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September 2-3: With great anticipation this afternoon, we'll gather for our flight to Berlin, Germany (with one stop in route). We'll arrive around mid day on August 27 and transfer to our hotel. A fabulous journey awaits. We will arrive in time to see some of the highlights of Berlin like the famous Brandenburg Gate, Jewish Memorial, Checkpoint Charlie, and have a chance to stroll in beautiful Tiergarten (to keep us awake!). We'll have a nice welcome dinner at the hotel and retire early. In flight meals and dinner on August 27.
September 5: After breakfast, we'll visit famous Wartburg Castle where Martin Luther was exiled in the early 16th Century. It was here that Luther translated the Bible from Latin to German. It is a very interesting place to see. We will then continue two hours into Frankfurt where we'll show you some highlights of this interesting and historically significant city on the Main River. After checking into our hotel, we'll enjoy dinner and a session in the Frankfurt Temple. Breakfast and dinner included today.
September 6: This morning we have included a visit to the Gutenberg Museum in nearby Mainz and review the incredibly important events that changed the world forever. We are then off to France! After lunch, we'll make an afternoon stop in the town of Reims where we'll visit the monstrosity which is the gothic Reims Cathedral. It is definitely worth a look. We then continue into Paris where we'll stay for TWO nights in the suburbs, not far from the temple. Breakfast included today.
September 7: We'll get an early start today as we have an 8;30 AM session scheduled at the new Paris Temple near Versailles. We'll then visit the famous Versailles – the opulent palace and lavish gardens that were home to the French Monarchs for centuries. Its unusual luxury led to the French Revolution that doomed the French monarchy. We'll spend the afternoon and evening with a local guide that will show us the highlights of the "City of Lights", including a lovely dinner in Paris. We then return to our hotel. Breakfast and dinner is included today.
September 8: Today we travel through rural France enjoying the sweeping vistas, quaint towns and rolling hills that make rural France famous. We'll be on lovely country roads for most of the day, making some interesting stops along the way. Our destination takes us back across the border into the famous Black Forest which is a MUST SEE if you're anywhere near it. We'll stay at the famous Hofgut Sternen Hotel, famous for its setting, cuckoo clocks and some very interesting history that we'll share. Dinner is included at the hotel. Breakfast and dinner are included today.
September 9: We'll show you some more of the Black Forest before continuing south and crossing the border into Switzerland. By lunchtime, we'll be in the Swiss capitol of Bern which is a delightful place to visit. A local guide will join us this afternoon and show is this medieval town from the famous Rose Gardens to the Bear Pits to the centuries old streets (including Einstein's house). We'll stay at the Holiday Inn outside of the city. Breakfast and local tour included today.
September 10: Another fabulous day in store. We will begin with an 8:00 AM session at the beautiful Bern, Switzerland Temple – the first temple in Europe. We then drive an hour and enjoy lunch in charming Interlaken. Just 20 minutes south of Interlaken is (in my opinion) the most beautiful valley in Europe! It's called the Lauterbrunnen Valley and it is spectacularly situated with steep mountains on three sides, flanked by the majestic Jungfrau Massif, three of the most famous mountains in the Alps (Monch, Jungfrau, Eiger). While in the valley, we'll take you to the stunning Trumelbach Falls which is a series of 10 waterfalls that cascade INSIDE a mountain. It is a spectacular natural wonder. We then continue our journey about two hours south to the town of Tasch where we leave our coach for a day and take a short 15 minute train ride into Zermatt – one of the world's greatest towns. We'll stay here two nights. Breakfast included today.
September 11: There is simply no place on earth like Zermatt and no mountain like the Matterhorn. This is a pedestrian town and the only place you can see the Matterhorn in Switzerland. Our morning excursion takes us on the Gornergrat, Europe's highest railway, which takes us closer to the base of the Matter<|fim_middle|> dinner is included tonight as we come to the end of our epic journey.
September 18: Today we transfer to the Madrid Airport for our flight home. | horn. The views can't be overstated. You have free time this afternoon to enjoy Zermatt as you wish – there is lots to do. Dinner is included tonight. Breakfast and dinner is included today.
September 12: This morning we depart early for Tasch to meet our bus. We then continue over the fabulous Simplon Pass into Italy where we spend the rest of our trip. By late morning, we will arrive in the town of Stesa on the shores of beautiful Lake Maggiore. This is the famous Italian Lakes District with mountain scenes, lakeside towns and hillsides dotted with private villas. After lunch, we have included a boat ride to Isola Bella, one of the Borromean Islands in the middle of lake Maggiore. The island is quite small and split between a fabulous palace, manicured Italian gardens and a quaint fishing village. You'll have time to explore it as you wish. We then continue on this afternoon into Bologna for the evening. Breakfast and dinner are included today.
September 13: We'll show you some highlights of Bologna (Fountain of Neptune and Main Square) before driving on to Florence where we will enjoy a 3 hour walking tour with a chance to see the iconic places in this great city – like the Duomo, the Baptistry, the River Arno (Ponte Vecchio), Palazzo Vecchio, and a chance to see The David in the Academy. (Note: A fair amount of walking is required to see Florence as coaches are not allowed into the center of the city). It's just a 90 minute drive into Rome where we will spend our last two evenings. Breakfast included.
September 14: WELCOME TO ROME! Today is Saturday and we'll begin our day at the fabulous Rome Temple, dedicated in March, 2019. It is exciting to see one of our temples in the shadow of the Vatican. In the afternoon, we will show you the most famous sites of Rome including the Colosseum, The Forum, Circus Maximus, St. Peter's Square, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps and more. We have a lovely dinner tonight near our hotel. Breakfast and dinner are included today.
September 15: This morning we transfer to the Rome Airport for our flight back to the USA. It's a travel experience we'll never forget. Breakfast included today.
September 15: For those who wish to include a visit to SPAIN in your southern European tour, read on. This group will attend sacrament meeting this morning before continuing to the airport for our afternoon flight from Rome to Madrid. We'll arrive in time to transfer to our hotel where we'll enjoy dinner together. Breakfast and dinner are included today.
September 16: Welcome to Madrid! A local guide will join us this morning and show us some of the highlights of this elegant city – like the Royal Palace (with a tour inside), Plaza Mayor, Parque del Buen Retiro and more. After lunch, we'll go an hour south of the city to visit the medieval town of Toledo which dates to Roman times – and it is fascinating. The narrow streets, well preserved architecture and more make this a UNESCO city that is fabulous to see. We stay in Madrid again tonight.
September 17: Today we enjoy our sixth session of our trip in the beautiful Madrid Temple in a beautiful setting. After changing clothing, we'll take you an hour north of the city to the charming town of Segovia where we'll visit the famous Alcazar that dates from the 12th Century. The architecture, setting and history make this a MUST SEE while in Spain. We'll also show you the famous Roman Aqueduct that is still in tact from the Roman times. We'll stop at a beautiful overlook as we make our way back to Madrid. A farewell | 789 |
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Trend line bounce today. The Emini closed down 8.25 points at 1,384.75 on Friday. Three trend indicators have now turned down but the market bounced on a rising trend line. Was this the break we are looking for?
The Emini has risen strongly over<|fim_middle|>6.3% to -7.7% over the week. Check out previous posts to see how I calculate this useful market sentiment data.
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Do a Google search for trend line to find out more. | the last couple of weeks, so it was no surprise that we finally got a downside break. The market opened down 2 points, managed a small rally hitting a high of 1,392.25 and then dropped strongly to hit a low of 1,381.00.
At this point, the Emini bounced on the rising trend line we have been talking about since 3 October. The chart above shows this rising trend line starting on 11 September and which now has six touch points! As we've said before, the more touch points the more significant the line. Any break of this line on large volume would indicate a definite change in trend. Anyway, the market rose after this and the Emini closed 3.75 points off the low at 1384.75.
Today's range was 11.25 points and volume 1.2 million contracts. Although this was a down trend day, with range and volume both above average, range and volume were not so large as to indicate panic. In addition, the TRIN reading (as I calculate it) was negative but not strongly so. I wouldn't be surprised to see a bounce on Monday with the smart money taking advantage of the non-professionals and their decision making over the weekend.
As usual on Friday we also got the release of the Commitment of Traders data. This has continued to show the professionals selling into the rally this week. Commercial short interest has fallen from - | 309 |
Tej-Prasarini (The Diffuser of Light) is a Media and Communication Institution run by the Salesians of Don Bosco (Mumbai Province). It combines multimedia production with training in creativity and media education for peace. It is a member of SIGNIS, the World Catholic Association for Communication.
Tej-Prasarini began in 1992 as a modest audio-cassette initiative<|fim_middle|>01. From May 2006, Fr. Joaquim Fernandes, SDB, took over as Director continues to guide and broaden the vision of Tej-Prasarini. | in response to the catechetical needs of a rural Christian population in central Maharashtra. It was to be the vernacular ministry of the already existing Salesian Catechetical Centre, Pune, which had for its motto, A Commitment to 'Spread Light'. This theme inspired the title, Tej-Prasarini. In 1993 it was relocated to the Salesian Provincial House in Mumbai, the media capital of India. In 1995, it was approved as the official multimedia production centre of the Salesian Province of Mumbai. Thus, Tej-Prasarini expanded. It began producing books and audiovisual materials in English, Marathi and Hindi. Its productions were based on a variety of themes, such as Catechetics, Youth Development, Media Education and Peace initiatives. It catered to the needs of different audiences like parents, youth-leaders and teachers of various educational institutions. It began training programmes that developed a critical awareness with regard to themes like media, creativity, love and peace. Moreover, it began to network with schools and other like-minded centres of learning, thereby earning the reputation of an institution to equip educators with media resources for social change.
The idea of 'Tej-Prasarini' first began in the villages of drought-stricken Ahmednagar, about 250 kilometres from Mumbai. Here the rural folk continue to proclaim their beliefs through community prayer songs called bhajans. Early experiments in recording some of these expressions of faith, gave birth to the idea of preserving and promoting them in the form of audio-cassettes. The recordings thus executed were sold back at discounted rates to the villagers who were delighted to hear their own music through their domestic cassette-radio players. After the modest success of this initiative, and with its base shifted to Pune, Tej-Prasarini launched out into more professional recordings. Collaboration with the late pioneering Marathi lyricist and Radio Evangelist of Pune, Mr. Jayantkumar Tribhuvan, greatly improved the quality of the Marathi productions. The shift to Mumbai in 1993 further boosted music recordings in English and Hindi. Feedback has shown that the songs have proved extremely useful to religious educators in schools and parishes.
One of the greatest contributions of Tej-Prasarini to the field of secular education (education open to people of all beliefs) is the QLE series. Each volume is a manual of ready lesson-plans for educators to be used in formal and non-formal educational settings. The themes chosen are meant to promote values through a reflection and discussion on reality-based issues. The contexts within which they are presented are thoroughly South Asian. The pedagogy promoted is participatory and interactive. The titles are: Exercises in Media Education, Exercises in Education to Love, Exercises in Education to Creativity, and Exercises in Peace Education. Each of these volumes is followed up by courses for educators who are trained on how the manuals can be profitably used. Media Education and Peace Education, in particular, have attracted sizeable participation from various educational corners of India.
In order to promote the QLE project more educational tools were needed. In the age of moving images one could not ignore the absolute necessity of providing video resources on issues contained in the manuals. At the same time it was necessary to make these video productions independent of the manuals to serve a wider audience, even beyond a formal curriculum. Thus the Video Discussion Kits took shape. They were designed for young adults to develop healthy critical thinking skills on life-based issues. Once again the underpinning thrust was towards networking with socially conscientious video-documentary producers. Their productions had to be streamlined to facilitate short and relevant group discussions. The final product was a sleek kit for education.
Tej-Prasarini played a leading role in coordinating the first ever attempt at creating a national plan for training Salesians in Media and Social Communication. The time of training covered nine years, from the pre-novitiate to the third year of theology. Co-ordination of the project involved putting together ideas, designing a master plan and soliciting contributions from various experts in the fields of communication, education, psychology, philosophy and theology. The project was nicknamed an 'experiment' on account of the almost impossible task of matching breadth and scope with quality and depth. The final result, ready by the year 2000, was a 400 page tome, entitled, Shepherds for an Information Age. The logistics involved the coordination of nine province delegates around a single project through the length of two years. Five national seminars were held through 2001 to promote its implementation.
In 2001, Tej-Prasarini had yet another opportunity in networking. It was invited to collaborate with UNICEF on the promotion of 'AIDS Awareness' among school children. The programme involved the participation of students from three zones in India in the creation of original short films on the topic. They were taught the process of communication, given opportunities to meet doctors and HIV positive patients, devise questionnaires, conduct surveys on the public awareness of HIV/AIDS in their localities, and write a telefilm script based on the findings of their survey. On the occasion of World AIDS Day 2002, the project director Mr. Ajay Kanchan, UNICEF, Delhi and one who conceived the Innovative Communication Project on HIV/AIDS also received the President's Award from President Abdul Kalam in Rashtrapati Bhavan. The Award was in recognition for the innovative process of involving adolescents to talk to peers on HIV/ AIDS. Tej-Prasarini, Don Bosco Communications, Matunga had implemented the project in Mumbai.This project in the Mumbai Nodal centre was carried out under the supervision of Darryl D'Souza, SDB, Director of Tej-Prasarini; Mr. Sanjay Jha, Film-maker and Programme coordinator of the Project; Tej-Prasarini staff in collaboration with 8 schools in Mumbai and active support from UNICEF.
The same year, Tej-Prasarini intensified its campaign for promoting peace, especially in the western region of India. The promotion constituted three principle stages in the journey towards peace, namely, preparation, production and promotion. On November 13, 2003, the first 'Don Bosco Film Festival on Peace' was held. Thirteen short films on peace were screened, all of them made by students of seven schools and colleges. The best film was aired on Doordarshan, the national television network.
The Media coordination for the visit of the Rector Major Rev Fr. Pascual Chavez, SDB from February 8 – 11, 2007 was done by Tej-Prasarini, Don Bosco Communications. Tej-Prasarini published the book "A Symphony of Love – The Rector Major speaks to the Province of Mumbai".
UNICEF in collaboration with Tej-Prasarini and Dubai International Film Festival organized a five-day residential workshop on film-making from October 27-31, 2007. Twenty students from various schools in Mumbai participated in this workshop. Actor Jackie Shroff was the chief guest at the workshop.
Tej-Prasarini conducted a 5 day Media Workshop for the Bishops of India on the theme "Shepherds of the Media Age" from March 3-7, 2008 at Don Bosco Provincial House, Matunga in Mumbai. Nearly 18 bishops attended the workshop. The workshop was organized by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) Commission for Social Communications in collaboration with Tej-Prasarini. The workshop featured training in computer skills and included significant sessions in Pastoral Communication Skills, New Trends in Media, Internet & Email, Computer Applications, PowerPoint and Video Conferencing.
Fr. Joaquim Fernandes, SDB, was appointed as the media convener for India's first ever Indian Mission Congress on the theme 'Let Your Light Shine', christened Prabhu Yesu Mahotsav. It was inaugurated by the Vatican Ambassador to India and the representative of Pope Benedict XVI, Archbishop Pedro Lopez Quintana at the St. Pius College, Goregaon, Mumbai. It was held from October 14-18, 2009. More than 100 bishops, hundreds of priests, nuns and lay people travelled from India's 164 dioceses in representation of the country's three different rites: Latin, Syro-Malabar and Syro-Malankar.
In 2000 the CBCI approached Tej-Prasarini with the request to produce a syllabus for diocesan seminaries similar to the manual, Shepherds for an Information Age. However, it was only in 2010 that the work was completed by the then Executive Secretary of the CBCI Commission for Social Communications, Fr. George Plathottam, SDB; the National Salesian Coordinator for Communication, Fr. Louis Kumpiluvelil, SDB; and the Principal of Divyadaan, Nashik, Fr. Robert Pen, SDB. The series in three volumes is entitled Communications for Pastoral Leadership. The books were inaugurated by Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications on February 12, 2011. These three books have been published by Don Bosco Communications India, Tej-Prasarini, and the CBCI Commission for Social Communications.
Tej-Prasarini coordinated and managed the media during the visit of the relic of St. John Bosco to the Salesian Province of St. Francis Xavier, Mumbai from August 12-16, 2011. A commemorative souvenir was published by Tej-Prasarini and a documentary on "Don Bosco Among Us" was released by Fr. Michael Fernandes, SDB, Provincial of Mumbai. At the same event, an audio CD "Don Bosco – A witness to Light" was released by His Eminence Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay.
The IX SIGNIS INDIA National Assembly was organized by SIGNIS INDIA in association with Tej-Prasarini, Don Bosco Communications at Don Bosco Matunga, Mumbai from February 24-28, 2012. The theme of the convention was "Creating Images for a Better Tomorrow". SIGNIS is a non-governmental organization that includes members from 140 countries. It has a consultative statute with UNESCO, ECOSOC (United Nations as in Geneva and New York, the council of Europe). Every year SIGNIS INDIA engages all the members in serious discussion on current topics prevalent in the world. This convention had 90 delegates attending the convention from all across India.
Tej-Prasarini provides a creative platform for young people especially from poorer families who are unaware of their talents and do not have much time during the scholastic year to pursue their interests. The workshops are proficiently designed by professional tutors to enable participants develop their creative skills. Courses are offered in speech, drama, guitar, keyboard, dance, film making and media education. To these skill-training courses, one may also add the six-day Master Your Mind workshop and Mid-Brain Activation held in the month of August for children, youth and adults.
Today, the building in which Tej-Prasarini is located has a media centre where items of many other production houses on catechetical, educational and development themes are available for purchase.
Leadership at Tej-Prasarini changed hands three times. Fr. Peter Gonsalves, SDB, was the founder-director. He was succeeded by Fr. Darryl D'Souza, SDB, in April 20 | 2,444 |
What's Ahead for Networking in 2018?
We asked our partners and peers for predictions.
From telcos like BT and CenturyLink, to financial services such as MasterCard, to tech companies like Amazon, SAP, and more, we asked 30 of our peers one question: What are your 2018 networking predictions? Yes, it's a broad question. But respondents (hailing from network, data center, and security operations teams) surfaced five main predictions for the year ahead. In order of most-voted-for, they are:
More network automation
More cloud adoption
More SD-WAN growth
More demand for security
More machine learning curiosity
Because the top-five predictions likely won't surprise most in our industry, we asked our partners and peers to weigh in on some of the reasons why these trends surfaced to the top. Here's what they said…
I'm going to comment directly on the first prediction, as it's always been a personal fascination. We've been talking about network automation for a long time, but it's traditionally been held back by nervous networking pros who see more risk than reward. Now, things are changing. The advent of cloud and virtual infrastructure is driving automation up and down the stack, and it's dragging networking into the fold. Security is also a driving factor in automation - it's better to shoot first and ask questions later than get compromised. But network automation isn't the hard part<|fim_middle|> we're not talking about full-fledged AI here, the rise of commoditized machine learning capabilities and chat bots being built into just about every new product will allow for human and electronic intelligence to be combined more effectively. Come next year, this will give security teams the ability to assess and prioritize security vulnerabilities based on more than just a single label, thus offering deeper protection." AI in Networking? Luca Deri, founder of ntop, a Kentik alliance partner notes, "In the modern internet, it is no longer possible to use a firewall to delimit bad from good, simply because it's all mixed-up. For this reason it is compulsory to take into account non-network oriented metadata which include things such as if a human using a device, the time of day, the location, and the activity being carried on. With this further step, it becomes possible to make monitoring ready for the next decade." On a similar note, Kentik teammate Justin Ryburn adds, "I think we will hear a lot more about AI and machine learning in 2018. A lot of research is being done on how these technologies can be applied to networking, but I think we are still a few years away from shipping products in this space."
Whatever your network needs may be in 2018, be prepared. The continued adoption of SD-WAN, multi-cloud deployments, increased threatscape, and developments in machine learning are making networks more dispersed and complex. Network visibility will be more critical than ever as enterprises and service providers make these major trends a reality. For SaaS-based, real-time network traffic intelligence from Kentik, request a demo or sign up for a free trial today. | - it's being comfortable with the accuracy of the triggering intelligence, and we see that aspect of analytics improving steadily.
"Workload migration to the cloud and the multi-cloud will continue to accelerate, with containerization becoming increasingly prominent across these environments," suggests Monika Goldberg, executive director of ShieldXNetworks, a 2017 Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Security. "Traditional appliance and virtualized appliance solutions will feel more pressure as more cost-effective and agile cloud-native software and service solutions emerge and mature." Kentik teammate Justin Ryburn suggests: "I think we will see a lot more attention given to how to approach hybrid multi-cloud as users start to realize both on-prem workloads and cloud workloads are going to be a reality for quite a while." Though Ryburn adds, "The migration to the cloud is going to be slower than some people thought it might be." On that last point, I'd add my own observation, that cloud migration isn't happening as fast as the pundits and cloud vendors thought, in no small part due cost, the fact that there are many applications that simply are not "cloud appropriate," and simple organizational inertia around systems that "aren't broke, so why fix them?"
"SD-WAN will continue to be a hot topic as it represents a significant cost savings for enterprises when compared to traditional carrier MPLS services," according to Ryburn. "We will continue to see announcements from carriers about managed SD-WAN offerings as they look to keep their existing enterprise customers by moving them to the newer technology."
Vulnerabilities Exploited in CDNs "New vulnerabilities in content delivery networks (CDNs) have left many wondering if the networks themselves are vulnerable to a wide variety of cyber-attacks," notes Carl Herberger, vice president of security solutions at Radware, a Kentik alliance partner. Herberger predicts these five cyber "blind spots" will be attacked in 2018:
Increase in dynamic content attacks
Attacks on non-CDN services
SSL-based DDoS attacks
Web application attacks
Direct IP attacks
Third-Party Attacks Radware's Herberger also predicts we'll also see more "attacking from the side." He believes this technique will attack the integrity of a company's site through a variety of tactics:
DDoS the enterprise's analytics company
Brute-force attack against all users or against all of the site's third-party companies
Port the admin's phone and steal login information
Large botnets to "learn" ins and outs of a site
Massive load on "page dotting"
Cloud Providers to be Targeted Our partners from A10 Networks Security Engineering Research Team (SERT) say the cloud is next on hackers' hit list. "As more companies move to the cloud, attackers will directly or indirectly target cloud providers," says A10 SERT. "Just one look at the Dyn and Mirai attacks of 2016 show this trend forming, and it'll reach a new peak in 2018. Corporations will have limited response capabilities to deal with their cloud provider being attacked, as they have no control over the underlying infrastructure. This will cause more companies to look at a multi-cloud strategy to avoid putting all of their workloads with one cloud provider."
AI to Power Emerging Security Tech A10 SERT also suggests, "While | 683 |
Interviews // DECEMBER 10, 2018
How Loungefly Brings the Runway Aesthetic to Star Wars Accessories
Loungefly Merchandising Manager Todd Keller chats with StarWars.com about Ewok-themed wallets, Imperial-style backpacks, and more.
Amy Ratcliffe Writer & Geek
Imagine a glitzy runway shining with bright lights, filled with a parade of models sporting haute couture ensembles that will define fashion for the upcoming season. Those looks trickle throughout the apparel and accessory industry, affecting even the Star Wars purses you see on fans' shoulders. The idea for Loungefly's new Star Wars Landscapes holiday collection showcasing cinematic moments from the saga, for example, came straight from the catwalk. "It was an idea I had coming off the runways," Loungefly Merchandising Manager Todd Keller tells StarWars.com. "There were lot of really large scale landscapes on a maxi dress or an actual two-piece suit or even denim, and it came together and told a story. So we were taking that trend, that fashion trend off the runway, and trying to decide how are we going to translate this into our products, and Star Wars was such a natural fit."
Loungefly, a contemporary accessory company, is known for their inventive approach to design, for taking familiar characters or scenes from intellectual property such as Star Wars and turning them into unique patterns that elevate fan style. StarWars.com spoke with Todd Keller about the company's approach to the Star Wars universe, working with fan feedback, and their holiday releases.
StarWars.com: You've been working at Loungefly for a year and half. Have you worked with the Star Wars brand the entire time you've been there?
Todd Keller: Yes, the<|fim_middle|>Wars.com: And similarly, you have the new Star Wars Landscapes series on a satin fabric that really seems to make the designs pop. How did this collection come about?
Todd Keller: Star Wars has the most beautiful landscapes in cinema. We hopped on the phone with Lucasfilm, and I tried to explain my idea as best I could with some imagery and they loved it. We were able to pull some really great imagery out of the archives and place it on product. Going back to the materials, we did two pieces for women in the collection and we decided to do a satin. It's great for a holiday time period, and it's also great for the digital printing. So all the stars aligned, no pun intended, on that one.
Then for the men's line, my favorite is the backpack with the Imperial design. You have a bird's eye view into the Imperial ship with all the stormtroopers lined up and it's such an iconic scene. Then using that, we used a red bungee cord, which is really popular right now in men's backpacks, to round out that story of the Empire and the Sith.
Loungefly's Star Wars Landscapes collection will be exclusively available from ThinkGeek and GameStop. Shop their other designs at a retailer near you or at Loungefly.com.
Amy Ratcliffe is obsessed with Star Wars, Disneyland food, and coffee. She's the author of Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy and a co-host of the podcast Lattes with Leia. Follow her on Twitter at @amy_geek.
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Hello There: General Grievous Arrives in Star Wars Battlefront II | whole time, but since before I even got here, I was a buyer on the other side of the business for seven or so years. That means I was very familiar with the brand and the aesthetic when I came on board. But I was really tasked to turn it up to 11. Being a huge Star Wars fan and identifying other huge fans in the office to help work on the product really helped.
StarWars.com: And what is your personal history with Star Wars? Do you remember the first time you encountered the saga?
Todd Keller: It has a direct correlation to my dad; it was my dad's favorite movie growing up and he had so many stories of going to see it so many times in the theaters. My personal memory is watching them with him on VHS.
When the prequels happened, I remember him taking me to see it in the movie theater in 1999 and being blown away — the podracing and Obi-Wan Kenobi! Oh my gosh, I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
StarWars.com: With Star Wars, you have so much material to pull inspiration from, and then you have the challenge of putting a fresh spin on it. What is Loungefly's approach to making products to catch fans' eyes?
Todd Keller: I think an important part of Loungefly is finding really niche things our consumers really like and enjoy about the brand and executing to it. For example, our chibis that we've become known for — especially in Star Wars — we expanded on that whole art style. I realized it was going to be the 20th anniversary [of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace], and we should do something, so our illustrator took the time and did all Episode I characters and it did really, really well.
And then, it's about taking a really fashionable approach to it. Loungefly's always been fashionable, but I pride myself on that and being up on the trends. It's taking those things that are trending and those silhouettes that are very important in the marketplace, and then translating them into product that can be sold to everybody at more of an accessible price and especially people who are Star Wars fans.
StarWars.com: What's the process like to determine what sort of designs you'll be working on next?
Todd Keller: We work with a really, really great team at Lucasfilm We've had monthly creative calls where we update them on our ideas and what we're thinking, and also any ideas they've seen out there. The number one thing is collaborating with them because they know anything and everything about Star Wars and then anything and everything that would get approved.
On our end, them giving us the kind of creative freedom to come up with those ideas is nice on its own. When you have such huge fans of that whole universe, and you can hone in on those little special things — that's really what makes the best product.
StarWars.com: Star Wars does have a huge number of fans with wildly different tastes and opinions. Do you consider feedback from fans when you're considering what to work on next?
Todd Keller: We do. We love for people to write in and to call in and give us feedback; we've had projects come out of customer feedback emails. Things like people saying… Like we had a purse on the line a couple years ago that was minimal in design on the front, but it had a really cool lining. We actually got, I kid you not, three or four emails of people writing in saying, "Can we get a bag just of this lining because this lining is cool?" We really do listen and pay attention, and we made a bag out of that lining print.
Then inside the conventions, we get great feedback on all the cosplay stuff. That is something new and fun people have been really gravitating towards; they love Darth Vader, but they don't necessarily want a Darth Vader helmet on their back. They want a Darth Vader [item] looking like it could look like his outfit or maybe even something he might carry on his back, versus something so literal. We're trying to expand on that. We actually have some really, really special stuff coming for Star Wars Celebration in April.
StarWars.com: Before Celebration in April, Loungefly has some new items for the holidays, including an Ewok design on a canvas fabric. Do you consider the type of fabric and texture for each bag? Like in this case, giving it a more natural feel.
Todd Keller: Totally. The Ewok one is a perfect example of something that we needed with some texture, because our previous styles were in a faux suede and had some fur, and they were more literal with the little cute Ewok face. We were like, how can we keep this texture and still make it look like it makes sense for that kind of forest-y print? So we landed on this really nice, heavy gauge canvas, and then we trimmed it with the same faux suede we used on the other Ewok backpack that did so well.
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The River City Radio Hour performances on Friday will be an eclectic mix of musical and comedy talents.
The Boogie Kings, led by Richard Adams with William Hayes on keyboard and J.T. Fauber on percussion, will head the musical entertainment. Joining the popular Radio Hour band will be Bill Harouff.
Bill Harouff and his wife Loraine are known throughout the Valley for their special take on the folk music of the region. Bill began singing in high school and joined the folk music scene of the 1960s. He and his wife helped form the popular band Windfall in 1983.
After performing full-time on the road, Bill and Loraine returned to work-a-day world in 1989 but continued to perform widely in the region. Bill's solo performance at the May Radio Hour will feature a sneak preview of the duo's new recording.
Also at the May Radio Hour will be The Dreamland Quartet composed of Terry Terreson, Donald Dollins, Art Grahame, and Tom Pearce. The Quartet will add its close harmonies to complete the musical segment of the Radio Hour.
The comedy will begin with the reappearance of the Radio Hour's own George Shifflet and His Hens of Renown. The Hens are preparing for their first-ever tour. George contacted Olivia Rae Frock (Barbara Lawson) to give "the girls" the polish they will need to establish themselves as musical celebrities and bring fame and fortune to the Shifflet farm.
Complementing them will be Waynesboro's Lady of Laughter, Marsha Howard. Her April performance<|fim_middle|> of the Wayne Theatre Alliance with funding from the Waynesboro Cultural Commission, the City of Waynesboro, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. | was one of the highlights of the Radio Hour season. Howard has raised the bar for herself and the audience.
The "guest of the month" will be Velma Ryan, president of the Friends of the Waynesboro Library. Ms. Ryan will announce the Friends' Change for Children Campaign to support the new facility for children in the expanded Waynesboro Library.
The Friday, May 21 performances of River City Radio Hour are at 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Blue Ridge Christian Fellowship at 329 W. Main St. Seating is limited. Sellouts are a regular occurrence for the Radio Hour. Reserved seats are available for the Radio Hour for $7.50. Call 540.943.9999 to make a reservation.
Doors open at 6 p.m. for the first performance.
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Matilda the Musical UK Tour - A 5* Review
*We received complimentary press night tickets. Post features affiliate links
The story of Matilda is one that I vividly remember from my childhood. Roald Dahl really did have the gift of perfect storytelling and I remember checking this book out from the library (in true Matilda style) and it really capturing my imagination right from the first page. I felt Matilda's loneliness with alongside her, laughed at the mischief in class and spent far too long daydreaming what it must be like trying to eat a huge chocolate cake in one sitting! The original story was published in 1988 and is now 20 years old. It's a story that has stood the test of time though and my own three children now love Matilda just like their mam.
The story of Matilda has not only been adapted into a popular film, but it's now available to watch live on stage as Matilda the Musical. The show began life at RSC's Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon in 2010 and transferred to London's West End in October 2011. London is a bit of a trek for us Northerners though so I'm delighted that the show decided to tour the UK from March this year and is currently enjoying a stint at Sunderland Empire until 2 June (see here for details).
How scary is Miss Trunchbull
<|fim_middle|> have the chance to watch such a critically acclaimed show on our doorstep.
I sent our guest theatre reviewer Kim along to press night - you can check out Kim's review below:
"Last night, my daughter and I visited Sunderland Empire to watch Matilda. I had heard great things about it, so I was expecting it to be good. I was not disappointed. I honestly cannot speak highly enough of the whole production.
From start to finish, it was non stop. It was funny, it was emotional, it was full of drama. The songs and choreography were fantastic, and all the children were fantastic. I was completely mesmerised by Matilda - her songs and monologues were just flawless, and she totally captured your attention.
There were illusions and tricks, some of which I'm still not sure how they were pulled off, but I won't spoil any surprises on what they are!! My favourite part from the book and film is the part with Bruce Bogtrotter and the chocolate cake, and the musical scene of this was just as good - very funny!
There were laughs throughout from the audience from both adults and children. From start to finish it was 2 1/2 hours, but this flew by. The whole show was fantastic, I couldn't fault a thing. The actors, the orchestra, and the production team all did an amazing job, and I honestly cannot believe they do this every night on a tour, as it is so full on!
If anyone gets a chance to see this show, I would recommend it 100% - it's definitely been one of my favourite visits to the theatre."
There are lots of children taking the dreaded SATs this month, and I reckon a trip to see Matilda the Musical will be the perfect half-term treat once they're over and very fitting for this time of year. Matilda the Musical really does sound fantastic and I think it's a show that's not to be missed. You can find out more and buy tickets online here.
Do you have any plans to watch Matilda the Musical?
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Paul 11 May 2018 at 18:28
We saw matilda in London. I took my better half for her birthday as Matilda is her fave book and we are both massive Dahl and Tim minchin fans. Love it. Its outstanding.
Emma 15 May 2018 at 22:23
Oh I would love to see Matilda. It looks amazing!
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The digital transformation of watchmaking
The forced march towards digitisation
12 DISRUPTIONS IN THE WATCHMAKING INDUSTRY
By Europa Star
Sponsored content on Facebook, e-commerce websites, transparent watch prices, massive investment in SEO on Google – faced with the digital tidal wave that is sweeping everything before it, the brands are at a loss as to which way to go. They're all over the place at once, often forgetting to include one key player – the retailer. The risks are as numerous as the opportunities.
hey are two "digital evangelists". These far-sighted web pioneers of the watchmaking industry have been pushing for digitisation in the industry for the past twenty years.
David Sadigh, founder of the digital agency DLG, and Arnaud Dufour, formerly IT head of e-services at Richemont and professor at the University of Engineering and Management in the canton of Vaud, began their online activities in the watchmaking sector early on – a sector that, despite what we often hear, was an early web adopter, since the first watchmaking brand websites appeared from the mid-1990s.
"They were referred to as brochure sites to start with," Arnaud Dufour recalls, "an expression that came to have negative connotations. The idea was to present the company and its catalogue. It was no easy task at the time, because the internet was regarded as a highly technical tool, the diametrical opposite of the world of watchmaking with its luxury codes. What's more, there were genuine technical constraints: with 256 colours and a slow connection, it was difficult to magnify the watches on the screen."
Incompatibility between luxury watches and the internet
At the time, the aesthetics of luxury were incompatible with a computer screen. This was the golden age of glossy magazines and the web was a poor rival! For a long time, the watchmaking industry stagnated at the stage of simple digital experimentation.
"What the managers feared about the internet was that they saw a lot of illicit players usurping their brand names and diverting their traffic via the search engines," stresses David Sadigh. "It was really the law of the jungle, and that slowed down the digitisation process."
The expert sees several reasons why the watchmaking industry did not go digital as rapidly as might have been imagined: "Even when consolidated into groups, the brands knew very little about the end customer. At the time, they felt that the retailers themselves should take charge and develop the approach to the customer." And the unprecedented growth that the industry was posting in the 2000s was unlikely to make them change their strategy .
"The first real turning point came with the introduction of the iPhone a decade ago."
The iPhone, social media and e-commerce threesome
For a long time, growth in the watchmaking industry was cut off from the technological leaps that were so radically changing the times. It continued to function through traditional distribution channels. But gradually, and in disorganised fashion, the industry followed its customers' changing and increasingly internet-focused behaviour.
Because that was where the money was. The crumbling global economy, falling watch sales in China and the resulting crisis in the industry – a huge build-up of stocks right at a time when the brands had massively invested in their own sales boutiques – also brought about a change of direction towards digital platforms, with pressure coming from shareholders of groups listed on the stock exchange.
"The first real turning point came with the introduction of the iPhone a decade ago," is David Sadigh's analysis. "That was when the luxury brands noticed that their wealthy customers were massively adopting that quality interface." The brands' top managers themselves were avid converts to the smartphone: "The bosses realised it was easy to publish content on the internet. The impression up to then had been that it was reserved for geeks. It was a major psychological turning point."
"What's more, it triggered an organisational crisis among the IT and marketing teams of the watchmaking companies, because the top managers wanted to be able to consult the brand's emails and website from their iPhones or iPads,"
adds Arnaud Dufour. It was the start of a change of mindset among both the brands and their customers.
The growing social media bubble
Another crucial factor, also helped along by the iPhone and digital mobility, was the emergence and rapid rise of social media to the point where today we are justified, after the initial digital bubble of the new millennium, in talking of a second "internet bubble": that of social media. Media planning evolved as a result. Until then, the press had been the prime vector for communications in the luxury sector.
But beware of received ideas. According to the WorldWatchReport published by DLG in 2017, the most effective online communications vector today, in terms of traffic generated on watch boutique sites, is neither Facebook nor Instagram nor Snapchat – but the good old newsletter! "Emailing may be less glamorous, but it's still more effective," underscores David Sadigh. "The fact that today everybody is addicted to Facebook and Instagram creates false perceptions."
Transparent prices – no longer taboo?
A third turning point concerns e-commerce. "So the idea of communicating online became feasible," emphasises Arnaud Dufour. "But the idea of selling over the internet, or even displaying prices online, was really taboo for a long time." Yet there were categories of customer who were prepared to buy luxury watches, or at least conduct part of the purchasing process, online.
"Collectors bought or pre- bought watches over the internet, for example if a model wasn't available in their geographical region. The psychological barriers were shattered."
Notwithstanding this, the e-commerce revolution came "from the bottom up", since – logically – it was the entrylevel brands, most of them non-Swiss-made, that first began selling their products online. But the explosion of the pre-owned market and the emergence of new e-commerce giants, such as Chrono24 (Ed.: see our interview in this folio) were also game-changers.
A mixed bag of initiatives
But let us qualify that remark. Not all the brands have switched to e-commerce, even if numerous announcements to that end have been made – one example is Omega's investment in its sales platform in the United States last year. "For many players, the internet is first and foremost a communications tool," Arnaud Dufour believes. "But it is by now accepted that the internet is part and parcel of the run-up to purchasing, even if most of the actual purchases take place in the 'real world'. The major analysts are all anticipating that by 2025, 20-25 percent of sales transactions will be conducted online." Obviously, physical boutiques are as important as ever. But consumers get their information online and purchase in boutiques, or vice-versa. Hybridisation is the order of the day, known in marketing-speak as "omnicality".
Arnaud Dufour: "There are still some big players who haven't crossed over to e-commerce. Rolex is one emblematic example, even if the fact that it displays recommended sales prices on its site shows that it's evolving. If those players started selling online, figures would shoot up."
Retailers left out in the cold
But what hurts is how the distribution networks have been left out of the brands' digital projects. Since the mid-2000s, the watchmaking groups – especially the Richemont Group brands, but also players like Omega, part of the Swatch Group – have opened a jaw-dropping number of their own boutiques all over the world. A strategy born of their desire for "symmetry" – to control both production upstream (by acquiring suppliers) and distribution downstream (by opening their own sales outlets).
"This rollout also promoted the role of the internet," David Sadigh believes. "The objective was to channel traffic into these new, expensively rented boutiques, which did not have the advantage of the historical networks of the local retailers."
Indeed, since being "connected" is a real buzz word today, we should also underscore the brands' desire to have a direct connection with their end customers. And the resulting bypassing of intermediaries. This development has called into question the brands' historical partnerships with their retailers, both physical and digital.
"It would be a good thing if the brands finally assumed their responsibility for their historical distribution network in relation to the internet. Given the way e-commerce has developed for quite a few brands, you can't deny that the business decisions they took were not to the advantage of the retailers. Yet they're supposed to be partners."
An attitude that is more "destructive than constructive"
"As far as retailer digitisation is concerned, we have to differentiate between two types of player," David Sadigh believes. "First of all, you have retailers with a very local customer base, often going back several generations and with limited means. For them it's difficult to find the budget or develop online expertise. Then you get the larger retail chains, who have more chance of launching online initiatives with the support of the brands. Both are being confronted with new kinds of customer behaviour, heavily influenced by digitisation."
Arnaud Dufour points the finger at an attitude on the part of the brands that is more destructive than constructive for their retailers: "It would be a good thing if the brands finally assumed their responsibility for their historical distribution network in relation to the internet. Given the way e-commerce has developed in the case of quite a few brands, you can't deny that the business decisions they took were not to the advantage of the retailers. Yet they're supposed to be partners."
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Integrating digital strategies into discussions with retailers
How can we change the game? "I argue in favour of shared ownership of customer data between a brand and the retailers, for example. That would be a real strategic decision that can only come from the CEO. Such a joint customer database would be developed by both partners, for example by sending out joint newsletters. A genuine digital strategy that includes the retailers would reassure them."
Because numerous prospects are opening up: "Customer data management software is really in its infancy," is Arnaud Dufour's analysis. "The same goes for online after-sales service.
The idea of virtual communities or clubs turned out to be a damp squib. Everything needs to be done from scratch. So why not include the retailers in these processes?"
Like a headless chicken...
But should the brands invest first in renovating their websites? Or promoting their social media? Or launching an online boutique? The sheer number of options makes your head spin! Ultimately, you get the impression that the brands are exploring any number of paths, at a loss what to do faced with so many online tools. There are so many possibilities that too many brands seem to be shooting in all directions at once, investing a little (or a lot) in everything, rather than concentrating on one, clear-cut, digital strategy. A bit like a headless chicken that goes zigzagging in all directions.
And they are not all shooting together: "All the brands are stepping up their digitisation, but not all at the same pace," underscores David Sadigh. "It often happens that the large budgets allocated specifically to digitisation are not used optimally. The problems most frequently encountered are related to the purchase of key words that cannibalise organic traffic, advertising banners that generate low-quality traffic, or too much energy poured into the social media."
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FileMaker Databases Saves Credibility of a Global Consulting Company
By Keefer Rogers Last updated Mar 8, 2020
FMT CLARIS NEWSWIRE – NEW YORK – March 8, 2020
Citinet Solutions, which elevates business processes and relationships through affordable technology solutions, announced today that its fast and effective database work helped a consulting firm save its reputation and avoid a cash-flow crisis.
Balancing Life's Issues, which provides training programs for businesses, employee assistance programs, schools and nonprofits, was on the verge of a financial deadlock when Citinet was asked to step in.
The company's nearly 2,000 freelance consultants couldn't get into the FileMaker-based system to bill hours, and the back office couldn't invoice customers.
"We were a minute from going back to paper," said BLI founder Wendy Wollner, whose consulting staff includes social workers, wellness coaches, registered dieticians, fitness instructors, CPAs, financial advisors and lawyers, among others.
A software crash would be troubling for any company, but it was especially challenging for the 30-year-old BLI, which stakes its reputation on helping others deal with life's unanticipated bumps and detours.
"Anything that destroys my credibility is devastating, and the vendor that did the original FileMaker installation just couldn<|fim_middle|> training evaluation feedback.
"We're not finished yet," said Citinet founder Ed Zaremba. "Now that BLI is on a firm footing for its daily business routines, we'll be coming back to add advanced automation and SMS texting that can be triggered automatically or manually. That'll help everybody stay in the loop."
