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Pasta with pepper stuffed with cheese and sundried tomatoes.
Vegetarian Pasta with pepper stuffed with cheese and sun dried tomatoes .
This recipe was to try out using the stuffed<|fim_middle|> blogging. I now have two blogs - one acting as an e-diary of tried and tested recipes while the other blog is a 52 week project of sharing stories from the lives of my family, friends, me. | peppers and sundried tomatoes I came across in Cold Storage.
1. Stir fry Chopped onions, capsicums, cauliflowers on high heat with pepper and very little salt . the pesto will have salt on its own and so one needs to be very careful on salt. I added the sun dried tomato half way through and the stuffed pepper towards the end when I felt the vegetables had cooked .
2. Add pesto and mix properly . Be careful not to break the stuffed peppers. I used James Olivier's garlic chilli pesto ..
3. Add the cooked pasta ( boiled al dente) to the vegetable pesto mixture and serve warm.
Pulao in our house is invariably accompanied by chutney.. Tomato and date chutney/ chaatni as we Bengalis call it or Mango ( called Aam in Bengali ) chaatni or Pineapple chaatni.
Abhit cooked a very delicious Multani biryani. I made an aamer chaatni and warm lemon pudding cake to do justice to the biryani.
To make the mango chutney, cut a raw mango into long slices and boil it with a little turmeric and a little salt. Once cooked and softened, mash it up with a spoon. Take a pan and add a little oil to it. When it heats, temper it with paanch phoron . Paanch phoron is a combination of five spices which Bengalis use for tempering. Add the mashed mango mixture . Add water more or less depending on the sonsistency you want. Once it comes to boil, add sugar to taste. It should be khatta meetha .. ie sweet and sour.. the sugar should not drown completely the sourness of the mango. In the mean time, heat another pan. Dry poast a teasoon of paanch phoron and half a dry red chilli. When it starts emitting an aroma, shut the gas. Let the spice cool and then grind it to a powder. When the sugar has dissolved in the chutney and the chutney is ready, put off the gas/ fire and sprinkle the powdered spice. It is the aroma of this ground spice which gives a totally different flavour to the chutney. Bon Appetit!
2. Make a stuffing of crumbled paneer, chopped coriander leaves, chopped cashew nuts and raisins , salt sugar to taste.
6. Or you may make a thick curry and pour over the paneer kababs to be had with rice or rotis.. For the curry, fry onions, ginger, garlic, chopped tomato, turmeric, salt to taste till the tomatoes soften . Cool and make a paste of it . In a little ghee or oil, add the ground paste along with chopped cashew nuts and raisins, kastoori methi, a little crumbled paneer.. Till the oil / ghee comes out from the sides.. I kept the gravy thick as we had it with pulao. Bon Appetit!
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Here's how to help kids with autism become capable, self-confident adults.
It's a beautiful vision on the horizon — your child with autism all grown up, a capable and independent adult. When our children are young, that horizon can seem very far away indeed. How will we get there? What should I be doing now?
Preparing your child for adulthood begins long before job skills training or learning to balance a checkbook. There is no how-to manual that will have all the answers for your unique child, but the seeds of preparation lie in the special abilities, strengths, interests and motivations that every child has.
The most important brick in your child's road to adulthood is recognizing those special components and using them to develop your parent-child relationship in a way that gives him both roots and wings. Roots — knowing that he belongs, is connected to others, is valued and capable and needed. Wings — knowing that he has the inner resources to learn and do and, with practice and patience, succeed.
Do recognize that your child's relationship with you and with all the members of your family will be the single strongest determinant of her success as an adult. See your child as a whole, not a packet of issues or symptoms.
Emphasize your child's strengths and use them to build her self-confidence.
Don't let his autism drive a wedge between him and the rest of the family. See your child as a full-fledged member of your family — with needs, yes, but also with responsibilities to others.
Don't focus 100 percent of your attention on her in a manner that suggests that other members of the family are not equally important.
Don't sacrifice all of yourself for the needs of your child, neglecting<|fim_middle|>ishes You Knew (Future Horizons, $14.95) and three other books on autism. | siblings who are also "works-in-progress," not allowing time for grandparents, cousins and friends. This sends a message to the child that he is the hub of the wheel around which everyone else turns. It's not a message that will serve him well in adulthood.
Do take the time to nurture yourself. It's not selfish. In fact, it's just the opposite. Letting your child see you as a multi-dimensional adult who enjoys life, is involved in community, takes good care of her own health, allows herself fun, respite and recreation — sets the best kind of example for your child.
Do praise your child's efforts — not the outcome or the result. Keep the focus on what he can do, rather than what he can't do. Know that every child has the capacity to achieve more than what he is currently able to do, but that for him, learning a skill requires exponentially more repetition and practice than it might for a typically-developing child.
Recognize that it is your responsibility to provide not only the opportunities for practice — but also to maintain patience throughout the learning process. Impatience, exasperation or "letting her learn the hard way" through humiliation or embarrassment will not help your child learn anything other than that she can't trust you.
Do realize that children learn more eagerly through fun. Your child will learn any skill much more quickly if you make it relevant to his life and his interests. There is always more than one way to accomplish a task — find the ones that make sense to him.
The most important thing parents can do is to help their child laugh, play, and build relationships with all of the people in their lives. That's more important than therapy, speech and language or cognition. When a child feels connected, she has the internal motivation she needs to do all those other things.
Don't "therapize" your child, filling his days with rounds of adults who are all trying to fix something. Think about the message this sends to the child. Involve yourself and your family in every creative way you can. Interact! Do what your child loves and do it with him — practice motor, social and language skills by getting in the pool or the ball pit with him. Go to the zoo, library and park, play in the snow and the sandbox and the puddles.
Do throw out standard measurement assessments such as growth charts or speech/cognitive/motor milestones aimed at the general population. Don't use "normal" as a measure of where she "should" be. Respect your child's unique trajectory. Encourage her to explore, to interact with people, to laugh and be curious, understanding that regardless of ability or disability, she's going to grow and develop and flourish if taught in a manner that accommodates her style of learning.
Do trust your instincts. You are the authority on your child. Talk to and listen to other parents, but don't accept their experiences as have-to's for your child. Regardless of whether other families are using this diet or that therapy, if your gut and experiences tell you that it isn't right for your child, listen to that voice and keep looking for the best "fit" for your child and family.
Do think of your therapists and professionals as guides, not bosses, for your child's journey to adulthood. Be willing to listen to the information they give you, even if you are not quite ready to hear some of it. Don't feel obligated to react to everything you hear. Remember that it's a process, and that you can take time to assimilate information before acting upon it — or choosing not to.
Do remember, amid all you are trying to accomplish, that you have time. Pace yourself. You have today, and tomorrow. You have next week, next month, next year and many years to come.
Don't forget that a parent's attitude towards the child is going to be that child's attitude towards himself. If helping create a sound sense of self is not your primary focus, no amount of therapy or education is going to matter.
See him and celebrate him as the capable, interesting, productive and valuable adult you believe he can be. Hold that vision, because through your eyes, he sees it too. Seeing is believing, and believing makes it happen.
Ellen Notbohm is author of Ten Things Every Child with Autism W | 883 |
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Why is pork forbidden?
Can you eat pork in Pakistan?
Does Jesus eat meat?
In which countries is pork banned?
Do pigs eat their own poop?
Does the Bible say not to eat pork?
Where in the Quran does it say you can't eat pork?
What is forbidden to eat in Christianity?
Why Muslims do not like dogs?
Is pork halal or haram?
Do Muslims drink alcohol?
Can Muslims eat bacon?
Can you buy pork in Israel?
Can a Hindu eat pork?
Does the Bible say don't eat bats?
What can Muslims not eat?
What does Quran say about eating pork?
Why is pork banned in Islam?
Does the Bible say not to eat meat?
Can Muslims eat shrimp?
What food is forbidden in Islam?
For example, the first-century CE Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria argued that pork was not permitted to Jews because it is the tastiest of the land animals and eating it would lead to gluttony; the legal prohibition teaches self-restraint and frugality..
The import and consumption of pork, which is forbidden in Islam, is illegal in Pakistan. On Ni Hao's shelves, however, you will find everything from pig snouts to trotters, from sausage to dried ham cuts.
Jesus' consumption of meats is a matter of some debate between Christian denominations as well as modern vegetarian and animal rights groups. At the very least we can say that Jesus probably ate very little of meat because it was a more expensive commodity.
Religious beliefs. Eating of pork is prohibited by orthodox Jewish dietary laws and Islamic dietary laws, and is also avoided by mainstream Seventh-day Adventists, Rastafarians, and members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. There is also a theory that pork was taboo in Scotland until roughly 1800.
Interested in animal sentience. Pigs don't eat their own excrement, unless left in a filthy pen, or not given enough to eat. Like humans, pigs are clean creatures when allowed to be.
Bible Gateway Leviticus 11 :: NIV. You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud. … And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.
In the case of pork, no specific reason for the prohibition is given except in Quran 6: 145. God says, in reference to the flesh of swine (pig), "for that surely is impure".
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Recently the Hyderabad based Muslim seminary Jamia Nizamia, started in 1876, issued a ban on Muslims eating prawn, shrimp, and crabs, calling them Makruh Tahrim (abominable). … Most Muslims eat all kinds of meat. In fact, the religion defines itself by the eating of meat: even though the Holy Prophet was a vegetarian.
According to the Quran, the only foods explicitly forbidden are meat from animals that die of themselves, blood, the meat of pigs and any food dedicated to other than God.
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Dogs in Islam, as they are in Rabbinic Judaism, are conventionally thought of as ritually impure. This idea taps into a long tradition that considers even the mere sight of a dog during prayer to have the power to nullify a pious Muslim's supplications.
The most common example of haram (non-halal) food is pork. While pork is the only meat that categorically may not be consumed by Muslims (the Quran forbids it, Sura 2:173 and 16:115) other foods not in a state of purity are also considered haram.
Although alcohol is considered haram (prohibited or sinful) by the majority of Muslims, a significant minority drinks, and those who do often outdrink their Western counterparts. Among drinkers, Chad and a number of other Muslim-majority countries top the global ranking for alcohol consumption.
The main reason pork is forbidden for Muslims is because it says in the Holy Quran that some food is allowed, while others are explicitly declared haram, which means forbidden. And pork is one of those forbidden foods. … Processed pork can also be found in many other foods in the form of gelatin.
Pork, and the refusal to eat it, possesses powerful cultural baggage for Jews. Israel has legislated two related laws: the Pork Law in 1962, that bans the rearing and slaughter of pigs across the country, and the Meat Law of 1994, prohibiting all imports of nonkosher meats into Israel.
Hindus who do eat meat, often distinguish all other meat from beef. The respect for cow is part of Hindu belief, and most Hindus avoid meat sourced from cow as cows are treated as a motherly giving animal, considered as another member of the family. … The Cham Hindus of Vietnam also do not eat beef and pork.
the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. All flying insects that swarm are unclean to you; do not eat them. … You may give it to an alien living in any of your towns, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your God.
Muslims will eat only permitted food (halal) and will not eat or drink anything that is considered forbidden (haram). Halal food requires that Allah's name is invoked at the time the animal is killed. Lamb, beef, goat and chicken, for example, are halal as long as a Muslim kills them and offers a prayer.
He says Islam's holy book, the Quran makes it clear that one cannot sell or even touch pork. "Absolutely not," he says. "Pork is forbidden. We cannot eat it and cannot touch it.
Pigs are described in this section as prohibited because they have a cloven hoof but don't chew their cud. And the pig, because it has a cloven hoof that is completely split, but will not regurgitate its cud; it is unclean for you.
Within the Bible's New Testament, the Apostle Paul states that people of "weak faith" "eat only vegetables", although he also warns both meat-eaters and vegetarians to "stop passing judgment on one another" when it comes to food in verse 13 and "[It is] good neither to eat flesh" in verse | 759 |
Chris Pull is from the UK and fast approaching 29. He studied Zoology and completed a Masters in Scientific Research with Prof. Mark Brown at Royal Holloway University of London, before moving to the IST Austria, near Vienna. There, he investigated social immunity in ants with Prof. Sylvia Cremer for five years. In 2017, he defended his PhD thesis and moved back to Royal Holloway, to join Dr. Elli Leadbeater's research group, studying cognition in bumblebees. In this interview, we talk about his PhD, his PostDoc position, and how bouldering and houseplants help him relax from work.
MNB: What was the topic of your PhD thesis?
CP: The official title of my thesis was 'Disease Defence in Garden Ants', which was necessarily vague because there was no strong, linear connection running between the chapters. For example, one chapter investigated innate immunity in founding ant queens whilst another showed that silk cocoons protect developing pupae from the acids ants disinfect their nest with. However, the bulk of my thesis was spent investigating how ants prevent successful fungal infections of the brood from becoming infectious and spreading within the colony. We found that due to changes in brood odour following infection, ants can smell when the brood are sick and so single them out for "special attention". This involves the ants biting holes in the sick brood's body, through which they then spray an antiseptic mix of formic and acetic acid. By disinfecting the brood in this way, from the inside out, the ants proactively kill the already doomed brood, along with the disease it carries, before the pathogen can complete its lifecycle and spread to another host.
MNB: Wow, amazing. And what is the topic of your PostDoc position? You are now working with bumblebees, right?
CP: Yes! Very broadly, we are trying to better understand the link between<|fim_middle|> five years of work, but also because the biggest issue was about how impactful the research was perceived to be, which can be hard to argue against. Eventually, it all turned out well, which I think was due to both persistence on my part, but also an extremely supportive supervisor who worked tirelessly to get the paper into the best journal possible. Generally, I always try to read reviews through once, not think about them too much, sleep on it and come back to them the next day. This way I feel like I subconsciously process anything that feels personal (but of course isn't) and I can look at the reviews more objectively.
MNB: Seems like a good approach! Is there one thing you would do differently when starting your PhD thesis again?
CP: I wish I could have published sooner. When I left Austria for my post doc, only a review I was a co-author on had been accepted, meaning everything else was published whilst juggling moving back to the UK and starting a new job. It also meant I never really got to celebrate the papers being accepted with the people who helped and provided support on them from the beginning.
MNB: And now, would you like to stay in science?
CP: Yes, despite the odds. My current philosophy is to not think about it too much (or rather, worry too much), but to see what happens. I remember thinking I wouldn't get a PhD, and then that I wouldn't get a post doc. I know the next step will be harder, but I will give it my best shot, starting with fellowship applications this summer.
MNB: Good plan! And in the future, if you will be supervising PhD students yourself, what will be the most important thing you will expect from your students?
CP: Enthusiasm. I think you need that intrinsic interest in a topic or model organism to push through any trying periods.
MNB: And what will be the most important thing you will want to take care of in supervising?
CP: If I ever become supervisor, I am worried I will be a poor communicator. I have a tendency to let emails lie when I'm unsure or short on time, rather than just tackling them head on, so this is something I want to work on.
CP: Informative – I'm bombarded on a daily by Google scholar alerts and so want to see straight away what a paper is about, rather than a catchy title, but this is subjective.
CP: Graphical (except for stats!).
CP: It's actually a relatively recent paper and one from a previous colleague, Simon Tragust, called "Ants disinfect fungus-exposed brood by oral uptake and spread of their poison". I remember seeing the work being presented at a conference in the first month of my PhD and being awed by the elegant experimental approach and the completeness of the project, which definitely went on to inspire my own work.
MNB: …and if in another life you would be an ant, what ant would that be?
CP: Hmm…something large and long lived, like a bullet ant or leaf-cutting ant queen.
MNB: Thank you so much for this nice interview! | cognition and its effects on fitness, using bumblebees as a model system. This involves lots of behavioural assays in the lab to measure different cognitive traits – namely the various forms of memory – and seeing what the cost and benefits of these traits are under varying ecological conditions. It's much harder work than experiments with the ants, due to the amount of time it takes to get a single replicate, but in some sense this makes it more rewarding.
MNB: Why ants? And why bumblebees now?
CP: I have always had a strong interest in animal behaviour and entomology, having kept and bred hundreds of creepy crawlies in my bedroom as a kid. However, I was unsure exactly what I wanted to study until I was given the opportunity to do some lab experiments with ants during my final year at university. Once I started observing ants up close and seeing how much complex, social behaviour is going on inside even a small ant colony, I became hooked. However, by the end of my PhD I had studied ants and their diseases for seven years and wanted to try something a bit different. I kept an eye out for exciting positions in good research groups and also started speaking to group leaders whose work I found interesting. It just so happened that a position opened up in Dr. Elli Leadbeater's lab that was exactly the sort of science I wanted to do, with a new model system and topic (bees and cognition). Moreover, the job was ideally located and had a start date that lined up perfectly with the end of my contract in Austria. Needless to say, I accepted the job immediately when it was offered!
MNB: Great, so everything fit together! Slightly different question now: How do you feel about field work?
CP: Although we used to call ant collection fieldwork, our study species were invasive, meaning they typically colonized disturbed urban areas. This meant we were usually collecting ants from parks, gardens, and once even a stretch of beach, in Barcelona – not exactly traditional field sites. As part of my experiments with bumblebees this summer, I spent entire days examining floral resources in the parkland surrounding our university. Again, though not exactly remote or exotic, it was nice to be outside, in the sun, on a regular basis. I would like to continue doing some sort of fieldwork in the future, but I do prefer the controlled conditions of the lab.
MNB: And how about identifying ants/bumblebees using a key?
CP: I've not really had a proper go at this before. So far, all of my study species have been easily identifiable by eye, especially after working with them for a while.
MNB: And how working in the wet lab?
CP: This is what I enjoy most and think I am best at. We had to be very careful not to infecting our stock ant colonies with any diseases and so I developed good wet lab practices during my PhD.
MNB: This will certainly be helpful in your research. And did you acquire your statistics knowledge in university courses, from your supervisor, or on your own?
CP: Interestingly, my college biology classes were very light on the stats, but I also took environmental science, which had the option to sit a statistics exam. This required choosing the right test and applying it to some data, all by hand. This really helped to understand how the basic tests worked and laid out the foundation for learning about statistics further at university. However, it was not until I started learning R during my PhD that I truly enjoyed statistics – there's something about coding that makes it more understandable and intuitive, unlike black box, point-and-click software. Luckily, I was able to attend an R course early on and had lots of data with which to practice coding, and my supervisors have always been really helpful. I am now beginning to learn about information theoretic approaches to statistical inference.
MNB: Wow! And what is the ideal frequency of meeting your supervisor for discussing your research from your point of view: daily, weekly, monthly?
CP: It really depends on the stage of the project, but I feel like once weekly to a maximum of monthly is a good amount, especially on top of weekly group lab meetings.
CP: I had a lot of freedom and access to resources during my PhD, so would sometimes run pilot experiments when I had what I thought was a good idea. I'd then discuss the resulting data with my supervisor and colleagues to see if it was worth perusing. In general, though, I tend to mull ideas over for quite a while, before talking about them with my peers.
MNB: That is definitely a good approach. Slightly different again: How many papers do you read in an average week?
MNB: So true. In an ideal world, is the working group you belong to small or large?
CP: All the lab groups I have belonged to have been a decent size (around 10 people), which means there's always enough minds and spare hands to help solve problems, as well as being socially active.
CP: As much as I found it dull and boring as a kid, at my core I think I am a suburbanite. So, although I enjoy the city, I like to have a decent amount of green around. Both IST Austria and Royal Holloway have very green campuses, but are close enough to major cities that things don't get boring. The amount of parkland surrounding Royal Holloway is particularly nice, as it allows us to carry out fieldwork right on our doorstep.
MNB: That sounds nice! Have you profited more from attending conferences with narrower or with a broader scope?
CP: Having attended a lot of both, I can comfortably say I prefer smaller, narrower conferences. You can talk to everyone, and the presentations are all more or less interesting. That said, I think it is really important to attend larger conferences to broaden horizons, gain inspiration, and to just see what else is going on out of your field. At very large conferences, I try to pick a few topics I'd like to know more about (e.g. epigenetics) and attend a few of those talks to learn about something new.
MNB: What is most relevant to you at a conference: attending talks, giving a talk, meeting senior scientists, or meeting other students?
CP: I am quite shy, yet I love to give talks and posters, so this is often a priority for me. Equally important is talking to people, and especially those at a similar academic level, because they are likely to be people I will collaborate with in the future.
MNB: And if you would get 100,000 Dollar to spend for your research project, what would you do with it?
CP: I am beginning to think about fellowships for when my postdoc is finished, and so this question is constantly rolling around in my head. I think I would like to return to working with ants and probably the topic of social immunity. Over the next year, I will try and develop some of the embryonic ideas that I have, to see if I can carve out a novel niche for myself within this growing field.
MNB: Oh wow! And in your spare time, what helps you best to relax from work?
CP: Over the past year, I have become totally obsessed with two things: bouldering and houseplants. Previously lacking any interest in sports and having killed every plant I've ever owned, both have been a surprise. Climbing is particularly "therapeutic" when stressed – there's just something about hanging meters off the ground by your fingertips that makes it really hard to think about anything else. Tending to the plants for an hour or so also gives me time to reflect and helps focus my thoughts.
MNB: Great hobbies! And how do you celebrate successes like getting a paper accepted, a proposal granted, or the like?
CP: When my eLife paper was accepted I was in Ikea (unable to keep from checking my emails!), and insisted that we go straight to open a bottle of champagne. I think it is very important to celebrate successes, big and small, and especially with your peers, who understand what an ordeal it can be. When my last paper was accepted, I cooked up a big meal and had the lab group over to celebrate.
MNB: That sound so nice. Do you have a personal trick to get over periods of low(er) motivation?
CP: If possible, I will try and take a break from what whatever isn't working and focus on something else for an afternoon, usually something practical in the lab. During longer stretches, I just try to enjoy things outside of work more, so that I do not continually to focus the negative.
MNB: And relating to your recent articles: What do you do to get over frustration about what you consider as unfair criticism by a reviewer?
CP: The first paper I ever submitted came back with a whopping five reviews, which ranged from a single sentence that recommended "acceptance", to a pages-long salvo of criticisms. I think it's fair to say I was thrown in the deep end. It also took a while to find a journal that would send to review the 'big project' of my PhD, and it was not an easy road until it was accepted, requiring weeks of additional experiments whilst I was trying to finish up my PhD. This was particularly painful, not only because it was the culmination of | 1,928 |
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This essay on Medieval Genoa is written by Professor Stephen A. Epstein of the History Department of the University of<|fim_middle|> the city through their military, economic, and political power. Entire districts, such as the thirteenth-century family church and neighborhood of the Doria family at Piazza San Matteo, preserve the private character of medieval art and architecture in Genoa, an unheralded anticipation of the comprehensive, balanced, symmetrical Renaissance urban planning of Leon Battista Alberti, a Florentine born and raised in Genoa.
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After visiting Genoa in 1352, Petrarch (Le familiari, 14, 5, 23-5) wrote an important, early humanist laudation to city life, stressing the close relationship of Genoa to Nature and the landscape in an idealized, Virgilian pastoral-arcadian mode: "
[Genoa] seemed to me not an earthly place, but a celestial abode which the poets place in the Elysian Fields, as the peaks of the hills [rise] with their amenable paths [above] the fertile little valleys and in these valleys [live] happy people. Who would not have gazed with amazement from high [on the surrounding hills] at the towers and palaces, nature vanquished by man, the rough hills covered by citrons, vineyards and olive groves, the buildings of marble at the foot of the hills, second to no one in royalty and enviable to any city?"
Art and architecture in medieval Genoa played a major role in creating this idealized, Golden Age classical image of the city–a rebirth of Mediterranean trading cities, to cite Henri Pirenne–in symbiotic relationship to its natural harbor site: a maritime theatre of art representing the particular interests of business, family, religious and communal patrons. Three themes are central to Genoese medieval art and architecture: appropriation, spoliation, and transformation.
From its Lombard background and Mediterranean ascent, Genoa appropriated diverse cultures, representing its feudal and commercial development; while spoliation became a defining element of its artistic landscape and historical narrative (see Caffaro and Embriaco). From the First Crusade of 1097-1104 through the Fourth Crusade and Latin occupation of Constantinople in 1204-62, Genoa fiercely competed with Pisa and Venice for the despoliation of Byzantine and Muslim sacred sites, the "translation" of Mediterranean power to the West. This literally transformed Genoa (as it did Pisa and Venice) "from a city of austere stone and wood to one of marble" (to paraphrase Suetonius on Augustan Rome).
French, Lombard, Byzantine and Islamic influences merged in the Cathedral of San Lorenzo, the major civic-ecclesiastical commission of the medieval period. Rebuilt from the early twelfth through the early sixteenth centuries, the Cathedral's Lombard Romanesque-Gothic-and Early Renaissance styles embodied its cultural ties to northern Italy–in particular Milan, the stone quarries of Lake Como, and Certosa di Pavia–from which Lombard stonemasons, sculptors, painters, and master builders came to Genoa and dominated the local culture, forming their own guilds of "Maestri Antelami" (parallel to the less prominent arti genovesi), supervising and strongly influencing the cathedral works and other Ligurian commissions. The black and white marble decoration of the Cathedral, quarried in Promontorio (Val Polcevera) and Carrara, reflects this Lombard-Comese tradition, highlighting the massive religious center above the dense medieval port.
Petrarch and other travellers praised the black and white marble facades of Genoese palaces and churches as distinctive features of its urban display, towering within the harbor enclosure. This urban scenography rivalled Venice's sumptuous palace and church marble facades: classical spoils defining public spaces in Byzantine orientation. In contrast to Venice's San Marco with its luminous Byzantine baldachin style and theatrical triumphal-arch entry sequence, Genoa's San Lorenzo faces west: a Lombard Romanesque-Gothic longitudinal church of northern Italy, competing in size and grandeur with other Italian and European cities, trumpeting Genoa's rise to an archbishopric in 1123, a proper place for sacred relics stolen by crusaders, which became the ceremonial focus of communal development.
Within the towering Romanesque black and white nave sanctuary, gold and silver chalices, censors, emerald plates and ivory figurines, jewel-studded crosses and precious reliquaries, sumptuous vestments and fabrics of Byzantine, Muslim, and Asian origin served as liturgical implements and even sacred objects of worship: booty of Mediterranean conquest, signs of divine favor. Miracle working icons, such as the "Volto Santo", the cloisonné gold relief framed image of Veronica's Veil of Christ, housed in the Convent of San Bartolomeo degli Armeni, served as examples of Byzantine "sacred art" to Genoese and Lombard artists. These became the sacred objects of communal pagaentry and processions during feast days, crises and victories, described by Caffaro's annals.
Within San Lorenzo, the ashes of St. John the Baptist, taken by crusaders from Mira in 1097, added a new patron saint (of water) to Genoa, rivalling Florence. The Baptist joined St. Lawrence (a remnant of Genoa's early ties to Rome and Ambrosian Milan), the Virgin Mary (ever a favorite of medieval Marian worshippers), and the crusading St. George as spiritual protectors and intercessors for this unruly crusading port. Carved and painted images of the patron saints, in particular St. George, appeared throughout Genoa in lively Byzantine, Lombard, and International Gothic styles over portals and within chapels, "sanctifying" this alliance of church, family, and commune to military crusade and commerce in the East. The presence of the saint was ubiquitous to urban life. Even today, the relics of the Baptist are taken from their chapel in the Cathedral on the feast day of his Nativity (June 24), and processed in their late Gothic reliquary by the archbishop and communal government to the harborfront for a Mass and ceremonial "blessing of the sea", Genoa's rival version of Venice's "Sposalizio al Mare". Art and architecture shaped the public and private life of medieval Genoa (see Caffaro).
Approaching the triumphal entrance facade of San Lorenzo with deeply splayed portals and spiral colonnette clusters from the early thirteenth century, one sees the first appearance of the French Gothic style in Italy, studded by colored glass, stones, and decorative patterns, characteristic of Byzantine and Muslim Mediterranean influences. Genoese spolia from Roman and Byzantium remains, including columns and sculptural reliefs, were mounted on the church facades and within the sanctuary, to celebrate Genoa's ancient foundations and competition with Venice for Mediterranean dominion. This "sacred city" was announced on the central portal by flanking rampant Lions, the Tree of Jesse and Incarnation pilaster reliefs, supporting the solemn tympanum figure of Christ and the Last Judgment above the Martyrdom of St. Lawrence: a prefiguration of salvation at the high altar and reflection of diverse stylistic influences (and religious-political ties) from the Tree of Life on the medieval papal church of Orvieto to the Last Judgment tympanum reliefs of the Île de France, Chartres and Nôtre Dame.
By communal regulation, black and white marble facades were reserved for major churches, such as the Cathedral and the late-thirteenth-century mendicant churches of San Francesco di Castelletto and San Domenico (both destroyed by urban expansion during the 1860s); but also for rival old noble families, such as the Guelf Fieschi and Grimaldi and Ghibelline Doria (see Doria) and Spinola, who rebuilt their urban family neighborhoods (alberghi) and country retreats (feudi) during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the period of conflict for control of the weak communal government and unstable rivieras. As in Venice, Genoese marble display, spoliation, and commemorative inscriptions became distinctive elements of ecclesiastical, civic, and old noble power, celebrating their crusades and naval victories over Pisa and Venice.
The short-lived government of Guglielmo Boccanegra (1256-62) built the first communal palace (later Palazzo San Giorgio) directly on the harborfront, the "piazza" of medieval Genoa, in 1260, thirty years before the communal palace and piazza of Florence. Designed by the clerical-architect, Frate Oliverio, who is identified by inscription and date on the entrance portal, the Lombard-Gothic block form set the style of Genoese palaces, inspired by the communal palaces of northern Italy (e.g., Como). Crenellations with the Cross of St. George, the crusading saint and insignia of Genoa; Gothic arcades, hard stone and brick facades with black and white marble fenestration, defined the polychrome style of the communal government in competition with old noble patrons. According to a contemporary continuator of Caffaro, the Byzantine Emperor Michael Paleologus gave the Genoese "a large and ample palace [in Constantinople] in the form of a castle that the Veneti occupied in that city," in gratitude for their support against Venice in lifting the Latin occupation in 1262; and "the Genoese, among the clamor of trumpets, bugles and horns, tore down that palace to the foundations, and they transported certain stones to Genoa in their ships, of which several were placed in the casa del Comune built on the harborfront." Art and architecture, through ceremony, blend with military and church history in creating new civic narratives.
In 1291, the Boccanegra palace was converted into the Dogana (customs house), and in 1407 to the Banco di San Giorgio during the French reforms of Jean Le Meingre, Maréchal de Boucicaut. With the period of old noble feudal conflict, a new Palazzo Ducale was constructed inland, among the narrow, protected streets near the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in 1290, in a rusticated-fortress style with campanile, contemporary with other communal town halls in central Italy. The Palazzo Ducale and the family alberghi neighborhoods of Genoa became the locus of patronage for the "perpetual Doges" and foreign rulers, and the old noble families, who controlled | 2,206 |
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Follow-up studies are underway using BOLD fMRI to identify changes of function in specific areas of the brain that are associated with specific problems in cognitive development.
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This work formed the basis of the doctoral dissertation of Ping Zou, PhD, then at the University of Tennessee, and now a staff scientist at St. Jude. | of functional MRI (fMRI) technology to study brain function in survivors of childhood cancers. fMRI tracks blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
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When Lawrence Weschler picked global warming as the theme for the Humanities Festival, it was still a topic nobody was talking about.
It was unseasonably hot on the day two weeks ago that Lawrence "Ren" Weschler spoke at the Arts Club. Weschler's ostensible topic was his latest tome, Everything That Rises, a picture book in which he shows that the resemblance between certain images--say, a photo of Monica Lewinsky and the Mona Lisa--can be the germ of a quirky essay. Everything That Rises won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism last year, and it was the subject the members lunching at the Arts Club were expecting. But Weschler had another item on his agenda: before he cranked up the PowerPoint for a spin through convergent art, he launched into a spiel on "The Climate of Concern," the name for this year's Chicago Humanities Festival.
In early 2006, when Weschler took the job of artistic director for CHF, he did it on the condition that the 2007 festival theme would be global warming. "The striking thing was<|fim_middle|>K; the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef (the "AIDS quilt of global warming") at the Cultural Center (see Our Town for more); staged readings of half a dozen one-acts commissioned from the likes of Don DeLillo and Sarah Ruhl; and a goodly number of women artists talking (Maya Lin, Tara Donovan, Ann Hamilton, and more) because, he says, there was a nice little convergence between the start of the "consciously feminist art movement" and the first Earth Day, in 1970. Plus talks by writers like E.L. Doctorow and young adult author Philip Pullman (whom Weschler and his daughter, Sara, will interview).
One thing not on Weschler's plate this year is the CHF benefit gala on November 2: a concert of show tunes, jazz, and cabaret favorites by Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell at Symphony Center, followed by a $500-a-plate dinner. (Tickets to the concert only are $25.) Weschler's attempt at gala planning last year, a melange dubbed Curiodyssey and hyped as the place to be, was such a resounding flop he's been taken off that duty. Curiodyssey included a sampling of festival-like offerings--a lecture on octopus camouflage, a screening of decaying film stock accompanied by live new music--eccentric enough to leave many attendees mystified. He says he was told when he came on board that there'd been too much musical stuff at past galas and that something different would be welcome. But he learned that "the people who come to the gala, who can afford to pay that kind of money, and the people who go to the festival are different kinds of audiences. The people who come to the gala, I now understand, want to see Brian Stokes Mitchell." Curiodyssey--"too downtown," he says--was "really hated" by a third of the audience. And the comment he heard most from those who didn't hate it was "This is fantastic. You are in so much trouble."
CHF, started under the auspices of the Illinois Humanities Council in 1989 but an independent entity for a decade, now has an annual operating budget of just over $3 million and a staff of 18. It sells about 30,000 festival tickets annually, gives away another 10,000, and reaches between 6,500 and 9,000 individuals, most of them middle-class, white, and middle-aged. It's been without an administrative head since founder Eileen Mackevich was forced out in 2005. (Cofounder and board chair Richard Franke, who stepped down earlier this year, has been succeeded by Willard Fraumann.) But this week Evanston native Stuart Flack joined the staff as executive director. Flack comes from the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he was a partner and publisher of a journal on management, strategy, and finance, the McKinsey Quarterly. CHF won't be his only interest either; he's a playwright (Victory Gardens productions include Homeland Security and Jonathan Wild) and, it appears, another global thinker. At least he lives locally.
