to be hanging around a city that was about to come under occupation. Paris became a life changing moment for both of them.
With the arrival of Harlan's band and others, Montmartre came alive again. For a while, the threat of war between Germany and Great Britain had scattered the musicians like ants.
The Zazous took their name after Cab Calloway's hit "Zaz Zuh Zaz." They'd thoroughly immersed themselves in swing culture, going so far as adopting Calloway's style of dress, gliding back-step dance moves, and hep language.
A Little Historical Diversion
Black American singers, dancers, entertainers and jazz musicians found Europe in general and Paris in particular, a congenial place to live and work, settling there for much of the interwar years, developing a thriving expat cultural community in Montmartre. It is towards this ideal that Harlan is drawn, convincing his more reticent friend to follow.
Eugène Jacques Bullard left America for France at a young age, inspired by the words of his father (from Martinique, enslaved in Haiti, he took refuge with and married a Native American of the Creek tribe) who said to his son « un homme y était jugé par son mérite et non pas par la couleur de sa peau » that a man was judged there by his merit and not by the colour of his skin.
A French foreign legionnaire, he became the world's first black fighter pilot, fighting with the French Lafayette Flying Corps during WWI. After the war, inspired by his love of music, he founded the nightclub l'Escadrille in Montmartre, a beacon for artists and musicians who discovered an established black community in a part of Paris similar to the population of Harlem, a village within a village.
By the time Harlan returns to New York, he is a shadow of his former self due to what he endured. McFadden adeptly takes us through the following years referencing significant moments of the collective history, bringing Harlan's story full circle.
Bernice L. McFadden's ancestors are named at the back of the book as are some of the musicians, dancers and singers who make an appearance. By the end, I just wanted Harlan to be safe and it was with some relief that I read the closing chapters and wondered if that was the true version of events or the life-saving imagination of Ms McFadden.
It left me wanting to know more about some of the characters, as some threads are left hanging, but in all it is a wonderful tribute to a family history and a remarkable capturing of the period of time they lived through. A brilliant, entertaining, informative story and a unique reading experience, accompanied as it was for me by all that music and dance.
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March 20, 2020 by Claire 'Word by Word'
Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters by Maria José Silveira (Brazil) tr. Eric.M.B. Becker
Just brilliant.
What a perfect way to navigate through 500 years of history of a country, without ever getting bogged down in the detail, to follow the lives of daughters, a matrilineal lineage, whose patterns are affected if not dictated by the context of the era within which they've lived.
An omniscient narrative begins with the daughter of a native tribeswoman, who leaves her village and family on the arm of a Portuguese ship hand, and moves to the many generations living on sugarcane plantations, to the era of daughters of wealthy business owners living off the profits of those ancestors; from the bitter to the sweet, the uncaring to the revolutionary, five centuries of women, interlaced through stories.
Each chapter follows one young woman and though some of their lives are short-lived, they at least give birth to one daughter, even if some don't live to raise them. Though unlikely in reality that so many generations would all produce at least one daughter who survives long enough to reproduce, this construct provides the framework for telling the stories, weaving together the historical threads, allowing only us as readers to see what they often don't, that they are, that we all connected if we look back far enough, or inside deep enough.
Translator Eric M. B. Becker, the winner of a 2014 PEN/Heim Translation grant, produces an excellent translation. By leaving particularly Brazilian terms such as "emboaba" and "cafuzo" untranslated, Becker manages to make readers of English understand the untranslatable within its context. The novel maintains a casual, dreamlike quality, as if the narrator were telling these stories to a friend. Each character is given their own original voice, emotions, and musicality. If some syntax feels unexpected, it is almost always for the benefit of sound.
L. E. Goldstein, Harvard Review
Their stories are grouped into five parts:
A Shortlived Romance – Inaia (1500 – 1514) and her daughter Tebereté (1514 -1548)
Desolate Wilderness -six daughter descendants, the slave years (1531 – 1693)
Improbable Splendour – five daughters, the commercial trading years, accumulating wealth (1683 – 1822)
Vicious Modernity – four daughters, revenge, jealousy, naivety, the elite upper classes (1816 – 1906)
A Promising Sign – three daughters, working class, equality, human rights, exile, freedom (1926 – present)
There are so many stories, it is difficult to retain them all and remember them, and for this it's necessary to slow-read this book to really take in the breadth of storytelling, which implicitly tells the greater story of a country's evolution, growth, pain and development. But what better way than to inhabit the lives of one family and follow them over the course of time, recalling the fates of each character and the essence of the life they lived, was enabled or disabled by the time they lived through.
The narrator makes an appearance from time to time, like the hand that threads the needle, they are threadbare and unintrusive, like a pause in reading to make a cup of tea, they don't disturb the reader, if anything we are comforted by the presence.
I absolutely loved it, I read this because I seek out works by women in translation to read in August for #WITMonth and finding a book like this is such a joy, for it gives so much in its reading, great storytelling, a potted history of Brazil, a unique multiple women's perspective and an introduction to an award winning author, the writer of ten novels, this her first translated into English.
The variety of their personalities, and the pain, beauty, and strength they display shows that genetics alone does not make a person who they are. In this book, the characters' environments form them, from the people with whom they interact to the great changes taking place in the pulsing heart of Brazil itself.
I wrote most of this review back in August last year, and as you know, I wasn't capable of sharing anything for some time after that. I passed the book on to a wonderful friend who came to be with me during that time, and for that reason too I'm unable to share any quotes.
It was one certainly of my favourite reads of 2019. A real gem.
Thank you to Enrico for his excellent review that made me get my own copy of the book to read. Read his review, it's more of an incisive literary criticism that looks at the challenges of writing a novel like this and how Silveira overcomes them.
Posted in Brazilian literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Translation, WIT Month | Tagged Brazil, Brazilian literature, Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters, historical fiction, Maria José Silveira, translated fiction | 17 Comments
July 29, 2019 by Claire 'Word by Word'
The Long Song by Andrea Levy
As you may know, Andrea Levy sadly passed away in February 2019 at the tender age of 62. She was a British author of Jamaican origin who became well-known when her fourth novel Small Island ( 2004) was awarded the Woman's Prize for Fiction (then known as the Orange Prize).
Her novels explore the experiences of those connected British/Jamaican histories, gaining inspiration from her own family and heritage. Every Light in the House Burnin' (1994), is an intimate portrayal of family life that felt like I was reading about the author's childhood, depicting the challenges faced by a Jamaican family in 1960s London. Semi-autobiographical, it was clearly inspired by experiences she'd had, growing up the daughter of immigrants in London.
In The Long Song, she delves deeper into her heritage, into the lives of slaves on a plantation in Jamaica, telling it through the voice of July, who we meet as she is birthed and follow as fate intervenes and snatches her from her mother, placing her in the main house, where she becomes the maid to the sister of the owner.
Levy wanted to get inside the world of her character in a way she hadn't seen done before. To imagine those voices that hadn't been able to record their perspectives and feelings, especially the women. To imagine what they were really thinking, how they would have been feeling, the emotions that were not safe for them to express, that we might imagine by reading between the lines of the slanted narratives that do exist.
What I wanted to explore isn't in our history books. I wanted to put back in the voices of everyday life for black Jamaicans that are so silent in the record…When the time you are writing about is two hundred years ago, there's no one to interview and so the individual view has to come from the writer's imagination.
Much of the research she encountered were accounts of perspectives that didn't at all fit with what she sought to show, planters accounts "of negroes child-like ways" and their wives equally misconceived notions on their "defects of character".
And what an astounding novel results, a natural development of the author's work as she claimed her ancestry and woke to who she was and where parts of her family had come from.
I loved it. It's unique, she narrates from both the inside and the outside, being in the story and looking back on the story of the life of a girl named July, the daughter of a black slave and a white overseer on a plantation in Jamaica. It is at times crass, confronting and yet slightly tongue in cheek, daring you to continue reading through the discomfort.
Miss July narrates the story as a grandmother looking back at her life, committing it to paper at the request of her son, who every evening reads it and comments. She writes her account of that in the third person, interrupting it in the first person to complain about the demands of her son, or to clarify something she wants the reader to know. She's having a conversation with you as you read, and I found it entertaining.
Now, reader, no matter what you may have heard Caroline Mortimer declare as the next act in this story, for she gave her own fulsome account of that day to the militia, several magistrates, lawyers and indeed anyone who ever graced her dinner table, this that I am about to tell you, is the truth of what occurred next within that bed chamber. So not doubt me, for remember my witness still lies beneath the bed.
She removes the blinkers, stepping inside her characters showing them warts and all, making this uncomfortable reading at times, yet perhaps more realistic than most. For even those who have been depicted as well intended (white saviour narratives) were a product of their time and of white privilege.
Little writing or testimony has emerged that was not filtered at the time through a white understanding or serving a white narrative – whether it be the apologists for slavery and the West Indian planter classes, or their opponents, the abolitionists.
She shares the story with great humour and frequent distaste. No one is immune to her stripping characters bare and showing their true selves. So there's no indulging flights of fancy, happy endings or gratuitous violence, although there is perhaps one character who manages to rise above the rest, but he was abandoned at birth so he deserves to shine a little brighter.
It's sad to think her storytelling days have ended, but the three works I've read are a brilliant encapsulation of seeing through the lens of a life imagined and lived, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants living in Britain, who came to know and imagine the history and potential lives of her ancestors.
The Long Song was awarded the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. It was also adapted by the BBC into a TV series.
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A fascinating read, an insight into a unique way of life by women known as 'haenyeo' on the coastal, volcanic island of Jeju, in South Korea and a well-researched, thought-provoking work of historical fiction.
The novel is structured into chapters of time periods in four parts (Part 1 Friendship 1938, Part II Love 1944-1946, Part III Fear 1947-1949, Part IV Blame 1961), interspersed with chapters that cover four days in 2008, when a family of four from America come to Jeju Island and encounter a now aged Young-Sook, asking questions she turns away from.
The story follows the life of an elder daughter Young-sook, whose mother is the chief of their local collective of 'haenyeo', women divers who harvest seafood (sea cucumber, urchins, abalone, octopus) all year round from the sea floor; they can stay underwater for sustained periods of time without breathing apparatus, wearing cotton garments that don't protect them from the cold yet they don't suffer hypothermia. As they rise to the surface, they emit a whistling noise 'sumbisori' an ancient technique to expel carbon dioxide from the lungs while also letting the other women know where they are.
The biggest risk is inattention, whether it's abalone clamping down on a knife or a dangerous current sweeping them away (thus they always work in pairs). Before they enter the sea and when they return to land, they huddle around a fire in a seafront, stone enclosure called a 'bulteok', share information, gossip, give advice and receive orders before going into the sea. Bulteok function as spaces for community life, changing of clothes by haenyeo, protection from weather, work activities such as repairs and storing their catch between dives and training.