Wollner looks forward to Citinet's continued help.
"I went to from having no belief that the system could work to, 'Wow, Citinet can make it do 29 other things,'" she says.
About Citinet Solutions:
Citinet Solutions was founded in 2004 as the first Apple Computer authorized business agent in Westchester County, NY, and the second in New York City. We're happily independent with current government clearance. Citinet's wide range of skill sets allows it to tap into a suite of capabilities; from acute listening, designing custom software, creating company-wide workflows, innovative automation, to measurable reporting metrics. We believe in hands-on only; no outsourcing, ever. Citinet is a member of the Westchester Business Council and the FileMaker Business Alliance.
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Fixing FileMaker File Corruption Issues… | 't seem to get it right. We needed Citinet's help fast," Wollner said.
The Citinet team knew FileMaker could do everything BLI needed – and more – when configured and integrated properly.
After debugging, the team moved on to standardizing code, fortifying functional interactions to improve user experience and fixing the QuickBooks integration.
BLI was back in the digital world quickly, saving staff hours, improving cash flow and boosting confidence in its FileMaker application.
Citinet also integrated an e-signature feature to make it easier for consultants to complete legal forms and added an iPhone app so trainers can capture on-site | 126 |
Maintaining family safety is always a top priority for parents and guardians. It can be hard to keep track of all the little things that could go wrong around the house, like smoke alarms with low batteries, high carbon monoxide levels or failing to replace air filters.
To keep you on top of your game, State Farm experts have devised a one-day plan for inspecting the most important safety systems, from upstairs to the basement.
Start your safety audit with some of the most important safety equipment every home should have: smoke alarms. Install smoke alarms inside and outside of bedrooms, plus at least one on each floor of the home, including the basement. If possible, use interconnected smoke alarms that all sound when one does. If you have smoke alarms, clean and test each one, and replace batteries as needed. (Repeat this simple safety measure monthly.) Replace alarms at least every 10 years.
In a fire there may not be a clear path out every door. You need a second way out of any room, and that's the window in a second story bedroom or other space. Place a fire escape ladder near a window in each upstairs room, and practice with family members where to find and how to use them. Also use this time to refresh your family's memories about the emergency escape plan.
If your home uses natural gas for cooking or heating, or has an attached garage, you need carbon monoxide (CO) alarms. Called the silent killer, CO is a colorless, odorless gas, and even small doses can be poisonous. If you haven't done it, install interconnected alarms outside bedrooms and on every level of the home. Test the alarms today and every month so your family becomes familiar with the sound. Also, discuss what to do if the alarms ever go off. (Immediately exit the home and call the fire department.) Replace monitors every seven years.
Before heading down the stairs for the first-floor audit, stop and look around. The stairwell is a critical part of your family's emergency escape route. Prevent dangerous falls by repairing or tightening loose steps and handrails. If the stairs are uncarpeted, add slip-resistant treads, tapes or paint. If you rely only on hardwired overhead lighting to illuminate your stairwell, the area will be dark during a power outage. For safety's sake install battery-operated, motion-activated step lights. If you already have them, check whether batteries need replacing.
Pull the pin to release the locking mechanism.
Extinguishers should only be used on small, confined fires. If a fire is growing, get out of the house.
Fireplaces and heating elements are the second leading cause of home fires in the US. If your home has a wood-burning or gas fireplace, spend a few minutes thinking about safety. First, a clean chimney is less likely to catch fire<|fim_middle|> simple fix: Wrap your water heater in a blanket, which costs about $20. (Some utilities offer them for free or at a reduced cost.) According to the U.S. Energy Department, an insulated water heater cuts 4 to 9 percent in water heating costs.
To install: Turn the water heater off or turn the gas knob on a gas water heater to "pilot." Cut the blanket down to size using a utility knife or scissors (it should not cover the top). Cut out an area for the control panel, pipe, valve and burner. Tape in place, and turn the water heater on (no higher than 130ºF).
Once a year, preferably before your area's rainy season, check your sump pump. The pit should be free of debris and the pipe should be clear so water flows freely. If something doesn't work, check the power source, then call a professional. | ; make your annual appointment for a certified chimney sweep to inspect and clean the hearth and flue. Reduce the threat of fire-causing sparks by making sure your fire screen is functional and by moving all flammable materials (carpets, furniture, drapes, etc.) at least 36 inches away from the firebox.
Simple steps keep your air-conditioner in top shape so you don't have to sweat out the hottest day of the year and also potentially cut annual energy costs. After turning off power to the unit, replace the filter to reduce energy drain. (You should do this every month during the cooling season.) With a garden hose, clean the condenser coils to prevent overheating. Then clear a 2-foot area around the unit to avoid dust and debris buildup that can bog down the machine. Pass a stiff wire through the unit's drain channels to get rid of clogs, which boost indoor humidity. Now you can turn the power back on. Don't forget to cover the unit when you turn it off for the winter.
Most Americans use public water, but if you're a private well owner, you're responsible for the quality of the water you drink. After checking your A/C unit, inspect your well for cracks, corrosion, broken or missing parts and proper runoff. Also call a state-certified lab for an inexpensive test to check the water for nitrate and coliform bacteria.
While you walk around your home, keep an eye out for potential poisoning risks. The kitchen, garage and bathrooms often house medications, cleaners and other toxic products that can harm children and dogs. Store those items out of reach in cabinets with locks or safety latches.
It's easy to forget how much we rely on the hardworking components hidden in the basement … until one fails. It's time to head downstairs and give them some attention, starting with the furnace.
After turning off its power supply, check the filter. If it's dirty, replace it. (Change filters every one to three months.) Clogged filters slow air flow and bump up your energy bill. Worse, excessive dirt buildup can bring down the system, freeze your family and cost a fortune to repair.
Vacuum any visible dust in and around the unit, remove the flame shield and check the burner for corrosion. When finished, turn the power back on and make sure the pilot light is burning.
Never heard of radon? Unsure if this radioactive gas mixes into the air you breathe at home? It's time to find out: Radon is now the second-leading cause of lung cancer (and number one cause of lung cancer for non-smokers).
A byproduct of the decay of uranium, radon is found in the soil under many homes. Levels can vary from house to house on the same block, so every homeowner should test. Ask your local health department if it has free DIY kits. If not, buy one for less than $20 at a home improvement store.
Conduct the test in the lowest level of your home that's used at least a few hours a week. Place it at least 20 inches above the floor and away from exterior walls. Keep windows and doors closed for 12 hours before and throughout the test.
After the testing period, immediately send the kit to the lab listed in the instructions. If your results are 4 pCi/L or higher, do a second test. If both short-term tests show high numbers, call a licensed mitigation professional to discuss options for reducing radon to acceptable levels.
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Each Saturday at 5 All Classical Portland celebrates what's next in our community, with profiles of young musicians and explorations of musical opportunities for young people in the northwest.
If you know of a young musician who should be profiled On Deck, email Christa Wessel at christa@allclassical.org
Support for On Deck comes from individual donors.
Additional support comes from Metropolitan Youth Symphony
On Deck with Joshua Arce
Amy Faust chats with flutist Joshua Arce. Born in Salem to parents who emigrated from Nicaragua, Joshua made it into the National Youth Orchestra just 4 years after picking up a flute for the first time. His passion for music led him to set a series of lofty goals for himself, all of which he… More
On Deck with Abigail Kim
16-year-old Abigail Kim started her musical journey on the piano and violin, but it didn't take long for her to find her true voice in the oboe. She is now a member of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony and Portland Youth<|fim_middle|> a career: he is… More
On Deck with Andrew Schroeder
Andrew Schroeder is a very busy 15-year old sophomore at Sam Barlow High School. He is involved in multiple choirs and bands at school (he plays French horn), and he also sings in multiple ensembles with the Pacific Youth Choir. Additionally, he works twice a week at a memory care center, playing music for residents… More | Philharmonic, and is preparing for her Carnegie Hall debut in the summer of 2021. Abigail… More
On Deck with Joshua Hahn
Christa Wessel chats with 18-year old pianist Joshua Hahn, who earlier this year won a spot on the Young Artists Debut Concerto Concert presented by Cognizart by MetroArts. Joshua loves how music demands perseverance and dedication, and also how it can connect us to emotion and memory deep inside us.
On Deck with Cole White
Cole White is a 15-year-old euphonium player whose musical adventures include playing with the BRAVO Community Orchestra and, most recently, joining two different bands in Portland. He credits BRAVO with helping him improve his musical skills and providing a place to make great friends. In this conversation with Raúl Gómez, Cole shares the story of… More
On Deck with Kara Taylor
Amy Faust chats with multi-instrumentalist and composer Kara Taylor. A music lover since birth, Kara took up the piano at the ripe old age of 3 so that she could accompany her own singing. She has since added violin and saxophone to her repertoire, as well as the flute, which she currently plays with Metropolitan… More
On Deck with Evan Nakanishi
16-year-old Evan Nakanishi has a dream of being a professional percussionist in a symphony orchestra, and he is having a lot of fun along the way. Raúl Gómez speaks with this junior from Clackamas High School, who shares stories about making performance videos while in quarantine, wearing silly hats and elaborate costumes, and becoming enamored with percussion… More
On Deck with Skye Neal
Christa Wessel chats with 10-year old Skye Neal, who has had a fascination with music from the time she was a toddler. She plays violin and piano, sings with the Pacific Youth Choir, and at age 8 she began taking composition lessons. Skye has been a part of Fear No Music's "Young Composer Project" for… More
On Deck with Anna Hermes
Our newest contributor to "On Deck," Raul Gomez, chats with singer/songwriter Anna Hermes, an 18-year old soprano and a recent graduate of St. Mary's Academy. Throughout her high school career, she was a member of Pacific Youth Choir, a songwriting camp counselor with Young Musicians and Artists, a musical theater performer and a passionate advocate… More
On Deck with Rhys Phillips
Rhys Phillips is an 18-year old multi-genre multi-instrumentalist, and a senior at West Linn High School. His principal instrument is the piano, but he also sings and plays the cello, guitar and bass. He loves playing classical, jazz and pop. He deeply loves music, and in intently focused on music as | 588 |
For thousands of years, molds have been used to form raw materials like clay and metal into art, jewelry, and tools. With modern plastics, software, and manufacturing technologies, it's possible to cast almost any object from a mold. This course is an introduction to mold design in SOLIDWORKS, for everything from one-off prototyping to mass-manufacture of a variety of products. Learn best practices for getting repeatable, high-quality results with 3D printing and CNC machines. Design consultant and instructor Tam Black also provides an overview of the materials available for at-home and industrial-scale molding and casting, and helps you understand which production method is suitable for your scale of manufacture.
What are mold making and<|fim_middle|>. Hi, I'm Tam and I'm multi-disciplinary design consultant, an avid member of the maker scene, and a lifetime learner.
For the past three years, I've been teaching people about the wonderful world of mold making. I combine my experience with furniture building, carpentry and prototyping with my knowledge of 3D design and design for manufacturing in this course for you.
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- [Tam] Have you always wanted to design your own objects, but didn't know where to start? There's a whole world of making techniques from small scale to mass production that are accessible to everyone. With the technology available today, you can design your project in 3D modeling software and have a physical model in a matter of days. By learning more about the way things are made, you can get your ideas that much closer to reality. There are many connections to be made between prototyping and mass production techniques and understanding what's possible can help save a lot of time, resources, and effort with trial and error.
In this course, I'll be covering design considerations for molding using solid works to demonstrate concepts. I'll discuss industry terms, look at an overview of materials, and talk about how to make the most out of your design. I'll also be talking about how these design methods translate from the hands-on prototyping stage to larger scale manufacturing. Lastly, I'll go over some of the variety of manufacturing processes available, and discuss the criteria to consider when choosing your method of manufacture | 224 |
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St. Juan Diego
Feast day: December 09
On Dec. 9, Roman Catholics celebrate St. Juan Diego, the indigenous Mexican Catholic convert whose encounter with the Virgin Mary began the Church's devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
In 1474, 50 years before receiving the name Juan Diego at his baptism, a boy named Cuauhtlatoatzin -- "singing eagle" -- was born in the Anahuac Valley of present-day Mexico. Though raised according to the Aztec pagan religion and culture, he showed an unusual and mystical sense of life even before hearing the Gospel from Franciscan missionaries.
In 1524, Cuauhtlatoatzin and his wife converted and entered the Catholic Church. The farmer now known as Juan Diego was committed to<|fim_middle|> of all the people that live together in this land," she continued, "and also of all the other various lineages of men."
She asked Juan Diego to make a request of the local bishop. "I want very much that they build my sacred little house here" -- a house dedicated to her son Jesus Christ, on the site of a former pagan temple, that would "show him" to all Mexicans and "exalt him" throughout the world.
She was asking a great deal of a native farmer. Not surprisingly, his bold request met with skepticism from Bishop Juan de Zumárraga. But Juan Diego said he would produce proof of the apparition, after he finished tending to his uncle whose death seemed imminent.
Making his way to church on Dec. 12, to summon a priest for his uncle, Juan Diego again encountered the Blessed Virgin. She promised to cure his uncle and give him a sign to display for the bishop. On the hill where they had first met he would find roses and other flowers, though it was winter.
Doing as she asked, he found the flowers and brought them back to her. The Virgin Mary then placed the flowers inside his tilma, the traditional cloak-like garment he had been wearing. She told him not to unwrap the tilma containing the flowers until he had reached the bishop.
When he did, Bishop Zumárraga had his own encounter with Our Lady of Guadalupe – through the image of her that he found miraculously imprinted on the flower-filled tilma. The Mexico City basilica that now houses the tilma has become, by some estimates, the world's most-visited Catholic shrine.
The miracle that brought the Gospel to millions of Mexicans also served to deepen Juan Diego's own spiritual life. For many years after the experience, he lived a solitary life of prayer and work in a hermitage near the church where the image was first displayed. Pilgrims had already begun flocking to the site by the time he died on Dec. 9, 1548, the 17th anniversary of the first apparition.
Blessed John Paul II beatified St. Juan Diego in 1990, and canonized him in 2002.
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Copyright © CNA All rights reserved | his faith, often walking long distances to receive religious instruction. In December of 1531, he would be the recipient of a world-changing miracle.
On Dec. 9, Juan Diego was hurrying to Mass to celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. But the woman he was heading to church to celebrate came to him instead.
In the native Aztec dialect, the radiant woman announced herself as the "ever-perfect holy Mary, who has the honor to be the mother of the true God."
"I am your compassionate Mother, yours and that | 115 |
When I lived in Madrid for one year, the most bizarre things that happened to me. And I can only share certain stories with you, there will have to be a certain degree of censorship. Then you can decide if you would like to experience living in one of the apartments in Madrid.
1. The very first day I arrived I ended up surrounded by a circle of people who watched in awe as the bouncer of a disco named El perro de la parte de atrás del coche (which means something like 'The dog at the backside of the car') and a local tenor who was performing at one of theatres, serenaded me with a West Side story song.
2. A guy I met while trying to find a place to live in one of the Madrid<|fim_middle|> finally found where I wanted to live. I rented a cute and tiny beamed attic in Malasaña district where I could not even stand up straight because of the low ceiling and I had to shower sitting on a stool. As a consequence, I had to have my bed as low as possible with the mattress solely on the lath floor, which made it quite cold. I ended up getting a small heater which I turned off right before falling asleep every night, but one winter night I fell asleep before I could turn it off and I paranormally woke up with my ankle bracelet burned into my skin. I had to go to the doctor for two consecutive months because of my 2-degree burns. I still have a "souvenir" on my ankle from it.
I could carry on with anecdotes, but it's best you explore this city's adventure possibilities yourself. If you let loose and go with an open mind, Madrid can be extremely fun.
I lived in Madrid for 3 months, and LOVED it. | apartments invited me to what he called a "freak event". I didn't have any other info, but I didn't have any other friends yet either, so I went. An hour later I was in a bar with a group of about ten people (who were on average 20 years older than me) eating a Spanish omelette, drinking wine and singing traditional Galician songs. Leading the pack was a man who referred to himself as Galín de Galicia. He gave me a cd, and don't ask me how, but he managed to get my phone number and call me two years after that encounter to invite me to dinner (which I respectfully refused).
I am not sure why this always happens to me, maybe because I was alone, or too thin at that time…but whenever I entered a typical Madrid bar, the waiter asked me: "Have you eaten?" Although it's normal in Madrid to be given a free tapa along with a drink at bars, they used to ask me what I wanted to eat for free and usually gave me a large portion. Free food is always good!
After having moved 4 times within two months I | 235 |
<|fim_middle|> I even got a pic with Ryan! I left the show a very happy AFOL.
There's still plenty of time to go before the show is packed up, so make sure you go and check it out. There's over 50 brand new models on display. It's on until July 30, and tickets are available from the Brickman Wonders of the World website. There's even loads of building the kids (big and small) can do.
I took plenty of photos, but I won't post them until after the show, so I don't spoilt it, so you're just going to have to go and take a look. | If you haven't been to the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre to see the Brickman Wonders of the World exhibition, then you're missing out, because it's an excellent showcase of some of the most stunning LEGO models Perth has seen.
Ryan McNaught is Australia's very own LEGO Certified Professional, and the only one in the Southern Hemisphere, and has a crack team of LEGO builders and model designers who have put together one top notch show. There are plenty of different models to see, including The Arch de Triomphe, the amazingly intricate St Basil's Cathedral, Mt Rushmore, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Statue of Christ the Redeemer, and a sinking Titanic, just to name a few.
I was lucky enough to be able to attend a tour by the Brickman himself around the exhibition, for the three LUGs in Western Australia – the WA Brick Society, West Coast LUG, and the one I'm a member of, PLUG. It was a great afternoon of catching up with mates and making new ones, and learning more about our favourite hobby from one of the legends.
Ryan was able to offer some insights on his and his team's process, and how the models come together. Did you know there's steel running through all the large models, and they're glued? I didn't! Also, that behind the Mona Lisa is a picture of Lloyd from Ninjago? Not the real one, just the LEGO one. I also found it very interesting that for some of the more religious models, like Christ the Redeemer and Notre Dame, he had to ask permission from The LEGO Group to build them, as they famously stay away from religious themes.
All in all it was a great afternoon. | 352 |
First-Year Medical Students Pay Tribute...
An ensemble of first-year medical students sing 'Over the Rainbow' as their classmates listen.
First-Year Medical Students Pay Tribute to Those Who Donated Their Bodies to Science
By Linda Satter
Dec. 8, 2022 | First-year medical students at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) gathered Nov. 14 in the Fred Smith Auditorium for a ceremony honoring those who donated their bodies to medical science.
Thanks to the anatomical donations, the Class of 2026 was able to study 37 bodies in small groups in the Human Structure class that marks the beginning of their medical education.
Each group of first-year students on the Little Rock campus studied the remains of one of 34 cadavers, while 17 first-year students on the northwest campus in Fayetteville studied three permanent specimens in the Department of Physical Therapy's anatomy laboratory there. The remains of the cadavers are later cremated and returned to the family or buried, depending on the family's wishes.
The Anatomical Donation Ceremony of Remembrance began with brief remarks from student Jared Canonigo, UAMS Chaplain Franklin Wells and student Bryan Strong. Then the group listened solemnly as student Jade Michael Matthews read a poem called "Knowing You" by JooRi Jun, who wrote it in 2012 as a medical student at Bastyr University in Seattle.
"I do not know all the paths you chose to walk down in life, but I have felt the fibers of all the muscles that carried you there," the poem begins. "I do not know what made your heart burst with love, but I have pictured<|fim_middle|> the course and the professionalism that you've shown continually through the course." | how the blood flowed through the four chambers of your heart."
The poem ends with the words, "I do not know your name, but before you left you gave me permission to uncover the miracle of the human body through you. You gave me the gift of knowing you. Thank you."
An ensemble of first-year students then gathered onstage to sing "Over the Rainbow," before a representative of each of the 34 lab groups on the Little Rock campus walked across the stage and placed a white carnation in a vase, to commemorate each of the donors.
Three additional carnations were then added to the vase in honor of the donated bodies studied by the Northwest Arkansas first-year students.
Student Alexa Pearce, a former art history major, presented a framed watercolor she painted of a heart as a token of appreciation. The class memorial gift will join other artwork from first-year students that lines the walls outside the anatomy lab on the Little Rock campus.
Alexa Pearce displays the watercolor heart she painted.
"Finishing anatomy is certainly a milestone for all of us," Pearce said, "but it's one that wouldn't be possible without the generous donations of these individuals. I hope that my artwork can serve as a symbol for the unique life paths that each of these individuals had and for the lasting impact that they will have on our journeys."
David Davies, Ph.D., a professor in the College of Medicine Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences who is the module director for the anatomy course, reminded the medical students that the donors — most of whom died while in their 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s — grew up in a world that differed in many ways from that in which the students have grown up.
He cited the influence of wars and the civil rights movement, as well as technological changes and major changes in the practice of medicine, as well as their personal experiences, all of which may have influenced their decision to donate their bodies.
"You saw that in the laboratory and just got a glimpse of it," Davies said. "It might have been just the color of the nail polish that they were wearing, a pacemaker that they had or some other prosthesis, or tattoos."
"By giving themselves up as a specimen or donor for your education, their families were also giving up part of the ceremonies that go along with grieving and resolution of the pain that they feel," he said. "And so I think it's important to remember their families and to honor them as well.
Students walk across the stage to place a carnation in a vase in remembrance of the donors, as their classmates look on.
"I think that what they did was burden you with an expectation that you would be good physicians, caring physicians and competent physicians, and then to carry that throughout your careers," Davies said. "Thank you for your participation in | 580 |
Travel advisors appear to be more aware of the need for government advocacy these days, at least according to a new annual report from the American Society of Travel Advisors (ASTA). The report shows a steady increase in the amount of money that travel advisors — from agencies large and small — are donating to the group's political action committee. It's doubled in the last five years.
At the same time, ASTA is gearing up for what it hopes will be record attendance at its annual Legislative Day program, scheduled for June 1–5. Members will meet with their representatives on Capitol Hill, where issues such as the Travel Agent Retail Fairness Act and travel to Cuba are among current concerns. Whether on the national or state level, travel advisors who get involved with advocacy say it's crucial to educate politicians, as most are clueless about travel agency operations.
Skift also looks at the importance of travel advisors understanding the needs and requirements of travelers with disabilities, a market that hotels and cruise lines are getting better<|fim_middle|>ji Gets Right With Its New Flagship Hotel: More travelers want a lower price point without sacrificing aesthetics and vibe. Much can be learned from Muji's example in Tokyo, particularly the product integration and room design.
Expedia and Marriott Finally Sign a New Contract: For pundits looking for a headline that Marriott won reduced commissions from Expedia, the reality is likely far more complex than that, and it might take an audit over the next few years to truly sort out the revenue impact. The new deal has Marriott properties remaining for sale on Expedia brands, as the two companies march off into the sunset maintaining their rough-and-tumble, if symbiotic relationship.
How One Canadian Province Uses Icebergs to Attract Visitors: The best advice for destinations large and small as they embark upon marketing campaigns — keep it real. The efforts of isolated, iceberg-laden Newfoundland and Labrador are proof that going with the authenticity "floe" can melt the hearts of potential visitors.
Next articleMaltraitances : Il bat une fille de 4 ans, il s'agit de la fille de sa nouvelle compagne ! | equipped to serve. A number of sources are available for training in this often-neglected demographic.
Travelers With Disabilities May Find Advantages in Using Travel Advisor Specialists: The number of people with disabilities is increasing and travel advisors need to understand their needs. If they don't, not only will they lose business to specialist agencies, they may also risk prosecution.
JetBlue Is Flying to Europe and We're Breaking Down the Competition: JetBlue revealed one of aviation's worst-kept secrets by announcing flights to Europe. The move will attract fire from competitors, but even so, JetBlue is not risking the company with these new routes.
Delta Air Lines Plans to Reduce Seat Recline in Bet to Make Flyers Happy: This could go one of two ways. Passengers could revolt, taking to social media to complain about Delta's decision to reduce recline on 62 airplanes. Or customers could be pleasantly surprised at how much space they'll have under Delta's new test configuration.
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Prior to co-founding Chinook Forest Partners, Scott held a senior leadership position in MetLife's Timberland Finance Group where he led MetLife's financing efforts for timberland investors in the western United States and in Australasia. Scott also managed the timberland equity portfolio for MetLife. Prior to MetLife, Scott spent almost five years as Manager of Business<|fim_middle|> Business from The University of Georgia. Carter is a member of the Young Alumni Committee at The University of Georgia's Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and is a Level III CFA examination grader. | Development with Plum Creek Timber, where he helped manage and successfully execute over $900 million of timberland equity transactions.
Scott holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environment, Economics, and Politics from Claremont McKenna College and a Master of Forest Economics from the University of Washington. Scott is co-founder of Tennis Center Sand Point (TCSP), Seattle's only privately run public indoor tennis center.
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Most recently Kelly served in a senior leadership position overseeing IWC's entire US timberland client portfolio, which included exposure to over $5 billion in timberland assets throughout the core US markets. In his position Kelly was directly responsible for oversight and reporting on nearly 30 funds and separate accounts involving 13 different managers. Prior to joining IWC Kelly worked as a consultant on timberland acquisition strategy and as a field forester in Oregon.
Kelly holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies, with emphasis on Structural Geology from the University of Oregon, and a Master of Forestry from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
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Carter joined Stafford from MetLife's Timberland Finance Group where he underwrote and managed institutional timberland debt and equity holdings. Prior to his entry into timberland investment, Carter held positions in corporate finance where he gained experience in retail revenue and global payment processing.
Carter is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from The Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Master of Forest Resources in Forest | 515 |
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Accidental damage can often occur from overuse, through age and when the product does not come with all of the guarantees that you expected. For this reason, we can provide customers with commercial vacuum repairs in Cheshire and surrounding areas for a range of major brands including, but not limited to, Nilfisk, Karcher and Numatic. With years worth of experience spent repairing every type of fault imaginable, there really isn't any problem that our experienced team cannot fix.
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At Britclean we have a highly skilled team of mobile technicians on hand as well as a dedicated team which works from our base in Biddul<|fim_middle|> as possible.
This entry was posted in Britclean UK and tagged Commercial vacuum repairs Cheshire on November 6, 2017 by admin. | ph. On hand Monday to Saturday, we can make sorting your commercial vacuum repairs in Cheshire as easy as possible. For more information about our services, please contact us today. No matter what the fault may be, we will help to restore your machine to a full working order as soon | 58 |
Question Is there a way for me to change the text in these emails that come out when a users signs up to NetWrix Password Manager?
Answer<|fim_middle|> directory. | There is a way to change the text of notifications.
E-mail templates are stored in the Templates subfolder of the Password Manager installation directory.
There are a lot of text files for different languages there.
We use clear titles for template text files. For example, the file "change_body_template.txt" contains the body text of the email sent as a change password notification.
There are 2 files for each type of notification: one for the subject of an email and one for the body.
Files with "_adm" in the filename are templates for emails sent to administrators (specified on Admin portal/Settings/Alerts), while files without "_adm" are sent to the user(s).
To change the language of the template you should rename the respective templates to the default name.
Another option is just to edit the existing default English templates.
To do it, edit the .txt files located in the Templates subfolder of the Password Manager installation | 187 |
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Canet de Mar is a coastal town in the Maresme region that is known for its marine and tourist tradition. It is a traditional fishing village, famous for its artistic and architectural heritage, linked to modernism. The beaches, Canet, Cabaió and Pla de Sant Crist or the White Rocks make it a perfect place to live. | beautiful well-maintained garden invites you to access the interior of the villa. Its wide hall welcomes you to the ground floor, distributed in a large dining room, a living room with fireplace, a double bedroom and a bathroom. The living room has access to the porch, where you can enjoy pleasant evenings with views of the pool and the sea.
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Located at the north end of Mobile Bay, about 35 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico, the city of Mobile, Alabama is one of the region's larger cities, rich in history and culture. According to City-Data.com, the July 2008 population of Mobile was 191,022. Numerous hotels are found around town to accommodate visitors and vacationers, including several luxury properties.
Located downtown, this posh hotel combines modern amenities with historic elegance, housed in a landmark built before the Civil War. Amenities include two restaurants, a bar, room service, a full-service spa, pool and fitness center. A variety of room and suite sizes include luxury bedding, soundproof windows and marble bathrooms with separate bath and shower. Internet service and daily parking are offered for a fee.
Situated<|fim_middle|>. | near a high-traffic shopping and entertainment area, this luxury hotel offers a fine dining restaurant and bar, room service, a swimming pool, a fitness center and business center. Guest rooms feature comfortable bedding, in-room safe and WebTV capability. Special amenities packages are offered for business travelers or concierge level upgrades.
This luxury hotel is located downtown near the Mobile Cruise Terminal and the Gulf Coast Exploreum, and features a nautical theme throughout. Amenities include three restaurants, room service, free Internet service, a fitness center and business center. Guest rooms feature extra-comfortable bedding and marble bathrooms. A skywalk connects this hotel with the Arthur R. Outlaw Convention Center.
Located in the historic downtown area, this boutique hotel occupies two restored and expanded townhouses from the 1860s, with a courtyard between them. According to the inn's website, tunnels under one of the old houses once sheltered Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Filled with Southern charm, the hotel features 39 unique rooms decorated in period furniture. Amenities include a pool, free breakfast, free Internet and free off-street parking.
McQuilkin, Jeff. "Luxury Hotels in Mobile, AL." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/luxury-hotels-mobile-al-23192.html. Accessed 22 April 2019.
Gulf, Mobile, & Ohio Railroad Terminal in Mobile, Alabama.
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Fishos win big through Season 6
The latest season of Million Dollar Fish has come to a close, following a successful six months that saw local and interstate fishos cash in through the competition.
Between 1 October 2020 and 31 March 2021, anglers caught 11 prize-tagged fish across the Top End, with competition underwriter SportsBet paying out $115,000 in prize money.
SportsBet External Affairs Manager Brad Fanning said the company was thrilled to come on board as the naming rights sponsor and partner with Australia's richest fishing competition for Season 6.
"Over the past six months we've seen a wide demographic of fishos take home huge cash prizes and registered participants of all ages win great prizes each month as part of the Lucky Prize Pool," he said.
"I'd like to congratulate all winners of Season 6 and look forward to Million Dollar Fish returning for Season 7 in October this year."
Fishos caught tagged barra at a range of iconic Top End fishing destinations, including Adelaide River, Darwin Harbour, Bridge Lagoon, Daly River, Finniss River and Kakadu. Holidays, home renovations, furniture, fishing equipment, a buck's night and a lawn mower are just some of the things fishos spent their winnings on. Prize-tagged<|fim_middle|>ollarfish.com.au and follow Australia's richest fishing competition on social media for all the latest updates. | fish were caught in a range of ways, including by handline and from the shore, proving fishos do not need a boat or high-end fishing equipment to become a Million Dollar Fish winner. One even fought off a crocodile to reel in his lucrative catch!
Both local and interstate fishos cashed in as part of Season 6, with 44 prizes drawn as part of the Lucky Prize Pool. Collectively worth $44,000, the prizes included fishing trips to the NT, Anaconda vouchers, Engel fridge/freezers, Shimano fishing packs and more.
Season 6 attracted almost 29,000 registrations, compared to 21,312 last year. New additions to the competition for Season 6 included the official Million Dollar Fish shirt made by Darwin's very own Big Fish Gear. The new threads were embraced by local and interstate anglers alike, with almost 800 shirts sold throughout Season 6.
This season also saw the introduction of the new Double Tag Barra, which awarded $10,000 to the fisho, plus $5,000 to a mate of their choice. An interstate fisho and his mate were the first to hook onto a Double Tag Barra and take home $15,000 as part of Season 6. The March Madness initiative spiced things up further, and put $20,000 in the pockets of a local fisho after he caught the first tagged fish in March.
Although Season 6 has ended, fishos are reminded all seven $1 million tagged fish remain active year-round. If you catch a red-tagged barra call 1800 077 001 and quote the unique code. To claim the prize money you must have registered for Season 6 by 31 March 2021.
The Season 6 $1 million tag number to look out for is:
S6-MDF6474
Million Dollar Fish returns later this year, with Season 7 kicking off on 1 October 2021. For more information, head to www.milliond | 446 |
Not all networking needs to be related to careers and ambitious people. You can establish meaningful relationships with people without ever calculating the benefit you can obtain. The jobs I have done in the past came through people I knew directly but every person was known through a different aspect of my life.
The truth is that it is much easier and sensible for organisations to hire people that are trustworthy, well known by someone or recommended to the organisation. Some workplaces even offer a financial reward to employees who bring along someone who is an asset to the organisation.
Do you know your next door neighbours, chances are they work in a steady job and are in contact with friends who work in different industries. It doesn't hurt to create good relationships with your neighbours. It makes christmas time more pleasant and it can avoid irritating behaviour caused by getting off on the wrong foot.
There are relatives we love to be around and others we don't even know where they live. Nevertheless, the family is the first place to start when needing help in employment. Who else is more concerned about your well being than your immediate and extended family.
Kept in touch with old classmates?
<|fim_middle|> your local puppy class or the parents at your son's soccer club, the most interesting relationships are formed from this aspect of your life.
While it seems logical to create as many relationships as possible to enhance your career, it should always be done with sincerity and good intentions. The most important aspect of networking is that you should establish links with people that you like and have interests in common. Seeking friends or maintaining links for pure benefit is not a path that will reward you in the long run.
If you aren't already, become sociable. Try to leave a good first impression and any opportunity to meet or be introduced to new people should provoke a sense of excitement and joy. It never hurts to know more people. Creating an solid network isn't as hard as you may think.
This entry was posted in ICT & Business Analysis and tagged ambition, career, contacts, linkedin, network, networking, relationships by Reinaldo (old posts). Bookmark the permalink. | Friends from school go off and do different things. Some succeed before others but by staying in touch with close friends from school, you can always maintain a window of relationships open for the future.
Hobbies and leisure activities is the one place that offers the most diversity in people relationships. Whether it's the dog owners at | 63 |
Committee to Elect Wayne Fontana, 1309 Creedmoor Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15226 votefontana@gmail.com
State Senator
Redeveloping Communities
During my tenure in the state Senate, I am proud to have secured and supported well over $60 million in funding for economic development projects across the district that continue to revitalize communities and put people to work.
I have consistently served as a champion for all the neighborhoods within the district and have worked with all levels of government, stakeholders, and community members to secure necessary funds that help reinvent communities. One by one these projects spur job creation, increase the<|fim_middle|> WordPress • Theme: Small Business by Automattic. | local tax base, and lead to further reinvestment and development. Together, these projects rebuild communities. Just a few of the recent projects include:
Major renovations/expansions to important healthcare facilities including Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, the Midwife Center for Birth & Women's Health, and the Blind & Vision Rehabilitation Services of Pittsburgh.
Streetscape projects in Carnegie, Green Tree, Scott, Coraopolis, Northside, Beechview and McKees Rocks.
Infrastructure improvements including: road construction, intersection upgrades and water/sewer lines in Sharpsburg; water/sewer lines in Stowe and McKees Rocks; dock improvements in Sharpsburg and Reserve; sidewalk/lighting upgrades in Sheraden and Uptown; street redesign in the Lower Hill District; light rail/parking in Castle Shannon.
Enhancing recreational and community assets like parks in neighborhoods like Scott, Mt. Washington, Lawrenceville, Northside, Bellevue, Carnegie and the soon-to-be built Josh Gibson Heritage Park at Station Square.
Mixed use development (retail, office, residential) in downtown Pittsburgh, Strip District, Northside, Morningside and the Hill District.
Improving community libraries including in Beechview, Dormont and Knoxville neighborhoods.
Human service organizations in the Hill District (Hill House) and a senior center in Lawrenceville.
Enhancing regional assets include the renovation and preservation of August Wilson's childhood home in the Hill District; and upgrades to facilities like the Northside's Mattress Factory, Children's Museum, Carnegie Science Center, Prime Stage Theater, Heinz History Center in the Strip, Pittsburgh Musical Theater in the West End, and a multiplex development downtown.
A grocery store in Beechview that serves as the centerpiece of the ongoing redevelopment of the neighborhood's business district.
Renovation and construction of the renowned Father Ryan Arts Center in McKees Rocks.
Redevelopment of downtown Pittsburgh's Market Square, which serves as a premier destination venue for the region.
Creation and development of a housing community in Pittsburgh's Manchester neighborhood that transformed a vacant industrial brownfield into a community of homes.
Refurbishing the Allegheny West Community Center on Pittsburgh's Northside.
Transforming the decaying South Hills High School into the South Hills Retirement Residence on Mt. Washington, creating a 106-unit living facility for the area's senior citizens.
I have also co-sponsored and supported legislative action that supports economic development initiatives:
Supported legislation, that became law, that funded economic development projects using 5% of casino revenues.
Sponsored legislation that would double the funding for the highly successful Neighborhood Assistance Program.
Co-sponsored a bill, that became law, that extended the First Industries Fund, a loan, loan guarantee and grant program that strengthens the agriculture and tourism industries.
Co-sponsored legislation, that became law, that extended tax breaks available in Keystone Opportunity Zones.
Co-sponsored the Downtown Location Law that requires more coordination between state and local community development groups.
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— Nov 28th, 1996
Thelma Windell
Thelma Ruth Windell, 82, of Port Orchard died Nov. 25, 1996, at her home.
She was born Nov. 17, 1914, in Studley, Kan. She graduated from Wichita East High School in 1937.
On May 30, 1977,<|fim_middle|> July 19, 1975, she married Kenneth Michael ... [Read More...] | she married Fred Windell.
Mrs. Windell was a distributor for The Sun for 30 years.
Survivors include her husband; a son, John of West Chester, Pa.; and two granddaughters.
Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Nov. 29 at Hillcrest Assembly, 6750 State Highway 303 NE in Bremerton. Arrangements are under the direction of Lewis Funeral Chapel.
Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, Western and Central Chapter, 1422 NW 85th St., Seattle 98117-4236; or to the American Cancer Society, 718 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton 98310.
Henry Leipham
Former Kingston resident Henry P. Leipham, 92, died Nov. 18, 1996, at C&R Nursing Home in Lacey.
He was born March 26, 1904, in Davenport where he graduated from high school. He later attended Washington State University and worked as a draftsman. He left Washington Brick and Lime in 1953 to run his family's wheat farm near Davenport.
He is survived by two sons, Dean of Spokane and Daryl of Davenport; a daughter, Arlene Henry of Spokane; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. His wife, Lydia, died in 1987.
There will be no services. Arrangements are under the direction of Mills & Mills Funeral Directors, Olympia.
Lorene Reynen
Bremerton resident Lorene I. Reynen, 79, died Nov. 27, 1996, in Bremerton.
She was born March 8, 1917, in Goodrich, N.D. She was educated in Montana and married Merle G. Reynen in Glasgow, Mont.
Mrs. Reynen was a homemaker.
In addition to her husband she is survived by a son, Warren of Bremerton; two daughters, Carol Ann Mallonee of Seattle and Bobbie Granstrom of Bremerton; a brother, Art Meckler of Seattle; 11 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Visitation wil be 1 p.m. Nov. 29 at Full Gospel Assembly of God in Gorst, with memorial services following at 2 p.m. Arrangements are under the direction of Miller-Woodlawn Funeral Home.
In his obituary published in Wednesday's Sun, George Halffman's career history was incorrect. It should have read:
George Halffman
Bremerton resident George Halffman, 84, died Nov. 16, 1996, at his home.
He was born Oct. 26, 1912, in Seattle, where he married Henrietta Burink in 1935.
Mr. Halffman was a foreman/machinist at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for 39 years, retiring in 1972. He was also a volunteer firefighter and served as commissioner of Kitsap County Fire District No. 1.
He is survived by two sons, George Jr. of Silverdale and James of Glendale, Ariz.; a daughter, Marianne Cain of Port Orchard; 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Memorial services will be 3 p.m. Nov. 29 at Miller-Woodlawn Funeral Home Chapel.
Memorials may be made to Fire District No. 1 Firefighters Association, 10955 Silverdale Way NW, Silverdale 98383.
'Frank' Templeman
Former Bremerton resident Francis "Frank" A. Templeman, 87, of Woodinville died Nov. 18, 1996, at his home.
He was born April 12, 1909, in Tieton.
He is survived by a son, Glenn of Bellevue, and two grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Hilaria "Lari."
Memorial services will be held next month at First Congregational Church in Bellevue. Local arrangments are under the direction of Miller-Woodlawn Funeral Home.
Memorials in his name may be made to the Hearing, Speech and Deafness Center, 1620 18th Ave., Seattle 98122.
Carl Sparks Jr.
Carl "Cubby" Sparks Jr., 66, died Nov. 23, 1996, at his home.
He was born July 27, 1930, one of triplets to Carl and Josephine Sparks in Port Gamble.
Mr. Sparks worked for Pope & Talbot.
He is survived by his sisters, Maxine Walbridge and Delores Sullivan, both of Kingston.
Funeral services were Wednesday at Port Gamble S'Klallam gym.
Merle Reynen
Merle G. Reynen Merle G. Reynen Merle G. Reynen, 89, of Bremerton died Tuesday of cancer at Ridgemont Terrace in Port Orchard. He was born in Minot, N.D., to Robert and Anna (Swinlander) Reynen. He was raised and educated in North Dakota, attending ... [Read More...]
Walter L. Leaver Sr. Memorial services for Walter L. Leaver Sr., who died Jan. 8, 1997, will be 3 p.m. Jan. 15 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Chapel. A full obituary was published in the Jan. 12 Sun. Evan Davies Evan Davies, 80, of Bremerton, died Jan. 7, 1997, ... [Read More...]
Margaret West Margaret "Gail" West, 45, of Silverdale died Nov. 5, 1996, at Harrison Memorial Hospital. She was born March 19, 1951, in Manitoba, Canada. She married Bill West on Sept. 12, 1987. She is survived by her husband and a brother, Gordon H. MacDonald of Los Angeles, Calif. Funeral ... [Read More...]
Edward Bedilion Former Bremerton resident Edward "Doc" Bedilion, 69, of Ocean Shores died Dec. 20 at his home. He was born Feb. 1, 1925, in Washington, Pa. Mr. Bedilion served in the Army from 1943 to 1946. On Nov. 20, 1950, he married Erma Iseli in Bremerton. The former owner and ... [Read More...]
Jana Lee Smith Jana Lee Smith, 40, of Olalla, died Feb. 8, 1997, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tacoma. She was born Sept. 16, 1956, in Corning, Calif. She was a graduate of South Kitsap High School and attended Eastern Washington University. On | 1,521 |
cross-quarter days
Imbolc – How Our Ancestors Welcomed Spring
February 1 – we celebrate it as St Brigid's day now, and support the call for making it a national holiday. But we have celebrated it in Ireland forever as Imbolc, the calendar marker that heralds the arrival of spring.
St Brigid by Harry Clarke in St Barrahane's Church, Castletownshend
What follows was originally a Joint Post by Finola and Robert, written way back in 2013. We have edited it to update the links and added some new photographs and are republishing it now.
Archaeologists have long been aware of the astronomical siting of some Irish megalithic sites, such as at Newgrange, and Loughcrew Passage Graves in Co Meath and Drombeg Stone Circle in West Cork.
Inside Cairn T at Loughcrew
We have become intrigued by the work of Michael Wilson, a talented amateur astronomer who is singlehandedly documenting the astronomical siting of many monuments in this area. Recently he has turned his attention to prehistoric rock art. Mike's website contains an astonishing body of work, meticulously researched and rigorously recorded, along with explanatory notes.