Artist Chapman Kelley claimed a preliminary victory last week in his ongoing suit against the Park District over its destruction in 2004 of much of his 66,000-square-foot wildflower artwork in Grant Park. According to Kelley's attorney, Frank P. Hernandez, U.S. district judge David H. Coar ruled that the garden was a work of art; that Kelley owned the flowers, valued at $1.5 million; and that the Park District should have given him notice of changes. Additional briefs in the case, which turns on the question of protection under the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990, are to be filed at the end of the month. No comment from the Park District.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): Lawrence Weschler photo. | that hardly anybody in America was taking it seriously" at that time, he says. It was showing up as the number-one issue in opinion polls all over Europe, but in the United States it was lagging behind the likes of health care, taxes, and the Iraq war. "Public policy people, politicians, and scientists had been trying to break through on this subject and hadn't succeeded," Weschler said, adding that he thought he knew why: "The problem was a real crisis of vision." If environmental change is amorphous, distant, and hard to visualize, he reasoned, the task of making it clear should go to "the people whose job is vision: artists, historians, philosophers, poets, playwrights. The people we regularly bring to the Chicago Humanities Festival." The subject was slated: the festival would be the vehicle for raising public consciousness about climate change. Then, he says, "Gore happened."
Weschler is a busy guy: the Humanities Festival is a commuting gig for him. He's in Chicago only about five days a month and lives in New York, where he heads the New York Institute for the Humanities, based at NYU. A former New Yorker staff writer, he recently finished putting together two volumes of interviews he's done with David Hockney and Robert Irwin over 25 years. And in his spare time he writes comments online about the winners of a contest McSweeney's is running on its site: McSweeney's Books, which published Everything That Rises, has invited people to submit their own visual convergences (dad putting up a clothesline in the backyard and the Iwo Jima flag raising, for example). Weschler's going to publish a book of those too. But right now he's focused on the festival, which runs October 27 through November 11.
Weschler says Al Gore's 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, turned global warming into the "flavor of the year" and left CHF with a different kind of challenge than the clueless lack of interest he'd originally anticipated. As Weschler told the audience at the Arts Club, the new task was to engage people who'd seen the Gore movie and might be thinking "been there, done that." Stretched over three weekends this year rather than the usual two, the festival offers more than 120 events at 25 venues, plus a concurrent children's festival. On Weschler's list of highlights: a sidebar of programs on the end of the world (because this ain't the first time it's been in sight), including the fall of Rome, bubonic plague, and Y2 | 550 |
Leading Trademark & Brand Protection Lawyer Joins RCCB
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RCCB welcomes Senior Counsel Nancy Rubner Frandsen
Philadelphia, PA, January 3, 2023 – Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC (RCCB), a law firm offering a distinctive combination of practical business acumen, legal expertise and entrepreneurial passion, announced today the addition of Senior Counsel Nancy Rubner Frandsen. She will be a member of the firm's Intellectual Property Group effective January 3, 2023.
Frandsen brings more than <|fim_middle|> counseling with the type of sound practical judgment that comes from hands-on business experience. We encourage entrepreneurial approaches and creative thinking, while maintaining the utmost in integrity and responsiveness. RCCB understands and delivers the advice that companies, business executives and investors, as well as individuals and their families, need to realize their hopes and goals. From offices in the Greater Philadelphia area and New York, RCCB serves clients throughout the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond. Additional information about Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld is available at www.rccblaw.com.
Acumen 2022 Year in Review | 35 years of experience to her practice, which will focus primarily on trademarks, copyrights, strategic counseling, and portfolio management, as well as enforcement before the federal courts and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Her clients include business owners, entrepreneurs and major corporations. Frandsen's in-depth knowledge of her clients' businesses and her support in helping them advance their objectives have made her a go-to trademark lawyer.
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Previously, Frandsen practiced trademark and copyright law for an AmLaw 100 firm, where she served for three years as its national team leader for its trademark practice. Being a sound and seasoned lawyer has led her to be ranked by Chambers USA as a "Leading Lawyer" in intellectual property law since 2006. According to Chambers USA, Frandsen operates a "highly respected trademark and copyright practice" and is a "tough, experienced leader."
In addition to practicing law, Frandsen serves as an adjunct professor teaching trademark law at Temple University Beasley School of Law, and she is the coauthor of "What the General Practitioner Should Know About Trademarksand Copyrights" (6th edition), published by ALI-ABA. She is also the course planner of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's annual IP Institute, a two-day seminar on the hottest topics in IP law, which she has planned and co-chaired since its 2007 inception. In addition, she is a Philadelphia Chapter founder and leader of ChIPs, a national organization advancing women in tech, law and policy; a volunteer for Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts; and a board member for Breastcancer.org.
Frandsen has been recognized with a number of awards for excellence, including The Legal 500, Chambers USA, World Trademark Review Global Leaders and WTR1000, Who's Who Legal, Best Lawyers in America, Managing Intellectual Property's Top 250 Women in IP and IP STARS, Arrive Magazine's Top Women Lawyers in the Northeast, Martindale-Hubbell as AV Preeminent, Super Lawyers' Top 50 Women Lawyers in Pennsylvania, and the World Intellectual Property Review.
Frandsen is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. Court of Appeals in the 3rd, 4th and 5th Circuits. She is a member of the American Bar Association and its Intellectual Property and Litigation sections; the International Trademark Association, serving on its academic committee; the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association; the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, serving on its Intellectual Property Advisory Committee; and the Intellectual Property Law Institute, serving as co-chair and as a course planner.
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Podcast: Professor Virginia Eubanks Talks About Digital Deadends
"If we don't want the information age to deliver widespread economic and political destruction, we must commit to including all citizens in a dialog about creating a just and equitable future. In the end, our liberation is bound up in each other; we all sink or swim together."
Professor Virginia Eubanks wrote the book Digital Deadend from her time living and working with a YWCA just outside of New York. Her experiences trying to provide free education, support and span the 'digital divide' led her to write this book. Her studies show the myths which are perpetuated around the rhetoric of the digital age – i.e. computers will make us all free; it will make education accessible to all; the 'poor' lack skills whilst the rich have them…
Virginia talks about the "magical thinking" that accompanies the digital age and how we need to reconsider the way we approach communities and community education. The idea that technology will pave the road to prosperity has been promoted through both boom and bust. Today we are told that universal broadband access, high-tech jobs, and cutting-edge science will pull us out of our current economic downturn and move us toward social and economic equality. But how realistic is that expectation? Digital Dead End explores the magical thinking that often accompanies high-tech innovation and economic development, asking the question: How do we build a truly just information age?
Having met Virginia when she was visiting Blackburn College as a keynote speaker, I was instantly taken with the fact that she had lived the realities and worked up against the barriers which community projects, and communities have to work against. I was fortunate enough to have had an evening of conversation with her about what Ragged University was trying to achieve and what the successes and rethinks were of her time at the YWCA which informed her work.
I walked away from this with a deep impression that she is one of the important voices to listen to in a technocratic age in which societies are re-designing themselves around the technology of silicon valley. This brings as many big problems as it does solutions. The imaginary scenarios which pepper policy are not reflective of the realities on the ground, just as the possibilities and opportunities which could be realities are often not being engaged with. Here is an excerpt from her book:
"And then came the rumblings of the information revolution. There in the heart of the Silicon Valley, while working as the development director for a community radio station, I discovered this fascinating new thing called the World Wide Web. I hacked my way through HTML, started making Web sites (for the Mosaic browser!), and moved up the coast to San Francisco to start my post-college life in 1995. Those were strange days in the Bay Area. For a young woman like me with racial and economic privilege, a college degree, no family obligations, and some working knowledge of computers, it was a remarkable time of freedom and excitement. I set myself up as a freelance Web site developer, found a $300 per month room in the Mission District, and started one of the first cyberfeminist 'zines, a short-lived snarky online periodical called Brillo.
But even in the heady atmosphere of the dot-com boom, it would take a powerful brand of denial to not see that something was amiss in the middle of the Silicon Valley miracle. Though my vision was limited by my privileged social and economic position, I was not blind. It was clear to me at the time that I was part of the massive wave of gentrification that swept through San Francisco neighborhoods like the Mission, South of Market, Hayes Valley, and the Western Addition. Public housing began to disappear, replaced by coffee shops, Internet cafes, and the kind of stores that display two items of clothing in a big white room. In the three and a half years I lived in San Francisco, the vibrant diversity of the city waned visibly and rents in my neighborhood tripled.
In the mid-1990s, in the circles I was running in, it was not unusual for people to ask you at parties, only half ironically, "Have you made your first million yet?" It was, many believed, the American Dream manifest: all you needed was a good idea, some sweat equity, and a garage, and the digital economy would bestow on you its mighty gifts. I understood the itch for the million. Straightforward greed was not what was tying my brain in knots. What I had trouble wrapping my head around was Silicon Valley's unique way of combining utopian fervor with blatant dissociation from reality, a cognitive dissonance that led me to a personal crisis of conscience and eventually drove me out of the Bay Area.
People around me seemed to believe that the high-tech economy was going to lift all boats-lead to better outcomes for everyone-but they were ignoring the obvious evidence of increasing economic inequality that I saw around me every day. How could people simultaneously think they were all going to get filthy rich and make the world a better place for everyone? The people commending the economic miracle in Silicon Valley seemed to be suffering from a kind of collective, consensual blindness, blocking out the gentrification, the skyrocketing rents, and the toxic environmental toll of the high-tech industry. The increasing disparities were evident if you only had the will to look.
The solutions I found at the time, and the contributions I thought I could make, focused on access to technology. I believed that one of the key ways to mitigate the more disastrous impacts of the high-tech economy was to make the tools of the information revolution more widely available across disparities of gender, race, class, language, ability, and nationality. I began volunteering at Plugged In, a well-known community technology center in the Whiskey Gulch neighborhood of East Palo Alto, the poorest city in San Mateo County. Whiskey Gulch was an economically challenged but culturally rich neighborhood down the street from Stanford University, a community squeezed by gentrification pressures, education system shortcomings, and a lack of stable, living-wage jobs. Plugged In provided youth from the community computer access, technology classes, and employment training at its University Avenue address until 1999, when developers razed East Palo Alto's downtown, including Plugged In's original home, and replaced it with a Four<|fim_middle|> went to live beside the Hudson River in the historic city of Troy, New York. My experiences in the Bay Area traveled east with me and remained on my mind. These formative experiences-my work in community technology centers, the publication of Brillo, and my experiences with magical thinking during the Silicon Valley "miracle"-mark the beginning of this book. I was a committed community technology practitioner for nearly ten years, and I believed that access to technology was a fundamental social justice issue in American cities."
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"If we're to move forward as a society we'll need to abandon many of the platitudes and utopian musings that characterize computerization and actually start doing the work that needs doing. This is what Virginia Eubanks lays out in Digital Dead End. Is she the Jane Addams of the digital age?"
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Back in the Mission District, I started free Internet and World Wide Web literacy classes for poor and working-class women through a community arts organization called Artists' Television Access. The classes concentrated on larger social issues-the Internet's birth in the defense industry, economic justice issues in the neighborhood, and gender issues online-as well as practical skills, such as using the Internet and the Web to find information, HTML authoring, and graphic design. But I had doubts that these piecemeal efforts could address the systemic, widespread economic inequalities I was witnessing. What drove me back east and into graduate school was a combination of this concern-that my activism was not really addressing the root causes of economic disparity in the high-tech economy-and the steadily increasing feeling that I was going crazy. Why did I insist on examining the goose laying the golden eggs while everyone else was drinking lattes, doing yoga, and cashing in their stock options?
So, in 1997, I fled the triumphant arrival of the "new economy" in Silicon Valley and | 223 |
Alan Jacobs Named Winner of John Heinz Dissertation Award
For Immediate Release: January 26, 2005
Contact: Terry T. Nixon at (202) 452-8097 or tnixon@nasi.org
Washington, DC—The National Academy of Social Insurance is pleased to announce Alan Jacobs as winner of the thirteenth annual John Heinz Dissertation Award. Jacobs won this award with his doctoral thesis, Governing for the Long Term: Democratic Politics and Policy Investment, Department of Government, Harvard University, and was nominated by Peter Hall, Professor at the same department. Jacobs is currently Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
The award, which includes a $1,000 prize, will be presented during the National Academy of Social Insurance's 1<|fim_middle|> by phone at (202) 452-8097.
The National Academy of Social Insurance is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization made up of the nation's leading experts on social insurance. Its mission is to promote understanding and informed policymaking on social insurance and related programs through research, public education, training, and the open exchange of ideas.
News About NASI | 7th Annual Conference on January 27–28, 2005, in Washington, DC. Academy President Jerry Mashaw of Yale University and Award Committee Chair Robert Hudson of Boston University will make the award presentation. The Teresa and John Heinz Fund of the Heinz Family Foundation supports the award.
An honorable mention was awarded to Mauro Mastrogiacomo, Researcher at the Netherlands Bureau for Economic and Policy Analysis. He wrote his dissertation, Retirement Expectations and Realizations: Essays on the Netherlands and Italy towards his doctoral degree at the Department of Economics, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. His thesis was nominated by Maartan Lindeboom, Professor at Free University of Amsterdam.
The John Heinz Dissertation Award is issued in honor of Senator John Heinz. As a member of the Senate Finance Committee, he helped chart the Social Security rescue effort in 1983 and worked tirelessly to insulate the Social Security Trust Funds from the rest of the Federal budget. John Heinz was a leading expert in the Senate on private pensions, and health care and aging policy and was a member of the Academy's Board of Advisors from the organization's inception in 1986. Robert M. Ball, Founding Chair, said, "John Heinz was a leading proponent of Social Security with a true appreciation of the value of social insurance principles in developing public policy. He was a true supporter of the National Academy of Social Insurance and contributed importantly to its objectives. We are privileged to award this prize in his honor."
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ST. MAARTEN (January 16, 2008) — Pelican Marina Residences announced that the first phase of the new property opened in December<|fim_middle|> bar, gym and a spa.
The two-bedroom, two-bathroom villas sleep six and feature an innovative floor plan which gives owners several usage options. They can enjoy the whole villa or use the lock-off facility for a one bedroom suite sleeping four and a junior suite for two with a separate entrance. The upscale units also have a fully equipped US-style kitchen, a spacious living and dining area, luxury appointments and central air-conditioning. Offering spectacular views of Simpson Bay, the villa terrace is the perfect spot for sunbathing, sunset cocktails and al fresco dining.
If you would like to find out more about Pelican Marina Residences, please email: pelicanmarinasales@royalresorts.com or call 1-877-736-4586.
The Pelican Marina Residence project is a great addition to the fractional ownership opportunities in the Caribbean. I am so glad to see that St. Maarten is on the cutting edge of this product instead of it just being focused in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Keep me posted as to any new developments. | with 36 of the 83 luxury villas, in addition to the pool, lobby, reception, a waterfront boardwalk and tropical landscaping. When the resort is completed in the spring of this year, it will also have a restaurant, | 50 |
Here at Paua World we are always excited to get new products instore. So when Wild Ferns offered us the chance to be a reseller of their Bee Venom Skincare we jumped at the chance. You might know the brand from using their very popular Manuka Honey and Lanolin skincare. These are paraben free and made in New Zealand.
Venom from the Bee is renowned for its ability to create a younger looking complexion by stimulating the skin to encourage collagen and elastin production which helps to firm and plump facial tissue.
Not all Bee Venom is equal which is the reason Wild Ferns have used VENTM purified venom to ensure you get the highest quality available which is also ethical and humane.
Bee Venom in my cosmetics? Say what!?
Bee Venom is a unique multi-component complex that 18 biological active compounds have been found to have pharmacological activity.
The main groups of compounds are enzymes, peptides, aminos, sugars, phospholipids and volatiles. Bee venom contains a number of unique low-molecule peptides and "miracle" enzymes such as Phospholipase A2 and Hyaluronidase.
Phospholipase A2 dissolves the skin cell membrane and allows other ingredients to penetrate into the skin cell, resulting in a product working more effectively. Hyaluronidase enhances the delivery of different active ingredients across the skin barrier.
Bee venom peptides stimulate facial muscles, which provides a lifting and plumping effect.
Bee venom is a complex combination of chemical substances produced by the worker and queen honeys bees. The venom is used together with parts of the bee's anatomy (called the "sting apparatus") to sting intruders in defense of the honey bee colony.
Drone (male) honey bees do not produce venom and do not have a sting apparatus.
Doesn't the bee die when it stings? Are bees killed to make this product?
If a bee stings tough skin (eg a human's) the whole apparatus pulls out the abdomen of the bee. The venom sac is pulled out with it and it keeps pumping venom until it runs out. Because the removal of the sting apparatus ruptures the bee's abdomen, the bee dies within a short period of time. This obviously wouldn't be a very humane way to get<|fim_middle|> skin care products is so high.
If you are keen, we ship all around the world. So hey,why not give it ago! | the ingredients.
VENT(Venom New Zealand) have invented a collection device for venom that doesn't kill the bees. The device consists of a glass sheet that is put on the bottom of the beehive. The glass sheet conducts a gentle electric current. When the current is turned on, bees that are on the sheet automatically stick out their stingers, and the action of the muscles pushing the stinger also pumps a small amount of venom out the end of the sting. This venom falls on the glass where it is collected and purified for storage, it is freeze- dried it to ensure the venom's bioactive materials don't oxidise and decompose. It takes one million sting deposits on a collector board to make 1 g of dry venom. This is the reason the cost of bee venom | 161 |
The popularity of back yard bird watching has<|fim_middle|> to try that one!
What a splendid idea! I will have to put my husband to work with the drill. Thank you for sharing.
I love this Yankee ingenuity! I do stuff like this myself, often just smearing peanut butter on the bark of a tree. I have also upended too large logs/stumps in my yard and use them as platform feeders. As you say, the birds love it! | exploded over the past few years. With increased numbers of people searching for bird feeders, the retail industry has responded with a dizzying variety of options.
I was in a large hardware store recently, gazing at the wealth of bird feeders on display. A man standing next to me with a bewildered look on his face said his wife had sent him down to buy a bird feeder. Did I know which one he should purchase? Thus began a 20 minute conversation about what kind of birds were in his yard (he didn't know), the variety of bird foods, and why this particular feeder would work for finches, that one for jays, and so on.
While the number of available feeders can be overwhelming to a new birder, the prices can be equally daunting. Like Halloween and Valentine's Day, the retail sector has turned backyard birdwaching into a major industry. It has become more about filling their bank accounts than feeding the birds, and that is just wrong.
Birds want food. They don't need, or care about, pretty little ceramic daisies or feeders designed to look like mini-mansions, complete with windows (?) and high price tags.
As long as you don't mind the neighbors asking why you have a piece of wood hanging in your tree, we have a low cost bird feeding solution for you.
A trip to the local hardware store for some 1 1/4" screw-eyes ($1.29), and old piece of nylon cord, and we had a new bird feeder.
He then made a paste of chunky peanut butter and cornmeal, filled the holes with it, and smeared some on the bark. Designed for the birds and not its esthetic value, the birds absolutely love it.
Red-breasted Nutchatches in particular love this log, and one clever bird has even figured out how to pull the entire plug out at once, no doubt to cache it away in some other tree. I've seen up to three of them on the log at once, but wasn't quick enough with the camera.
Downy Woodpeckers are in love with this log too. They sit on it and nosh for about 10 minutes, moving from hole to hole, before flying away with undoubtedly full little tummies.
It took the squirrels a little longer to get used to this strange object in their tree. Soon however, they were quite pleased with their new dining centre. They lick the peanut butter off the surface in no time, and just look at all those hand/feet holds!
Happy birds and squirrels aside, we hadn't counted on having to refill the holes every few days. Since the nuthatch manages to pull the whole plug out, and the squirrels virtually park themselves on the log we need to do a bit of a rethink about what we mix with the peanut butter. Or we'll probably just get used to refilling it based on the requirements of the wildlife. Black-capped Chickadees are frequent visitors, and when the Northern Flickers discover this log, we may be looking at daily refills.
Even with the refilling demands we like this feeder. No more trips to buy expensive bird food, and just to be fair, we've hung a niger sock for the redpolls and finches on the back. When the warmer weather gets here, we may even fasten an orange on the top for the orioles.
Backyard birding doesn't get any better than this - a low cost feeder, adaptable for many species and cheap to refill. It also comes with the added benefit of dealing with a gooey mess on your fingers when filling the holes - a perfect way to get children interested in bird watching!
I've done this before too Pat and that feeder always had wonderful birds on or around it and usually was the most active of my feeders. I even had Flying Squirrels on it at night. An excellent post!
Great post with some really useful information!
Great innovation Pat. As for the aesthetic, well, I daresay the most beautiful feeders are the ones that have birds on them, and yours is certainly popular!
Great! Looks real nice too..
Why such small holes? I find 1/2 inch hole easier to fill with peanut butter.
This is a really neat idea. If only I had a yard, so I could put one up!
Pat, this post inspired me. I had the stuff on hand to make one of these for myself yesterday evening. So, I did. Then I whipped up a batch of Zick Dough making it a bit more bark-butter like and put it up. Can't wait to see what birds are enjoying it this afternoon. I'm sure I'll have a blog post in the future featuring birds feeding on my Bumstead-feeder.
Awesome post, what an innovative idea! I will have | 999 |
When organizations first start thinking about social media marketing, they can't be blamed for wanting to focus on the big three: Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Each network is well established, contains hundreds of millions of users from all around the world. But perhaps, that this is a case where all that glitters isn't gold. For some industries and specialists, the best avenue for social media marketing could be niche sites (in addition to using the big three). This blog will showcase four niche social media sites that can be used to market your organization.
Care2 is the largest online community devoted entirely to social causes. Care2's tagline is "make a difference," and its platform is designed to help you do just that. The network includes a motivated community, driven by more than 23 million members who are passionate about a number of causes (animal welfare, the arts, peace, politics, etc.). Marketers for non-profit organizations and other social causes can connect with others who share their interests, send out press releases,<|fim_middle|>, contests, and specials to promote their brand.
CafeMom is a good place to advertise a wide array of products and services. There is clearly a benefit for advertising products geared toward mothers and children. But the site is also provides distractions like videos and games, so there are a lot of places where advertisements can be placed, that may spread virally to other networks. By being on a site that is known to be frequented by at-home mothers, marketers gain access to a household decision makers at times when they are thinking about home-related issues.
Inspire is a health and wellness community with more than 400,000 members. The site is billed as a patient engagement community and earlier this year, they reached 5,000,000 posts from patients and caregivers.
Buy creating an account for a non-profit organization or a company that makes health products, marketers can become part of a trusted community. Marketers will be able to connect with individuals with questions about topics, support groups for people with particular conditions, as well as connect with other national organizations that are apart of the Inspire community.
Inspire builds and manages these communities in exclusive partnership with 100 national patient advocacy and support organizations. Among the organizations are the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, the National Osteoporosis Foundation, Genetic Alliance, American Brain Tumor Association, and many more.
There are dozens of niche social media sites so it's worth it for every business to do a little research to see if there is one that suites the needs of the organization's target audience. Another important thing to remember is that these are niche social media sites, not niche advertising channels. Going onto any social media channel and bombarding the members with advertising-based posts will annoy more customers than it attracts. As has been mentioned before on this blog, the content for a company's social media channel needs to be balanced. This is especially true if the niche is based on sensitive topics like disease treatments or charitable causes. These groups will be less accommodating of blatant consumerism. In spite of the challenges, using a niche social media site to market an organization is a good tactic because it lets marketers connect with the influential people within a niche that will spread the information to the general public. | create e-cards for their business and more.
The fact that Care2 is the largest online community empowering people to lead a healthy and green lifestyle while taking action on important causes such as human rights, animal welfare and global warming, makes it an ideal way to spread awareness, raise funds and recruit volunteers. Care2 also offers one of the most efficient advertising methods for nonprofits to grow their capacity for online and multi-channel outreach, advocacy and fundraising.
For business that specialize in pets, a Dogster and Catster are good places to market specialized services. These social networks are for dog or cat lovers. Each site includes an online magazine portion, but the community areas lets users create a profile for their pet, add photos, create groups and discuss the latest topics of pet care. According to Dogster, Inc.'s website, Dogster and Catster currently have 3 million pet profiles. These sites also offer banner ads, making them the ideal channel to put advertisements for pet related services.
CafeMom is a virtual meeting place for mothers. Not only does it offer cutting-edge articles regarding parenthood and childcare, but its community allows millions of moms to talk to each other, give and receive advice, watch videos and play games.
By maintaining a profile on the network, marketers can build trust for their brand by being able to answer the questions mothers have and by engaging with them on topics that matter to them. Organizations can also use social media marketing tactics like coupons | 293 |
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DNI John Ratcliffe joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday<|fim_middle|>leigh McEnany during a press briefing and ended up getting humiliated instead. The fake news media back in January criticized President Trump for implementing a travel restriction on incoming flights from China. Washington Post, New York Times, NPR and other left-wing advocacy groups posing as media outlets downplayed the Coronavirus in January, February and even March while President Trump was making bold moves to minimize […]
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by Cristina Laila | Morning Futures on Sunday. This was his first interview since being sworn in as Director of National Intelligence (DNI). DNI Ratcliffe told Maria why he was forced to send written briefings to Congress — too many lawmakers (Democrats) were leaking! DNI John Ratcliffe: Within minutes of one of those briefings ending a number of members of Congress went to a number of publications and leaked classified information again, for political purposes, to create a narrative that simply isn't true. That somehow Russia is a greater national security threat than China. So I'm going […]
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A graphic used by CNN to break down speakers at the Republican National Convention described Nick Sandmann as someone who "sued major media outlets over viral video," leaving out important details, including their own settlement. The graphic, spotted by reporter Cameron Gray, also provided no image for Sandmann, despite doing so for others. While CNN's description is technically correct, it is quite misleading. It is true Sandmann sued major media outlets, including CNN, but these were defamation suits stemming from a 2019 video showing the former Covington Catholic High School student seemingly mocking Nathan Phillips, a Native American protester taking part […]
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If you want a hot take about the Middle East, Raphael Badani is your man. As a Newsmax "Insider" columnist, he has thoughts about how Iraq needs to rid itself of Iranian influence to attract investment and why Dubai is an oasis of stability in a turbulent region. His career as a "geopolitical risk consultant and interactive simulation designer" and an "international relations senior analyst" for the Department of Labor have given him plenty of insights about the Middle East. He's printed those insights at a range of conservative outlets like the Washington Examiner, RealClear Markets, American Thinker, and The National […]
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Twitter Targets Accounts Of Outlets Covering Unrest In Bolivia By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. July 1, 2020 Twitter Targets Accounts Of Outlets Covering Unrest In Bolivia2020-07-012020-07-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/boliia-e1593622554774.jpg200px200px Above photo: A coca leaf producer kneels holding a bible with his arms outspread asking police to open the way so a march by supports of Evo Morales may continue to Cochabamba, Bolivia, Nov. 16, 2019. Juan Karita | AP. MintPress News, along with a number of independent Bolivian news outlets and journalists covering the unrest there, were all targeted for suspension at the same time. Social media giant Twitter took the step of suspending the […]
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When federal prosecutors charged Jack Abramoff on Thursday with an illicit conspiracy to promote a cryptocurrency, they alleged that the disgraced lobbyist hired writers to help him with his scheme. The indictment did not name names. But new court documents point squarely to an employee of The Daily Caller and other conservative media outlets. Abramoff, who served almost four years in prison for his wide-ranging Washington influence peddling schemes, found himself in legal hot water again this week for his attempts to promote AML Bitcoin, a supposedly "anti-money laundering" cryptocurrency created by Texan businessman Marcus Andrade. As part of his duties, Abramoff […]
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Australians can now purchase bitcoin at outlets of one of the country's oldest organizations, its postal service. In a collaborative effort between Australia Post and Bitcoin.com.au, customers will now be able to use the Post Billpay feature to purchase bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies at over 3,500 post office shops across the country. AusPost confirmed the news to CoinDesk via email on Friday. The post service will accept cash and card payments for digital currency purchases made via Bitcoin.com.au, a cryptocurrency exchange based in Cremorne, Victoria. "This is a major milestone for digital currency in Australia and around the world. It proves […]
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The US State Department has reclassified four Chinese news outlets as "foreign missions," declaring them "propaganda outlets" and imposing strict controls on their ability to employ journalists and conduct business in the US. Chinese outlets Global Times, China Central Television, China News Service, and People's Daily have joined a growing list of state-run outlets subjected to intensified scrutiny as the media war between Beijing and Washington heats up. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus announced the additions on Monday, proclaiming the named organizations are "effectively controlled by the government of the People's Republic of China." "These four outlets are not media outlets; […]
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US State Propaganda Outlets Censor Black Lives Matter Protests By Yasha Levine, Immigrants as a Weapon June 14, 2020 US State Propaganda Outlets Censor Black Lives Matter Protests2020-06-142020-06-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/george-floyd-black-lives-matter-protest-e1592101990894.jpg200px200px It's hard for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty to sell the USA as a shining example of civil liberties and democracy when the internet is drowning in pics of American killer cops beating down on anyone in sight. It looks like the main US regime propaganda outlet, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), is censoring and downplaying the orgy of police violence that's being unleashed against people protesting killer cops and […]
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FBI Launches Open Attack On 'Foreign' Alternative Media Outlets Challenging US Foreign Policy By Gareth Porter, The Grazyzone. June 8, 2020 FBI Launches Open Attack On 'Foreign' Alternative Media Outlets Challenging US Foreign Policy2020-06-082020-06-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/fbi-social-media-censorship-from-the-grayzone-e1591638151390.jpg200px200px Above photo: FBI social media censorship from the Grayzone. Under FBI orders, Facebook and Google removed American Herald Tribune, an alternative site that publishes US and European writers critical of US foreign policy. The bureau's justification for the removal was dubious, and it sets a troubling precedent for other critical outlets. The FBI has publicly justified its suppression of dissenting online views about US foreign policy if a […]
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Kayleigh McEnany President Trump's new White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday ripped media outlets for pretending they never downplayed the threat of the Coronavirus. A pompous liberal reporter tried to play gotcha games with Kay | 1,763 |
Qualified as a Marine Engineer , being Assistant Surveyor with Messrs. Swan & MacFarlane , Newcastle-on-Tyne.
' He has done excellent work for us under the most trying and dangerous conditions.
He was a brave man, painstaking officer.
Educated<|fim_middle|>Husband of Millicent E. Staniland, of The Abbey House, Louth, Lincs. | at Lincoln Grammar School and assisted his father with farming.
On the outbreak of war, he and his brother both volunteered for Imperial Service .
Went to France with their Regiment.
His brother was appointed to the charge of a machine gun section and Lieutenant Ellwood was given charge of a section in the trenches.
He was killed in action at Wytschaete.
" It was very bad luck especially as he had been doing such good work.
He often used to crawl right out to the German line at night and gave a lot of valuable information.
The General sent for him and personally congratulated him."
Son of the late Capt. James George H. Flint.
Entered Keble College in Michaelmas Term, 1912.
A member of the 1st Cricket XI, 1912.
Served until he received his commission in October to rank as from 20th August 1914.
Second Lieutenant of the 4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment.
Served in France and Belgium.
"During the time he was with us he endeared himself to every one of us, and he had the makings of a very good officer."
"The unfortunate death of Lieut.
Fox occurred in these trenches. It would have been a job to find a more capable man in the battalion.
His cheery manner was just the thing that's wanted out here, and although he was not in our company and had not been with us very long, his loss was felt acutely by the whole of the battalion, who appreciated his readiness to help in any concert or sport that was arranged to pass the evenings while we were resting.
Most of us knew him as a Private, and all agree that he was a jolly good Private and an ideal officer"
Took a scholarship at Eton but entered Mr.Byrne's House as an Oppidan.
He won the Tomlin prize for mathematics and became an Exhibitioner of Trinity College ,Cambridge , taking a first class in the history tripos in 1914.
He held a commission in the Cambridge O.T.C. Cavalry and was attached to the 9th Lancers, with a view to passing into the Reserve of Officers, when the war broke out.
Was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the Reserve.
He was a member of the Conservative Club and his recreations were polo, shooting and hunting.
Son of Alice M. Horridge, of 19, Glade St., Park Rd., Bolton, and the late Albert Horridge. B.A.
On outbreak of war he proceeded with his regiment to the Front.
Son of Alfred Simeon Joseph Musgrave and Alice Kate Musgrave, of "Farcliffe," Manningham, Bradford, Yorks.
Youngest son of Sir Arthur Nicholson, Kt., and Lady Nicholson Marianne Lee , of Highfield Hall, Leek, Staffs.
Educated at Malvern , Rugby and after wards in Germany and Switzerland.
Joined the Territorial Force shortly after its formation, served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders .
He was killed in action in the trenches near Ypres ,while making observations.
' He was shot through the head this afternoon, when on duty as observing officer in the trenches.
His brother , who was wounded the previous day, is quite heartbroken, as indeed we all are.
I have always considered your two sons the two best young officers in my brigade."
Husband of Barbara F. Orlebar, of The Dene, Triangle, Yorks ,whom he married 12 september 1912.
He joined the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment in November 1909 becoming Lieutenant in March 1911 and Captain in June 1912 qualifying at the Hythe School of Musketry.
He joined the battalion from the 3rd battalion having been rushed across the channel after the heavy losses at Mons the previous month.
He was present at the engagements of Crepy (en Laonnais), the Aisne, the Marne, Givency, Festubert, La Bassee, Neuve Chappelle and Neuve Eglise.
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Two roomed very traditional<|fim_middle|>ton. | pub,very much back to the 70's as Quinno suggests below,unfortunately although the clip was in evidence there was no plum porter for me, only Old Golden Hen and Courage best. The customers present were probably the same ones from the 70's a couple playing darts, and a couple glued to Countdown on the TV.Nice to see this pub surviving but not one I would actively seek out.
Traditional two-room locals boozer with public and lounge bars (down a step to each, so mind out), seemingly untouched in any major way since the 70s. Public bar (left) had pool, darts and TV sports; the lounge a faded crazy carpet, curtains, nik-naks, board games and folk music on the speakers. Access to the fair-sized garden from here. Very friendly landlady and regulars, somewhat unexpected I have to admit. Three on; Courage Best, Doom Bar and (a surprise!) Titanic Plum Porter which was in good nick and the talk of the bar, perhaps proving that a few old dogs were being taught a new trick. CAMRA discount actively available, we were spotted as beardies a mile off by the landlady. Unashamedly old fashioned in here ('rough diamond'?) and when you add good beer and friendliness into the mix, there's a lot to like. One for proper Pub Men.