In the 1960s, at their apex, there were 23,000 haenyeo women on Jeju, according to the island's Haenyeo Museum. But now, only 4,300 haenyeo remain; many experts believe this generation will be the last, as young people flee to cities and pollution destroys the haenyeo's place of work: the fragile aquatic ecosystem of the Strait. As of 2017, Jeju was home to only 67 haenyeo under the age of 50. In 2016, UNESCO awarded the divers a Cultural Heritage of Humanity designation.
A Typical Stone Bulteok Enclosure
They practice a form of Shamanism paying their respects to a Goddess, who helps them hold their breath and keeps them safe from danger. At certain times of the year, they hold ceremonies in honour of the goddess of the winds, launching mini straw boats out to sea, making sacrificial gifts of rice and other foods.
Although the Japanese had outlawed Shamanism, Shaman Kim, our spiritual leader and guide, our divine wise one, continued to perform funerals and rites for lost souls in secret. She was known to hold rituals to for grandmothers when their eyesight began to fade, mothers whose sons were in the military, and women who had bad luck, such as three pigs dying in a row. She was our conduit between the human world and the spirit world. She had the ability to go into trances to speak to the dead or missing, and then transmit their messages to friends, family, and even enemies.
Though the islanders live a simple life, they suffer the consequence of being a resting place for occupying forces, initially when the story opens, it is the Japanese military who occupy the island and create a bad feeling.
Young-sook's best friend Mi-ja is an orphan, her mother died in childbirth and her father was believed to be a collaborator because he worked for the Japanese. She suffers from 'guilt by association', the villagers say she will be unlikely to find a good match in marriage despite her good looks. Young-sook's mother teaches her to become a 'haenyeo' and the two girls become firm friends.
A matrifocal society, it is the women/mothers who are the head of the household, who go to work, to sea, and the men who stay with the children and look after the home, or in some cases leave for the mainland to do factory work. When the girls are around 20 years old (in the 1940's), they do 'leaving-home water-work' off the coast of Vladivostock. Apart from moving to Japan to do factory work, the only other legitimate way to leave the island was to work as haenyeo, diving from boats in other countries. The girls left for nine months at a time. They signed a contract for five years work.
During that time, the world – and not just our island – was shaken. For decades Japan had been a stable – if wholly hated – power on Jeju.
Back on their island, men and boys were being rounded up and conscripted into the Japanese army, sometimes without being given the chance to notify their families. At the end of WWII the Japanese occupying forces are replaced by American forces, and the country conducts it's own elections, but people are preventing from voting and the incoming political party is mistrusting and treats people badly. Guilt by association leads them to kill indiscriminately, to burn villages, thus people leave in fear. The occupying forces don't intervene.
This mid-section of the novel is subsumed by the changing political situation and the dire effect on the local population, nearly all of whom lose members of their family. Young-Sook's family suffer severe tragedy, creating a deep resentment, causing her to abandon her friendship with Mi-ja.
We know that Mi-ja has an unhappy marriage, that she has one son, but with Young-sook's unforgiving distance from her friend, the narrative around her life is full of gaps, we are witness only to Young-sook's view, Mi-ja's story is pieced together in patches until the end.
Rich in detail of the past and of the lives of Young-sook's family, the story challenges the protagonist and the reader through the revelations of the interspersed four day narrative, when Clara, the young American great-grand-daughter of Mi-ja seeks out Young-sook. These short chapters drip feed the reader with insights into Mi-ja's family after she left Jeju and bring the story to it's thought-provoking conclusion.
It's is a heart-breaking story of island women maintaining a unique tradition and way of life that has made them into unique humans, able to sustain the sea elements like no other and it is also a story of islanders at the mercy of inhumane political and military powers and policies, punished for expressing their opposition, for any form of protest and implicating everyone in their families if they do. It is a wonderful discovery and celebration of female partnership, collaboration and spiritual practice that has survived despite many setbacks, and a lesson in the necessity of forgiveness, and the sad consequence of stubbornly refusing it.
"To understand everything is to forgive."
Haenyeo – a day in the life of a 12 year old Korean girl, learning to dive as a haenyeo on the island of Jeju.
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Gardens in the Dunes by Leslie Marmon Silko
2019 is becoming my year of reading Silko, this now is the second novel I've read after Ceremony and I loved it as much, in some ways perhaps more, given the journey it takes the reader on. It follows on from two other books I read, reviews linked here, her excellent memoir The Turquoise Ledge and a slim collection of letters between Silko and the Pulitzer prize winning poet James Wright, The Delicacy and Strength of Lace.
While Ceremony was the coming of age of a young man set over a short period of time, Garden in the Dunes is more of a historical novel, set in the late 1800's, tracing the lives of two native American sisters, Indigo and Sister Salt and at various times, their Grandmother and the newlywed white woman Hattie who provides refuge for Indigo for a period of time after she escapes the boarding school she has been imprisoned within.
Hattie and her husband Edward take Indigo with them to Europe for the summer, where she experiences differences in their way of life, but also finds something in the old world that she connects with. Archeological art in Bath, sculptures in a garden in Lucca from pre-Christian Europe create a link with American Indian symbolism through Indigo's observations and experiences.
Along the way, as she had learned in the dunes, she collects seeds (the old ways) and flower bulbs (a new interest) for replanting when she returns home. She represents the connection to the past and also the future, learning new skills that will improve, add to their lifestyle.
Silko traces the transcultural histories and significances of sacred snakes and their feminine symbolism, unsurprising given her own close relationship to those that dwell beneath her own home in Tuscon. The final scene in the novel is fittingly given over to the return of a snake, a lasting metaphoric image of generational continuance and survival.
The novel rests in numerous locations where the girls live and must adapt, but their spiritual home and the place they always wish to return to, the place where their Sand Lizard people come from are the gardens in the d | 6,924 |
Now and then we hear about another so-called barn find; a rare car unearthed after being hidden away and lost for years. But it's even better when we come across the story of a classic that has been used regularly and enjoyed just as its maker intended. One such car is this Guards Red 1992 911 (964) Carrera RS whose original owner was Ursula Piëch, the wife of Ferdinand Piëch, renowned grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, and former Chairman of the VW Group supervisory board.
Its present owner is British-born Stephen Murkett, who has run Porsche's Cayenne and Panamera projects for many years. By an amazing stroke of coincidence, Murkett rode as a passenger in this very car when it was in the hands of its second owner, his colleague Matthias Kulla, another Royal College of Art graduate, who has been the director of sports car design management at Style Porsche since 2014. We picked up the story from the two friends.
"For a young designer at Porsche, the most important thing in life besides work is which Porsche he drives," K<|fim_middle|> for 10 years. Back in the day, it was the best value track day car you could buy," Murkett was told.
By then, Kulla had found a photo of the car from 1995 that showed the same 964 Carrera RS with the same registration. This was indeed Kulla's old car, the original Ursula Piëch RS.
The pair went to see the car, which was actually in better shape than Murkett had expected. It also drove well; RS stiff but straight and solid. The engine compartment showcased 20 years of proper use and a strong smell of oil. The signature magnesium wheels were also starting to reject the coat of black paint that had been applied at some point. Also, the interior had not been cleaned between track outings. It was clear that this car needed some TLC.
With a thick carpet of snow still on the ground outside, Martin Wright took his two visitors to his garage and showed them the original seats, an extra set of wheels, and other original parts that had been removed when the car was turned into a track-day machine. All these bits were loaded into Jeff Wright's Cayenne and they set off, Murkett having agreed to collect the RS the following day.
There Murkett was received by Andy Keywood and John Titcombe, Carrera GT and RS specialists respectively, and both 964 era veterans. "Leaving the RS surrounded by Carrera GTs comforted me, and when I flew back to Stuttgart I knew the car was in good hands," says Murkett.
After the car was given a thorough inspection by Keywood and Titcombe, the 964's condition was summed up in an email to Murkett. While the tub was straight, the bodywork showed signs of a repair and newer paint. In addition, the 3.6-liter flat-six engine had been partially rebuilt at some point, and several head bolts were split. This was not an uncommon issue on older flat-six engines but needed to be dealt with.
On further investigation, Murkett discovered the history surrounding the engine work. This involved the first UK owner of the car, a London cab driver named Johnny English, who was also a track-day enthusiast.
It transpired that he had taken it to a Supercar Test Day at Goodwood, where a trusted friend took it out for a lap or two, and it came back sounding like a bag of nails. His friend had clearly missed a gear and buzzed the engine. "Under the gentleman's rule, 'You bend it, you mend it,' he had to have it fixed, which explained the engine issue," said Murkett.
Murkett applauded the taxi driver's honesty, and Johnny opened up further, admitting to having had a prang at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium the following year, where he lost control at the top of Eau Rouge, and kissed the barriers, denting the front left and rear right corners. "That explained the 12-year-old paint," Murkett muses.
In the meantime, Keywood and Titcombe had painstakingly rebuilt the engine using the original parts that Murkett had sourced from the factory. Aware of the history of the car, they went to great lengths to get every detail just right. The drivetrain went in and out of the car five times in the pursuit of perfection.
By now it was May, nearly four months after Murkett had bought the car. Winter was a distant memory, and the RS emerged from its slumber with a fresh engine. It would soon be time to begin the journey back to its spiritual home. To ensure that everything was perfect before he drove it home, Murkett came over to the UK and performed a 450-mile shakedown drive. The oil was changed, and Titcombe cast a final look over the RS.
By July, the car was running perfectly, and once it was cleaned, it looked young and eager again. Murkett decided he would really enjoy the drive back to Stuttgart in his 'new' RS, and drove it down to Goodwood for the Festival of Speed, and then over to the Le Mans Classic in France the week after.
Regular trips to the Alps, Hockenheim, and the Solitude Revival followed. "Lapping the Weissach test track to the sound of the Cup exhaust was another highlight!" says Murkett.
When I photographed the RS in May 2016, it had been back in Stuttgart for almost four years. Surrounded by other air-cooled Porsches, this paradigm of lightweight 911s looked totally at home. Most important of all, it is still driven regularly, both on the road and on the track, just as Porsche originally intended. | ulla explains. "After various 944s I got into 964s, a coupe first then a Cabriolet. By this time I was hooked on these cars and wondered how the experience could ever be topped." Then one day a young man walked into the design studio and said, "Hi, my name is Achim. How can I get a Porsche lease car as quickly as possible?" He was Achim Anscheidt, who went on to be the Design Director at Bugatti.