Michael Wilson carries out his Whole Horizon Analytical Technique (WHAT)
His thesis, in a nutshell, is that the builders and carvers of Neolithic and Bronze Age times were keen observers of the day and night skies and were intimately familiar with their surroundings. They situated their megaliths and rock art in places where the contours of the horizon allowed them to mark significant solar and lunar events, such as solstices, equinoxes, lunar settings and risings, and intermediate points. Thus, the sun at the winter solstice might rise at the highest point on a nearby mountain, or set in a deep notch in the hills at the spring equinox.
At Drombeg Stone Circle people gather on the winter solstice to watch the sun set over the recumbent stone
The solar calendar has four quarter days (the solstices and the equinoxes), four cross-quarter days (the half way points between the solstices and the equinoxes) and a further finer division into points half-way between the quarters and cross-quarters: an ancient 16 month calendar.
A few days ago [in 2013], Michael posted this:
Imbolc, the spring<|fim_middle|> day. By day-count, the times to celebrate will be sunset on the 3rd and sunrise on the 4th. Astronomically, the sun will be exactly half-way between the winter solstice and the spring equinox at about 16:13 GMT on Feb 3rd, while Feb 2nd is the day to see the sun rise and set at the prehistoric positions for marking this festival.
We set out for our favourite rock art site, Ballybane West, before dawn on Feb 2nd, feeling incredibly lucky to have a clear sky. As the sky brightened, and the nearby hills started to receive the sun's rays, the carvings on the rock surface became clearly visible.
The sun is already hitting the high ground across the valley
Then, the sun rose, exactly where Michael's predictions said it would, at the highest point of a rounded hill on the horizon. As people had been doing 4000 years ago in this exact spot, we marked the cross-quarter day of Imbolc – a time when the land starts to warm up, the first spring flowers appear, and the ewes are visibly pregnant.
The slanting rays of the rising sun provide perfect lighting for seeing rock art, which is often difficult to observe at other times
If Michael is correct, we have to incorporate a new possibility into our thinking about rock art. There have been indications before that the location of the carved rocks was significant. For example, there is often a view of water or of a significant mountain, some theorists have posited that they are ancient boundary markers, and some rock art sites are inter-visible with each other.
But this way of looking at rock art elevates the actual siting of the rock as most important, and allows us to view the carvings themselves as a way to indicate the purpose of the site – a means to an end rather than an end in itself. The motifs, though, will probably remain as enigmatic as ever.
Posted in Archaeology, Rock Art, West Cork, West Cork Blog Tagged Ballybane West Rock Art, cross-quarter days, Drombeg Stone Circle, Imbolc, Loughcrew Passage Graves, Mike Wilson, Newgrange, St Brigid's Day
Pagan and Pure
How does a prehistoric calendar mark turn into a pagan feast and then into a Christian saint's day? This year, the cross-quarter day is Feb 3, yesterday: that is, the day that lies half way between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. Together with the solstices and equinoxes, the cross-quarter days divide the year into eight 'months' and they also establish the dates for the ancient festival days of Imbolc ( Feb 2, spring), Bealtaine ( May 1, summer ), Lunasa (Aug 1, harvest), and Samhain (Oct 31, start of winter). In fact, the actual cross-quarters times don't fall always on those dates but close enough so they have become established as the festival days.
The Brigidine Centre in Kildare, run as retreat and contemplation house. The lead image in this post is a St Brigid stained glass window in Ballinrobe, Co Mayo
As so often happens when an ancient culture is Christianised, Imbolc became conflated with a saintly feast day, that of our own Saint Brigid, the female patron saint of Ireland. Brigid may have originally been a female deity, also called Brigid, or perhaps Danu. This is all controversial, of course – did the idea of the goddess or the idea of the saint come first, for example? Whatever the origins, the marking of the cross-quarter day turned into Imbolc the pagan festival, and finally into Saint Brigid's Day, and all over the country we make St Brigid's Crosses, leave a scarf out at night for her to bless, or, still, in Kerry, dress up as 'Biddies' and go from house to house, carrying a Brídeóg doll and singing and dancing in a ritual that must be as old as time.
Another custom is to visit those holy wells that are associated with Brigid. Amanda has a special post on that – and is celebrating two years of holy well hunting!
On one Imbolc that lives in our memories Robert and I arose early in the morning and went to watch the sun rise over a small prominence, standing on a piece of 5,000 year old rock art. Our account of that occasion is here, and below is the thrilling moment the sun rose, and lit up the ancient carvings.
Our friend, the poet Paul Ó Colmáin, from whom we take Irish lessons, used one of his own poems as a teachable moment this week, and I was struck by how perfectly it captures that sense of the turning year, the joy of sunrise, the deep embedding in our Irish souls of the ancient and the traditional and the embracing of both. I give the poem first in Irish. For those of you who do not speak it, you can take my word that the language is beautiful and contains nuances that his English version cannot capture, brilliant as it is.
Lá 'le Bhríde
Dhúisigh an ghrian sinn
an mhaidin úd,
solas órga
ag stealladh
'is ag scairdeach
isteach ar an urlár,
ag slaparnach
thuas na fallaí,
ag sruthlaíonn
an doras síor-oscailte isteach.
Níor thuigeamar
ar dtús
cad a bhí ag titim amach.
Níor aithníomar
torann buí na Gréine.
Ach chuimhníos
go tobann ar na bhfocail a dúraís,
mar dhraoi:
"Tiocfaidh an Ghrian thar nais ar Lá 'le Bhríde."
Agus d'árdaigh dóchas,
ársa, pagánaigh im' chroí,
inár suí sa leaba,
Bríd nó Danú,
an lámh in uachtar ag an t-earrach,
bhí an geimhreadh, gruama thart.
Paul's English version of the poem is given below. At the time he wrote it, Paul, his wife, the artist Marie Cullen, and their sons were living on the Great Blasket*, off the Dingle Peninsula, the only inhabitants of the Island.
The Blasket Islands lie off the cost of Kerry, near the Dingle Peninsula. An Irish speaking enclave, it is now uninhabited
Winter was long on the Island, made gloomier by the fact that the sun, due to a combination of high ground and orientation, did not shine on their dwelling all winter.
The sun awoke us.
Like a fanfare
or a burst of wild laughter.
Playfully.
Unfamiliar.
Spilling in along the floor.
Splashing up the walls.
Streaming in through the ever-open door.
We didn't – at first- know what was happening,
Didn't recognise the bright clamour of the sun.
Then we remembered the words
That you, druidlike, had spoken:
"The Sun will come back on St. Brigid's Day."
And a welling of Hope,
Pagan and Pure,
Came rising inside us,
Sitting in bed,
Brigid or Danú,
The Winter defeated:
We've turned the corner and spring is finally in the air. Today was golden and we spent it on The Mizen (see below). Thank you Brigid/Danu/Imbolc/ancient Calendar Keepers!
*If you're ever in Kerry, make sure to visit the Blasket Centre
Posted in Archaeology, Folklore, Kerry, Religion, Rock Art, West Cork Blog Tagged ancient calendars, Blasket Islands, cross-quarter days, Holy Wells of Cork, Imbolc, Marie Cullen, Paul O Colmáin, Saint Brigid
The sun rises across the valley from Ballybane West on Feb 2nd, 2013
Joint Post by Finola and Robert
In Finola's solstice post, she wrote that archaeologists are aware of the astronomical siting of some Irish megalithic sites, such as at Newgrange, and Loughcrew.
We have become intrigued by the work of Michael Wilson, a talented amateur astronomer who is singlehandedly documenting the astronomical siting of many monuments in this area. Recently he has turned his attention to rock art. His website contains an astonishing body of work, meticulously researched and rigorously recorded, along with explanatory notes. His thesis, in a nutshell, is that the builders and carvers of Neolithic and Bronze Age times were keen observers of the day and night skies and were intimately familiar with their surroundings. They situated their megaliths and rock art in places where the contours of the horizon allowed them to mark significant solar and lunar events, such as solstices, equinoxes, lunar settings and risings, and intermediate points. Thus, the sun at the winter solstice might rise at the highest point on a nearby mountain, or set in a deep notch in the hills at the spring equinox. The solar calendar has four quarter days (the solstices and the equinoxes), four cross-quarter days (the half way points between the solstices and the equinoxes) and a further finer division into points half-way between the quarters and cross-quarters: an ancient 16 month calendar.
A few days ago, Michael posted this:
We set out for our favourite rock art site, Ballybane West, before dawn on Feb 2nd, feeling incredibly lucky to have a clear sky. As the sky brightened, and the nearby hills started to receive the sun's rays, the carvings on the rock surface became clearly visible. Then, the sun rose, exactly where Michael's predictions said it would, at the highest point of a rounded hill on the horizon. As people had been doing 4000 years ago in this exact spot, we marked the cross-quarter day of Imbolc – a time when the land starts to warm up, the first spring flowers appear, and the ewes are visibly pregnant.
The Ballybane West carvings light up in the dawn rays
If Michael is correct, we have to think in a whole new way about the rock art. Although there have been indications before that the location of the carved rocks was of some significance (for example: there is often a view of water; some theorists have posited that they are ancient boundary markers), this way of looking at rock art elevates the actual siting of the rock as most important, and allows us to view the carvings themselves as a way to indicate the purpose of the site – a means to an end rather than an end in itself. The motifs, though, will probably remain as enigmatic as ever.
Posted in Archaeology, Rock Art Tagged Ballybane West, cross-quarter days, equinox, Imbolc, Solstice | cross-quarter, is almost upon us. It will be on Feb 1st by the Gregorian calendar, where it is commonly known as St Bridget's Day or Candlemas, but this is not the correct | 43 |
How to Begin a Dream-Sharing Process
When someone is about to share a dream with me, either in a group setting or one-on-one, I always ask for two things. First, please tell the dream in the present tense, not the past tense, so the dream feels immediate, like it's happening right now. And second, please share the dream twice. After you have told it once, tell the whole thing again.
Most people are fine with the first request. It's pretty easy to notice the difference between past vs. present tense, and to appreciate the benefits of the latter. Compare "I walked on a beach where birds were flying and saw my friend" with "I walk on a beach where birds are flying and see my friend"—the present tense brings the action of the dream right into the here-and-now, which is a big goal in my way of working with dreams (influenced by Jeremy Taylor and Montague Ullman). If the dream is a terrifying nightmare, it might be more comfortable for the dreamer to use the past tense, to maintain a healthy distance from the anxious feelings. But in almost all other circumstances, the use of the present tense in sharing a dream has enormous benefits in terms of improving the empathetic quality of the ensuing discussion.
The second request is a harder sell. After someone tells me a dream, they are usually eager to hear my response. Especially if the dream is a long and intricate one, the dreamer is probably relieved to have reached the end of the narration. It takes real energy to share a dream in full detail with someone else, a real commitment to personal self-revelation. And what do I say at this moment? "Thanks, now would you please tell it again? From the start?"
Almost always, there's a brief flash of disappointment when I ask this. The dreamer's face falls a little bit, and they might even say "Really? You want me to repeat the whole thing?" They don't say it, but I know they're thinking, "Hello? Did you not hear the words that were coming out of my mouth?" When I shrug and say I know it seems awkward, but please, I'd appreciate it, the dreamer usually takes a deep breath and starts again, with a slightly put-upon tone of voice, and none of the gusto from the first telling.
And then a few seconds in, their tone of voice changes. We're back in the dream again, and now the dreamer's interest in what's happening grows beyond what arose in the first telling. New features and elements emerge, as the dreamer focuses more on qualities of the experiential space within the dream, and less on making sure to give an accurate narration of the beginning, middle, and end of the dream. By the time the dreamer has finished with the second telling, we are fully immersed in that dream space, and ready for a deeply reflective conversation about its possible meanings.
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Why would Penelope make up such a dream? The answer emerges if we think carefully about what is happening at that crucial moment when the old nurse Eurycleia is washing the beggar's feet. Penelope has removed herself and is standing alone, after a long and intimate conversation with a man who has detailed knowledge about Odysseus, who looks and sounds very much like Odysseus, who insists with passionate certainty that Odysseus will return to the palace the very next day. The question could hardly not arise for this most intelligent and perceptive of women: is this stranger Odysseus himself? If he is, then why isn't he revealing himself? Penelope has just poured her heart out to him, saying how terribly she has suffered over the years-why won't he drop his disguise and reunite with her this very moment?
When Eurycleia finishes washing the beggar's feet, Penelope returns to him and says she has one last question-what is the meaning of her dream of the geese and the mountain eagle? The disguised Odysseus eagerly agrees with the words of the mountain eagle in the dream: the dream means "destruction is clear for each and every suitor."
Penelope, however, disagrees. Her "two gates" speech that follows is a subtle but unmistakable way of saying "I don't think so" to the beggar's interpretation. She cannot agree with him for a simple reason: the mountain eagle and the beggar have both misinterpreted the dream. There are 20 geese in her dream, but more, many more than that number of suitors in the palace. As we learn in Book 16.270-288, where Telemachus tells Odysseus who all the suitors are and where they come from, there are a total of 108 men besieging the palace. Penelope's refusal to accept the interpretation of the mountain eagle and the beggar is not due to stubborn skepticism, pathetic ignorance, or unconscious desire-she rejects the interpretation because it is wrong. The true meaning of the symbol of the 20 geese is surprisingly easy to find if we do not automatically assume that the mountain eagle and the beggar are right (that is, if we do not automatically privilege the hermeneutic perspective of Odysseus). The 20 geese symbolize the 20 years that Odysseus has been away fighting the war at Troy and journeying through the world. The exact length of Odysseus' absence, 20 years, is mentioned five separate times in the poem, and most significantly the beggar himself comments to Penelope a few lines earlier in Book 19 that Odysseus has been gone for 20 years.
Thus, the first part of Penelope's dream symbolically, and very accurately, describes her emotional experience of what has happened between them: Odysseus, by going off to fight in someone else's war, has destroyed the last 20 years for her. What should have been the prime years of their marriage, the wonderful years of raising a family and creating a home, the years that Penelope would have "loved to watch" and care for, have been slaughtered by Odysseus. The second part of the dream expresses Penelope's fearful perception of Odysseus right now, still standing apart from her in the disguise of a beggar. He doesn't recognize her, and what the last 20 years have been like for her; all he can see are the suitors and a galling challenge to his honor. By posing this dream riddle to the beggar, Penelope is in effect asking if her suspicion is true: is the "real" Odysseus as blind to her feelings and as obsessed with killing the suitors as is the "dream" Odysseus? When the beggar agrees with the mountain eagle's words in the dream, Penelope knows the unfortunate answer.
The mysterious poetry of Penelope's two gates speech becomes all the more powerful when it is understood as a response to Odysseus' failure of the dream interpretation test. To his reprimanding words, "twist it however you like, your dream can only mean one thing," Penelope replies that dreams are always difficult to understand, and they do not always come true. The danger is that we will allow our desire to cloud our perception-taking as divine prophecy what is merely human fantasy. But some dreams, she goes on to say, do have the potential to come true-though only "for the dreamer who can see them." That is precisely what Odysseus has failed to do. He has failed to see past his own desire for revenge.
I am reluctant to finish with this story, because there is so much more to be told (and so much more to be questioned, if you happen to disagree with my admittedly unorthodox reading of this scene). But I will close by reflecting on the interpretive principles guiding this approach to Penelope's dream of the 20 geese. First, I chose to privilege the perspective of the dreamer, listening to her words, looking carefully at her experience, asking critical questions of her motivations, and ultimately grounding the dream's meaning in the conditions of her waking life. Second, I focused special attention on the details of the dream, particularly on the exact number of geese, 20. Third, I located the dream in the context of broader cultural patterns, focusing in particular on how Penelope's dream deviates from the narrative structuring of other Homeric dreams. And fourth, I tried to look beyond the seemingly obvious and self-evident to discover the new, the surprising, the unexpected.
Dystopian Dreaming
While sitting in the audience and taking notes during the recent IASD conference in Berkeley, I found myself marking several instances where something the presenter said triggered my dystopian imagination. I confess to being a long-time fan of science fiction and fantasy stories about frightening future worlds controlled by alien invaders, zombie hordes, inhuman technologies, totalitarian governments, and/or rapacious capitalists (I made a list of some favorites below). I enjoy these stories as literary nightmares: vivid, emotionally intense simulations of real psycho-cultural threats, looming now and in our collective future.
At the IASD conference I realized I could turn this interpretive process inside out. I began to look at dream research from the genre perspective of dystopian fiction. What would an uber-villain in such stories find appealing in state-of-the-art dream research?
Let me be clear, these are my own shadowy speculations and in no way reflect anything directly said or intended by the presenters!
Sleep paralysis induction. There is now a proven technique for inducing the nightmarish experience of sleep paralysis–that is, causing someone to enter a condition in which their bodies are immobilized but their minds are "awake" and vulnerable to terrifying images, thoughts, and sensations. I can imagine this technique being put to nefarious use by military intelligence agents, state-controlled psychiatrists, and cybernetic overlords. The ability to trap a person within a state of sleep paralysis would be a horribly useful tool for anyone bent on total mind control.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation. This technology enables the direct manipulation of neural activity during REM sleep, targeting specific regions of the brain. If the technology were refined with malevolent purposes in mind, it could potentially disrupt people's normal dreaming patterns, controlling what they do and don't dream about. An evil scientist could thus invent a kind of anti-dream weapon, a magnetic beam aimed at the head of a sleeping person and programmed to stun, control, or destroy.
Disrupting PTSD memory formation. Trauma victims can diminish the symptoms of PTSD if they perform a series of distracting cognitive tasks with six hours of the trauma, thereby disrupting the formation of long-term traumatic memories. The future militarization of this method seems inevitable. Anything that alters memory can be used by evil governments to manipulate people against their will, either to do things they don't want to do (black ops soldiers) or forget things that have been done to them (massacre survivors).
Remote monitoring of a person's sleep. The Zeo sleep monitoring system (which I've used for three years) has now developed a wireless version that instantly relays the user's sleep data from the headband via a bedside mobile phone to the Zeo database. This kind of technology opens the door to real-time remote monitoring of people's sleeping experience, and potentially the ability to reverse the flow of data and influence/shape/guide people while they sleep. If enough people were linked into the system, it could serve police states as a valuable tool in 24-hour mind-body surveillance.
My interest in these morbidly malevolent scenarios is not entirely theoretical. Over the past few years of developing the Sleep and Dream Database I've been thinking of the darker possible applications of this technology, less Star Trek and more Blade Runner. If it's true, as most researchers at the IASD are claiming, that dreams are accurate expressions of people's deepest fears, desires, and motivations, then it's also true a real potential exists to put that dream-based information to ill use.
Projecting even farther forward, I wonder if there might be some kind of future inflection point where the amount of data we gather suddenly reveals much bigger patterns and forms of intelligence than we had previously been able to recognize or scientifically document. What would happen if this leap of knowledge enabled our collective dreaming selves to somehow unite to challenge the dominance (one might say totalitarian regime) of waking consciousness?
I think about all this as I continue building up the SDDb, trying to make good decisions and avoid the nightmare pitfalls. Dystopian fantasies help me clarify what's at stake, where the dangers lurk, and how the future may unfold.
You may be familiar with Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 science fiction short story "The Nine Billion Names of God." If so, you'll understand why, as I work on developing new database technologies for dream research, I meditate on the phrase, "The Nine Billion Dreams of God."
Dystopian Films and TV: Blade Runner, 12 Monkeys, Children of Men, Logan's Run, The Matrix, Soylent Green, V for Vendetta, Battlestar Galactica, The Prisoner, Gattica, Terminator, Alien, Total Recall, 28 Days
Dystopian Novels: The Hunger Games, Fahrenheit 451, Neuromancer, 1984, Brave New World, The Time Machine | . To be clear, this is not meant to be a "gotcha!" game to challenge the dreamer's memory. Rather, it's a way of allowing the dreamer to re-enter the dream space as fully as possible, and thus better able to describe the multi-sensory complexities of that environment.
The second benefit of the re-telling is helping to develop what I think of as a "holistic awareness" of the dream. The first time I hear someone else's dream, it's a journey of total surprise and discovery. I have no idea what's coming next. I'm trying to listen carefully to the dreamer, notice and remember each detail, and keep up with the narration. The second time I hear the dream I already know what's going to happen, so when the dreamer begins the description, I can now appreciate each detail in the context of the whole. Dreams rarely take the form of simple linear narratives. More often, they have multiple dimensions of activity and awareness, mixing up the conventional elements of story-telling. Things can happen out of chronological order, or in weird patterns of simultaneity. The first telling of the dream inevitably squeezes all of that into a single form, while the second telling enables each detail of the dream to be appreciated within a holistic awareness of the dream in its entirety.
None of this guarantees that important meanings will emerge from the discussion. But if you start a dream-sharing process by following these two principles—tell the dream in the present tense, twice—you will be in the best position to hear whatever potentially valuable meanings the dream may be expressing.
Note: this post first appeared in Psychology Today, April 19, 2021.
Dreams and Politics 2020: Preparing for New Research
To prepare for a new study of dreams during the 2020 U.S. Presidential election campaign, I am doing a brief review of my previous work in this area, to remind myself of what I have learned so far and what seems most important to investigate next.
I have been studying dreams and politics since 1992, and I've published several articles and a book documenting my findings up to now. Although I'm not the only scholar looking into these issues, I think it's fair to say no one else has devoted more research effort towards illuminating the connections between people's sleep and dream patterns and their political views in waking life. Perhaps everything I have found so far is wrong and misguided; hopefully I have at least clarified some of the right kinds of questions that should be addressed.
Guided by almost thirty years of experience, these are some of the questions I will be asking in 2020:
In what specific ways are political beliefs, concerns, and issues reflected in dreams?
How do people relate to politicians as characters in their dreams?
Do liberals and conservatives sleep and dream differently from each other?
Can dreams help people think more clearly and creatively about politics?
Do dreams have special relevance for political progress on environmental issues?
I have several projects in the works aiming at gathering new data to help answer these questions. Many of these projects are collaborations with other researchers, which will hopefully expand the scope of the studies and open up new perspectives on this relatively unexplored area of dreaming experience. More on these projects soon….
Below is a list of my previous publications on this topic, with brief descriptions of the contents and findings.
Attitudes Towards Dreaming: Effects of Socio-Demographic and Religious Variables in an American Sample. (Co-authored with Michael Schredl.) International Journal of Dream Research 12 (1): 75-81.
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/54314
Using data from a survey of 5,255 American adults, we looked at correlations between people's attitudes towards dreaming and numerous demographic variables. We found an especially intriguing link between positive attitudes towards dreaming and high levels of concern about global climate change, one of the most prominent political issues in the world today. People who report little or no concern about climate change also tend to have negative attitudes towards dreaming.
Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition (Stanford University Press, 2018)
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27061
Lucrecia's story is the most dramatic and well-documented case in history regarding the intersection of dreaming, politics, and prophecy. She was a young, illiterate woman in 16th century Spain whose prophetic dreams accurately foresaw a national catastrophe, and yet King Philip II ordered the Inquisition to arrest her on charges of heresy and treason. A vivid cautionary tale about what can happen when dreamers speak truth to power.
Three blog posts about Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the 2016 election
https://kellybulkeley.org/199-dreams-donald-trump/
https://kellybulkeley.org/dreams-of-hillary-clinton-and-donald-trump/
https://kellybulkeley.org/dreams-of-the-2016-u-s-presidential-election/
These are reports on dreams I was gathering and analyzing during the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign. Included are some dream reports grouped around thematic categories: friendliness with a candidate, anticipations, political disagreements, opposition to Trump, openness to Trump, and work & place. The study of 199 dreams specifically about Donald Trump involved a statistical analysis of the word usage in the dreams, and a comparison of the results with other kinds of dreams. Here is my conclusion: "To summarize these findings, it seems that when Trump appears as a character in people's dreams, he does not disrupt the whole process; people continue dreaming more or less the way they typically do. But he does have a tangible and measurable impact on certain aspects of those dreams. A dream about Donald Trump typically involves fewer women and more talking, touching, and references to money and work. Men seem to become pacified around Trump in their dreams, while women seem to become more instinctually primed."
A March 2016 blog post about "The Sleep Deprivation Hypothesis"
https://kellybulkeley.org/donald-trump-the-sleep-deprivation-hypothesis/
A response to media discussions about the then-candidate's admitted lack of sleep, with psychological speculations about his public behavior in light of empirical research about the effects of chronic sleep deprivation.
Dream Recall and Political Ideology: Results of a Demographic Survey. Dreaming 22(1): 1-9.
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2011-28147-001
Using data from a survey of 2,992 American adults, the study found a significant difference between political liberals and conservatives on questions of dream recall. People on the political left consistently reported higher recall on all types of dreams than people on the political right.
https://kellybulkeley.org/2008-election-dreams-clinton-obama-mccain/
A collection of blog posts about dreams gathered by Sheli Heti and posted on her metaphysicalpoll.com website. The Obam dreams in particular are notable for their unusually mystical qualities.
2008 Dreams Shed Light on Obama's Values. San Francisco Chronicle (August 17)
https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Dreams-shed-light-on-Obama-s-values-3272948.php
Reflections on the two fascinating dreams then-candidate Barack Obama described in his memoir Dreams From My Father, with psychological speculations about the future potentials of his Presidency.
American Dreamers: What Dreams Tell Us about the Political Psychology of Conservatives, Liberals, and Everyone Else (Beacon Press, 2008)
https://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2008/04/unravelling-mea.html
This is a book-length study of dreams and politics in American society during 2006-2007. A group of ten people from various parts of the country, six of them political conservatives and four liberals, kept a year-long journal of their dreams, which they discussed with me in relation to their political views and the dire situation of the country at that time (Iraq and Afghanistan wars, housing crisis, impending recession). The book offers a summary of the research I had done on this topic so far.
Sleep and Dream Patterns of Political Liberals and Conservatives. Dreaming 16(3): 223-235.
Using data from a collection of detailed surveys from 234 American adults (134 liberals, 100 conservatives), several patterns emerged in relation to their sleep and dream behaviors. Here is what I found: "Conservatives slept somewhat more soundly, with fewer remembered dreams. Liberals were more restless in their sleep and had a more active and varied dream life. In contrast to a previous study, liberals reported a somewhat greater proportion of bad dreams and nightmares. Consistent with earlier research, the dreams of conservatives were more mundane, whereas the dreams of liberals were more bizarre."
Dreaming in Christianity and Islam: Culture, Conflict, and Creativity (co-edited with Kate Adams and Patricia M. Davis) (Rutgers University Press, 2009)
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/dreaming-in-christianity-and-islam/9780813546100
This is an edited book, written in the shadows of 9/11, as an effort to find common ground across religious and national differences. We started the project in the early 2000's, and it took a long time to pull all the different chapters together. Patricia wrote a brilliant chapter on a significant auditory dream of Martin Luther King, Jr., his "vision in the kitchen" of 1956.
Dreaming of War in Iraq: A Preliminary Report. Sleep and Hypnosis 6(1): 19-28.
http://www.sleepandhypnosis.org/ing/Pdf/d2b0fb2ad2c247cab33ccd64a45d737f.pdf
A study of dreams related to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which began on March, 19, 2003. The dreams I gathered came from various sources, and I grouped them into several thematic categories: personal symbols, op-ed commentaries, political transformations, empathetic identifications, and fearful anticipations.
The Impact of September 11 on Dreaming. (Co-authored with Tracey L. Kahan.) Consciousness and Cognition 17:1248-1256.
During the fall quarter of 2001, Prof. Tracey Kahan was teaching a class at Santa Clara University on sleep and dreaming, and she had asked the students to keep a dream journal during the quarter. After the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 in New York City, Tracey and I engaged in a study of the students' journals. We found that the 9/11 attack appeared in several people's dreams, both directly and indirectly. We also found that on all the basic measures of people's cognitive functioning during their dreams, there was no difference between the dreams that did or did not have 9/11-related content. In other words, the terrorist attack impacted what people dreamed about, but not the way they dreamed.
Dream Content and Political Ideology. Dreaming 12(2): 61-78.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1015398822122
I called this a "pilot study," involving 56 people, divided into four equal groups: liberal males and liberal females, conservative males and conservative females. I had a most recent dream from each person, and a content analysis of the dreams suggested an intriguing difference regarding political ideology: "people on the political right had more nightmares, more dreams in which they lacked personal power, and a greater frequency of "lifelike" dreams; people on the political left had fewer nightmares, more dreams in which they had personal power, and a greater frequency of good fortunes and bizarre elements in their dreams. These findings have plausible correlations to certain features of the political ideologies of people on the left and the right, and merit future investigation in larger-scale studies."
It's All Just a Bad Dream. San Francisco Chronicle (December 6): A27.
https://m.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/It-s-All-Just-a-Bad-Dream-2723578.php
An Op-Ed article I wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle about people's dreams during the agonizing wait to determine who would be the winner of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, Al Gore or George W. Bush. Most of the dream reports I gathered were nightmares from liberals: "Aliens taking over the Earth and turning all humans into slaves; terrorists attacking the country with biological weapons; the dreamer falling into the ocean and being chased by a hungry shark or losing control of a car and driving off a cliff — these are some of the distressing images that are filling Democratic imaginations."
Among All These Dreamers: Essays on Dreaming and Modern Society (Editor) (State University of New York Press, 1996)
https://www.sunypress.edu/p-2346-among-all-these-dreamers.aspx
This book gathers the best researchers I could find on the theme of dreams and social justice. Included are chapters on dreams in relation to education, sexual abuse, ecology, crime, race, gender, religion, and cross-cultural conflict. In chapter 10 I present a report on my first direct research project devoted to dreams and politics: "Political Dreaming: Dreams of the 1992 Presidential Election." The chapter describes several dreams about the 1992 candidates (Ross Perot, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton), the debates, the media coverage, voting, and all the fears, hopes, and disappointments surrounding the election. The goal of this project was to prove Calvin Hall wrong in his claim that dreams "have little or nothing to say about current events in the world of affairs" (The Meaning of Dreams, 1966).
Visions of the Night: Dreams, Religion, and Psychology (State University of New York Press, 1999)
https://www.sunypress.edu/p-3023-visions-of-the-night.aspx
The final chapter of this book is titled "Dreaming in Russia, August 1991," an essay originally published in the Stanford University alumni magazine. It recounts my waking and dreaming experiences at a conference of dream researchers in Moscow, right in the midst of the failed military coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, which precipitated the fall of the Soviet Union.
The Quest for Transformational Experience: Dreams and Environmental Ethics. Environmental Ethics 13(2): 151-163.
One of the first articles I ever published, this also appears as chapter 5 in Visions of the Night. In response to environmental philosophers who point to Western dualistic thinking as a primary source of our society's mistreatment of nature, I suggest that dreaming is a psychologically innate and highly effective means of stimulating the transformation of dualist thought and the opening of new conscious awareness towards the environment.
Dreaming in a Totalitarian Society: A Reading of Charlotte Beradt's The Third Reich of Dreams. Dreaming 4(2): 115-126.
https://psycnet.apa.org/buy/1994-43941-001
This was based on a paper I wrote for a graduate seminar at the University of Chicago Divinity School, perhaps in 1988 or 1989. The course was taught by Peter Homans, and it focused on the neo-psychoanalytic theories of D.W. Winnicott and Heinz Kohut. I had been reading The Third Reich of Dreams on my own, and for the final paper of the class I used Winnicott's ideas about play, transitional space, and the True vs. False Self, to analyze and reflect upon the dreams gathered in Beradt's book. Here was my core Winnicottian claim: "Dreams are one of the ways that humans, from childhood to adulthood, develop the relationship between their inner psychic reality and external social reality. Beradt suggests that dream studies can be a potent means of studying troubled societies, and of helping those societies overcome their problems."
Digital Dream Analysis: A New Article on Word Search Methods
The latest issue of the journal Consciousness and Cognition has an article of mine titled "Digital dream analysis: A revised method," that's the fruition of several years of data-driven work. It lays out the latest developments in testing and refining the word search template programmed into the Sleep and Dream Database, a digital archive and search engine designed to promote scientific dream research. The original article I wrote using this word search method was in a 2009 issue of Consciousness and Cognition, titled "Seeking patterns in dream content: A systematic approach to word searches." The new article builds on that earlier piece and extends it in two ways.
First, it presents a revised, 2.0 version of the word search template that has many improvements on the 1.0 version presented in the 2009 article. I'm sure there will be more refinements in the future, and hopefully more researchers developing their own templates as well. But for now, the 2.0 version is useful as a well-tested and fairly comprehensive tool for analyzing dream content simply, quickly, and reliably.
Second, the article applies the 2.0 word search template to a number of previously studied collections of dreams from very high quality sources (Calvin Hall and Robert Van de Castle, J. Allan Hobson, and G. William Domhoff). In doing so I followed the advice of Kurt Bollacker, database engineer for the SDDb, who suggested I take "classic" studies in dream research from the past and try applying my new method to their same data. That's what I have done in this article: use the word search method to analyze the same sets of dreams those researchers studied, so we can see what the new method can and cannot tell us about meaningful patterns in dream content.
Here is the abstract for the article. The whole thing, I'm told, is available for free download until November 22, 2014.
"This article demonstrates the use of a digital word search method designed to provide greater accuracy, objectivity, and speed in the study of dreams. A revised template of 40 word search categories, built into the website of the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb), is applied to four "classic" sets of dreams: The male and female "Norm" dreams of Hall and Van de Castle (1966), the "Engine Man" dreams discussed by Hobson (1988), and the "Barb Sanders Baseline 250" dreams examined by Domhoff (2003). A word search analysis of these original dream reports shows that a digital approach can accurately identify many of the same distinctive patterns of content found by previous investigators using much more laborious and time-consuming methods. The results of this study emphasize the compatibility of word search technologies with traditional approaches to dream content analysis."
Trouble on the Night Shift: Bad Dreams About Work
"Sleep, the gentlest of the gods, the spirit's peace, whom care flies from: who soothes the body wearied with toil, and readies it for fresh labors."
That's how the Roman poet Ovid described sleep in his first century CE masterpiece the Metamorphoses.
Many people today desperately seek the restorative blessings of sleep just as Ovid described, but instead they find themselves plagued by bad dreams about work. Rather than providing a peaceful respite from the burdens of waking life, sleep for many people has become a battleground of job-related stress and financial anxiety. In a recent online survey I conducted with Harris Interactive, 2252 American adults were asked to describe a dream relating to their work or employment status. All the reports are available via the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb) website. (Here's a link to the reports of 10+ words in length.) These dreams offer a fascinating window into the workplace experiences of people across a wide demographic swath of American society.
Reading through the dream reports, it becomes clear that each job or profession has its own distinctive type of nightmare:
A trucker dreamed of a car cutting him off, so he had to slam on the brakes and then fight to control his rig as it started to jack-knife.
A nurse dreamed of her patients unhooking themselves from their monitoring equipment and wandering off, which led to the nurse getting fired for incompetence.
A waiter dreamed about having too many customers to serve, forgetting where the tableware was, and losing track of all the orders.
An electrician had vivid recurrent dreams about needing to fix strange gadgets with hundreds of wires, none of them labeled.
Several teachers had bad dreams about being unprepared for class, dealing with uncooperative students, and struggling with new technologies.
Numerous office administrators had nightmares of phones not working, desks piling up with unfinished work, and calculators streaming out endless amounts of rolled paper.
Whatever makes people feel powerless, overwhelmed, or out of control in their particular type of work, that's going to drive the content and emotions of their dreams.
Sometimes people's anxieties are transformed by the dreaming imagination into bizarre scenes that reflect a kind of surrealistic commentary on their employment situation. Ovid would surely be delighted by metamorphic dreams like these:
A 30-year old woman from Arizona dreamed that "giant staplers were chasing me down the hall" at the school where she works.
A 35-year old software developer from Minnesota dreamed of going to apply for a job and finding the interviewer was an alien with green skin and a large almond-shaped head.
A 62-year old woman from Illinois dreamed that a computer was chasing her yelling "Program me!"
A 64-year old man from Minnesota who recently lost his job dreamed he had gone back to his office, but instead of the familiar building it was a strange storehouse for used furniture: "I think the dream meant that my former job was basically warehousing people who needed to move on."
Weird and troubling as these dreams may be, they in fact make perfect sense in light of scientific research showing that dream content tends to accurately reflect people's waking life emotional concerns. Anything that worries us in waking life will likely show up in our dreams, either literally or metaphorically. This idea of meaningful continuities between dream content and waking life concerns has a lot of data to support it, much of it generated by G. William Domhoff and available on his dreamresearch.net website.
For many people today, worries about their jobs and personal finances top their list of emotional concerns in waking life. Several of the survey participants spoke of their fears about losing their jobs or trying to find a new one. A 27-year old Arizona man who has recurrent nightmares of being attacked by bears said, "You never know if you will have employment the next day." In such a tenuous economic environment, dream content will naturally reflect people's job-related worries and preoccupations.
There seems to be a rough evolutionary logic to these kinds of bad dreams. Several researchers, most recently Antii Revonsuo and Katja Valli, have proposed that one of the functions of dreaming is to simulate possible threats in the waking world, helping to prepare the individual to better handle those threats if they ever actually occur. In this view nightmares give us a safe opportunity to mentally practice survival-related behaviors and get ready for potential dangers. The short-term pain of upsetting dreams is outweighed by their long-term gain in promoting greater vigilance and preparedness.
It should also be noted the same powers of imagination that generate vivid work nightmares can also generate many other kinds of dreams as well. Here too there is good scientific evidence to support the idea that dreaming is an inherently creative and multidimensional activity. During rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the time of the sleep cycle when most dreaming occurs, the brain becomes hyper-associative. The constraints of externally focused consciousness loosen, allowing innovative possibilities to emerge out of wide-ranging connections between perceptions, memories, instincts, and cultural influences. This is why dreaming seems so crazy and scattered—and why it's occasionally the source of brilliant flashes of creative insight.
If you have recurrent nightmares about work, try this: After getting in bed each night and turning off the light, take a moment to think about the amazing creative powers in your own dreaming imagination. If your dreams can create vividly realistic scenarios of work, what other kinds of scenarios could they create? What are the strangest, most otherworldly dreams you've experienced in the past? What would you like to dream about now?
Your dreams may feel like foes, but with an open mind and playful spirit you can persuade them to become allies.
Penelope and Odysseus: The Perils of Dream Interpretation
I'd like to illustrate some basic principles of dream interpretation by telling a story. It's a very old story, one you may have heard before, but I'd like to tell it again because even though it's "just a story" it highlights the real perils that come when these dream interpretation principles are overlooked.
The story has to do with the meeting of Odysseus and Penelope in Book 19 of The Odyssey. In many respects this encounter is the point of greatest dramatic intensity in the entire poem, and at the heart of the scene is a dream-Penelope's dream of the twenty geese that are suddenly slaughtered by a mountain eagle. Odysseus, after leading the Achaean army to victory against the Trojans and after enduring a seemingly endless series of trials and adventures, has returned at last to his island home of Ithaca, where he has found a mob of rude noblemen besieging his palace. The crafty warrior has disguised himself as an old beggar in order to gain entrance into the palace without being recognized, and he is plotting violent revenge against the men who would steal his throne. Penelope, who for many years has desperately clung to the hope that Odysseus would someday return to her, has invited this strange wanderer into her private chambers to ask if he can tell her any news of her husband. The beggar fervently promises the Queen that Odysseus is very close and will return very, very soon. Penelope replies to the beggar's story by saying she wishes his words would come true, but she doubts they will. She then asks her old servant woman, Eurycleia, to bathe the stranger and arrange a comfortable place for him to sleep. The Queen steps away while the old nurse washes the beggar's feet. Then, before parting for the night, Penelope returns to the beggar and says (all quotes are from the translation of Robert Fagles, 1996, Viking Press),
"My friend, I have only one more question for you….
[P]lease, read this dream for me, won't you? Listen closely….
I kept twenty geese in the house, from the water trough
They come and peck their wheat-I love to watch them all.
But down from a mountain swooped this great hook-beaked eagle,
Yes, and he snapped their necks and killed them one and all
And they lay in heaps throughout the hall while he,
Back to the clear blue sky he soared at once.
But I wept and wailed-only a dream, of course-
And our well-groomed ladies came and clustered round me,
Sobbing, stricken: the eagle killed my geese. But down
He swooped again and settling onto a jutting rafter
Called out in a human voice that dried my tears,
'Courage, daughter of famous King Icarius!
This is no dream but a happy waking vision,
Real as day, that will come true for you.
The geese were your suitors-I was once the eagle
But now I am your husband, back again at last,
About to launch a terrible fate against them all!'
So he vowed, and the soothing sleep released me."
(The Odyssey 19.575, 603-621)
The disguised Odysseus immediately replies,
"Dear woman,….twist it however you like,
Your dream can mean only one thing. Odysseus
Told you himself-he'll make it come to pass,
Destruction is clear for each and every suitor;
Not a soul escapes his death and doom."
(The Odyssey 19.624-629)
Penelope's response to the beggar is this:
"Ah my friend, seasoned Penelope dissented,
Dreams are hard to unravel, wayward, drifting things-
Not all we glimpse in them will come to pass….
Two gates there are for our evanescent dreams,
One is made of ivory, the other made of horn.
Those that pass through the ivory cleanly carved
Are will-o'-the-wisps, their message bears no fruit.
The dreams that pass through the gates of polished horn
Are fraught with truth, for the dreamer who can see them.
But I can't believe my strange dream has come that way,
Much as my son and I would love to have it so."
So, what has just happened here? What is going on between Odysseus and Penelope, and what is the significance of her dream and their exchange about its meaning? The traditional interpretation of this scene, shared with near unanimity by scholars from antiquity to the present, is this. Odysseus has heroically controlled his desire to rejoin Penelope and hidden his identity from her for two reasons: one, to test his wife's fidelity during his long absence (remember Agamemnon and Clytemnestra), and two, to pick up information about how to destroy the hated suitors. Penelope's dream of the 20 geese is a straightforward prophecy, whose true meaning the disguised Odysseus instantly recognizes. But Penelope, who has shown a stubborn skepticism throughout the story, refuses to accept the dream's obvious meaning. Indeed, perhaps she unconsciously enjoys the attention of the suitors and does not really want Odysseus to come back.
My dissatisfaction with this widely held interpretation centers on its strange depreciation of Penelope's intelligence. This is a woman whom several characters have praised for her unrivalled perceptiveness, cunning, and guile; this is the woman who devised the famous ruse of the funeral shroud, by which she successfully deceived the suitors for three years. All of the evidence in the poem makes it clear that Penelope is not a fool: she is extremely perceptive and capable of remarkably subtle deceptions. So why, when we come to Book 19 and her meeting with the "beggar," should we now forget all that and regard Penelope as a pathetically unwitting dupe in the vengeful scheming of Odysseus?
Here is the moment when careful reflection on Penelope's dream can open up new horizons of meaning. The Iliad and The Odyssey together contain, up to the point of Penelope's dream of the 20 geese, four major dream episodes: Agamemnon's "Evil Dream" from Zeus (2.1-83), Achilles' mournful dream of the spirit of dead Patroklos (23.54-107), Penelope's reassuring dream from Athena (4.884-946), and Nausicaa's arousing marriage dream from Athena (6.15-79). Viewed in this context, Penelope's dream is unusual in at least two ways:
One, this is the only dream that occurs "offstage," out of direct view of the audience. We do not "see" the dream while it is happening; we only hear the dreamer describe it, after the fact.
Two, this is the only "symbolic" dream, with its meaning encoded in stylized imagery. The dream thus poses a riddle, which must be accurately interpreted for the true meaning to emerge.