This is certainly a busy traditional pub early evening. When we arrived about 6pm both bars were crowded. However some of the locals were very accommodating and moved up to let our group use a table. Good service from behind the bar and the Triiple F brewery ale was in very good condition along wit hte Courage Best. The third handpump wasnt in use on our visit. Certainly worthy of a return visit next time we are in Al | 376 |
When The Fave Juice Company<|fim_middle|> rollout. | launched its three-SKU line of 100% fruit and vegetable juice blends in August 2012, the company knew the bottle could either make or break the business. Fave is the first shelf-stable juice to offer three full servings of vegetables in each 8-ounce glass (most competitors have less than one) with just 60 calories per serving (half the average). Not only did the package need to stand out on crowded juice shelves, but it also had to tell its healthy/low-cal story in three seconds of eye-time or less.
The final package, created by Chicago-based Berlin Packaging (www.berlinpackaging.com) and the re:group creative agency in Ann Arbor, Michigan, did the job so well that the test launch at The Fresh Market's 125 stores in 25 states tripled Fave's sales forecasts. The results prompted the company to abandon an additional planned test and proceed immediately to a full | 199 |
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Supporting, developing and honoring women leaders. Inspiring women to achieve their full potential. Creating balance in leadership for the Erie community.
ATHENA Erie participants are dedicated volunteers representing a diverse group of<|fim_middle|>82 by Martha Mayhood Mertz, ATHENA International is a non-profit organization that seeks to support, develop and honor women leaders. The program inspires women to reach their full potential and strives to create balance in leadership worldwide.
Mertz developed her vision for ATHENA International while serving on the Board of Directors of the Lansing Michigan Regional Chamber of Commerce. As the only woman on the Board, she quickly recognized that the Chamber's boardroom did not reflect the reality of the business community.
The more Mertz observed, the more she became convinced: If women's strengths and contributions as leaders were publicly acknowledged, they could no longer be dismissed. In 1982 in Lansing, Michigan, Mertz spearheaded a new leadership award program: The ATHENA Award®, named for the strong, enlightened goddess. The award would go to individuals who excelled in their professions, gave back to their communities and helped raise up other leaders, especially women.
What Mertz conceived more than a quarter-century ago is now a global movement. Since the program's inception, more than 6,000 awards have been presented in over 500 communities in the United States, Canada, China, Russia, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.
During a recent ATHENA International Leadership Conference, Martha noted: "Think about Rosa Parks, who from the authenticity of her core, refused once again, to go to the back of the bus. Consider Mother Theresa who expressed her leadership by the touch of her hand, by the healing of her voice, by the power of her presence—always giving hope. These are but two examples, albeit great examples, of women's ways of leading that have changed the world."
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The ATHENA Leadership Model® that guides the ATHENA Erie chapter is unique in that it focuses on personal traits of strong successful leaders. It captures the spirit and collaborative leadership style often exemplified in women leaders, while also recognizing the importance of traits such as courageous acts and fierce advocacy in the pursuit of excellence.
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These personal traits that are more intuitive to women, and combined with the strongest aspects of traditional leadership - taking risks, assertiveness, hard work - prepare women to be successful leaders in the 21st century.
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The LiftUp team believe it is important<|fim_middle|> been driven back, we regain hope. Every day our feelings change. So please pray for us every day."
Follow the link to Open Doors website for up to date information, creative ideas and prayer points for the Persecuted Church. | to pray for those who find themselves persecuted for their faith across the world. We are partnering with a great ministry 'Open Door' to get up to date, helpful and relevant resources and information to help you pray. As we experience freedom to worship, to gather, to pray let's stand in the gap for those who can't. Let's LiftUp our brothers and sisters in Christ in our petitions and prayers.
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Prayer is always the first thing that persecuted Christians ask for. "We need prayer, every day," says a church leader, speaking on behalf of displaced families in Iraq. "When we see pictures of IS (Islamic State) on the television, we're afraid. When we hear that IS has | 184 |
Arts<|fim_middle|> show on an average movie night," Poss said. "It's a safe place to appreciate those kinds of films together."
The club holds its meetings at The Parish, a Plaza District community center known for its fellowship, live music and coffee shop. A law student at Oklahoma City University, Palmer attends church services at The Parish, while Poss serves as its worship and arts director.
"Alex had the idea of having the club meet here," Poss said. "We both thought it was a great opportunity to provide something free to the community, especially since we have the facility available to us."
Palmer said the facility's screens and audio equipment make it ideal to hold the club's monthly meetings.
"It's a great multipurpose venue," he said. "It's really a perfect location."
David Lynch's Mulholland Dr.
While the OKC Film Club had its inaugural meeting last month, it already has established a format for the meetings to follow. Palmer solicits ideas for titles from the club's Facebook page. (Online, the club has adopted the above iconic shot from Georges Méliès 1902 short, A Trip to the Moon, as its avatar.) The film selection is kept a surprise until the screening; attendees discuss it together afterward.
Palmer said making each screening a surprise is a great way for people to be exposed to movies they might not have seen otherwise.
"Plus, they come in without any preconceived notions about the film they're about to see," he said.
For the first meeting, the group watched David Lynch's 2001 mystery, Mulholland Dr. Poss said that while the Oscar-nominated film is "dense" and difficult to wade through, it is a totally different experience to watch with a group than alone.
Meetings are free and open to film aficionados, as well as newcomers looking to learn more about cinema.
"Our goal is to give people the opportunity to understand revolutionary films from the past, and to give people the foundation to appreciate new films," Poss said.
Once a core of returning members is established, Palmer has plans for expansion, such as beginning the screenings with a guest speaker who can add another dimension to the viewing experience. For example, he said, "If we showed something like Primer, we could bring in one of our engineering friends to walk through the technicalities of the film."
Because films have become readily available on personal devices such as laptops, game consoles and smartphones, he said there's an even greater need for community interaction.
"There's so much more access to film now, what with streaming and on-demand," Palmer said. "The issue is that you're watching it at home, and you want to talk about it with other people. This club fulfills that need."
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While it's more fun to watch a movie with other people than by yourself, heavier cinematic fare doesn't always work so well in a group where most of the viewers are more blockbuster-minded. What's a serious film buff to do?
This dilemma prompted Alex Palmer to create the OKC Film Club, which holds its second meeting Tuesday night.
"I like to watch a lot of movies, but with foreign, artsy and black-and-white movies, I tend to watch them alone," Palmer said. "I thought, 'I can't be the only person out there with this predicament!'"
Nick Poss, who helped found the club with Palmer, said he enjoys having the chance to discuss different types of films with people who are equally passionate about the medium.
"It's so excellent to have a bunch of cinephiles in the same room sharing thoughts on films you wouldn't | 192 |
Mark Zuckerberg Is Giving $25 Million To Fight Ebola
Luisa Kroll Forbes Staff
My beat: How folks make, keep and spend fortunes.
Earlier this morning, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced plans to donate $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola. "The Ebola epidemic is at a critical turning point. It has infected 8,400 people so far, but it is spreading very quickly and<|fim_middle|> the editor who oversees all our global w | projections suggest it could infect 1 million people or more over the next several months if not addressed," Zuckerberg said in a statement posted to his Facebook page. "We need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that it doesn't spread further and become a long term global health crisis that we end up fighting for decades at large scale, like HIV or polio." The Facebook CEO also called out the heroic work of the frontline responders.
Post by Mark Zuckerberg.
Presbyterian Hospital tested positive for Ebola. The healthcare worker, who had treated an Ebola patient who died at the hospital, is the first person to contract the disease inside the United States and apparently wore protective gear while caring for the patient.
Yesterday, Dr. Tom Frieden, the director of the CDC, reportedly said that it was not known how the nurse had been infected, only that a "breach in protocol" for treating a patient happened. He also said that the U.S. needed to rethink how it "addresses infection control." The 2014 Ebola epidemic is the largest in history, according to the CDC, affecting several countries in West Africa, most especially Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Zuckerberg, who at age 30 is already among the top philanthropists in the U.S. as measured by 2013 giving, joins a growing cadre of wealthy individuals who have donated to stop the spread of this disease. On September 10, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced it was immediately giving $50 million to the United Nations agencies and international organizations involved in the response to help them and local governments buy supplies and build up emergency operations in affected countries. His Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has also been quick to respond, giving $20 million to fight Ebola and launching the Tackle Ebola campaign. "A winnable battle should never be lost," said Allen, "Now is the time to respond to this crisis with the speed and resources needed to support all who are working hard to contain, and ultimately tackle, this horrible disease."
Africa's richest person, Aliko Dangote, and other wealthy tycoons in Nigeria were also quick to respond, donating money to help stop the spread of the disease in Nigeria and elsewhere. Nigeria has nearly eradicated Ebola in its country and could soon be declared Ebola free.
Here is a copy of Zuckerberg's full statement:
Priscilla and I are donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola.
The Ebola epidemic is at a critical turning point. It has infected 8,400 people so far, but it is spreading very quickly and projections suggest it could infect 1 million people or more over the next several months if not addressed.
We need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that it doesn't spread further and become a long term global health crisis that we end up fighting for decades at large scale, like HIV or polio.
We believe our grant is the quickest way to empower the CDC and the experts in this field to prevent this outcome.
Grants like this directly help the frontline responders in their heroic work. These people are on the ground setting up care centers, training local staff, identifying Ebola cases and much more.
We are hopeful this will help save lives and get this outbreak under control.
To learn more about the fight against Ebola: http://www.cdcfoundation.org/ebola-outbreak
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Four key questions and answers for glaucoma practitioners
Reviewed by Chrysostomos D Dimitriou
1 October 2018 | Chrysostomos D Dimitriou | Glaucoma
In this discussion paper the authors pose four questions for the clinician diagnosing and monitoring glaucoma, and supply evidence-based answers. Worldwide, the most common functional test used to diagnose and monitor glaucoma is static automated perimetry, most typically with a grid of test points spaced six degrees apart, such as in the 24-2 or 30-2 patterns of the Humphrey Visual Field (VF) Analyzer (Carl Zeiss Meditec Inc.). Structural<|fim_middle|>, or suspected glaucoma, should undergo VF testing that includes more points in the macula, such as the 10-2 pattern, the G-programme, or a 24-2 hybrid, as well as OCT testing that includes scans of the macula. For more details, the authors suggest further studying of their lectures available at:
http://hoodvisualscience.psych.columbia.edu/
Four questions for every clinician diagnosing and monitoring glaucoma.
Hood DC, De Moraes CG.
JOURNAL OF GLAUCOMA
2018;27:657-64.
Chrysostomos D Dimitriou
Essex County Hospital, Colchester, Essex, UK. | damage is traditionally assessed by a fundus examination of the disc that is augmented in many clinics by fundus photographs and / or optical coherence tomography (OCT), which typically includes a scan of the disc. The first question the authors pose is: "When do you perform a 10-2 (2-degree grid) VF test?" They argue the best answer is: anyone you would do, or have done, a 24-2 (6-degree grid) VF on should have both a 24-2 and a 10-2 VF within the first two visits. It is currently clear that local arcuate damage near fixation can occur very early in the glaucomatous process. This damage is more common in the inferior macular region or superior paracentral VF. The extent to which the 24-2 contains abnormal points associated with early, local glaucomatous damage close to fixation will depend upon the location and width of the defect. Abnormal 10-2 VFs are found in many eyes with 24-2 mean deviation (MD) values better than −6 dB, a common definition of mild glaucoma. The authors schematically illustrate an anatomic basis for this damage. The axons from the retinal ganglion cells (RGC) in the inferior region of the macula enter the disc in its most vulnerable region, the temporal portion of the inferior quadrant. In general, the temporal halves of the superior and inferior quadrants are the locations of the largest loss in circumpapillary retinal nerve fibres (cpRNFL).
The authors call these regions the inferior vulnerability zones (IVZ) and superior vulnerability zones (SVZ). The portion of the IVZ associated with the macula was termed the macular vulnerability zone (MVZ). The authors suggest that clinicians should perform 10-2 examinations or their equivalent, even in eyes in which the 24-2 indicates a central abnormality. The finer 2-degree grid is invaluable to more accurately define the extent of damage and to track changes over time, and it is essential for comparisons to OCT abnormalities. The second question the authors pose is: "When do you perform an OCT scan of the macula?" The authors argue that, if you are performing an OCT test, then it should include both the macula and disc, either as a single scan or as two scans, one centred on the macula and the other on the disc. However, while it is common clinical practice to obtain an OCT scan of the disc, many clinicians do not obtain a scan of the macular region for patients with glaucoma or suspected glaucoma. This is a mistake since the OCT disc scan, as typically performed, can miss damage seen on a cube scan of the macula. It is also important to obtain macular scans to avoid missing non-glaucomatous macular damage, which may contribute to the patient's complaints and / or VF abnormalities. Some of the most common conditions missed are epiretinal membranes, macular oedema or holes, and age-related macular degeneration. The third question the authors pose is: "How do you know if the VF and OCT tests agree?" The poor answer is: "I use summary statistics such as 24-2 MD and global or quadrant average of RNFL thickness." It is much better to topographically compare abnormal regions on the OCT to abnormal regions on the VF.
The generally held belief that structural damage precedes functional damage, which is often quoted in papers and talks, can be misleading. The extent to which structural and functional measures agree depends upon a number of factors including: the structural and functional tests used; the measures used to define an abnormal test; and the relative levels of the baseline values when the eye was healthy. Finally, the fourth question the authors pose is: "When do you look at OCT images?" The authors argue that, at a minimum, the clinician should be directly examining an image of the cpRNFL, and this image should be sufficiently large and with sufficient resolution so that local damage can be seen, and the segmentation evaluated. In summary, the authors recommend that all patients with glaucoma | 863 |
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Graduation is a major achievement in student lives and it is important to celebrate with them. While graduation means the end of the student-school relationship for many parts of campus, college stores are different. Alumni maintain a relationship with the college store as they continue to support their alma mater. They can revisit the college store on-campus or online time and time again to get new high-quality fan gear and merchandise.
Leave your soon-to-be graduates with one last great experience in your college store.
Graduation fairs help simplify the graduation process and alleviate some of the stress that comes with preparing for the big day. Seniors have a lot on their plate. Between finals, packing and goodbye events with friends, it is hard to find the time to figure out what they will need for the actual graduation ceremony. Great bookstore graduation events bring all of the commencement vendors together so students can find everything they need from regalia to class rings in one place.
These savvy seniors getting ready to go out into the world all started school as wide-eyed first-years not sure if they knew how to find their classes. Ask graduates to share what they have learned along the way. Collect life lessons, best memories and post-graduation plans from willing participants and share them on social media as a fond farewell to one graduating class and a way<|fim_middle|> you easily celebrate graduation without hosting a full-fledged event.
Something else you can do to bring graduating seniors into your store is hold a special after-hours event just for them. Invite soon-to-be graduates to a special VIP sale in your store. Offer refreshments and great exclusive deals. Be sure to decorate your college store for graduation and create a celebratory atmosphere with different sales available on the hour.
Does your store host a great graduation event that students love? We would like to hear from you. Email me (lschulte@mbsbooks.com) to have your store featured on Foreword Online. | to build excitement with the next. Download the image below to share on social media.
One fun graduation event that many college stores have had success with is a hosting a photo booth for graduates. Give the departing seniors an easy way to get pictures with friends or your school mascot. If a photo booth isn't possible, then consider a fun, social media-ready backdrop. These opportunities to memorialize their time as a student will increase store traffic and help | 89 |
The going-in cap rate or capitalization rate, or initial yield, as is often referred to, is calculated as the ratio of the projected net operating income (NOI) in the first year of the holding period over the acquisition price of the property. This measure also represents the investor's income return in the first year, but also in subsequent years if NOI remains stable.
Some authors and analysts, when referring to the cap rate calculation, refer to the use of a stabilized NOI instead of a first-year NOI. There may be a discrepancy between the two if the property has a high vacancy rate at the time of acquisition. Stabilized NOI refers mainly to the income that the property can produce at a long-term average occupancy in the market within which it competes for tenants. This may range<|fim_middle|> so estimated value will provide the price, which will still give the investor the required double-digit return, given the projected rent declines and their impact on value. | from 90% to 95% depending on property type and location. However, a 95% occupancy is more often used for the calculation of stabilized NOI.
An investor considering acquisition of an income-producing property can calculate the going-in cap rate implied by the seller's asking price as a quick way of evaluating the reasonableness of the asking price. For example, an asking price of £10 million for an office property with projected first-year NOI of £300,000, which implies a going-in cap rate of 3% is unreasonably high. Going-in cap rates for commercial property rarely fall below 6%, especially in the case of office property, so a 3% signals a very high price.
The major question for a property investor contemplating an acquisition is the maximum price he/she can pay in order to achieve a minimum target return. This price will also determine the minimum going-in cap rate the investor will accept in acquiring the property.
The minimum price an investor can pay for a property in order to achieve a minimum internal rate of return (IRR) over a projected holding period should be calculated using the discounted cash flow model. This model takes into account all acquisition costs, expenses (including loan repayments) and revenues during the holding period, as well as the resale price and the remaining balance of any mortgage loan associated with the proeprty at the end of the holding period.
In cases that the investor is interested mostly in securing a minimum income return, with little concern about appreciation, then the minimum acquisition price maybe determined by using his/her required minimum income return as the going-in capitalization rate. However, this minimum required income return needs to be adjusted accordingly if the stability of property income is not secured through long-term leases, and if the risk of property value declines is high.
Of course, it is important to understand that independently of the investor's required return, a typical prorerty transaction (where no special circumstances are present that will force the seller to sell below market price) property will take place only at a price that will reflect a going-in capitalization rate that is in line with market prevailing cap rates for the particular property type in the local market. Such market cap rates can be estimated using data from recent sales of comparable properties in the local market. The methodologies for estimating going-in cap rates are discussed here.
– It is important to achieve a reasonably high income return over the holding period so that less appreciation (increase in value) will be needed to achieve a total return in the double digits (10%+). Thus, the going-in cap rate should be such that it allows at least a 7% income return not only in the first year of the holding period but also over the entire holding period. If there is reasonable risk of a decrease in future rental income, and therefore NOI, then the investor needs to achieve a higher going in cap rate, increased by the estimated annual percentage decrease in NOI relative to value. As indicated earlier, the investor actually will need to enter the projected rental income and NOI in a discounted cash flow model and discount the after-tax cash flows of the property using the required total return (not the required income return) in order to estimate the present value of the property's cash flows. The | 664 |
Team HARD confirms Jake Hill in RCIB Insurance Racing Toyota Avensis for 2016 BTCC campaign
22 year-old BRDC 'Rising Star' Jake Hill will campaign a full season in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship this year, joining Chris Smiley in a Team HARD-run Toyota Avensis.
Kent-based Hill made his BTCC debut race at Croft in 2013, winning the Jack Sears Trophy, also racing at the final meeting at Brands Hatch in both 2013 and 2015. Having impressed in the handful of races he<|fim_middle|> are based in Kent so I know we will have lots of local support, especially from family and friends, which makes things even more special. I really can't thank everyone who has helped make this happen enough – I just can't wait to get started!"
Mike Joseph Managing Director of RCIB Insurance enthused: "Jake is a great young prospect and we had many people asking us to help him get a drive, it's exciting to be part of this reborn team and we believe the team can surprise a few people this year and be competitive. We love working with the guys at Team HARD and have enjoyed working together since they first entered BTCC."
Source : www.team-hard.com | has done so far, Hill is delighted to have now secured a full-time drive in the UK's premier series thanks to the support of RCIB Insurance.
Hill said: "I am so excited to have been given this fantastic
opportunity thanks to Tony Gilham at Team HARD, RCIB Insurance and of course our long-term supporters Sportif Motor Group and our other fantastic partners. I have loved the BTCC races I've done so far and now hope I can show what I can do with a full programme – my first in any series since 2011 – now I'm gearing up for the media day in a couple of weeks and testing soon."
Team Principle Tony Gilham has long been a fan of Hill's and is excited at the prospect of him joining the team. "With Jake joining Chris [Smiley], we have one of the most exciting pairings of young talent in the series. As soon as it became apparent we were in a position to run a second car then Jake was my absolute first choice. I really couldn't have asked for a better line-up, and having seen how quick Jake is in everything he's ever raced so far, it's fantastic to finally have him as part of our family."
Hill will begin testing soon and will run at the BTCC media day at Donington Park on 22 March, before further running leading up to the series opener at Brands Hatch on Easter weekend, both Hill and Team HARD's home circuit. He said: "Both the team and I | 309 |
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Duke remains No. 1 in AP Top 25 poll; Kentucky rises to 13th
By AARON BEARDDecember 31, 2018
File- This Dec. 20, 2018, file photo shows Duke forward Zion Williamson (1) dunking the ball against Texas Tech during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in New York. Williamson is one of the names you may not know now but very well could by the end of 2019. They figure to come up big in the new year.(AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — After a light Christmas week schedule, top-ranked Duke and everyone else at the top of the AP Top 25 stayed put in a poll with few major changes.
Things could be more volatile with conference play set to get rolling this week.
The Blue Devils sat atop an unchanged top 12 in Monday's latest poll, earning 35 of 64 first-place votes to stay at No. 1 for a second straight week. That also marked four weeks at No. 1 for the Blue Devils so far this season, more than Kansas (three) and Gonzaga (two).
Duke (11-1) hasn't played since beating No. 11 Texas Tech in New York on Dec. 20, making the Blue Devils one of five ranked teams to be off through the holiday week. That schedule featured no matchups between ranked teams to limit potential movement in the poll, though that figures to change as the sport moves into league games.
Five teams are splitting the first-place votes to create a clear top tier in the poll.
Second-ranked Michigan earned nine first-place votes, while No. 3 Tennessee earned 12. Fourth-ranked Virginia and fifth-ranked Kansas split the remaining eight votes.
The gap between the Jayhawks and No. 6 Nevada is 61 points, bigger than the separation between any two consecutively ranked teams inside the top 5.
Gonzaga checked in at No. 7, followed by Michigan State, Florida State, Virginia Tech, Texas Tech and Auburn to round out the unchanged dozen at the top.
RISING WILDCATS
Kentucky was the week's highest-ranked climber, rising three spots to No. 13 after a win at rival Louisville. That was the latest sign John Calipari's Wildcats have moved well past that opening-night blowout loss to Duke.
Kentucky has won three straight games against power-conference teams, including a win against Utah and a ranked North Carolina squad in Chicago before Christmas.
Kentucky's three-spot jump was the biggest of the week, matched by No. 19 Houston.
MODEST BUMP
Five teams rose two spots: No. 16 Marquette, No. 17 Mississippi State, No. 18 North Carolina State, No. 21 Indiana and No. 23 Oklahoma<|fim_middle|> story has been corrected to note that Wisconsin's loss to Western Kentucky came on the road, not at home. | .
No. 22 Wisconsin had the biggest slide of the week among ranked teams, falling seven spots after losing to Western Kentucky. No. 14 Ohio State, No. 15 UNC and No. 25 Iowa each fell a spot.
NO PAC-12
Arizona State fell out from No. 17 after a home loss to Princeton, which came a week after the Sun Devils beat then-No. 1 Kansas. And that knocked the Pac-12 out of the poll for the first time since the 2011-12 season, according to Sports Reference LLC's college basketball site .
That year, Arizona (No. 16), UCLA (No. 17) and California (No. 24) were in the preseason poll. But UCLA fell out in the first regular-season poll, Arizona fell out in Week 4 and Cal slid out by Week 5. The Pac-12 didn't have another team ranked in the AP Top 25 for the rest of the season.
IN AGAIN
Nebraska was the lone addition at No. 24, continuing the Cornhuskers' in-and-out ways. They made their first poll appearance of the season at No. 24 on Dec. 3, fell out for a week, re-entered at No. 25, then fell out of last week's poll.
CONFERENCE WATCH
The Big Ten led the week with seven ranked teams, followed by the Atlantic Coast Conference's six and the Southeastern Conference's four.
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Independent Film Review: Scalene (2011-DVD 2012)
Breaking Glass Pictures with Kachi Films - DVD release date: July 31
Rated: No MPAA rating
Director: Zach Parker
Writers: Brandon Owens, Zach Parker
Starring: Margo Martin dale, Hanna Hall, Adam Scarimbolo
Drama | Psychological Thriller
Having killed at the Cincinnati Film Festival with wins of Best Feature and Best Director, Zach Parker's Scalene continues to get serious attention in the world of cinema.
This perky and perceptual thriller is about the rape of a female college student by a mentally handicapped man and his mother's subsequent revenge after his incarceration. The story is told from three points of view, leaving the audience to marinade in determining whose version of events holds the truth.
And the truth is that Scalene (no doubt named from the scalene triangle in mathematics) is an indie film that stylishly and proudly treads new territory as a psychological thriller, one that scores its share of points not in chapters of what happens in the plot, but in the details from what happens therein.
We begin from the end as the story unfolds backwards, but unlike some very big-budget movies where we are perturbed by intermittent bouts of cluelessness (think: American Psycho, 2000), we are never lost, nor are we ever guessing what happens next. The narrative is cohesively presented to us, and when it detours to account for differing points of view, we can easily find our way back.
We meet our leading lady, "Janice" (Margo "Secretariat" Martindale), mother to a mentally handicapped "Jacob" (Adam "Lymelife" Scarimbolo) who is getting close to thirty years of age. We want to like her more, but her passively nervous bluntness and at-her-wit's-end manner make her appreciable only as a life-hardened mom, but they wouldn't have had nearly as much of a movie without her.
Janice puts out an ad for a caregiver for Jacob so that she can have some time to herself. Responding to the ad is "Paige" (Hanna "The Virgin Suicides" Hall) who is intent on building her resume in the nursing and social work field by working with the disabled. When she is hired, a collision course is set between Paige and Janice, bringing to us an unsettlingly creative series of events that do more than just keep us watching.
As with most independent films, we have our portion to forgive and look past, and that is delivered to us right up front with a gunpoint confrontation. We can't tell if it's supposed to be a comedy or not if we did not know going in. When the suspicion that it might be vanishes, it becomes apparent that we are going to have to endure struggles of this sort that don't do all that well with delivering the tension they are supposed to deliver. But tension in general is not what is<|fim_middle|>, it gets attention…the good kind.
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Labels: 2012 Adam Scarimbolo Brandon owens Hanna Hall independent film review Margo Martindale scalene zach parker | a problem in Scalene—it is too much tension.
As is even admitted on the part of Margo herself in an interview, the hyper-fire emotional intensity becomes too much in scene after scene of tears, anger, shock, and/or physical pain. Just before the midway point, we begin to suspect that the turned-up melodrama is going to kill this whole project. And when we pick up the dialog with noticeably lacking spontaneity - giving us that feeling that many of the questions the characters ask, whether in crisis or not, are not questions the people in these situations would ask - we start to lose all hope.
And then our attention is quickly caught away in a deepening story that not only starts to make us care for its characters, but engrafts us to know more—and in so doing, has us almost blindsided by the ending. One well-acted scene in particular features Janice, Jacob, and Paige sitting and talking at her house. "Jacob doesn't speak," Janice tells Paige. "But he seems to understand most things" (followed by shifty eye movement from Jacob in a truly touching gesture of humor).
It is then that the detail-drenched storytelling abilities of director/writer Zach Parker and writer Brandon Owens begin to be seen for what they are, despite a plethora of shortcomings.
What transpires in Scalene is often teasingly laid out on the way to becoming the edgy tale that it is, but without it giving us the impression that we are being set up for something bigger. Forgiving the overacting, most of the characters we get to know powerfully leave their marks. In the proper frame of mind, we should want to exchange a few so-so performances for a stellar story any day.
What sets this apart from so many time-sequence-modified films that attempt to woo an audience with shock or surprise is that this artfully filmed work of genius has an amazing story to tell that makes us become invested in it. And although I had a general idea of where the movie was going before it ended, I was still surprised at the conclusion to find the project so well wrapped up.
It takes the right sort of viewer to go after independent films, but when one like this is found | 452 |
How can countries eradicate poverty while also addressing climate change? Despite the necessity to deal with both issues simultaneously, no study has analysed the empirical relationship between the two aforementioned goals and the factors that drive these interlinkages. This paper addresses this gap in the literature, and the initial research question, by developing a framework to analyse this relationship and its drivers. It then econometrically tests the propositions derived from the framework, using data from 135 developed and developing countries. The paper's findings show that the carbon intensity of poverty reduction (CIPR), defined as the ratio between proportional changes in emissions levels and the share of the population above the poverty line, is heterogeneous across countries. This heterogeneity is partly explained by economic growth, which is found to have a negative effect on the C<|fim_middle|>ducing policies are discussed. | IPR up to a certain income level, defined here as a 'turning point'. Above that turning point, economic growth increases the CIPR. By contrast, inequality reduction is shown to have an unambiguous negative effect on the CIPR. The results are robust for different poverty lines and different model specifications. In addition, the research underlines the tension between policy perspectives at the national and global levels. Economic growth, despite the potential to reduce the national carbon intensity of poverty reduction for the numerous countries that lie below the estimated turning points, needs to confront global environmental boundaries. Given this tension, the paper concludes that, alongside developed countries drastically reducing their emissions, developing countries should follow alternative development paths. Among them, a stronger greening of economic growth or an increased use of cash transfers and inequality-re | 162 |
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The High West Energy Board of Directors has unanimously selected Jared Routh to lead the co-op as Chief Executive Officer and General Manager.
High West's previous CEO stepped down at the end of March to accept another position. Since then, the Board began conducting a three-month nationwide search for the organization's next leader. The Board announced their decision to High West employees in July, and Routh will begin his tenure later this month.
"One of the things that came through clearly during our search was that Mr. Routh loves the cooperative business model," said High West Board President Ed Prosser. "He brings expertise in a diverse range of fields, and his strong leadership skills will enable High West Energy to continue its current path of success."
"I thank the Board for this remarkable opportunity, and I am excited to get to know the employees and the members, and to do my part to help High West Energy maintain its high standards," said Routh. "I understand High West plays an essential role in this growing community, and my responsibility is to do the best job I can to put our employees and this co-op in a position to prosper."
Prior to accepting the CEO position, Routh served as Senior Vice President of Finance and Cooperative Services at Shelby Energy Cooperative in Shelbyville, Kentucky, which has more than 17,000 accounts. Before working at Shelby, Mr. Routh served in a variety of capacities at Jackson County REMC, an Indiana co-op with more than 20,000 members.
He started his career outside of the utility industry in construction management, overseeing projects with $100 million budgets and teams comprised of 250 people.
Throughout his career, Mr. Routh has developed expertise in engineering, operations, construction, cost-of-service billing, finance, information technology, demand-side management, and energy efficiency. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Building Construction<|fim_middle|>. • 7:30 AM–5 PM
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Inflow and infiltration (I & I) surveys allow for the evaluation and assessment of large areas of sewer networks in a short period of time. I & I surveys require the installation of flow monitoring devices at key locations throughout the network to measure flow and depth levels, usually at 5 minute intervals. Once the discharge information is gathered, usually over a number of weeks, the operator is able to determine the extent of inflow (illegal connections etc.) and infiltration (leakages via groundwater etc.) via a hydraulic model of the system. Decisions can then be made about the general capacity and condition of the network and an assessment made of the amount<|fim_middle|> investment to areas of most need. By undertaking an I & I study before and after rehabilitation the effectiveness of the rehabilitation can be determined. | of rehabilitation that may need to take place. I & I studies can direct | 15 |
while<|fim_middle|>. | the field conditions are adjusted to yield the desired terminal voltage at a given load. In a motor, on the other hand, the need is to match the speed-torque characteristic of the load and run the load at a specified speed or speeds by adjustment of the field and by adjustment of the armature voltage in case speed control over a wide range is desired.
and the magnetization characteristic of the machine with the proviso that the armature reaction will cause a reduction in flux/pole.
DC motors are of three types according to how these are excited. In a motor the shunt excitation is not dependent on the armature induced emf and is independently governed by the supply voltage. In this regard shunt excitation of motor behaves more like separate excitation and not like self-excitation as in a shunt-excited generator. We shall now consider the operating characteristics of the three types of motor.
Figure 7.41 shows the connection diagram of a shunt motor. Its operation with a fixed terminal voltage and fixed field resistance, i.e. with constant shunt field current will be now considered. Variable Rf and V operation will be discussed in Sec. 7.13 on speed control.
Equations (7.53) and (7.54) yield the variation of motor speed with armature current and with torque as plotted in Figs. 7.42(a) and (b). These characteristics can also be plotted with respect to line current by merely adding the field current (//, = /a /f). It follows from Eq. (7.53) that speed will fall off due to armature resistance drop /"Ra but this is countered by a decrease in 0 caused by the armature reaction. Since IaRa effect predominates, the speed falls somewhat with load as shown in Fig. 7.42(a). As per Eq. (7.54), but for demagnetizing effect of armature current, the T-Ia characteristic would be straight line slightly sloping downwards. The actual torque characteristic is somewhat higher and bends inwards due to reduction in flux/pole as shown in Fig. 7.42(a).
no-load to full-load by a few per cent; in fact the speed remains substantially constant. Such a characteristic is known as the "shunt" characteristic. An important class of ac machine, called the induction motor, also possesses a similar (n-7) characteristic | 503 |
The 1976 production year brought the 930 Turbo to North America for the first time<|fim_middle|>1978 major improvements included increased size to 3.3 liters, an intercooler to keep the intake air colder, and bigger brakes. Horsepower from 1978 to 1989 was 282 hp for the USA -Canada models. Other than the bigger whale tail in 1978 to house the intercooler, the body remained unchanged through 1989. All cars were 4-speeds until 1989, when a 5-speed was finally made available. Turbos were not officially imported into the USA from 1980 to 1985, Canada did however get them officially.
performing relic from the late eighties just steeped in cool. In a Hellblau Metallic with Navy Leather, she is a sweet little coupe with curves in all the right places! They say that 30 is the prime time of your life. Why not enjoy all that past had to offer is this well maintained, Weissach serviced 930 Turbo. With Standard Fuchs 16×7 and 16×8 wheels and factory options that include Metallic Paint, European H4 Headlights with painted to body trim color covers, Wheel Locks, Sport Seats , Locking Differential and a Sport Steering Wheel with Elevated Hub. Aftermarket options include a Blaupunkt CD Player.
If you want something that is going to stay put in value and cool factor, look no further than our 930 Turbo. Previously serviced by Weissach for many years, this iconic Coupe was traded in to us and we were so happy to take her back. This coupe will not last long on our showroom floor. The 930 Turbo pictured here is complete with all original equipment. This is one of the nicest turbo's we have had in a decade, very original and well cared for both mechanically and cosmetically and it shows. | . Using developments Porsche had been perfecting for its racing cars, the 930 was the quickest, quietest, and fanciest high-performance street car Porsche had ever offered. It was also the first standard production Porsche to offer a turbo-charged system. Called "a dream car" by the press, it offered spectacular performance for a street car in the early 80s-0-60 mph in 5.3 seconds while pumping out 300 hp. The suspension and running gear were modified to handle this additional turbo power, while wider tires helped keep the car on the road. Finally, interior appointments on the 930 Turbo were luxurious compared to other model's standard equipment, which helped make this wild ride all the more comfortable.