Kulla had a solution! "One of the first things you do when you arrive at Porsche is find out if there is a lease car available for you to use," Kulla recalls. "The guy in charge looked at his stock list, but there was nothing particularly interesting around apart from what he described as a racing Porsche, a 964 RS with just 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles) on the clock." Anscheidt did not like the idea of a racing Porsche, but Kulla did!
Kulla's desire to experience all that the car had to give naturally led him to compete. "The Porsche Club of America had a chapter in Germany with the U.S. Forces guys, and I took part in their autocrosses with the RS, which was a noticeable improvement over the 964 Cabriolet I had entered before. After that, I was only beaten once, by a guy in a Rubystone Red 964 RS." Kulla then got the itch to run the RS at track days.
Kulla kept the RS for almost a year, during which the car covered 34,000 km (21,127 miles). "I had never driven a car so much before, and definitely never as hard," he says with obvious passion in his voice. Normal life in the form of an apartment and child caught up with Kulla, and so eventually it was time to say goodbye to the RS. He returned the car to Zuffenhausen, and as he was on the Weissach-bound shuttle he saw the RS going the other way on a the back of a trailer. That was in February 1995.
Stephen Murkett joined Porsche as an exterior designer in 1983, straight from the Royal College of Art. His major projects were the 959, 964, and the 1989 Panamericana show car. He ran Porsche's advanced design studio from 1990 to 1996, focusing on mid-engine concepts. During that time he also designed the RS, GT2 and Targa versions of the 993.
The first Boxster concept (pre-showcar) came from Murkett's fertile mind, as did the Boxster name. He then penned several off-road concept cars leading up to the Cayenne and went on to run the Cayenne and Panamera programs for many years. Preferring to work with and nurture young design talent, Murkett set up and runs the design trend research.
Not having the 964-generation RS in focus, Murkett was unaware of its current value. Flipping through the classifieds to investigate, he saw a 1992 RS advertised for a shocking £120,000 ($157,626 in current USD), and the penny dropped. Then he saw another one listed at £60,000 ($78,831 in current USD) and wondered why there was such a huge price discrepancy. The cheaper of the two UK-registered cars was a left-hand-drive 1992 built 'lightweight' that had covered 64,000 miles. It also had an unusual history, having apparently been ordered by a Porsche director who had specified a 959 passenger seat and a complete rear seat assembly—definitely not a normal lightweight feature.
Wright was upfront about the fact that he used the RS for track days, so it had not exactly been coddled. "I have owned it | 848 |
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Fancy a stroll, why not try one of our local walks?
We are very lucky to have some of the UK's best walking paths close by in the East Riding, but if you fancy something right on your door step, then why not try one of the walks below. For the enjoyment of all if you do take you dog along with you, please be sure to clean up after them.
This easy, circular walk which was created and is maintained by HMP Full Sutton is approximately one mile in length and very popular. If it has been raining water proof footwear is recommended as both the field and the woodland can be muddy.
Start by walking to the end of Glebe Ave, at the top of the road<|fim_middle|> please be aware this takes you directly on to the active runway of Full Sutton Flying Club. Please take care to ensure that you do not venture onto or near the runway area as this would be very dangerous for both you and any aircraft.
The return route takes you along the side of a large field, please stay on the right hand side of the field. On the left hand side you will see the outer boundary fence of HMP Full Sutton clearly marked. It makes life a lot easier for the team at the prison if nobody shows up on the CCTV walking alongside the fence for obvious reasons.
After a while the path changes direction and if you look to your left you will see where the short cut comes out. Keep following the path alongside the field.
Before long you will find yourself back at the start with the first gate on your left and a choice of 3 paths (in the summertime). Which way you go is up to you, straight on is the quickest way but right brings you to the same place at the top of Glebe Ave or be it by a longer route around the field. Left will take you down towards HMP Full Sutton. | you will see a gap between the houses and the field beyond. In the summertime HMP Full Sutton allow the majority of the grass to grow fully to support local wildlife but you will find a number of walking paths mowed. Watch out it can be very muddy and wet as you step onto the field if there has been rain.
Following the path directly ahead will take you up a small incline in the direction of the woodland. After a short walk you will see the entrance to the Woodland walk.
To access the Woodland walk you need to cross a stile (but there is an "unofficial" path around the side of the gate if you find it difficult). Once past the gate turn right and you will see the well-defined path between the trees.
The path is very easy to follow, the official route between the trees is lined with logs and is kept flat and pretty clear. There are a number of other "unofficial" paths to be seen but who knows where they go. Watch out for mud when it has been damp for a few days.
After a few minutes of walking you will see a path branching off to the right. This short cut back takes about a third of a mile off the walk, handy if you have smaller children with you.
If you decide to give the short cut a miss a few more minutes of gentle strolling will bring the end of the woodland section of the walk in sight.
When you pass the second gate and leave the woodland section of the walk you need to turn right. While a walk to the left might look interesting | 318 |
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A NEW group which hopes to make Saffron Walden less dependent on fossil fuels has organised a series of events to kick start the debate. Walden in Transition wants to equip the community with the resources to survive in a world where supply of oil cannot
A NEW group which hopes to make Saffron Walden less dependent on fossil fuels has organised a series of events to kick start the debate.
Walden in Transition wants to equip the community with the resources to survive in a world where supply of oil cannot meet demand.
Founder of solar energy company Solarcentury, Jeremy Leggett, will start the discussion with a talk at Saffron Walden Town Hall at 8pm on Tuesday March 24. Tickets cost £3 from the Tourist Information Centre, currently based at the town hall.
Dr Stephen Willoughby from Walden in Transition said: "The triple crunch of oil depletion, climate change and the global recession presents us with huge opportunities as well as challenges.
"The events we've lined up aim to set out the urgency of the problems we face and start us thinking about how we, in Walden, might respond to the realities of these challenges in a positive way."
Future guest speakers include the Green Party's Dr Rupert Read (April 15), David Strahan from the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (April 23) and Dr Joe Smith from the Open University (May | 306 |
Hello! My name is Amber and I am the current placement student at RateMyPlacement, working within the Marketing team as a Marketing Assistant.
My role has allowed me to gain experience in dealing with both offline and online marketing campaigns and also given me the opportunity to manage my own projects within the team.
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A placement is a programme available to most students that involves taking a year out from studying at university and going out into the big wide world to get some all important work experience.
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The first thing that you should know is that it's hard to get a placement. Don't think that just because you're a fresh-faced student looking for a year's work experience that employers will be fighting over you. You've got to make them fight over you!
Some of my friends from university gave up looking for a placement after having their first application rejected and they definitely regret not taking the time to reflect and apply for more. I applied for around 20 roles, but I know others who applied for even more.
It may seem daunting having to go through several interviews, but there's plenty of advice out there, and trust me it's definitely worth doing - not just for the experience or the money but the people you meet too.
When it comes to interviews you can never be too prepared! Before I got my placement I went to a fair few assessment centres and had plenty of interviews too.
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For example I really wanted to use my placement to boost my public speaking skills so I've taken every opportunity that's come my way to get out in-front of people and present.
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Before going on placement I got some stick from friends who didn't want to do go on placement that I would be wasting a year of my time just making tea and coffee for people in the business. This couldn't be further from the truth!
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Han Sen kept track of how long it took for the light to fade and the shroud of invisibility to return and cloak the scorpion.
Han Sen decided to strike the next time it came out for some moonlight refreshment.
Of course, the full moon that drew it out only occurred once a month. If it came out for each full moon, like clockwork, he'd be waiting a while, but Han Sen decided to remain and see if there were any other events that would compel the scorpion out of its lair. He stayed there for a few days.
With time to kill, he focused on refining his Life Geno Essences while he observed the valley. Now, he had eleven super geno points.
During this month-long wait, Uncle Bug came to the valley to subject his son to the once-a-month torture. Although Han Sen had seen this play out once before, it still frightened him to see it all unfold again. It was rather sad, too.
The full moon finally rose, and with its coming, the face-shaped scorpions emerged from their creepy tunnels. They used the faces on their back to help the transparent scorpion collect moonlight.
Han Sen waited until it absorbed as much as it could and then began his assault. He activated super king spirit mode and ran into battle alongside Disloyal Knight.
Disloyal Knight's halo was brighter than ever, and it shone across the entire valley as Han Sen rained coins in unbridled oppression.
The transparent scorpion noticed this quickly occur, and the light-carrying baby faces all seemed to turn to look at the duo. As a coin was about to land atop the transparent scorpion, the beast threw a punch to deflect it.
The moonlight acted like super-fuel for the creature, and the power of its hit connected with the coin and turned it to dust.
Needless to say, Han Sen was shocked. The scorpion was a far more terrible beast than he imagined it to be. The powers were far beyond any other super creature he had fought thus far.
Disloyal Knight marched forward to clobber the scorpion, but the scorpion's tail managed to sting its arm and knock it back<|fim_middle|> beat the scorpion. Any damage he dealt was not enough to slay the monster.
Disloyal Knight co-operated with Han Sen, who was using a combination of Double Fly and his phoenix techniques to attack.
The scorpion swung its fists and its tail to batter Han Sen, but he did not fall back.
But as time went on, the scorpion's body began to dim as the light inside it faded. It was becoming harder and harder to see, the more time elapsed.
"Go." Han Sen knew he wasn't going to be able to kill the scorpion that day, and there was no doubt that he had gotten into a fray with a berserk-class super creature.
But as much as Han Sen thought it would be best to flee, the scorpion was enraged. It was not keen to let the man who had the gall to disrupt its monthly ceremony go free. The pincers of the scorpion grabbed him, and they rendered Han Sen immobile.
And just as this occurred, the scorpion entirely disappeared from Han Sen's vision.
Disloyal Knight's body was suddenly open. A bloody hole appeared on his body, and Han Sen knew he had been struck by the scorpion's tail.
It took a lot to cancel the determination of Disloyal Knight, and as much as he still wished to fight and grab the tail that had stabbed through him, it disappeared before he could grab it.
Han Sen was beginning to panic, but he could not see the scorpion. His chest was feeling pressure like no other, as his legs kicked the sand in an attempt to slip away. As this happened, the armor on his chest began to dent and bend to the violent will of the pincers that had him caught.
"D*mn it!" Han Sen clicked his fingers to rain another barrage of coins down from the sky.
The next best thing to keeping track of this opponent was to rain coins. Coins stuck to their target, so Han Sen believed he could at least get a grasp of the creature's location if it was laden with coins.
As the coins rained, though, there was no sign of the scorpion.
Disloyal Knight let out a shrill warcry as he was stung by the scorpion's tail once more.
Fortunately, Disloyal Knight was immune to poison. If he hadn't been, he'd have been rendered unable to fight by the first stinger-strike.