I believe these two details suggest a very different reading of the encounter between Penelope and the disguised Odysseus. Could it be that this is not a "real" dream at all, that in fact Penelope has made it up? Could it be that Penelope is deliberately using the riddle of her dream as a test to find out the intentions of this man, whom she consciously suspects is Odysseus? Could it be that while he thinks he's deceiving her, she's really the one deceiving him?
This would not be the first time in Homer's poems that dreams have been used to deceive and manipulate others-in fact, it would be the fourth time: Zeus sending the "Evil Dream" to Agamemnon, Athena sending the "marriage dream" to Nausicaa, and Odysseus (at the end of The Odyssey, Book 14) making up a story about the "real" Odysseus making up a dream in order to steal another warrior's cloak on a cold, windy night (14.51 | 7,013 |
The original title of this recipe from "The Art of Good Cooking" is Danish Stuffed Tomatoes. However, when I tried to research this recipe, I found little on what makes them "Danish." I decided to lighten the stuffing by using yogurt, making it more about the cucumbers and less about the overbearing amount of sour cream and mayo originally used. It now maybe considered more Greek than Danish since the stuffing is more of a basic tzadziki. Creamy yogurt, garlic, and dill brighten the cucumbers that then add crunch to the soft juicy ripe tomatoes.
This is a tasty little no bake/cook seasonal appetizer or side dish that presents beautifully.
Peel cucumbers and cut in half lengthwise. With a spoon, scoop out seeds and discard them. Slice cucumbers thin. Place in a bowl, sprinkle with salt and place in refrigeration for at least 2 hours. Pour off water which has accumulated and press out any additional water so that cucumbers are dry. Add sugar and pepper and stir.
Combine garlic, yogurt, and lemon juice. Pour over cucumbers and toss lightly, adding half of the dill. Place in<|fim_middle|> the tomato shells upside down on paper towels so that any juice may drain.
Stuff each tomato with the cucumber mixture. Sprinkle remaining dill on top of each tomato.
One of my favorite foods are tomatos. I love them in any cook way.
I love ur recipe! Thanks for sharing!! | refrigerator until needed.
Remove a circle from the stem ends of the tomatoes. Carefully scoop out all the seeds and pulp. Turn | 26 |
Inverell's Will Browett and Evan<|fim_middle|> | Burgess have been selected as part of an Northern Inland Football (NIF) U11s representative team to play at the state championships. Held over the June long weekend in Coffs Harbour, the duo will face players of a similar calibre from across northern New South Wales to test their skills. Will and Evan were identified by the region's technical director as candidates for the team after watching their performances at various gala days. Usually in U10s, Inverell coach Peter Browett said the boys will be playing up a division. "Once a month we go to Coffs Harbour to play as an Inverell team and every fortnight in between we have a regional gala day at either Inverell, Tamworth, Armidale or Gunnedah. "These kids have played for a couple of years together now, one from a development squad last year. Now they're in an age group, they're holding quite strong on their own against 11-year-olds." The NIF representative side should average around three or four games per day once they arrive in Coffs Harbour. With just two weekend training runs with their NIF U12s teammates before the event, the pair have been relying on afternoon training to keep their fitness up. "We play Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, sometimes Monday," Will said. "Sometimes we event practise in the backyard," Evan added. Communication and control of the ball are two key factors the duo hope to improve on prior to the championships. "I was so happy and excited when I heard I got into the team," Will said. "I was decently surprised," Evan said. Both boys agreed they liked working as a team to try and take down their opposition. "It's a fun game when you're using teamwork to beat the other team," Will said. Playing striker, and sometimes in the mid-field, Will hopes to play his best at the championships. Evan said his favourite position was centre back but could play anywhere on the field. The championships serve as a major identification for upcoming programs including the country U13 state team and zone development teams. The technical department of Northern NSW Football will focus on how teams play and how players respond to the overall result, rather than who wins and loses.
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Local duo chosen for NIF representative side
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Rising stars: Inverell's Evan Burgess and Will Browett will play in a state championships for the U11s Northern Inland Football team over the June long weekend.
Inverell's Will Browett and Evan Burgess have been selected as part of an Northern Inland Football (NIF) U11s representative team to play at the state championships.
Held over the June long weekend in Coffs Harbour, the duo will face players of a similar calibre from across northern New South Wales to test their skills.
Will and Evan were identified by the region's technical director as candidates for the team after watching their performances at various gala days.
Usually in U10s, Inverell coach Peter Browett said the boys will be playing up a division.
"Once a month we go to Coffs Harbour to play as an Inverell team and every fortnight in between we have a regional gala day at either Inverell, Tamworth, Armidale or Gunnedah.
"These kids have played for a couple of years together now, one from a development squad last year. Now they're in an age group, they're holding quite strong on their own against 11-year-olds."
The NIF representative side should average around three or four games per day once they arrive in Coffs Harbour.
With just two weekend training runs with their NIF U12s teammates before the event, the pair have been relying on afternoon training to keep their fitness up.
"We play Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, sometimes Monday," Will said. "Sometimes we event practise in the backyard," Evan added.
Communication and control of the ball are two key factors the duo hope to improve on prior to the championships.
"I was so happy and excited when I heard I got into the team," Will said. "I was decently surprised," Evan said.
Both boys agreed they liked working as a team to try and take down their opposition.
"It's a fun game when you're using teamwork to beat the other team," Will said.
Playing striker, and sometimes in the mid-field, Will hopes to play his best at the championships.
Evan said his favourite position was centre back but could play anywhere on the field.
The championships serve as a major identification for upcoming programs including the country U13 state team and zone development teams.
The technical department of Northern NSW Football will focus on how teams play and how players respond to the overall result, rather than who wins and loses. | 1,076 |
Joint Venture board elects Sam Liccardo co-chair
Board also adds three new members at its quarterly meeting
March 20, 2015 - The Joint Venture Silicon Valley board of directors today elected San Jose mayor Sam Liccardo as its new co-chair and added three new members at its quarterly meeting in Santa Clara.
Liccardo, who joined the board in November, succeeds former San Jose mayor Chuck Reed, who served six years as the public sector representative in the co-chair role. The private sector co-chair is Steven Bochner, CEO of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
"Mayor Liccardo is a dedicated public servant and a capable leader bringing gravitas and respect to this position," said Russell Hancock, president and CEO of Joint Venture. "We look forward to his leadership on our board."
At the same meeting, the board elected three new members: Nuria Fernandez, general manager and CEO of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority; Todd Harris, EVP, CFO and CAO of Tech CU (Technology Credit Union);<|fim_middle|> using the link in our emails. For more details, review our privacy policy. | and Davis White, public policy and government relations manager at Google.
Fernandez, who came to VTA in 2013, has a 30-year career in the transportation field that includes planning, design and construction of mass transit systems, airport operations and policy development.
She previously served as chief operating officer of the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority, managed operations at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and provided policy and program expertise at the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Harris directs all finance and accounting related functions, strategic planning, information systems and technology, operations and corporate services for Tech CU, a $1.8 billion credit union serving more than 70,000 members throughout the Bay Area.
Previously he served as CFO for Alliance Credit Union and Pentech Financial Services and spent more than a decade at Silicon Valley Bank.
White manages policy and public affairs for Google's Peninsula headquarters. Previously, he had senior political roles with John McCain's presidential campaign in 2008 and Rob Portman's 2010 U.S. Senate campaign in Ohio. Earlier, he served on the communications team with the Afghan Reconstruction Group in the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Davis also served in The White House Office of Public Liaison during the 2006 midterm elections. He is a graduate of Washington & Lee University.
The 50-member Joint Venture board of directors includes senior-level representatives from business, local and regional government, academia, labor and workforce organizations and the broader community. Among Joint Venture's current regional initiatives are programs to support economic development, build the smart energy network of the future, strengthen climate protection, broaden the region's wireless network and beautify the El Camino Real.
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Lovell has appointed Debra Borley as site manager overseeing a major homes refurbishment programme which the company is delivering for Vale of Glamorgan Council.
During her construction career, Debra has<|fim_middle|> the Longmeadow Court sheltered housing scheme in Cowbridge.
In her new role, Debra draws on extensive experience in programming housing refurbishment work and of developing successful working relationships with residents, clients and subcontractor partners. She originally started her construction career with Lovell as a resident liaison officer on a long-term kitchen and bathroom replacement programme before moving into site management. | managed a number of important housing improvement projects for local authorities in South Wales. Senior roles have included working as a site manager for construction company Bouygues (UK) and as a site lead for maintenance specialist Wates Living Space.
Housing-led regeneration specialist Lovell has appointed Debra Borley as site manager.
She now leads the internal and external improvement works being carried out by Lovell at homes in Glamorgan for Vale of Glamorgan Council. The programme includes external wall insulation, other external work and has involved significant improvements to | 106 |
Resume 'line' command and with "ortho" mode activated, decide the first point of the line on the screen, then move the mouse on the right to<|fim_middle|> | create an horizontal line.
Now instead of clicking the second point of the line, dial a number with the keyboard, such as 100 and then press Enter or Right click twice to confirm and exit the command.
As you understand, you have just made a line long "100", but what is this value...?
In AutoCAD these is a hundred units, but you decide how to draw so these units could be consider 100 millimeters, centimeters or meters (or feet and inches).
It also depends on what you are drawing so there may be 100 mm of a metal object to draw for metalworking, or 100 cm of the side of a wooden table, or 100 meters of fence land.
Generally, I am happy with the cm, but it is good to learn how to handle various situations.
The thing to keep in mind however is that in AutoCAD we must generally think to draw in full scale 1:1!
I mean that if I have a room of 4x4 meters and consider it to draw it in centimeters, will draw the long walls 400 units, which will consider just "centimeters", or 4000 units which will consider "millimeters".
In general then, you will need to draw by entering the actual measurements of what you represent, except in cases of enlarged details that you'll have to do on the same table.
When it's time to print the drawing we set a scale "to printing" as needed and here things will change based on the units with which we have interpreted the drawing (cm. or mm.).
Let's say, for the print settings, it might be more correct to draw considering the "mm", but we'll talk about this during the course.
Setting units in the "Format" menu.
Let's then see another important approach to manage units.
From the menu "format" , click on "Units .."
In the window that appears, click on the popup menu items "length" and "angle", respectively, sets "Decimal" and "Decimal Degrees" , as in the picture.
As you'll notice AutoCAD can be set for different types of units, such as "inch", which correspond to the "Architectural".
In our case the decimal units should be used for both the length and angle.
Attention: the unit settings menu does not apply in a general format for the program, but in this case, affect each individual "files" that we will made.
Click "OK" to confirm and close the window.
We will back on this when we print our design. | 537 |
We were expecting our first child, a baby girl, in January. The nursery began when we found a vintage dining room<|fim_middle|> polka dots to the mix to keep the room fun and girly. My sister, Jillian Wishart, photographed our nursery and took Betsy's newborn pictures as well.
One of my favorite items is the cloud mobile. I love how it floats delicately above the crib, gently spinning the gold rain drops.
My advice is to look for a few fun pieces to include and find a thread to run throughout the design. We used polka dots in different places to make the room cohesive yet collected.
Can you please share the wall color? Beautiful! | hutch that seemed perfect for a changing table. I also loved gold polka dots and used them a lot throughout the nursery to create a cohesive feel. I wanted the nursery to feel collected and curated.
We were inspired by pairing thrifted and vintage finds, like an old globe and foam alphabet blocks, with new trends such as touches of gold and sparkle.
Before my husband, Sam, and I found out we were having a girl, we had purchased a vintage dining room hutch to use as a changing table and a rope pendant light. I had also collected some other odds and ends from local thrift stores – an old globe and alphabet blocks. Once we knew a little lady was on the way, we added gold | 144 |
It's always a great idea for fashion magazines<|fim_middle|> new year, the Fei Fei Sun by Lachlan Bailey Vogue China January 2012 shoot is a fabulous place to start. | to start off the new year with dramatic, striking editorial shoots after featuring sequins and holiday tips galore in December issues, so the Fei Fei Sun by Lachlan Bailey Vogue China January 2012 shoot is a stunning way to begin 2012.
Chinese model Fei Fei Sun is currently ranked at number 14 in the list of the top 50 models in the world on Models.com, and she demonstrates just why she is such an in-demand face in the fashion industry. Sun is a true force to be reckoned with in this editorial shoot.
Wearing pieces from Yves Saint Laurent, Reed Krakoff, Stella McCartney, and Balenciaga, the model wears art-inspired outfits in rustic and jewel-toned hues from the spring 2012 runways.
If you're looking for some fashion inspiration for the | 177 |
Spiritual<|fim_middle|>. | Meditation, prayer, being grateful, having patience. These all help us to be more understanding of what we feel within ourselves and those around us.
Emotional The mind travels to the past and sometimes to the future. Being aware of where our mind travels to and understanding how it makes us feel will help us create more balance within ourselves.
Physical Our body is our vehicle in this life. We maintain our cars so they run efficiently and for as long as we can drive them for. Why not take care of our bodies so they run efficiently and long?
Social Our social surroundings are also our support system. You want to surround yourself with positive, caring and loving people. Remember to communicate with your spouse, friends and family and pay attention to how you feel before and after social interactions.
Intellectual Managing our daily lives. Planning our weeks ahead in order to keep our personal and work lives organized, creating routines that will help keep balance throughout the week | 188 |
Nine Australians who helped rescue young footballers trapped in a Thai cave were given<|fim_middle|> attention.
Anaesthetist Richard Harris and his diving partner Craig Challen, both cave diving specialists, played key roles in the rescue and were awarded the Star of Courage, Australia's second-highest bravery decoration.
Six police officers and a navy officer were given the third-highest decoration, the Bravery Medal.
"You made us so proud, selflessly courageous, superbly, professionally competent. We could not have better ambassadors showing the best of our Australian values than you," Turnbull said at the medal ceremony in Canberra.
Harris was specifically requested by experts to help in the dramatic rescue and was reportedly the last person to leave the cave, credited with monitoring the boys' health and sedating them so they would not panic during the extraction.
The children aged from 11 to 16 and their coach spent nine days in darkness until two British divers found them — before the drawn-out rescue that saw the last person leave the cave on July 10. | state honours Tuesday, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declaring their bravery an inspiration to the world.
The 12 "Wild Boars" players and their coach were stuck deep in the flooded cave for up to 18 days before Thai Navy SEALs and international cave diving experts rescued them in a highly risky operation that captivated global | 67 |
The pace of life in the village of Galeş may be slow but it is definitely regular and certainly timeless - for hundreds of years this pattern of coming and going has prevailed throughout rural Romania.
Shortly after sunrise the animals are let out of the courtyards of the village houses and at dusk they return. This video shows the animals returning home in the evening from the pastures around the village. Most people, even if they now work in the city during the day, still own maybe a cow or horse or goat. The<|fim_middle|> fade to reach their natural, more subtle, pastel colouring. | village is still very much a tight-knit community despite encroaching 'modernity', so villagers help one another with animals and there is a community pasture master who looks after the animals and who can be seen coming down the lane from the pasture at the end of this video. You can also see that children are inducted into the movement and management of the animals from a young age, showing a confidence and knowledge of animals that children brought up in urban environments often lack. In the background you can see our house with its final state of colouring: blue, ochre and green. The limewash paint has only just been applied and it will take a few months for the blue and ochre to begin to | 144 |
Apple Orders Docuseries 'Gutsy Women' With Hillary and Chelsea Clinton
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Apple has given a straight-to-series order for "Gutsy Women" a documentary series starring Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea. It's inspired by their best-selling The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience (via Deadline).
Gutsy Women<|fim_middle|> Julianna Margulies joining "The Morning Show".
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It will feature a cast of various women to answer the question: What does it take to be a Gutsy Woman? Hillary and Chelsea Clinton will executive produce the docuseries with Johnny Webb and Roma Khanna.
The docuseries will feature a diverse cast of trailblazing women, according to Apple. In it, the former first lady, U. S Senator and Secretary of State, and her daughter set out to answer the question: what exactly does it take to be a Gutsy Woman?
Published by Simon and Schuster, the book features portraits of women such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mary Ritter Beard, Harriet Tubman, Edith Windsor and Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, among others.
The news follows other Apple TV+ announcements like Dichen Lachman joining "Severance" and | 176 |
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This stew is adapted from one of my most beloved cookbooks, "More-with-Less". I've wanted to shared it for a long time. My grocery list and pantry supplies almost always include these ingredients so I find it's one of those simple staple soups that can also be relied on to thoroughly please my husband. After a meal of roasted chicken the night before, a few carrots, celery, and onion pieces added to the carcass simmered into an economical, golden elixir that forms the base of any sublime soup. I knew this would be my first choice.
I certainly can't vouch for the authenticity of this recipe, especially since San Francisco is a fresh seafood mecca and I have altered some ingredients and amounts from the recipe from the book. But I can tell you there is an addicting acidity to the tomato-rich broth, that the fish remains mild and tender, that homemade broth turns the nutritional ante way up, and the<|fim_middle|> at 12:00 am and is filed under All Season, Main Dishes, Trim Healthy Mama. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. | slices of pepper and mushrooms are just the perfect vegetable additions to this light soup.
*Since I am eating Trim Healthy Mama style, this soup is extra versatile since it can work as an "S" meal by drizzling on extra olive oil at the end and eating with a dressing-laced salad or creamy dessert. You can eat this with a serving of brown rice, quinoa, real sourdough, or even a luscious piece of fruit to make this a complete "E"meal. I enjoyed my bowl, tonight, piping hot, with just an extra shot of lemon squeezed in at the end. My children eat theirs with basmati rice, lemon, and a stream of olive oil!
1. Dice onions and pepper. Thinly slice the garlic cloves. Pour oil into a medium-sized pot over med-high heat and add onion, pepper, and garlic. Saute 3-5 minutes or until slightly softened.
2. Slice mushrooms and add to pot along with bay leaves, broth, tomatoes, tomato paste, salt, pepper, marjoram or oregano, and optional honey. Cut the lemon in half and squeeze one-half into the pot.
3. Simmer 20 minutes on low heat. Check soup for seasoning. Meanwhile squeeze remaining lemon half over fish and slice into large pieces.
4. Gently add fish pieces to the pot and simmer on low for an additional 5 minutes or until the fish flakes easily. Serve hot with lemon wedges.
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I grew up with Harrison Ford as my Han Solo. Harrison's Han was a snarky smuggler with a quick trigger finger. His braggadocious swagger and charm save his life just as often as it gets him<|fim_middle|>ian (Donald Glover) and his suffrage-minded droid L3-37 (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), the lethally unstable yet wily bad guy Dryden Vos (Paul Bettany), and one damsel not-so-in distress Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke).
By the end, all the pieces in place for Han Solo are yet to come. There are a few places where the story is too thin for a big emotional payoff to make a huge impact (and there's plenty of setting up for one) so this ultimately ends up as a solid heist film with plenty of bromance and high points to keep things lively.
Solo: A Star Wars Story lands a solid but mostly predictable addition to the franchise. If I'm being honest, it made me want a Lando Calrissian movie just that much more. Donald Glover out acts Ehrenreich at every turn.
I don't do spoilers so I'll just say: You may go for Chewie or Lando, his capes, and the Millennium Falcon, but if you don't leave also talking about Val, L3-37, and Qi'ra's end scenes then I don't know what's the hell's wrong with you.
Mixed in with world-building that establishes its place in the Star Wars timeline with subtle foreshadowing and great comedic moments is the story of a wet-behind-the-ears street rat looking to make his fortune (and get the girl) in a world where trust and loyalty are a good way to get dead. Solo: A Star Wars is an action-driven introduction to young Han Solo that nicely lays the groundwork for the badass gunslinger to come. It's a funny if slightly formulaic opening to exploring the Star Wars expanded universe through fresh eyes.
Where are the damn bounty hunters?
Solo: A Star Wars Story opens nationwide May 25, 2018. | in trouble. I always wondered about Han's life pre-Luke and joining the rebellion. Although the comics and books filled in the gaps pretty well, I always thought his story would make a great movie. So obviously, seeing Solo: A Star Wars Story in the next phase of the film franchise peaked my interest.
Writers Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi) and son, Jonathan Kasdan (In the Land of Women), drew on the elder Kasdan's cinematic knowledge of Han to mesh it with facts and story elements from the Han Solo Trilogy books in order create a script that a cross between Firefly episode and The Man with No Name.
Its wild west space opera vibe is a perfect backdrop for a young Han Solo.
Prepare to meet Han (Alden Ehrenreich) as he makes moves to escape Corellia, the planet of his youth, where long-term survival is questionable at best. After a deal goes bad, Han makes a break for it with his girlfriend Qi'ra. He gets out but Qi'ra doesn't. As he flees, Han vows to return to Corellia to save his girl.
Broke and out of options, Han makes yet another rash decision that puts him face-to-face with the Empire. And thus begins his journey into the stars and starts him down a path towards the life of an outlaw.
One run-in with a wookie later, Han and his new partner, Chewbacca, team up with a crew led by Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson) setting up for a big score.
Alden Ehrenreich's Han is a charming scoundrel. He does a more than decent job pulling off the wit and street smarts integral to Han's personality. Han is a reckless, unexpectedly intelligent, hopelessly optimistic and fearless in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. But, Ehrenreich occasionally comes across as too much youthful scamp than badass-in-the-making.
Overall his portrayal has all the necessary elements and plays well. I just wish some of his swagger felt less affected and more a natural part of his personality. But the shortcomings in the lead protagonist are well compensated for (mostly) by the performances of the rest of the cast.
It probably doesn't need to be said but, Solo is absolutely a heist film. It's doubtful that any other type of story would've done justice to this cast or story.
There are side deals, double crosses, high jinx, and plenty of tragedy to be had. This story moves (although they could've cut the runtime down and you still told the story) and director Ron Howard pull the best out of this cast. It's not the best heist film I've ever seen (not even set in space) but it's a solid film, told well against sublime cinematography and set design.
This journeymen's tale boasts all the necessary cast of characters to turn a pretty standard storyline into a dynamic, humor-riddled film geared to invest audiences in Han's evolution and lay the breadcrumbs to the Rebellion.
There's the wise yet world-weary smuggler Beckett (Woody Harrelson), his battle-hardened wary badass partner Val (Thandie Newton), the cape-a-licious and charismatic pilot Lando Calriss | 673 |
To promote psychologically healthy workplaces and help employers prevent and address workplace sexual harassment and its effects on employees, APA's Center for Organizational Excellence has launched this new resource page.
On<|fim_middle|> line employees and managers with a unified message by showing both groups the same vignettes filmed in various settings, including manufacturing, office, healthcare, and academic environments. | this page, you'll find a collection of resources related to preventing and addressing workplace sexual harassment, including statistics, reports, trainings, book recommendations and links to other high-quality resources for employers, employees and consultants.
Lawsuits and settlements arising from discrimination and sexual harassment complaints are a huge financial drain on both business and government organizations. Hostile Work Environments explains how discrimination and hostile behavior are often surface manifestations of more fundamental cultural and behavioral problems that managers can address with practical measures in their departments.
The authors identify the "warning signs" that could lead to hostile work environment complaints that managers should look for in themselves and their employees. The book also gives dozens of practical suggestions for addressing workplace problems before they turn into a "hostile work environment" complaint, and gives guidelines for investigating and addressing a problem or complaint once it has surfaced.
Hostile Work Environments is the first book that helps managers understand the problem and take positive steps to avoid hostile work environment complaints and legal problems. While many competing books have covered the individual factors that can cause a hostile work environment such as racial discrimination, sexual harassment, age and gender discrimination, this is the first guide for managers that brings them all together in a single "how-to" book on prevention.
Speaking directly to supervisors and managers, the Manager training video offers clear guidance on how to recognize and prevent sexual harassment, and explains a supervisor's responsibilities to respond promptly and appropriately.
In both versions, expert trainer Linda Garrett and attorney Brandon Blevans, add their insights to help your staff distinguish what is – and what is not – sexual harassment. This two-video set trains your | 324 |
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Team CSC's Lars Bak has lost the overall lead in this year's Tour de l'Avenir in France, mainly...
Team CSC's Lars Bak has lost the overall lead in this year's Tour de l'Avenir in France, mainly because of very hot meteorological conditions. Slovenian Borut Bozic was able to take the jersey from him in the 203 km long third stage from Sainte-Scolasse-sur-Sarthe to Sassay.
"It started out fine," said CSC's sports director Scott Sunderland after the stage on team-csc.com. "We had Lars Bak, Andy Schleck and Christian Müller in the front group of 21 riders, who escaped from the peloton after 75 kilometres. But then Andy started having problems with the heat and had to let himself fall back to the second group, where we had Matti Breschel and Kasper Klostergaard, and shortly after that, the 35° Celsius became too much for Christian as well, and he dropped all the way back to the peloton, where Brian Vandborg was sitting." Lars Bak was then the only CSC rider in the front group, and as four riders, among them the day's winner, Borut Bozic, jumped with about 15 kilometres to go | 287 |
A unique story of transcendent love.
by Colleen Hoover ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 8, 2020
An aimless young musician meets the girl of<|fim_middle|> be honest with Alex—and herself—about her true feelings. In chapters that jump around in time, Henry shows readers the progression (and dissolution) of Poppy and Alex's friendship. Their slow-burn love story hits on beloved romance tropes (such as there unexpectedly being only one bed on the reconciliation trip Poppy plans) while still feeling entirely fresh. Henry's biggest strength is in the sparkling, often laugh-out-loud-funny dialogue, particularly the banter-filled conversations between Poppy and Alex. But there's depth to the story, too—Poppy's feeling of dissatisfaction with a life that should be making her happy as well as her unresolved feelings toward the difficult parts of her childhood make her a sympathetic and relatable character. The end result is a story that pays homage to classic romantic comedies while having a point of view all its own.
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by Diana Gabaldon ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 23, 2021
The ninth book in Gabaldon's Outlander series finds the Fraser family reunited in the midst of the American Revolution.
It's 1779, and Claire and Jamie Fraser have found each other across time and space and are living peacefully in the American Colony of North Carolina. This novel opens with the mysterious return to Fraser's Ridge of their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children. In a previous book, Brianna's family time-traveled to 20th-century America and planned to stay there permanently. It's clear that Jamie and the others expect the troubles the family faced in the future will follow them to the past; unfortunately, after their return, the book pauses for several hundred pages of exposition. Gabaldon reintroduces characters, summarizes past events and tragedies, and introduces new characters. The text features not one but two family trees (the one in the back is updated to include the events of the book), and readers will need both to keep track of all the characters and relationships. The Outlander series has always been concerned with themes of time and place, and this novel contains intricate details and descriptions of daily life in Colonial America, clearly the result of countless hours of research. But Claire and Jamie have always been the major draw for readers. Now that they are grandparents, their love story is less epic and more tender, exploring the process of aging, the joys of family, and the longing for community and home. The last third is more plot-driven and action-packed, but the cliffhanger ending might leave readers feeling as if the book is just filler for the promised 10th installment.
Pub Date: Nov. 23, 2021
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LORD JOHN AND THE HAND OF DEVILS | his dreams only to have his newfound happiness threatened by several inexplicable—and possibly supernatural—events.
The story opens as Leeds Gabriel meets with a detective while his girlfriend, Layla, is restrained in a room one flight above them. Through the interview, readers learn that Leeds was wasting both his time and his musical talent playing backup for a small-town wedding troupe called Garrett's Band when he spied Layla dancing her heart out to their mediocre music at a wedding. When Leeds approaches Layla, their connection is both instant and intense. A blissful courtship follows, but then Leeds makes the mistake of posting a picture of himself with Layla on social media. A former girlfriend–turned-stalker wastes no time in finding and attacking Layla. Layla spends months recovering in a hospital, and it seems the girl Leeds fell for might be forever changed. Gone is her special spark, her quirkiness, and the connection that had entranced Leeds months before. In a last-ditch effort to save their relationship, he brings Layla back to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met. When they get there, though, Leeds meets Willow, another guest, and finds himself drawn to her in spite of himself. As events unfold, it becomes clear that Willow will either be the key to saving Leeds' relationship with Layla or the catalyst that finally extinguishes the last shreds of their epic romance. Told entirely from Leeds' point of view, the author's first foray into paranormal romance does not disappoint. Peppered with elements of mystery, psychological thriller, and contemporary romance, the novel explores questions about how quickly true love can develop, as well as the conflicts that can imperil even the strongest connections. Despite a limited cast of characters and very few setting changes, the narrative manages to remain both fast-paced and engaging. The conclusion leaves a few too many loose ends, but the chemistry between the characters and unexpected twists throughout make for a satisfying read.
Pub Date: Dec. 8, 2020
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 2020
Categories: PARANORMAL FICTION | ROMANCE | SUPERNATURAL THRILLER | THRILLER | GENERAL ROMANCE | GENERAL THRILLER & SUSPENSE
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A warm and winning "When Harry Met Sally…" update that hits all the perfect notes.
by Emily Henry ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 11, 2021
A travel writer has one last shot at reconnecting with the best friend she just might be in love with.
Poppy and Alex couldn't be more different. She loves wearing bright colors while he prefers khakis and a T-shirt. She likes just about everything while he's a bit more discerning. And yet, their opposites-attract friendship works because they love each other…in a totally platonic way. Probably. Even though they have their own separate lives (Poppy lives in New York City and is a travel writer with a popular Instagram account; Alex is a high school teacher in their tiny Ohio hometown), they still manage to get together each summer for one fabulous vacation. They grow closer every year, but Poppy doesn't let herself linger on her feelings for Alex—she doesn't want to ruin their friendship or the way she can be fully herself with him. They continue to date other people, even bringing their serious partners on their summer vacations…but then, after a falling-out, they stop speaking. When Poppy finds herself facing a serious bout of ennui, unhappy with her glamorous job and the life she's been dreaming of forever, she thinks back to the last time she was truly happy: her last vacation with Alex. And so, though they haven't spoken in two years, she asks him to take another vacation with her. She's determined to bridge the gap that's formed between them and become best friends again, but to do that, she'll have to | 833 |
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11:00 – 15: 30 Our meeting point will be the Boqueria Market, just 10 minutes walking from your hotel. Situated in "<|fim_middle|> the Gothic Quarter including a "Tapas Style meal" with wine, beer and refreshments. | Las Ramblas", a famous cheerful pedestrian street with traditional shops, the fresh market of "la Boqueria" is one of the most spectacular and nicest food market in Spain. It is famous for the quality and diversity of its produce which comes from around the world. It is located on a site originally intended to be used as the courtyard of the church of Sant Josep. We will meet our chef to buy the ingredients for our cooking class.
We will finish with a delicious supper based on what we have prepared accompanied with excellent Spanish wine.
Afternoon free to explore fascinating Barcelona, with Gaudís creations, Sacred Family church, Park Gúell, the beautiful fishing por and Colombus Plaza, the shopping Paseo de Gracia street just next to the hotel.,.,….
Suggestions for supper will be given.
Our meeting point will be Casa Batló, 5 minutes walking from your hotel, an amazing Gaudi creation just in the center of Barcelona, where our guide will meet you. This morning we will go for a lovely walking tour among the magical medieval narrow streets at the Gothic old historic quarter, visiting the amazing cathedral and its environs which include the Romanesque church of Santa Llúcia, the City Hall ….. Antique dealers, bookshops, restaurants, and unusual shops maintain the activity of this historical district.
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UTC@harbourside has announced that fifteen A-Level Students will spend a day at the home of the Large Hadron Collider – the CERN Laboratories in Geneva Switzerland
UTC@harbourside has announced that fifteen A-Level will spend a day at the home of the Large Hadron Collider – the CERN Laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) visit is taking place from the 4th to the 6th of November and includes a mix of A-Level Physics students, A-Level Chemists, and A-Level Engineers. They will<|fim_middle|>… https://t.co/qALD8QThXy
GDPR, Data Protection compliance and Privacy Notices | spend a whole day at CERN, undertaking two S'Cool laboratory workshops led by CERN scientists: Making a Cloud Chamber and "Resistance is Futile: Investigating Superconductors". S'Cool Laboratory workshops are a physics education research facility at CERN.
The UTC had to bid for this opportunity as CERN gets thousands of applications every year from schools across the world wanting to take part in their education programme. As part of the bid the UTC@harbourside students had to produce a collaborative piece of research on superconductors and liquid nitrogen, and suggest experiments that they would like to undertake in addition to the main workshop. The selection committee said: "We are impressed and we are looking forward to working with your very motivated students in November!"
Acting Principal Lisa Jepson said "I am proud that the staff here at the UTC are committed to our students, and that they are providing this very exciting opportunity for our young people. After the difficulties in the last academic year, this educational visit demonstrates just how much we all want to make sure that our remaining students get the best education and experience for their final year at UTC@harbourside"
Students will also have a tour of CERN and a networking lunch with researchers and engineers currently working at CERN to learn about the organisation's research projects and careers. The group will be visiting Geneva for 3 days, and they will also be visiting the History of Science and Natural History museums.
University Technical Colleges (UTCs) teach students technical and scientific subjects to educate the inventors, engineers, scientists and technicians of tomorrow. At UTC@harbourside our focus is on engineering, a real interest in the environment and in creating a sustainable future. The UTC works with leading employers to give students who are motivated by science, maths and computing the real skills and qualifications they need to succeed in the workplace, at university and beyond.
For more details about UTC@harbourside please contact us on enquiries@utc-harbourside.org.
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This Italian Salad Recipe doesn't just have a great texture – it also provides the wonderful flavor combinations of tangy and mildly bitter, with a hint of salt and sweetness that will leave you wanting more.
I recently had a conversation with a colleague of mine as to when salads should be served: before, or after, the main course?
A Seafood Salad is without a doubt the best appetizer salad and a Italian Potato Salad is a great side salad dish.
My Italian upbringing dictated that green salad recipes are served at the end of a (big) meal… before the onslaught of cheese, fruit and, of course, desserts.
When do you serve this Italian salad?
During the same conversation, my colleague and I also discussed easy vs complicated recipes.
I don't know about you, but when hosting, especially during the holidays, I like to have a balance between the two.
The presence of easy recipes gives me a sense of security, and creates an illusion that I have everything under control 😉 And nothing can be easier than a salad like this one.
I can also assure you that it does not get any tastier than this Best Italian Chopped Salad Greens Recipe. Even if you are stuffed, you will always manage to have a few extra bites of this tossed Italian salad.
As in most salad recipes, you must put together two parts: the actual salad, and the dressing.
I will usually combine the ingredients for the dressing in a mason jar, shake it vigorously, refrigerate it, and forget about it until I am ready to dress my salad. I will usually prepare the salad dressing the day before the big event.
As far as the actual salad recipe is concerned, I like to use a mixture of greens such as romaine, radicchio and endive.
I think everyone is familiar with romaine lettuce.
But what about these white veined purplish leaves?
Well, radicchio belongs to the chicory family, and has a distinctive, slightly bitter taste. According to Wikipedia, the vegetable can be traced back to the fifteenth century in the Veneto region of Italy. Radicchio is extremely pleasing to look at, and it's a slightly healthier green than, say, iceberg lettuce!
As far as the endive is concerned, it also belongs to the chicory family. It is equally crispy, providing a slightly bitter taste, but is a lot nuttier than the radicchio. Both of these veggies will provide you with a healthy dose of vitamins, minerals, and even a little bit of fiber.
You are probably familiar with the rest of the salad ingredients. I would like to bring your attention to just two others. The first is the Roasted Garlic Cloves. It really is an easy recipe to make, and it is a game changer as far as taste is concerned.
The second is the ricotta salata. As you probably know, ricotta is a sheep milk's cheese. Unlike its fresh, moist and wet counterpart ( Creamy Homemade Fresh Ricotta Cheese ), ricotta salata is an aged, pressed cheese whose final product has a crumbly, yet firm texture, with a salty, almost tangy flavor.
It is great to use in salads as it complements the bitterness from the greens perfectly. You should be able to find this cheese in your specialty cheese shop.
I will usually toss all the salad ingredients together. Then, when the time is right, just pour the dressing over the top, toss and plate. Simply serve with a nice crusty bread. Whole wheat, of course!
Along with this Refreshing Italian Fennel Citrus Salad, this was one of my Mom's signature salads. Both of these salads are so ridiculously easy to put together. As an added bonus, they are definite crowd pleasers.
This Italian green salad will provide you and your guests with a colorful and tasty way to end any meal. I hope you enjoy this recipe.
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This is my kind of salad! Lovely, delicious and so nutritious! Loved seeing the use of radicchio, together with romaine and endive, and also ricotta salata. No cucumbers, for me, though, but that's my personal taste 🙂 . I've always known that the salad has to be enjoyed at the end of the meal or as a side to the "secondo". I've never seen anyone in Italy starting with a salad, unless it is in antipasto form (like insalata di mare with seafood). Pinned it, so beautiful!
Always after the meal…no question. That being said this salad is a meal in and of itself and your instructions for preparing it as part of a large meal are spot on. | comments below and be sure to rate the recipe!
This Italian Salad Recipe has great texture & provides wonderful flavor combinations in just one bite.
Combine all the ingredients for the dressing in a mason jar.
Refrigerate until ready to be used (I will usually make the dressing the day before I need it).
In a large mixing bowl, add all the salad ingredients.
Shake the dressing one final time before pouring over your salad.
Transfer to your serving platter.
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Growing up in Texas with Nigerian-born parents, I loved movies, comic books — and science.
In middle school, I participated in my first science fair. By high school, I never wanted to leave the lab.
Flash forward to the present. I'm a high school chemistry teacher with 22 years of experience. When I started introducing my students to competitions for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), it was because I wanted to share this love of inquiry.
It's always exciting when a student truly masters a concept through hands-on learning. There's nothing like that moment when something becomes clear because the student conducted the experiment that made it so.
That's when learning is at its most satisfying and when teaching is at its most rewarding. These are the moments that turn students into passionate, lifelong learners.
After more than two decades in the classroom, though, even I admit that "eureka" moments don't happen as often as one might hope.
That's why I spent my summer at the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois, where I worked with scientists on water reclamation, figuring out ways to remove ammonia from wastewater.
This research will ultimately help scientists develop viable methods to remove ammonia from water<|fim_middle|> for teachers.
With the skills gap more prevalent than ever, we know how important it is to foster a pipeline of students who are excited to pursue STEM careers, and modeling passion is critical to that.
I cannot wait to bring what I've learned this summer, and the passion for science that I stoked, back into the classroom. I'm making sure I don't take it for granted, for I know that being reminded of how it feels to be excited about learning is an experience that every teacher — and every student — can benefit from.
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Obi Chukwu is a teacher at Pitt County Schools Early College High School in North Carolina. | waste so it can be recycled, reducing the amount of waste that is released into the environment.
How will this inform my teaching?
I had forgotten how exciting research is. Seeing the link between what I was doing in the lab and how it could improve the environment was exciting.
Related: Will new standards improve elementary science education?
Since I returned, I've gone back to the drawing board, infusing my classes with inquiry-based approaches to science at every turn.
My students are passionate learners — they always return from summer break excited to talk about their research questions, more than eager to jump back into the lab.
Now, not only can I say that I understand exactly how they feel, but I too can't wait to jump back in with them.
Programs dedicated to STEM — opportunities to fall in love with science through experimentation — become more important every day, not only for students but also | 178 |
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358 Acres of Girl Scouts' Property in Iredell County Protected
Catawba Lands Conservancy and the Girl Scouts, Hornets' Nest Council (Council) are pleased to announce the conservation of more than half of the Council's Dale Earnhardt Environmental Leadership Campus at Oak Springs (Oak Springs) in Iredell County.
A conservation easement now permanently protects 358 acres of the 673-acre Oak Springs property, protecting it forever from future<|fim_middle|>, with the Land Trust for Central North Carolina having conserved 610 acres near Oak Springs and the Allison Woods Foundation working to establish and environmental and historical education facility nearby. | development. Oak Springs is a regional destination for Girl Scouts and provides camp activities and educational experiences for girls from Anson, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Rowan, Stanly, Union and York, SC counties. On average, about 200-300 girls participate in activities there every weekend from March through November.
The easement protects the property's conservation values, while allowing the Council to continue using the property and plan for future expansion. The 358 acres were purchased in part with a $620,000 grant from the North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund, with the remaining value of the property donated to CLC.
"One of our four local program focus areas is Environmental Leadership; conservation of this land furthers our efforts to help girls live part of the Girl Scout law – 'to use resources wisely,'" said Sally Daley, chief executive officer of Girl Scouts, Hornets' Nest Council.
A portion of the protected area is designated a NC State Significant Natural Heritage Site – an area of special biodiversity importance identified by the NC Natural Heritage Program to protect the natural habitat of rare plant and animal species. Four bird and one turtle species listed on the NC State Wildlife Action Plan Priority Species List– the eastern box turtle, northern flicker, red-headed woodpecker, American kestrel and eastern meadowlark – benefit from this high quality habitat for breeding and survival. The area also protects three special status plant species that have experienced commercial collecting and poaching.
The conserved area also provides watershed protection with two miles (10,819 ft) along the South Yadkin River and three miles (15,092 ft) of streams; offers a forested viewshed for local neighborhoods and trail users; and connects people to nature via access to recreation and education activities. A future 2-mile segment of the Carolina Thread Trail will be built, with plans to complete construction by the end of 2013.
"We are extremely pleased to preserve this beautiful and important natural land within an area that is so vital to the educational growth and development for so many young girls within our region," said Tom Okel, executive director for CLC. "Conservation is a gift that keeps on giving. With the addition of the Carolina Thread Trail to this property, so many people will have direct access to this special area to explore, learn and benefit from for generations to come."
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Jesse James Marquez was sentenced on Friday to 33 months in prison for his role in the theft and subsequent sale of 55 firearms from a sporting goods store in Eureka, California, in August 2015. The sentence was imposed by the Honorable Charles R. Breyer, U.S. Senior District Judge.
In a plea agreement, Marquez admitted he cut the power lines to disable the alarm at Pacific Outfitters, located at 1600 Fifth Street, Eureka, California 95501, in the early morning hours of August 8, 2015. He then climbed on the roof and broke through a skylight to gain access to the firearms. He broke into a cabinet containing firearms and then carried 55 handguns out of the store in a backpack, forcing open a roll up door to exit the store. After he stole the guns, Marquez stored them until he was able to sell them.
A number of the stolen firearms have been recovered by police officers in California, Oregon, Georgia and elsewhere, including at the scene of a homicide in Arcata, California in September 2017.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Breyer sentenced Marquez to a 3-year term of supervised release and ordered Marquez to pay restitution to Pacific Outfitters in the amount of $56,600. He has been remanded into custody since entering his guilty plea and will begin serving his sentence immediately.
Assistant United States Attorney Jonathan U. Lee prosecuted this case with the assistance of Kimberley Richardson and Hector Lopez. The prosecution is the result of an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives and the Eureka Police Department.
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Pine League frontman Tyler Aker, right, and guitarist Scottie Feider at this year's Pig Out in the Park.
Kneeling in the grass between Michael "Tambourine Man" Ransford's tight-white-jeaned legs, Tyler Aker rips on a guitar. Even with an awful cold, the Pine League frontman wouldn't miss playing Pig Out in the Park and wouldn't miss making a spectacle.
"Tambourine Man smells really good," Aker says later in the beer garden, between sips of his Bud Light Straw-Ber-Rita.
And that's where this four-piece party rock band succeeds; they're just here to have a damn good time at their shows. They've been playing up a storm this summer, with gigs all over town. They especially love the small venues where fans are in their faces and Aker has the chance to "roll on the ground."