The first two years of the 930, ('76-'77) were 3.0 liter cars with 245 snappy horses in USA trim. In | 195 |
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of a door? Like most people, you probably think of something that separates rooms,<|fim_middle|>!
It started when she took an old door off its hinges and decided to make it into something useful. Of course, she has a knack for craftiness but by following her example, you can make something quite interesting for yourself. All it really takes is a little bit of time, the right tools and some determination.
After carefully measuring the door, she cut it in half vertically. She then formed a 90 degree angle by attaching the two pieces at the line where they were cut.
Linda then added 4 shelves, which she also cut to fit the door. She even found an old vintage replica doorknob to add some ambiance to the finished project.
Two cans of spray paint were required to turn a fairly ordinary looking white door into a beautiful blue masterpiece. You can truly see the difference the paint made in the before and after photographs.
Adding the right things to the shelves for decoration also made quite a difference.
Linda talks about the project in a blog post.
She is absolutely right. You are only limited by your imagination and it takes only small changes to truly customize the project for your needs.
One of the best things about this project is that it is perfect for homes that may have limited space. If you want something interesting to do for your home, even if it is small, this is a great place to start. | gives you some privacy or perhaps protects you from people outside. When this Linda saw a door, however, she saw something much more to it | 28 |
Vandy's Buehler rust-free in win despite 18-day break
David Climer
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OMAHA, Neb. — You've heard of Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
Walker Buehler had 18 of them.
No action? No problem.
Pitching for the first time in the better part of three<|fim_middle|> Fulmer and Philip Pfeifer.
That's why Buehler went so long between starts. He worked five innings for the win when the Commodores battered Radford to clinch the Nashville Regional on June 1. Vanderbilt then swept Illinois in the Super Regional, with Buehler never throwing a pitch.
But to hear him tell it, he was a satisfied spectator.
"You win two games in the Super Regional, I've got no problem with that," Buehler said. "Pfeifer and Fulmer are as good as it gets. It's just part of being on a staff like this."
And what if it comes to that again? What if Vanderbilt closes out the championship series with back-to-back wins on Monday and Tuesday, leaving Buehler in the dugout instead of on the mound.
"Winning two games?" he said. "Yeah, I'm good with that."
If not, though, he'll be ready.
That's how he rolls.
Reach David Climer at 615-259-8020 and on Twitter @DavidClimer. | weeks, Buehler silenced TCU into the seventh inning on Friday night, setting the tone for a 7-1 Vanderbilt victory that steers the Commodores into the College World Series championship series.
Vanderbilt positioned itself in the best-of-three series in the most economical way possible: three up and three down. With an opening victory over Cal State Fullerton and consecutive wins over TCU, the Commodores will face the survivor of Saturday's Florida-Virginia game with a rested pitching staff.
Speaking of rested, Buehler was all that and more after an 18-day break since his last action. But if there was any rust, he brushed it off during warm-ups. He was strong, sharp and lethal.
"The rest was probably a blessing in disguise," said Buehler, who added that the layoff "brought a little new freshness to the arm."
Pitchers tend to be creatures of habit and a long delay between starts often results in some bad habits. Even if you throw on the side during practice and try to simulate game situations, it's not the same.
But Buehler said he maintained his mental edge by watching his peers on the mound.
"You're involved in these games," he said. "You try to stay engaged and stay pitch-to-pitch with whoever's throwing."
Buehler's first pitch of the game to Cody Jones clocked in at 96 mph. In that at-bat, Jones saw fastballs of 96, 94, 97 and 96 mph. He struck out on the last of those.
"He was attacking every single pitch," TCU's Keaton Jones, who went 1-for-3, said of Buehler. "He was lights out."
Buehler's velocity dropped a bit as the game wore on, but his effectiveness didn't really waver until the seventh inning. He retired the Horned Frogs in order in the first three innings, weathered back-to-back singles in the fourth and kept things on cruise control before leaving the game with two outs and runners on first and second in the seventh.
In 62/3 innings, Buehler gave up four hits and one run, striking out eight. John Kilichowski replaced him and got Cody Jones to line out to the mound on an 0-2 pitch.
"Those were six of the most impressive innings I've seen him pitch," said Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin.
Buehler and Kilichowski got plenty of support. It was about time. The Commodores entered the game batting just .177 in the CWS, but banged out 11 hits in the first five innings to take a 7-0 lead.
If you think Vanderbilt fans were pleased by Buehler's performance, what about the Los Angeles Dodgers? They picked him in the first round — No. 24 overall — in the recent MLB draft. At the end of the College World Series, Buehler will head to some outpost in the Dodgers' farm system.
For now, though, he's still a Commodore. And a productive Commodore at that. If Vanderbilt plays a third game in the championship series, he'll be the starter.
Until then, he'll wait. He's used to it.
On other teams, this might cause a problem. With his live arm and 3-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio, Buehler would be the ace of most college staffs. At Vanderbilt, he's the third starter behind Carson | 737 |
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Truckee.com's TDMA, Truckee Downtown Merchants Association also honors Truckee's Historic past. Their brochure's title is TRUCKEE Historic Downtown. Although McIver Crossing roundabout currently has a small tan and white lettered wayfinding sign pointing to Historic Truckee, sprucing up this signage to a more robust dedicated installation like the proposed signage being discussed, Historic Truckee, or Welcome to Historic Truckee would be a more inviting draw to visitors. Google maps even marks the "Historic Downtown Truckee and Visitor Center."
Additionally, there are five other venues that would also qualify on the National Register of Historic Places: Hilltop Area Rope (first in the United States), and Puma Tows, TDHS Joseph Research Library (original Gateway Motel Office), the Truckee Donner Railroad Museum Caboose, James McIver Jr. Rodeo Arena, and Jax at the Tracks. All of these sites have well over 50 years of history beneath their footprints.
We celebrate the present by acknowledging our past. Come get to know our historic downtown better. Check out the Old Jail Museum at the corner of Spring and Jibboom Streets, the Truckee Donner Railroad Society Caboose Museum, and new Museum of Truckee History, conveniently located in the Train Depot downtown Commercial Row. Come explore with us. You'll learn there is lots more "history" to discover.
This article first appeared in the Sierra Sun on August 14, 2022.
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By Heidi Sproat
Most of us are familiar with the Donner Party and their struggle for survival at what was then known as Truckee Lake. Named in honor of the Donner Party, the lake was renamed Donner Lake and the snowy pass renamed Donner, after the ill-fated group's elected leader.
Most of us also know that it was the Transcontinental Railroad completion in 1869 that helped make Truckee a convenient stop nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and a destination for travelers coming from both west and east venues.
Overlooking downtown Truckee from Veterans Hall. Photo by Greg Zirbel.
But did you also know that Truckee is really "historic" for reasons other than the Donner Party and the Railroad?
In 2004, Truckee was awarded the Governor's Historic Preservation Award for a "comprehensive 'system' of historic preservation adopted by the Town of Truckee to firmly establish preservation as a planning element in this historic lumber and railroad town".
Commercial Row – Brickelltown Historic District (NRHP #09000803, 2009) is located in the historic area of Downtown Truckee and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Signage pointing to 'Historic Truckee' would definitively recognize this remarkable designation which otherwise has not been officially recognized by any plaque in downtown Truckee except for a small sign. Inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places is an honorable, hard earned national designation which deserves appropriate recognition – even a formal NRHP plaque.
Paul Lord, the Berkeley planner who performed the inventory of historic buildings in Truckee to support the initial 2009 NRHP Application who (with then Town Planner Duane Hall) appropriately noted that a representative from the Office of Historic Preservation visited Truckee and said that there is more in the Town of Truckee worth preserving per square foot than anything else he's seen in California. This is certainly testament to preserving Historic Truckee.
Downtown Truckee is divided into nine geographic 'character areas.' Truckee Veterans Memorial Building and Rocking Stone Tower are located in the McGlashan Addition; the other areas are Brickelltown, Commercial District, Burkhaulter, River, Church Street, Railroad, South River, and Hilltop. All of these "areas" are visible from every other area, each with their own unique history.
Truckee Freight Depot view from just below the Rocking Stone circa 1960s. Provided/Truckee-Donner Historical Society. OVR1055
Besides Commercial Row–Brickelltown Historic District being on the National Register of Historic Places, the C.B. White (Kruger House, NRHP # 82002220, 1982) is also on the National Register and most recently, the Truckee Veterans Memorial Building and Rocking Stone Tower in 2021 (NRHP # 100006720). Of the 48 buildings in the Downtown Truckee Historic District, 32 of them are contributing to historic designation.
The Truckee-Donner Historical Society has requested the Town of Truckee to consider a NRHP Plaque for Commercial Row – Brickelltown Historic District. More recently, in 2021, Truckee-Donner Historical Society installed the NRHP plaque after a well-deserved five-year effort to meet the stringent criteria for the Truckee Veterans Memorial Building and Rocking Stone Tower. The plaque celebrates this historic recognition. We believe such a designation for Historic Truckee – Brickelltown would be testament acknowledging our celebrated roots.
Additionally, the Truckee Donner Railroad Society Caboose Museum is also "historic" in that itself ran on the Southern Pacific Railroad Lines and is a 1950s bay window caboose.
In June 2013, Truckee was awarded membership in the Union Pacific's Train Town USA Registry because of its historical connection to the railroad. In 2019, Union Pacific presented Truckee with a Golden Spike which is now displayed in the Museum of Truckee History. It's all because of the railroad Truckee is Truckee.
Truckee is a destination in itself. In its own 2013-2014 Visitor Profile Study, Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce tabulated results of inquiries about the reasons visitors come to Truckee. Seventy-two percent of visitors come because of the historic districts / downtown, behind only scenic beauty at 87%. Further, a 2017 town manager executive search report attested that Truckee's economy is driven by tourism. The report states that Truckee shares a "passion for … the preservation of Truckee's small town character and authenticity," and the "community is dedicated to protecting its historic roots and authentic mountain town lifestyle."
Birdseye View of Truckee Train Depot from the water tower circa 1913. Provided/Truckee-Donner Historical Society. DPT033
Besides Nevada City and Grass Valley, Truckee's 1993 incorporation has definitely helped to preserve our historic integrity, but were it not for Truckee's authentic history, incorporation would not have | 1,146 |
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Mister 880 (1950) – Romantic Comedy and Counterfeit Money
It's a bit like Miracle on 34th Street, though surprisingly I liked Mister 880 even more than the celebrated Christmas classic. It was made in 1950 and stars Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire and the man who played Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street, Edmund Gw<|fim_middle|> Skipper's warm personality and it doesn't take much for Buchanan to talk him into a lenient sentence. It's a charming film about good, affectionate people trying to do the right thing.
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Tags: Burt Lancaster, Counterfeit Money, Dorothy McGuire, Edmund Gwenn, US Secret Service | enn. Despite the similarities, it's a more low-key film, a bit less sentimental and has a little less of a point to make. It's also based on a real story and so the film feels more everyday, about people doing their job and doing the best they can for themselves and other people. There are no villains in Mister 880.
The Secret Service has been interested in the case of an amateur counterfeiter they call Mister 880 for ten years. He's a terrible counterfeiter, he even spells Washington as Wahsington, but because he only counterfeits one dollar bills and never uses them at the same place, the secret service has never been able to catch him. For a fresh perspective, they bring in Steve Buchanan (Burt Lancaster) to work on the case.
He begins to notice that there is a geographical pattern to how the money is being used and soon a suspect turns up. Two counterfeit one dollar bills are used by Ann Winslow (Dorothy McGuire). Ann is a respectable translator who works at the UN and Buchanan quickly rules her out as the source of the money, but thinks that perhaps she can lead him to the real counterfeiter.
The real counterfeiter is an elderly war veteran called Skipper (Edmund Gwenn). He likes to deal in 'antiques' and barely has enough money to live on. Whenever he's really in a bind, he tells people that he must go to "Uncle Henry," who turns out to be a money press. He only uses it in extreme emergencies, and then only prints one dollar bills and makes sure that he never gives anyone more than one dollar (though he did give his neighbor and friend, Ann, two dollars, but he really felt she over-payed him for an antique he bought her). He's such a lovable guy; he likes kids and people really respond warmly to him.
Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire, Edmund Gwenn
Buchanan is convinced that the counterfeiter is in Ann's neighborhood, but although he is always visiting Ann (they've fallen in love) he doesn't realize that the man he is looking for is right under his nose.
It's a fun, irresistible and warm film. Gwenn really does play him as a lovable, though vulnerable, guy. When Buchanan is closing in on the counterfeiter, Skipper has to stop making his one dollar bills and without that source of income he must sell his beloved collection of antiques (some people would call it junk); antiques that he always said kept him company and which he made up stories about. It's not a drawn out scene, but very poignant that this lonely old man, without a word of complaint or a tear, is selling off all he owns and cares about.
But his creed is that he doesn't want to be a bother. That is why he refused a service pension that he is entitled to. He thought he could save the government time and money by just making a dollar here and there as the need arose, ironically causing more trouble for the government than he ever could have imagined.
Dorothy McGuire and Burt Lancaster are also really good in this film. She's competent and smart and gets on to Buchanan almost from the get go, though she says she hopes that once he figures out she's not a counterfeiter that he won't drop her too fast; she thinks he's hot (and it's Burt Lancaster, so I can't disagree). And although he could play extremely tough men, Burt Lancaster is also endearing in this film. He's a bit gung-ho about his work and talks a hard line about catching and prosecuting counterfeiters, but he's no Inspector Javert. He's really a nice guy.
Another thing I enjoyed about this film is that no one has to change. Sometimes, these kind of films can be a bit preachy; how the by-the-book secret service man must learn compassion and bend his principles, but there is none of that here. Nobody has to change and nobody gets mad at anyone. Ann doesn't even get angry at Buchanan when he does his job and arrests Skipper, though she is grieved. Even the judge, who also believes in taking a hard line on matter of counterfeiting, is not antagonistic, though he is stern. He too responds to | 898 |
Farley Nursery School offers a unique approach to early<|fim_middle|> diplomas. The nursery is a private company, funded through the fees from parents.
Farley Nursery School offer childcare designed for children aged between 6 months and 5 years old (or 8 years within the holiday periods). The service runs from 8am to 6pm everyday (regardless of weather conditions). The fees vary depending on the service received; this ranges from around £4 up to around £44 pounds. Places must be booked in advance. | childhood learning, where children are encouraged to spend their time playing outdoors in natural settings in Salisbury.
Farley Nursery School gives children the opportunity to spend most of their time in outdoor space. They spend their time planting, digging, painting and exploring their surrounds. The provision offers acres of space so children can learn through self directed play.
The service has been used as a flagship model for play provision in the area. It is free flow so there is no structure to the play, and 90 per cent of play takes place in an outdoor environment, all year round. The staff believe that the outdoor experiences make the children happy, healthy, independent and confident. Sickness records are very low due to the healthy lifestyle the children have.
The nursery is fully accessible for disabled children, and as they offer free play so children of all abilities can play at their own pace and in their own way. Children play within the natural surroundings using materials such as logs or plants, rather than fixed play equipment. Approximately 50 children attend the nursery on a regular basis.
Staff ask children for their views about the nursery school and their feedback helps to shape the play environement, for example, the children requested a sandpit, which has now been installed. Ideas from parents and the community are taken on board, and there is a Parents Association who has active involvement in the more social side of the school. Farley Nursery School receives letters from parents showing their appreciation of the service.
Farley Nursery School currently employs 17 members of staff. Qualifications vary. The principal, like some other members of staff, is a qualified teacher and Early Years professional; others have NVQ's or | 336 |
Pupils' flower interest stems from school trip
Published: 12:37 PM April 5, 2007
<|fim_middle|> plant derives its name from the French word for Easter, 'pacques', as it blooms in April and May.
It thrives on short grass slopes where it is not in competition with other plants.
2296DW16 | Primary schoolchildren enjoyed a trip to Therfield Heath to learn about the pasque flower – a rare plant which only grows in two parts of the country. The pasque flower is a native wild plant with bell-like purple flowers surrounded by yellow anthers. H
Primary schoolchildren enjoyed a trip to Therfield Heath to learn about the pasque flower - a rare plant which only grows in two parts of the country.
The pasque flower is a native wild plant with bell-like purple flowers surrounded by yellow anthers.
Hertfordshire has 60,000 of these rare plants, and boasts the largest pasque flower colony in England.
Paul Thrush, reserves officer for Hertfordshire Wildlife Trust, taught the pupils of Therfield First School about the animals that live on the heath, and gave them information about the flower which forms their school emblem.
He said: "It is important to promote awareness of this habitat, and teach people how to protect it.
"It is great to have the children ask lots of questions, and it is a satisfying part of the job as you can inspire them, and highlight how lucky they are to be near Therfield Heath which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)."
Tim Banks of Year 4 said: "I like coming here to look at the flowers, and I enjoy walking along the track.
"We have been learning about the pasque flower in class, and we have also been drawing the birds that live on the heath."
Year 4 teacher Christine Taylor hopes the trip will encourage the pupils to bring their friends and families to see the pasque flower.
She said: "It is so important for the children to learn about the environment, especially what is on their doorstep."
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Upton Lakes – over the hills, but not far away!
As luck would have it, Upton Lakes is superbly located at the very heart of rural Devon, a county boasting a mix of some of the prettiest villages, the most dramatic coastlines and truly stunning historic buildings.
Take a short hop to Honiton, the renowned market town and antiques capital of Devon, famed for its lace making. Enjoy Exeter – a bustling cathedral city blessed with independent shops, the famous Underground Passages and its summer festival. Paignton offers seaside and steam trains for<|fim_middle|> from cider to clotted cream. We've got vineyards, breweries, seaside fishmongers and an array of farm shops and local markets where you can sample some of the wonderful tastes of the county. If exploring's your thing, you'll find that a day just following your nose will lead you to any one of dozens of quaint villages and lovely beaches. The only time you'll need to stop is when you reach the sea.
Speaking of the ocean – your search of surf is over! Apart from Cornwall what other county in England can offer you two coastlines? For sand and surf head north and for harbours and attractions head south – well, it's not quite a clear cut as that, but you get the idea.
Stay local to Upton Lakes and you'll find a huge choice of activities from horse riding, squash, tennis, rounds of golf and heaps more… or you could just cycle into Cullompton for a few supplies and head back home again for a peaceful and relaxed day on the lake. 'Tis up to you. | trips along the River Dart, or take a boat trip from Totnes to Dartmouth. Venture a little further and you could be walking the Jurassic Coast, visiting the National Marine Aquarium or taking a deep-sea fishing trip from Exmouth. The list is endless, with boundless choice to keep everybody's holiday happy!
If you're foodie, sample the delights of the best that Devon has to offer, from honey to apples and | 87 |
Migration Story
How We Made Our Mural
The Mural Site & Transforming Public Spaces
Let's talk about immigration
The Arts and Activism
Doodle Wars
Text Design
Visual Problem Solving: Practical & Conceptual
Why butterflies, roots, and triangles?
Final Design: Mock-up
Preparing the Materials
Painting Days
Community Painting Day
Unveiling the Finished Mural
Tag: immigration
August 9, 2016 August 10, 2016 Jenie
We did it!!! It was a wonderful experience working with fellow artist, Gabriela Riveros, the students of Escuela Verde Milwaukee, and Ali Carlucci of Artists Working in Education, Inc. on this public art project. This mural has been and will continue to be a great way to research, talk about, and understand immigration and the role it plays in how civilizations change and evolve–culturally, technologically, and economically. It also serves as a beacon for the arts as not only integral–but a leader for how we think, feel, and take action.
Thank you to everyone who came to our mural celebration today, and to all the students, organizers, and community partners who made this project a success. For those of you who weren't able to make it, you can view the mural at 35th and Pierce Street in Milwaukee and continue to learn more about the project on this website.
The driving force of this mural was collecting and researching our shared migration stories, so please, share your stories (and pictures!) with us as well! Keep in touch. #MigrationStory#MyMigrationStory #community #Milwaukee
The finished mural, which stands 12 x 30 feet. It occupies the Eastern wall of the Superior Salt building, at 35th and Pierce Street, in Silver City.
Artists Gabi Riveros (left) and Jenie Gao (right).
Major thanks to Max Balan, who installed our mural panels on the Superior Salt Building!
Students and instructors with the mural.
Students and community members gathered for the celebration.
Beth and Ali of AWE, Inc. speaking alongside the students.
Classmates of the mural students at Escuela Verde.
July 20, 2016 July 27, 2016 Jenie
Once the students finished researching and drawing a variety of native crops and migratory species of butterflies that live in Wisconsin, we (Gabi and Jenie) got together to collage them together into a final composition.
creating a design that reflected our collaborative effort and unified our styles in one beautiful composition
creating a plan that made good use of the space and was practical for our supplies budget and time frame. We estimated 4 painting days and $800 for the mural supplies. You can see the breakdown of our supplies here.
Here is the final mock-up of our mural. Now we were ready to get supplies and start painting.
The students' and instructors' drawings collaged together in Photoshop for the final design, to be 12 x 30 feet.
We divided the design into 24 5×3 foot panels, the size of the cement boards we would be using. The plan was to set up a workflow with a projector for each of the panels and then space on the ground and floor to finish painting and detailing each panel.
Final text design by Jenie Gao. We came to a consensus on the words, "Our Stories Share the Same Roots," to drive the message of our mural.
Photoshop mock-up of the location and scale of the mural once installed on the building.
Setting Expectations
Escuela Verde designs its courses around project-based and student-led learning.
Immigration is a salient–and sensitive–topic in our current political and social climate. It's something that impacts many of us directly, as first- and second-generation immigrant families, as the members of families that include both documented and undocumented relatives. And while many people in the U.S. have been here for generations, the vast majority are the descendants of immigrants who also migrated in search of opportunities and a better life.
Together as staff and students, we set some expectations upfront to guide our conversations and concepts.
What we did not want:
a propagandistic campaign
a political agenda
too narrow of a focus or oversimplified viewpoint on an issue that impacts many different groups
What we did want:
to better understand the role that immigration and migration has played in human history
to educate ourselves on the patterns of history
to find the common ground in our stories
to show how in spite of the current conversations surrounding the Mexico-US border, immigration is not new, and neither are the problems we are currently trying to work through as a country
to<|fim_middle|> illustration inspired by peaceful marches in the face of violence. The quote at the bottom of the drawing reads, "They tried to bury us, but they didn't know we could grow."
July 20, 2016 August 17, 2016 Jenie
Our project started with a partnership between Escuela Verde and Artists Working in Education.
About the Organizations
Escuela Verde is a public charter school in Milwaukee that uses a project-based learning model to emphasize sustainability, student-led learning, and restorative justice. Artists Working in Education is a nonprofit that partners with artists and schools, to use the arts as a way to collaborate on community solutions that reflect the values, concerns, and cultures of the neighborhoods we are a part of.
Together with their instructors and facilitators, the students at Escuela Verde met to discuss the relevant issues of their neighborhood. Escuela Verde is located at 36th and Pierce Street in Milwaukee's Silver City.
About the Neighborhood & Concept
Milwaukee has always been a city of immigrants. In the 1800s, most of the immigrants were from Germany and Ireland, and in 1844 it had twice as many newspapers in German as in English.
Silver City continues to be a neighborhood representative of the groups that have immigrated here. Many of the immigrants are Hispanic and Hmong, but the neighborhood is home to many different immigrant populations who have started their businesses and new lives here, much like the generations of immigrants before them.
The wall for our mural is the eastern side of the Superior Salt building, under the viaduct. We chose this location for a few reasons. The location is isolated and as a result, has little activity or observation. Neighbors are concerned about the safety of this street; because of the seclusion and lack of use, oncoming drivers often speed through this part of the street, even though within blocks of this location are to homes, a school, and community-focused organizations like the Urban Ecology Center and Wisconsin Bike Federation. The owner of the building has also had tagging problems. As you can see in the last picture, the north side of the building is covered with graffiti tags and bombs. Because the north side of the building faces the railroad, the city sees these tags as a violation of public space, and the costs fall on the building owner to remove the graffiti.
So the question is, can we use a public artwork to get people to slow down, to deter tagging, and ultimately, to make people become aware and respectful of the space in a different way?
Will this artwork be a way to focus people's attention on the concerns facing their neighborhood, and start the conversations and actions we need to have?
Superior Salt Building, east-facing wall under the 35th/Pierce Street viaduct
Some of the students in our workshop and project
The tagged north-facing wall of the building, facing the Hank Aaron State Trail and railroad
Statistics for the neighborhood available on AreaVibes and Point2Homes
A brief synopsis of the Silver City neighborhood: Silver City District and Silver City and Immigration
Unveiling the Finished Mural August 9, 2016
The Mural Site & Transforming Public Spaces July 20, 2016
Let's talk about immigration July 20, 2016
The Arts and Activism July 20, 2016
Doodle Wars July 20, 2016
Art & Public Spaces
Mural Location
3522 W Pierce St, Milwaukee, WI 53215 | use art as a tool to foster community conversations around this topic and the role immigration plays in shaping us, from the local level of our neighborhoods and cities to the national and global levels of how we all identify, interact, relate, and exchange with one another
Understanding the Role of Immigration
Immigration isn't new, and it has always been necessary in the development and progress of human societies, culturally and economically. It isn't unique to humans, either. It has always been a means for growth, development, and the renewal of the resources we depend on.
So if we know this, how can we write our policies to facilitate the benefits of immigration, rather than hinder our progress, or worse, divide us and further drive our inequities?
To better understand this subject matter, we spent some time talking about the different effects of immigration, and the positives and negatives that come with those effects.
Our brainstorm web on the concept of immigration.
Gabriela Riveros at the whiteboard during our discussion of the topics related to and influenced by immigration.
Storytelling as a Way of Finding Common Ground
For one of our workshops, we asked students to bring in immigrant stories. They could be stories from their own families or from their neighbors.
Here are two drawings that show some of the common themes that emerged from our story sharing.
A student's depiction of his Irish ancestors being denied to enter the US. His family instead went to Canada and crossed the border illegally, settling in Montana.
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Navy to Christen Littoral Combat Ship Tulsa
The Navy will christen its newest Independence-variant littoral combat ship, USS Tulsa (LCS 16), during a 10 a.m. CST ceremony Saturday, Feb. 11 in Mobile, Alabama.
Tulsa, designated LCS 16, honors the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Adm. William F. Moran, vice chief of naval operations, will deliver the ceremony's principal address. Kathy Taylor, former mayor of Tulsa, is serving as the ship's sponsor<|fim_middle|> stars for World War II service. A cruiser to be named USS Tulsa was also authorized for construction during World War II, but the contract was canceled before it was built.
The future USS Tulsa is a fast, agile, focused-mission platform designed for operation in near-shore environments yet capable of open-ocean operation. It is designed to defeat asymmetric "anti-access" threats such as mines, quiet diesel submarines and fast surface craft.
The LCS class consists of two variants, the Freedom variant and the Independence variant - designed and built by two industry teams. The Freedom variant team is led by Lockheed Martin (for the odd-numbered hulls, e.g. LCS 1) while the Independence variant team is led by Austal USA (for LCS 6 and the subsequent even-numbered hulls).
Each LCS seaframe is outfitted with a single mission package made up of mission modules containing warfighting systems and support equipment. A dedicated ship crew will combine with aviation assets to deploy manned and unmanned vehicles and sensors in support of mine countermeasures, anti-submarine warfare or surface warfare missions.
Media may direct queries to the Navy Office of Information at 703-697-5342. For more information about the Littoral Combat Ship class: http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4200&tid=1650&ct=4. | . The ceremony will be highlighted by Taylor observing a time-honored Navy tradition of breaking a bottle of sparkling wine across the bow to formally christen the ship.
"The christening of the future USS Tulsa serves as a tribute to the extraordinary work done by our nation's shipbuilders and brings this great ship one step closer to joining our fleet," said the Honorable Sean Stackley, acting secretary of the Navy. "Our nation can be proud of this crew as they ready the ship to represent the city of Tulsa, and the United States, around the world for years to come."
The future USS Tulsa is the second U.S. Navy ship to be named in honor of the city of Tulsa. The first USS Tulsa was an Asheville-class gunboat designated as PG-22 that served from 1923 to 1944 before being renamed Tacloban. She earned two battle | 181 |
Lions ready for first look at deep RB class
Still, general manager Bob Quinn said Wednesday that Ameer Abdullah, despite a down 2017, could be the team's main back.
Lions ready for first look at deep RB class Still, general manager Bob Quinn said Wednesday that Ameer Abdullah, despite a down 2017, could be the team's main back. Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/2FG5PgG
John Niyo, The Detroit News Published 6:42 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2018 | Updated 6:46 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2018
Lions general manager Bob Quinn discusses running back Ameer Abdullah on Wednesday in Indianapolis. John Niyo, Detroit News
Lions head coach Matt Patricia speaks at the NFL Combine on Wednesday.(Photo: Darron Cummings / Associated Press)
Indianapolis — The Lions got their first look at this<|fim_middle|> got it wrong calling Reyes out at the plate
Tigers power surge muted by Indians' post-rain delay fireworks | year's deep draft class of running backs at Wednesday's official weigh-in at the NFL Combine ahead of Thursday's on-field workouts.
"It's a good-looking crew" Lions GM Bob Quinn said.
But Quinn was busy defending the presumptive No. 1 back on his current roster as well, bristling at a question about whether he still viewed Ameer Abdullah as a "feature back" after he rushed for 552 yards and just 3.3 yards per carry last season.
"What is a feature back? You tell me what a feature back is," Quinn said, before the question was rephrased. "I think he has three-down value. Listen, we're gonna have four or five running backs on the roster every year. And there's about four-five lead — or elite — backs in the league right now. You can probably name 'em on one hand. So, does Ameer fit in that? He didn't last year, OK?
"But, listen, he's a guy that we like. He's a smart guy, he's a versatile guy, he's a guy that can catch it out of the backfield, he can run the ball. So he has to have a good offseason, come back and prove himself to a new coaching staff."
More: Lions thrilled to have Ezekiel Ansah back in the fold
Cornerbacks Nevin Lawson and DJ Hayden are both pending free agents in the Lions' secondary. But Quinn, in assessing the performance of last year's draft class, hinted at bigger roles for both second-round pick Teez Tabor, who saw limited snaps until the final month of the season, and Jamal Agnew, who played almost exclusively on special teams and earned Pro Bowl honors as a return man.
"We drafted those guys for a reason last year," Quinn said. "Jamal didn't really get out there defensively too much because we had a lot of depth at nickel. I think Jamal can probably handle some of those roles, but he has to have a really good offseason. He has to come in and learn a new defense, so that's going to be a transition for him.
"Teez had a solid rookie year. We started him off slow on purpose to kind of get his feet wet a little bit before we threw him out there. The more he played down the stretch, I think the better he played."
More: 10 players for Lions to watch at NFL Combine
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Patricia politely brushed aside questions Wednesday about the Patriots' Super Bowl loss and, more specifically, the bizarre coaching decision to effectively bench starting cornerback Malcolm Butler. Butler, the last-play hero of New England's Super Bowl win three years ago, is expected to hit the free-agent market next month and could be on the Lions' radar.
Asked to characterize his relationship with Butler, Patricia described it as "extremely strong," adding "I love Malcolm a lot. Like all of my players, he's like one of my sons. And I want to make sure he does everything to the best and I hope the best for him. And that's really all I'm gonna say about Malcolm."
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Data set: American Community Survey Tables: 2007 -- 2011 (5-Year Estimates) (ACS11_5yr)
Table: B25038. Tenure by Year Householder Moved Into Unit [15]
Universe: Universe: Occupied housing units
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B25038. Tenure by Year Householder Moved Into Unit
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Moved in 2005 or Later
Moved in 2000 to 2004
Moved in 1969 or Earlier
Excerpt from: Social Explorer; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey 2007-2011 Summary File: Technical Documentation.
The 2007-2011 ACS 5-Year Summary File Technical Documentation -> Appendix A. Supplemental Documentation -> Subject Definitions -> Housing Variables -> Tenure
The data for tenure were obtained from Housing Question 14 in the 2011 American Community Survey. The question was asked at occupied housing units. Occupied housing units are classified as either owner occupied or renter occupied.
Tenure provides a measurement of home ownership, which has served as an indicator of the nation's economy for decades. These data are used to aid in the distribution of funds for programs such as those involving mortgage insurance, rental housing, and national defense housing. Data on tenure allows planners to evaluate the overall viability of housing markets and to assess the stability of neighborhoods. The data also serve in understanding the characteristics of owner occupied and renter occupied units to aid builders, mortgage lenders, planning officials, government agencies, etc., in the planning of housing programs and services.
A housing unit is owner occupied if the owner or co-owner lives in the unit even if it is mortgaged or not fully paid for. The owner or co-owner must live in the unit and usually is Person 1 on the questionnaire. The unit is "Owned by you or someone in this household with a mortgage or loan" if it is being purchased with a mortgage or some other debt arrangement such as a deed of trust, trust deed, contract to purchase, land contract, or purchase agreement. The unit also is considered owned with a mortgage if it is built on leased land and there is a mortgage on the unit. Mobile homes occupied by owners with installment loan balances also are included in this category.
A housing unit is "Owned by you or someone in this household free and clear (without a mortgage or loan)" if there is no mortgage or other similar debt on the house, apartment, or mobile home including units built on leased land if the unit is owned outright without a mortgage.
All occupied housing units which are not owner occupied, whether they are rented or occupied without payment of rent, are classified as renter occupied. "No rent paid" units are separately identified in the rent tabulations. Such units are generally provided free by friends or relatives or in exchange for services such<|fim_middle|> year householder moved into unit were obtained from answers to Housing Question 3 in the 2011 American Community Survey, which was asked at occupied housing units. These data refer to the year of the latest move by the householder. If the householder moved back into a housing unit he or she previously occupied, the year of the latest move was reported. If the householder moved from one apartment to another within the same building, the year the householder moved into the present apartment was reported. The intent is to establish the year the present occupancy by the householder began. The year that the householder moved in is not necessarily the same year other members of the household moved in, although in the great majority of cases an entire household moves at the same time.
The year the householder moved into the unit provides information on the specific period of time when mobility occurs, especially for recent movers. These data help to measure neighborhood stability and to identify transient communities. The data also is used to assess the amount of displacement caused by floods and other natural disasters, and as an aid to evaluate the changes in service requirements.
Median Year Householder Moved into Unit
Median year householder moved into unit divides the distribution into two equal parts: one-half of the cases falling below the median year householder moved into unit and one-half above the median. Median year householder moved into unit is computed on the basis of a standard distribution. (See the "Standard Distributions" section under "Appendix A.") Median year householder moved into unit is rounded to the nearest calendar year. (For more information on medians, see "Derived Measures.")