Disloyal Knight kept on swinging his manic fists around in a bid to hit the phantom that assaulted him, but he had no clue where it was.
"Argh!" Han Sen felt pain in his back.
Han Sen was the next recipient of the scorpion's stinger. Fortunately for him, the super armor was sturdy enough to provide protection and keep the tail from piercing through.
"Run!" Han Sen managed to slip through the pincer and fly higher. The super creature was far too powerful for them, and not even the coins were enough to reveal the monster.
But as Han Sen took to the skies, his relief was short-lived. He felt something snag and pull him back down as if a chain had quickly wreathed itself around his waist. It forced him down into the ground, and when he smacked hard against the sandy floor of the canyon, a hole was created in his shape.
The transparent scorpion was invisible, the coins could not stick to it, and not even Han Sen's eighth sense could keep track of it.
Disloyal Knight was not as strong as a super king spirit, and all its armor was dyed in red.
Han Sen was in a sorry state now, too. He could not see where his opponent was, and all he could do was brace for the next attack that was sure to strike him. | .
"Berserk super creature?" Han Sen was quite surprised. Disloyal Knight's halo was already working to weaken the foe, and yet its power was still of such heights.
Han Sen grabbed his Phoenix Sword and Taia. Clad in his mantis armor, with dragon wings decorating his back, he charged.
The scorpion raised its arms to defend against Han Sen's barrage of sword strikes.
The fighting sounds echoed throughout the valley, as curtains of sand were kicked up in the haze of battle.
The area was in chaos, as rocks were broken into chips.
Despite Han Sen using super king spirit mode and all those beast souls, it still didn't provide the advantage he needed to | 140 |
We all know that "the beauty lies in the eyes of beholder", yet the beauty of the birthstones lies in the fact that they are not just amazingly beautiful but they also showed the wearer with much needed good luck and charm. Here we are listing the gemstones that one can wear according to one's birth month.
Garnet: A garnet is a perfect epitome of trust and eternal bond of friendship and love.
Origin: The word Garnet has its origination in the word 'Garanatus' that refers to something that looks like a pomegranate seed.
Legend: It is believed that Noah had used an intricately cut glowing garnet to light up the dark during the dark rainy nights and days.
Amethyst: An amethyst is an epitome of Valour and coherence.
Origin: The word amethyst has its roots in the Greek word améthystos which literally meant not intoxicating.
Legend: It was believed that a person with amethyst in his possession will remain free of any kind of addiction and would be guarded against getting himself drunk.
Aquamarine: This aqua blue colored gemstone is an epitome of placidity and prudence.
Origin: The word Aquamarine has its roots in the Latin word Aqua meaning water. The color of this birthstone is sea blue hence the name aquamarine.
Legend: An aquamarine is known as a sailor's gem as it was believed to make the sailors and soldiers unbeatable as per the Greek and Roman mythology.
Diamond: This colorless and flawless stone is believed to be a perfect epitome of unfaltering love, fortitude, and resolution.
Origin: The word diamond has its roots in the Greek word 'Adamao' which literally means to tame.
Legend: According to a Roman mythology the arrows of the cupid were adorned with diamonds which were believed to be tears of god.
Emerald: An emerald is an epitome of aspiration and escalation in one's career and personal life.
Origin: The word Emerald has its roots in an old French word Esmeralda and Greek word smaragds which meant shine.
Legend: As per Egyptian mythology an emerald stood for revival, vitality, and virility. There was a common belief in ancient times about the ability of Emerald to keep evil spirits at bay.
Alexandrite: It is a perfect epitome of opulence and love.
Origin: This beautiful stone has been named after the Tsar of Russia 'Alexander II' for his empathy towards its people.
Legend: The legend holds that a person wearing an alexandrite has an immense intuitive ability and is capable of dealing with the most desperate situations victoriously.
Ruby: A ruby is a blood red gemstone which used to a symbol of riches and luxury.
Origin: The name ruby has its root in the Latin word 'Rubeus' that meant red color.
Legend: It was believed that possession of a ruby will increase one's wealth, befriend its rivals and protect one from the possible harms from enemies.
Peridot: A Peridot is an olive-green colored gemstone that epitomizes strength, prestige, and capability.
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Legend: As per the Greek mythology a Topaz was believed to make its wearer invisible to the eyes of enemies.
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"The disk is a whale," Howard Blakeslee, science editor at Associated Press, wrote to George Ellery Hale in 1934. "Every detail is on a scale so much larger than anything heretofore attempted."
"And if the mirror proves a success," Hale replied, it's "not likely to be repeated very soon."
The mirror was the Giant Eye, a 200-inch Pyrex glass destined for the world's largest telescope at Palomar Observatory. The tasks took 13 years and became so formidable that Hale, the visionary behind the project, didn't live to see them completed. If he did, he would have nail-bit every foot of its final journey from Pasadena to Palomar: 160 miles of potential hazards and a reverse-slalom up the mountain the day winter arrived.
On Monday, Jack Belyea's trucking company moved the mirror, packed in a 20-foot plywood box on a dolly trailer, onto California Street in Pasadena. As if accepting a dare, Belyea put eight-foot signs on the sides and the rear: "Moved by Belyea Truck Co./Pacific Crane & Rigging Inc." His firm relished "screwball" jobs. They had shipped 54-ton girders through downtown Los Angeles, with inches to spare, and the 65-ton Founders Rock from the desert to UCLA. But a gigantic mirror, twice the size of the largest one in use? Asked how it felt to attempt such a task, Belyea replied, "Whether the load is worth $6 or $600,000, the job is to make the delivery."
Overnight, armed men guarded the fragile cargo. Around 3:00 a.m., project engineer Bruce Rule phoned Byron Hill, the observatory's director of construction, for the final weather check. Hill reported a sky full of stars over Escondido.
At 3:15, Rule gave Belyea's master driver, Lloyd Green, the okay. Then Rule climbed into the cab on the shotgun side, where he would monitor vibrations with a meter linked to the mirror. Green turned the engine over and black smoke puffed from a silver smokestack. Popping flashbulbs strobed the historic scene like winter lightning. Rule may not have noticed or heard spectators roaring with excitement. His eyes remained fixed on the meter and would for the next two days. A single, abrupt jolt could shatter the glass disk. A mere threat, the convoy would turn around.
By today's standards, the roads were primitive. Originally, Highway 101 was composed of single concrete slabs. In the 1930s, workers added a second, "twin slab" over the first. Connections were uneven, often with considerable overlays. Belyea's truck, with the whole world watching, would be lucky to reach 12 miles an hour.
When Green hit the ignition, ten Highway Patrol motorcycles revved up as well. Magnesium flares signaled the cars in the caravan — 53 had windshield passes — the trek had begun. Headlights blinked on, engines came alive, and sleepy Pasadena sounded like the Indianapolis 500.
Then the truck and trailer crept through town at half the speed of the Rose Parade.
Motorcycles led the way, red lights flashing. They blocked off several intersections in a row, halting wee-hours traffic. Caltech didn't announce the date in advance. When people saw the tractor-truck, its long trailer and 20-foot-wide box on top, followed by a half-mile queue of cars and newsreel crews filming every second, they wondered what could merit such precaution.
"A new atom bomb?" a motorist asked a patrolman.
Sergeant Clarence Martin, who led the police escort, said the procession "moved like a slow patrol through enemy territory."
Green became even more careful when making a turn. The maneuver required a languid, sweeping jackknife, the truck inching toward the far curb, then hooking back to the center line. During one turn, the tires bumped over a crown in the road. Although the truck and trailer almost bellied, Green thumbs-up'd a nervous Bruce Rule that all was copasetic.
Riding in a press car at tortoise speed, Los Angeles Times reporter James Bassett observed: "The creeping caravan seemed an almost ridiculous paradox: the eye that can span 1,000,000,000 light years [in an instant] poked along from 5 to 15 miles an hour."
On Highway 101, CHP officers cleared the road for two miles ahead. At the rear of the entourage, patrol cars blocked both lanes, so angry motorists late for work couldn't slip past.
At 11:00 a.m., an hour ahead of schedule, the caravan reached the day's major obstacle: the Galivan Overhead. Five miles north of San Juan Capistrano (just south of Oso Parkway), Highway 101 angled east, 50 feet above the Santa Fe railroad tracks. Engineers had pretested the bridge with stress gauges and didn't like what they found. The structure sagged, and its stilt-like trestle would cost too much to reinforce.
"The bridge is rated safe for 60 tons," Belyea told reporters, "and we have 60. So you can't fool around."
Riggers jacked up the load and bolted special dollies on each side — 16 more wheels — to widen the weight distribution. On a signal, Green turned over the Cummins engine. Rule eyed the meter while others monitored the overhead. Green shifted from "granny" gear to first, and the truck lugged the mirror up the incline like an old man with an aching back.
When all the weight was on the bridge, it sagged three-eighths of an inch. Ronald Florence: "Reporters wondered why…the engineers were smiling when the dollies were unbolted on the other side."
Even Belyea, who loved to snub difficulties, admitted that crossing the overhead was a "brow-mopping session."
By the time the caravan passed through San Juan Capistrano, the secret was out: the "Palomar Parade" was underway. Crowds flanked both sides of the street. CHP motorcycles and black coupes, with trademark white doors, became extra-wary of spectators. In Capistrano, San Clemente, and Oceanside, many observers doffed their hats as the vehicles trudged past, bright sunshine glinting off the world-famous crate.
The procession stopped at Carlsbad. State Route 78 to Escondido, where the mirror would stay the night, had much steeper hills than 101. To help push the load when necessary, Belyea hitched a second tractor-truck to the back of the trailer. When the convoy started again, storm clouds stalked it inland.
The largest crowd waited in Vista, where Vista Way had been widened so the truck and trailer could make a hard left turn off Hill Street. Young Patricia Bonyage watched the procession inch-worm through town. It "was gargantuan," she recalled, "as if somebody was bringing a big spaceship down the highway" — New Mexico's Roswell Incident having occurred in July.
Floyd Green pulled the truck into Escondido at 5:00 p.m., an hour ahead of schedule. His average speed for the 126.7 miles: "just over eight miles per hour."
The caravan parked at the Charlotta Inn, on East Ohio Avenue, between Juniper Street and Valley Boulevard. Guards lit flares down the roped-off block and took up stations around the vehicles.
As hundreds of people paraded past in long overcoats, umbrellas popped open: charcoal skies began to sprinkle. Then a cold rain fell.
"I was assured by everybody that was supposed to be in the know [Caltech that is] that we would have good weather on November 18 and 19," Jack Belyea grumbled.
It drizzled off and on all night. At 5:00 a.m., Belyea and Bruce Rule met with Byron Hill, who had reported clear skies 26 hours earlier. Belyea was famous for "taking nothing from nobody."