The group is so new that when they played Volume in May, they had just barely decided on a band name. But the veteran Spokane musicians have jelled cohesively, together settling into an entertaining mix of pop rock, punk and even Americana.
To say they get along is an understatement. Aker and guitarist Scottie Feider are roommates, as are bassist Andy Bart and drummer Sam Stoner, who have played together in bands since 1999.
Currently, this is their main band. Bart and Stoner are still part of The Lion Oh My, but since their lead singer left, that project has been in kind of a lull. With Pine League, they all say, there is no drama. Instead<|fim_middle|> song," Feider says with a laugh. "Too bad it isn't ours." | , they talk a lot about professional wrestling and make fun of each other. Sometimes they make music, too.
"Spokane and its music scene is a great place to be based out of right now," says Aker, who moved back to Spokane from Seattle two years ago.
When Aker first came home, everyone he knew was already in a band, so he just played solo. But last year, at a Mootsy's Thanksgiving show, the other guys all realized Aker needed a rock band behind his wailing, soulful vocals. Months later, they finally took action. At first it was just fleshing out Aker's originals, but soon songwriting morphed into a group effort. They even do a slowed-down version of the Pitbull/Ke$ha song "Timber."
"My dad told us that was our best | 171 |
We just got back from the most fun weekend with my family.<|fim_middle|> special place.
After church, we attempted photos in vain, but all is well because my parents offered to watch the kiddos so we could go to lunch with my sister and her husband! It was delightful.
We left mid-afternoon and made it home just in time to watch Mickey's 90th birthday celebration, and I can't imagine a better way to round out the weekend. | We went in to celebrate my nephew's second birthday and my grandmother also celebrated her big day while we were there. We don't make it in as much as we used to, so it was nice getting to visit.
We left Bowling Green after work on Friday, and it seemed to take forever to get there, but we passed the time playing trivia games on our phone. It was a blast! Nonetheless, combine three hours in the car with two kids and a dog PLUS a time change, and you have two delirious parents. That's probably why we enjoyed the Halloween masks so much!
Saturday morning was slow and lazy, just like they should be. After lunch, the ladies took a little shopping trip to Wal-Mart where we ran into this guy. Ellie promptly denounced him as Santa, but was more than happy to have a little photo session before leaving.
Next was dinner with my dad's family before heading to my nephew's party. It's rare for me to get to see my extended family all at one time, so it was nice catching up! After dinner, we celebrated Beau's birthday at the gym my brother-in-law owns. It's the perfect place to let the kids run free and burn off energy. If we lived in town, I would hit him up all the time.
The highlight of the trip may have been Ellie losing her first tooth. The tooth fairy was a total slacker and had to bum movie from the grandparents. Ya'll, they only had a $10, so the payout was BIG. It occurred to me that I should switch it out with a $5 or $1, but mom guilt won.
Sunday morning we joined my parents at church. My dad is the new minister of music, which is where he also served when I was a kid. My grandparents went to church there my whole life, I was saved there and married there, and my dad was ordained there, so it's a | 392 |
Texas A&M running back Trayveon Williams, the SEC's leading rusher this past season, will forgo his senior season and enter April's NFL draft, he announced in a video on Twitter on Thursday.
Williams, a 5-foot-9,<|fim_middle|>men to leave for the draft; tight end Jace Sternberger and outside linebacker Tyrel Dodson have also announced they're leaving. | 200-pound junior from Houston, rushed for 1,760 yards with 18 touchdowns on 271 attempts in 13 games.
"I have decided that it will be best for me and my future to forgo my senior season and enter the NFL draft," Williams said in the video.
Williams is ranked the No. 6 draft-eligible running back by ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr.
Williams helped lead the Aggies to a 9-4 record in coach Jimbo Fisher's first season. He averaged 6.5 yards per carry and 135.4 yards per game, which was tops in the SEC.
Williams ran for more than 100 yards in nine games and more than 200 in three. He had 236 yards with three touchdowns in the Aggies' 52-13 victory over NC State in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl.
Williams is the third Texas A&M underclass | 202 |
The creation of a small claims process for copyright enforcement is the single most important copyright improvement for the small-business creators.
VISUAL ARTS GROUPS APPLAUD RELEASE OF NEW SMALL CLAIMS LEGISLATION (H.R. 2426, S. 1273)
May 1, 2019 – A coalition of visual artists<|fim_middle|> valued at $3,000 or less.
"It's hard to imagine a world that doesn't protect small creators, but that is exactly what we have today," says David Trust, CEO of Professional Photographers of America. "Ironically, it is the same group of creators that can least afford to have their work stolen." Trust is referring to surveys that show many, or most, small creators earning just $35,000 a year on average. "With the CASE Act, smaller creators would finally have an equal seat at the table of protections enjoyed for so long by other creators."
The CASE Act would provide a way for creators to recover damages from an infringement without going to Federal Court. Damages would be capped at $30,000 per proceeding, although expectations are that most of the claims would be valued at much less than that. Proponents of the bill believe the creation of a small claims process is long overdue.
American Society of Media Photographers executive director Tom Kennedy stresses the urgency for a small claims process. "For ASMP members, congressional action on the CASE Act is not an abstract exercise in lawmaking. Photographers we represent are small business owners who depend on licensing income from their photographs to stay solvent as they work long hours without the luxury of lots of staff to make their businesses work smoothly. Yet, unfortunately on a weekly basis, our members experience multiple infringements that deprive them of the income so necessary for business success. That lack of income can be the different for making a mortgage payment or paying a school tuition."
The Graphic Artists Guild strongly supports the introduction of the The CASE Act, establishing a copyright small claims tribunal. "Graphic artists – designers and illustrators – are caught in a zero-sum game when it comes to enforcing their copyrights", says Rebecca Blake, Advocacy Liaison for the Graphic Artists Guild. "Their work is routinely infringed and infringers, knowing that the artists often don't have the means to take an infringement lawsuit to federal court, usually ignore their attempts to revolve the dispute. The CASE Act will provide an affordable, equitable means for graphic artists to enforce their copyright."
"Copyright infringement is a pernicious problem for our members," said Michael P. King, President of the National Press Photographers Association. "Visual journalism is incredibly valuable work that is regularly stolen and circulated on the Internet. Yet visual journalists currently face a long, expensive process to be compensated for the theft of their work. The manner in which infringement persists without a workable remedy is economically devastating for photographers, their clients and their employers. It is our hope that the balanced nature of the CASE Act provides a real solution for photographers and other authors."
"We are so grateful that Congress is taking up the CASE Act," says Cathy Aron, Digital Media Licensing Association executive director. "This legislation is a critical element of copyright reform as it offers the image licensing industry, and others, an alternative to expensive Federal litigation to resolve copyright claims in an affordable manner. An effective copyright system is the bedrock of the licensing community, and an ability to seek real remedies for the garden variety infringements that are pervasive in an online environment, is essential to the licensing industry. We are delighted that all the hard work from many associations, congress people, senators, and advocates is finally paying off."
Having the CASE Act enacted into law would finally provide individual creators with the tools they need to protect their creative works from those who use them without permission or compensation. Enacting the CASE Act would remedy a historic inequity of the copyright system and by giving visual creators the kinds of protections that enables them to continue to create works that impact all of society in a positive way.
Stay tuned for more updates, and Calls to Action as things continue to progress through Congress!
Click here to read H.R.2426
Click here to read S.1273
From the Visual Artists Community
Rebecca Blake, Advocacy Liaison at the Graphic Artists Guild (GAG), says, "Online distribution channels and technologies have facilitated the rampant infringement of visual works, and visual artists have seen their licensing income plummet. And yet small rights holders, such as illustrators, graphic designers, and other visual artists, are often deterred from enforcing their copyrights by the sheer cost of pursuing a copyright infringement claim. The establishment of a small claims system would go far to redress this situation."
James Lorin Silverberg, Legal Counsel for the American Photographic Artists, Inc. (APA) said, "A Copyright Small Claims Court promises to provide authors and content users with an expedient, cost efficient, forum for the resolution of copyright disputes. But the importance of a small claims system is not merely to resolve differences between rights owners and rights users. By making copyrights enforceable in practical terms, it acts to restore the integrity of the copyright system, and copyright licensing models, and it contributes to a more vibrant and healthier intellectual property economy."
Thomas Kennedy, executive director of American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) said, "Implementing a small claims tribunal system within the U.S. Copyright Office is essential to ensure photographers, illustrators, graphic designers and other visual artists are appropriately protected and incentivized to continue producing work that changes how people see their world."
Cathy Aron, Executive Director of the Digital Media Licensing Association (DMLA) said, "Our association supports the creation of a copyright small claims forum to encourage licensing of visual content from legitimate sources. A small claims court should help stem the tide of "right-click" image use as it offers content creators and their representatives a way to effectively enforce copyright and seek appropriate payment. The digital economy needs to work for all participants and this is an essential step forward."
Lisa F. Shaftel, Shaftel & Schmelzer said, "Too often when an infringement is discovered, there is little or nothing a visual creator can do to stop the infringing use or recoup financial damages. Our current copyright laws are virtually unenforceable when damages resulting from infringement would be under $30,000. That's not much to big business, but to self-employed independent contractors and small studios this is a significant loss of income. This relatively 'small-value' infringement happens to nearly every professional illustrator and graphic artist during his or her career, causing economic harm to small businesses and families."
Melissa Lyttle, president of National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), explained the importance of such a measure to photographers. "Photojournalists tell the story of our nation and our world, and their work is a critical piece of our democracy, but rampant infringement has devalued our work and made it increasingly difficult to make a living in this field. A small claims solution has the promise to improve the financial viability of our profession and preserve the ability of journalists to tell stories that would never be told otherwise."
Sean Fitzgerald, president of the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) said, "America's photographers and visual creators are desperate. Today's digital age has unleashed a torrent of 'small' but destructive infringements that are eating away at the value of their work, but the current copyright system is simply not designed to help with such claims. A small claims court designed to give photographers and visual creators a fighting chance at protecting their work and livelihood from infringement is sorely needed and long overdue."
"The harsh reality is that the vast majority of creators in America are currently excluded from copyright protection. A copyright small claims process would finally level the playing field, creating an opportunity to repair a decades-long inequity of our nation's copyright system," said David Trust, CEO of Professional Photographer of America. "This legislation would be the game-changer that we have been working towards for years on the Hill."
All Rights Reserved © Professional Photographers of America — PPA 2018 | , representing hundreds of thousands of mom-and-pop creators in every state across the country is praising U.S. House and Senate sponsors for taking steps to correct a century-old inequity in copyright law. The legislation—introduced today by Congressmen Jeffries, Collins, Nadler, Johnson, Roby, Chu, Cline, Lieu and Fitzpatrick as well as Senators Kennedy, Tillis, Durbin and Hirono, creates a small claims process for creators whose work is infringed. The Copyright Alternative in Small Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act) represents a rare bipartisan, bicameral effort on Capitol Hill.
The CASE Act creates a small claims tribunal operating under the U.S. Copyright Office — a process that will be especially valuable to an estimated 500,000 small creators, including photographers, illustrators, graphic designers, song-writers, independent authors, and others whose only remedy for infringement is to pursue an action in Federal Court. A Federal court action can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring to fruition, while small creators report that most infringements are | 221 |
Political Science and EECS join forces for course
on "Elections and Voting Technology"
"Computer scientists are increasingly seeing systems they work with being involved in socially impactful situations, and voting is one of them. Understanding how engineering work fits into this fuller context is tremendously important for engineering students as they move forward in their careers."
— Ronald Rivest, Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Ensuring that elections are fair and equitable is fundamental to democracy — yet easier said than done, as MIT students discovered this fall in a new class called "Elections and Voting Technology."
Taught jointly by Charles Stewart III, Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science, and Ronald Rivest, Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), the class explored challenges embedded in election systems from both the technical and the political science perspective — providing students with new insights into the complexities of a system many thought they understood.
"I had this idea we could fix voting so easily by using electronic voting machines, but to learn there are huge security concerns was really interesting for me," said Megan Goldberg<|fim_middle|> at the end of the term, both professors and students said the interdisciplinary class had helped them see elections from new angles.
"I think that political science brings in a concern for the particularity of modern elections. Computer science is more involved in abstract data," Rivest said. For that reason, he said, teaching the class jointly proved "an interesting exercise."
Stewart added that "the other interesting thing that comes together in a class like this is that computer scientists are very concerned that a voter can be assured of the accuracy of the count — without trusting anyone — whereas election officials are in a world where at the end of the day you have to trust people."
Sharing and analyzing multiple forms of knowledge and perspective was part of what made this new class offering special. The course — which attracted students from a range of majors — also reflected a burgeoning awareness that many major issues are best addressed by collaborative teams that include experts from the STEM, Humanities, Arts, and Social Science fields.
"This was a great opportunity to learn what other students are doing and also to see across departments that we have common research interests," Goldberg said. "That was probably my favorite thing about this class."
Ronald Rivest
MIT Department of Political Science
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Archive: Making technology safe for democracy
Archive: MIT study aims to shorten election day lines
Course description (listed as both 6.S897 and 17.S952)
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Senior Writer: Kathryn O'Neill
Communications Assistant: Daniel Pritchard
Photocredits: photograph of Charles Stewart by Stuart Darsch
Published 17 January, 2015 | , a PhD student in political science whose research focuses on political behavior.
"You come from the technical side and think you can just throw some standard piece of cryptography at the problem, and then you start to understand all the constraints," said Ben Kraft '15, a mathematics major. For example, votes need to be kept secret while being tracked in such a way that no one can vote twice; the system must be easy to use; and the technology must be robust enough that it will not fail on election day. "You add all of these things together and [the problem] becomes more interesting," Kraft said.
L: Charles Stewart III, Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science
R: Ronald Rivest, Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
"Sharing and analyzing multiple forms of knowledge and perspective was part of what made this new course offering special. The course — which attracted MIT students from a range of majors — reflects a burgeoning awareness that solving many major issues is best done by collaborative teams that include experts from the STEM, Humanities, Arts, and Social Science fields."
Voting Technology Project
The fall class was an outgrowth of Stewart and Rivest's long collaboration on the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, a research and policymaking initiative that emerged following the 2000 presidential election, which was plagued by charges that ballot and voting machine errors had upset results. The class covered many of the challenges presented by modern election systems — from the fairness of redistricting to the readability of ballots to the security of electronic voting.
Guest lecturers added depth by sharing their expertise on a wide variety of topics. For example, Philip B. Stark, chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of California-Berkeley, discussed machine auditing of vote tallies; Dan Wallach, professor of computer science at Rice University, spoke about the design of a new voting system (StarVote) to be used in Travis County, Texas; ballot designer Dana Chisnell explored issues related to usability; and David Jefferson, security researcher at Lawrence Livermore Labs, discussed the risks of voting over the Internet.
Rivest pointed out that classes like this one are useful for future engineers and scientists because they provide a broader context for their work. "Computer scientists are increasingly seeing systems they work with being involved in socially impactful situations, and voting is just one of them," he said. "Understanding how engineering work fits into this fuller context is tremendously important [for engineering students] as they move forward in their careers."
Election day observation
Timed to coincide with the US midterm elections, the class also gave students the chance to see voting in action and to learn just how messy even a rather well-run election can be. Kraft, for example, found that despite all the talk in class about the need for privacy, only about a third of voters he observed in Cambridge bothered to use an envelope to shield their ballots.
Goldberg noted that at the Boston polling site she visited, the ballot box filled up much more quickly than expected. "Massachusetts law suggests you should only empty the box at the end of the day, but I was there two hours and they emptied it twice," she said.
"It's interesting to see how people try to deploy the technologies we're discussing," said Marco Pedroso '14, whose research focuses on election security issues. Noting that this class was very different from his usual M.Eng. classes in EECS, he added, "Political science talks more about implementation."
Evaluating real-world election issues
Indeed, real-world election issues were at the heart of the team projects that wrapped up the class. Inspired by a dispute that arose in Wisconsin in which Republicans claimed that a new ballot would favor Democratic candidates, for example, Goldberg and her teammate, EECS graduate student Alexandra Hsu, compared election results to measure the impact of different design choices.
The pair found no merit to the claim of partisanship but did find an uptick in votes for candidates whose names appeared at the tops of columns. The students are planning to research this matter further during Independent Activities Period.
Other student teams investigated:
· the metrics of gerrymandering;
· Brazil's ballot numbering system;
· how best to determine the margin of victory in a proportional voting system;
· cryptographic techniques for shielding voting data; and
· using an algorithm to draw legislative districts.
Experience in interdisciplinary collaboration
Reflecting on their experience | 899 |
Rise Up, Church!
Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference session open with memorial service.
By Alexx Wood*
The conference sessions of the Northeastern Jurisdiction of The United Methodist Church opened with the Memorial Service and Holy Communion, as hundreds of delegates, volunteers, visitors, episcopal leaders and episcopal candidates gathered for 3 days of worship, fellowship<|fim_middle|> Gooch, laywoman from the Peninsula-Delaware Conference, who died June 12, 2012; David Jasper, clergy from the West Virginia Conference, who died October 24, 2010; Howard Mason, layman from the Peninsula Delaware Conference, who died April 2, 2009; and Susan May, clergy from the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, who died March 1, 2011. Their lives were remembered and celebrated as ones who rose up and served Christ faithfully.
We too, Bishop Weaver asserted, are being invited to rise up this day. As his sermon drew to a close, he reminded us that while we are gathered to do the work of the jurisdiction, "before we get to the election, let us embrace the resurrection."
His words set the context for our approach to the business of the conference – one of being open to God's surprises and to be filled with hope. "Let us choose not the funeral procession in our churches, but let us follow the risen Christ and invite each other – and invite the world – to rise up and follow God into the new day."
For more news from the 2012 Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference, visit www.neumc.org/nej2012.
*Alexx Wood is the Communications Director for the New England Conference.
Bishop Weaver preaches in the opening service | and Holy Conferencing.
Bishop Peter D. Weaver of the New England Conference preached during the opening memorial service, inviting those gathered to "rise" as we entered into Jesus' presence. He emphasized the theme of the Jurisdictional conference of Rise Up: Encounter God with a reading from Luke 7:11-17, the story of Jesus raising the widow's son in the village of Nain. He drew parallels between Nain from the gospel story and this gathering of the jurisdiction in Charleston, WV.
"A crowd of disciples has gathered," just like in the Scripture, and he observed that here too was "a place of great mystery," drawing laughter from the community as he mentioned the mystery of the episcopal election process. But he became serious again, proclaiming to the congregation that just as in Nain, our own jurisdiction is "a place where God is doing something."
He said sometimes the church in the Northeast is seen as a "sleeping giant." But then he raised up signs of the strength and ministries in our Northeastern Jurisdiction; signs that demonstrate that God is indeed doing something right here in our midst.
He acknowledged that indeed there are those places in our communities and in our world that are broken, dead and dying, and that even in our United Methodist Churches there are those that are "sleepwalking in their own funeral processions." But as people of faith, we are called to rise up. "Sleepers, awake!" he exclaimed.
"We don't come together for a funeral," he proclaimed with fervor. "No! We come together knowing that we serve a risen savior; he's in the world today! We come together to rise up and take on a new day and join in what God is doing."
Bishop Weaver then told stories of the surprises and invitations to rise up that had been experienced by some of our departed bishops that were being remembered in this memorial service. He described how Bishop James K. Mathews awoke one day to discover that he had been elected Bishop – when he was not even in attendance at the conference electing him. Rise Up!
Bishop James Ault awoke one morning, looked in the mirror and suddenly realized the significance of the fact that he was just made the dean of Drew Theological School. Rise Up!
Also remembered during the service were delegates to the 2008 Jurisdictional Conference who have entered into eternal glory: Betty | 492 |
In this article, I would like to propose alternate ways of looking at volunteer work, and how these can help our community, our volunteers, and our businesses to grow.
There are several skills a volunteer may pick up at a larp. From leadership to game running and from costume design to writing, there are many valuable learning experiences available.
If you market your volunteer experience as a learning experience, make sure you can actually make learning happen! Firstly, this means that you will not always have the most effective and experienced people on your crew. Although it is tempting to let the volunteer who is a tailor by trade do all the costume fittings, it might benefit the less experienced volunteers if that professional can coach them while they learn how to do it themselves.
Secondly, people do grow more from being told the theory and thought behind the job they are doing. This takes a little more time than it<|fim_middle|> for. It is super important to clearly communicate anything they MUST or MUST NOT do, be it before during or after their volunteer engagement. If there is some kind of reimbursement scheme in place, they should be aware of its requirements. If the reimbursement scheme differs per person or job, this should be known beforehand. It is advisable to have transparency in place, when it comes to reimbursements in order to make sure everyone is reimbursed based on their contribution, and not based on their relationship with the person who decides on the reimbursements.
A well-informed volunteer who consciously signs up to volunteer within a business structure, who is treated well and has all their basic needs met will be more likely to be happy with their experience (Swistak 2017).
This is especially important for specialist volunteers. Volunteers who get brought on board due to a particular set of skills are often put to work on just that one task. It is not uncommon to recruit volunteers foreshadowing an all-round experience, so if you want to bring in a volunteer due to their specialist skills (like sewing or cooking) be communicative about that. Check if your expectations are the same as theirs, and see if you can reach a consensus with them before they get to the location and are taken by surprise.
When working with volunteers and paid employees in one team there might be some friction between these two parties. Where volunteers are usually brought in for a short period of time during a peak period in production they can focus their energy on that serie of tasks. Paid employees are often spending longer periods of time on a project and therefore have less peak moments. Paid employees are often more secure in their skills being up to the desired level needed for the larp and do not necessary need to bring extra time, labor or energy to the table. This difference in approach can lead to friction within a crew and needs to be addressed as soon as noticed by the responsible organizers both with volunteer and paid crew members. After all during the production of the larp they will work as one team.
Part of this friction might be prevented by clearly dividing responsibilities in a way that is visible for both volunteers and paid employees. When dividing tasks both volunteers and paid employees need to be aware of a clear baseline that is established for the task at hand and be made aware of the fact that everything above that baseline is optional and therefore every individual's own responsibility. This might still mean that some volunteers will put a lot of extra work in specific aspects, but it will also mean that they can be pointed at the desired baseline which was reached by the paid employees as well. However, any work above that baseline should be praised and if possible rewarded making it more tempting to put in extra work for all parties involved.
Beside hard work, volunteering is a fun and social activity and can definitely be marketed as such. Don't be afraid to emphasize social activities, free time and amenities the location might have. Designing for fun is definitely a thing when organizing our volunteers' free time, lunch, dinner or social activities. By becoming more aware of these and using these as a tool to build a dedicated and enthusiastic volunteer team, chances are they will return, and next time they might bring a friend.
I think we can conclude that there are several ways of designing the experiences for our volunteers. I have certainly not covered all of the options and I dare anyone to come up with new creative solutions. Just make sure that you know what you have to offer and be honest and clear about communicating it to those people interested in working with you.
I am aware of the fact that designing volunteer experiences is yet another job for an organizer crew who are chiefly concerned with designing the larp. But I strongly believe it pays off in the long run, both through happy (and thus returning) volunteers, as well as in more experienced and better skilled volunteers.
Jones, Katherine C., Sanna Koulu, and Evan Torner. 2016. "Playing at Work." In Larp Politics – Systems, Theory, and Gender in Action, edited by Kaisa Kangas, Mika Loponen, and Jukka Särkijärvi, 125–134. Helsinki: Ropecon ry.
Ryan, Richard M., and Edward L. Deci. 2000. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations: classic definitions and new directions. Contemporary educational psychology 25.1 (2000): 54-67.
Swistak, Agatha. 2017. "Keeping volunteers alive." In Once upon a Nordic Larp… Twenty Years of Playing Stories, edited by Martine Svanerik, Linn Carin Andreassen, Simon Brind, Elin Nilsen, Grethe Sofie Bulterud Strand, 102–105. Oslo: Knutepunkt 2017. | would to just tell them where in the room they need to put every single prop. But it will help fuel their own creativity and understanding of why things are done a certain way.
Thirdly, people learn by making mistakes. When you give responsibility to volunteers who are learning new skills it might mean that it takes a couple of tries to get it right. This costs time but will teach valuable lessons, especially if you take the time to assess the results together with your learners and explain where and how they can improve.
Offering well-tailored learning experiences will benefit the entire larp scene in the long run. You will be contributing to raising a new generation of organizers; be it those coming of age or those bringing larp to new areas of the world. If we invest more in offering our knowledge, skills and experience to others. It might be a little faster to have the job done by someone more experienced, but when learners have completed their learning objective you will have another capable volunteer on your team.
A volunteer spends a certain number of hours before or after the game on tasks either from home or on location. When the game starts the volunteer is no longer considered a volunteer but is treated as a player.
A volunteer does a certain number of shifts during the game (for example npc or tavern work.) Outside of those scheduled tasks, the volunteer is treated as a player.
Off course a combination of these two is also possible.
Volunteering as an alternative to paying can make a volunteer feel included in a community where he or she would otherwise not be able to participate. The emphasis lies on providing a player experience as a reward for the volunteer work done. This is a classic case of providing extrinsic motivation; behavior that is driven by external rewards such as money, fame, grades, and praise (Ryan, and Deci 2000) and especially the first type is very similar to a paid player experience.
The second type relies on a similar extrinsic motivation but still requires the volunteer to step out of their player experience in order to do some work. It is suggested that labor which is in conflict with the experience a player desires or expects from the larp may make the event less rewarding (Jones, Koulu, and Torner 2016, 125-134) This is especially relevant for larps with a high level of secrecy. In many cases volunteer work before or during the larp might take away some of the games secrets and surprises, in practise this might heavily impact the player experience. It is therefore important to negotiate the volunteers' tasks and time in order to reach a balance between the work done and the reward received. In many cases, it is also reasonable to sign a contract between volunteer and organiser containing the amount of work (in tasks and/or hours) and the reward applicable.
This case differs drastically from the one above in the fact that the volunteer participates as a full-time crew member, and does not get the same experience as a player at any point during the game. In this case, the volunteer is a part of the design- or production team community but most often serves as an npc or practical helper during the game.
When this is done, it may cause confusion as to the role of volunteers during the game. Are they there to be solely in service of the game and its players, or are their experiences completely their own in the same way as the players?
In this case, clear communication before sign-up is key. It saves a lot of problems on location and before the larp if all parties involved know what is expected of them. When marketing these type of volunteer experiences, it is key to emphasize the differences between the volunteer and player experience. But a lot can be won by emphasizing the similarities as well!
When volunteers are recruited to commercial production companies, they are sometimes held to the standard of the paid crewmembers. They do however hold a different position on the status ladder of a larp organization, and need to be treated differently.
It is completely fair to have expectations of your volunteers, if they know what they signed up | 828 |
Japan Map - Road Map of Japan
Description: Detailed clear large road map of Japan with road routes from cities to towns, road intersections to provinces and perfectures.
Japan Facts and Country Information...
Situated in the Far East the archipelago of Japan is<|fim_middle|>o is an exception with its subtropical climate. Typhoons can sweep the country during September or October.
Physical Map of Japan
Physical map and map image of Japan.
Political Map of Japan
Political map and map image of Japan. | separated from the Asian mainland by the sea and split in four main islands: Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku. The capital is Tokyo and the official language Japanese.
Most of the country is covered with hills and mountains, a few of which are still active or dormant volcanoes, notably Mount Fuji the highest in the country rising to 3,776 m above sea level. The costal line is very long and varied, with deeply indented bays and natural harbors with the backdrop of mountains. Japan is composed of thousands of islands of magnificent natural beauty, with the lavender farms of the isle of Hokkaido in the north and the subtropical beaches of Okinawa in the south.
Japan is also a blend of cultural traditions of the past and modern high technology of the future. Tokyo, the capital as well as Osaka and Sapporo are packed with modern skyscrapers and high-tech gadgets, while the rural villages such as Kyoto and Nara offer century-old Japanese culture and sites, with temples, shrines, splendid rock gardens, community festivals and traditional food.
Other sites not to miss are Miyajima, near Hiroshima, a beautiful island famous for the red Shinto tori gateway, which seems to float during high tide. Here one may visit the Itsukushima Shrine, the tame deer, and the cable car up the central mountain for panoramic views.
The climate is temperate with warm to hot summers from June to September and mild weather during spring and autumn. June and July is the rainy season. Hokkaid | 324 |
A chase gun (or chaser), usually distinguished as bow chaser and stern chaser, was a cannon mounted in the bow (aiming forward) or stern (aiming backward) of a sailing ship. They were used to attempt to slow down an enemy ship either chasing (pursuing) or being<|fim_middle|> to a high art, and chases frequently lasted for hours or sometimes days, as each crew fine-tuned their sails to take advantage of small variations in the wind. Chase guns of this era were commonly made of brass rather than iron, as this improved their accuracy. A single lucky shot could cut through a critical line, or cause a sail to split if the wind was strong, so if the ships were within range the best gunners on each would use their chasers to make carefully aimed and timed shots at the other. Despite this, most chase guns were of limited accuracy even when aiming at the sizeable target of an enemy ship's rigging. In one eighteenth-century example, a British crew fired seventy-two shots from their vessels' bow chasers before hitting the sails of a fleeing enemy craft.
By the late eighteenth century, Royal Navy crews were progressively being trained in the use of artillery in chases. The cannons themselves were also modified to maximise their effectiveness as chase guns, including reshaping of their gun carriages to allow for greater elevation and longer range. From 1799 Royal Navy frigates were universally supplied with two bow and two stern chasers, as these were the vessels most likely to be engaged in the pursuit of fleeing enemies.
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Naval artillery | chased, when the ship's broadside could not be brought to bear. Typically, the chasers were used to attempt to damage the rigging and thereby cause the target to lose performance.
Bow chasers could be regular guns brought up from the gundeck and aimed through specially cut-out ports on either side of the bowsprit, or dedicated weapons made with an unusually long bore and a relatively light ball, and mounted in the bow. Stern chasers could also be improvised, or left permanently in the cabins at the stern, covered up and used as part of the furniture.
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Today is the fourth birthday of Rudyard, Desmond, and Oscar. It's also a week after Jer and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary. We decided a cruise to Alaska was in order for the 15th, and figured it might be nice to get away after the boys' birthday.
It's always a bit of emotional whiplash to go through the birthday and the grief that comes with that and then go back to work the next day as if nothing has happened. Or more likely, you go back to work and of course everyone knows what just happened because you insist on living your life in such an open, LOOK AT MY GRIEF! way, and the truly wonderful and kind people you work with want to say something, or try to, but they feel nervous and don't know what to say, and you don't have the emotional availability to make it okay, so you just smile awkwardly at each other, and know that there is love between you, which is really all that matters anyway. If you're exhausted just after reading that never ending sentence, welcome to a day in the life of navigating grief.
But this year we're all spared the day after dance, and Jer and I get to see some beautiful, soul-restoring nature and have some much needed time alone together before facing the usual day to day. It's especially needed this year because unfortunately, just because you've been dealt what feels like an enormous life hit, it doesn't spare<|fim_middle|>'t be a birthday wind up, if I didn't end it with a song. This one's as much for me and Jer as it is for the boys. Where will we be tomorrow? What will we see? Well, hopefully, this time tomorrow we'll be on a ship sailing across an empty sea, with the boys tucked deep in our hearts, as always. We're outta here, folks. Wish us luck. | you from other hits, like infertility and miscarriage. A lot more grief comes with that, and then that grief triggers the volcano of grief from the loss of your sons, and pretty soon you're screaming "OH MY GOD!!!" at the top of your lungs because a candle falls on the ground. It's a scene, people. We need Alaska like yesterday.
I thought to mix it up, I'd quickly highlight four ways you can contribute to good in the world, in honor of the boys' fourth birthday. These ideas are brought to you by their fabulous aunties (by blood and bond), who always find a way to remember them through donations to various causes that they feel the boys would be proud to represent. How amazing is that? Truly, our friends and family who have remembered and loved and grieved our boys with us have brought more healing to our lives than anything else. A heartfelt Thank You to all of you.
First up, we have an organization called Trades of Hope. This group helps woman artisans out of difficult circumstances by manufacturing and distributing their goods. It's fun too, because you get to shop, not just donate!
Next, consider Lucky Iron Fish. This is a group that is challenging iron deficiency in developing countries, most specifically in Cambodia. Fish shaped iron pieces are distributed to families, that need only to add it to their cooking pots to get 75% of their daily iron needs for up to five years. Check out the video below. It's an amazing start up that can use support!
Every Mother Counts is another wonderful organization to support. One woman dies every two minutes from complications during pregnancy and childbirth. 98% of these deaths are preventable and Every Mother Counts is dedicated to doing just that.
Finally, a group near and dear to my heart, Farm Sanctuary, specifically the California shelter. The New York shelter is where I became a vegan, but the California shelter is where I went when I was pregnant with the boys. I just love it there.
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Aaron Oppenheim - Labor / Leisure
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Full Spectrum's long-time friend, Aaron Oppenheim, who now graces us with a pair of new works, 'Labor' and 'Leisure,' which we are pleased to present in tandem as two sides of a singular artistic vision.
Intended as a tribute to the budget "two-in-one" mega cassette editions of years past, which would compile a pair of a given artist's older albums into a single, budget-friendly release featuring an entire album per side, Oppenheim sought to play to one of the few bright spots he sees in the resurgence of the cassette format. "I frankly don't really understand why people like cassettes," he explains, "they sound bad, are pretty fragile, the art is very small, decent cassette decks are hard to come by and have to be maintained. If I'm releasing on cassette I want it to make sense for the format and one of the major advantages to cassettes is you can stick a ton of music on them."
Primarily recorded over the past two years at Oppenheim's studio – the same space that Andrew Weathers used when he was based in Oakland, California<|fim_middle|> – 'Labor / Leisure' documents at length a stark divergence from his previous laptop-based works. Where his debut focused on sample manipulation and heavy DSP processing, these new zones stand rooted in raw synthesis and hardware explorations, leaning hard into the Behringer Neutron, Yamaha TX81Z, and a small selection of outboard effects.
Hewn from several hours' worth of session recordings and overdubs, the end result is a pair of complementary albums, each around 45 minutes in length, with distinctive characters of their own. 'Labor' is darker and could be considered more in line with noise aesthetics, the more experimental of the two; while 'Leisure,' on the other hand, exudes a lighter atmosphere that is perhaps more accessible and pretty. The dual nature of this material functions as a meditation on the opaque nature of art practice and how it bridges the divide between hobby, play, and work, as well as the artist's obligations to themselves versus their audience.
Leisure by Aaron Oppenheim | and still working from the desk he left behind, one of those small details of community resonance that we love to see throughout our label catalog | 27 |
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This is a file on the family background of three members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The first two are sisters: Cecilia Macrae and Florence Kennedy, daughters of Samuel and Mary Laing. The third is GD member Agnes Cathcart, née Baxter, who was a first cousin of theirs.
My basic sources for any of my GD member biographies are in a section at the end of the file. Supplementary sources for this particular member are listed at the end of each section. However, a lot of the information on the siblings of Cecilia and Florence has been sent to me by a family historian, someone who has married a descendant of one of them. Many, many thanks to this person, who wishes to remain anonymous as his or her researches have stirred up quite enough trouble in the family already!
THE COMMON ANCESTOR: SAMUEL LAING OF PAPDALE
Records of the Laing family in Orkney go back to James V's time but I'm only going to start with Samuel Laing (1780-1868), known as 'of Papdale', the family home he inherited in 1818, to differentiate him from his son, who had the same name. He was grandfather of all three GD members.
Samuel Laing of Papdale had a varied career: he served in the army in the years just before the Peninsular War; he managed various businesses owned by relatives. Back on Orkney he made a fortune from the kelp industry and helped developed Orkney's herring industry; before losing a lot of the money he had made, trying to establish himself in politics. He's best known now for his last careers, as a travel writer and commentator on the European political and social scene; and as translator of the Icelandic sagas of Snorri Sturluson.
Samuel Laing of Papdale married Agnes Kelly in 1809. They had two children: Elizabeth Dorothy, mother of Agnes Cathcart; and Samuel, father of Cecilia Macrae and Florence Kennedy. Agnes née Kelly died in 1812 and her sister Mary came to manage the household and act as mother to the children.
Samuel Laing of Papdale travelled a great deal in Europe at different times in his life. He spent 1799-1801 in Germany, learning the language well and establishing a connection with Germany and German culture that his son's family continued, at least to the 1880s. His time in the army took him to Portugal and Gibraltar. In the early 1830s he stayed in several different places in France and Germany so that daughter Elizabeth could learn both languages. In the mid-1830s, he was living in Norway; where he began his saga translations. After his son had graduated from university, they travelled around Europe together.
Samuel Laing of Papdale began work on an autobiography. He got as far as 1856 but it was left unfinished when he had a severe stroke. Its final paragraph recorded the marriage of his grand-daughter, future GD member Agnes Baxter, to Robert Cathcart of Pitcairlie. Samuel Laing spent his last years living in Edinburgh with his daughter Elizabeth Dorothy Baxter. He died at her house, 4 Lynedoch Place Edinburgh, on 23 April 1868.
I've drawn heavily on the book and online article below - both by R P Fereday:
The Autobiography of Samuel Laing of Papdale 1780-1868 edited and with supplementary information by R P Fereday. Bellavista Publications 2000. Dedicated to the group of local residents who saved Papdale House from being knocked down and used for road-making in the 1960s. Fereday says that there are very few records in Orkney on the Laing family. He was using a manuscript copy of Samuel Laing of Papdale's autobiography, owned by Molly Somerset, a descendant of Cecilia and Florence's elder sister Mary Eliza, who married Edward Kennard.
Seen at www.ssns.org.uk: Samuel Laing of Papdale Orkney: A Kelp-Laird's Political Ambitions 1824-1834 by R P Fereday.
Some of Samuel Laing of Papdale's publications, found in the British Library catalogue:
1836 Journal of a Residence in Norway in the Years 1834, 1835, 1836. London. BL has later editions of this.
1839 A Tour in Sweden. London.
1842 Notes of a Traveller on the Social and Political State of France etc. London. BL also has later editions of this.
1844 The Heimskringla; or Chronicle of the Kings of Norway. Volume 2. SLP as translator from Icelandic of Snorri Sturluson. I didn't see volume 1; maybe the BL doesn't have a copy.
1850 Observations of the Social and Political State of the European People 1848, 1849. Longman Brown Green and Longmans
1852 Observations on the Social and Political State of Denmark. London.
1899 The Heimskringla... Volume 3. 2nd edition London: John C Nim<|fim_middle|>, near where Mary Eliza Kennard may already have been living. Agnes' husband Charles French died in East Leamington in 1929; and Agnes died at Thornbridge, 42 Kenilworth Road Leamington Spa in June 1933.
Sources: freebmd; censuses 1881-1911 - she doesn't appear on any of them in UK; probate registry 1929, 1933.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has nothing on Agnes' husband but in volume 20 p973 there's a short entry for a Robert French 1716-79, landowner in Galway; member of a family of Anglo-Norman origins.
Geneal and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage Burke 1868 pp305-07.
Geneal and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry Burke 1871 p784 Charles French's mother Emily Eleanora Wilhelmina Leslie; only surviving child and heiress of Charles Albert Leslie of Ballybay county Monaghan.
Familysearch Ireland-EASy GS film number 255953: Charles Albert Leslie son of Charles Albert Leslie French and Agnes Laing French. Baptised 24 February 1876 at Kildare Ireland. At www.monchique.com information, though without sources, saying that he he married Idonea Mary Mina daughter of Jocelyn Henry Watkins Thomas.
Familysearch Ireland-ODM GS film number 256022 re b of Cecil Francis French on 7 March 1879 in Dublin.
On Cecil French and his art collection:
Familysearch tax assessment lists: Cecil Francis French living in the St George Hanover Square district 1911 and several years previously.
Website //artuk.org has a few details of his career.
RA Contributors 1769-1904 volume 3 Eadie to Harroden p169 one work only by Cecil French, exhibited 1902.
RA Exhibitors 1905-70 volume 3 E-HAR has no entry for him at all.
Website www.britishmuseum.org has the most detailed information. Works that he had owned are now at the William Morris Gallery, Guildhall Art Gallery, Leamington Art Gallery and the Watts Gallery Guildford, amongst others.
THERESA LAING, registered at birth as Theresa Margaret but at her marriages as Theresa Uzielli. 1855-1943.
Theresa, the youngest of the five Laing sisters, made two very wealthy marriages.
The first took place on the same day her eldest sister Cecilia married Charles Colin Macrae; in July 1877. Theresa married Arthur Byass, whose father had made a fortune as a partner in the Gonzalez Byass sherry importing firm. Arthur's elder brother Robert Byass ran the firm after their father's retirement in 1870; but Arthur also had a substantial stake in it.
Theresa and Arthur had two daughters: May (born 1878) and Kathleen (born 1881). Both Theresa and Arthur were keen on hunting (keen is probably understating it). In the years after they were first married they hunted with the Duke of Grafton's pack. On census day 1881 they were at their house at The Mount, Chandos Road Buckingham, where Samuel Laing was visiting them and their daughters. To serve the four of them plus their visitor the Byasses employed a housekeeper, lady's maid, nurse and nursemaid, two housemaids, a kitchen maid, two scullery maids and a footman; and for the horses, two grooms, two stable boys and two other stable staff.
By census day 1891 the Byasses had moved to North Hall, Norton near Daventry in Northamptonshire. There, the stable staff had their own household. Employed in the main house were a butler, two footmen, a cook, a lady's maid, three housemaids, a dairy maid, two laundry maids, two kitchen maids, and a scullery maid. A man called Walter Faber, who described himself as a brewer from Northampton, was visiting them on census day.
The Byasses had probably moved into Northamptonshire to be nearer the Pytchley Hunt. On genesreunited I could see some references over the next few years to Arthur, Theresa and their daughters attending the Hunt's social functions. Theresa's daughters got married on the same day in 1904. May married James Sidney Mason; they were living in Market Harborough on census day 1911 with their son. Kathleen married Douglas Knyvett Courage; he died in 1920 and I think she married again.
Arthur Byass died suddenly, in the spring of 1910. By census day 1911 Theresa had left North Hall and moved nearer her daughter May, to Bosworth House, Husband's Bosworth near Market Harborough. She had scaled down her household a little, to just five servants.
Theresa Byass married for the second time in 1915 and I think her husband may have been the man who was visiting her and Arthur on census day 1891: Walter Vadasour Faber. Walter Faber died at Thornby House, Thornby Northamptonshire in 1928.
Theresa Faber herself died in Scotland in August 1943, leaving personal estate alone of £487,640/13/2. Kathleen, wife of George Graham Middleton was one of her executors; I take it this is Theresa's daughter Kathleen.
Sources: census 1881-1911; probate registry 1910, 1929, 1943.
Gonzalez Byass:
See its wikipedia page and its own web pages as gonzalezbyassuk.com
Investors' Chronicle 8 January 1870 p37: announcement that the two partners in the firm will be taking their sons - including Arthur Byass - into partnership; and that the firm will now be known as Gonzalez Byass and Co.
The Statist: A Journal of Practical Finance and Trade volume 39 1897 p652 issue of 24 April 1897 has a list of the current major shareholders in the firm, and the estimated value of their shareholdings. The single largest shareholding was that of Robert N Byass £159,090; Arthur Byass had £55000; B W Kennard and others to sum of £130,000, the 'others' possibly including members of the Laing family.
Royal Blue Book: Fashionable Directory and Parliamentary Guide 1908 p700 has a business address or flat in London for Arthur Byass at 25 Jermyn Street.
On Arthur Byass:
Web pages www.bayanne.info is the Northern Isles Family History site; information on Arthur Byass is included by virtue of his marriage to Theresa Laing.