Since 1996, the question provided two write-in spaces for the respondent to enter month and year the householder (person 1) moved into the house, apartment, or mobile home.
Data on year householder moved into unit in the American Community Survey can be compared to previous ACS and Census 2000 year householder moved into unit data. | as resident manager, caretaker, minister, or tenant farmer. Housing units on military bases also are classified in the "No rent paid" category. "Rented" includes units in continuing care, sometimes called life care arrangements. These arrangements usually involve a contract between one or more individuals and a health services provider guaranteeing the individual shelter, usually a house or apartment, and services, such as meals or transportation to shopping or recreation. (For more information, see "Meals Included in Rent.")
From 1996-2007 the American Community Survey questions were the same. Starting in 2008, the instruction "Mark (X) ONE box." was added following the question, and the instruction "Include home equity loans." was added following the response category "Owned by you or someone in this household with a mortgage or loan?" Additional changes introduced in 2008 included revising the wording of two of the response categories from "Rented for cash rent?" to "Rented?" and "Occupied without payment of cash rent?" to "Occupied without payment of rent?"
Data on tenure in the American Community Survey can be compared to previous ACS and Census 2000 tenure data.
The 2007-2011 ACS 5-Year Summary File Technical Documentation -> Appendix A. Supplemental Documentation -> Subject Definitions -> Housing Variables -> Year Householder Moved into Unit
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Hockey Allstar Shootout is a WiiWare game developed and produced by Big Blue Bubble.
Gameplay
The game uses the motion sensing capabilities of the Wii Remote to allow the player to use it as a control stick and to hit the puck, with the Nunchuk used to set its shooting direction. The Game feature four modes: Head 2 Head, Two-Player Mode, Shap Shooter and Power Shot<|fim_middle|>. The game ends when the player has failed to hit a target three times. In Power Shot mode players have three attempts to hit the fastest shots they can and make the high score table.
Reception
Nintendo Life gave the game 1 out of 10, noting the game featured "barely functioning controls, cheesy gameplay and an unrewarding experience that all add up to an inexcusable attempt to cash in on an apparently untapped market." They also warned hockey fans that they should spend their 500 wii points on Blades of steel and the ice hockey game for the NES system then on this one.
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During the summer of 2006, I rode my bicycle from Seattle to Boston with Dan, Eamon, Chris, and 11 other riders in order to raise money for humanitarian aid. When the trip was over, one of my friends asked me, "What was your favorite part of the ride?" I explained that I was fascinated by the progression of reactions that we got from locals as we crossed the country. When we told people in Washington that we were biking across America, we typically received smir<|fim_middle|> lifetime. Take it.
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© 2012 DREAM-Ride.org | questions@dream-ride.org | ks and skeptical well-wishes. In Iowa, people offered impressed and respectful recognition that we had already completed more than half the route. By the time we reached New England, locals responded with either silent awe or half-joking accusations that we were liars.
Periodically throughout the trip, a reporter or local would ask me, "What does biking across the country have to do with ending global poverty and providing significant aid to the less fortunate people of the world?" While I understand where they were coming from, to me the parallel is clear. We wanted to show people that something deemed impossible by many is not necessarily so. The skepticism that greeted us in the northwest is the same doubt that someone receives when they attempt to tackle a complex and long-standing dilemma. However, declaring something as "impossible" is oftentimes just an excuse, a cop out from having to put forth an honest attempt. By biking from Seattle to Boston, we illustrated what I consider to be the moral our journey: through hard work, perseverance, and the courage to push on despite doubts, we can turn a skeptic's impossibility into reality.
If you are like me, you probably have 1,000 practical reasons why you should not ride your bicycle across America, but you just cannot shake the nagging desire to participate. Once the trip was over, I was so glad that I did not give into the doubts that nearly kept me from riding. The personal development and contribution to humanity as a whole vastly outweigh short-term logistical concerns.
Having spent over 4,000 miles on bicycles with Eamon, Chris and Dan, I can attest to their leadership abilities and I know that the DREAM Ride will be a success. Even though I only spent two months with them, at the end of the trip I trusted them more than some people I had known for years. They earned it. If you are considering riding your bicycle across the country, there is no better way to do it than to participate in the DREAM Ride. This is the chance of a | 413 |
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Located right on Pissouri Bay Beach, Columbia Beach Resort is set within extensive landscaped gardens. It has an 262 foot lagoon-style pool, 5 restaurants and 7 bars. The hotel surprised my sister with a bday cake and wine in our room upon arrival which was such a nice gesture and we are very thankful!! Moreover the restaurant were we had dinner was informed about my sister being vegan and they had prepared a few options for her :)! Lastly I lost my watch whilst in the Spa and we informed them- they found it and brought it to our room as we were at dinner! It was a great stay!!!
Ambelones 2 is located in Pissouri. Guests staying at this vacation home can use the free WiFi. The 3-bedroom vacation home has a kitchen with a dishwasher and a bathroom with a hot tub. Great location, close to town. I'd recommend this others. A nice property, great TV and sound system. Good internet connection. Clean and well maintained.
Featuring a private pool and sea views, Ocean View Villa is located in Limassol. This property has a terrace.
The villa is amazing. Well equipped and set up. Facilities are modern and well maintained and best of all clean. Pissouri is a lovely little town.The owner was very<|fim_middle|> very clean and cozy. The cats living around the house are lovely to have around.
Very spacious, fabulous pool, hosts very friendly and accommodating. Very well stocked in every way and lovely touch of having food and drinks stocked all ready for us. Would recommend! Very quiet location. Lovely views across mountains.
Very good communication. Since we were staying on the ground floor kids could play outside easily. Appartment is big and clean.
Hotel owner Evans was very friendly. I suggest to visit the hotel for anyone who likes to have beautiful sights. | friendly and hospitable. Look out for Platea Tavern it's a very nice place to sit and have a drink. The amenities are abit of a drive but just about all you need is within the area. Only thing I'd say needs improvement is the signage to the place. Definitely worth booking again especially in the summer!!
We hired a car for the duration of the holiday so we were able to visit places of interest and lots of different beaches in the locality as well as spending time in Pissouri itself. With sunshine and blue skies every day what more can you ask for!!
A good location to stay in, located between two bigger cites if needed, but with more than enough supermarkets and restaurants available in the village itself. A charming village square that is very lively.
Captains restaurant on the beach.
Captains restaurant on the beach. Very good kitchen and service. Nice people. Lovely location. One caution, do not use the local stand alone atms. Drive to Pissouri and use the Cyprus Bank atm. It will save you the 12% spread in the exchange rate.
The owner was super nice, waited for us at the house. It's a traditional Cyprus village house, with lots of curious old things, but also all the things necessary for a comfortable stay. All bedrooms have a separate entrance from the inner yard. The center of Pissouri village is 50 meters away, and the beach is about 2 km. Would stay there again.
Family run hotel/apartments, always very accommodating and friendly, nothing was too much. Beautiful restaurant and quality food. Breakfast was lovely and evening meals...perfect! Rooms we very spacious with beautiful panoramic views, good facilities, always very clean, fresh towels daily. Would recommend this property again and again. Fabulous!
A lovely well equipped comfortable apartment in very well tended gardens with a great pool. The owner made us feel very welcome and kept us supplied with fresh fruit from the garden. The property is 20 mins walk away from the beach and if you were traveling with children I would recommend a car.
We just slept there because we were traveling around the island but it is a good basic accommodation, clean and comfortable, beautiful location, very quiet, nice pool area. We did have to kill a big spider but this is very normal in Cyprus rural areas so it's part of the adventure.
The location was excellent and the villa had a balcony downstairs and off the main bedroom. The owner was very accommodating and communication was clear and prompt throughout. Pissouri bay was beautiful and unspoilt.
The hotel was like a small resort in the middle of the countryside and 5 minutes away from the beach by foot. The property is really well cared, the gardens were great, the swimming-pool nice and everything clean.
George is very welcoming and helpful. Apartment well equipped. Garden is really beautiful, and the private pool is great! Walking distance from village center, 5 minute drive from beautiful beach.
Nice location with an unique atmosphere. A bit of traditional Cyprus far more interesting than hotels on the coast.
The location was amazing. Literally two minutes from the beach. Clean and functional room.
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It's a quiet place with a beautiful view, it's close to the village center and the host is very friendly and discrete. We had the tastiest grapes and figs there. The rooms have all the necessary electrical devices, are | 697 |
Hunter Limousines – Going the Extra Mile for First-Class Service
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As a U.S. Army veteran who served three tours in Iraq, William T. Hunter learned the value of being on time. So when he decided to start a limousine service after retiring from the military, he made<|fim_middle|> essential elements of superb first-class car service – on time performance in a safe, comfortable and meticulously clean vehicle, driven by a polite, well-dressed and knowledgeable chauffeur," Boyd said.
Hunter Limousines' chauffeurs are thoroughly screened and undergo quarterly screening and annual re-certification. Many are current or previous members of the military or law enforcement.
"As the face of our company when driving our clients, our chauffeurs are professionally attired, considerate and skilled at providing appropriate courtesies when servicing your luxury transportation needs," Boyd said. "When selecting a premium service, one expects a premium product. Hunter Limousines takes pride in the professional appearance, detailed cleanliness and thoughtful amenities of our entire fleet of vehicles. We go the extra mile to create the first-class experience our clients prefer."
Hunter Limousines has also been active in charitable work, donating limousine service to Goodwill Easter Seals for special needs children and to two Mobile County children with terminal cancer. The staff also has donated its time, location and tools to assemble donated bicycles for the Mobile County Sheriff's Department to distribute at Christmas.
Click here to read The Business View – February 2017 | punctuality a bedrock component of his business.
In business since 2008, Hunter Limousines employs a staff of four and operates a fleet of two limousines, three SUVs, two vans and a vintage car – a 1950s Chevrolet. All feature GPS tracking devices and free wi-fi, while other available features include DirecTV and minibars or coolers with ice for customers who wish to bring their own beverages. Hunter Limousines is the Chanber's Small Business of the Month.
Office manager Jessica Boyd said timely arrival and departure is "paramount" to a successful limousine business. What sets Hunter limousines apart, she added, are the quality and cleanliness of its vehicles and the credentials of drivers.
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Tufts CTSI and Tufts University Receive 4 NIH Supplemental Grant Awards – EurekAlert – October 27, 2009
Posted by Kim Sampson under Lyme Press Release | Tags: lyme disease, NIH, persistence of infection |
Public release date: 27-Oct-2009
Contact: Randi Triant
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Tufts CTSI and Tufts University receive 4 NIH supplemental grant awards
The Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and Tufts University today announced they are the recipients of four supplemental grant awards from the National Institutes of Health. These new awards, totaling approximately $1.73 million, are supplements to the original Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) grant, UL1 RR025752 that Tufts University received in 2008 from the National Center for Research Resources.
"Community Engagement Research" is a two-year project that will expand the scope of Tufts CTSI's current community engagement program by enhancing the ability of community partners to participate more effectively in the development of research plans and outcomes. Begun in September 2009, the project has already established an alliance between the Tufts CTSI, the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center, and two pivotal community partners, the Center for Community Health Education, Research, and Service (CCHERS) and the Immigrant Service Providers Group/Health (ISG/H). This alliance is creating a curriculum and evaluation for a self-study and face-to-face program entitled "Fostering Community Partners in Translational Research (FCPTR)" that will target community agencies and health centers. The Program Director is Laurel Leslie, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.
"Improving BPD Predictors and Outcomes for Clinical Trials" builds on prior landmark research that identified a constellation of signs and symptoms in high risk newborns to<|fim_middle|> for Research Resources (NCRR), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), provides laboratory scientists and clinical researchers with the tools and training they need to understand, detect, treat, and prevent a wide range of diseases. NCRR supports all aspects of clinical and translational research, connecting researchers, patients, and communities across the nation. Through programs such as the Clinical and Translational Science Awards, NCRR brings together innovative research teams and equips them with essential tools and critical resources needed to tackle the nation's complex health problems.
About the NIH
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research. Helping to lead the way toward important medical discoveries that improve people's health and save lives, NIH scientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as the causes, treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases. Composed of 27 Institutes and Centers, the NIH provides leadership and financial support to researchers in every state and throughout the world. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov. | accurately define bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and predict the subsequent development of chronic respiratory morbidity (CRM) later in childhood and adolescence. While treatment with recombinant human superoxide dismutase to premature newborns has been proven to have a 55% reduction in CRM compared to placebo controls, current definitions of BPD may be unreliable predictors of CRM and a more robust reduction in CRM is needed. Superoxide dismutase is an enzyme that converts superoxide radicals (highly reactive oxygen molecules produced during metabolism and capable of damaging body tissues) into less toxic agents. This one-year study is a prospective, longitudinal, observational study in 85 preterm infants 24-29 weeks gestation. The Program Director is Jonathan Davis, MD, Chief of Newborn Medicine, The Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, Program Director at the Clinical and Translational Research Center, and Professor of Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine. Partners in this study include Brigham and Women's Hospital (Harvard University), Beth Israel Hospital (Harvard University), Nationwide Children's Hospital (Ohio State), and King's College in London.
"Searching for Persistence of Infection in Lyme Disease" is a highly innovative Bench-to- Bedside research project that could have an extraordinarily significant impact on the field of Lyme disease. Although antibiotic therapy is clinically effective in treating the symptoms of Lyme disease for most patients early in the course of disease, a significant number of patients who receive therapy report persistent symptoms. A range of theories have been proposed for why this occurs. Moreover, commonly available tests for human Lyme disease are not able to determine persistent infection after antibiotic therapy. Program Director, Linden Hu, MD (Associate Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Microbiology, Sackler School of Biomedical Graduate Sciences) has begun an unconventional study examining whether xenodiagnosis (the feeding of uninfected Ixodes ticks on infected animals) can be used to determine when persistent infection occurs in humans. Xenodiagnosis has been used for other difficult to diagnose diseases such as Chagas disease and can sometimes definitively identify the presence of an organism in animals where other techniques cannot. Whether xenodiagnosis is effective in humans is unknown. This two-year project seeks to test the utility of xenodiagnosis for identifying persistence of B. burgdorferi, the spirochetal bacteria that cause Lyme disease, after antibiotic treatment of the disease. Dr. Linden's team will test subjects with elevated C6 antibody levels or persistent symptoms after antibiotic therapy and patients with Lyme arthritis. Evidence that B. burgdorferi can be identified by xenodiagnosis after antibiotic therapy in subjects with continued symptoms would significantly change the current paradigm for potential mechanisms of disease and provide researchers and clinicians with a novel tool for identifying patients with persistent infection.
Tufts CTSI currently has a Pilot Studies Program that funds new interdisciplinary research teams, seeds novel ideas, and provides the means to acquire necessary preliminary data for larger, multi-year grant applications. A new supplemental project, The Pilot Project Mechanism, is led by Susan K. Parsons, MD, MRP, Director, The Health Institute, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies and Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Amy Yee, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry, Sackler School of Biomedical Graduate Sciences. This two-year project expands the current program to influence research not just within the Tufts enterprise, but also throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and into New England via Tufts CTSI's forty-three collaborating partners by soliciting interinstitutional and multidisciplinary applications. Many of the identified programs will hire and support undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, thereby creating jobs throughout New England and also increasing the pipeline for translational researchers.
About Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
Tufts CTSI was established in August 2008 with Grant Number UL1 RR025752 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), National Institutes of Health (NIH). A collaboration of organizations, founded by Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University, Tufts CTSI accelerates the translation of laboratory research into clinical use, medical practice and health policy. It connects people to research resources, consultation, and education, and fosters collaboration with scholars of all disciplines and with community members, with the ultimate goal of improving the health of the public. Website: www.tuftsctsi.org.
About NCRR and the CTSA Consortium
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Sensor sizes explained: what you need to know
It used to be the case that if you bought a compact camera you'd have a small sensor, and if you went for an interchangeable-lens camera like a DSLR you got a much larger one. This would also typically be reflected in the quality of the images from those cameras, with larger sensors typically producing higher-quality results than smaller ones.
To some extent this is still the case. Sensors are typically the most expensive part of a camera to manufacture, and the larger you go the pricier the camera gets. For this reason you won't find expensive models toting 1/2.3-inch sensors, just as you wouldn't find cheap, basic compact cameras with full-frame ones.
Sensors are typically the most expensive part of a camera to manufacture, and the larger you go the pricier the camera gets.
However, as manufacturers started offering compact cameras with relatively large sensors, and interchangeable-lens cameras with smaller ones, the situation become more complex. Today, we find some small sensors work very well in a range of conditions, while some larger ones may present a handful of benefits over smaller ones in one way, but fall down in another.
Sensor technology has advanced rapidly over the past few years, and the breadth of options across all kinds of cameras is likely to confuse many users, particularly first-time buyers who may not be sure what to expect from different kinds of sensors. Furthermore, as the size of sensor has a bearing on the effective focal length of your lens, this becomes yet another thing to consider when choosing a new camera.
Here, we list the different types of sensor sizes used in cameras today, in ascending order of size, and how each affects image quality. But before we do that, we need to briefly talk about the relationship between sensor size and focal length.
Sensor size and focal length
The size of the sensor inside a camera has a direct effect on what kind of lenses can be used with that camera.
If you buy a compact camera the lens is built into the body, so there's less to think about here from a buying perspective. But with interchangeable-lens cameras like DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, any lens used needs to be able to have an image circle – the diameter of the light that exits the lens – that can sufficiently cover the dimensions of the sensor.
Whether they're built into the body of a camera or supplied separately, lenses are marked with their actual focal length, rather than the effective focal length when used on a particular camera. The problem here is that different lenses marked with two completely different focal lengths may provide the same effective focal range to work with when used on the bodies for which they are designed. To make things easier to understand, manufacturers often provide an 'equivalent' focal length, which uses the full-frame sensor as its reference point.
A 18-55mm lens used on a camera with an APS-C sensor has an effective focal range of 27-82mm, although the exact length depends on the camera used. Image Credit: Nikon/TechRadar.
Here's an example. A camera with a sensor that's smaller than full-frame may be used with a lens that has a focal length of 18-55mm, but in reality the effective focal range you'll end up with is closer to 27-82mm. This is because the sensor is not large enough to take advantage of the lens to the same extent as a full-frame sensor can. By discarding some of the peripheral areas of the lens, it ends up appearing as though you're using a longer focal length.
Similarly, a compact camera may have a 19mm lens built into it, but if the size of sensor is smaller than full-frame, it will only ever be able to offer a longer effective focal length on that body, perhaps 28mm or so. This figure is determined by the 'crop factor' – that is, the number by which you need to multiply the focal length to work out the effective focal length of the combination. This will be examined in greater detail for some of the sensor sizes below.
Sensor sizes
Here, we take a closer look at the main sizes of sensor used in today's cameras.
Note: not all sensors within the same category have exactly the same dimensions. The measurements provided are an example of one such sensor within that format.
1/2.3-inch
Canon PowerShot SX70 HS. Image Credit: Canon/TechRadar.
Dimensions: approx. 6.3 x 4.7mm
This is the smallest sensor that's commonly used in cameras today, and is typically found in budget compacts. They usually offer between 16-24MP.
These used to be common across these types of cameras, but the gradual shift in focus by manufacturers towards enthusiast cameras with larger sensors means they aren't as common in new cameras.
Their size allows manufacturers to make very compact cameras with long lenses, such as superzoom compacts like the Panasonic ZS70 / TZ90 and Canon PowerShot SX730 HS. They're also found inside DSLR-style superzoom compacts such as the Canon PowerShot SX70 HS. Using a larger sensor in such cameras would necessitate a larger, heavier and more expensive lens.
For general snapshots taken in good lighting conditions, cameras using these sensors may deliver perfectly acceptable results, but otherwise they can struggle to hold on to highlight detail and may produce images with a grainy, noisy texture.
Pentax QS1. Image Credit: Ricoh/TechRadar.
Slightly larger than the 1/2.3-inch types above, these sensors make it a little easier to separate a subject from its background, and typically offer better performance with regards to holding onto detail in shadow and highlights. As they can capture more light than smaller sensor, they're also likely to perform better in low light.
These were once the default choice for enthusiast compact cameras, but their popularity has waned in the face of larger and more advanced 1-inch sensors (discussed below). Some of the most recent cameras to use these include the Pentax QS1, which was announced five years ago.
Sony RX100. Image Credit: Sony/TechRadar.
Dimensions: approx. 13.2mm x 8.8mm
This type of sensor is currently a popular choice across a range of compact cameras, with its size making it a versatile but high-performing option.
It's most commonly used in pocket-friendly enthusiast compact cameras. Lenses on these cameras will typically be limited to around 24-70mm or 24-100mm (in 35mm equivalent terms), such as on the Panasonic LX15, Canon PowerShot G9 X Mark II and Sony RX100 VI. It has, however, also now featured in a handful of superzoom cameras from both companies too, like the Panasonic FZ1000 II and TZ200, as well as the Sony RX10 IV.
Cameras that use these sensors can typically provide very good quality images, particularly as many of the compact cameras that use them have wide maximum apertures that let in plenty of light. This enhanced image quality is partly the result of their size, but also on the technology on which they're based. Recent versions may be built with an unconventional construction, for example, which enables them to capture light more effectively than standard sensors.
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Four Thirds
Panasonic GH5S. Image Credit: Panasonic/TechRadar.
Dimensions: approx. 17.3 x 13mm
This is the format used by Olympus and Panasonic for its Micro Four Thirds mirrorless cameras, such as the Olympus OM-D E-M1X and the Panasonic GH5S.
These are a fair bit larger than the 1-inch sensors described on the previous page, but still smaller than APS-C types described below.
As this type of sensor has a surface area that's around a quarter of the size of full-frame sensors, calculating the effective focal length of compatible lenses is easy: you simply double it.
So, a 17mm lens used on such a camera will provide an effective focal length similar to a 34mm lens on a full-frame body. Similarly, a 12-35mm lens provides a focal range equivalent to 24-70mm lens on the same camera.
A 17MP version of this sensor was also used by Panasonic in its recent Lumix LX100 II compact camera. Here this was paired with a lens that gave a focal length equivalent to 24-75mm on a full-frame camera.
Canon EOS M50. Image Credit: Canon/TechRadar.
Dimensions: approx. 23.5mm x 15.6mm
Long used in entry-level and mid-range DSLRs, and now in many mirrorless cameras too, this type of sensor provides a good balance between system portability, image quality, and flexibility with regards to lenses.
Not all APS-C sensors are equal in size, however. Canon's APS-C sensors, such as those used inside its EOS Rebel T7i / EOS 800D and EOS M50 models, are a touch smaller than those inside the Nikon D5600 and Sony A6400, and other models from those two manufacturers. Canon's APS-C sensor apply a crop factor of 1.6x rather than the 1.5x seen elsewhere.
In any case, these cameras are still a good all-round, versatile option, and models that use them are often preferred over full-frame models by some nature and sports photographers, as the crop factor enables them to get closer to their subjects with a given lens.
APS-C sensors have also been employed in a number of compact cameras, such as the Ricoh GR III and Fujifilm's XF10 and X100F models. Here, in order to keep image quality high and the camera portable, they're paired with fixed focal length lenses.
The Ricoh GR III, for example, has a 19mm lens, while the Fujifilm X100F has a 23mm lens and the XF10 has an 18.5mm lens. These provide focal lengths equivalent to 28mm, 35mm and 28mm respectively. These lenses also have fairly wide maximum apertures, which allows the user to more easily capture a shallow depth of field.
APS-H
Sigma sd Quattro H. Image Credit: Sigma/TechRadar.
Dimensions: approx. 26.6 x 17.9mm
This type of sensor was commonly associated with Canon's older EOS-1D models, such as the EOS-1D Mark III and EOS 1D Mark IV, although the company appears to have moved away from the format, adopting a full-frame alternative for its current EOS-1D X Mark II.
Being smaller than full frame but larger than APS-C sensors, the crop factor of these is accordingly between the two at 1.3x. So, a 24mm lens used with such a sensor would provide an effective focal length closer to 31mm.
More recently, a 51MP version of this type of sensor was employed in Sigma's sd Quattro H model. Canon also announced that it was developing 120MP and 250MP APS-H sensors within the last few years, although it stated that the likely applications for these would be for surveillance, crime prevention tools and industrial equipment among other things, rather than for commercially available DSLRs.
Nikon Z7. Image Credit: Nikon/TechRadar.
Dimensions: approx 36 x 24mm
Full-frame sensors are used in many enthusiast and professional cameras, including the flagship DSLR and mirrorless models in many manufacturers' lines.
Their relatively large surface area allows them to collect plenty of light, which in turn helps to produce high-quality images, while the larger area gives the manufacturer more space to play with when it comes to deciding on the number of pixels. Currently, some have as few as 12MP, while others have 24MP, 36MP and even 51MP.
Full-frame sensors are (roughly) the same size as a 35mm film negative, so there's no crop factor to think about here. If you use a lens designed for a 35mm film camera on a digital body with a full-frame sensor, the effective focal length will be the same.
Depending on the system and manufacturer, some lenses designed for APS-C cameras can be used on full-frame bodies at a reduced resolution.<|fim_middle|> them to professional use. DSLRs are typically easier to handle, for example, offer a much wider choice of native lenses, and can also autofocus much faster.
If, however, we're to base our expectations for the format on recent developments, we'll no doubt see these sensors appearing in more affordable and compact bodies, along with improvements to performance and greater lens ranges.
What camera should I buy? | Here, the camera essentially crops away the edges of the frame so that you don't get any darkening of the corners. You should, however, always check that your camera supports this, as using incompatible lenses can damage the mirror.
Popular current models that sport full-frame sensors include the Nikon Z7, Sony A7 III and Canon EOS RP mirrorless cameras. Panasonic has also started to use this format for its first two S series cameras, the S1 and S1R. Many DSLRs also continue to make use of these sensors, such as the Canon EOS 6D Mark II, Nikon D850 and Pentax K-1 II.
Fujifilm GFX 50R. Image Credit: Fujifilm/TechRadar.
Dimensions: approx 44mm x 33mm
Medium-format sensors are significantly larger than full-frame types, and the arrival of a number of recent cameras using them has sparked a huge amount of interest in the format. These include the Fujifilm GFX 50R and Hasselblad X1D, and the slightly older Pentax 645Z.
Theoretically, medium-format systems allow for a higher standard of image quality than cameras with smaller sensors, mainly because they capture a lot more light that goes on to make up the image. A larger sensor can also make it easier for manufacturers to fit more pixels on the surface; Fujifilm is currently promising a 100MP medium format camera, for example.
Their practicalities and cost, however, largely confine | 318 |
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The E-Series: Year in Review
Join us for this special episode of The E-Series as we revisit some of the listener favorites from our 2022 podcasts. Hosted by Ryan Biagini, Director of<|fim_middle|> Ideas for Recharging Your Caregiving Energy in 15 Minutes by AARP
The E-Series is an educational webinar and podcast series aimed at engaging our community, exploring relevant topics and educating about ways to connect with our organization. Funding for The E-Series is provided by the John A. Lusk Fund for Hospice and Palliative Care Education. To listen to previously recorded episodes of The E-Series, click here. | Community Engagement & Education, and Jessica Crisp, Public Relations Associate, this episode kicks off 2023 with insights gained from some of our most impactful Caregiving Conversations and a look ahead at the future of The E-Series.
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MONSTER TRUCK: 'Evolution' Video Released
MONSTER TRUCK's video for the song "Evolution" can be seen below.. The track is taken from the band's upcoming album, "True Rockers", which will be released on September 14 via Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group.
Speaking about the track and<|fim_middle|> Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends). | video, singer/bassist Jon "Marv" Harvey explained: "'Evolution', as a song, was a real shift in a different direction. It was very eye opening in many different ways for us. We wanted to keep the video looking like the image that we built rather than have another curveball. I think the juxtaposition feels more natural than we expected, and the end product speaks for itself."
It's been two years since the mighty "Sittin' Heavy" came out and in the 18 months that followed its release, MONSTER TRUCK played over 150 shows, which included arena tours with NICKELBACK, BILLY TALENT and a European DEEP PURPLE tour. They also played with BLACK STONE CHERRY, VOLBEAT, THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT, JANE'S ADDICTION, ROB ZOMBIE and ALTER BRIDGE.
During the time on the road, the band took a recording rig on tour and songs came together for what was to become "True Rockers" and they began to send material back and forth to producer Dan Weller (SIKTH, YOUNG GUNS, ENTER SHIKARI).
"When the inspiration strikes, use it, if you're not gonna use it, you're wasting it," said Harvey. "As soon as you think of something could be a good song, work on it, immediately. Inspiration is so valuable." They then returned to Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, North Carolina in July 2017 to record the album.
"True Rockers" is the sound of a band letting lose and having fun. Harvey affirmed: "We want people to listen to it and have fun, have as much fun as possible." "Yeah, that's what I was gonna say too," added guitarist Jeremy Widerman. "I mean, right off the beginning of the album, you hear me scream at Marv. That just kicks off the entire vibe of the album. Us in a room, having fun, joking and yelling at each other."
The album had been put to bed but the band were still bouncing around ideas and they had the opportunity to work with award-winning producers Gavin Brown and Maia Davies on songs "Evolution", "Young City Hearts" and "Hurricane".
"We had a chance to work with some hitmakers, so we took the chance, and what came out is different than anything we have done," explained Harvey. "Gavin and Maia were fantastic to work with. It added a lot of color to the record and allowed us the opportunity to take a risk and branch out a little."
Elaborating further, Widerman added: "It almost wouldn't be a MONSTER TRUCK record if we didn't reach the supposed end of the process and then double-back to track a few extra songs in order to strengthen what was already a strong record to us."
Harvey has become a father since the last record was released and this life-changing moment had a real effect on the songwriting. Whereas "Sittin' Heavy" was a more "serious" record, "True Rockers" is the sound of a band letting loose and having fun. Harvey affirmed: "We want people to listen to it and have fun, have as much fun as possible."
This is the essence that is pumping through "True Rockers", a band that formed only for fun back in 2009 have toured the world because they connect with their fans who want that from them.
Upon the release of "True Rockers", they will be three albums in and are steamrolling through the world picking up people along the way that want that wild ride and its feels like they are only just getting started.
Widerman added: "Looking back to the beginning, I think, in a way, I knew it, I really did. Within the first couple of rehearsals we ever did. I always think back to how I knew this was something different to anything else I'd ever done. It was weird because I had to manage how excited I was. We all agreed that this wasn't gonna be a band that signs a record deal and goes on tour. I was, like, 'Holy shit! This is better than anything I've ever done before. How am I going to convince these guys to go with it?'"
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It was the second full day at the Cave-In, and Chris and I had a couple vertical caves under our belts and were looking for a good horizontal cave to get into with Morgan and Kelton. (We felt really bad leaving her at SERA all alone to fend for herself during the summer, never getting underground with her.) So upon visiting SCCi's cave-guru Andy Zelner, we had the Byers Cave cave map on the Fox Mountain Cave Preserve in our hands to visit. We were happy since the access and cave itself warded off the wimps. We were told to walk about a mile up a little mountain and follow a so-so trail to the entrance in a gully. Andy told us to expect a lot of chimneying, canyoning and bring a piece of webbing for a handline. Sounded good to us!
After arousing Morgan and Kelton, we stuffed the car with gear and hit the road. Minor problems with directions, we arrive about 30 minutes later than planned. The parking area was packed. But no worries, there were about 10 caves on the property, and most of the people would be bouncing the pit.
We followed the trail until there was none. Bushwhacking then ensued. Then some blue flagging tape that we followed.
Then the men decided to ditch the gear and head out to find this mysterious gully. Chris returned about five minutes later with the way. After walking about 300 feet down into a steep gully, we were drenched in sweat and eager to enter the cool cave.
There was at least one group who entered before us that we knew of. Less traffic the better for us, we all said.<|fim_middle|>.
We exited the cave and walked back to my car to find that we were indeed the last one on the preserve. Unfortunately, none of us won any of the door prizes back at camp, specifically the coveted 600 feet of pit rope. If we would have known that, we would have pushed our trip further in and seen the waterfall. Perhaps another time, another TAG. | About 30 minutes of caving, I found a tight squeeze. It was about 7.5-8 inches tall. Kelton was the first to try it and was unsuccessful. He should have taken off those pants, I say! Morgan peeped in and slipped right through the hole. I was next and then Kelton had to try again to his success. Chris was the last in. We sat in a tiny room with a couple of leads that really didn't go anywhere, but the squeeze was fun.
We pushed onward and found the canyons. Maneuvering safely through them involved quite a bit of teamwork. Soon after, we found the wall we needed webbing for. It was about a 30-foot wall with few handholds that led to a little rock wedged in between the canyon walls. The group before us was just making their way out. I felt severely inadequate with our 25 feet of 1-inch webbing after seeing they were using about 70 feet of 11mm rope. They left and pulled their rope, leaving a group still down the canyon. It was up to us to now find them and make sure they exited before we did.
A few belly crawls later and some mazy canyons we found more rope! Oh no, we had no more webbing! After scoping out the different leads that lead about 60 feet downward, Chris lead us through the maze. Again, teamwork was key here since we had no handlines. We found the other group at the register (a.k.a. the urinal) in a huge bore-hole passage, unlike any of the cave we had seen thus far. The other group headed out, pulling their rope after them. We headed up the huge walking passage filled with breakdown to the formation room. And did we find them!
We found several large holes in the floor. Also, a section of about 100 feet that was highly decorated with growing stalagmites, stalactites, columns, soda straws, flowstones and drapery. We stopped for photos and exploration. We had hunger for more so pushed onward. Several minutes later we were rewarded. To our amazement we found a column spanning about 100 feet from the ceiling to the floor and was about 40 feet at the base! Amazing!
"This is the biggest formation I've ever seen!" hollered Morgan.
We, again, went our different ways looking at the beautiful sights and taking photos. But it all had to end too soon for there was the door prizes in just a couple hours back at the campsite. So we gathered and hauled back towards the entrance. Kelton was of great use to us all getting back up the canyon (his long legs.) We were overjoyed to find our webbing still in tact so we could get out | 590 |
Are our rankings and search traffic going to disappear into a black hole?
Whether it's an Official Google Blog post like this or one of Matt Cutts' videos, you always have to read between the lines to find the real story. Let's do just that.
By dissecting this snippet and the rest<|fim_middle|>, it's neither practical nor efficient to rewrite your website frequently just to make Google happy. And, it's entirely possible that the content written 2 years ago about your best-selling widget is indeed still fabulous. That said, maintaining a good SERP ranking now requires that at least some of the page's content is fresh and dynamic, which indicates to Google that the page is still relevant.