So was Hill. "Things don't look good on the mountain," he said. "It's socked in with fog; visibility near zero."
The mirror couldn't stay in Escondido, everyone agreed. For years, Caltech received letters from cranks threatening sabotage, and even a well-meaning public could cause problems.
"My personal opinion," said Hill, glancing at the sky, "we can make it."
Belyea suggested they find a wide spot on the road near Rincon and plan the next move from there. The others nodded.
The final 36 miles, wrote A.S. Leonard, "presented every hazard known to highway transportation." Hill told reporters that if rain fell heavier than a drizzle, they wouldn't make the climb.
The convoy left Escondido at 5:30 a.m. It sprinkled along the route, Belyea wrote later, "but nothing to get excited about." Nineteen miles of hilly ups and downs and a rain-slick macadam road apparently didn't faze him. Nor did the three bridges they had to cross. Though Hill had reinforced each with heavy planking, many considered them still questionable for such a load.
Averaging 6.4 miles an hour, the convoy reached Rincon Junction around 8:20 a.m. The sun broke through.
The observatory was 17.6 miles away, from the base of the mountain to the crest line, 7.5 miles. The "Highway to the Stars," built solely for moving the mirror, has 12 hairpin turns on a seven-degree grade. To shorten the length of his "automotive freight train" for the curves ahead, Belyea removed one of the double goose-neck jeeps. The change also gave the lead truck more traction, he told reporters.
The crew hitched a third tractor-truck to the second. Both would push the trailer.
Belyea, Rule, and Hill conferred again. They wanted to reach the top before sundown, if possible. Should the weather worsen, they'd bivouac somewhere on the slope. One thing was certain: once they began the ascent, the road was so narrow, the turns so tight, there was no going back.
At Palomar Junction (near today's Oak Knoll Campground, at the foot of the mountain), children cheered the convoy from school bus windows. Byron Hill climbed onto the big gray box. He would captain the ascent, using hand signals for upcoming turns and changes of speed. The trucks started up again, blue diesel smoke bulging into a light rain.
For most reporters and photographers, wrote the Union, the climb was "the most disappointing part of the trip." At 2800 feet, the caravan entered a milky cloud. The media rode four miles an hour and missed most of the action.
Until 2800 feet, Belyea wrote later, visibility was fair. "Then the elements threw everything including the book at us." The wind howled, rain and sleet poured down, marble-sized hail pelted the cavalcade.
At times the sky suddenly cleared. During one clearing, reporter Nancy Bolton, who rode close to the mirror, saw her car "clinging to the mountainside…my heart almost stopped a couple of times when I realized what we had just passed." She watched the crate "straddle the entire road in places where [cliffs] dropped a sheer 1000 feet."
Visibility shrunk to nothing in seconds. Two CHP motorcyclists rode ahead, marking each hairpin turn with flashing red lights. Sometimes even those went unseen. Hill, who knew the road by heart, shouted directions to men walking alongside. The chugs of truck engines bouncing off granite cliffs often made him inaudible, his words mere clouds of frosty breath.
The drivers — Green, Earl Winston, and Ralph Taylor — steered with their heads out the windows, the latter two looking for puffs of smoke that signaled shifts of gears.
Since the drivers didn't want to stop, and the trucks averaged three miles to a gallon of diesel, said Belyea, "we kept pouring fuel to the motor and kept going."
A little over halfway up, Bruce Rule noticed something strange: according to the vibration meter, the road was so smooth they could actually go faster, from four to eight miles an hour. Green waved a fist round and round out the window: he was speeding up.
After what seemed endless turns, like fending off an irate monster — an attack from the left, now the right, back left! — the convoy reached the crest. Hill raised both hands in triumph. Horns blared. Only 4.8 relatively level miles to go.
Within sight of the stark white observatory dome, which looks like a gigantic scoop of vanilla ice cream, the vibration meter jiggled haywire.
"Stop the caravan!" Rule shouted.
"No — it's okay, it's OKAY!" shouted Green. "Just a cattle guard." The trailer had rumbled over iron bars across the road.
A little after 11:00 a.m., in 29-degree weather, Green delivered the Giant Eye to the observatory. He looked out the window, smiled at Belyea, and said, "We made it."
As if on cue, sunlight speared though the clouds for almost two minutes. Belyea made Caltech administrators sign for the delivery.
No one chronicled the return trip which, given the weather, must have been another slow-motion saga. At his office the next day, Belyea wrote: "November 20th — the job was completed — trucks were all back in our Los Angeles yards — and the drivers home sleeping." ■
— Jeff Smith
QUOTATIONS:
U.S. 101 Photo Gallery: Southern Orange County: the old Galivan Overhead "was similar in appearance to the existing overhead in Del Mar and was, in fact, designed by the same engineer."
A.S. Leonard: "For this move, the speedometer might as well have been disconnected."
In headlines the next day, the upcoming wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten upstaged the historic delivery of the Giant Eye.
Belyea, Jack, "Wheels of Progress," interoffice communication, Belyea Truck Co., November 20, 1947, ms, Palomar Observatory archives.
Bolton, Nancy R., "Press Pilgrimage to Palomar," Sky and Telescope, January 1948.
Florence, Ronald, The Perfect Machine, New York, 1994; "Palomar, After 50 Years," Journal of San Diego History, vol. 44, Fall 1998.
Leonard, A.S., "Cummins Dependable Diesels Haul the 200 Inch Mirror to Palomar Observatory," ms, Palomar Observatory archives.
Richardson, Robert S., "The 200-Inch Mirror Goes to Palomar Mountain," ms, Astrophysics Library, California Institute of Technology.
Woodbury, David O., The Giant Glass of Palomar, New York, 1939.
Wright, Helen, Palomar: The World's Largest Telescope, New York, 1953.
Articles in various newspapers.
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Before or after visiting Palomar Observatory, ramble along the nearby Observatory Trail. — May 1, 2003
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Angela June 12, 2017 News, 2017
A new grant from the EPA will allow the cities of Battle Creek and Albion to start cleaning up some problem areas.
The $600,000 Brownfield Assessment Grant will allow the Land Bank and cities of Albion and Battle Creek to zero in on blighted commercial properties most in need of redevelopment.
The areas the Calhoun County Land Bank and coalition partners will target for environmental<|fim_middle|> blighted commercial buildings and gain valuable data on distressed post-industrial sites," said Ted Dearing, assistant city manager for community and economic development for the City of Battle Creek. "Partnerships like this go a long way to addressing blight in our communities, and assessing these commercial areas will make them more attractive to redevelopment, while also stabilizing the areas in and around our neighborhoods, one of our ongoing goals."
"The Calhoun County Land Bank Authority is grateful for this grant from the EPA and we are eager to get to work with our coalition partners, the cities of Albion and Battle Creek, to assess environmental challenges in our County," said Krista Trout-Edwards, executive director of the Calhoun County Land Bank Authority. "We're proud to partner with local municipalities to target properties that will make the greatest impact on our communities."
"We're proud to partner with the Land Bank and City of Battle Creek to secure this grant and begin critical environmental assessments on these blighted areas," said Garrett Brown, mayor of Albion. "These assessments will help take the guesswork out of the environmental condition of these sites and hopefully make them more attractive for redevelopment."
Article Source: Tim Collins, WBCK 95.3
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Harvard Industries: A corridor approximately three-quarters of a mile long that extends from downtown Albion, along the Kalamazoo River, through residential neighborhoods and the former heavy metals manufacturing sites that were once the city's economic backbone.
West Michigan/Hamblin Corridor: A nearly 1 mile long corridor centered on the Kalamazoo River that is a primary entryway into the city and traverses one of the hardest hit residential neighborhoods in the city.
Brownlee Park: An approximately 2 square mile blighted residential area bordered by abandoned landfills and junkyards and vacant commercial or industrial operations. It's the neighborhood just East of Raymond Road.
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I'm overwhelmed. And I'm not even talking about Christmas shopping lists or the box in the backseat full of research papers I must grade and soon. Over the last month, I have been bombarded by book titles. Honestly, sometimes I wish my favorite writers would take off some time--only those who could afford to do so, of course--and let me catch up. I know, though, that catching up is a total impossibility. Between the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville in October and the NCTE conference, with sessions and exhibitors taunting me, I know I can never make<|fim_middle|> and emptiness when a great book ends" (311). Exactly.
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3. I feel guilty borrowing books I know I probably won't read.
4. My fourth grade teacher read the entire Little House series to us.
5. I love to read aloud.
6. If I don't have an audiobook for the car, I get twitchy.
7. When I was back in school, I would find an author I loved and to read all of his or her books, working my way through the library shelves.
8. I have a hard time getting rid of books.
9. When I donate books to the library's book sale, I too often end up going myself and buying more than I gave away.
10. I've read lots of books late, late at night—even on vacation—sitting in the bathroom so I wouldn't wake the family.
11. I like to have books signed by authors.
12. I actually read my signed first editions.
13. I am an author groupie.
14. Few things make me happier than for someone I like or love to read a book I've read so we can talk about it.
15. Sometimes I judge a book by its cover.
16. I never read the last page ahead of time.
17. I always rush to get to the end of a book then feel sad when it's over.
18. Lots of times, after I finish a book, I immediately re-read the first chapter—or the last chapter.
19. I don't feel bad about loving a book someone else hated.
21. If I really love a book I'm reading, I call my dad (or someone else who'd like a particular passage) and read.
22. I read with a book mark on which I write notes about passages I like--or words I want to define.
23. I write in my paperback books with a very sharp pencil and very straight lines.
24. I don't find the eBook experience at all inferior to traditional books, but I wish I could write on them and share them.
25. If you borrow one of my books and don't give it back. I remember. I may not accuse you of stealing, but I remember.
26. I read Little Women and The Wizard of Oz for the first time in the first or second grade.
27. I can read in the car without getting carsick.
28. I have read while driving. Not proud of it, but I did it.
29. Local bookstores make me happy in the same way art museums do.
30. My elementary school librarian influenced me as much as any teacher I ever had.
31. I have many friendships based almost completely on our mutual love of books.
32. I married a man who loves good books. I can't image living with a nonreader.
I'd love to see your lists too.
At the recent Southern Festival of Books, I had a chance to hear from several authors to whom I've been introduced through the Lemuria First Editions Club. I joined several years ago, and each month, almost like magic, a new signed first edition shows up on my doorstep. At the festival, I heard from Sonny Brewer, Rick Bragg, Lee Smith, and Brad Watson. At two different sessions, I heard from Tom Franklin, a name I recognized, having read Hell at the Breech, a story of murder and attempts at justice in 1898 Alabama. I also realized his novel Smonk still sits in my "to read" stack.