Marriage announcement: Shetland Times 14 July 1877.
Hark Away: Sketches of Hunting, Coaching, Fishing etc by Frederick Feild Whitehurst. Tinsley Brothers 1879 p49, p316.
Times Thurs 26 May 1910 p1 and again Fri 27 May p1: short death notice for Arthur Byass.
HENRY RUDOLPH the youngest of the Laing children. 1858-1941.
Henry was the only one of Samuel Laing's sons who had a career in investment. He and his friend Fletcher H G Cruickshank founded the stock-broking firm Laing and Cruickshank in 1882. Later, Cecilia Macrae's son Frank Laing Macrae joined the firm.
It is likely that the rest of the family didn't know about the most important relationship in Henry's life for many years after it began; for a very Victorian reason – the woman in question was from several rungs further down the long ladder of 19th-century social class. Bridget Maria Barnard was born in Great Amwell in Hertfordshire in 1855. Her father, James, had moved to Hertford by 1871 and was running a clothing shop there. On the day of the 1871 census, James and his wife Elizabeth had nine children living at home, aged from 18 years to 7 months: Bridget was the third of the six girls; and there were three boys. Victorian social mores made it very difficult for a Henry Laing to meet a Bridget Barnard on anything other than an employer/servant basis, and perhaps that's how the relationship began. It had developed, however, by census day 1881, a day on which Henry was at home with his mother: in December 1881, Bridget gave birth to their only child, a daughter, Florence Maude.
The relationship continued through the 1880s. Henry and Bridget may have been able to live more openly as a couple when they were able to spend time at a house Henry had at Costello in Galway, but were more discreet when they were in London. Maybe Henry was waiting for the right moment to tell his parents? Or – worse – for them to die so that he could make the relationship with Bridget public, and legitimise his daughter, without shocking them. After 12 or more years, however, the right moment had still not arrived and Henry's patience ran out: he and Bridget got married in a registry-office in February 1893. In the next few years they moved several times around the Sloane Street/Belgravia district, funded by some killings Henry was making on the stock market. They settled into 5 Cadogan Gardens Chelsea, in 1902.
In 1906 Florence Maude married Collingwood Ingram, grandson of Herbert Ingram, founder of the Illustrated London News. By this time both Bridget and Florence Maude were accepted by some at least of Henry's siblings: some went to the wedding and more gave gifts – especially of jewellery – to the bride. The wedding reception was held at 5 Cadogan Gardens, with Bridget as hostess.
There's a wiki on Collingwood Ingram who was an ornithologist and plant collector, an authority on the Japanese flowering cherry, and creator of the well-known garden at The Grange Benenden. Two of Florence and Collingwood's children - Ivor Laing Ingram and Mervyn Jeffrey Ingram - were staying with Henry and Bridget on the day of the 1911 census, while their parents were in Leicestershire for the foxhunting. Bridget was coordinating two sets of servants that day: a cook, two footmen, two housemaids and a lady's maid probably worked for the Laings; and the Ingrams had lent the Laings a nurse and a children's maid while their sons were in residence.
As the adverts' small print tells us – share values can go down as well as up. Henry seems to have lost his touch with shares – or his interest in them - in the years before World War 1 and began to lose money rather than make it. Though he was still listed as a director as late as 1927, he had stopped being involved in Laing and Cruickshank on a daily basis many years before. He and Bridget moved to Mundesley in Norfolk. Henry was left an annuity by his elder brother Malcolm when Malcolm died in 1917 and that may have been his major source of income through the 1920s and 1930s. Malcolm also left him the Laing family properties in Orkney, but these were sold to their tenants in 1919. Henry died in January 1941, while staying with the Ingrams at The Grange; Bridget had died in 1935.
Sources: census 1901, 1911; probate registry 1936, 1941.
City of London: The History by David Kynaston. 2012. In chapter Playing the Game p113. Apparently Laing and Cruickshank were on their way to a poker game when they decided to go into the stock-broking business together.
Laing and Cruickshank: the First Eighty Years by R F Pearson and A D B Smith. Printed privately, published 1968.
The Directory of Directors 1927 p902.
Bridget Maria Barnard: Familysearch England-ODM GS film number 104 2051 IT 2; census 1871-1891. Birth certificate 1882 of Florence Maude Barnard. Probate Registry 1936.
Marriage certificate of Henry Rudoph Laing and Bridget Maria Barnard. I'm not sure how many of either family were in attendance: neither of the witnesses look as though they are related to the bride and groom. Although you can understand why Bridget might have entered into an unmarried relationship with a man rich enough to keep her in comfort, she might still have been cast off by her family.
There's coverage of Florence Maude and Collingwood's wedding in the Lady's Pictorial issue of 27 October 1906 p657. The Lady's Pictorial was owned by the Ingram family.
Wiki on Collingwood Ingram. He also collected netsuke; his collection is now in the British Museum.
BASIC SOURCES I USED for all Golden Dawn members.
Membership of the Golden Dawn: The Golden Dawn Companion by R A Gilbert. Northampton: The Aquarian Press 1986. Between pages 125 and 175, Gilbert lists the names, initiation dates and addresses of all those people who became members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn or its many daughter Orders between 1888 and 1914. The list is based on the Golden Dawn's administrative records and its Members' Roll - the large piece of parchment on which all new members signed their name at their initiation. All this information had been inherited by Gilbert but it's now in the Freemasons' Library at the United Grand Lodge of England building on Great Queen Street Covent Garden. Please note, though, that the records of the Amen-Ra Temple in Edinburgh were destroyed in 1900/01. I have recently (July 2014) discovered that some records of the Horus Temple at Bradford have survived, though most have not; however those that have survived are not yet accessible to the public.
For the history of the GD during the 1890s I usually use Ellic Howe's The Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order 1887-1923. Published Routledge and Kegan Paul 1972. Foreword by Gerald Yorke. Howe is a historian of printing rather than of magic; he also makes no claims to be a magician himself, or even an occultist. He has no axe to grind.
Family history: freebmd; ancestry.co.uk (census and probate); findmypast.co.uk; familysearch; Burke's Peerage and Baronetage; Burke's Landed Gentry; Armorial Families; thepeerage.com; and a wide variety of family trees on the web.
Famous-people sources: mostly about men, of course, but very useful even for the female members of GD. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Who Was Who. Times Digital Archive.
Useful source for business and legal information: London Gazette and its Scottish counterpart Edinburgh Gazette. Now easy to find (with the right search information) on the web.
For the GD members who were freemasons, the membership database of the United Grand Lodge of England is now available via Ancestry: it gives the date of the freemason's first initiation; and the craft lodges he was a member of.
To take careers in craft freemasonry further, the website of the the Freemasons' Library is a good resource: //freemasonry.london.museum. Its catalogue has very detailed entries and the website has all sorts of other resources.
You can get from the pages to a database of freemasons' newspapers and magazines, digitised to 1900. You can also reach that directly at www.masonicperiodicals.org.
Wikipedia; Google; Google Books - my three best resources. I also used other web pages, but with some caution, as - from the historian's point of view - they vary in quality a great deal.
Copyright SALLY DAVIS
Find the web pages of Roger Wright and Sally Davis, including my list of people initiated into the Order of the Golden Dawn between 1888 and 1901, at:
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ELIZABETH DOROTHY BAXTER née LAING, the elder child of Samuel Laing of Papdale, and Alice née Kelly.
Samuel Laing of Papdale's daughter married Henry Baxter of Idvies in two separate ceremonies in March 1834, one in Edinburgh and one at Kirkwall in Orkney. The marriage pleased her father: the Baxter family of Dundee was wealthy, and both families were Whig/Liberal in politics.
Henry Baxter had graduated from Edinburgh University in 1817 and qualified as an advocate; during the 1830s he also acted as a Church of Scotland Commissioner. He had succeeded to his father's estate at Idvies in 1833.
Elizabeth and Henry had two daughters, Agnes and Mary, before Henry died in August 1837. After his death Elizabeth, Agnes and Mary lived not at Idvies but at a house called Bangholm Bower until 1844 when they moved into Edinburgh so that the two girls could go to school. Both daughters inherited money from the Baxter family: their grandfather noted that they had £30,000 each as a marriage portion.
The Autobiography of Samuel Laing of Papdale 1780-1868 edited and with supplementary information by R P Fereday. Bellavista Publications 2000.
Henry Baxter and his family:
The Faculty of Advocates in Scotland 1532-1943 published 1944 by the Faculty: p11.
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland p1031 Henry Baxter as representative of Forfar in 1834.
Familysearch:
Scotland-ODM GS film number 1066694: marriage of Henry Baxter to Elizabeth Dorothy Laing 9 March 1834 in Edinburgh.
Scotland-ODM GS film number 990505: marriage of Henry Baxter to Elizabeth Dorothy Laing 20 March 1834 at Kirkwall, Orkney.
Via www.genesreunited.co.uk to the Perth Courier of 3 April 1834: marriage announcement.
SAMUEL LAING 1812-97
Samuel Laing, father of Cecilia and Florence, was the younger child of Samuel Laing of Papdale and his wife Agnes née Kelly. He was born in Edinburgh on 12 December 1812. After some time at grammar school in Houghton-le-Spring, and lessons with a private tutor, Samuel went to St John's College Cambridge in 1827, graduating as second wrangler in 1831 and being elected a fellow in 1834. While he was training as a barrister, he also worked in Cambridge giving maths coaching. He was called to the bar in 1837, at Lincoln's Inn. Although he described himself to the 1851 census official as a barrister, he was also the managing director of a railway company by that stage and his business involvement was always more important than his legal practice.
After a short period travelling in Europe with his father, Samuel Laing went to work as private secretary to the president of the Board of Trade, Henry Labouchere. In 1842 he moved within the Board of Trade to become secretary to its railway department, the start of fifty years of involvement in the law and finance of railways, and of investment in railways and other new technologies. In 1844 he persuaded the Liberal government to have a clause in their Railway Act forcing companies to have third-class carriages with fares no higher than 1 penny per mile. It led to a huge rise in the number of people using the railways, from which the British economy as a whole and Samuel Laing personally both benefited. After a few months in 1860 as financial secretary to the Treasury, he was sent to India by the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, to take charge of its finances; he was in India from 1860 to 1862, or possibly as far as 1865 (my sources differed on that point). During the period there was a great turnover of men at the top in India, that Samuel Laing will have had to deal with: Viscount Canning was governor-general until March 1862; he was replaced by the Earl of Elgin who was in charge until November 1863; for the next two months two men did the job temporarily before Sir John Lawrence took office in January 1864.
Samuel Laing was an MP; for Wick from 1852 to 1857, 1859-60 and 1865-68; and then for Orkney and Shetland 1873-85.
The railway company Samuel Laing was associated with for longest was the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway; he was made chairman of the Company in 1848, stepped down when sent to India, and took the helm again in 1866, staying in charge until 1894. In 1852, he and his deputy-chairman, both living in the Sydenham area, helped set up the company that moved the crystal palace from its original 1851 exhibition site in Hyde Park, and built a railway so that people could travel easily from London to see it at its new, Crystal Palace home. He was also a director of the Great Eastern Railway Company, at least in the 1860s; the General Credit and Finance Co, at least in the 1880s; the Railway Share Trust Ltd; and the Railway Debenture Trust Ltd.
It was inevitable that Samuel Laing's involvement with railways should bring him into contact with Robert William Kennard. R W Kennard was a member of the banking family, partners in Denison, Heywood and Kennard, but he didn't work for the bank himself. He invested in railways and also in two works (at Falkirk and Blaenavon) that supplied high quality iron and steel for the building of railways. The Laing and Kennard families were friendly by the 1860s and became family when the Laings' daughter Mary Eliza married the Kennards' son Edward in 1870. A new company was formed in 1879 to run Blaenavon iron and steel works - the latest in a series of companies known as Blaenavon Company Limited. Samuel Laing was an investor in it and became its first chairman; later his shares passed to other members of his family, and his son-in-law Charles Colin Macrae was a director.
Samuel Laing's investments were not confined to railways. In the late 1850s he put money into firms laying cables for telegraphs. Through these companies he will have known Ernest Bunsen, John Molesworth and John A M Pinniger; relations of all three of those men later joined the GD. He was also on the board of Scottish Widows Mutual Life; and on the management committee of the Royal Scottish Corporation, of Fetter Lane.
Scaling down his business and political involvement in the mid-1880s Samuel Laing began to write more. Most of his publications up to that time had been short works, often printed editions of lectures or contributions to particular political debates. The books published in the last decade of his life tackled different issues. He had long been one of the Rationalists - not an official society, more a loose group of people (the men are the ones whose names are known) committed to scientific enquiry and to bringing new approaches to old problems. Samuel Laing may have been the eldest of this association of like-minded thinkers. Thomas Henry Huxley was an important, vocal member with a very high public profile. Huxley's one-time student, Edwin Ray Lankester, was the most prominent of the next generation. Lankester in his turn taught the likes of H G Wells... and so on. With more time on his hands, Samuel Laing began to publish the results of many years of discussions with this group.
His publications included three pamphlets on Ireland and two works arguing for agnosticism. His book Problems of the Future (published in 1889) contained essays on a range of subjects from astronomy to finance. The essay on mesmerism showed that he had read some at least of the recent publications on the subject; but he was not convinced that its effects were genuine. In the essay on spiritualism he admitted to having gone to one seance in his life, but said that he had left it with no desire to go further into the subject. Spiritualist phenomena seemed to him to be too easy to fake, and he was critical of scientists like William Crookes (a GD member) and Alfred Russell Wallace for believing so easily that the dead are communicating with us.
Samuel Laing had always had an interest in evolution and the origins of Man - hence, probably, his friendship with T H Huxley. In 1866, back from India and spending the summer at Stromness with his family, he took part in an archaeological dig, in which human remains were found, and what sound like some grave goods. He published an account of the dig at the time, including in it some notes on the human remains by Huxley. In the late 1880s Laing went into the question further, publishing two works which put into lay terms the latest scientific thinking on the origins of Homo sapiens.
Many of the ideas Samuel Laing was expressing in these later books were controversial - when looking through the British Library catalogue I came across several pamphlets issued as angry ripostes to them. After Samuel Laing's death, several were re-issued in cheap, mass editions by the Rationalist Press Association. A book on the history of the RPA suggests that Samuel Laing may have put money into the RPA. It did have a number of wealthy backers including Huxley, Herbert Spencer and Leslie Stephen (father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell), all identifying themselves as agnostics.
Samuel Laing died at his home in Sydenham on 6 August 1897. His personal wealth at his death was £96000-and-odd; using the formulas on website www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare, that equates to £65 million in modern terms.
The Autobiography of Samuel Laing of Papdale 1780-1868 edited and with supplementary information by R P Fereday. Bellavista Publications 2000. Dedicated to the group which saved Papdale House from being knocked down and used for road-making in the 1960s.
Oxford DNB volume 32 p229.
Alumni Cantabrigiensis seen via google where volume numbers aren't given; p77
Wikipedia for a list of governor-generals and then viceroys of India.
The archaeological dig: Times Fri 31 August 1866 p7 quoting a report originally in the Orkney Herald.
In business, taking 1867 as an example year:
Some of the many appearances of Samuel Laing in the business columns of the Times that year. I was looking at 1867 to see if Cecilia Laing appeared in the Social Columns at all: she was of an age to be making her debut. However, the Laings don't seem to have bothered with a court presentation for her.
Times Sat 5 January 1867 p3f notice from Scottish Widows' Fund; Samuel Laing MP as a member of its London honorary board.
Times Wed 13 February 1867 p10 Money Markets and City Intelligence: Samuel Laing elected a director, and deputy chairman, of the Great Eastern Railway Company.
Times Wed 26 June 1867 p10 Railway News. A reference to Samuel Laing as chief negotiator in the attempt to merge the London Brighton and South Coast Railway with the South Eastern Railway.
Blaenavon iron and steel works:
History of Technology vol 11 by Norman Smith pubd 2016 and already up on google: section cldn see p numbers The Kennards and the Crumlin Viaduct. Crumlin Viaduct was blt by the Kennards. Rise of Kennard family began 18th cent w John Kennard who ran a bank in Lombard St. Robert William Kennard was John K's 2nd son ((perhaps the first is the John Peirse Kennard mentioned above)): 1800-70, ironmaster, railway financier ((he must know Laing)), partner in Denison, Heywood and Kennard later the Consolidated Bank. RWK got into railways 1830s when he invested ((big time)) in iron-smelting: he bought Falkirk Ironworks and Blaenavon Ironworks which made high-qual wrought iron. Supplied ironwork f railways. He also had a depot at 67 Upper Thames Street. He was a director of Northern and Eastern railway and other railways.
In South Wales Coal Annual 1907 p105 a ref to the current Blaenavon Company Ltd having been formed in 1879 w Samuel Laing as its first chairman.
Stock Exchange Yearbook 1882 p247 lists the current directors of the Blaenavon Company Ltd: Samuel Laing who is chairman; J Brand; A C Kennard; H J Kennard. E F Quilter; W Smith; Capt F Pavy.
Investment in early cable-laying and telegraph companies: in a biography of John Watkins Brett, seen at
//atlantic-cable.com which is a History of the Atlantic Cable and Undersea Communications. Written by Steven Roberts. Samuel Laing was on its board by 1857, by which time it was the largest telegraph company in Britain. Its other directors at that time were John Watkins Brett;
Arthur Anderson chairman of P&O; and Lord de Mauley. In 1853 Brett had set up a company to undertake cable-laying for the French government. Directors of this were Samuel Laing; Ernest Bunsen (a relation by marriage of GD member Albertina Herbert); John Molesworth (a relative of GD member Hilton Molesworth); and Napoleon III's brother, the Comte de Mornay.
Solicitor for John Watkins Brett in his various enterprises was John A M Pinniger, father of GD member George Cope. John Pinniger changed the family surname to Cope in order to inherit an estate in Ireland.
Moving the crystal palace to Sydenham:
Website www.foresthillsociety.com doesn't give sources but is a lcl hist group. A/c put on website 2004 re Crystal Palace High Level Line blt to bring pp from London to area after the crystal palace itself was moved there. Co formed 1851 w 9 directors, 4 of whom lived in the area incl Samuel Laing who had moved there in 1847; and Leo Shuster of Penge Place who was deputy chair of the London Brighton and S Cst Railway at the time, succ as its chairman when SL retd 1855.
And others: Debrett's HofC and the Judical (sic) Bench 1884 p110 lists SL as ((currently)) a dir of the Lo/Br/S Cst; Genl Credit and Finance Co; and of the Sydenham Crystal Palace Co.
Times Wed 1 December 1897 p10d.
See wikipedia for more on Thomas Henry Huxley and Sir Edwin Ray Lankester. They were both much younger than Samuel Laing: Huxley was 1825-1895 and Lankester was 1847-1929.
Some of Samuel Laing's publications are in the British Library catalogue although the BL seems to be lacking some first editions: of The Modern Zoroastrian (1887); and of Modern Science and Modern Thought (1889).
1849 Railway Taxation. Westminster: Vacher and Sons.
1855 Vindiciae Palmerstonenses. By Vindex [Samuel Laing]. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black.
1862 Lecture on the Indo-European Languages and Races. Calcutta: no details of the publisher.
1866 Pre-Historic Remains of Caithness...with Notes on the Human Remains by T H Huxley. London: Williams and Norgate.
?1885 Agnosticism and Christianity. A Lay Sermon. London: Watts and Co.
1886 A Sporting Quixote. London: Chapman and Hall. Perhaps this is a novel.
1886 Irish Land and Home Rule. London: National Press Agency.
1887 A Visit to Bodyke; or the Real Meaning of Irish Evictions. London: Irish Press Agency.
1888 Coercion in Ireland. London: National Press Agency.
1888 The Modern Zoroastrian. London: no details of the publisher. BL also has a revised edition 1904 London: Watts and Co.
1890 The Antiquity of Man. A Paper. Brighton: Southern Publishing Co.
?1890 An Agnostic View of the Bible. Issued for the Propagandist Press Committee. London: Watts and Co.
1891 Modern Science and Modern Thought. London: Chapman and Hall. BL also has a revised edition 1903.
1905 Problems of the Future. Revised edition London: Watts and Co. I didn't spot the original issue.
1909 Human Origins. London: Watts and Co.
A hostile review of Samuel Laing's Problems of the Future:
Light: A Journl of Psychical Occult and Mystical Research volume IX January-December 1889. London: Eclectic Publishing Co Ltd of 2 Duke St Adelphi. Issue no 466 Sat 7 December 1889 p584 review by "M.A.I.": Mr Samuel Laing on Spiritualism.
The Rationalist Press Association:
Blasphemy Depot: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association by Bill Cooke. An official history, published by the RPA 2003.
Death and funeral:
Times Sat 7 August 1897 p1b death notices.
Times Wed 11 August 1897 p8a the Court Circular page: an account of the funeral. A lot of acquaintances were out of town for the summer; amongst those who sent apologies for being unable to attend was Baron Rothschild.
There was nothing in Times about his Will but there was coverage of it in The Railway News volume 68 1897 p442.
THE COWANS OF ORKNEY
Samuel Laing, father of Cecilia and Florence, married Mary Dickson Cowan in August 1840. Though the marriage took place in Paddington, both families were from Orkney and had known each other for generations. From Samuel Laing of Papdale's autobiography it looks as though Samuel and Mary were also distantly related by marriage: the autobiography mentions an Isabel Laing (born 1735) who married a Captain Cowan.
Mary Dickson Cowan was the daughter of Captain Malcolm Cowan RN (1788-1833) and his wife Elizabeth Degraves of Edinburgh. Malcolm and Elizabeth married in Marylebone in 1807 and always lived in London - Elizabeth was still living there in 1851. They had four sons and Mary, the only girl and middle child, born in 1819.
At www.bayanne.info/Shetland/ the Shetland Family History database: family history information on Malcolm Cowan and Elizabeth Degraves.
At www.tandfonline.com there's an article Captain Cowan's Sails: pp181-186, by Y M Capper, a descendant of Malcolm and Elizabeth Cowan. It gives details of Captain Cowan's naval career and his design (1805) for a sail that was easier to reef.
At discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk at Public Record Office; General Office of the Admiralty Accountant General. File reference ADM 45/2/495 is an application from Malcolm Cowan's executors for money owed to him by Navy at his death which had taken place on 1 March 1833.
SAMUEL AND MARY LAING AND FAMILY
They had the typical mid-Victorian family: large, and with several children who died young:
- Samuel born 1843 died 1870
- Malcolm born 1846
- Robert probably born late 1847/early 1848; died before 1861, probably 1858
- Cecilia Mary Bruce the future GD member, born 1848
- Mary Eliza born 1850
- Agnes born 1851
- Florence Elizabeth the future GD member born 1853
- Francis Kelly born 1854 died 1874
- Theresa Margaret later always given as Theresa Uzielli, born 1855
- Henry Rudolph born 1858.
Samuel Laing and Mary lived in a number of different places during their married life; depending on the season, whether Parliament was in session, and presumably other factors as well. They continued to live in the Brighton area until the 1890s, off and on. They also rented houses in Sydenham from the 1840s to the 1890s, though they were never at home in Sydenham on census day. From time to time they also had houses in central London.
Samuel and Mary Laing were in Brighton on census day 1851, at 37 Montpellier Crescent, and the list of people in their household that day also shows two other characteristics of their life: wealth - as indicated by the number and type of servants they employed; and visitors - they were a very hospitable couple! Their visitor in 1851 was a Scottish woman, Miss Elizabeth Traill, aged 27. There were no men on the Laings' household staff at this stage in the century; instead, in addition to the cook and one housemaid, they had a nurse an under-nurse, a sick nurse and a wet nurse, to look after Mary and five children aged four or under - Malcolm, Robert, Cecilia, Mary Eliza, and Agnes who had been born less than a month before. The eldest child, Samuel, was also at home.
On the day of the 1861 census, Samuel Laing was in Calcutta. Mary Cowan Laing and her household were in Edinburgh that day and Mary may have chosen to live in Scotland throughout her husband's tour of duty in India. Mary Cowan Laing's older sons were away on census day but Cecilia, Mary Eliza, Agnes, Florence and Theresa, and the younger boys Francis and Henry were all at home. Also listed was Sabine Reigammer, aged 34 and born in Kirkwall Orkney. Her relationship to Mary as head of the household is a bit of a puzzle - she is listed as a sister, but Mary did not have a sister and Samuel had only the one, Elizabeth Baxter; so I'm not sure who she is. Mary Laing was keeping house with five female servants; they must have included a cook and one or more housemaids and probably a nurse, though the tasks of each servant are not specified.
On census day 1871 Samuel and Mary Laing were back in Brighton at 1 Eastern Terrace, Kemp Town. The changes to the family over the last decade had been great. Some of the children had married; one was away visiting; some had set up their own households; and the eldest had died a few months before, leaving a widow and posthumous child. However, Samuel and Mary's son Francis and their daughters Agnes, Florence and Theresa were at home, and they also had three visitors, Edith Boulderston, Ann Heartley and a man incorrectly written down as Marmaduke B Sampston - Sampson is the correct spelling. Marmaduke Sampson was someone Samuel Laing knew through his business connections: employed at the Bank of England for a while, from 1846 to 1871 he worked for the Times newspaper, probably as a financial correspondent, and was also consul general in London for the states of Argentina and Bolivia. He was on the committee which raised the money for the London Homoeopathic Hospital; through that committee he will have met Mr Rosher and Dr Charles C Tuckey, whose sons later joined the GD.
The servants in the Laing household on census day 1871 were indicative of how wealthy the Laings now were. Samuel and Mary now employed three men - a butler, a footman and a page; male servants cost a lot more than female ones however skilled and experienced. Another step up in financial and social terms was the presence of a ladies' maid. There was also a cook, a housemaid, a kitchen maid and a scullery maid.
On census day 1881 Samuel Laing was in Buckingham, visiting his daughter Theresa and her husband Arthur Byass. Mary was at the Laings' house in London - 5 Cambridge Gate Regent's Park - with Henry Rudolph, now working as a stockbroker. Though the number of family members living at home was at its lowest for several decades, the Laings still had a staff of eight: butler, footman, cook, lady's maid, two housemaids, kitchen maid and scullery maid.
By 1891 Samuel Laing was as retired as he was prepared to be, though he still described himself as working as the chairman of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway - a fact the census official was probably well aware of, as the conversation was taking place in 9 Brunswick Terrace, Hove. He and Mary were still housekeeping on a lavish scale, employing seven servants to look after the pair of them.
When Samuel died, in August 1897, he and Mary were at their house in Sydenham. Mary went to live with her eldest daughter, GD member Cecilia Macrae, after she was widowed, and died in 1902.
Sources: census 1851-91.
Marmaduke Sampson:
Because of his connection with homoeopathy, he's on Sue Young's web pages: sueyounghistories.com. She says of him that on money matters he had more influence than Queen Victoria.
Probate Registry 1876.
THE OTHER LAINGS - siblings of Cecilia and Florence; and first cousins of Agnes Cathcart. I include short notes on them because I found the family interesting. Only Cecilia and Florence Laing joined the GD.
SAMUEL LAING, the eldest child. 1843-1870
After going to Harrow School, Samuel was the only son of Samuel and Mary Laing to follow his father to Cambridge University. He started at his father's old college, St John's, but later transferred to Trinity College. He graduated in law in 1865. He trained as a barrister at the Inner Temple and was called to the bar in November 1866.
In August 1869 he married Martha, daughter of Thomas W Riddel Webster. He died in the spring of 1870, aged 26, a few months before his only child - another Samuel Laing - was born. Ironically, given the views of his grandfather, Samuel Laing born 1870 became a Church of England clergyman.
Alumni Cantabrigiensis seen via google so I don't know the volume number, but p77 of that volume.
MALCOLM LAING 1846-1918
Malcolm followed his elder brother Samuel to Harrow. He then went to Sandhurst military college, where was an outstanding student, coming first in his class of 1864. He joined the 14th Hussars in 1865 as an ensign but had no real interest in a military career and retired from active service in 1870, having only reached the level of Captain. In such a wealthy family, he had no need to work for money and doesn't seem to have done so after 1870. He inherited his father's estates on Orkney and from 1892 was the Lord Lieutenant of Orkney and Shetland, but that's an unpaid post. Like his sisters Mary Eliza and Theresa, he was primarily a sportsman; though he didn't share their interest in hunting, preferring horse racing, shooting and fishing.
He wasn't in the UK for the censuses of 1881 and 1891 but by 1901 he was living at 18 Queen Street, just north of Piccadilly. His was a bachelor household, with just a cook/housekeeper and one general servant; but perhaps he was not at home very often. Like most of the other Laings, he was not in the UK on census day 1911.
Malcolm never married. After some months of illness, he died at his house in Queen Street Mayfair, in December 1917. He left legacies to some of his servants and to his nephews. He left the property in Orkney to his younger brother Henry Rudolph, who also received an annuity of £500 per year.
Sources: censuses 1881-1911; probate registry 1918; Who Was Who volume 2 p600. Will and one Codicil of Malcolm Laing, details sent by the Laing family historian. The Codicil was prepared in August 1917 when Malcolm was in the Northern Nursing Home at Aberdeen; it was witnessed by his brother-in-law Charles Colin Macrae.
MARY ELIZA LAING 1850-1936
I've mentioned in my account of Samuel Laing that his daughter Mary Eliza Laing married Edward Kennard. The marriage took place in 1870. Edward Kennard was the youngest son of Robert William Kennard (1800-1870), financier, investor in railways and owner of iron and steel works in Falkirk and Blaenavon. After R W Kennard's death, Samuel Laing invested in the Blaenavon works and the two families ran the works between them until about the 1920s, with Cecilia Laing's husband Charles Colin Macrae succeeding to Samuel Laing's share; and Edward Kennard and his older brothers succeeding to R W Kennard's share.
Mary Eliza and her youngest sister Theresa shared a passion for hunting; a passion not shared by the sisters who joined the GD, Cecilia and Florence. Edward Kennard was also a hunting fanatic and by 1891 he and Mary Eliza had a country house at The Barn, Little Bowden near Market Harborough, in the excellent hunting country of Leicestershire.
Edward Kennard died in the summer of 1910.
Mary Eliza and Edward Kennard had two sons, Lionel Edward (born 1872); and Malcolm Alfred (born 1876) who was best man at the wedding of Cecilia and Charles Colin Macrae's son Frank, in 1910. Neither of the sons went into the Kennard family businesses. Lionel Edward joined the army, and Malcolm Alfred the navy. They both died before their mother, possibly as a consequence of serving through the first World War. Lionel Edward died in December 1919; and Malcolm Alfred in 1934. In 1910 Malcolm Alfred married the gloriously-named Favoretta Walterina Ingram, daughter of Walter Herbert Ingram (1855-88). Her father had died before she was born, supposedly as a result of tangling with a cursed Egyptian mummy – he had been trampled to death during an elephant hunt. The Kennards and the Ingrams were already related by marriage – see Henry Rudolph Laing, below.
Mary Eliza was the only child of Samuel Laing to have any writing published. Charles Godfrey Leland, who met the Laings in 1870, described her as a "sporting" novelist. As 'Mrs Edward Kennard' she wrote four books, all published in the late 1880s, in Canada.
Mary Eliza died in Leamington in 1936, leaving personal estate of £56409/0/7. Samuel Laing of Papdale's biography was eventually inherited by her descendant (or possibly descendant-in-law) Molly Kennard.
Sources: census 1891, 1911; probate registry 1910, 1919, 1934 1936.
History of Technology volume 11 by Norman Smith published 2016. I read this via google and couldn't see the page numbers. For other information on the Blaenavon works, see the section on Samuel Laing.
I was told the story of Favoretta Walterina Ingram by the Laing family historian. But see www.britishempire.co.uk for an online account. Walter Herbert Ingram was a son of the founder of the Illustrated London News.
Mary Eliza as author. The British Library only has her books in microfilm versions. They were all published in Toronto by the National Publishing Company. The dates of publication are uncertain.
?1888 A Crack County
?1888 The Girl in the Brown Habit
?1889 Matron or Maid
?1889 Landing a Prize: A Novel
Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland "(Hans Breitman)". 2 volumes. London: William Heinemann 1893. Volume 2 p261 which covers the Lelands' visit to Brighton in August 1870, just after Mary Eliza was married. I don't think the Lelands met Mary Eliza, they just heard of her by repute.
AGNES LAING 1851-1933
Agnes is the odd Laing out. She married Charles Albert Leslie Attila French in 1873. Charles French's family owned land in Galway and the estate of Ballybay in Monaghan, and Agnes spent most of the rest of her life in Ireland. Agnes and Charles had two sons, a second Charles Albert Leslie French (born 1876); and Cecil Francis French (born 1879). The younger Charles Albert Leslie French joined the British army and was stationed at Aldershot in 1901. Cecil Francis French trained as an artist at the Royal Academy and at von Herkomer's School in Bushey. However, he exhibited very few works and is better known now as a collector of Pre-Raphaelite art at a time when few people were interested in it. After his death (in 1952), items he had saved from oblivion were distributed amongst the major Pre-Raphaelite art collections.
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Prince had been touring and recording right up until his death, releasing four albums in the last 18 months, including two on the Tidal streaming service last year. He performed in Atlanta last week as part of his "Piano and a Microphone" tour, a stripped-down show that has featured a mix of his hits like "Purple Rain" or "Little Red Corvette," and some B-sides from his extensive library.
Prince debuted the intimate format at his Paisley Park studios in January, treating fans to a performance that was personal and both playful and emotional at times.
Ever surprising, he announced on stage in New York City last month that he was writing his memoir. "The Beautiful Ones" was expected to be released in the fall of 2017 by publishing house Spiegel & Grau.
A small group of fans quickly gathered in the rain Thursday outside Paisley Park, his home and music studio, where Prince's gold records are on the walls and the purple motorcycle he rode in his 1984 breakout movie, "Purple Rain," is on display. The sprawling white, stone building is surrounded by a fence in Chanhassen, about 20 miles southwest of Minneapolis.
Moody and Italie reported from New York. Associated Press writers David Bauder in New York, Paul Newberry in Atlanta, and Steve Karnowski in Chanhassen also contributed to this report. | .
In 2004, Prince was inducted into the Rock and Roll of Fame, which hailed him as a musical and social trailblazer.
Music was in his blood. Prince's father played in a jazz band in Minneapolis, under the name "Prince Rogers," and his mother was the singer. The precocious young Prince taught himself to play the piano at age 7, the guitar at 13 and the drums at 14. In 1978, the year he turned 20, Prince debuted with the album "For You." It was a declaration, if nothing else, that he could do anything: He wrote and sang the material, and served as his own one-man band on guitar, bass, drums, synthesizers, chimes and assorted other instruments.
Rarely lacking in confidence, Prince effortlessly absorbed the music of others and made it sound like Prince, whether the James Brown guitar riff on "Kiss" or the Beatle-esque, psychedelic pop of "Raspberry Beret." He also proved a source of hits for others, from Sinead O | 225 |
It's time for another challenge over at A Gem of a Challenge,<|fim_middle|> your stick pin,, I make my own too!
What a beautiful bright card, it would surely brghten anyones day. Thanks for joining us over at Frosted Designs.
Beautiful card, I love the multi coloured heart and gorgeous bow.
Thanks for joining us at TRr this week!
This is stunning Shea. I love the image, fabulous colouring and gorgeous detailing.
Beautiful! Love the floral heart and colorful stick pin! Thanks for joining TRR!
Gorgeous card. Love flower heart image and your colouring sooooo juicy )) Beautiful pin touch.
Many thanks for joining us at Oldie but a Goodie` "In the Garden" Challenge and we hope to see you again. | and this week (Challenge #88) the theme is "Spots or Stripes (or both)." This challenge will run from 8:00 AM July 13, to 6:00 PM July 19, and the prize for the winner will be 2 individual digi images (NOT SETS) from Pink Gem Designs. So do head on over and see what the rest of the lovely Design Team have created, then join us, won't you? We'd love to see you!
My project today uses several items from the PGD store, starting with the striped and dotted digi papers. They have been discontinued but have been replaced with so many lovely new digi papers that you really owe it to yourself to check them out. The stamps are Flower Heart and one from the Vintage Occasions Sentiment set. I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut both stamps out after printing.
I colored the heart with chalks and then added Perfect Pearls in their centers. I haven't used my Perfect Pearls in ages - for most of them this was the first time, and it turns out I was able to use every single color I have!
I used one of my handmade stick pins with a little added charm and put it through the hand dyed seam binding bow. I didn't have any pink striped baker's twine, so I colored that myself too.
Some stitching, vintage lace and a few more pearls finish things off.
Thank you so much for joining me today and I wish you a lovely Saturday doing the things YOU want to do, be it crafting, spending time with the family, or both! And don't forget to visit us at A Gem of a Challenge and play along.
Wow! Gorgeous card, Shea! Very pretty heart with all those flowers! Love the handmade stick pin, too! It gives the perfect finishing touch!
Your card is beautiful so much gorgeous details and fabulous colours.
Sigh!! So beautiful, Shea! I so love your pretty stick pins!
Shea - Oh this is just lovely -you are a very creative crafter! My goodness - look at those lovely flowers and the layout -very lovely!
Amazing job! Thanks for joining us for the Oozak Challenge!
Gorgeous card. Very pretty heart and beautiful pin . Thanks for joining us at Divas by Design this week.
Oh wow this is just so beautiful. Love the pretty colouring of the heart and the bow with the hat pin is a nice creative touch.
This is so Beautiful Shea you did an amazing job! I love it.
stunning card! Thanks for joining us at FD for the Ribbon, twine, washi tape challenge!
Wonderful card! Love the stamped image! Great details! Thanks for joining us for the Simon Says Stamp Challenge!
Thanks for playing along with Frosted Designs for our Ribbon, Twine & Washi Tape Challenge! Love | 589 |
Menkes Breaks Ground on Waterfront Innovation Centre on Toronto Waterfront
Menkes Developments Ltd.
Sep 20, 2018, 17:18 ET
Construction Start Marks Further Growth in the Emerging Waterfront Innovation Corridor
TORONTO, Sept. 20, 2018 /CNW/ - Menkes Developments Ltd. ("Menkes"), in partnership with Alcion Ventures, today broke ground on the Waterfront Innovation Centre – a new landmark office building on the Toronto waterfront.
The groundbreaking marks the first construction milestone of a 400,000 square foot complex designed by world-renowned architects Sweeny & Co, which will be comprised of two buildings, with three distinct but interconnected components: The Exchange, The Hive, and The Nexus, a space that will serve as a public square and directly connect the two buildings.
Located in East Bayfront, adjacent to Canada's Sugar Beach, the Waterfront Innovation Centre anchors Toronto's surging innovation cluster on the eastern waterfront, representing the next evolution in workplace design that helps reinvent how today's workforce collaborates in the city's burgeoning creative and technology sectors.
Today's milestone represents another step in the revitalization of Toronto's Waterfront. The complex will not only drive economic development with the creation of nearly 3,000 jobs, but also help to shape East Bayfront into a beautiful new neighbourhood where people can live, work and play.
"This state-of-the-art office building will establish East Bayfront as the City's newest innovation corridor," said Peter Menkes, President of the Commercial / Industrial Division of Menkes. "We're proud to offer a building that is purpose-built to foster innovation and collaboration, and also meet the growing demand for more adaptable work spaces. We are so pleased to have WPP, a global leader in communications as<|fim_middle|> office tower and the two million square foot One York commercial retail complex. The company's latest project Sugar Wharf is a proposed waterfront community on an 11.5 acre site in downtown Toronto, which will be anchored by a new two-acre park. For more information about Menkes, please visit menkes.com and follow us @MenkesLife.
About Waterfront Toronto
The Governments of Canada and Ontario and the City of Toronto created Waterfront Toronto to oversee and lead the renewal of Toronto's waterfront. Public accessibility, design excellence, sustainable development, economic development and fiscal sustainability are the key drivers of waterfront revitalization. Toronto's new waterfront communities will use technology to enhance quality of life and create economic opportunity for the citizens of Toronto, helping to keep the city competitive with major urban centres around the world for business, jobs and talent.
About Alcion
Founded in 2005, Alcion Ventures is a real estate investment manager with extensive experience generating risk-adjusted returns for institutional investors through the active repositioning of assets across property types. Alcion's senior team have worked together for almost two decades resulting in a disciplined, thesis-driven investment strategy that leverages a deep network of relationships and targets seven major North American cities. Based in Boston, Alcion invests on behalf of major U.S. and international institutional investors including public and private pensions, endowment and foundations and high net worth individuals. For more information, please visit www.alcionventures.com.
SOURCE Menkes Developments Ltd.
For further information: Jamie Okorofsky, Menkes Developments, Tel: 647-252-1952, Email: [email protected]; Meghan Hogan, Waterfront Toronto, Tel: 416-214-1344 x276 Email: [email protected]
Menkes Developments Ltd. is an award-winning, fully integrated real estate company involved in the construction, ownership and management of office, industrial, retail and residential properties. Founded in 1954, the company is one of the largest private developers in... | the building's anchor tenant, and we're confident that this world-class complex will continue to attract a multitude of innovative, forward-thinking companies."
The project builds on design excellence of Menkes' recent notable office towers including another waterfront office building, One York Street in Toronto's South Core.
The Waterfront Innovation Centre will include: cutting-edge building automation controls, under-floor air distribution, direct/indirect LED lighting, a high-performance curtain-wall system, and occupancy/daylight sensors. Floor-to-ceiling glass will allow for maximum natural light penetration as well as spectacular views. The building will also generate power via a rooftop photovoltaic solar array.
The building has been conceived with the objective of achieving the highest standards in environmental sustainability by striving for LEED Gold (v4) certification. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ("LEED") is an internationally-accepted rating system that recognizes excellence in the design, construction and operation of green buildings.
"The Waterfront Innovation Centre is the workplace of the future, supporting Waterfront Toronto's mandate to make Toronto's waterfront synonymous with innovation," said Helen Burstyn, Chair of the Board, Waterfront Toronto. "We're thrilled to celebrate this milestone occasion with Menkes, as it demonstrates how we're providing the enabling conditions and infrastructure to attract private sector development that catalyzes the business and job growth necessary to make our Toronto and Ontario more competitive on a global scale."
Expected occupancy is 2021.
About Menkes
Menkes Developments Ltd. is an award-winning, fully integrated real estate company involved in the construction, ownership and management of office, industrial, retail and residential properties. Founded in 1954, the company is one of the largest private developers in Canada, with a primary focus in the Greater Toronto Area. Menkes is known for its innovative, multi-disciplinary approach and particularly for its expertise in large-scale, mixed-use development. Past projects include the Empress Walk entertainment, shopping and residential complex in North York City Centre, and two landmark projects in Toronto's South Core district, 25 York (TELUS House) | 423 |
We believe, God loves family; values the individual, and calls people from all walks of life to be restored in relationship with Jesus and each other. We are passionate about experiencing and spreading the Love of God in Bray. We pray that our community becomes a safe place for people to grow, both individually and together as a body; so that God's love is reflected through us in everyday life. There are lots of ways for you to connect, be a part, or get to know our church family. We are located in the heart of Bray, just off the main<|fim_middle|> is a nice little cove on the Bray seafront that has been frequented on more than a few occasions in recent years... Go for it, the old is gone the new is here! | street and opposite The Royal hotel. Send an email and get in touch, if you want to connect or be connected, just let us know or get in touch with us.