For websites with reviews and Q&A, it's important that Google can see and read that content. Make sure that at least a few reviews are included in your primary page for each product or service. A handful of fresh review content, or questions and answers, can make a significant impact on how Google perceives that page's freshness.
You should also consider a technique called "integrated blogging" or "stories". With this method, you proactively share stories about your products or services, placing snippets of those stories on your product pages. Each time the snippets change, Google Caffeine will see those updates and once again consider your page fresh, and thus more relevant.
It's important to note that the other rules of SEO still apply and that freshness alone will not solve the world's SEO problems. However, without fresh content, Google Caffeine will get bored with your pages and they will eventually slide into no man's land.
Learn how fresh content through SearchVoice Inline contributed to a 17% increase in OpenTable's natural search. Read the SEO case study. | of the Google blog post, it's clear that they are placing primary emphasis on freshness, with a secondary focus on relevance. Language like, "50 percent fresher," "much sooner after it's published," "relevant content," and a few others make a strong statement about Google's understanding of human nature. Let me explain: Who really wants the top items in their SERP (search engine results page) results to be outdated articles from three years ago? Google knows that people want the latest information, and if we don't find it through Google, we're going to turn to a competing search engine until we find what we want—fresh, relevant content.
So what does this mean for the average website? It means that Google is likely to"get bored," with its pages if rich, relevant content updates are not made often. Google is indirectly messaging here that it is not acceptable for the copy on your website to become stale (no matter how great it is). SEO's have been talking about freshness for years, but Google's recent messaging around Caffeine, and the fact that they just completed an enormous and costly infrastructure update centered on freshness, mean that these conversations have suddenly been lent more weight.
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St. David`s Hall, Cardiff was the recent venue for a fantastic gig by the timeless Scottish rockers Deacon Blue. Formed<|fim_middle|> long time. | way back in the Eighties (which is the era I was growing up in!) they have stood the test of time brilliantly, and sound as good now as they did nearly thirty years ago.
Warming up the crowd before the main event were hometown duo `Zervas & Pepper`, who have established a growing presence on the UK live circuit including well-received slots at Glastonbury and Green Man festivals.
Since forming in 1985, Deacon Blue have had massive success in the UK, selling 6 million albums including two that have topped the charts, plus 12 singles that have stormed the Top 40.
In September this year, the band released their seventh studio album A New House, and it was songs from this album which kicked off the show in style. Decibel levels in the hall then increased considerably with a rendition of the classic `Raintown`, which heralded the start of a string of well-known tunes, such as `Loaded` and `Fergus Sings The Blues`, the best known of which, `Real Gone Kid`, worked the crowd to fever pitch.
The encore did not disappoint, with every member of the audience on their feet singing along to probably the band`s best known hit, `Dignity`, followed by the energetic `Wages Day`, a stirring climax to what was a fantastic show.
Frontman Ricky Ross has lost none of his ability to entertain, not to mention a real talent for song writing, and combined with Lorraine McIntosh`s beautiful harmonies, produce a sound that appeals to a broad spectrum of people. To watch a live band is always a memorable experience, whether you enjoy it or not, to watch a band who you grew up with and still remember most of the words to their songs is an experience I will not forget in a | 369 |
How Long Will My Motorcycle's Transport Take?
The length of time<|fim_middle|>1 professionals will notify you if delays are obvious.
Shipping a bike state to state will take less than a couple weeks in most cases while shipping internationally could take as long as three or four weeks depending on the distance, import laws and specifications of the shipping process.
For customers who are concerned over the timeframe in which the motorcycle is delivered, there are high priority services that include expedited and guaranteed delivery. Expedited shipping will put your bike at the top of A1's list so that it is shipped out right away. Guaranteed delivery means that your bike will arrive at its destination by a specified date. | it takes to get your motorcycle from one place to the next obviously depends on the distance of travel ahead. Other things also matter including the time of year, road construction, and traffic during the transport. If you're shipping your motorcycle internationally, expect delays due to any difficulties you might have with a country's import laws.
The average transport of a motorcycle from coast to coast is about two weeks' time. If there are any distractions during the transport, expect delays. Of course, A | 97 |
Winning NBC's "America's Got Talent" at just 12-years old by the most votes for a final performance in the history of the show, singer/ventriloquist Darci Lynne Farmer impresses audiences across the country with her sweetheart disposition and undeniable, show-stopping talent beyond her years<|fim_middle|> information, visit www.darcilynne.com. | . Accompanied by her musical friends including a divaesque rabbit (Petunia), a shy and soulful mouse (Oscar), and a sarcastic old woman (Edna), singing through her friends helped the young entertainer find a voice inside she didn't know she had, and helped her overcome a lifelong struggle with shyness.
Following her big win, she has been featured on NBC's "Little Big Shots," Food Network's "Kids Baking Championship," "Ellen" and "TODAY." Her first Christmas special "Darci Lynne: My Hometown Christmas" will air on NBC this December. Darci and her friends are continually on the road bringing smiles to audiences across the country. In 2019 Darci will hit the road for her Fresh Out of the Box Tour. For dates and the latest | 172 |
How to Avoid Buying a Franchise That Might Go Under
by Van Thompson
Some franchises place tight restrictions on how you can and can't decorate your business.
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2 Invest in a Franchise
3 What Are the Advantages of Opening a Franchise?
4 Buy Into a Franchise
With a franchise, you gain access to an established brand, but this doesn't mean you can completely avoid marketing your business. Franchises sometimes reduce the cost of ownership<|fim_middle|>2.html. Accessed 19 July 2019.
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Open a Franchise Business | when the business is in trouble, so a tempting business option could actually be a recipe for financial trouble. If you investigate the market and avoid impulse buys, you'll reduce the risk you assume when you purchase a franchise business.
Investigate the Market
Before you pick a specific franchise to buy, consider where you'd like to work, then evaluate the nearby market. A location where property values and incomes are increasing is more likely to be viable than an economically depressed area. Learn about local competition. A coffee shop, for example, can struggle if other coffee shops are in the neighborhood, but if there's not a nearby coffee house, you could help fill an important niche.
Learn About the Franchise
Research the specific franchise you've chosen. Check for a history of bankruptcies, of declining stock prices or a rash of business closures. Review the average profits of a franchise in your area -- or an area similar to yours -- and compare this to the franchise fees and other costs associated with running the business. If the costs are high or the business has a history of financial trouble, don't count on being the one lucky franchise owner who pulls the company back from the brink.
Comparison Shop
Some franchise owners get into the business because they get a tempting offer from a specific franchise. But giving into enticing sales pitches is a good way to get burned. Instead, compare several franchises. Choose the one with the best history of financial statements, the highest profitability and the lowest density in your area. You don't want to have to compete with other owners of the same franchise, especially because they have probably already established a customer base in your area.
Review the Franchise Contract
Although you're the owner of a franchise, you still have to answer to the corporate office, and this often requires following specific directions about how you decorate, which products you sell and when you sell them. Review the franchise contract to ensure it doesn't strip you of too much power. Evaluate how much money you can expect to pay to the corporation each year, and weigh this against the average first-year profitability of a new franchise.
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Van Thompson is an attorney and writer. A former martial arts instructor, he holds bachelor's degrees in music and computer science from Westchester University, and a juris doctor from Georgia State University. He is the recipient of numerous writing awards, including a 2009 CALI Legal Writing Award.
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A modern custom designed sauna is nestled against the rocky Georgian Bay shoreline of this Go Home Bay cottage.
One design challenge was how to navigate your way down to the shoreline in a pleasing aesthetic and functional way. The solution to the challenge of building a pathway over undulating bedrock was to essentially prefabricate "gangways" that could overlap one another sitting directly on the sloping ground – ending with the last pod abutting vertical rock face<|fim_middle|> screen the backside of the structure from the main cottage. Getting the design down on paper required mapping out the tree locations and specific rock outcroppings – not an easy task! | so that the first step down to the water's edge is stepping off the rock to the first tread. Flush mounted LED lights on the step risers make for a bright ambiance at night.
The positioning and height of the sauna was tricky as the goal was to have it "hug" the profile of the irregular rock face next to a cluster of trees that would | 73 |
Interview: B.D. Gore – Why Charleston?
I was born and raised in Charleston, but I have lived throughout Southern WV and the Washington D.C. area.
I think the best way to describe the vibe in Charleston is that it is energized. We are experiencing a growth in the number of festivals and many other family events and activities here.
It's hard to say which season is best, however Autumn offers beautiful scenery with a mountain view that is visible from anywhere in the city. If you want to venture into the mountains it's just minutes away. So not only can you work in a building and look outside and see the colors of fall, but you can step outside and experience the scenery from within the city or the mountains that are close by.
For me it's the Clay Center, I have experienced the absolute best concerts, shows and I have even attended church there.
I would describe it as a small city with a big city feel. It is a great place to visit with lots to do and see, regardless if you are into outdoor adventure, good entertainment or fine dining. It is one of the few cities that I have been in where you can walk down any street and people that you don't even know will smile or speak to you.
What are Charleston's attractions that every tourist must visit?
There are many must see attractions in Charleston such as Kanawha State Forest, the Mound in South Charleston and you must hear local musician Bob Thompson. But the absolute must see is a view of the State Capitol (day or night) from the riverbank of the University of Charleston campus.
Everyone should visit Taylor Books which has a unique feel that can't be described but must be experienced, Mountain Stage has both known and unknown musical acts and if you enjoy golfing Little Creek Golf Course is a public course that is a<|fim_middle|> regardless if it is the symphony or a nationally known artist it will always be cheaper in Charleston.
If B.D. Gore seemed to be cloaked in secrecy, it's no surprise to find out that he's a Security Consultant. This Charleston native owns his own security consulting company that provides a variety of services to clients, such as security and crime prevention consulting, threat and vulnerability assessments, homeland security planning, policy review and solutions specifically designed to prevent and resolve specific problems. He also lends his expertise to Research Triangle Institute and is a member of several professional boards.
Excellent article. Makes you want to come to W.V. to see the leaves and walk into the mountains. West Virginians are very friendly. I guess that is why it is considered almost Heaven. | hidden gem.
Actually anything in Charleston is cheap compared to other states from entertainment to sporting events. If you enjoy music | 23 |
Content Offers Publishers Opportunity
The changes in the media landscape are vast, and poised to permanently disrupt traditional marketing practices. The onslaught of media, including video, and the explosion of social media have accelerated the engagement process, driving companies to try everything and anything to keep pace and maintain engaging relationships with communities of consumers.
It seems that content is once again king. More and more brands are realizing that they need to dynamically create alternative forms of content in order to ensure meaningful engagement with consumers.
For CMOs and marketers, supporting a content marketing strategy also means figuring out how to manage the workflow and process for both the creation and distribution of that content.
A recent study from Forrester Research showed that companies that don't consider how to best manage their rich media assets and workflows wind up with production and, ultimately, brand inefficiencies. This has left many marketers with their heads spinning at the idea of trying to keep up with the monumental challenges that go hand-in-hand with modern "Now" marketing. Companies that fail to develop an efficient way of managing the process are quickly falling behind.
Following are the three biggest challenges facing companies as they continue to adopt new ways to develop and deliver content and embrace content marketing on a greater scale.
Today's consumers are increasingly media savvy and demand a more engaging experience. As a result, many marketers are using video and other media as part of the marketing mix to ensure increased interaction at every turn. But organizations are finding that the content creation process is breaking<|fim_middle|> what content they already have and how it may have been used, in addition to what they need, are well ahead of the game. Content Management technologies, like Digital Asset Management, make this possible. They provide efficiencies that are saving time and money for companies as they work to create more compelling content, respond more quickly to changing content needs, and make smarter decisions.
Without content management, the process of content creation becomes exponentially more difficult, if not impossible.
Consider how many different people are involved in creating, editing, approving, updating archiving and removing content for a brand. If every person involved with a brand's content is in a different location, it gets extraordinarily complicated, to put it lightly.
Today, the companies seeing the greatest return on their content strategy are those willing to adapt a software strategy to centralize, automate, and manage these complex workflows, from the beginning of the creative process through to the expiration and removal of that content / campaign.
In addition to streamlining the process of creating and managing content, brands today are just as concerned with distributing that content. In order to secure and maintain consumer attention, marketers must find a way to reach widely dispersed audiences with messages that are constantly evolving and changing. They need to be able to respond to any message that doesn't connect with consumers and make changes across multiple mediums and campaigns in real-time.
But the rapid pace of distribution today can also serve as an advantage for marketers that both understand and are able to leverage tools which automate and manage the distribution of content, including the download, conversion, distribution, and rights management of video, images and other rich media.
Without a process for managing each step, these efforts are likely to fall flat. As companies begin to implement digital asset management technologies that can streamline this process, they become much more equipped to take advantage of the revolution in content marketing.
Source: Mediapost | down. Without the ability to see and search across all of the available rich media assets, how can they efficiently and cost-effectively identify what content is available and how it was previously used?
Companies that have implemented a way to identify | 46 |
Umetnost & kreativnost
Umetnost i Mediji
art abortus klinika
By DarkAttraktor, January 23, 2011 in Umetnost & kreativnost
DarkAttraktor
hand-me-downs & mother-sharpened scissors
idemo dalje, strukturalisticki eksperiment:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkHHdOit8FA
palfoot
vehementno ležeran
Ohio-based avant-garde filmmaker Richard Myers calls his work "dream films," and so it is with this his first feature film. A<|fim_middle|> padne pod naletom neverovatnog umetnickog stila! the inimitable she-wolf of punk/ paul mccarthy malo dete za ove shpagete/ boyd rice eat your heart out!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXFGb6iYILs
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Luša iz Misače
Vratite Bugarku! | collage of images of restless youth, landscapes of alienation, the Vietnam War, consumer civilization and overt racism, Akran is non-narrative but deeply connected to our collective unconsciousness. Amos Vogel described it as "a Joyce-like, dense and somber mosaic of memory and sensory impressions, a texture instead of a plot, a dream-like flow of visually-induced associations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO141O8cVpo
sorry gang, rl pritego. nastavljamo gde smo stali:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKXOdjydIR0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWPEjBhSYqc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYr_SvIKKuI
«La Région Centrale» was made during five days of shooting on a deserted mountain top in North Quebec. During the shooting, the vertical and horizontal alignment as well as the tracking speed were all determined by the camera's settings. Anchored to a tripod, the camera turned a complete 360 degrees, craned itself skyward, and circled in all directions. Because of the unconventional camera movement, the result was more than merely a film that documented the film location's landscape. Surpassing that, this became a film expressing as its themes the cosmic relationships of space and time. Cataloged here were the raw images of a mountain existence, plunged (at that time) in its distance from civilization, embedded in cosmic cycles of light and darkness, warmth and cold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYh_W9Bz8vI
otac yt remixa, martin arnold :Dhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W1D57YMwmEi jedan ozbiljniji art pobachaj iz found footage klinike (by anita biz(ar)etic) :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9DcCX6XRDs
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Sto bi rekli nasi stari, nema leba bez kradjofonike :P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNbBNcfTt14
i dalje smo u culture jamming vodama, ovog puta sa jednom art intervencijom koja je postala maltene sinonim za ovu vrstu media prank-a:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bRuTkmTIjg
richmond, va art punk dike. lajk, totally :Dhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW0GSb7ixdM
lol omg like srsly wtf ? this ain't no hipster olympics, afaik http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQe2iH5Xcyc
conquer from within
... dupli post.
Edited March 15, 2011 by CowBoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUoLIQR4Rg4
99 Luftballons Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont Hielt man fuer UFOs aus dem All Darum schickte ein General Eine Fliegerstaffel hinterher Alarm zu geben, wenn es so war Dabei war da am Horizont Nur 99 Luftballons
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Eating to Impress My Boss
By Jihan Thompson
Jesse Frohman
My office's annual holiday lunch at a nearby Italian restaurant was a loaded affair. Getting face time with senior staff is rare, save for the accidental run-in on my way to the copier. Which is why I spent hours the night before trying on outfits (Does this skirt scream "ready for a promotion"?) and thinking up witty one-liners to wow the bosses with ("I always wanted to be a procrastinator, but I never got around to it"). But I spent most of my prep time agonizing over what to order, because eating with superiors is its own job interview.
Would I look meek if I ordered soup? I wondered, while surveying the menu online beforehand. What would the risotto special say about me: risk-taker or glutton? I finally settled on a salad strategy, which seemed healthy enough to earn kudos but innocuous enough not to upstage me. As it turned out, I wasn't the only one with that game plan. Virtually everyone at the table passed over the restaurant's signature pepperoni pizza (which I'd have killed for) in favor of something leafy. At least no one could accuse me of not being a team player.
Breaking bread with colleagues is an event not to be taken lightly. Go ahead and gorge without remorse in the privacy<|fim_middle|>
"My early years were like Mad Men — people drank six martinis at lunch. That era is over. Don't make a big deal of it, but don't have a drink at a business luncheon. You want to be in control."
>—Cathie Black, president of Hearst Magazines and author of Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life), now in paperback.
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What's Your Weight Loss IQ? | of your own home. But in the office, laissez-faire eating suggests a laissez-faire work ethic or, worse, immaturity. Not long ago I was lunching on a PB&J sandwich at my desk, when an older coworker remarked that she'd packed the same thing in her kid's lunch box that morning. In effect, she'd compared me to her third-grader — not a good thing. Later that day, she asked me to get her a cup of coffee, a task typically delegated to the college interns. Whether this was conscious on her part or not, I took her point. If I won't show up to work wearing Havaianas flip-flops or an ironic T-shirt for fear of looking too young, shouldn't I extend that thinking to what I put in my mouth?
My boyfriend insists I'm being paranoid. Really? When I snacked on almonds from a Ziploc baggie, my boss was the first to take notice. "What a smart idea! I wish I was that together," she effused. (Little did she know I had pilfered the nuts from my roommate after I'd finished his Cheez-Its.) But it paid off — I think. The boss invited me to tag along on her pitch meeting that afternoon with more senior staffers. In that instant, maybe she viewed me as a thoughtful, plan-ahead kind of gal — exactly the impression I want to make. Hey, if you're gunning for a raise, you've got to eat the part.
Did You Know? Overweight women make 24% less than their leaner cubemates.
THE BOSSES WEIGH IN
"At cocktail parties, pick only single-bite hors d'oeuvres. You don't want to be seen chewing chicken satay off a stick."
—Marilyn Carlson Nelson, chairwoman of Carlson Companies, Inc., which owns Radisson Hotels and T.G.I. Friday's
"If it helps you get more done, eating at your desk is good. But stinking up the office isn't. I once had an employee spray Glade around a lunch offender's desk."
—Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and chairman of HDNet
"Never eat crabs, sloppy joes, or spaghetti at a work function. Your attention should be focused on the other people, not the food."
—Rob McGovern, founder of CareerBuilder | 495 |
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory<|fim_middle|> themes of the message of Jesus Christ.
The minister urged all residents to be security conscious and to report all suspicious movements to the nearest security agencies for prompt action.
He, however, assured residents that the Administration would continue to work in concert with the security agencies to guarantee safety of lives and property in the FCT.
Bello also used the occasion to thank FCT residents for their prayers as well as their sacrifices towards the development of the Territory in particular and Nigeria in general.
He appealed to residents to join hands with the Administration to make Abuja the city of unity and a haven of peace as was conceived by the founding father. | , Malam Muhammad Bello, on Monday enjoined residents in the Territory to use the Christmas period to reflect and rededicate themselves to the virtues of love, unity and peace.
The minister, who was quoted by his Chief Press Secretary, Cosmas Uzodinma, as saying this in Abuja, also described these virtues as the recurrent | 71 |
Here's the next dish in our "Cooking with Grandma" series: Cold Tofu Salad.
In a Chinese meal, you'll often start with cold dishes. These often consist of cold veggies, tofu, or meat dressed with light sauces and dressings. They're especially great in the summer, when you want to eat food that's light and cooling. Here's one healthy, easy, fool-proof example.
Start by blanching your cut carrot and green pepper in some simmering water for one minute.
Drain the veggies in a colander and then throw them into a bowl of ice water. This will guarantee that your carrots stay bright orange and your peppers stay bright green.
In a serving bowl, add the raw tofu noodles with your veggies. No worries about eating the tofu raw, it's totally good.
Then toss in the sesame oil, salt, and white pepper. Mix it together well and garnish with toasted black or white sesame seeds.
And that's it! Serve it as a side dish or as a first course. It's a great dish for summertime.
Start by blanching your cut carrot and green pepper in some simmering water for one minute. Remove the veggies from the pot and place them into a bowl of ice water to preserve color and crunch.
In a serving bowl, add<|fim_middle|> dishes, so many of my restaurant favorites. These will keep me busy cooking for a long time.
One dish I have been looking for and can't find on the web is a salad of tofu skins, mustard greens and edamame. It tastes like it has a bit of toasted sesame oil on it..Would you have that by any chance? Such a great salad to have with one of your terrific soups. | the raw tofu noodles with your veggies. Toss in the sesame oil, salt, and white pepper. Mix it together well and garnish with toasted black or white sesame seeds.
Sarah, just love your website. So many fabulous | 46 |
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Use the arrow and calendar icons below the table to navigate to the week you are interested in..
Cells that are marked Available or Open Play Only are available for open play on a first come, first | 165 |
Freshers' Fair is the highlight of Freshers' Week and is usually held on the Friday in the huge marquee on PATS field. For the<|fim_middle|> signatories in due course, if you have any queries please contact one of the Activities staff in the Students' Union.
Please contact our marketing partner Bam here. Bam coordinate all external stalls and have special rates for local companies and charities. | 2017/18 year the fair will be on Friday 28th September starting at midday and finishing around 4pm.
All staff and students are welcome to attend. In attendance at the fair will be all Students' Union sports clubs and societies, University departments, commercial partners, local charities and a selection of food stalls.
If you are interested in exhibiting at Freshers Fair then please see below.
Freshers Fair is held on the Friday of Freshers' Week in the marquee on PATS field. The date for 2017/18 academic year is Friday 29th September.
Attending this event are all the Students' Union sports clubs and societies, University department and commercial partners.
The Activity department will be contacting all | 158 |
On April 29, 2008 the members of the public Association "KZ BIKE" headed by The famous biker D. I. Petrukhin made another spring bike-throw. The purpose of the route this time was a specialized complex for orphans "ZHANUYA". It has already become an annual tradition of the bike club – when busy with the usual business cycle adults at the call of the heart direct their" steel horses " on a weekend out of town to the countryside, and to the gate, behind which live and grow small single people – pupils of orphanages and boarding schools.
Almaty bikers show genuine kindness in taking care of the smallest and most deprived. "We organize fundraising in advance, throw a cry and do it all with joy. In this, perhaps, there is our main difference — that we, bikers, can quickly and clearly all organize. And about the amount of the fee – everything is democratic: everyone gives who can, starting from 1000 tenge…", – says Dmitry Petrukhin.
Children will be the first to learn from the Director Hafiza Serikova about the upcoming meeting. They are looking forward to their most exotic and" cool " guests, prepare a concert. "<|fim_middle|> facing each other bikers and children. It was a moment of genuine happiness of meeting and human communication. The pathos of this moment, supported the brass band of the orphanage. Surprisingly, it includes 5 girls and only two boys.
The cheerful greeting of the children led by the school principal Galiya Khafizovna Serikova, then the hot greeting of bikers led by Dmitry Petrukhin grew into a festive concert of talented children and a cheerful joint round dance with bikers. Boys and girls aged 5 to 16 years all eyes looked at the guests and as the sunbeams, jumping, clapping their hands, radiating with a kind and bright light clean baby shower.
Three big bag of all sorts of different (soft, sport, visual-cognitive) toy received the children's home as a gift from the bike club. Special Souvenirs from Dmitry Petrukhin was awarded the best students — excellent students, the best singer and singer, cool rappers, and super DJ. The bike club provided with the professional forces photo and video filming which results children will receive for memory.
The final friendly reception were riding bikes. Speaking of bikes-a spectacular sight! Which can only instances seen children in his yard: and light sports "indurite" and extravagant-elegant "choppers", and a solid heavy "cruisers". And what tuning and equipment! Bikers everything shone and sparkled! This festive bike parade! Skating brought our little friends in delight, which was passed on to carers. Those, too, sheepishly asked for a ride that bikers are enthusiastic and wind did!
The meeting ended with an exchange of sincere thanks. Educators and students accompanied bikers with a light heart, because they knew that they are always there and will come to their aid on the first call. And they will keep hearts warm this holiday for a long time! | Such meetings and such attention are very pleasant and joyful for our children. We, as children stare at the bikers, their motorcycles and equipment. When Dmitry Petrukhin tells the children about his travels, we see in their eyes the excitement and the birth of a dream! Contacts with the world of adults, and even such cheerful, positive, giving a good, healthy example, are very, very necessary and useful for our children", — said Hafiza Serikovna.
Bikers bring children gifts, communicate on the "short leg", roll them in the yard. Celebration of human communication and friendship between big and small Almaty is always fun, but ends too soon, especially for kids. And it is a pity to part with them, leaving alone with his childish plight.
"Go with us, and young bikers 16-17 years. For them, this is a severe allowance for irresponsibility of parents who abandoned their children. Of course, we all have different fates, but the most important thing for the youth to understand and feel someone else's pain, to treat future offspring more responsible than these failed parents, not to cripple the fate of loved ones," says the biker-world wider, the father of two adult sons.
And here at the appointed hour from the office of the bike club left about 100 Almaty bikers and a minibus with gifts for children. On this Saturday, the yard of the orphanage was filled with bright sun and happy smiles of children.
When the bikers friendly convoy drove into the front of the school, then the roar of motorcycles drowned out the children's cheers and applause. And here they stood | 344 |
Exploring the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail
Highlights Of A Birding Mecca
Birding is booming. The hobby (or, in many cases, passion, or even addiction) has been growing steadily for years, according to studies conducted by both governmental and private organizations. An amazing number of people -- more than 70 million, by one 2001 survey of recreation preferences -- say they participate in birdwatching.
<|fim_middle|> experienced birders visit as surely as geese fly south in the fall. These spots are to birders what the Rockies are to skiers, or Pebble Beach is to golfers. Such a place is the region encompassing the Texas Gulf Coast and the lower Rio Grande Valley -- now the home of the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail, a state-designated driving route connecting more than 300 birdwatching sites from the Louisiana state line to the Mexican border. Brown highway signs, marked with the profile of a Black Skimmer, point the way to these bird-rich destinations.
Exploring the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail examines highlights of this popular route: locations ranging from national wildlife refuges with tens of thousands of acres to small city parks to stretches of isolated road passing through birdy habitat. In this guide, expert birder/writer Mel White profiles more than 80 of the best sites along the trail, chosen for diversity of habitat, species, and seasonality; productivity; and accessibility. Site listings give general (and often specific) directions, contact information (including websites when available), advice about when and how to bird the location, and a listing of some of the notable species that might be found. Also featured are nearby museums, nature centers, festivals, and accommodations of particular interest to the visiting birder.
About White, Mel
Contributing editor for National Geographic Traveler and Living Bird magazines, author Mel White specializes in nature and travel writing. In addtion to winning the 2002 Lowell Thomas Award for best environmental journalism article, he authored the National Geographic Guide to Birdwatching Sites and A Birder's Guide to Arkansas, among other titles. Likes Bartok, cornbread, Shiraz, the Rockies, and old foreign movies.
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Doggie Paddlin' Mullally, David | Undoubtedly, many of these people simply put feeders in their back yards and enjoy watching the hummingbirds, chickadees, and goldfinches that show up. But just as certainly, more and more birders are venturing out to discover the fun of seeing new birds in new places, whether it's a drive through a national wildlife refuge or a guided walk at a nature preserve.
Once someone has discovered the joys and challenges of birding, it doesn't take long to learn that there are places in the United States that | 107 |
In addition, a group of girls in Social Studies 11 were invited to the Legislature to celebrate 100 Years of Women and the Vote. This celebration is also part of the launch of Equal Voice's Daughters of the Vote – a national program that encourages young women to become familiar with political institutions and inspired to participate in public life. Being in Ottawa last week, I was able to view the Let Them Howl: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage exhibit, highlighting women who made significant contributions to the goals of equality and social justice over the past 100 years. The photos provide a snapshot of those women involved in<|fim_middle|> importance of finding, developing, and exercising "voice" – something that is definitely nurtured at SMS.
• Being confident in themselves.
• Being confident in their ability to advocate for self and others.
• Being confident in expanding and challenging the definition of women's work.
• Being confident and willing to share their talents in a broader arena that serves a broader audience.
We know that finding your voice requires you to know who you are and to define your success "on your terms." We also know that the capacity to advocate for self and others requires you to be authentic, emphatic, and clear in purpose. The ability to find ways to connect with others will create a community of support and agency. That is how empowering others to make a difference can create a movement!
Our girls need to be open to possibilities and to push back perceived barriers that say girls "can't do something because…." Finally, we want our girls to consider the importance of contributing to the greater good by involving themselves in causes or careers that have a real impact on individuals and on communities within Canada and abroad.
A Greater Sisterhood: The Women's Rights Struggle in Canada. Canadian Heritage – Display of Portraits on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa. | the feminist movement, from its roots in the early 1900s to the recent accomplishments of women as they exercise their voices. These women represent only a fraction of those individuals who have been part of a larger process of slow incremental change in the way society values the contribution of women in society, politics, and business. I say "slow" as we continue to challenge society's view of appropriate gender representation in a number of careers and to open doors in areas where women have traditionally been under-represented.
It is unfortunate that there is still a dearth of stories in the historical record that highlight the many ways women have influenced history. In many instances, their contributions are referenced in supporting roles or as "side stories." For example, during the war, women were not allowed to enlist and fight on the front lines. They did, however, make significant contributions by filling positions that previously were occupied by men – on the farms, in factories, and in hospitals. They also played an active role in recruiting and supporting soldiers, selling war bonds, fundraising, and volunteering their services when called upon.
Regardless of the challenges faced by women over the past 100 years in Canada, there is a heightened awareness of the importance of the collective conversation inclusive of equal voice and representation. Hence, the | 262 |
In it for the long haul
Written by Hannah Prevett on Tuesday, 02 April 2013. Posted in Scaling up, Interviews
Dessi Bell, founder of sportswear brand Zaggora, on learning to build a brand that lasts
What do corporate banking and entrepreneurialism have in common? Ostensibly, not that much. One requires following a well-trodden path in an environment burdened with regulation and red tape; the other hacking through the undergrowth to carve a new path of your own. But that isn't to say there aren't overlaps or lessons entrepreneurs can take from the banking industry, says Dessi Bell, founder of sportswear brand Zaggora.
Bell worked at JP Morgan for five and a half years before setting up her company with husband Malcolm in 2011. "I think working at JP Morgan was one of the best things I've done," she says emphatically. "There's two reasons. Firstly, there's just a tremendous amount of stuff I learned from colleagues, whether it's a negotiation or the ability to execute deals. But the main thing I learned is not being put off by complex problems."
"To work in that kind of environment you need to be very good at starting with a whole set of problems you need to solve for the client before breaking it down. Then you realise that everything is doable," she explains. She has then been able to apply the same mantra to building her own business. "That's exactly the kind of approach I've taken to building Zaggora: if you want to get from A to B, all you have to do to find a solution is to think about all of the steps you're going to take in between."
The idea for Zaggora, which makes gym clothes that help you slim while you sweat, came to Bell when she was engrossed in her role at JP Morgan where she was part of the team that focused on raising and restructuring debts. There was frequent travel to Moscow, too: due in part to her Bulgarian heritage (Bell was born and raised in Bulgaria until she was 15) a large proportion of her designated clients resided in eastern Europe.
By Bell's own admission, it was a hectic lifestyle. In 2008, she was set to marry then-fiance Malcolm, who she had met at LSE ("which, along with running the Women In Business Society, was the only enjoyable part of the experience"). Alongside the challenges of a high-flying career in banking, and the travel the role entailed, the petite Bell also felt pressure to get shape for the impending nuptials. "I said, 'I'm going to see these pictures for the rest of my life so I need to make sure I look great,'" recalls Bell.
But as she submitted herself to gruelling gym sessions, she wondered if she could be getting more bang for her buck when it came to her tri-weekly workouts. Even after the wedding, she was thinking about how exercise could be more efficient. "I called my mum when I was on honeymoon and said, 'Mum, if I can come up with a pair of pants that you just have to put on and then they help you get more out of your time, there must be other people who are going to want this.'"
In between work and jetting backwards and forwards to Moscow, Bell started doing bits of research. She found some research conducted in the UK as well as Japan and Australia, which was examining the link between heat and exercise, and how it could help improve circulation as well as calorie burn. "Heat has been used to treat obese patients in Japan for years," she says.
But it wasn't until a couple of years later, in 2011, that Bell and her husband felt the idea was solid enough that they started to look into creating a protoype. The first item on the to-do list was finding a supplier. "We went through different product suppliers in the Far East; some were great and some weren't, and we got some samples made," says Bell.
So, for the science bit. The Hot Pants (as they're officially called, but banish any thoughts of buttock-skimming short shorts: they come in three lengths – cycling shorts, capri pants and full-length leggings) and workout tops are made with a multi-layered fabric that has a heating element on the inside. There's also a bit of insulation, which means that the wearer won't necessarily feel there's anything going on while they're wearing them, but when the shorts are removed, they'll notice how much more work they've done.
"What's happening is that your body's generating a bit more heat while you're<|fim_middle|> has been key to its meteoric growth. Back in the summer of 2011, Bell was thinking about ways to counteract the initial scepticism that people were likely to have about the product. "The only way we could think of was getting loads of positive feedback that was publicly out there for everybody to see," she said.
The Bells decided to send out 500 pairs of Hot Pants to bloggers. "Maybe 300 wrote back on our Facebook page," says Bell. "That's how we started our Facebook following.
"It's probably the best thing we did in terms of decisions that we took strategically to grow the business because it gave us credibility straight away." This isn't to say that the sceptics were silenced immediately, she says.
"A lot of people were still sceptical when we had 20,000 followers. It was clearly not a fad at the point when you have thousands of women posting comments, but it's always very easy to be sceptical. I still have people saying, 'This is nonsense, I don't believe it.'"
But there are plenty who do believe the products work. At the time of going to press, Zaggora's Facebook page had more than 378,000 likes. One of the company's strengths continues to be the way it engages and interacts with customers. For example, with new products, such as the Zaggora 'Twisty' top, coming online soon, fans get a say in which colours it'll be available in.
However, for Bell, the messaging has to be much more about disseminating information on health and fitness than just the products they're trying to flog. "That is really our reason for being: we want to motivate women through tools and content to try to engage in as much activity as they can," she explains.