Franklin's latest novel Crooked Letter Crooked Letter (a reference, as any young spelling student knows, to the mnemonic device for spelling Mississippi) has been getting lots of attention since its release. It was among a short list of suggestions of fall reading on the Today show last week, in fact.
With all the books discussed at the festival, this was one of the novels I bought, only to find another signed copy--from Lemuria--at my door when I returned home. A sign? Perhaps.
This time Franklin sets his novel in the last twentieth century and present day. He follows two protagonists, Scary Larry, accused of murder as a teenager and suspected again, and Silas, the town's one policeman, a black man, who at one time had lived with his mother in a cabin on Larry's family's property and had for a short time befriended Larry.
Silas, normally relegated to directing traffic when the plant shift changes, begins to follow hunches and finds victims of murder or attempted murder--real police work. When Larry is found near death and bleeding from what many believe is a self-inflicted gunshot, Silas reenters his life.
Franklin shared a person incident from his teenager years that inspired a critical incident in Larry's life during a breakfast session in which he and three other writers discussed, among other things, how they handle elements of their stories drawn from people they know, people who might recognize themselves. His sharp wit and sense of humor--and my earlier enjoyment of his previous novel--led me to the book table as soon as the session ended. Now that I've read one copy and shared the other, I'm ready to add Crooked Letter Crooked Letter to my list for those who ask for reading suggestions.
Note of trivia: On this season's ticket for the Alabama-Mississippi state game, the printers omitted one of the humpbacks. | even the slightest dent in the list of books I want to read.
If I never left the house and had nothing to do but read, I'd never catch up. Not only am I facing all the brand new titles, but I'm admitting to the classics I have yet to read. Right now, I'm listening to Nick Hornby's Juliet, Naked and reading Abraham Verghese's novel Cutting for Stones. Meanwhile, I'm intrigued by the title The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To by D C Pierson, and I have Eat, Pray, Love and Wally Lamb's last big novel on audio in my back seat. I also want to read the young adult book Countdown by Deborah Wiles before giving it away to a younger reader friend who covets it.
Just arranging and rearranging my bookshelves is a constant reminder of the futility of my task. To make matters worse, I have other interests--so many other interests, a family I love and a job to which I go happily five days a week. When's a girl to read?
As I've reported before, one of my favorite conference sessions every year is called "Readers Ourselves." Facilitated by the same four people every year, the session invites participants to sit in a circle and talk about what we've been reading lately. There are a few loose rules: write down the titles you mention (and authors if you know them); talk about books you are reading, not the books you are teaching; focus on adult reading; try not to monopolize the discussion.
This is the special session at NCTE each year that focuses on what was as adults are reading. We don't care what your students or children are reading…there are hundreds of such sessions. This session is for big people and their books. These are the books NCTEers are reading to inform their personal lives.
* Let the Great World Spin – Colum McCann – Multiple narrative center around Philippe Petit 1974 tightrope walk between the twin towers.
* Island Beneath the Sea – Isabelle Allende – Follows the lives of the Blacks and plantation owners before and after the slave revolt in Haiti.
* Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese – A great story with cultural and family conflict. Makes one question homeland and family and what we leave behind when we mature. The book follows twin brothers who become doctors.
* Was God on Vacation – Jack van der Geest – WWII - 16-year-old young boy when Hitler invades Netherlands. Became a member of the Dutch Underground, becomes a political prisoner, escapes from Birenwald concentration camp, becomes a member of the French Underground, becomes a member of the 101 Airborne Division, etc.
* My Reading Life – Pat Conroy – True story – at our institution we have a freshman seminar all freshmen take. We also have all freshman buy the same book and we have a campus wide discussion. We've done Race Matters, Band of Brothers. One year we picked The Lords of Discipline. Conroy, who was close by in Beaufort, SC, was invited to come to a freshman convocation (academic get-up, a whole campus event). Length of talk – twenty minutes. Remember about 2500 kids bought this book. We offered a $2000 honorarium and expenses. Pat said, sure he'd do it for fifteen grand. I will never read another word this shakedown artist writes. Sorry…when you do the list, you can write your editorials too.
. . . . because I realize how many books I've read this past year have been nonfiction. This latest, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, is a fascinating blend of science and biography of an African-American woman whose contribution to the world of science and medicine--although without her knowledge--has worldwide impact.
While she was being treating for cervical cancer in 1951, doctors harvested some of her cells and discovered that they continued to grow prolifically. Since then, they've been sent into space and have been used in studies not only related to cancer but polio and HIV. While the cells have been sold commercially to labs throughout the world, Lacks' own family didn't even know about the cells for many years, although they were living in poverty with numerous health problems.
Skloots first heard about Henrietta's cells (identified as HeLa cells) while in school and began a quest of many years to tell the story, breaking down barriers of resistance in Henrietta's family, to learn about the real woman. Skloots' style, blending science and narrative, created a fascinating story with the pace of a novel. I was as fascinated to see the picture of Henrietta's cells (above) as her grown children were.
As a side note, I was glad to see the book made the short list of titles on Carol Jago's"Intrepid Reader" at NCTE this weekend.
I will be telling you about the book-related sessions, conversations, and exhibits in my next few posts--as soon as I get home and unpack my book of notes.
Since the outgoing NCTE president Carol Jago is one of the most voracious, passionate readers I know, one thread that ran through this conference was the value of literature to our lives. At these kinds of sessions, one is likely to hear talk of pedagogy, assessment, empowerment--all the education jargon--and I won't downplay the importance of good sound teaching practice. But when people were talking about about reading, they came alive.
Suffice it to say that my shoulders are aching now from carrying bags loaded with my last-minute book acquisitions from my last loop through the exhibit hall. I have others in a box en route to my house and others in the back seat of my friend and fellow-conference-goer Jane's car (assurance that we have to meet somewhere between my house and Durham soon for the hand off.) One of the most fun parts of the conference each year is the exhibit hall, where most of the major publishers show. Sure, there are lots of textbook publishers and other educational companies there, but lots of the books are the ones we want to read for our own pleasure.
I leave the conference each year not only with a renewed sense of purpose but with a reading list that could easily carry me through to next November.
The first email I received this morning came from my daughter in Nashville, announcing that Davis-Kidd, my favorite bookstore there (one of my favorite bookstores anywhere) is closing as a part of the Joseph-Beth Chapter 11 proceedings. These announcements are becoming more and more frequent, in part because of the decline in reading, in part because of all the online shopping avenues, and in part because of electronic books.
Surely I'm not one of a meager few who enjoy the experience of shopping in bookstores. I like the displays, the sales tables, the infused scent of coffee and pastries. I like to strike up conversations with strangers as we peruse the shelves. I tend to monopolize the time and attention of the employees the way I once took over the elementary librarian as my personal assistant.
I think of students who sign up for online classes only to find they miss the actual physical presence in the classroom. I consider all the disappointing online and catalog purchases--clothes I should have tried on before buying. Can you imagine in later years waxing eloquent about a well-loved website?
Maybe bookstore rescue parallels the old starfish story: I can't save them all, but maybe I can make a difference to one!
Since I read Prince of Tides many years ago, I have made a point to read all of Pat Conroy's books--the novels and the memoirs. As a teacher, I loved The Water Is Wide," but I found Lords of Discipline and The Great Santini just as powerful and, at times, shocking.
I have noticed that ever Conroy novel has one good sports chapter, the story of a big game that can stand alone as a short story.
Conroy has just released a new memoir that's right up my alley, which he called My Reading Life. His chapter topics range from his mother's early influence to that of Gene Norris, his beloved English teacher, as well as a mean librarian, an independent bookstore owner in Atlanta, and a number of his favorite books and authors--Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, Tolstoy's War and Peace, James Dickey, and Thomas Wolfe.
The book is evidence of Conroy's self-awareness. He not only knows his influences but recognizes the marks they leave on him. His revelation of his own reading habits are infectious. He decided at sixteen to read at least two hundred pages a day, working his way through the list of great literature, sometimes more than once, and discovering new writers along the way. He had a lot to say about poetry and poets as his muses.
He also pays tribute to one of the strongest human urges, naming "Tell me a story" as "the most powerful words in the English language"(303). I heard him speak at a local college a few years ago, and afterwards I ran into a friend who asked, "Do you really think all those stories he tells are true?" I had to remind myself that she was not Southern. Of course they're true. Down here we all have similar stories of our own.
One particular line in the book struck a chord: "Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion | 1,969 |
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Are you a veteran or transitioning military member looking for a new opportunity? Learn more about veterans making an impact at Gartner here. | because hire veteran candidates with the right qualities over applicants with specific skills. Meet Claudia Sanchez, a Contracts Management Specialist and U.S. Navy veteran, who joined the Gartner team in April 2018. Claudia shares how she learned to embrace her military experiences and bring her unique skill set to Gartner below.
I transitioned out of the Navy in 2012 after 10 years of service. As a helicopter crewman, my experience didn't transfer to typical occupations. But I knew what I liked — I liked growth, structure, teamwork and a positive work environment. It took me 6 years to find a place that fit all of those. In 2018, I got the call to interview for a position as Contract Specialist at Gartner. It required a meticulous, type A personality, and someone who works well under pressure. Thankfully, my experience in the Navy showed me that I was all of those things.
I must have looked nervous while I waited for my first interview, because a Gartner employee came over and struck up a conversation, told me to go in confidently and asked about my previous work experience. I told him about my time in the Navy as helicopter crewman. It's a small world — he told me about his experience as a helicopter pilot, and even smaller world, on the same type of aircraft. I knew Gartner is where I belonged. Right then.
As I've grown in my position, I have found the same things that made me successful in the Navy apply here — commitment, integrity and teamwork. I look | 320 |
No matter the layout of the kitchen, most people choose to incorporate a kitchen island when possible. Why? Because a kitchen island can serve so many purposes! Before you get into the details of the material and color of your kitchen island, consider these factors so it is both functional and beautiful.
The kitchen is a room of movement, and creating the right workflow is essential. If an island is too big, it will disrupt this flow. Too small, and it won't be functional. The kitchen island should be proportional to the size of the kitchen. Consider the overall size, as well as how much space you have between the island and other workspaces.
Once you<|fim_middle|> visiting our Facebook page for votes and updates! | know the size, you can ask the most important question when choosing a kitchen island: What is the main function? Is it a gathering spot? A place for preparation? Cooking? Extra storage? It is true that your island may combine all of these things, but you'll want to decide what is most important and design around that element. You may realize you don't have enough space for everything on the island and will need to put part of the design somewhere else in the kitchen.
What height do I want the counter and chairs to be?
What type of seating do I want?
How many seats should fit?
What is the width of the eating space?