We regularly enjoy baptisms at Cornerstone. As long as you are brave enough to do it in the Irish sea! Kyle and the team are happy to walk you through the process and there | 73 |
Corescan is pleased to announce its involvement with Barrick's Alturas gold project located in the El Indio district of Chile.
Barrick recently announced exploration success at this large, high-sulfidation, epithermal gold deposit. Corescan was contacted to provide detailed mineralogical information that was able to advance Barrick's alteration knowledge and improve their geological modelling of the deposit.
Corescan provided an onsite laboratory at Barrick's remote exploration camp<|fim_middle|> Global Exploration, Rob Krcmarov praised the implementation of Corescan's technology at Alturas and credited the technology with "producing truly sophisticated mineral maps and models", and providing fundamental knowledge on mineralization vectors and underlying geology (R. Krcmarov, Mineweb.com, 17June2015). | in the high Andes (due east of La Serena), which operated throughout the 2014-15 field season.
Core was scanned immediately following drilling and prior to cutting, with real-time processing delivering mineralogical maps directly to the site geologists as an integrated, automated, core-logging solution. Core photography (50micron) and mineralogical imagery were made available via satellite link from site to Barrick's global exploration team via Corescan's virtual core library (www.coreshed.com).
In a recent interview with Mineweb.com, Barrick's SVP of | 123 |
The mission at Augsburg College is to educate students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders. This goal is supported by an engaged academic community that is committed to intentional diversity in its life and work.
Augsburg College takes seriously the view that it has a responsibility to serve its neighbors and that responsibility is at the core of the way it educates students. U.S. News & World Report listed Augsburg as one of the top 25 schools in the country for service-learning.
Augsburg College, guided by the values of the Lutheran church, strives to educate students at the intersection of faith<|fim_middle|> classmates. | , learning, and service. Its urban setting, longstanding tradition of community involvement, and commitment to develop students who are informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders make the college a natural leader among its peers in service-learning.
The three-year-old Bonner program offers an unusual opportunity for students to engage in a long-term policy program. Some of the projects addressed low-income housing, community health outreach, and financial literacy; the students also helped establish a free clothing exchange and ran an employment education computer lab. The program has become so valued that community organizations seek to form partnerships with the college. The more than 13,000 service hours invested by students, faculty, and staff through the Bonner program is an indication of how valuable it is to them.
The school is in the Minneapolis neighborhood of Cedar Riverside, a traditional port of entry for new immigrants. It is home to a diverse population, including a large number of residents originally from East Africa. Augsburg students and staff hosted a kitchen shower to provide supplies to the East African Women's Center, which had fallen on hard times. When the center needed child care assistance, Augsburg's Early Childhood Program provided student volunteers, and when it needed extra staffing, three Bonner program participants and many service-learning students were provided. Much of the college's community involvement takes place in course-embedded service-learning a deliberate incorporation of experiential education, service-learning, and civic engagement.
To directly address the projected shortage of workers in the fields of health care and science, Augsburg has developed two service-learning projects: Girls in Engineering, Mathematics, and Science (GEMS) and Guys in Science and Engineering (GISE), in which fourth- to eighth-grade girls and boys from public schools participate in summer programs focused on math, science, technology, and engineering. Through this program, the young people (and their mentors) develop confidence in and a positive attitude toward these subjects. How can a young person not love learning when the subject is taught through classes such as Roller Coaster Physics, Robotics, Stomp, and Soccer?
Early evidence shows a dramatic increase in testing scores, especially among African-American female students, who are almost twice as likely to pass graduation tests as their nonparticipating | 455 |
About Joe: For the past fifty years, Joe has shot professionally for clients from Coca Cola to Hennessy, Cessna to United Air Lines and Boeing, and from Microsoft to IBM and HP. He has shot the full line car brochures for Acura, Saturn, and<|fim_middle|>. | Range Rover, not to mention campaigns for Acura, Jaguar, Mazda, and Ford. The tourism departments for Alberta, Canada, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Texas have contracted Joe to shoot images for their state campaigns. Joe spent his early years shooting for AP, UPI, and was a Black Star photographer. Over the years, National Geographic, Life, Texas Monthly, Time, Geo, Newsweek, and the New York Times Magazine have used Joe for several of their editorial assignments. Teaching people how to use their artistic eye has always been one of Joe's passions, and he's conducted his personal workshops around the world and also with organizations including: The Maine Media Workshop (twenty-seven years), The Santa Fe Workshop, The Julia Dean Workshop in Hollywood, The South Florida Workshop, The Pacific Northwest School of Art on Whidbey Island, The Texas Photographic Workshop, Objectif's, a photographic organization in Singapore, and The Houston Center for Photography. Joe has also conducted continuing education classes at Rice University. Click Here to learn more about Joe.
About the Workshop: Chasing the Light. Photography comes from the Greek word "Writing with Light." Light is the crucial element in photography and understanding how it behaves, its gesture, and the factors that influence it are essential. Knowing where to stand in relation to the light source, when to stand there, and how long you have to stand there is imperative when trying to create great images; the effects of light makes or breaks the shot. Chasing the light, waiting for it, and finally capturing it is a constant preoccupation. And for some like Joe, an obsession.
In this workshop we will study Joe's approach to light in what he refers to as "Four Part Harmony": Hue, Intensity, Direction, and Quality. We will study its profound effect on what Joe refers to as "The Artist Palette", replacing the aged piece of wood covered in pigments with the basic elements of visual design (Texture, Pattern, Shape, Form, Line, and Color) and composition. Light, in one way or another, will affect all these elements and whenever possible it should be evaluated first, even before composition.
How we perceive and process visual input is a part of our everyday life. As photographers, it's our prime objective to present this visual information in a way that takes control of what the viewer sees when they look at our photography. Light is the best instrument to do just that. After working and shooting together side by side with Joe, you will walk away with a much greater command of light; no matter your skill level. At the end of the workshop, you will be at a higher level of visual perception and have a redesigned portfolio to show off your new skills.
Following is the agenda. As with all of Joe's workshops, shooting locations will be scouted in advance and locations/times may be changed.
Thursday 9/26/2019, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Meet & Greet and first critique. Workshop participants will submit 4 images for Joe's comments and recommendations. Lawrence Library, Pepperell, MA Art Gallery.
Morning class and critiquing of photos from Friday's shoot. Lawrence Library, Pepperell, MA Art Gallery.
Class and critiquing of photos. Lawrence Library, Pepperell, MA Art Gallery.
Camera Gear: DLSR cameras with interchangeable lenses are recommended. Tripods will be needed for the sunset and sunrise shoots.
Non-shooters: non-shooters are welcome to join us on the photo walks to Boston, Lowell, and Rockport but without a camera. Smartphone cameras are ok. Non-shooters must be over 18 and accompanying a registered workshop participant. Non-shooters will not be able to attend the class and critique sessions. The fee is $100 and includes the Wednesday presentation | 784 |
1954 Jaguar XK120 Roadster
The Jaguar XK1<|fim_middle|> been fastidiously maintained by its previous owner who bought the car in 1995. Finished in the beautiful colour combination of silver over red leather interior, it is offered with full weather equipment in very good condition, rare jaguar headlights and four as good as new tires.
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Model XK120 Roadster | 20 caused an absolute sensation when it was launched at the 1948 Motor Show. In the post-war era of rationing, general austerity and hardship it came as a stunning vision of what the future might hold. It was, without doubt, the most beautiful car in the world, and the fastest un-supercharged production sports model ever made up to that time. Its claimed top speed of 120mph was so astonishing that to prove it Jaguar took one over to Belgium and clocked 132mph!
The response from the public at the Motor Show launch on 20th October 1948 caught Jaguar by surprise, and as orders poured in it was immediately obvious that the level of home and export demand could only be satisfied by moving from a lightweight alloy-bodied ash frame construction to tooling up for volume production in steel.
This splendid example, has | 181 |
A portrait of Eddie Lang, inscribed to Leo McConville. Courtesy of the McConville Archives.
The caricature of such listeners is the people who wore out the Bix solo on the Whiteman SWEET SUE but left the rest of the record's surface black and gleaming.
But I have come to see how limiting that was. Consider this 1931 recording of a sweet pop song. It's a Ben Selvin group<|fim_middle|> — a spontaneous Buck Clayton evocation (thanks to Rossano Sportiello) happen as a matter of course at the Cleveland Classic Jazz Party (held this year September 15-18). OUTER DRIVE is performed by Duke Heitger, trumpet; Scott Robinson, tenor saxophone; Rossano Sportiello, piano; Nicki Parrott, string bass; Ricky Malichi, drums.
Please, on your second or third listening, notice the variety of ensemble textures — how well five musicians who understand the swing tradition can and do sound like an orchestra, and how they intuitively construct riffs and backgrounds to keep the presentation lively.
Steve Pistorius is an irreplaceable pianist, singer, bandleader, and visionary, and I love his Quartet — with a front line of Orange Kellin, clarinet; James Evans, vocal, reeds, and someone adept keeping time and swinging out the root notes — on this most recent occasion, Tom Saunders on bass sax. The Quartet doesn't strive to imitate anyone in particular, but what comes out is deep and swinging.
You could call it New Orleans jazz and not be wrong, but I think of it as four kindred souls having a sweetly intense conversation about the song at hand, where their intelligence and feeling raise up every note from what could be formulaic or prosaic. Here is what I wrote about their first disc, NEW ORLEANS SHUFFLE. To read what I wrote about their second, UNDER A CREOLE MOON, you'll have to buy the disc — which I'll predict you would want to anyway.
Now, this isn't an advertisement for those two compact discs (although the subliminal energy is in my words, I hope) but a gift of music — a session on the Steamboat NATCHEZ recorded [by me, for you] during the 2015 Steamboat Stomp.
A cinematographic caveat follows. I was shooting into bright sunlight through large glass windows, so there was a good deal of unsolicited glare. Changing the videos to black and white helped cut down on the lurid aspect, but the four players are individually and collectively sheathed in what looks like swing ectoplasm. Fitting, of course. The sound, however, is fine and finer.
Hot, intent, relaxed, soothing, compelling. The best in their line. And somewhere in these videos Steve says ruefully that this band has lost its regular gig. I find that astonishing — in New Orleans, so proud of its music? — that I hope it has been remedied by now. Club-owners and party-givers, take note.
And I will keep you informed about the 2016 Steamboat Stomp — something I hope to attend.
A regular attraction was the Wednesday night band — a compact unit led by banjoist / singer / composer Eddy Davis, and dubbed by him late in its run WILD REEDS AND WICKED RHYTHM. Most often, the instrumentation was Conal Fowkes, string bass; Scott Robinson, C-melody saxophone; Orange Kellin, clarinet, and Eddy — four players with a strong lyrical streak who could also make a bandstand seem wildly hot in the tradition of the Bechet-Spanier Big Four or Soprano Summit on an uptempo outchorus.
Since the regular Wednesday night gig ended, this band has gotten together for musical reunions — although not as often as its fans and partisans would like. Thus, I was thrilled to learn that Eddy, Conal, Orange, and Scott would be "the EarRegulars" on Sunday, June 3, 2012, at The Ear Inn. And I present some of the frankly magical results herein.
Eddy would not be insulted, I think, if I called his approach "quirky," and his whimsical view of the musical spectrum colors and uplifts the band. Another leader might have stuck to the predictable dozen "New Orleans" or "trad" standards, but not Eddy. His musical range, affections, and knowledge are broad — he approaches old songs in new ways and digs up "new" ones that get in the groove deeply. He knows how to set rocking tempos and his colleagues look both happy and inspired. In addition, Eddy writes lyrics — homespun rather than sleek — for some classic jazz tunes, and he sings them from the heart. All of these virtues were on display at The Ear Inn — friendly, jostling, witty solos and ensembles, and performances that took their time to scrape the clouds.
P.S. This session happened in the beginning of June and has only emerged three months later — no reflection on the splendid heartfelt music, but because of some small technical difficulties . . . now happily repaired.
*At the end of July 2006, The Cajun closed after a twenty-eight year run — to make way for a faceless high-rise apartment building. When I find myself on Eighth Avenue and Sixteenth Street, I try not to search the spot where it once was. It was a flawed paradise, but we miss it.
ENSEMBLE JOYS: "SAY 'SI SI'"!
The New Orleans musicians — even the ones who took expansive solos as the nature of jazz changed — knew how important inspired ensemble playing was. It would have been very bad form to cut short a romping group effort and simply dilute its force into a series of solos with the rhythm section.
And this principle is perfectly demonstrated by a recent performance by Clint Baker and the Cafe Borrone All-Stars (captured on August 13, 2010, by the unwearying Rae Ann Berry) of the pop song "SAY 'SI SI'" where for nearly five minutes the front line keeps a splendid momentum going.
Just try and keep sedately still while this video is playing . . . ! | , with a vocal by the demurely named Paul Small. This record (and the other side, WHAT IS IT?) finds no mention in a jazz discography, yet it is very satisfying music. For one thing, it is beautifully played — great dance music, wonderful strains to be holding one's love, whether any apologies have been tendered or received in the recent past.
The other reason is the deliciously subtle but pervasive guitar of Salvatore Massaro, "Eddie Lang" to the rest of us — who begins the side with an instantly recognizable introduction, and is audible behind the vocal and uplifting throughout.
And they say men don't know how to apologize. What wonderful music, what danceable tenderness.
A good band is not hard to find in New York City. One of the places I rely on is Fraunces Tavern at 54 Pearl Street for their Saturday jazz brunch (1-4) usually led by Emily Asher with her delightful small band that is the Garden Party Quartet. Emily was on the road on May 7, 2016, but the joy continued unabated.
String bassist and band-wizard Rob Adkins assembled a wonderfully melodic quartet: himself, Chris Flory, guitar; Dan Block, clarinet and tenor saxophone; Evan Arntzen, clarinet and alto. Oh, did they fill the room with good sounds!
On to happier matters. This little ad-hoc band is not only composed of four wonderful soloists, but these players know the sacred value of ensemble playing — so lines intertwine, there's counterpoint, riffs, backgrounds: all the collective joy one could ever hear.
I present these performances in the order they happened, as is my habit. I think they are each small complete masterpieces, to be savored rather than gobbled. I hope you agree. There's more to come.
Please find a way to support the music if you want it to continue. That means going to a place where it is played, purchasing food and drink there, putting money in the tip jar, buying a CD from a musician . . . active rather than passive. Very little is actually free in this world, the title of the third song notwithstanding. And as a final irony, the people in this scene who are sitting at the bar, talking and drinking whiskey, are doing more by their presence to support the music they are ignoring than the most devoted "jazz fan" who lives solely off the Hot Internet.
Aside from being one of the most handsome men in jazz, and a gloriously consistent soloist, Buck Clayton was also a splendid arranger and composer. In his hands, an apparently simple blues line had its own frolicsome Basie flavor, and his compositions take simple, logical, playful ideas and connect them irresistibly.
Here's a winning example — a blues from 1961 or earlier, from the period when Buck and his Basie colleagues (sometimes Emmett Berry, Dicky Wells, Earle Warren, Gene Ramey, and others) toured Europe and the United States, teaching and re-reaching everyone how to swing, how to solo effectively and concisely, and how to play as a unit.
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1. It is "deceitful above all things." Deceit is one of the prime elements of the natural heart. It is more full of deceit than any other object. We sometimes call the sea deceitful the sea appears perfectly calm, or there is a gentle ripple on the waters, and the wind blows favourably; during the night a storm may come on, and the treacherous waves are now like mountain billows, covering the ship. But the heart is deceitful above all things - more treacherous than the treacherous sea. The clouds are often very deceitful. Sometimes, in a time of drought, they promise rain; but they turn out to be clouds without rain, and the farmer is disappointed. Sometimes the clouds appear calm and settled; but, before the morning, torrents of rain are falling. But the heart is deceitful above all things. Many animals are deceitful. The Serpent is more subtle than any beast of the field; sometimes it will appear quite harmless, but suddenly it will put out its deadly sting, and give a mortal wound. But the natural heart is more deceitful than a serpent - above all things. It is deceitful in two ways-in deceiving others and in deceiving itself.
(1) In deceiving others. Every natural man is a hypocrite. He is different in reality from what he appears to be. I undertake to say, that there is not a natural man present here to-day in his true colours. If every natural man here were to throw off his disguise, and appear as he really is, this church would look more like the gate of hell than the gate of heaven. If every unclean man were to lay bare his heart, and show his abominable, filthy desires and thoughts; if every dishonest man were now to open his heart, and let us see all his frauds, all his covetous, base desires; if every proud, self-conceited one were now to show us what is going on below his coat, or below that silk gown-to let us see the paltry schemes of vanity and desire of praise; if every unbeliever among you were openly to reveal his hatred of Christ and of the blessed Gospel-O what a hell would this place appear!
Why is it not so? Because natural men are deceitful-because you draw a cloak over your heart, and put on a smooth face, and make the outside of a saint cover the heart of a friend. Oh! your heart is deceitful above all things. Every natural man is a flatterer. He does not tell other men what he thinks of them. There is no plain, honest dealing between natural men in this world. Those of you who know anything of this world, know how hollow most of its friendships are. Just imagine for a moment that every natural man were to speak the truth when he meets his friends; suppose he were to tell them all the bitter slanders which he tells of them a hundred times behind their back; suppose he were to unbosom himself, and tell all his low, mean ideas of them how worldly and selfish they are in his eyes; - alas! what a world of quarrels this would be. Ah, no! natural man, you dare not be honest-you dare not speak the truth one to another; your heart is so vile that you must draw a cloak over it; and your thoughts of others so abominable that you dare not speak them out: "The heart is deceitful above all things."
(2) It shows itself in another way-in self-deceit. Ever since my coming among you I have laboured with all my might to separate between the precious and the vile. I have given you many marks, by which you might know whether or not you have undergone a true conversion, or whether it has only been a deceit of Satan-whether your peace was the peace of God or the peace of the devil-whether you were on the narrow way that leads to life, or on the broad way that leads to destruction. I have done my best to give you the plainest Scripture marks by which you might know your real case; and yet I would not be in the least surprised, if the most of you were found at the last to have deceived yourselves. Often a man is deeply concerned about his soul; he weeps and prays, and joins himself to others who are inquiring. He now changes his way of life, and changes his notions; he talks of his experience, and enlargement in prayer; perhaps he condemns others very bitterly; and yet he has no true change of life-he walks after the flesh still, not after the Spirit. Now, others think this man a true Christian, and he believes it himself; yea, he thinks he is a very eminent Christian; when, all the time, he has not the Spirit of Christ, and is none of his. Ah! "the heart is deceitful above all things."
2. "Desperately wicked." This word is borrowed from the book of the physician. When the physician is called to see a patient, past recovery, he shakes his head and says: This is a desperate case. This is the very word used here. "The heart is desperately wicked" - past cure by human medicine. Leam that you need conversion, or a new heart. When we speak of the necessity of a change to some people, they begin to be affected by it, and so they put away some evil habits, as drinking or swearing, or lying; they put these away, and promise never to go back to them; and now they think the work is done, and they are in a fair way for heaven. Alas, foolish man! it is not your drinking, or your swearing, or your lying that are desperately wicked-but your heart. You have only been cutting off the streams-the source remains polluted-the heart is as wicked as ever. It is the heart that is incurable. It is a new heart you need. Nothing less will answer your need.
Learn that you must go to Christ for this. When the woman had spent her all upon physicians, and was nothing better, but rather worse, she heard of Jesus. Ah! said she, if I may but "touch the hem of his garment I shall be made whole." Jesus said to her: "Daughter, be of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole." Come, then, incurable, to Christ. The leprosy was always regarded as incurable. Accordingly, the leper came to Jesus, and worshipping, said: "Lord, if thou wilt thou canst make me clean." Jesus said, "I will, be thou clean"; and immediately his leprosy was cleamed. Some of you feel that your heart is desperately wicked; well, kneel to the Lord Jesus, and say: "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." You are a leper-incurable; Jesus is able-he is also willing to make you clean.
3. Unsearchably Wicked<|fim_middle|> of an eternal punishment. If it be done out of love to Christ-because the poor man is a disciple of Christ-it will in no wise lose its reward; Christ will say: "Inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me." If it be done out of pride or self-righteoutsness, Christ will cast it from him; he will say, "Depart, ye cursed-ye did it not unto me." The reason, then, why Christ searches the heart is, that he may judge uprightly in the judgment. Oh, sirs! how can you bear this, you that are Christless? How can you bear that eye on your heart all your days, and to be judged according to what his pure eye sees in you? Oh! do you not see it is a gone case with you? "Enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight shall no flesh living be justified." Oh! if your heart be desperately wicked, and his pure eye ever poring on it, what can you expect, but that he should cast you into hell? Oh! flee to the Lord Jesus Christ for shelter-for blood to blot out past sins, and righteousness to cover you.
Learn the amazing love of Christ.
He was the only one that knew the wickedness of the beings for whom he died. He that searches the hearts of sinners died for them. His eye alone had searched their hearts; ay, was searching at the time he came. He knew what was in men; yet he did not abhor them on that account-he died for them. It was not for any goodness in man that he died for man. He saw none. It was not that he saw little sin in the heart of man. He is the only being in the universe that saw all the sin that is in the unfathomable heart of man. He saw to the bottom of the voloano and yet he came and died for man. Here in is love! When publicans and sinners came to him on earth, he knew what was in their hearts. His eye had rested on their bosoms all their life-he had seen all the lusts and passions that had ever rankled there; yet in no wise did he cast them out. So with you. His eye hath seen all your sin & the vilest, darkest, blackest hours you have lived, his pure eye was resting on you; yet he died for such, and invites you to come to him; and will in no wise cast you out. | : "Who can know it? " No man ever yet knew the badness of his own heart. We are sailing over a sea the depths of which we have never fathomed.
(1) Unawakened persons have no idea of what is in their hearts. When Elish; told Hazael what a horrible murderer he would be, Hazael said: "Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? "The seeds of it were all in his heart at that moment; but he did not know his own heart. If I had told some of you, when you were little children playing beside vour mother's knee, the sins that you were afterwards to commit, you would have said: "Am I a dog, that I should do this thing? and yet you see you have done them. If I could show each of you the sins that you are yet to commit, you would be shocked and horrified. This shows how ignorant you are of your own heart. I suppose that the most of you think it is quite impossible you should ever be guilty of murder, or adultery, or apostasy, or the sin against the Holy Ghost; this arises from ignorance of your own black heart: "Who can know it? "
(2) Some awakened persons have an awful sight given them of the wickedness of their own hearts. They see all the sins of their past life, as it were, concentrated there. They see that their past sins all come out of their heart-and that the same may come out again. And yet the most awakened sinner does not see the ten thousandth part of the wickedness of his heart. You are like a person looking down into a dark pit-you can only see a few yards down the sides of the pit; so you can only see a little way down into your heart. It is a pit of corruption which is bottomless: "Who can know it?"
(3) Some children of God have amazing discoveries given them of the wickedness of their own hearts. Sometimes it is given them to see that the germs of every sin are lodging there. Sometimes they see that there never was a sin committed, in heaven, in earth, or in hell, but it has something corresponding to it in their own heart. Sometimes they see that if there were not another fountain of sin, from which the face of creation might be defaced, their own heart is a fountain inexhaustible - enough to corrupt every creature, and to defile every fair spot in the universe. And yet even they do not know their own hearts. You are like a traveller looking down into the crater of a volcano; but the smoke will not suffer you to look far. You see only a few yards into the smoldng volcano of your own heart.
Learn to be humbled far more than you have ever been. None of you have ever been sufficiently humbled under a sense of sin; for this reason, that none of you have ever seen fully the plague of your own heart. There are chambers in your heart you have never yet seen into-there are eaves in that ocean you have never fathomed there are fountains of bitterness you have never tasted. When you have felt the wickedness of your heart to the uttermost, then lie down under this awful truth, that you have only seen a few yards into a pit that is bottomless-that you carry about with you a slumbering volcano-a heart whose wickedness you do not and cannot know.
II. The witness of the heart.
1. "I, the Lord." We have seen that we do not know one another's hearts; for "the heart is deceitful." Man looketh on the outward appearance. We have seen that no man knows his own heart-that the most know nothing of what is there; and those who know most, see but a short way down. But here is an unerring witness. He that made man knows what is in man.
2. Observe what a strict witness he is: "I, the Lord, search the heart, I try the reins." It is not said, I know the heart-but, I search it. The heart of man is not one of the many objects upon which God turns his all-seeing eye, but it is one which he singles out for investigation: "I search the heart." As the astronomer directs his telescope upon the very star he wishes to examine, and arranges all his lenses, that he may most perfectly look at it; so doth God's calm eye pore upon the naked breast of every man. As the refiner of silver keeps his eye upon the refinging pot, watching every change in the boiling metal; so doth God's eye watch every change in the bosom of man. Oh! natural man, can you bear this? How vain are all your pretences and coverings! God sees you as you are. You may deceive your neighbour, or your neighbor, or yourself - but you cannot deceive God.
3. Observe, he is a constant witness. He does not say, I have searched, or I will do it-but, I search - I do it now, and always. Not a moment of our life but his pure, calm, searching eye has been gazing on the inmost recesses of our hearts. From childhood to old age his eye rests on us. The darkness hideth not from him. The darkness and the light are both alike to him.
4. Observe his end in searching: "Even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings." (Verse 10.) In order to know the true value of an action, you must search the heart. Many a deed that is applauded by men, is abominable in the sight of God, who searches the heart. To give an alms to a poor man, may be an action either worthy of an eternal reward, or worthy | 1,219 |
Požíranje je kompletno motorično dogajanje, deloma hoteno deloma refleksno, pri katerem pride hrana iz ust skozi žrelo v požiralnik in s peristaltiko naprej v želodec. Požiranje je pomemben del hranjenja oziroma pitja. Če dogaj<|fim_middle|>ukturni
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Fiziologija | anje požiranja ni učinkovito, lahko snov (na primer goltljaj hrane, pijače ali zdravila) zaide v sapnik in povzroči aspiracijo ali celo dušenje. Med dejanjem požiranja se poklopec (epiglotis), ki od spredaj in zgoraj zakriva vhod v grlo, zapre, kar uravnava požiralni refleks.
Količina snovi, na primer grižljaj hrane ali požirek tekočine, ki je pripravljen v ustih za požiranje ali ki prehaja skozi žrelo in požiralnik, se imenuje bolus.
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Požiranje je zapleten fiziološki proces hotenih in refleksnih dejavnosti in vključuje 26 parov mišic in 5 možganskih živcev. Pri procesu je potrebno usklajeno delovanje ust, žrela, grla in požiralnika. Požiranje lahko razdelimo v štiri faze:
pripravljalna faza (priprava v ustih) – hrana se oblikuje v bolus;
začetek požiranja v ustih (oralna transportna faza) – bolus se prenese iz ustne votline v ustno žrelo (orofarinks);
nadaljevanje požiranja v žrelu (faringealna faza) – jezik hrano potisne naprej do žrela; do te stopnje je požiranje hoteno, saj je premikanje ustnic in jezika pod zavestnim nadzorom;
faza požiranja, ki poteka v požiralniku (ezofagealna faza) – je povsem refleksna, pri čemer se zapre dihalna pot in zatesni nosna votlina, hrana potuje s peristaltičnim valom po požiralniku do želodca.
Motnje požiranja
Pri motnjah v požiranju govorimo o disfagiji. Posamezna faza požiranja je lahko v celoti ali samo delno motena.
Vzroki za nastanek teh motenj so lahko:
nevrološki – bolniki imajo težave v procesu kontrole požiranja. Motena je mišična kontrola, predvsem hitrost in koordinacija gibov. Vzroki so lahko na primer preživela možganska kap, parkinsonova bolezen, multipla skleroza, demenca;
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2017 Honda CR-V | Why Buy? product 2017-02-16 14:00:01 https://www.motor1.com/reviews/135225/2017-honda-cr-v-why-buy/ Honda CR-V Why Buy?
The CR-V is big business for Honda. It was the best selling SUV in America last year, and<|fim_middle|> button on our YouTube page. | has been fully redone for 2017. Clearly the stakes for getting it right are high.
Good news then: The new iteration of the small utility vehicle seems to hew closely to all the good stuff from the outgoing model, but with better fuel economy, more tech, and more easy usability that ever before. In this week's Why Buy? video, we talk about the details of the new Honda, and try to find any holes in its very complete armor.
For those of you looking to do some through research, remember that we have videos on the competitive Ford Escape and Kia Sportage, too. And if you're just looking to keep on top of our weekly video content, don't forget to click that subscribe | 148 |
The mission of Educational Ministries is to provide a strong foundation in Christian education for the young people of Gilford Community Church. A major goal of the Educational Ministries committee is to deepen knowledge and faith, and through exploration and discussion, to nurture and encourage individual faith development.
The committee oversees the church's formal educational ministry. This involves three areas—children, youth and adult education. A creative Sunday School curriculum presents the teachings and stories of<|fim_middle|> in Boston at the City Mission Society. Confirmation classes encourage the students to question, clarify and confirm their faith. At the last gathering with their mentors, students will present their faith journeys. On Confirmation Sunday, after the 6-7 month Confirmation process, each student is offered the opportunity to join the church.
The committee also oversees the Hook Scholarship, which is awarded to a Gilford High School senior who is active in our church, displays academic promise, wholesome character and a significant concern for others, and has the intention of furthering his/her education at an accredited institution. | Jesus in a visual hands-on manner, and a "Tea Time" is offered twice a month for middle and high school students in which they are invited to leave the sanctuary after Children's Time and to join the Youth Director in the Gathering Room for discussions relevant to the challenges of applying their faith to their lives as teenagers in today's world.
Rev. Graham provides an Adult Study Group every Wednesday at noon for adults to gather and discuss the latest book which is offered to them to read. Although Rev. Graham leads the discussion, everyone is involved and encouraged in the dialogue. The purpose of all the church's adult learning opportunities is to provide a forum where people can dialogue and be intellectually challenged.
opportunities for fun and recreation, and various field trips, as well as service opportunities to benefit the church and community.
A Confirmation Class is open to all high school-aged students. There are 3 components to the Confirmation program: working with a mentor chosen by the Confirmation student, visiting other places of worship, and a weekend service trip | 206 |
How can I go from a shaved haircut to long locks?
Have you given in to the shaved hair trend, but now want your XXL locks back? Follow our guide on how to successfully make the transition.
Whether you have an unstructured haircut or a completely shaved head, having ultra-short hair involves a<|fim_middle|> will need it trimmed and lose what you have gained in regrowth.
The bob haircut: how can you successfully curl your locks? | growing-out stage which is very difficult to live with. You will have uneven lengths no matter what, as at first the hair will naturally grow longer at the nape of the neck than at the front. To avoid ending up with a MacGyver-style misshapen haircut and unruly locks which stick out, get the tips trimmed regularly to balance out the haircut. After 4-6 months you can have a pixie crop and after 2-3 years a mid-length bob, before finally being able to show off beautiful long locks once more.
To get through the in-between stage, clever styling techniques can prove to be a big help. Opt for floaty hairstyles enhanced with headbands and hairpins to play with your short hair and to conceal any unsightly regrowth. Have you kept a longer section on top? Use it to hide your shaved undercut at the sides. Further on down the line, you can opt for extensions to fake long locks. What's the mistake to avoid making? Falling into the habit of tying your hair back while waiting for it to reach the desired length. This is because a tight ponytail or having the hair in a chignon all the time can slow down growth.
How can you speed up growth?
There is no magic formula - patience is key when waiting for your hair to grow out. However, there are simple tips for making the waiting time seem shorter. Speed up the process by regularly massaging your scalp with castor oil to improve blood circulation and to stimulate growth. Also, dietary supplements are a solution for gaining a few centimetres more quickly.
Top tip: Take care of your hair to avoid split ends, otherwise you | 340 |
April 11, 2016 zoomvroom Car Culture, New car info, Random, World News
Hennessey Venom GT is Now the World's Fastest Convertible!
Ever since 2013 with the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport smashing world speed records for a production car, legendary Texas tuning firm Hennessey, and Bugatti, have been duking it out on runways with the world's fastest "production" cars. Why "production?" Because these cars are made in extremely limited quantities.
Does that make them any less impressive machines? No, of course not. It just means that there is a very small customer base for these cars, and those who do own them rarely, if ever, exploit their full potential.
The Hennessey Venom GT Spyder won the latest battle in the speed war. It hit 265.9 mph on a 2.9-mile runway at Naval Air Station Lemoore on March 25. Who drove the Venom GT Spyder to such a high speed? None other than the Ford Performance Racing School Director Brian Smith. The feat was recorded by the independent speed testing firm, Racelogic.
The Venom GT Sypder proved to be much quicker than the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport Vitesse, which hit a still-impressive 254 mph back in 2013. That was a record-breaking run. Think that's impressive? It is. The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport hit 268 mph in 2013 as well, and held that record for a year. The Venom GT hit an incredible 270.49 mph during a record attempt at Kennedy Space Center in 2014.
The Veyron is now out of production, and the much-hyped Chiron replacement should be out in the next year or so, according to Bugatti. Bugatti claims much higher speeds than the Veyron, along with a host of improvements. A blog post about the Chiron and all of Bugatti's promises is in short order.
Anyways, this means that Hennessey can sit on their throne for a while. Don't worry, Bugatti – or someone else – will come along and snatch the title.
The Venom (both versions) is powered by a twin-turbocharged 7.0-liter V8 with a dynamometer-proven 1,451 horsepower and 1,287 horsepower. That's the kind of power you'd see in something meant to go down the drag strip. Hennessey claims a 0-60 time of less than 2.4 seconds. If something that's RWD and has almost 1,500 horsepower can do that, put my name down for it!
Also, Hennessey's timing couldn't have been better. This year is Hennessey's 25th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Hennessey will be selling three limited-edition Venom GT Spyder "World Record Edition" cars. How much are they asking? A paltry $1.3 million.
That's the video of the world record for the world's fastest convertible being smashed to pieces. Congratulations, Hennessey. Celebrate, and make the Venom even faster. Somebody is going to get that trophy soon enough.
February 9, 2016 zoomvroom Car Culture, Random, The History of Autos, World News
The Cursed Blessing of the Death of Scion
When Toyota started Scion in 2001, nobody expected it to do much of anything. It didn't. Well, yes, the original xB was an all star smash hit, and the tC was a great combination of bulletproof reliability combined with an astonishingly low asking price, but everything else they did, let's be honest here, was a massive flop.
The 2001 xB was an excellent car. It was fun to drive, affordable, and instantly lovable. It was, in my eyes, the modern version of the original VW Type 1 Beetle. It was originally marketed towards Gen X, but everyone from teenagers to seniors bought it. It was just that kind of car. Every 10 years or so, there's a car like that. It comes out of nowhere, sells like cocaine in the 1980s, and is fondly remembered by many. The "toaster," as it was affectionately called wasn't fast – it was far from it. It was safe, it had almost as much space as a minivan, thanks to its boxy shape and was easily customizable – from the dealer!
It's cute, right? I really love the original xB. Can you see why?
Yes, you could walk into a Toyota dealership that sold Scions (I'll get to that in a bit, I swear), and get a Scion xB, then go over to their customizing desk, and decide how you wanted to customize your xB, all within 20 feet of each other! There were so many options, you had to fill out a questionnaire so the customizing agent could help you out! The great part about this was that you could customize the car to your specific taste, not worry about voiding the warranty and walk out within two hours.
The 2001 Scion xB was the car that kicked off the dealer accessory craze. It was a great marketing tool for many brands. Want a roof rack? You had a choice between Thule and Yakima, and between the two, literally 50 different roof racks to choose from. Want a wrap on your xB? The techs could slap it on in 20 minutes. The list goes on. All these accessories were affordable – you could walk out of the dealership with a Scion xB, customized the way you wanted it, with a good warranty, fully registered and insured, for $22,000.
That's what the appeal was. As I said, everyone from teenagers to seniors, and everyone in between bought the car. It shocked Scion's marketing team, and even Toyota. Nobody predicted so many cars would be sold.
Unfortunately, Scion failed to deliver with the second-generation xB. It had gigantic shoes to fill, but it had baby feet. It was heavier – almost 500 pounds heavier. It was more expensive; to the point that people walked over to the Toyota sales desk and bought a Matrix. It used to be that the Matrix was just a hatchback Corolla (the xB was too), but it was kind of like trying to differentiate between twins. The Matrix was cheaper, but it didn't have the instant customizability that the xB had. The difference showed in sales – Scion still had all their repeat buyers, but the Matrix was just a better car overall. Buyers went to the Matrix, until Toyota killed it in 2013.
Onto the tC. It was a perfectly fine car, but by no means was it on the same level as the Mazda 3 or the Honda Civic. The build quality was great, no doubt about that. It just left something to be desired. But, it was cheap. Dirt cheap. That's why every 8th car you see on the road is one. Well, maybe not that many, but it sure seems like it. It wasn't as easily customizable as the xB, but it certainly had it's benefits. It was cheap enough for those starting to get into the automotive scene to modify it like no tomorrow, but drive it to school or work every day. The Mazda <|fim_middle|> xD looked like someone chiseled a block of concrete with an ax, slapped wheels and a price tag on it, and pitched it to Scion.
What might have been the best car Scion made, apart from the 2001 xB, was the FR-S. It was cheap, which was Scion's main selling point. It was an incredibly fun car to drive, and the perfect one for the budding autocrosser or track day enthusiast. It's biggest downfall is that Subaru and Toyota sold the exact same car, but with different badges. Yes, I know it was badge engineering, but why buy the Scion when you could buy the Subaru? That was the dilemna many prospective owners faced. It offered more utility and just as much fun as the Miata, but it was a price difference of $2000 between the Scion and the Subaru.
So, what was Scion's downfall? Poor sales after the redesign of the first-generation xB, offering similar, if not identical products, and no dedicated dealers. Will I miss Scion? Yes. I will miss the magic that the 2001 xB brought to the automotive world, the affordable performance the FR-S brought wailing and burbling into the automotive world, the instant and easy customizability that any Scion brought, and the ferocious sibling rivalry between Toyota and Scion.
Will Scions keep their value? Who knows. Only time will tell. The resale value of the 2001-2007 xB has certainly held up, and likely will for a while. They are cheap, but the price hasn't gone up or down, like most cars. The tC, a fantastic car in it's own right, may hold up. It's hard to tell with that one. The FR-S? Maybe, maybe not. It was a worthy Miata competitor, but it's identical siblings, the Subaru BR-Z and Toyota GT86 (non-North America markets only), will still be in production.
The FR-S/BR-Z/GT86 was a failed design opportunity. They had a golden opportunity to make a stunning car, and the result is, quite frankly, kind of meh. It doesn't look like much. Sure, it looks nice, but you don't point at one and know exactly what it is, like you do with the 2001 xB.tf
I am saddened that Scion couldn't clean up their act, but they obviously weren't competitive. Their market went away. They had a nice run though, and there are certainly other choices.
July 8, 2015 zoomvroom Car Culture, New car info, Random, The auto dictionary. Look it up here!, The History of Autos
How the Lamborghini V12 Has Evolved Over the Years
Lamborghini is perhaps best known for it's screaming V12-powered supercars that seem to defy physics. Here's how these screaming machines have evolved.
1966 Lamborghini Miura: The first Lamborghini supercar was the Miura, which debuted in 1966 at the Geneva Motor Show. It was the first of the big Lamborghinis. Of course, the big ones are the ones that scare you just by unlocking them. That's how you know a car is fast. The Miura made 350 horsepower, which was more than enough to move a car that weighed under 3,000 pounds.
It's one of the most captivating designs of the 20th century, especially in red.
1969 Lamborghini Miura S: It was basically a facelifted Miura with an extra 20 horsepower. Oh, and Miles Davis crashed one when he was high on cocaine. A man very revered in the racing world, James Glickenhaus, pulled the high and bloody Davis out of his totaled Lamborghini.
Lamborghini really delivered with this one…
1971 Lamborghini Miura SV: The final iteration of the Miura brought the power up to a then-absurd 385 horsepower, and lost the frilly eyelashes that previously surrounded the headlights. Lamborghini also came up with what was then a novel idea, splitting up the lubrication for the gearbox and transmission.
This was the best iteration of the Miura. The most power, lightest weight, and all of the kinks were ironed out.
1974 Lamborghini Countach: The curvaceous Miura was replaced by the blocky Countach, a car that looks like it was designed by a high school geometry student. It was a good car, but it was not without it's flaws. Visibility was like looking out of a concrete bunker 50 feet below the ground. Another complaint was that the car was a much better pinup than it was a car. Just about every boy in the 1970s had a poster of a Lamborghini Countach hanging on his bedroom wall. The first version of the Countach had no massive wing and 370 horsepower.
1978 Lamborghini Countach LP400S: The LP400S lost 20 horsepower, but it also got wider wheels. The 1974-1977 models had skinny little wheels and tires that had no grip to them. That famous gigantic rear wing was an option that looked super cool, but cost you 10 mph.
1982 Lamborghini Countach LP500S: Just about the only change to the 1982 version of the Countach was the introduction of a 4.7-liter V12.
1985 Lamborghini Countach LP5000 QV: This is my dream Countach. The engine was a 455-horsepower 5.2-liter V12. Interestingly enough, when Lamborghini switched from carburetors to fuel injection on the very same engine, horsepower dropped to a still-impressive 414 horsepower.
It should be obvious why this is my dream Countach…
1988 Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary Edition: It was mechanically identical to the LP5000 QV, but it had a body that Horacio Pagani (yes, that Horacio Pagani) redesigned. It was a love it or hate it design, and most people fell on the side of hate. I don't know why. It's still blocky, but it's a good looking car.
1990 Lamborghini Diablo: Marcello Gandini started the design, and Chrysler's Tom Gale finished it. It had a 5.7-liter V12 cranking out 492 horsepower. It's top speed was a then-diabolical 202 mph, which exceeded the initial target by six mph. It didn't come with power steering.
I'm not sure I'd want to go 202 mph in a car with no power steering, especially with no electronic nannies to save me.
1993 Lamborghini Diablo VT: The Diablo VT was the first AWD car from Lamborghini. It could send up to 25 percent of it's power to the front wheels, which drastically helped it's traction. It also had redesigned intakes to improve cooling, a new interior, and various cosmetic changes to differentiate it from the "base" Diablo.
1995 Lamborghini Diablo SV: The SV was supposed to be the most diabolical Diablo out there. Because of this, it had 510 horsepower and RWD. It was also the cheapest Diablo available, which really doesn't make sense.
Yes, those wheels are stock, and super cool!
1995 Lamborghini Diablo VT Roadster: It's exactly what it sounds like. It's a Lamborghini Diablo VT with an electric folding carbon fiber top. Power went up to 530 horsepower for 1998.
1999 Lamborghini Diablo: The 1999 model was the first year that the Diablo didn't have pop-up headlights. Instead, the SV model, which was the base model, had the same headlights as the Nissan 300ZX. I'm not joking. It also got a new interior, ABS, and power was now at 530 horsepower. The Diablo VT got the same upgrades.
1999 Lamborghini Diablo GT: Talk about absurd. The Diablo GT was basically a race car for the road. It was stripped down, the bodywork was substantially different from other Diablos, and it had a new 6.0-liter V12 making 575 horsepower. It was incredibly fast.
Looks can be deceiving. It might look somewhat similar to the 1995 SV model, but it is very different.
2000 Lamborghini Diablo VT 6.0: The final iteration of the Diablo got a redesign that made it look much smoother, thanks to Audi's purchase of the company. The more subdued design, coupled with the engine from the Diablo GT made it a much better car to drive and look at.