Ensuring the web tools were in place to enable the team to maximise its brand value online has been a focal point of late. The new website is due to go online in the next month, with updated features and snazzy new content. The strength of the brand is what makes the difference between customers buying a pair of Zaggora leggings or a pair of Nike leggings, says Bell.
"The thing that differentiates who the customer is going to purchase from is who they have the most affinity with in terms of brand messaging. That is the intangible bit that is the most difficult – and most valuable – to build."
Hannah Prevett
Prevett likes to think she's something of an expert when it comes to small business. Having cut her teeth writing about tech, she latterly moved on to such illustrious titles as Growing Business, Management Today and the Sunday Times to indulge her enthusiasm for entrepreneurship: from P&Ls to private equity and all that's in between, you can't keep this girl away from the heady world of start-ups.
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And if you don't believe Bell, she's got the pointy heads at universities to back her up. "We originally worked with University of Brighton here in the UK to test the product on people in order to be able to say this is what happens in numerical terms." The products have also been tested at the University of Southern California.
"The results are unanimous across the board: you do burn more calories while wearing Zaggora," says Bell proudly. This can actually motivate the wearer to do more exercise, she says. "They feel that because they're getting more out of their time they will actually invest more hours in being active."
It's helpful that the slimming-boosting power of the pants has been verified by a university in the US, seeing as that's where the biggest chunk of Zaggora's customers are. Of the 550,000 items now shipped, around 51% have headed to the States, 14% to the UK and 13% to France. But wearers aren't confined to north America and western Europe: there is a long tail of 120 countries where customers reside.
The voracious appetite for Zaggora products has added up to an impressive £10.7m turnover in the financial year to June 2012, with a further hike in sales expected this year (although Bell is remaining tightlipped as to financial forecasts). All very impressive for a business that only launched in July 2011.
The entrepreneur is adamant that the company's focus on social media | 344 |
What Happens During a Blood Donation?
First, you will fill out forms about your health history and then undergo a quick physical to determine whether it's safe for you to donate blood. If you are eligible to donate, a healthcare professional will sanitize an area of your arm and insert a sterile needle. The donation process usually takes around eight to 10 minutes, and it totals one pint of blood plus a few vials used for testing.
Once the donation is complete, the healthcare professional will bandage your arm. You'll stay at the facility a little while longer for monitoring, and staff members will provide some light snacks to help you recover. Once you're back home<|fim_middle|> hospitals that rely on the generosity of the community for blood donations. Please consider donating blood to help patients in need this year. | , you should drink about four additional cups of water to replace lost fluids. "Be sure to keep your bandage on for at least five hours, and avoid any strenuous activities for the rest of the day. If at any point you begin to feel dizzy, you should lie down and elevate your feet," advises Patricia Sammarelli, MD, physician at CHI St. Joseph Health Primary Care West Villa Maria in Bryan, Texas.
What Happens After a Blood Donation?
The pint of blood will go to a processing center, where equipment will separate it into three parts—plasma, red blood cells, and platelets—and then store it until a hospital in need requests it. The vials of blood go to a testing facility, where staff will test them for various infectious diseases and confirm your blood type. The processing center receives the results, and if your blood tests positive for any diseases, they will discard your donation and notify you.
A single whole blood donation can save up to three lives. Your contribution might help someone experiencing a medical emergency, such as severe burns or blood loss, or serve as a regular treatment for someone with a medical condition like cancer or sickle cell disease. Blood has a short shelf life, so frequent contributions are helpful for keeping blood stores up. In most cases, you will be able to give blood 12 to 16 weeks after your previous donation.
You can make a difference in people's lives, one pint at a time. Home to the highest-level trauma center in the Brazos Valley, CHI St. Joseph Health is one of many | 321 |
What if they really are out to get you.
If you spend enough time walking the Las Vegas casino floors, you're sure to come across some unique sights. But scores of people sporting all shapes and sizes of literal tin-foil hats? Welcome to DEF CON.
The annual hacker convention currently underway in the Nevada desert draws a diverse crowd of professional and hobbyist security researchers from around the world. And, for the most part, they all share one defining characteristic: the desire to stick it to The Man.
Which, well, that specific proclivity just might end up making you a target.
Enter the Tin Foil Hat Contest. Founded by a gentleman named Flirzan, the tin-foil hat building competition was first conceived four DEF CONs ago.
"It all came out of a drunken night at the Rio," Flirzan told us. He explained that he saw an old man strolling through the casino and had a moment of inspiration: There need to be more tin-foil hats at<|fim_middle|> course, your intrepid reporter had to try it out. I dutifully grabbed my four sheets of foil and went to work.
I clearly still have a lot learn when it comes to keeping Big Brother out of my brain.
When we tested my hat out for signal leakage, it managed to make it into the top 10 of high performers (number 10 to be exact, but still). However, Flirzan did confirm that his readings might not be exactly 100 percent scientific.
But, in some ways, that part of the contest is secondary. It's really all about style — which, thankfully, the Tin Foil Hat Contest officially recognizes and encourages by having judges rate hats based on how fly they are (bribes are accepted and encouraged).
And yes, they are fly.
Luna Moth is free to fly and think free thoughts.
Don't forget to protect your badge!
The entire thing is a welcome light-hearted change of pace from the frequently stress-inducing talks that tend to dominate DEF CON. It's fun, relatively inexpensive to organize, and has a low barrier to entry.
And, as a plus, it might just keep the NSA out of your brain.
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This is the second year of the official contest, which has participants build tin-foil hats and then test them to see how well they block signals emanating out of a mannequin's head.
It's quite eerie, but in a great way.
And so, of | 58 |
This is an account on how I reached Bardejov and spent the weekend with my friends there.
I needed to be awake @ 02.30, as I had booked a taxi for 03.25 to Reading Station. I caught the 03.54 FGW to London Padding<|fim_middle|> Rasty arrived we went by car straight to Bardejov, passing some attractive villages with wooden churches (cerkwie) in Wojkowa, Muszynka & Tylicz. We had a little drive around the outside of this fortified city. The historical centre is now closed to traffic. I will write more about historical and modern Bardejov in another account soon, as Jitka & I visited the town late Sunday afternoon.
At Jitka's & Rasty's we had supper, beer & slivovice. Later we went to a pub, where we sat outside & met some of their friends. During the evening there was a football match between Slovakia & Bosnia & Hercegovina. We finished the evening by visiting a cellar-bar & watched a live gig (where the band had reformed for their 10th anniversary). They played rock music. | ton (165-114) & then a 23 bus to Liverpool Street. On the 05.55 Stansted Express to Stansted airport which arrived 06.44, this allowed me the necessary time to pass through a crowded security checking area, and still had time for a hot chocolate & muffin. The Flight to Krakow was Ryanair FR2432 arrived 12.05. After passing through passport control I caught the Shuttlebus 19 to Krakow Balice railway station & then took the Train to Krakow Glowny 12.30-12.49. I went to the bus station and waited because at 13.30 there was a bus to Krynica Zdroj (Spa) via Bzesno, Czcho, Nowy Sacz, Nowa Wies, Krzykowa & arrived Krynica 16.50. Krynica is a popular spa town in south-eastern Poland at the foot of the Beskidy mountains. I had some time before Jitka & Rasty were due to arrive to explore the town, the river, interesting buildings & park. I visited the park, walked along the river & met many young people who had just completed a "fun" run & took photos of a pijalnia (a building which contains several taps which visitors can taste the mineral waters) & the statue of Lemk artist Nikiforsa, who lived in Krynica. His art can be compared with British artist LS Lowry.
When Jitka & | 336 |
I'm officially over this winter even though it has been rather mild and sunny in comparison to previous years. I don't want to see my parka or heavy coats for another year. My legs are so pale that they glow in the dark.
I have trouble handing over wads of cash for denim cutoffs. They<|fim_middle|> of: same silk Uniqlo t-shirt/top as you featured (in grey for me), linen Massimo Dutti blazer, leather Hush espadrilles & classic Ray Bans (aviators). Oh and I've just bought two cotton boxy t-shirts (black and grey) from &the other stories that I know I'll live in come summer.
Thanks, Irina! I haven't thought about Coccinelle in years. Thank you for the reminder. The quality of clothes at & Other Stories is pretty impressive if you consider the price.
I wear my panama hat a lot. I tend to go for ones with a wider brim because they offer better sun protection.
Mel, thank you ever so much for the kind words! Much appreciated.
I finally found white jeans that don't make me hate myself.
Please tell me where you bought them from. I'm not tall and thin. Every pair of white jeans I've tried on in the past made me look like I've got tree trunks for legs.
AG The Stilt Jean. But size up one size. That's the key!
7 For All Mankind Kimmie straight leg. I bought my normal size.
Hi Marlene, I am finally back again in the blogosphere. I hope you are doing well. Love this post. I am also so over Winter and ready for everything associated with Spring. Love your selection of stuff and I have been eyeing a pair of K. Jacques sandals. After seeing them on your blog... I might just need to pull the trigger. ;) Have a great weekend! | 're essentially worn jeans or factory distressed; ripped, stretched and then snipped off. As I looked at the hordes of cutoffs available at online stores, it brought back memories of my early backpacking days when I stole my then skinny teenage brother's Levi's 501s and wore them till spring turned into summer. When I could no longer bear the heat, I borrowed a pair of scissors from the pension owner and made my own shorts. It didn't even cost me a cent.
When the weather's hot, I want my outfits to be airy, light and loose. Anything tight makes me feel like my innards are being squeezed. Since our summer days tend to be short and unpredictable, I rarely go crazy and shop up a storm. I've been mulling over my summer pieces and pretty much decided that anything I buy this year has to pull double duty. Well, other than the cut offs. What's on your summer shopping list? Do tell.
I thought those K Jacques sandals were the Isabel Marant Amys, I am so glad they are $200 less! Great finds, thanks!
I've worn K Jacques sandals for years. It's rather shameful to say but I really do abuse them. They've been in salt water, muddy paths etc and they still last and last. I'd rather buy them than IM Amys.
I haven't bought any summer clothes for a long time. When I did, I had quite a few linen items from German company Oska. I find linen items to be very cool. I also like trousers with some (or a lot) of stretch in them.
I've heard about Oska. I didn't realize they're German. I'll go and google them to see if they have an online store.
Had a look online and could see they have a few stores in London now, including one in Duke of York's Square. When I bought their items, it was from various small boutiques, and Selfridges. Their drawstring linen trousers were extremely comfortable.
How did I miss it? I've walked past Duke of York's Square numerous times. I'll be sure to take another look when I'm in London.
Thanks, Helen! You've reminded me to search for my peasant tops. They're somewhere in my closet.....I think.
I used to be obsessed with Saint James and Petit Bateau breton tops but the jersey material is just way too thick to wear under most jackets especially in summer. Many thanks for reading. Really appreciate your support!
Have you managed to hunt down that elusive wallet yet? You've got me hankering after one now!
Hah! No. I even searched Mr Porter and they've sold out of red. Pfffft.
Laura, you need to get yourself a pair of K.Jacques. They're very well priced especially during the sales season.
I have 2 pairs of strappy K Jacques sandals and they wear remarkably well.
Great selection, Marlene! I have a very small (with a growing potential though..) wish list (as I'm planning to recycle what I've already got and love) consisting | 638 |
Whether you are a business, organisation or individual, this question can often be the first hurdle in starting to blog. There are so many blogging platforms out there, it can be confusing to decide which one is right for you. Last night at the first London NetTuesday Meetup, a group of bloggers, possible future bloggers, techies and non-profit peeps interesting in learning more about blogging met up to help wade through the confusion. The answer really depends on your circumstances and needs. Each tool has its strengths & weaknesses, and the lovely people at Techsoup have made this handy chart as part of their review of seven popular blogging platforms, to help you match your needs to a blogging tool. Bear in mind this chart/article is from 2006, and there are new kids on the block (such as Tumblr or Habari) as well as other types of online tools that now have a blogging add-on (such as Community Server, ThoughtFarmer and Confluence)* just to make things more confusing!
The good news is that the Big 4 (WordPress, Blogger, MovableType and TypePad) are still going strong, so you can still use this chart as a base, as long as you remember that there may have been upgrades and changes to the services/products since the chart was made.
But first, a little poll: last night's moderator, Amy Sample Ward, asked the group what platform they used, and it was no surprise that a majority of people in the room used WordPress. It's free, extendable, has a great support community, so it's no surprise it's the most popular tool. A substantial proportion of people last night had started on another platform, but had moved to WordPress in the end. It's pretty common to do this, so I thought I'd stick in a quick word about moving from one tool to another. In most cases, you can move your blog from one environment to another, but it's not going to be painless, so it's a good idea to think about what you really need from a blog and choose the right tool from the beginning. There's a great article on ProBlogger about choosing the right blogging platform for you, so have a read through that if you want a detailed checklist.
Great for new bloggers, especially people who already have a Google account (Gmail, iGoogle, Google Cal, etc). Because it integrates with your whole Google 'world', it's free, easy to set up and requires no technical know-how to get blogging. There are limitations, but basic bloggers who need no frills should be fine on Blogger. I recommend Blogger for personal blogs rather than work ones.
Great for companies who want a flexible platform that you can install and run multiple blogs or entire websites on, and don't mind paying for it. You can effectively replace your content management system with Movable Type, but you'll need a capable tech team/person/consultant to get it running the way you want. Amy suggested that it can be hard to change once it's been set up, so make sure you plan well at the start.
There are different levels (costs) of TypePad packages that offer different levels of customisation, numbers of authors and amounts of storage. It's a hosted service, so there's no real tech skill required to get started. TypePad is a good choice for companies/organisations who don't have the desire or internal tech-nous to host blogs on their own servers, but still want the option of running multiple blogs cheaply, quickly and easily. However, like a package holiday, you may not be able to easily add extras to the basic package.
The hosted version of WordPress is easy to use, with no technical skill to set it up, and there are hundreds of ready-made designs (themes) for you to choose from. The main thing to remember about WordPress, is that you bolt on bits to give you extra functionality or customisation. Some of these bits are easier to bolt on than others, and there are some overall limitations to the hosted version of WordPress. I recommend WordPress.com for smaller<|fim_middle|>Would we be splitting our audience's focus too much by having things on different platforms?
How well-developed is my wiki/forum/intranet/community/CMS platform's blogging tool? How easy is it to use? How well-supported is it? How does it compare to standalone blog tools?
Is it really cheaper to stick with one integrated system; what is the real cost (factoring in user frustration, time, etc)?
If I use separate platforms, can they integrate in some way - through RSS, for example? Is that enough?
Remember that you can hammer a nail with a monkey wrench, but you may not get the best result, it may be a lot harder… and you may look like an idiot doing it!
The main thing to remember overall, is that no blogging tool will make you a good blogger. You have to start blogging for the right reasons, with the right voice, and in the right environment - something I'll cover in my next post. | organisations or companies who want a basic, professional-looking blog for free, and may want to have multiple authors on a single blog (not multiple separate blogs).
The main differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org is that the latter is installed instead of hosted, there are thousands of different ready-made designs (that you can tweak if you know how), and there are loads of different add-ons that you can plug into your blog to give you added functionality. Just like Lego, the combinations and creativity is seemingly endless. The downside is that you need some basic technical knowledge in order to get the most out of the installed version of WordPress, but you can find web hosts that offer 1-click installation so you can get up & running without needing to install anything yourself. I recommend WordPress for organisations or people who are already using other web tools or social media, and want easy integration - for example, Google Analytics, Flickr, iCal, etc - or anyone that knows they'll be blogging for the long-haul. WordPress itself is free, as are most design themes & plugins, but if you don't already have hosting, you'll have to pay for that.
The only difference between WordPress Mu and WordPress.com is that Mu allows you to run multiple separate blogs off the same WordPress installation - and you can set different levels of permission on each, too. Everyone can play!
Are we willing to compromise flexibility or functionality for the ease of having it all in one place?
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Google Duplex begins rolling out to selected users in the US
Remember Google Duplex? The AI-assisted platform that Google showcased at its I/O conference two years ago? The demo for Duplex was impressive as a very human-sounding Google Assistant was able to make an appointment at a hairdresser, with the receptionist none the wiser.
The demo also raised several questions, specifically as it pertained to the AI disclosing that it was not a real person. Google has since addressed those concerns, and now it looks as if Duplex is being readied for a mass roll-out.
This as VentureBeat initially reported that the feature was rolling out to selected Android smartphone users, with Google later confirming that it was indeed being shared with its community in the United States.
<|fim_middle|>ge explains that users will tell Duplex what time and date they'd like to schedule the appointment, as well as offer a time window, should the desired time not be available. The platform is also said to be quite basic in terms of the bookings it can handle right now, with only a men's haircut, a women's haircut, or a general haircut being catered to.
What we'd find interesting, is what will happen should the conversation with the hairdresser or barber where the appointment is being made, become complex or technical. Take COVID-19 for example, and whether any questions related to the user's infection status or adherence to regulations is brought up.
As such, while Google Duplex appears ready for roll-out, this feels like more of a beta test for now. It will therefore prove interesting to see what kind of data or insight is uncovered as a result.
To see Google Duplex in action, and hear just how realistic it is, hit play on the video below captured from the I/O 2018 demo.
Tags: AIAndroidAssistantGoogleGoogle DuplexNewsRolloutSmartphones | At this stage, however, Google Duplex remains relatively limited, both in terms of functionality and access.
Much like the demo of two years ago, it looks like you'll only be able to make a haircut appointment with the platform.
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FROM: Port Stephens TO: Sydney
DATE: Day 4, 27 October 2016
POSITION: Stores Beach, Sydney Harbour
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This morning the weather was fine. We had our breakfast and followed it with a knot competition tying a clove hitch. We went on a hike up the mountain in Refuge Bay. It was a nice hot day and once we got closer to the top, some of us dipped our feet in the clear, fresh waterholes.
We set up the sails and left Refuge Bay. Before we left we were tacking back and forth near Barrenjoey Head. On our way sailing back to Sydney, the weather took a turn and the ocean began to swell as the waves reached 2-3 metres. We saw a few whales graciously move out of the water as we passed, some people got to see flying fish as they would jump out of the water. We ended up on a 20 degree angle and the water was gushing in through the scuppers. It was exciting to be on a tilting boat, everyone on board was holding on for their lives.
As we got closer to Sydney Harbour, we spotted a kayaker paddling through the rough swell of the ocean and yelling out to us, while looking petrified, if we could throw him something. Without hesitation, someone chucked him an apple and he was off again, paddling back to shore which was 3-4km away. We turned the boat around in order to save him but it was all for nothing. He told us he was okay and we continued our voyage to Sydney. Braving the rough sea, we sailed into port Jackson around 1730 and lay anchor nearby the old quarantine station.
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April is National Distracted Driving Awareness month but a new AAA Foundation survey indicates that almost all drivers are already aware of the problem and fear it is getting worse.
The number of drivers who report using a cellphone behind the wheel jumped 30 percent since 2013.
Almost half of all drivers (49 percent) report recently talking on a hand-held phone while driving and nearly 35 percent have sent a text or email. Despite their own behavior, most drivers (nearly 58 percent) say talking on a cellphone behind the wheel is a very serious threat to their personal safety, while 78 percent believe that texting is a significant danger.
"What we have seen year after year is this 'do as I say not as I do' behavior. A sense that 'I can text but you can't,' which is extremely troubling," says Amy Parmenter, spokesperson for AAA in Greater Hartford.
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Although federal estimates indicate the number of distracted driving crashes has actually dropped two percent, that number is likely erroneous given that distracted driving is difficult to detect following a crash, which makes it one of the most underreported traffic safety issues. | can figure out the best possible way to address those issues to reduce crashes," Parmenter says. "With more than 37,000 fatal crashes every year, we | 37 |
Redmen rout Shelby for district baseball championship
MADISON TOWNSHIP – Bellevue jumped on Shelby early and jumped on the Whippets late, the result being a 10-3 Division II baseball district championship clinching victory Saturday<|fim_middle|> year.
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"I thought the big thing for us was to try to get going early," Bellevue coach Andy Dennings said. "We were able to get up 4-0 in the first couple innings and that kind of set the tone."
Senior shortstop Dylan Dewitt set that tone with an RBI double in the top of the first for the Redmen (23-4). Ahead 2-0 in the second, freshman second baseman Bryce Ray ripped a two-run double to double the score.
"Our coach told us to come out swinging (as) the away team to get out in front of those guys," DeWitt said.
The four runs would prove to be enough. The Northern Ohio League champions will now play Parma Heights Holy Name at Bowling Green's Carter Park Thursday at 5 p.m.
"They played better than us," Shelby coach Jon Amicone said. "I know that sounds simple, but in every facet of the game they played better than us. Ultimately that's why they are the district champions and we're the runners-up. They're a tremendous team."
• ARMSTRONG OUT: Shelby freshman Brennam Armstrong injured his hip Thursday afternoon in his first at-bat against Ontario and sat out the rest of that game. The plan was to pitch him in the title contest Saturday, but he couldn't go as a starter.
"When he couldn't go, you have to go down in your rotation a little deeper than you want to in a championship game," Amicone said. "All our pitchers that we put in there, they competed at a high level and that's all you can ask. They didn't back down from the challenge and tried to throw strikes, and we didn't do anything to back our pitchers up."
Sophomore Garrett Caudill, senior Josh Lykins and junior Mason Wells pitched for Shelby (16-10), walking eight, allowing 11 hits, hitting four batters and striking out one.
Bellevue got two hits and three RBI from Dewitt, while Ray and Jake Strayer had two hits, and Triston Snezek recorded three hits. Kyle Geary scored three times.
• LOST CONTROL: The Whippets made it interesting in the fourth inning, cutting the lead in half when Snezek lost command of his pitches. He hit four batters, committed a balk and gave up a two-run single to Wells.
"We hit 'em with curveballs. We hit 'em with fastballs. We were at a point where we were getting outs on them. We wanted them to put the ball in play," Dennings said of Snezek's bout of wildness. "I guess he got a little bit flustered, and we tried to work out of it and we did. We saved ourselves a little bit."
Snezek got out of the jam with a 6-4-3 double play to end the inning with a 4-2 lead.
"Getting out of that jam with a double play, I thought that was a big part. Coming in, we kept the sticks rolling and played better defense the rest of the way," Dewitt said.
In the sixth, Bellevue got the two runs back on a pair of hits and an error and broke it open with a four-run seventh inning. Colton Slaven worked the last three innings for the Redmen, striking out three and walking three. He and Snezek both gave up two hits.
"This is what we were building for. It was time for us to take the next step. These kids have put a lot of work in, and they deserve this. We played well all year and have been very consistent. I'm very happy for them," Dennings said.
• BUILDING BLOCK: Amicone said they came to win the district championship and that it stings to come up short.
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An interview with Harry Williamson
Harry Williamson with Gilli Smyth, Robot Woman Box Set
Harry Williamson is actually the first person I've interviewed twice. When I first met him, almost thirty years ago, in a tiny changing room above the Duchess of York pub in Leeds, I was primarily there to talk to his then partner, Gilli Smyth, at the end of a 4 day stint following their band Mother Gong around the North West. Interviewing a band on tour is probably not the most ideal way of going about factfinding – you either catch them prior to a gig, when nerves are aplenty and musicians are beholden to soundchecks and waiting for their food to arrive; or else in this case, it's post-gig, with adrenaline pumping and clearly the last time would want to answer questions on the minutae of something that might have happened 20 years before!.
<|fim_middle|> who was the soloist and I had Gilli who was soloing in her own orb and in her own world of sound which is amazing, and you have to be careful with that voice so you don't swamp it or else you lose the subtlety.
"And then I had Guy – great drummer and very creative percussionist, Dayne, great bass player, very melodic and very funky – they were a great rhythm section together and I was thinking how can I afford to have someone like Hugh, because he was like, too big! – there's not enough space for him! He was a force of nature – such a presence and great sense of humour too. He didn't have to prove anything, because when you're younger you want to try and prove stuff. I think what happens is that when you get older you play fewer notes and hopefully they mean more!"
All of which I think is a lovely personal and musical commendation to start my exploration of Hugh's interactions with others. Many many thanks to Harry for being such a willing interviewee and passing on so many lovely stories.
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Next Next post: Magick Brother Mystic Sister | And so take two is very much a different experience. Over a video link to Melbourne, Australia, Harry Williamson is relaxed, charming and open-minded about our chat to delve into his memories of working with Hugh Hopper, a lesser-known but rather interesting chapter from Hugh's life from as far back as 1981 when he popped by for a few days to Devon and ended up contributing to no less than 4 albums! Some of the finer details of Harry's experiences of working with Hugh will appear in the forthcoming Hugh Hopper biography 'Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening', but we covered other ground too, which is what you'll mainly find below. A useful starting point is reading the extensive liner notes in the 64 page album which accompanies the Mother Gong 'Robot Woman' boxset, which paints a picture of an idyllic setup in Ox's Cross, Devon where Harry and Gilli accommodated many musicians whilst self-sustaining and producing copious amounts of music, some released officially, some on the GAS tape network, and some seemingly lost forever.
Harry takes up the story about the home studio and the community which revolved around it. "There's a black and white photograph (in the box set) where it says Home for Owls and Home for Musicians – it was an A shaped building, an A frame studio. I don't have any photographs of it from inside, unfortunately, but it had beautiful acoustics because it was all wood at angles, and books.
Ox's Cross Studio, published Robot Woman Box Set
"We were super creative – we were doing 5 albums or so at the same time. Didier and Yan (Emeric) had come over to do Glastonbury in 1981 (with Mother Gong), essentially and part of the deal was 'if we come over, can we do an album?'
"'Yes we can do an album. How long have we got?'
"'Three weeks, oh that should be plenty!' Forgetting of course that they had to learn the main album ('Robot Woman 1') and perform it in front of 70000 people! And then another album – Guy's album ('The Long Hello Volume 4').
"'Can we do some of that at the same time?' 'Sure, why not? And actually, how many albums are we doing?'
"I wouldn't do that now – it's too many. But, carpe diem, I was seizing the moment, because here everyone was, they were into it, it was fun and why wouldn't you? But now I would be a bit more circumspect and have more discussions."
The Guy in question was of course Guy Evans, drummer with Van der Graaf Generator, although by that time VdGG had disbanded, seemingly for good. The Long Hello project was a set of 4 albums based around the music of the constituent members of Van der Graaf Generator (excluding Peter Hammill) and had run since the band's fallow period in the early Seventies. "Guy lived with us in Devon for a few years and he was on everything. We were just a musical community really. The saxophone player, David Jackson, he had this triple octave box and when he played a low saxophone you could hear the individual beats, a really huge sound. I liked him, they were a funny lot, really nice."
The album that Didier and Yan Emeric had suggested, did come about, although it was never released other than as a GAS tape. This was 'Melodic Destiny' the lost Didier album. "One of the tracks we did on Melodic Destiny was 'Bloomdido', (Charlie Parker's standard) which is quite ironic really. It's a very funny track, it's a scat track, it's very well done actually, which makes it disappointing really (that the album never came out).
"I had no idea that (Melodic Destiny) had sunk without a trace and was one of those missing albums, and was missing at sea. I just gave them the masters and said goodbye to it. I just kept a seven and a half inch copy. I loved that album. I was very fond of it. I thought it was very cheeky, there were so many jazz references in an 'out there' way, but simple. Not overdone but well played. I was disappointed that the record company at the time thought it was a 'good demo'. Yes, sure, but I think it was more than a demo. But that was their choice but our loss.
"There was one amazing thing I did with Shyamal and Didier which was where Shyamal does a 64 beat rhythm cycle – a long sentence of accents as you can imagine. It's kind of like trying to recite an entire 8 verse poem as a rhythm exercise and trying to repeat that. So he did this amazing bit of tabla playing and Didier had a piece of music to go with it, and they said do you want to play along, and by the way can you engineer please? So I was doing all that and I was playing pads, but not much actually because I was quite blown away by what they were doing. We were very naughty and we started about 1 or 2am and right at the end of it at 4:30am Shyamal had just finished his final overdub and I was playing back the tracks, and he went out to get a cup of tea. Didier had gone to bed, and I was tidying up and doing a rough mix or something, and I heard this singing. And I was very sure there was no one else around. I looked down through the double glass into the drum room, and couldn't see anyone. But there was singing going on so I found a couple of tracks and recorded it and finished. What had happened was that a blackbird had woken up and heard this high frequency sound in the headphones and come into the booth and started singing back to the harmonics it was hearing in the music. And it was beautiful, it was amazing and so unlikely, I mean when does that happen? And I managed to record it! So I've got a blackbird finishing off the recording!"
The highlight of 'Melodic Destiny', was the track 'Evidance', which has recently resurfaced on the Robot Woman box set. "That strange track, Evidance, is also typically Bloom – 'Heavy Dance', like dancing in the mud. It's also a reference to when we went to Norway to play at the midnight sun festival at Trondheim, with Jean Philippe Rykiel, Didier and Gilli and myself and the drummer from Henry Cow – Chris Cutler, and this was an unusual band, with Dayne playing bass. There was a hiliarious 'petite histoire' for this particular gig which, on second thoughts, I have decided not to include in this piece to protect the 'innocent'. Chris Cutler has no memories of said incident although in a recent email he did concede 'I remember I scratched my cornea and had to (be) an outpatient…'
I put it to Harry that the immense period of activity had its parallels to his work at the end of the Eighties, around the same time that Daevid Allen returned to the UK, resurrected the Gong project and was involved in other parallel solo projects which also involved Harry.
Harry Williamson, Gilli Smyth, Daevid Allen from Robot Woman Box Set
"You have me cornered sir! What was the common element of those two projects? Could it be me? You're right about the Foel sessions – as you said we had Gong Maison, Wild Child, Australia Aquaria all at the same time and the tour – there were two tours actually, the Gong Maison tour and the Mother Gong tour. I suppose the thing was that we were there and we were only there for a short time and we had the opportunity to do these things."
One highlight of the whole batch of recordings was the seminal Mother Gong album 'Wild Child'. "So, Gilli had come back after her mother had died – she died when Gilli arrived in the UK from Australia, so Gilli went straight to the funeral. When she came to the studio she was obviously visibly moved and very emotionally overwrought, and she put that energy, sadness, anger, compassion and insight, all these mixtures of intense female energy into those tracks. And it was great she had somewhere to put it, it could be very destructive to try and keep that inside you if you don't express it. I think that's one of the reasons that album is quite a powerful album – it says a lot of truth in all sorts of ways, and it is her story of who she is, the Wild Child. But that's an aside for another day…."
And so finally a sneak preview of what we talked about in relation to Hugh Hopper. That brief stay in Devon yielded contributions not just to 'Robot Woman 1' and 'Melodic Destiny' but also Harry's 'Battle of the Birds' album with Anthony Phillips and a Mother Gong GAS tape 'WFM' (or 'Words Fail Me') with instrument inventor Dave Sawyer.
"Hugh's manifestation of his intentions was powerful. When he played a note, he always seemed to me to be doing so with a lot of meaning. I think I probably felt a bit overawed by him actually! Even though he wasn't necessarily doing that much. He certainly wasn't taking control or being a prima donna or playing everywhere. He was very easy to work with and understood tuning very precisely. There were little conversations about how we were going to do this. And he was saying, shall I follow the voices because they are slightly out (of tune) and I was aware of that so we were able to make decisions on the spot that were very sophisticated, so, great ear…. So I had Didier | 2,053 |
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Late on Friday Apple<|fim_middle|> is 19 months give or take a week. What's yours? | announced surpassing its 25 billionth iOS download in the iTunes App Store. That epic milestone is quite impressive after realizing that there was no App Store when the iPhone debuted on June 29, 2007.
The App Store did not officially launch until July 10, 2008 — just one day prior to the introduction of iPhone 3G. After the first month, App Store sales hit approximately $30 million US.
"I've never seen anything like this in my career for software." Steve Jobs told the Wall Street Journal in 2008. "This thing's going to crest a half a billion, soon," Jobs added that it may be a "$1 billion marketplace at some point in time."
Many of the usual suspects made Apple's list of "Top 25 All-Time Paid Apps" for iPhone, including three from Rovio's Angry Birds franchise in the top ten, the little Pocket God juggernaut, The Moron Test and two iPhoneography focused apps — Camera+ and Color Splash.
It was only 14 months ago that the number of iOS downloads surpassed the 10 billion mark. In the first two and a half years the App Store has sen 10 billion apps downloaded, with another 15 billion landing on iOS devices within the last 14 months. A number that indicates over one billion apps are downloaded from the App Store each month.
With the upcoming launch of iPad 3 this week and iPhone 5 coming near fall, I would expect that number to grow by a staggering amount over the next year. The App Store still remains one of the most profound benefits experienced by iPhone users over other smartphones, and it continues to enhance the appeal of iOS enabled devices.
So how long do you think it will take before the App Store hits 50 billion downloads? My guess | 379 |
Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security
Windows into the Soul
By Gary T. Marx, University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Reviewed by Donna L. Halper
It goes without saying that we live in an information society. Thanks to the Internet and new technologies, we are able to quickly find the most up-to-date information, whether we are accessing the work of scholars or seeking suggestions about the best new restaurants. As media ecologist Marshall McLuhan predicted, our devices have become extensions of ourselves: we are always connected, which allows us to text or tweet as often as we wish, and makes it easy to search for answers to whatever questions we might have.
But this easy availability of so much information comes with trade-offs – we have to give up some of our privacy in order to access it. For example, most websites track the people who visit and what their purpose is (what articles they read, what items they buy, and what they share with their friends on social media). Many popular apps on our phones want to know our location. In fact, most businesses, especially those with a major online presence, are eager to find out more about who uses their products and services. Surveillance techniques used to be mainly associated with secretive governmental agencies like the FBI or CIA; but these days the Internet has contributed to making surveillance far more pervasive, and far easier to accomplish than ever before.
In his new book, Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology, sociologist Gary T. Marx addresses<|fim_middle|> one of his goals in writing Windows into the Soul is to "…advance understanding of the social and ethical aspects of personal information control and discovery… to understand how individuals and organizations present themselves through the control and release of personal information, and how others respond to this." As a sociologist, he also seeks to "help define the fragmented field of surveillance studies and contribute to the broader field of the sociology of information."
Where Undercover focused mainly on the techniques used by law enforcement, Windows into the Soul is far more expansive: in our Internet age, it is not just the police, nor even the government, who seek out more data about more people. In thoroughly addressing surveillance techniques past and present, Marx avoids being polemical; he explains that he did not write this book to argue that surveillance is in and of itself something good, nor for that matter, something bad. He states that he is "Neither Technophobe nor Technophile (323)," and he sees himself as an "honest broker" in facilitating discussions between the various interest groups—including those who feel that surveillance is nearly always wrong, and those who feel that under some circumstances, it is necessary.