Kitchen islands come with extra storage space. If you want to keep small kitchen appliances in the island, choose cabinets with deep shelves. You could include a spice rack, silverware drawer, or drawers for dishes. If you know the main function of your island, you will be able to choose storage that makes the most sense.
You can also include larger appliances in the kitchen island. If you want your main sink on the island, it makes sense to put the dishwasher next to it. You could choose to put the oven range, a wine cooler, or microwave on the island. Particularly with the larger appliances, keep in mind your kitchen triangle flow between the sink, stove/oven, and refrigerator.
You will undoubtedly use the island for some sort of prep space. If you plan to use it for chopping and laying out ingredients, you will want wide, uninterrupted counter space. If you plan on mixing or blending, include plugs in the island. Also, keep in mind how much space you have between the seating area and prep space.
In our current project, builders Macgruder Homes and Pitman Custom Homes designed the layout of the kitchen in The Hope House, but left some of the decision to you. Did you vote on the color for the kitchen island? Keep | 386 |
Super Bowl XLIX Champ Rob Gronkowski finds Madden 'Boring'
By John Gaudiosi
A healthy Rob Gronkowski was a difference-maker for the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX, replicating the touchdown that EA Sports had predicted earlier in the week with its Madden NFL 15 Super Bowl simulation. Gronk hoisted the Lombardi trophy for the first time in real life, which definitely beats a video game sim any day, but while he was recovering from his injury last year, Extra Mustard sat down with him to<|fim_middle|>, he's opened up new gameplay options for Madden players.
"It's just a lot of fun," Gronkowski said. "With my teammates and the support around me, that's how it makes it happen. I just have so many great players around me; we can spread out, go anywhere, and line up anywhere. It's cool."
Asked if Brady is that great, or if his own talent helps the quarterback, Gronkowski replied: "Both... just everyone around us, with our coaching staff and other great players around us; we all just help out each other."
When asked if this could have been his second Lombardi trophy if his injured ankle hadn't impacted his performance in Super Bowl XLVI, he replied, "I don't know. I was out there just giving 100 percent. That's the situation."
When it comes to his Madden player ratings, there's only one that matters to Gronk.
"I'm just hoping that my swag rating is high; that's the only rating I care about," Gronkowski said.
Given the tight end's on-field performance in Arizona, Madden NFL 16 is sure to have an improved Gronkowski avatar come this August.
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gronk | talk about his virtual alter-ego and sports games.
Gronk grew up playing video games with his four brothers, Gordie, Dan, Chris and Glenn.
"Nintendo 64; that was the best system out back then," Gronkowski said. "That was the best old-school system."
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The brothers would also play pick-up basketball and baseball in the backyard. And whether it was video games or real sports, Gronk said he won. Every time.
His video game of choice these days isn't what you'd think. "I really don't play Madden, it's a little boring sitting there," Gronkowski said. "It's cool playing football in real life. But Call of Duty is where it's at, and NHL. I like that game, too. That's a really fun game."
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In fact, Patriots fans might not be celebrating today if Gronk had followed his love of hockey.
"I played hockey all the way until my freshman year of high school," he said. "I love the sport, and I still like to play pick-up sometimes. It's cool."
These days, Gronk considers himself "somewhat of a gamer."
"Whenever I have some down time and I'm just chilling at the house, I put in the game, call up my friends and family, and get them online and play," Gronkowski said.
The injury-prone tight end even used games to help him get through the grind of rehabilitation over the years.
"Once in a while I'd just put in a game," Gronkowski said. "You're just chilling after a long day at work; your body needs some rest. You just sit down, put the game in, and have a good time playing."
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Just as he's helped evolve the position of tight end in the NFL | 382 |
Amgen Foundation Awards 45 Million Grant to MLA Partner Schools to Invest in LAs Promise
Amgen Foundation Awards $4.5 Million Grant to MLA Partner Schools to Invest in LA's Promise
LOS ANGELES and THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Nov. 3, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Amgen Foundation will grant $4.5 million over the next three years to MLA Partner Schools (MLA) to invest in "LA's Promise" – an endeavor to prepare thousands of children from one South Los Angeles community for college and a healthier, more successful life.
"The goal is to go deep, not wide - to see an entire community's children ready for college and life," said Mike McGalliard, president and chief executive officer of MLA. "The schools are the anchor – a K-12 pipeline of public schools that provide all neighborhood kids the education they deserve as well as the health and social services to meet all of their needs."
The community of LA's Promise (also known as LA's Promise Neighborhood) is an area of South LA encompassing the enrollment zones of two large public high schools, West Adams Prep and Manual Arts. These two schools, operated by MLA on a performance contract with LAUSD, are already becoming community hubs with 56 partners providing over 200 wraparound services to students and families. Partners include St. John's Family Well Child and Family Center, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, WestEd, and the Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic. By transforming these two schools, their feeder elementary and middle schools, and expanding comprehensive support services to all students and families, MLA and its partners have built the foundation for a "neighborhood turnaround".
"It is particularly gratifying that a leading global company like Amgen recognizes the potential of MLA's model and the promise of the community we serve," said Megan Chernin, chair of MLA Partner Schools. "With Amgen's extraordinarily generous investment we can demonstrate that our model is a scalable answer to an overwhelming need."
The Amgen Foundation first funded MLA in 2007 to advance MLA's model for supporting underperforming public schools. Since then, Amgen staff and executives have also helped by providing countless hours of organizational development in areas including human resources, strategic planning and management training to MLA and its schools.
"MLA is a young, dynamic organization with a bold vision," said Kevin Sharer, chairman and chief executive officer of Amgen. "Amgen is proud of the great strides MLA has made over the past three years. We look forward to continuing our financial support and the engagement of Amgen staff willing to volunteer their time and talents to assist the students, faculty, staff and families in this community."
As a result of Amgen's support, MLA's schools are outpacing the district in key metrics including attendance, academic growth and student retention. West Adams Prep's 2-year Academic Performance Index (API) growth, at 62 points, is larger than any other high school in the same geographic region and more than double the gains of the district as a whole. Manual Arts High School, which just finished its first year as an MLA school, has made dramatic strides in student behavior and overall school culture. The attendance rate has increased to 90 percent and suspensions and fights have reduced by 52 percent<|fim_middle|>, and those that provide disaster relief efforts both domestically and internationally.
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About MLA Partner Schools
MLA Partner Schools is a nonprofit organization working to radically shift the education, health and social outcomes for thousands of youth in one South Los Angeles community. This will accomplish a "neighborhood turnaround" in an area called LA's Promise Neighborhood.
LA's Promise Neighborhood is an enrollment zone that encircles two large South LA high schools operated by MLA on a first-of-its-kind performance contract with LAUSD. Within this zone, MLA transforms chronically failing public schools, opens new schools and remakes schools into community hubs that offer comprehensive support services for students and families. By doing this, MLA aims to prepare every child in LA's Promise Neighborhood to be college-ready, healthy and successful in life. MLA also screens and manages more than 50 partners who support these school communities by providing over 200 wraparound services.
Over the coming years, MLA will work to adopt the feeder schools to build a K-12 educational pipeline serving over 20,000 children.
To learn more about MLA Partner Schools, visit www.mlapartnerschools.org
The Amgen Foundation (www.amgen.com/citizenship/overview.html) seeks to advance science education; improve patient access to quality care; and strengthen the communities where Amgen staff members live and work. Since 1991, the Foundation has made $140 million in grants to nonprofit organizations throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and Europe that impact society in inspiring and innovative ways | 304 |
Colorless gas with a pungent odor. Sulfur dioxide is a common Air pollutant produced from burning high sulfur Coal in metallurgical and electrical generating plants. When sulfur dioxide combines with water to form Sulfurous acid, it is especially deleterious to carbonates such as Marble and Limestone. Sulfur dioxide also tarnishes Metal and can be harmful to dyes, Paper, and Leather. Industrially sulfur dioxide is used for disinfecting and fumigating fruits and vegetables as well as for bleaching Straw and Textile fibers. Sulfur dioxide is produced by the oxidation of Pyrite at moderate humidity levels (Waller 1990).
sulfurous anhydride; sulfurous oxide; sulphur dioxide; sulfur oxides; sulphur dioxide (Br.)
Noncombustible.
Toxic by inhalation.
Strongly irritation to eyes and mucous membranes.
Airgas: SDS
Soluble in water (forming sulfuric acid), ethanol, ether.
mol. wt. = 64.1
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M.Dimitroff, J.Lacksonen "The Diffusion of Sulfur Dioxide in Air through Stacked Layers of Paper" JAIC, 25:31-37, 1986
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Hermann Kuhn, Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art and Antiquities, Butterworths, London, 1986
Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982
The Merck Index, Martha Windholz (ed.), Merck Research Labs, Rahway NJ, 10th edition, 1983 Comment: entry 9144
Michael McCann, Artist Beware, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York City, 1979
Marjorie Shelley, The Care and Handling of Art Objects, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1987
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Each year, High Point Medical Center invites those who have lost a loved one to cancer, cancer survivors, families and the community to join cancer center staff for a Service of Remembrance and<|fim_middle|> by other resources. LoveLine funds may be used to assist with medication, medical supplies, housing, nutrition and other approved expenses. | Hope. This ceremony recognizes all whose lives have been touched by cancer. Following a candlelight ceremony, attendees join together to light the LoveLine Tree of Life on the front lawn of the Hayworth Cancer Center and enjoy a brief reception in the Hayworth Cancer Center.
This year's 26th annual LoveLine Ceremony will be Thursday, December 11 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hayworth Cancer Center.
For each $10 gift, donors can illuminate a light on the LoveLine Tree of Life in honor, or in memory, of a loved one. For gifts of $1,000 or more, donors receive recognition in the LoveLine Tree-Lighting Ceremony, custom signage on the front lawn of the Cancer Center during the month of December and an engraved leaf with both donor and honoree names on the LoveLine Tree of Life wall in the Cancer Center Family Room for one year.
The LoveLine Cancer Support Program at High Point Medical Center provides financial assistance to our cancer patients to meet those short-term critical needs that are not covered | 217 |
Too Human has the right idea -- smash all the robots to bits and pieces before the dreaded Robolution can begin! Mr. Destructoid excluded, robots are shifty and dangerous and will enslave humanity inside infernal robot bakeries before long. Thank Christ for Silicon Knights and its bid to get them first!
Seriously though, Too Human is looking distinctly average no matter what way you slice it. This trailer has definitely improved its standing, but I'm just not feeling the epic quality that I perhaps mistakenly believed Dyack's Baby Girl was meant to have. Much of this game puts me in mind of the Crimson Sea series, and if you ever played one of those games, you'll agree<|fim_middle|> least. That big robot is particularly pleasant to look at, and there's a graphical feast going on throughout. Hopefully the gameplay will match the aesthetics when it comes to the crunch, but right now I am seeing nothing that makes me want Too Human over some of the other action games on the way. | that such a mind is not one that a game wants to put you in.