2002 Lamborghini Murcielago: Yes, I know that it means "bat" in Spanish, but it is still a very intriguing car. Don't let the name get to you. It was the first V12-powered Lamborghini to be designed and engineered in-house. It had 572 horsepower, and was only available with AWD. It also made extensive use of active aero and active cooling to keep the exterior of the car relatively clean-looking. It was also the first time that an automated manual transmission was offered in a Lamborghini. A roadster followed in 2004, with an overly complicated manual roof.
2006 Lamborghini Murcielago LP640: The big Murcielago now made 632 horsepower from its 6.5-liter V12, and it had a slightly revised body. Carbon ceramic brakes were an option, just in case you really wanted to show how well your supercar could stop.
2008 Lamborghini Reventon: The Reventon was essentially a rebodied Murcielago LP640. It was inspired by fighter jets, and as such, had creases and angles galore. It had an interior like a fighter jet cockpit, which meant it was extremely cramped, but it had a unique TFT display, instead of analog gauges like the Murcielago. Lamborghini only built 21 coupes and 15 roadsters.
2009 Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SV: The fastest Murcielago ever to leave the Lamborghini factory doors was the LP670-4 SV. It had 661 horsepower, a heavily revised body, a stripped interior, and came standard with a massive wing. The wing limited it's top speed to 209 mph. The optional smaller wing brings the speed up to 212 mph, but also provides less downforce. You could get it with either the clunky automated manual or a true six speed manual. I really want to have one with the big wing and the six speed. Help me find one!
How can you not want something like this, especially when it reeks of awesome?
2012 Lamborghini Aventador: The Aventador picked up where the Reventon left off. It's all creases and angles, and is one of the most intimidating-looking cars in the world. The 6.5-liter V12 pumps out 691 horsepower, and sends power to all four wheels through one of the worst transmissions ever. It can never replicate the same shift. You either get shoved back into your seat, or you get an imperceptible shift. For something that costs so much, it should have a good transmission. A roadster is also available.
2013 Lamborghini Veneno: Like the Reventon, the Veneno is another extreme styling exercise. Lamborghini really went all out this time in terms of design and price, as the car cost upwards of $4 million. There are four coupes (one is in the Lamborghini museum), and nine roadsters.
The styling might be quirky, but the performance is not.
2015 Lamborghini Aventador LP750-4 SV: This might very well be the ultimate Aventador. It's certainly the fastest. It proved itself by going around the legendary Nurburgring racetrack in 6:59. It's just seconds off the Porsche 918 Spyder's lap time of 6:57. The SV has 750 horsepower, AWD, heavily revised aerodynamics, and is 110 pounds lighter. And yes, Lamborghini has confirmed that they will make a roadster version of it.
And there you have it. The latest in a long line of high-performance cars. This is the most diabolical, yet civilized of them all.
June 16, 2015 zoomvroom Car Culture, cars and music, Humor, Random
A Fun Music Video
This is going to be a quick and fun post. For those of you who remember the band "Berlin" from the 1980s, you might know their 2013 single "Gasoline & Heart."
For those of you who have never heard of Berlin, let me give you some background:
Berlin is a synth pop group formed in 1982 in Los Angeles by bassist John Crawford, singer Terri Nunn, and keyboard player David Diamond. They quickly made the charts with their provocative single "Sex (I'm A…)," which came from their gold-selling debut EP Pleasure Victim.
They quickly made the group whole with the addition of guitarist Rick Olsen, another keyboard player, Matt Reid, and drummer Rob Brill.
Their first full-length LP was the gold-selling Love Life album of 1984. By 1985, the group had been trimmed down to the trio of Nunn, Crawford, and Brill.
The following year, they went platinum with their hit "Take My Breath Away," which was the love theme from the Tom Cruise movie, "Top Gun."
Nunn left the band in 1987 to pursue a solo career, so Brill and Crawford joined the Big F.
The band reunited in 1999 to record new songs, as well as perform a concert. The studio and concert recordings were released as Berlin Live: Sacred and Profane, which was released in 2000.
2001 brought a whirlwind of recording sessions, which included co-writing songs with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins, among several other artists. The end result, Voyeur, was their first full-length album in well over 15 years.
How does this relate to "Gasoline & Heart?" Well, the single was created without Nunn.
Truthfully, the song is just OK, but it's got great footage of classic hot rods back in the day. It's a fun distraction for a few minutes. Enjoy.
June 6, 2015 zoomvroom Car Culture, Humor, I Challenge You!, Random
Can You Text and Drive in This Great New Game?
I'd like to say sorry for this post coming out today. As I had to attend a friend's graduation yesterday, I was unable to post. I do think however, that this post will make up for the delay.
Before we get down to business, let's get one thing clear: texting and driving do not mix well. If you get caught by the police, you get a big ticket, and could possibly lose your license, depending on if you're a repeat cell phone law violator. It's incredibly dangerous, and can kill or injure a lot of people because you just couldn't wait to respond. Never, ever pick your phone up while driving! Let's all get one thing clear: texting and driving in the real world is much different than texting and driving in this hilarious new game called SMS Racing.
It's a total remake of the 2013 browser game that had the same name. The 2015 version uses all new material, and it shares only a name and a concept with the original game.
It was built for the 2015 Oculus Mobile VR Jam, where many app and game developers are teamed up to create the most captivating VR experience possible.
We've all seen or heard of the dozens of texting and driving games out there, many of which are dry, boring attempts to teach teens the dangers of texting and driving at the same time. Enter SMS Racing. It's a whole lot of fun. Let me tell you why.
When you start the race, you're told to finish a lap as fast as you can while responding to text messages without crashing, all within a limited time frame.
An instructor talks to you during the race. She encourages you to keep up with all of your social connections, and to focus less on the road. This is when all of the sarcasm that the developers have kicks in. She tells you that texting is an important part of driving, and that it would be rude not to respond to your friends.
Should you fail to respond to a message within ten seconds, you are told to "…restart, or keep driving and reflect on how it feels to have no friends." That's cold.
The game has several features that were not in it previously. It has a Time Trial and a Race mode, a head tracking feature to change your view based on movement, artificial intelligence rivals who also text and drive, and city and suburb maps.
This review is based on various user reviews, plus video recordings of the game. I haven't played it…yet, but if and when I have a chance, I will do a full review of it!
Users of the game say that the constant need to text can become frustrating at times, which only further demonstrates the sole purpose of the game.
They also say that when you finally get a lap in, you've probably cursed the game to hell and back, but you've probably crashed just as many times. In the end, it's all smiles and a good chance to laugh at how ridiculous it is to put texting before driving.
Please don't. Driving requires a lot of attention, and you could kill yourself or others because you just had to glance down at your phone. It can always wait. If you can't wait, pull over in a safe spot and read the text or social media alert.
Here's some video from the VR Jam. https://youtu.be/07hY2JenhMQ
You can check out the game, and even download it at http://vrjam.challengepost.com/submissions/36780-sms-racing
However, you need the proper VR gear, but if you do, it seems like it's worth a shot.
February 21, 2014 zoomvroom Humor, World News
The Best Ads of 2013 (and 2014!)
2013 was a great year for many of us auto enthusiasts, and the automakers were great in their ads. I'd like to share my favorite ads of 2013 with you. I also found a couple of good ads during the Super Bowl, so those are included for your viewing enjoyment! Enjoy!
Mercedes Benz Chicken Ad: Mercedes-Benz is right up there with Volvo in terms of how amazing their safety tech, as well as other features is. To demonstrate just how good the Magic Body Control (don't ask, I don't know the answer!) system is, Mercedes-Benz used a chicken. Yes, a real, living chicken! For those of you who don't know what Magic Body Control is, Magic Body Control is a fancy name for a high-tech suspension system. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfgBA8Iw9C8
Jaguar Eats Chicken Jaguar USA Ad: In an obvious thumbing of its nose to Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar shot a laugh-out-loud ad of a chicken being moved around by a Mercedes-Benz engineer dancing around to some groovy music. The chicken gets eaten by a real-life Jaguar. Not the car, mind you. The Jaguar from the jungles of South America. If that grosses you out, there's no blood, just a LOT of feathers, and one really unhappy Mercedes-Benz engineer…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAgJVIC9QSw
I couldn't find the Mercedes-Benz ad that made fun of Jaguar. It's a shame, because it was a very funny commercial. It showed a 2014 Mercedes-Benz S550 going along a dusty jungle road at night, when the S550 brakes to a stop. As the S550 is stopping, the camera focuses on a jaguar (the jungle animal) running across the road, directly in front of the S550. The S550 has a night-vision feature, which shows the jaguar bounding across the road…directly into a tree. The Mercedes-Benz punchline? Cat-like reflexes? We prefer Pre-Safe Braking. If you can find this ad, please post the link to the commercial in the comments section so that other readers can enjoy it.
Kia Sorento How Babies are Born Ad: This cute ad from Super Bowl XLVIII somehow showcases the Kia Sorento. I don't get how either. But, it's a cute commercial, and I think that you'll enjoy it. It shows a LOT of babies, and it's got lots of clever CGI. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4uW4lNjW4g
Volkswagen How Volkswagen Engineers Get Their Wings Ad: Volkswagen was pretty clever with this commercial. It makes people laugh as Volkswagen engineers get wings. Volkswagen used to be clever…and funny in the 1960s with their commercials, and it seems like they've found their clever and funny bones again. Volkswagen engineers grow wings, and at the end, one farts a rainbow. When you're done laughing, watch the ad. This ad is from Super Bown XLVIIII…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns-p0BdUB5o
Chrysler 200 Bob Dylan Ad: This ad from Super Bowl XLVIIII showcases Bob Dylan and the stylish 2015 Chrysler 200. It has great footage, and some cool vintage footage of Dylan back in the day. As Bob Dylan said in the commercial, "Let Germany brew your beer, let Switzerland build your watches, let Asia assemble your phones. We'll build your cars." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlSn8Isv-3M
Hyundai Santa Fe Every Boy's Dream Team Ad: This commercial is a nice one. It's got boys of all sizes, ages, and races jammed into it, and I like the vibe of this commercial. While I don't get how it showcases the Santa Fe, I still like this commercial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlSn8Isv-3M
That's all that I have for you, but I think that this should be enough for you. If you have any that you'd like to have others see, please post them in the comments section. I'll watch them!
December 31, 2013 zoomvroom Random
What Was Your Favorite Post of 2013?
I'm sure that some of you are either at work, or enjoying the day with your family and/or friends. If you end up going onto your computer to check if I published a blog post, don't fret – I did!
2013 has had been a great year for me. I've had lots of popular posts, more amazing subscribers, a record amount of comments, and a whole lot of fun! I truly couldn't ask for anything else! I have thoroughly enjoyed publishing popular posts, replying to great comments, and welcoming new subscribers in 2013.
I'm going to keep this post quick and simple: What was your favorite post of 2013? I want to know so I can do more posts like it! If you're a numbers junkie, let me know what your favorite numbers post was. If you're a pictures junkie, let me know what your favorite posts with pictures were. If you're a words junkie, let me know what your favorite long post was!
I've already started planning out what I'm going to be publishing in 2014. 2014 is looking promising to me, and I hope that it brings great things for me and my faithful subscribers! Thank you for being so amazing! | 3 could do that too, but was more expensive. It was also marketed towards college students and above.
The original Scion tC was a smash hit. The second generation wasn't as wildly popular, but it certainly sold a lot.
Let's talk about the stupidity of selling Scions next to Toyotas that were similar in price. Seriously, who at Toyota, when they were planning Scion, thought that was a good idea? It's like selling candy bars next to each other. You can't choose the right one. That's what happens when there are too many options. Scion sales would go sky-high for a couple months, then Toyota compact car sales would overtake them like you wouldn't believe. It was just a constant game of tug-of-war.
Imagine walking into an Armed Forces recruitment center, with all the recruiters standing there, all trying to give you "the best deal you'll get." The truth is, they all offer the same thing, but they disguise it well. Just choose the one you like best and the others will find somebody else.
This was Scion's ultimate downfall in my eyes. They simply couldn't compete with the elephant in the room.
Yes, they had other problems. Their other cars were practically carbon copies of Toyotas. Why buy a Toyota Yaris hatchback when you could buy a Scion xD? The Yaris was cheaper, and had essentially the same things going for it. The xD had a bit more power, but the Yaris at least looked halfway decent. The | 312 |
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The Episode starts with doctor giving Durga a surprise, of Payal's drawing. Durga sees Payal, Nitya and Durga's pic and smiles. Everyone clap for Payal. They bring the cake. Durga says cut the cake by blowing the candles Payal. Payal thinks about her last birthday celebrated with her family and thinks it's the same cake she always had, her favorite one. Everyone think happy birthday to you. Payal wishes Nitya comes soon. Payal makes Durga have the cake and says Nitya Di. Durga says Nitya will come soon, I promise. She hugs her. Suchitra sees Dev looking at Durga's pic and asks why are you doing research on her.
are after Payal which you don't know, I m very sure we have to shift Payal soon. He says fine, I will make the arrangements. Suchitra talks to Dev and says you explain me. Dev says its Payal's birthday today, I was missing her and went to make a similar cake. She smiles and says no one can have such cake. He says when I went to cake shop, someone ordered same cake, and for Payal.
He says it was Durga who ordered it. She says its coincidence. He says she came there and I followed her, I missed her. He says there is some connection between Payal and Durga, once we get Payal, we will get Nitya. Suchitra asks him not to dig the past as his family will be upset. He says don't worry, the good news is I m not going back to America, as I want to be with my family. She gets glad and says I wanted this to happen. She says I m afraid if you stay here……… She says I won't think anything and hugs him.
He thinks he won't break her trust, but he has to find Payal and Nitya and maybe Durga can help him. Durga dances in her room. She thinks about Payal. She brings anger in her dance thinking about Dev and the Goenka family. She thinks Dev is a liar, why as he following her and on whose saying, which trap is he making. She gets Akash's call. Akash says good news, there is a lead in Ganguly's video about Nandini, she is his student and I found out they are having an affair.
He says he is using Nandini. She says yes I understand, I know Ganguly is what kind of man, he is a creep, I can't expect anything from him. She asks him to expose Ganguly.
Shaurya plays squash with his friends. Rishi gets tired and stops. Karan says great Shaurya, you are playing like champions how. Shaurya acts heroic. He is shocked to see Dev there. Dev smiles and comes to them. Shaurya asks you here, did you come to play squash. Dev says no, you all play, actually I want Durga's number. Karan smiles. Shaurya says Durga? But why? Dev says I have some work. Shaurya says fine, you made me lose in rifle shooting, lets have a squash game, if you win, I will give you the number, if you lose, then I m sorry.
Dev says I could take the number from anywhere, but I don't want to turn you down, so lets play. Karan says Shaurya is in good form today, all the best. Shaurya says all the bets brother. They start playing. Karan says Shaurya will lose. Rishi says Shaurya can hear this. Shaurya loses to Dev. Dev smiles and<|fim_middle|>urga says Sagarika is a righteous girl and completely opposite of her father. She says I m feeling bad that I have to break Sagarika's heart, as she is proud of her dad not knowing his truth. Akash says how to expose him. Durga says we have the weapon to use against him, its in his house. She says you have to find out when will Ganguly and Nandini meet next and where. He says fine, I will find out and leaves. Durga gets Dev's call and is shocked.
She thinks about him and says fine. She ends the call. She says I will meet you Dev, I have to find out why are you following me. Dev comes to meet Durga at her home. She asks whats the important work you have with me. She says I have meeting today. He says I want to meet Payal. She is shocked and looks at him.
Really it is the best serial with a unique concept.
Full on suspense show!!!! Love it!!!! | says last point, show me your talent. Shaurya steps back. Dev asks what happened, are you accepting defeat before the game ends, come on. Shaurya says no, I don't have the mood to win today, take Durga's number.
Dev thanks him and says your excuse was very good. Dev leaves smiling. Karan says Dev was excellent. Shaurya gets angry and says why does he want with Durga. Sagarika is a good woman who works for women welfare and solves their problem. Her mum asks her not to get involved in this matter. Sagarika says you are lucky to have a husband like Ganguly, he taught me to fight against injustice. Sagarika takes the woman to the police station. Durga and Akash sees this on video.
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The history of medicine in America is a patchwork of traditions and methods ranging from those practiced by the Native Americans to English medical practices brought over by the early pilgrims. Even barbers played a role in early American medicine, with surgery often relegated to them, considered a bit messy and beneath the dignity of the trained physician.
Early American doctors were often quite scarce, especially in rural areas, leaving many average colonists with no choice but to meet<|fim_middle|>ing, and prescriptions of Calomel, a form of mercury. Few physicians performed surgery in those days, most leaving this duty to the barbers. Surgeons did not gain a respectable status in the medical profession until 1745, officially separating from the barbershop as full-fledged doctors in their own right.
The history of medicine in America is not one just of the prominent physicians of the day, but also of the practices of families and communities. Treatment by physicians was most often reserved for the wealthiest colonists, or those in the cities. Few average colonists had access to conventional physicians, their expense and scarcity making it rare for many to ever be seen by a doctor. The community met most medical needs, with midwives and neighbor women attending childbirth, caring for the aged and infirm, and treating common illnesses. This community involvement in the home was the beginning of the practice of nursing.
Interwoven into the fabric of everyday existence, the history of American medicine is a complex tale, with many of its most effective treatments in those early days concocted in the kitchens or church halls of the community rather than in the domain of the conventional physician. From this rich history of innovation born of necessity, the marvels of modern American medicine arose. | the medical needs of their families on their own, with medical literature and family healing traditions as their only guide. Many physicians in colonial America practiced without formal medical training, getting their knowledge directly from other physicians.
When the pilgrims came from England, they arrived with two physicians, one the commander of the Mayflower, Miles Standish. Like many physicians prominent in the history of medicine in America, Miles Standish had no formal medical education. He was rather a jack-of-all-trades, a military man, explorer, engineer, interpreter, and merchant as well as a physician. His medical knowledge was collected by observing and studying with other physicians.
Dr. Samuel Fuller, the other physician who sailed in with the Mayflower pilgrims, was an unusual doctor for this era, practicing as both a physician and surgeon. Doctors trained in English medicine used techniques based primarily upon the ancient Greek concepts of balance in the body, maintained with diet, herbs, and medicines. Therapies used by these conventional physicians commonly included bleeding, purging, blister | 208 |
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Lazybirds is a classic American band with roots in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. Formed in 1996, the quartet began by immersing into the old<|fim_middle|> thing … and every year, they do it a little better. | forgotten styles of blues, jazz, country, and ragtime that had been the soundtrack of the American underground several decades earlier. The band quickly developed a reputation in the High Country for playing music that touches people at their core in a way that hearkens back to a time when music was more closely intertwined with nature. Lazybirds have created a sound that is all their own, at once familiar and original. Loyal fans have danced through 2 decades with the band at bars, festivals, and parties across the southeast. Much like the old New Orleans Jazz bands, Lazybirds keep on doin' their | 122 |
The first weekend of Black History Month and the Catholic faith was front and center at the annual Archdiocesan Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
A call to service, unity and faith – and of course what's a celebration, without song?
Powerful, charismatic sounds of celebration, praise and prayer erupted from hundreds gathered in St. Patrick's Cathedral to celebrate Black History Month and the National Day of Prayer for the African American and African Family.
The annual Mass is a tribute to the historic contributions of African Americans and a call for many to come together as one.
Brooklyn Auxiliary Bishop<|fim_middle|> me we are the be all end all," said Dr. Ansel Augustine from the Archdiocese of New Orleans. | Guy Sansaricq served as the principal celebrant.
"Many times, we diversify and sometimes we take diversity as a cause for separation and division. There Is unity in diversity and diversity in unity," said Sansaricq.
"The nine black fraternities and sororities have been in existence starting in the early 1900's. They are a group that has been deeply committed service and a faith-filled group too. And some of those who are members are also serving in Catholic churches," said Davis.
Priests from various dioceses helped co-celebrate the Mass. The faithful raised their hands and voices in prayer as the theme for the Liturgy, Serving Our Brothers and Sisters, echoed throughout the historic cathedral.
Homilist Father Andrew Smith, a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago affirmed another common thread.
"We pray for all of those who are struggling whether it be spiritually psychologically or emotionally, everybody is dealing with something," said Smith.
The special Mass was a rousing start to Black History Month that many agree must not end with the final blessing.
"From here we challenge our communities and empower our communities because just cause we wear these letter, doesn't | 242 |
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Forbes Q&A with Grant Elliott, co-founder, CEO, and Chairman of Ostendio
This is an excerpt from an article that appeared in Forbes on July 28th, 2022. You can read the full article here.
Ostendio CEO, Grant Elliott, sat down with a Forbes magazine reporter to discuss the Top Risks and Security trends of 2022.
Forbes Q: What are the biggest threats businesses face when it comes to managing risk, security, and compliance in 2022?
Elliott: The number one threat faced by businesses is the<|fim_middle|> their data is or who has access to it. In an effort to manage threats, organizations often focus on their production data stored in a cloud environment such as AWS or Azure and fail to recognize that their data might be free-flowing across their organization - or beyond - through various cloud-based apps such as email, Slack, and other productivity tools. Without clear governance and mechanisms to enforce data security, sensitive data can find itself duplicated in all sorts of places providing potential attackers with a multitude of access points.
The Forbes article also covers what trends we can expect to see in the cybersecurity industry in the next 5 years including a discussion about the tools organizations will use to operate security and risk management programs, the increase in demand for security audits/certifications and the impact of a remote workforce.
And Forbes asks how businesses can prepare for the future. Elliott discusses managing and tracking assets including their criticality, risk, and accessibility. He talks about the increased use of APIs and understanding data flow between assets. Elliott also covers the need for organizations to follow industry-accepted standards and to ensure compliance by having it audited by a credible and independent third-party auditor.
The interview closes with advice for organizations looking at their cybersecurity plans for 2022 and beyond. Elliott says to build a culture of security at your organization. Data security and risk management is not just the job of the IT team or the CISO, it requires involvement from all employees in order to be successful. Elliott suggests that the role of the CISO is to work with the executive team to agree on a security budget that will drive operations security throughout the extending organization and reduce overall the organization's security risk.
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Trust Network | growing inability to understand where their data is stored and who has access to it. Organizations store sensitive information in a multitude of cloud and on-premise environments globally accessed by employees, contractors, and third-party vendors The challenge for organizations today is how to ensure only those required, with legitimate rights, can access and use that data. Failure to identify and manage access to data has led to a rise in both the number of data breaches each year and the related financial and reputational cost to an organization. . According to a recent Ponemon/IBM report, the average cost of a data breach is $4.2m, the highest average total cost in the 17-year history of the report.
Another threat is complacency. When organizations are complacent and take shortcuts to managing risk, security, and compliance, they put their business, employees, and customers at risk. There is no automated shortcut to running an effective security program. We've met with many organizations, who have since become customers, that have either tried to manage the process through spreadsheets or held the belief that an "automated" system could adequately protect their data, only to fail a security audit and put their organization at further risk. To be successful, businesses must get boardroom buy-in to invest in building robust integrated risk management and data security programs that can be verified by an external auditor.
Forbes Q: Where are organizations likely to fall short in terms of managing those threats?
Elliott: Most organizations today don't know where all of | 305 |
If I told you that "gentle fluid shear may work best to dissolve excessive collagen" you might look at me like I was doing arm curls in the squat rack. So let me put it in layman's terms.
That little bit of information was released at the Fascia Research Congress in Vancouver early last year. Research by Albert Banes demonstrated that certain cells can "feel" mechanical stimulation. More investigation into the subject found that in response to that stimulation, certain cells will release an enzyme that breaks down scar tissue.
Why do you care? Well, you know how your back seizes up? Or how your IT bands hurt when you run<|fim_middle|> connective tissues your body. And a little "mechanical stimulation" (aka foam rolling) is what's going to help break down that scar tissue. | ? Or how your shoulder can get so sore you can't lift it above your head?
There's a good possibility any of those could be caused by scar tissue building up in the muscles or | 38 |
Jim Schlossnagle Baseball Camps at TCU are designed to help improve the performance of baseball players of all ages and skill levels. Campers will receive instruction from some of the top coaches in the country who care about the betterment of each individual player. TCU Baseball Camps are dedicated to the development and growth of all campers who attend. Camps are open to any and all entrants (limited only by number, age, grade level and/or gender).
Register Online! Camps are available unless Sold Out is indicated below.
The Summer Prospect Showcase is the perfect setting to display your skills and your game to college coaches and professional scouts. Created specifically for high school players, campers will be given the opportunity to showcase their abilities in a pro style workout and in game situations for the camp staff. Camp personnel will include the TCU baseball staff along with other college coaches. This camp is designed for the player who is serious about taking their game to the next level and who desires "exposure" to college baseball coaches from all levels.
Lupton Stadium, will be home to TCU Baseball camps. In addition to Lupton Stadium, auxiliary fields around the Fort Worth area will be used. Indoor facilities are available should inclement weather arise. Campers are responsible for their own transportation to and from fields throughout the camp.
Medical Care: A member of the TCU athletic training staff will be present during each<|fim_middle|>CU Baseball camps. In addition to Lupton Stadium, auxiliary fields on TCU's campus may be used. Indoor facilities are available should inclement weather arise.
Each camper will receive an official Camp tshirt at the beginning of each camp session. Other camp apparel will be available to purchase during each camp.
We do offer what is called "Cancellation Protection". We offer basic Cancellation Protection to allow participants some peace of mind in case plans change. This allows us to keep our prices low and provide the best service possible. Due at the time of registration, Cancellation Protection entitles you to a full refund of camp fees should you cancel your registration 48 hours before the start of camp. | session. All medical information on the application must be completed.
The Fall TCU Experience Showcase is the perfect setting to provide instruction and improve skill and ability in front of college coaches and professional scouts. This is also a unique opportunity to get an up close look at the TCU campus and baseball facilities. Campers and parents will be led on an inside the scenes tour by a TCU Baseball Coach. The goal is to educate campers and parents on the recruiting experience and process, along with such topics as what a college coach looks for. The TCU Fall Experience Showcase Camp is open to any and all entrants (limited only by number, age, grade level and/or gender), and designed specifically for high school players who desire exposure and instruction from college baseball coaches from various levels.
Times: 9:00am approx. 7:00pm on the 10th and 9:00am 1:30pm on the 11th.
The Future Frogs Camp is the perfect setting to display your skills and your game, and learn from the TCU Coaching staff.
Facilities: Lupton Stadium, will be home to TCU Baseball camps. Indoor facilities are available should inclement weather arise.
Lunch will be provided for the camper but are encouraged to bring their own snacks as well.
The two day Spring Training Camp is a great opportunity for players of all ages to improve their skills in each area of the game. Each session is individually specialized to enhance performance in Pitching, Catching and Hitting. Baseball players that are serious about their future in baseball are encouraged to attend all sessions. The Spring Training Camp is a great way to prepare for the upcoming season and get a head start on the competition! Campers will be grouped by age/ grade and ability level.
Pitching & Catching: Pitchers will receive concentrated instruction in mechanics and delivery, grips, fielding, pick-off moves, the mental approach and much more. This session is designed for the pitcher who desires serious, comprehensive instruction.
Catchers: Catchers will receive specific instruction on proper setup, glove presentation, receiving, blocking, pop times, throwing programs, handling pitching staffs, as well as skills and tips on how to be a successful catcher at a very high level.
Hitting: Campers will be taught a variety of drills in order to develop proper swing mechanics. Stance, stride, rotation, and balance are just a few of the key topics that will be discussed and practiced in depth. Video evaluation will also be included during camp.
Important: Each session will be limited to the first 60 campers registered for each session!!
Each camper must bring his own baseball equipment. Players should bring running shoes or turf shoes, hat, helmet, bat, batting gloves and any other equipment they feel necessary to compete. Please mark camper's names on all items. The camp is not responsible for lost belongings.
Facilities: Lupton Stadium, will be home to T | 607 |
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Overview of health
Located in West Africa in the Gulf of Guinea, the Republic of Benin has a population of about eight million people. According to the World Health Organization, Benin is characterized by a high population growth of 3.25%.
The ten most common causes of death are neonatal disorders, malaria, lower respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, ischemic heart disease, stroke, road injuries, TB, congen<|fim_middle|> nine sites. This number incuded 1,113 children, 2,532 women and 1,457 men. Each person who visited a site received an average of 8.29 healthcare services.
More than 250 volunteers manned the sites, including 53 members of 17 Rotary clubs and 96 members of 17 Rotaract clubs.
The need for the outreach in communities was enthusiastically endorsed by the first authority of health, WHO, UNICEF, and the local Chief through the town carriers. Schools and some public places were used as sites. People were pleased with the program and expressed the wish to support future programs
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The implementation of Rotary Family Health Days in Benin was not done as part of a national program, but rather as one program that comprised the four Rotary districts within the countries of Benin, Togo and Ghana. More than 63 000 beneficiaries were seen during the three day campaign.
The official launch took place on April 12, 2017, with the Minister of Health and several health officials in attendance. Funding of $18 000 was obtained from a Rotary Foundation grant and material sponsorships were received from project partners.
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Thanks to Rotary Family Health Days, 2,726 people were screened for HIV, 2,515 people were screened for malaria, 1,388 women were screened for breast cancer, 1,153 women were screened for cervical cancer, and 2,730 people received nutritional advice.
More than 30,000 healthcare services were delivered to 3,999 people at | 264 |
Q: Pandas computing the data inside the column itself in dataframe I have come up with a problem where my data in the column has been recorded as 90-2,91-3,90+<|fim_middle|> the
corresponding bitwise operators. Series and DataFrame objects are
supported and behave as they would with plain ol' Python evaluation.
df['ldm2'] = pd.eval(df['ldm'])
output:
ldm ldm2
0 90-2 88
1 91-3 88
2 90+4 94
| 4 etc.My motive here is to add and subtract the data directly into the column itself. Datatype of the column is an object.
df = df1["ldm"].str.split('+',expand =True)
if df.shape[1]>1:
df_2 = df[0].str.split('-',expand = True)
df_2 = df_2.fillna(value=0)
df = df.fillna(value=0)
df_2[0] = df_2[0].astype(int)
df[1] = df[1].astype(int)
df_2[1] = df_2[1].astype(int)
df_2['3'] = df[1]
df_2[0]=df_2[0]-df_2[1]
df_2[0] = df_2[0]+df_2['3']
df1['ldm'] = df_2[0]
This is my inefficient solution..I am looking for an efficient way to compute this in the dataframe.
A: Use pandas.eval. It supports a limited range of operations, which makes it much safer to use than python's eval and more convenient than ast.literal_eval.
From the documentation:
The following arithmetic operations are supported: +, -, *, /, **, %,
// (python engine only) along with the following boolean operations: |
(or), & (and), and ~ (not). Additionally, the 'pandas' parser allows
the use of and, or, and not with the same semantics as | 325 |
Q: Define realtime on the web for business It drives me nuts to hear business proponents using the term realtime for web-based systems. I'm becoming the crazy in the room, chanting, "There is no such thing as realtime on the web! We're in banking, not the rocket launch/ship navigation/airplane autopilot business!"
Anyone have anything better for performance specifications than realtime, or its horrible hybrid, near-realtime?
A: Immediate? Instant? Live (no, wait, Microsoft owns that<|fim_middle|> that means "really fast", like maybe < 1 second.
Obviously it can't mean the same thing as when people talk about real-time embedded systems, real-time operating systems, etc. The web is too big and heterogeneous for that.
A: One definition of a real time system ( from the safety critical systems world ) is a system whose correctness depends on the timeliness of its responses.
That would apply equally well for a real-time web trading system - the stock values go stale in seconds as for an embedded avionics fly-by-wire system with millisecond correctness requirements.
| word these days, don't they?)?
More seriously, "realtime" is probably not confusing for anyone who doesn't have a process-control / embedded-system background. Have a comforting beverage and worry about other things.
A: Real-time means one thing to an embedded programmer. It means something else to a normal person. If my online balance always matches my ATM/bank-teller's balance, I would call that pretty real-time. If I can transfer money between accounts, refresh the screen, and immediately see the completed transfer, I would call that real-time.
If you web backend just prints out orders for human intervention, or dumps user-commands in a file for offline batch processing, that would not be realtime.
A: Real time means that as you have a set of tasks that executes in order to execute a task, if one task takes more then the defined time to finish, the whole process fails and probably the system crashes. For example, the application used to control the Mars exploratory vehicle is considered to be an real-time application, even that a command triggered on earth needs 8 minutes to achieves the vehicle and the images of the vehicke cameras takes more 8 minutes to reach the earth. So even with a 16 minutes latency between taking the action and seeing the result it can be defined as real-time, because if it takes more than the 16 minutes planned delay, there is a huge risk that the vehicle could collide with a rock or fall into a depression.
Back to your example, I don't see a ATM machine, or the above mentioned balances as real-time, they could be Online or Updated but not Real-Time as the system you not crash if takes more time then expected to complete a withdraw at a ATM.
A: In the banking industry most of the time "real time" means the opposite of "end-of-day".
Because there was no such thing as internet/intranet/LANs/WANs in the old days, all balancing is done at "end-of-day". Transactions done in one branch with a certain bank account are oblivious of the transactions done in another; all of the balance resolution will occur during end of day. When mainframes came in the same rule applied: resolutions are done by computer by a long-running-process usually run between 9PM and 12 midnight.
This is the reason behind terms such as "current balance" and "available balance", e.g., available balance is what has been determined by the end-of-day process as an account's balance for the previous day; current balance is what it's supposed to be, but you can't touch it yet since the bank is not sure if you've made some transaction somewhere else.
With the advent of ATMs, the internet, and other interconnectivity technologies, "real time" balance resolution is now possible: a withdrawal, an online transaction, a purchase debit, etc will immediately be reflected in the customers' bank accounts without the need to wait for end-of-day processing.
A: Inline? As in actions happen inline with your actions as opposed to out-of-band or end of the day batch jobs.
A: How do you define "real-time" for embedded systems? I would say that a decent definition is "a system which is able to process and respond to inputs faster than the average time between inputs." In other words, a system that will never fall behind in processing compared to the systems which are feeding it data. Using this definition everything on the web is a real-time system, since web servers that fall behind tend to be inaccessable (ie. the slashdot effect).
A: It's a marketing term | 751 |
WM voters pass property tax increase
Administrators thank community, discuss potential uses for funds
ADAM SODDERS
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STATE CENTER — West Marshall Community School District voters have spoken, and an increase in the district's Physical Plant Equipment Levy (PPEL) rate was approved in a special election Tuesday.
"That says<|fim_middle|> in the community who see the school and understand it's place and the things it does for this community and are willing to give a little bit back to it," he said.
A special school board budget meeting is set for 5:30 p.m. April 12 at WMHS, 601 3rd St. N.W. in State Center. A regular school board meeting will follow at 6 p.m. | a lot about our community," said district Superintendent Jacy Large of the majority who voted in favor of the measure. According to the Marshall County Auditor's office, 67 percent of 528 voters were in favor of the increase (356 voting yes and 172 against).
Large said he was "hopeful" the measure would pass, and he said he was "ecstatic" upon learning the result.
"It's a great deal," he said. "To pull this through for the first time ever, that's a big win for us."
The increase approved was $1 per $1,000 of the assessed valuation of the taxable property within the school district. That dollar will be added on to the existing 33-cent PPEL for a total levy rate of $1.33 per $1,000 of assessed valuation of taxable property.
Large said the figure is still lower than the maximum allowed levy rate of $1.67, and the total annual revenue from the $1.33 comes to $320,000 in revenue for the district, a $240,000 increase.
The PPEL money must be used for infrastructure and technology costs and will not be used for other purposes due to strict limits placed by the state. The measure is to stay in effect for 10 years.
Some possibilities named for the increased PPEL funds include renovating the third floor of the fourth- and fifth grade building at 214 W. Main St. in State Center, paying for technology fees and renovating the heating and cooling system at the high school.
"There's a little bit of a buzz in the air, kind of an excitement about the prospects of things that could happen," said West Marshall High School Principal Kristian Einsweiler. "We're really appreciative of the community that showed up to support our school and to support some potential changes that we really thing would help our kids in the long run."
While no projects are set in stone unless the school board approves, Einsweiler said fixing the heating and cooling system at the high school would benefit students.
"This would also help our kids have the ability to focus and learn in the classroom," he said. "These old cinder blocks, they heat up and hold heat, and it's just really hard to get it cooled down."
Einsweiler added that the building can often take a long time to heat up on cold days, making parts of the building unpleasantly frigid. He said students and teachers conversed about the vote before Tuesday's election.
"Our teachers had some conversations because kids were asking questions about it," he said. "I think they have an idea of what's there and what could happen."
Einsweiler said the school board put together "a pretty darn good list" of potential uses for the PPEL funds before the vote, and said he's excited to see how the board decides to use the revenue.
Large said such decisions are forthcoming, adding the reason for raising the property tax rate was because income surtax revenues cannot be used to buy down a loan taken out by the district.
"When you have to take a loan out of the bank, you can't use income surtax to pay down a loan, you have to use property tax," he said. "When those discussions were held, we were very clear and transparent that it would be the property tax and, if passed, we would use monies out of the general fund to help buy down the overall tax base as well."
Einsweiler said teachers were appreciative of voters' approval of the measure.
"That reminds our staff that there are people out | 756 |
I point out the positives and negatives. That's called objectivity.
Yeah, the D was fired up after<|fim_middle|>y, college football, Gamecocks sports. I rarely watch the news anymore. | they stopped them!
Slade Carroll with a nice td run.
4th and 1 and we couldn't score. Had 3 runs in goal to go territory. No pride, I guess.
What gives me more concern is the play calling. Maybe we will see more runs in the 2nd half.
They put Parker on scholarship! Announced it on the video board after he made a kick.
Bad decision by Joyner on 4th and goal. Picked off.
He had a great pass deflection. #93 had one, too.
We can't make any 3rd downs in opponents deep territory to get in scoring range. We went for it on 4th down, there, and got it. 3RD and goal, now.
Poor Bailey Hart is getting beat up. Got absolutely rocked on one hit.
#97, Devontae Davis, from Silver Bluff, looks HUGE.
There had better be an marked increase in our tackling or I might be leaving the stadium in handcuffs. Also, some picks and fumble recoveries.
Sorry for your loss brother!
I am so very sorry for your loss. Keep strong and know you're in my prayers and so many others.
Until you get death threats in your PM's, I doubt you're the most hated.
My favorite sports moment was when me and dad got great seats and watched Carolina beat Florida at Williams-Brice Stadium.
Watching college football, camping, watching high school football, grilling and smoking meat.
I try to listen to a variety of music, but classic rock like Rush, Styx, Ozzy, and Ronnie James Dio, are still the best, since they were creative and actually practiced their instruments. I loved Days Of The New, and still wish they were together. Yeah, I love heavy metal. Today's country music is a joke, so I listen to bluegrass and the blues instead.
History, particularly American History. Love to read about our forefathers who risked it all for us.
Yeah, I'm a Dexter fan. I love Jeopard | 424 |
Em Anatomia<|fim_middle|> estruturas, geralmente retificando-as. Dessa maneira, ao estendermos o antebraço, ele se torna alinhado com o braço e o ângulo entre eles aumenta: torna-se de 180 graus em extensão completa.
Flexão lateral
Na coluna vertebral, a flexão pode ser realizada em mais de um sentido: é possível criar uma dobra em sentido anterior (para a frente) ou lateralmente (para a esquerda ou a direita). Assim, para diferenciar tais movimentos, aquele que é efetuado anteriormente recebe o nome de flexão, apenas; enquanto a movimentação para os lados é denominada flexão lateral.
Exemplos
A galeria a seguir contempla algumas exemplificações de flexão. Dado que é um movimento bastante prevalente entre as articulações do corpo humano (como ombro, cotovelo, punho, juntas dos dedos, quadril, joelho, tornozelo e articulações da coluna vertebral), a flexão de diversas estruturas é exigida para a execução de tarefas cotidianas.
Referências
Anatomia | , flexão indica curvatura entre duas estruturas. Quando se refere, especificamente, à ação de um músculo, costuma ser um movimento feito anteriormente (para a frente), mas não é o caso em algumas articulações.
Definição
De forma geral, o substantivo flexão quer dizer curvar, dobrar. Em Anatomia, a essência desse termo se mantém: flexão indica o movimento que cria uma curvatura.
Em outras palavras, flexão é o movimento que diminui o ângulo entre duas estruturas. Considera-se, como referência, que o ângulo de zero grau corresponde a quando as duas estruturas se encontram paralelas. Assim, visto que realizar uma flexão é diminuir o ângulo naturalmente encontrado entre duas estruturas (isto é, o ângulo observado em posição anatômica), podemos afirmar que a flexão aproxima esse ângulo de zero.
Na maioria das articulações, chama-se de flexão o movimento realizado anteriormente. É o caso da articulação do cotovelo, na qual flexionar o antebraço equivale a trazê-lo para a frente, de modo que o ângulo entre o úmero e a ulna diminui.
Os verbos que podemos utilizar para expressar a realização de uma flexão são flexionar e fletir. Já os músculos responsáveis pela flexão são chamados de flexores.
O oposto da flexão é a extensão. Extensão, portanto, quer dizer aumentar o ângulo entre duas | 364 |
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Mongoose CEO, Chris O'Donoghue, added: "It's a really exciting time for Echelon and we can't wait to help them on their ambitious journey. With at home fitness offerings becoming ever popular, and with Echelon's unique and state-of-the-art offerings we have no doubt that appetite for the brand will only continue to grow."
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Mongoose, a leading integrated sports and entertainment marketing agency, will cover PR activities ranging from digital | 183 |
Painting the Woods: Nature, Memory, and Metaphor
Deborah Paris
Texas A&M University Press, 2020 - Forestry in art - 152 pages
"When first-time author and artist Deborah Paris stepped into Lennox Woods, an old-growth southern hardwood forest in the Pineywoods of northeast Texas, she felt a disruption that was both spatial and temporal. Walking the remnants of an old wagon trail past ancient stands of pine, white oak, elm, hickory, sweetgum, maple,<|fim_middle|> Tulsa; and other distinguished venues. Making her home in Clarksville, Texas, she teaches and lectures nationwide.
Title Painting the Woods: Nature, Memory, and Metaphor
Author Deborah Paris
Publisher Texas A&M University Press, 2020 | hornbeam, and red oak, she felt drawn into a reverie that took her back to "the beginning, both physically and metaphorically." Paris soon came to realize that Lennox Woods was actually more like a time machine-one that could go both backward and forward-granting glimpses of the past, present, and future while offering a fresh vision of the landscape. " Painting the Woods: Nature, Memory, and Metaphor" explores the experience of landscape through the lens of art and art-making. It is a place-based meditation on nature, art, memory, and time, grounded in Paris's experiences over the course of a year in Lennox Woods. Her account unfolds through the twin arcs of the changing seasons and her creative process as a landscape painter. In the tradition of Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, narrative passages interweave with observations about the natural history of Lennox Woods, its flora and fauna, art history, the science of memory, Transcendentalist philosophy, the role of metaphor in creative work, and even loop quantum gravity theory. Each chapter explores a different aspect of the forest and a different step in the art-making process, illuminating our connection to the natural world through language, comprehension of time, and visual depictions of the landscape. The complex layers of the forest and Paris's journey through it emerge as metaphors for the larger themes of the book, just as the natural world underpins the art-making drawn from it. Like the trail that winds through Lennox Woods, memory and time intertwine to provide a path for understanding nature, art, and our relationship to both and as a means to explore larger questions and themes"--
DEBORAH PARIS is a landscape painter whose work has been exhibited at Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, California; Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas; National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City; Gilcrease Museum in | 393 |
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