In that regard, Marx observes that it is usually the context, (including how the surveillance is conducted and under what circumstances), that influences the public's attitudes about it. He speaks about discourses which present surveillance as the opposite of privacy, allowing for the former to be framed negatively and the latter positively. This perception is undoubtedly affected by news stories, such as one about AIDS patients whose personal data was accessed and sold. But Marx points out that it is often surveillance techniques that find the culprits who compromise private records, or protect systems from attempts at hacking into them.
In Undercover, Marx discussed the more overt means of surveillance, such as spying on criminal enterprises or wire-tapping suspects to build a case against them. But Windows into the Soul looks at the many subtle ways that new technologies are being used to extract our personal information, sometimes for purposes we might consider relatively benign (such as the websites that use cookies to learn more about our shopping preferences), and sometimes for purposes that are more nefarious (such as hackers determined to commit identity theft). He discusses secret government programs like those enacted after 9/11, that monitored phone calls made to certain foreign countries considered hotbeds of terrorism. And he examines how accessing, collecting, and controlling data is no longer coercive. The new surveillance is "soft, unobtrusive, and manipulative, rather than directly forceful." This softer surveillance is often so subtly that people are unaware it is occurring, such as when "sensors and cameras are hidden in everyday objects, (like) the proverbial nanny cam in the teddy bear."
Marx also explores the public's often-contradictory attitudes towards who should and should not be able to access their data. For example, people say they want to be safe (whether from criminals or from terrorists), and after 9/11, there was little resistance to expanding government surveillance under the Patriot Act. But on the other hand, people also say they value their privacy and they want to limit how much of their data the government can see.
In addition to observing that attitudes about government surveillance tend to change depending on whether or not there is a crisis, Marx also observes that sometimes the public has overly high expectation of what technology can do. For example, on TV shows, technology is always the magic answer that helps the good guys to locate the evil-doers. But in real life, for every successful apprehension of a criminal, there are times when the bad guys still manage to get away. Marx notes that it took ten years to locate Osama Bin Laden, and it was thanks in large part to human intelligence, rather than technology. The book provides a thoughtful discussion about the ethics of surveillance, as well as the balancing act governments and corporations maintain (with greater or lesser degrees of success) between protecting people's personal data and being able to access it under certain circumstances. How those circumstances should be defined, and by whom, is another topic still being debated – while this book went to press before the controversy over Hillary Clinton's emails, this issue is certainly germane to his central point. It is understandable that work-related emails of government officials should be public record; but should a political figure, whether a president or a secretary of state, be expected to hand over personal emails between family members that may have nothing to do with their government duties? Marx acknowledges that we may have entered an "era of suspicion," where many believe that vital information is being concealed from them. But what are the rules regarding how much secrecy is necessary versus how much is detrimental to the public's right to know?
I do have several small complaints about this otherwise thorough and insightful book. One is that at times, the style of Windows into the Soul varies greatly. Some chapters read like a textbook, complete with quotes from scholars like Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault, end-of-chapter lists of terms, and reminders of the significant concepts that chapter contained. (This makes it quite useful for students, since Marx does cover a great amount in each chapter, and the opportunity to review terminology is always useful.) But other chapters read almost like extended blog posts, complete with clever puns and references to popular culture – lyrics from classic rock songs; lines from TV shows and movies; reprints of New Yorker cartoons… there are even quotes from the Bible, Shakespeare, and folk tales. Marx also likes to quote long passages from writers who satirize coercive work environments, such as a fictional employee handbook for a company that claims to support and respect its employees while continuously monitoring and scrutinizing everything they do on the job; or a speech by the pseudonymous "Rocky Bottoms" on the "wonders of modern surveillance." While Marx is impressed with this type of satirical take on the excesses of surveillance, I am not convinced that reprinting such long digressions adds to the book, or enhances the points he is making.
But that aside, this book meets a very pressing need: it provides a thorough and fair examination of different theories about surveillance, and allows the reader to benefit from exposure to multiple perspectives. Marx knows he is dealing with a complex and constantly changing subject, and he does not try to offer simplistic solutions. Rather, his approach in writing Windows into the Soul is to encourage further conversation and further research. This is definitely a book that both academics and non-academics will want to discuss.
Donna L. Halper is an Associate Professor of Communication at Lesley University, Cambridge MA.
Tags: book review, Internet, March 2017, surveillance | whether we have not only become an information society but also a surveillance society. Marx has great familiarity, and an ongoing interest, in this topic. He explains that his research into the history of surveillance was partly inspired by his growing up during the Cold War and the era of McCarthyism, as well as by observing such abuses of power as what President Nixon did during Watergate. By the 1970s, Marx was teaching and writing about surveillance and social control, at a time when few academics were studying the topic.
A professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Marx is the author of the 1988 book Undercover: Police Surveillance in America. He states that | 140 |
What Does "Actionability" Really Mean in Project Management?
In my new book, Lessons Learned: Taking Project Management to a New Level in a Continuous Process Improvement Framework, I develop a process for project managers at a Project Close phase of their projects to capture, document, and share lessons learned from their projects with the assistance of the project organization. In the past, many project groups have attempted to document lessons learned, but inevitably they end up on some shelf in the archives of the group, and never really have any impact on the growth and development of the group's project or business processes going forward. However, I believe that this situation is changing<|fim_middle|>, and collaboration skills and competencies to make it work. Third, it means that the organization builds in the capability to actually implement the changes agreed to the in lessons learned statements. This is not easy in some organizations. But what I am advocating is that the lessons learned be written in sufficient detail that a knowledgeable person in that group who understands the processes and the complexities of the organizational "structure" can implement the changes. Ultimately, this is what "actionability" is all about. Fourth, it means that the organization devotes tools and mechanisms of sharing the new changes and incorporating these changes in a way that makes them "the business of the company" and not just a "good thing to consider." "Actionability" is about intent, capture, documentation, and sharing of project lessons learned in a way that it becomes part of the fabric of the company's business. If this is not the case in your organization, ask yourself why not. Start today to assess where you are with project lessons learned and what path you can take to make all project lessons learned "actionable" in your business context. | as more and more organizations are embracing the concepts of continuous process improvement. The framework in my book emphasizes that it isn't enough to analyze results or outcomes of the project process, and to document lessons learned. The issue of "actionability" is key here. So what do we really mean when we use the term "actionability?" It means a number of things. First, it means that the organization has an intent to capture, document and share lessons learned. Second, it means that the organization builds in the capability to capture the lessons learned through a facilitated process in which the project manager, his team, and the stakeholders participate "actively" in the process. There is some debate in organizations today whether the project manager is the best equipped person to do this. Some organizations are dedicating this activity to a group that is unbiased in its approach, which has the facilitation, framing and reframing | 180 |
Wildlife gardening can involve as much or as little effort as the gardener allows.
Wildlife Garden : Autumn Treats for the Hedgehogs.
It can take weeks digging vegetable beds, months planning fruit and vegetable garden spaces and years generally labouring in the garden - out there at dawn and back out again at dusk, plus devoting any spare time in-between; creating a wildlife garden (or a kitchen garden, for that matter) can be a challenge.
The plans are (being a decade wiser) for a small<|fim_middle|>orns before it finds a cosy place for winter hibernation. In devouring the treats from the garden, it naturally helps with the autumn tidy!
Enjoyable Gardening and Blogging - Wildlife Kitchen Garden! | wildlife garden (and a small kitchen garden), involving less gardening-effort - making adjustments to improve and nurture the natural environment and garden rather than going for a complete overhaul, as in the past – when the garden resembled an allotment.
A wildlife garden that fits in with the demands and pace other work and commitments – but one which attracts a host of benefits for the garden inhabitants: safe places to live, feed, breed and shelter.
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All authors, whether they are a faculty member publishing a monograph, a grant funded researcher publishing a scholarly article, or a graduate student writing a dissertation, need to be familiar with the basic concepts of copyright and have an awareness of the options for publishing, posting, archiving and distributing their scholarship. Many scholars, including teaching faculty, are not well-versed in these issues and therefore not equipped to educate students who they may be similarly advising. Librarians can fill this gap given their knowledge of copyright and the publication process.
When publishing, authors are presented with a contract or copyright transfer agreement drafted by the publisher. Many of these publisher drafted agreements transfer copyright fully to the publisher thereby restricting an author's subsequent usage of his or her published work, including reuse of the work in teaching and further research. After transferring copyright to the publisher, the author generally has little say in how the work is later used. The result, all too often, is that contracts restrict the dissemination of one's scholarship, and the author's impact is lessened.
Accordingly, authors should take care to<|fim_middle|> freedom when they know, without question, how copyrighted works can be incorporated into new creations. | assign the rights to their work in a manner that permits them and their students and colleagues to use their work in teaching, research and other purposes. Transferring copyright doesn't have to be all or nothing. Publishers only need the right of first publication, not a wholesale transfer of copyright. So, a compromise is often desirable, which authors can accomplish through an appropriate addendum. Librarians are a natural source for information on this topic and should undertake efforts to educate faculty, staff and students on their rights as authors and what measures they can take through copyright amendment, archiving and open licensing to preserve the rights to reuse their scholarship and ensure that it is accessible and usable.
Author Addenda: An examination of five alternatives - 2006 article by Peter Hirtle examining five addenda that were current at that time. A good overview of considerations to make when drafting addenda for use by authors.
The Creative Commons organization was founded in 2001 as a means of permitting creators to license their work for public use under conditions they specify. Although not an alternative to copyright and not an indication that a work is part of the public domain, Creative Commons licenses permit the holders of copyright to define more clearly, than perhaps modern copyright law interpretation allows, how their works may be used and give users of copyrighted works greater creative | 269 |
The Producers: Joe Henry
Leaving a home studio can be a tragedy for some musicians, especially when it's beautiful both in its architecture and in its acoustics. But Joe Henry took it in stride. He recently moved his family out of their home in South Pasadena, which was built in 1904 for President Garfield's widow and which housed the facilities where he recorded albums by Loudon Wainwright III, Over the Rhine, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and Aaron Neville, among others. The final sessions were a crowd-funded effort by the husband-and-wife croon-folk act Birds of Chicago.
"It was a wonderful, incredible experience to have that studio," Henry says, "and some of the greatest musical moments of my life happened in that basement. But in a very real way, with so many changes in the record industry, it was just not sustainable." He is, however, not particularly sentimental about the space. "Frankly, it asked a lot of my family to have that happening. Every time I had a project, it took over everybody's life for a week. I didn't step out of it by choice, but at the same time, I don't feel diminished for having done so. You just look at it and say, 'What's next?'"
Henry has been asking himself that very question for 30 years now. A Detroit native, he started out in the 1980s as a singer/songwriter in the John Hiatt/Alejandro Escovedo mode, eventually absorbed — somewhat reluctantly — by the alt-country movement of the 1990s. Although he did pen the liner notes for the Jayhawks' epochal Hollywood Town Hall, Henry was never quite part of that scene, trading in what little twang he had for smokier and more sophisticated sounds on his excellent trio of late '90s/early 2000s albums: Trampoline, Fuse, and Scar.
His has been an unpredictable career, covering a wide swath of styles and expanding the definition of "roots" to be wide and inclusive. In addition to his own albums, he has manned the boards for the Carolina Chocolate Drops, jazz pianist Mose Allison, R&B singer Solomon Burke, Bonnie Raitt, Aimee Mann, Susan Tedeschi, and Hugh Laurie, among many, many others. To each of these diverse projects, he brings what might be called a signature elegance, spare and understated — the instruments all resonating against each other to illuminate the song.
His latest project is a slight reinvention of the Texas troubadour Hayes Carll, whose new album, Lovers and Leavers, chucks the full-band sound of his last two efforts. In its place is a quieter sound — introverted and melancholic — more akin to the low-key ruminations of Mickey Newbury than the wild romps of Ray Wylie Hubbard. That it succeeds is a testament not only to Carll's vivid songwriting, but to the intimate setting Henry creates for these songs.
What kind of conversations did you have with Hayes Carll going into those sessions?
When we were first talking about working together, he did send me a few demos, so I had some sense of his landscape, but what he told me when we got on the phone was that he didn't want to keep making the same record over and over. He didn't want to go back to his old methodology and just create something that might be more wood on the pile, however good it might be. He wanted to do a record that arrives with its own atmosphere, its own movie. I always think of records as making movies. They have to add up to a narrative arc, even if it's just an abstract one. So when he played me some songs and we talked more, I suggested doing something that was very austere — at least in terms of the number of ensemble members — yet something that would feel very complete.
How did you find that balance where it would sound sparse but not like a demo?
I always want records to feel like they have an orchestral element and, by that, I mean not just setting up excuses for musicians in the studio to riff on top of somebody's song. I don't ever in my life want to hear — and I certainly don't want to be responsible for — anybody treating a song as simply an opportunity to be individually seen or heard. I want everybody involved to disappear into the songs, and I want the elements to always be speaking on behalf of the song's dramatic arc. There are moments on this record that are just acoustic guitar, upright bass, and drums, but I think they play in a very widescreen sort of way. It's more The Last Picture Show than it is Gone with the Wind, that's for sure.
It definitely has a sense of place. Some of the songs sound like somebody playing a club right as it's closing down for the night.
I always hope that there's a sonic thread that grounds a record, no matter how different the songs might be. The common thread in this case is the singer's voice and the character implied by that voice, which suggest a sense of place. A location where these stories are happening — even if the story is in process, even if it's in motion, even if the locations shift like they would in a movie. Somebody might move from one town to the other, but the story itself has a coherent grounding. I think listeners want to feel that connectivity, and anybody who is willing to listen to a record in sequence, as presented, and take it in as a whole statement should be gratified and should be rewarded for bringing that kind of time and attention to bear.
With an album like Lovers and Leavers, which represents a dramatic change, it seems like an artist would have to really trust whomever he's working with. Do you think it makes it easier for an artist to trust you as a producer because you were a performer first?
I would always hope so. I am a songwriter first and foremost and, as a result, even when I'm working as someone's producer, I'm still looking at everything through the lens of the songwriter. I don't turn that part of my brain off, jump the fence, and become a record producer. I am a songwriter standing at that wheel on the ship's bridge, and I'm always thinking in terms of the<|fim_middle|>'re cutting right into wax. There's a microphone taking a picture of an experience. There's no such thing as overdubbing or postproduction manipulation. What you're asking people to do is stand together and have a mutual experience. Have a dram together. There's something about that that's very old-fashioned, very mysterious and mystical. I'm interested in all that. For Bonnie, at least in that moment, that approach felt brand new. I remember saying, "How can this be new to you? This must be how you always used to work." She said, very charmingly, "If it is, I don't remember it."
I've worked with some people who have been making music longer than I've been alive, and I've had an amazing opportunity to work with people who have made music that was intensely important to my formation as a deep listener from the time I was 11 or 12, in my early teens. It's amazing to stand with those people and get invited to be a part of what they're doing.
I think it would be incredibly difficult not to revert to fan mode in the presence of somebody like Solomon Burke.
Well, that's something that happens in the anticipation beforehand. There are certainly moments when I've worked with some of these artists when I've had to take myself out of the room. I look at myself in the bathroom mirror and just say, "How are you here? How did this actually happen? What do you really have to contribute to someone who has achieved this level of mastery?"
On the other hand, once you're actually in it, a lot of that stuff falls away and people just become human beings trying to do something special in the short time they have to be alive. You get caught up in that. It's not about you and it's not about them. It's about it. When you get to that place, you're liberated from a lot of things, but you're never liberated from outrageous respect and admiration. You have to get free from sheer fandom, though, or you'd never be able to challenge anybody. You couldn't say, "That was great, Mose, but I think you can go further." You have a real job to do, and you're doing a disservice to the project and the artist if you don't do it.
When I was producing Allen Toussaint and Elvis Costello on their 2006 collaborative record called The River in Reverse, there was a moment toward the end of the first day when we hit a wall with a new song. I felt a little demoralized. I've got these incredible legacy artists, both of whom — especially Allen — have been tremendously successful producers themselves. Do I really have anything to offer? Allen divined that I was in this moment of struggle because he's a mystical creature. He just insisted that I understand that I had an important role to play and that I wasn't there because they were being nice to me. He told me I couldn't just be a spectator. I had to take the wheel. That was the job. They were occupied being the artists, and they needed somebody to stand up and take the wheel. That had to be me. So I had to let loose of any sort of sense of being overwhelmed by how much I revered both of these gentlemen as artists and songwriters and producers. I had to understand that I could deal with that later. In the meantime, I gotta get busy. I can't be lost there. I can't just be a fan in this moment.
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I'm not trying to create a song that reflects well on the artist, though. I'm trying to encourage the artist to reflect well on the song. That's a distinct difference. It might seem like a fine line to some people, but there are great chasms on both sides of that line: "Are we in service to the song? Or do you think the song should be in service to some public persona?" I would like to think I give a certain authority with the people I work with because I walk that walk every day. I engage in the act of writing songs every day … some days more successfully than others. But it's something that constantly occupies me, and I'm always listening for the moment in which the song becomes a living thing and just walks away from us.
The song has to take over. We've all seen evidence of musicians who create songs that just serve as advertisements for the performer's persona. There's not a song that somebody else would cover. There's not enough song there to engage anybody else. It's there just to fly like a banner above a public performer. I'm interested in the ways that we, as devoted musicians, can disappear into the song and help to illuminate it. That's not because I'm egoless; I just find my ego perfectly satisfied when a song is fully realized — when it is vividly itself and moving on its own steam. I don't need people to see my face in their head when they're hearing it. I don't want them to hear my hand at work as a producer. That's a failure to me. If we all do our jobs right, the song just sounds as if it were inevitable.
I remember reading a quote from a composer who specialized in film scores. I can't remember who it was, but it has stuck with me. He said something to the effect of, "If you remember the music at the end of the movie, then I haven't done my job."
I agree with that, for the most part. I certainly agree with the sentiment, in regards to somebody scoring a film. The score should be no less or more important than what the lighting designer or somebody else brings. The music should permeate everything, but you're not supposed to be conscious of the craft. You're supposed to be caught up in the moment. In that regard, I do agree. But there's a disconnect for me: I could listen to somebody else's record, and I'll just picture people sitting in a room with headphones on. I picture the act of record making. And I don't want to. I want to be seduced. I want to be seduced by the character and the story and the journey.
Is there a moment when you realize that a song has reached that point and become its own thing? Is that something you're aware of happening?
I think you always know. There will be times when I'm sitting in the studio and I'm supposed to be listening to how this guitar overdub works or what this mandolin adds. And I sit there waiting for the playback and I forget what I'm supposed to be listening for. I go back to just hearing the story, and when I get to the end, I realize I completely forgot to pay attention to what I'm supposed to be paying attention to. So it must be working. Something else has taken over. There are moments when everybody undeniably knows that something has shifted and has become real. It's not just an idea anymore. It's wonderful when that happens in real time — in an immediate way that is beyond a doubt.
Is that when you know something is finished? Or do you ever know when a song is finished?
Songs can always be different. Some people are always discouraged by that idea. It makes it heard for them to reach a sense of peace and closure, because they're thinking about what else might it be: "Is there some better way?" I don't tend to think like that. Life is short. There are all kinds of ways a song might be successful. Our job is to find one of the ways a song might be successful and commit to it fully. I feel liberated by the fact that it can always be different. Sometimes time runs out, but that's not necessarily an obstacle. You could chase a song in different directions all day, but we have more work that we're obliged to do. You don't have endless resources and endless time. I don't see that as an obstruction. Instead, I see it as something else that's guiding us. Otherwise, you'll just get really lost: "Okay, we have this, but what else could it be?" It could be anything else. There are all kinds of things that it might be. But what about right now? Is the song being served and does the song then serve the whole project?
It's not about finding the perfect mix or the perfect arrangement, but finding the iteration of the songs that works for itself and for the album.
There's no such thing as perfect. As soon as you accept that we're all going to die, that we're all mortal, this idea of perfection just becomes ludicrous. Things are always in the process of blooming and decaying, so the idea that there is some static perfection becomes pointless. You could tune every note perfectly and snap everything to a tight grid, but you'll end up with something that's bloodless. That's a fact I hear evident every day, and I'm not interested in that. I want to be jarred out of complacency. I want to be disturbed. I want to be seduced and I want to be confounded.
Does that desire guide you when you're choosing projects? I think of you as someone who has worked with some very different artists.
Sure it does, because I don't judge myself or what I think I'm capable of contributing based on any sense of genre. It doesn't matter who I'm working with — whether as a producer or as a songwriter or as a performer or whatever — from Ornette Coleman to Madonna to Solomon Burke and Mose Allison to Harry Belafonte to anybody. The goal is always the same. The music has to be undeniably affirming and seductive. Those parameters never change. The way we get there might change from one artist to the next, but the goal is always the same.
Many of the artists you've worked with have long traditions in pop music. Is that something you think about when you're working … not just their history but how to carry it forward?
I've had a chance to work with a lot of people who are so-called "legacy" artists. And I also work with younger people who are just beginning, too. That particular thing you're talking about is something I think about a lot. When you approach somebody with an immense legacy — somebody who is already in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, somebody like Solomon Burke or Harry Belafonte or Mavis Staples — the question is, invariably, "How do you respect their legacy without ever being trapped by it?"
I don't think the goal is to look backwards and try to re-create something, but I also don't believe that we're required to ignore an artist's tremendous history. You can't bethinking, "Oh, I won't look like a very smart producer unless I'm putting a new set of clothes on this person." The music has to feel like it's in motion and speaking in the present tense. So when an artist has created a great and important body of work, the job isn't to imitate it, but it's also not to ignore it. So how do we stand with it? How are we making new music that respects the journey of this artist yet is its own thing at the same time?
You could knock something off. We've all heard examples of people doing that — people who are just as enamored with old Stax/Volt records as I am, who go in and try to re-create horn charts, who mic instruments as closely as they can imagine to how they were recorded ages ago. It's not hard to do that, if you're with people who know how to listen. A good recording engineer can listen to something and figure out how they were getting those sounds. But you're looking over your shoulder. You're looking into a tube. You can't possibly be liberated and open to discovery, if what you're trying to do is imitate something that's already trapped in amber.
It almost sounds like the difference between a technician and an artist.
I'm not interested in the technical aspect of it, except as it serves to set us free. I'm not an engineer, myself. I work with a great one — a heroically great one. So I'm free of that. I can talk abstractly about how I want things to work and feel, and I can talk a lot about music as being the weather in the room. I know how it needs to move me. I don't necessarily need to know what kind of gear allows this best to happen. I work with people who know how to do that.
How did you make the transition from singer/songwriter to producer?
Like most things, completely by accident. I made my third record in 1990, called Shuffletown, which was produced by T Bone Burnett, and then I moved to Los Angeles right as it was about to be released. Then my label, A&M Records, shipped the record on release date, but also dropped me as an artist on the same day. So I was a man without a country and no real way to promote the record that they had very carelessly and cruelly dispatched with no support. They might as well have given it to me. I would have been better off selling it out of the back of my car.
T Bone asked if I would come work with him as a production associate, and I didn't even know that what I was doing was learning to be a producer. I did understand that I cared a lot about making records and that, if I was working only for myself, then maybe I would be lucky enough to spend four days in the studio every two years. And you don't learn anything that way. You don't learn to swim by getting in the water one day a year. You need to spend some time. You need to get lost in the process and then find your way through.
As you start learning, it becomes clear that some things are important; other things are a distraction. And there is a common language that we keep defaulting to. You just start learning by witnessing, and it's a great way to learn. I was very lucky to be invited into that circle. And then people just started asking me. I never hung out a shingle that said, "Producer for Hire." People just started asking. I didn't think about it much at the time, but looking back now, I think people knew I was associated with T Bone. Maybe they couldn't get hold of him or couldn't afford him, so they would climb a little bit down the totem pole — maybe pretty far down the totem pole — and there I was.
Do artists still seek you out? Or do you seek them out?
It happens every which way. There are people who seek me out because they've heard records I've made. But some of the most meaningful work I've done as a producer was because I went and asked for it. Bonnie Raitt is a good example. I didn't wait for Bonnie Raitt to one day, hopefully, be visited by a mystical angel who told her she should give me a call. I reached out to her: "Here's who I am. Here's what I do. If you're interested in trying an experiment, I'm wide open to it." I've gotten a lot of my best work by just going up to people I admire and saying, "Hey, you wanna go out with me?"
Your work with Bonnie Raitt [on 2012's Slipstream ] is interesting in that those recordings don't redefine who she is or what she does, but showcase it all in a slightly different way … as if it say, "Here's why this person is still vital."
She was devoted to real-time discovery. Those are almost — without exception — live recordings where she and the band are putting their hands to the pulse of the song and conjuring something that can't be conjured any other way. And it did feel new to her. To me, it seems like an old-fashioned way to work, because that's how people always used to work.
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Tim Trott was introduced to television broadcasting in high school in a Junior Achievement "company" that produced a weekly hour-long show on WESH-TV in Orlando for two years. One of the<|fim_middle|> established Tim Trott Productions, to produce a documentary, 1 episode cooking show, various trade show videos, legal depositions, real estate video tours, You Tube ads, and training videos before expanding the company's services to include webcasting and streaming media production. | first skills he learned was editing film. From there, he joined the staff of WLCY-TV10 (now WTSP) in St. Petersburg, then moved to editing film and operating a camera for newscasts at WSUN-TV 38. He studied broadcast production at St. Petersburg College and then took another film editing job at WFLA-TV8 in Tampa. After some years in radio (WTLN, WTCX, WTRR, WHOO, Florida Network) and other adventures, Tim rediscovered his love of video production and editing with the advent of digital photography, and | 124 |
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Stances with Wolves
An image from _Wolf Empire_ by Scott Ian Barry
Scott Ian Barry's photographs were once described by Ansel Adams as "striking and generous portraits." Maybe that's because Woodstock resident Barry focuses his viewfinder on the passion that's ruled his life: wolves. His first book, Kingdom of the Wolves, won an award from the National Science Teacher's Association. Now he's created Wolf Empire: An Intimate Portrait of a Species, a compilation of images and essays for grown-ups, and has two local events coming up—a reading and signing at Mirabai in Woodstock on June 9, and another at the Kingston Barnes and Noble on June 22.
His adventures have taken him to Carnegie Hall, the Smithsonian Institution, Alaska, a Sioux reservation, hundreds of classrooms and local museums, and the White House. Since 1972, wolves have been his constant companions; he has diapered and bottle-fed them, romped with them, mourned their passing, and been on the receiving end of mating overtures from a female in heat. Scott Ian Barry loves wolves, and it would seem they love him back.
He's a proud Luddite, eschewing digital cameras and doing his writing on legal pads. He's an activist, fighting tirelessly to prevent the slaughter of his beloved canids.
"More than once, when I've lectured in ranch country, some guy will come up to me, point to the wolf beside me and say, 'Yep, shot one just like that last week,'" he says. "I answer, 'Well, we all make mistakes.' Who's going to keep arguing with a guy who has a wolf standing right beside him?"
—Anne Pyburn
AP: Did you always feel wolves were your destiny?
SIB: I don't want to sound too New Agey or disingenuous, but I describe the fascination as immediately postnatal and enormously powerful.<|fim_middle|> blast it. It's inhuman and inhumane, and so wasteful. Wolves have the potential to teach us a lot about what being human should mean. Unfortunately, we have the worst administration in history right now on environmental issues.
AP: Touring the country with wolves must have had some interesting moments.
SIB: We were environmental pioneers. Nobody was doing anything like this—it was highly suspect. I've been detained by border agents, spied on by a special agent while doing work at the Smithsonian. They thought we were out to overthrow the country.
Then there's the flip side—we were the "wolf people," and we got treated like rock stars. I've met Robert Redford and Jimmy Carter. Wolves have made my dreams come true.
I'd love to see somebody make a biopic about the whole saga. We could call it "The Wolfman Cometh."
Scott Ian Barry will read and sign copies of Wolf Empire at Mirabai in Woodstock on Saturday, June 9, at 2pm. (845) 679-2100; www.mirabai.com.
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Big Sky Country: Sky Hopinka Exhibits at CCS Bard | It's as if I were one of them, as if I had a wolf inside of me. When the other kids were being Superman, I'd be a wolf. There's an old European legend of the Wolf Charmer, a spirit-man who lived among them; I felt that was me. That may be odd for a boy from Flushing, Queens, but that was me.
I started actually working with them in my late teens and never looked back. Everything I love most—photography, the outdoors—became tied into one with wolves at the center. It came to me, not so much me to it, as naturally as breathing air.
AP: Why do you think wolves exert such a powerful pull on the human mind?
SIB: Early on, human and wolf-pack social structures probably evolved on a sort of parallel track. Both species had to band together to hunt large game. Wolves were smart enough to follow human hunters and get the remains of the kills.
You would have thought there'd be a natural blending, but as so-called civilization evolved—cities and so on—there arose a competition over resources that continues to this day. Wolves have been so slandered—remember Little Red Riding Hood? They became "that thing out there."
Then there's the howl. That eerie sound went a long way to taint their image. Scientists have found that wolves howl the same notes that humans sing, so it's a kind of primal resonance.
AP: You've actually taught humans to howl like wolves?
SIB: Most memorably, perhaps, on the stage of Carnegie Hall in front of a packed house—2,200 people all dressed in their best [for a Paul Winter Consort performance]. I thought they might be reluctant about it, but they couldn't wait to howl!
My goal now is to teach everyone how to howl like a wolf. It's life-affirming—very therapeutic.
AP: I notice there's a lot of controversy surrounding wolves out West right now. What's that about?
SIB: I've been fighting these same battles for 30 years. Wherever humans are, they won't allow wolves to live in peace. The very same organization that restored the wolf to Yellowstone National Park, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, is now proposing to kill them if they set one paw outside of the park. The wolves make a comeback, they rebalance the ecology, and then everybody wants to kill them.
Then there are the aerial hunts in Alaska—they take small, low-flying planes and literally run the wolf to exhaustion, then | 528 |
Walter Hopps est un commissaire d'exposition américain né le en Californie et mort à Los Angeles le . Il a organisé plus de cent expositions d'art moderne aux États-Unis consacrées essentiellement à l'art du , dont la première rétrospective consacré au pop art. Il a fait connaître les artistes californiens de sa génération et s'inscrit dans une conception moderne et non-conformiste de l'exposition inspirée par Marcel Duchamp où le commissaire d'exposition est lui-même à l'origine de l'acte artistique.
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W<|fim_middle|> réalise une exposition, en 1978, dans laquelle l'espace est ouvert pendant trente-six heures aux œuvres de tous les artistes ou non-artistes qui répondront à son annonce (Thirty-Six Hours). Il est directeur en 1980 de la Fondation de Jean et Dominique de Ménil, puis directeur de la Menil Collection, le musée que les collectionneurs franco-américains ouvrent à Houston en 1987. Hopps est également éditeur du journal littéraire Grand Street. Il meurt à Los Angeles en 2005. La Fondation Ménil établit un prix pour le commissariat d'exposition : le Walter Hopps Award.
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Hans Ulrich Obrist, A Brief History of Curating, JRP/Ringier & Les Presses du Réel, 2008, p. 9-31.
Commissaire d'exposition américain
Naissance en mai 1932
Décès à Los Angeles
Décès en mars 2005
Décès à 72 ans | alter Hopps ouvre sa première galerie d'art, le Sydnell Studio, au début des années 1950, alors qu'il est encore étudiant à l'Université de Californie à Los Angeles. Il est également agent artistique alors de musiciens de jazz comme Gerry Mulligan. Hopps organise au Sydnell Studio les expositions Action 1 et Action 2 qui inaugure son style d'expositions expérimentales ouvertes sur des artistes ou des publics extérieurs au monde de l'art. Il fonde en 1957 la Ferus Gallery à Los Angeles où il fait connaître les artistes Ed Kienholz, George Herms et Wallace Berman. Il est ensuite directeur du Pasadena Museum of Art (aujourd'hui Norton Simon Museum) entre 1963 et 1967. Il y montre les premières rétrospectives américaines de Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell et Marcel Duchamp. Il organise également l'exposition New Painting of Common Objects qui est la première rétrospective du pop art américain (Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Ed Ruscha, Joe Goode, Wayne Thiebaud). Il devient directeur du Washington Gallery of Modern Art. Il | 275 |
A Back to the Future Musical Is Finally Coming, So Here Are Some Song Ideas
Featuring the Tony-winning "Oh No, I Kissed My Mom."
By Andrew Daniels
Rumors of a Back to the Future musical have been percolating forever—if not quite as far back as 1955, then at least since 2012, when news of a Broadway adaptation was first announced. But it can take years to get a musical off the ground, and it's not like the producers can just hop in a DeLorean to speed up the process.
Well, the wait appears to be over: Per Playbill, Back to the Future will finally debut at the Manchester Opera House in the U.K. next February, before presumably making its way to the Great White Way.
Bob Gale, who created the franchise with director Robert Zemeckis and is writing the musical's book, confirmed the news. "Good things take time," he told Playbill, "and finally, the time is right."
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Great Scott! It's a New Back to the Future Documentary | , but Olly Dobson (Matilda the Musical) will inherit the role of Marty McFly from Michael J. Fox, John Rando (Urinetown) will direct, and Glen Ballard (Jagged Little Pill) will provide the score along with the movie's original composer, Alan Silvestri.
"We're thrilled that we can retell our story on stage in a brand-new way," Gale said, "and we're certain that Back to the Future fans all over the world will share our enthusiasm."
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Count us among them. Packing 1.21 gigawatts of greatness, BTTF is a practically perfect film that charms us as much on the hundredth watch as it did on the first. It's why it tops our list of the Best 30 Time Travel Movies Ever … not that there was really any debate. We can't wait to see how it translates to a theater setting.
Of course, the story is ironclad—it's the new songs that are the X-factor. Crucially, Huey Lewis' immortal "The Power of Love" will factor into the show, but as for the rest of the musical's numbers, we're left guessing. So guess we will.
Here are 10 songs that are bound to win a Tony:
"Oh No, I Kissed My Mom" (Performed by Marty McFly)
"Got the Hots (for Calvin Klein)" (Performed by Lorraine Baines)
"Do the Gigawatt Jive" (Performed by Doc Brown)
"(One Day I'll Be) The Most Powerful Man in Hill Valley" (Performed by Goldie Wilson and the Hill Valley Chorus)
"My Owner Is Insane (Please Adopt Me)" (Performed by Einstein the Dog)
"Bad Case of Plutonium Blues" (Performed by the Libyan Terrorists)
"The Ballad of Butthead" (Performed by Biff Tannen)
"I Am Your Density" (Performed by George McFly)
"No, Your Other Cousin" (Performed by Marvin Berry)
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