That said, the video is visually terrific at the very | 27 |
I'm looking for a ghostwriter to help me edit and re-write my book.
I'm not a professional writer, but I've put together a ebook about "Travel Hacking" to help teach people to get the best deals for travel. So far I have close to 100 pages written, and I need a mix of an editor and a ghost writer to take the book i've written and basically re-write and clean it up to be more professional and informational. It's very rough and<|fim_middle|>, I can send a few chapters as a sample.
Background: Me and my fiance work remotely running our own marketing/advertising agency. We live nomadically and have been traveling for 6 years. We travel on a month to month basis living in a new city/state/country every month. Many people over the years have asked us how we travel so much, live pretty luxuriously, while staying in a budget, so I wanted to create a book that could help people "travel hack" so they can take longer trips or travel more often.
Synopsis/Chapters: Me and my fiance's back story and how we got into traveling and living nomadically; Choosing destinations - peak and off peak travel periods; Planning Travel; Flight Deals; Rewards Cards and Point Systems; Ground Transportation; Car Rentals; Accommodations - Getting the best vacation rental deals; Insurance: Travel, Business, Medical; Care Taking: How to care for a home while away; Joining rental community: Joining VRBO and Airbnb and how to become a super host..
Hey! I can help your polish your 100 pages book to be more professional and informational by turning your ideas to reality - hire me. | the tone is off. So I'd be looking for someone to use my book as a guide to re-write a much more professional version.
If you are interested | 32 |
By Daniel Parker, Staff Writer|January 16, 2020|105 Views
Mr. Funicelli standing with fellow Board Game Club members Dan Parker,<|fim_middle|> in Indianapolis | Brent Mcneel, and Luke Brenneman.
There are a plethora of clubs at TAHS, but one of the more unique clubs has been gaining popularity is the Board Game Club.
Every Thursday after school, chemistry teacher Mike Funicelli hosts the club in his room. Any student or teacher is welcome to attend and play a wide variety of games.
"Board Game Club is an after school group consisting of students and teachers who enjoy sitting down to a challenging experience," said Funicelli about the club. "Everyone and anyone are welcome to come and have a good time."
There are more unique games that get everyone involved, and they're much more entertaining. Even though they can be more complicated than your usual games, they're still fairly easy to learn and fun to play"
— Ebonee Rice
These games aren't like your typical "family game night" games like Monopoly, though it is included if you really want to play.
Most of the games played by the Board Game Club are unique and require higher-level thinking, strong concentration, and a strategic approach. Most are from Funicelli's own personal collection, but students are more than welcome to bring in their own games to play.
"There are more unique games that get everyone involved, and they're much more entertaining. Even though they can be more complicated than your usual games, they're still fairly easy to learn and fun to play," said Board Game Club member Ebonee Rice.
Games like Quacks of Quedlinburg, Coup, Azul, and Cryptid are a few fan favorites. Games like these are individual efforts. In other words, you compete against 3, 4, or 5 other people to win.
There are, however, also several social deduction games that require deception and teamwork, like The Resistance and Werewolves.
"I really enjoy the social deduction games because they involve everybody, and they require a lot of teamwork and in-depth thinking," said senior Tyler Beckwith.
Amongst all these games, there are a few long-playing-time games available to play, like Talisman or Tapestry. Although very fun, these are for more advanced players who are willing to sit down for several hours, learn the complex rules, and play smart.
"Talisman is absolutely one of my favorite board games ever, to say the least. It's not difficult to play, but it does take a while to learn, and even longer to finish a game," said club member Nicholas Vasbinder.
Board Game Club is always looking for and welcoming new members. If you like sitting down, putting your mind to work, and having a good time, feel free to join them from 3 pm to 4:30 pm.
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JeffreyRoss are delighted to bring to the market this detached family home in a quiet cul-de-sac location close to all local amenities that canton and Pontcanna have to offer and within a pleasant walk or short bus ride into the city centre. The area benefits from an abundance of green spaces including Thompsons Park, Llandaff and Pontcanna Fields and Bute Park. The property briefly comprises of, to the ground floor: living Room, second reception room,<|fim_middle|> paved patio area and trees and fence boundary. Outside water tap.
Additional Information - The property is fitted with PV solar panels which will belong to the property for 25 years in total. They have been in place for approximately 8 years. Servicing is covered by the company that supplies the panels. We are advised that electricity bills are reduced by 2/3 in the summer months if electricity used during the day.
A great family home in a quiet location but close to all local amenities. | kitchen/dining/conservatory and WC. There is also internal access to garage/utility. To the first Floor are four good size bedrooms, the master with en-suite, family bathroom and ample storage. Viewing is recommended and please take a look at our VR tour of the property.
Hallway - The property is accessed via the porch and features a uPVC front door with glazed side panel. Tiled flooring, radiator and doors to living room, kitchen and WC.
Kitchen/Conservatory - An extended room at the rear of the property offering a flexible open plan kitchen/dining room.
An extended dining/conservatory with continuation of laminate flooring and glazed to three sides. Access via sliding doors to rear garden.
Living Room - A generous living room to the front of the property with two uPVC windows to the front, carpeted flooring and radiator. Accessed from hallway and door through to second reception.
Second Reception - To the side of the property with window to the front elevation and currently used as a playroom. With carpeted flooring and stairs leading to first floor. Door leading from living room and kitchen. There is access to a large under stairs storage cupboard.
Wc - leading from the hallway and fitted with a low level WC and wash hand basin. Tiled flooring. Radiator.
Garage/Utilty - An integrated garage which accommodates additional storage/utility space with mezzanine over for storage. With up and over garage door, lighting and power. Door access from the kitchen and fitted with a range of storage units and plumbing for washing machine and tumble dryer. Condensing boiler.
To The First Floor - Carpeted stairs leading from the second reception room.
Landing - With uPVC window overlook the rear, carpeted flooring, doors to all four bedrooms, family bathroom and airing cupboard.
En- Suite - A generous shower room fitted with large shower enclosure, low level wc and wash hand basin. Vinyl flooring and UPVC window to the rear.
Bedroom Two - A second double bedroom with uPVC window to the front elevation, carpeted flooring and radiator.
Bedroom Three - To the front elevation a further double bedroom with uPVC window to the front, carpeted flooring and radiator.
Bathroom - A family bathroom situated at the rear of the property fitted with bath with mixer shower tap over. Low level WC and wash hand basin. Vinyl flooring and tiled walls. UPVC window to the rear. Radiator.
To The Outside - To the front of the property is a gravel garden with a double block paved driveway for two cars leading to the garage. Side gate access to rear garden.
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Barclays, HSBC Join Settlement Coin as Bank Blockchain Test<|fim_middle|> security vulnerabilities of the centralized model.
With those vulnerabilities in mind, last year, USC initiated Phase II of its work, which focused on the legal and regulatory compliance of decentralizing the system.
According to Jaffrey, that structural work is now complete, and testing elements of the technology deemed crucial to the way financial institutions do business, but in a "pre-live" environment is beginning.
The newly commenced Phase III is expected to run for about 12 months, at which time phase IV, what Jaffrey called the "go-live phase" will likely begin. The first live collateralized token exchange using the platform could occur as soon as the end of 2018, he said.
And then, according to Jaffrey, the goal is wide scale adoption of blockchain platforms that interoperate with each other.
Addressing that opporunity, Somasundaram concluded:
"It is a very good step forward in terms of going for more ambitious projects such as central bank digital currencies in the future."
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UBSHSBCNewsCentral BankingCentral BanksDistributed Ledger TechnologyUtility Settlement CoinUSCFiatBusiness NewsTechnology News | Enters New Phase
Aug 30, 2017 at 22:59 UTC Updated Aug 31, 2017 at 19:16 UTC
Michael del Castillo
Several of the world's largest banks have today revealed a series of steps to advance a project aimed at making it easier for central banks to issue currencies on a blockchain.
Called Utility Settlement Coin (USC), the project is designed to help prepare the way for central bank cryptocurrencies by making it easier for global banks to conduct a wide variety of transactions with each other using collateralized assets on a custom-built blockchain.
Work on the next phase of the project — the last before a live implementation — will include six members revealed today, Barclays, CIBC, Credit Suisse, HSBC, MUFG and State Street, building alongside founding financial institutions UBS, BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank, Santander, NEX and blockchain startup Clearmatics.
While USC will be limited in scope to start, Hyder Jaffrey, UBS director of strategic investment and fintech innovation, explained the potential impact the project could one day have, telling CoinDesk:
"It may well inform the way central banks choose to move things forward. We see it as a stepping stone to a future where central banks issue their own [cryptocurrency] at some point."
But before the platform can become just that, Jaffrey and the USC team are prioritizing further development, having created a kind of testnet for the project that seeks to back cryptotokens with collateral.
Part of the group's third phase revealed today is the testing of a formal transfer of ownership and an accurate cash equivalents definition for the transfer, in an effort to mimic what a real-time end-to-end transaction between members would look like.
This is "absolutely essential in preparing the platform to go live," Jaffrey told CoinDesk.
First, testing
In that transfer test, the group will explore using a collateralized token, which Jaffrey said could simplify the buying and selling of assets via a complicated network of middlemen down to a single, fiat-based transaction conducted on a blockchain.
In short, the collateralized token will be given directly to the owner of the asset, instead of going through the traditional network of clearinghouses.
"We have a very strong feeling that we have a workable structure for the USC which underpins things like settlement finality, transfer of ownership, a cash equivalence definition," said Jaffrey.
Driving those business requirements are the members themselves, which Jaffrey said the group is adding slowly, in parallel with the "momentum" of the project.
The head of fintech partnerships and strategy at HSBC, Kaushalya Somasundaram, reiterated Jaffrey's belief that USC could help delineate a path forward for central bank digital currencies, one of the reasons HSBC joined to begin with.
Explaining how she sees the token eventually working, Somasundaram told CoinDesk:
"The settlement coin will be a collateralized digital currency, backed by cash assets at a central bank, which allows us to transfer ownership easily through the exchange of USCs, thus reducing process complexity and the time taken for settlement."
Then, ambition
First revealed in 2015 by Swiss banking giant UBS and Clearmatics, the Utility Settlement Coin concept represents the latest in a growing number of blockchain projects that could be amplified by fiat currencies issued on a blockchain.
Echoing statements recently made by a Citi executive, Jaffrey explained that paying for assets tokenized on a blockchain with traditional fiat currency ran the risk of reintroducing the same | 740 |
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