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127 Comments on "German Scientists Prove There is Life After Death"
How does this prove that there is life after death? This was a "near death" experience, not actual death. Surely not the same thing.
There was no brain activities when the subjects were induced into coma so they could not be hallucinating.
Sure, there may have been no brain activity at some point in the experiment, but the memories that these people had upon reanimation probably did not happen during the point where there was no brain activity, but during the point where the brain was shutting down.
They would have no memories of the period of time when there was no brain activity.
@Heather the time of death is not exactly a state "prone to developing meaningful memories". its a state of confusion and almost unawareness. anything lucid would probably have to happen afterwards, if thats possible. since there is no scientific data showing that mental events and physical events are synonymous, it may be possible.
I would second Wendy. Death and 'near death' are two different ideas.
The subjects were clinically dead. No heart or brain activity for an extended period of time. That's not near death, it, by definition, is death.
dear my doctor the psychiatrist when I entered the room with left leg he was lying on the couch with one leg down.he was muttering words that sound like chicken and then he said he told me I NEED SOME BOOKS ON PSYCHIATRY through the pout of his mouth and asked for water while drinking water he closed one eye and lo and behold the other eye popped out and fell on the floor and drifted away like golf ball.then I told him that he was blessed to have a near death experience and he threw the heavy book at my face with force enough for a man to get deranged.
Wendy, that's exactly what I was thinking!
It is so discouraging to see so many ignorant and scared people.
There is no proof of anything in this silly article – just stories told from people who were awaken after NEAR death experience. NEAR DEATH PEOPLE !!
Being heart and brains totally silent means death (of body).
Thank you someone for pointing out this ISN'T science in any form. just using modern pharmacology to stretch the definition of 'clinal death'. There IS brain activity during<|fim_middle|> indeed in the mortuary ,but you cannot be alive and dead ?
the reason why people cry upon a friend or relatives death is that they do so knowing they will not see them again EVER ! | a coma, and people DO have memories from them. These results sound like something you might expect from such a study. . . lots of people seeing more than is here. . .
Show me the Quran or any theological texts experiments and text results and we will gladly take them into consideration. Otherwise, stop wasting our time.
You are right, but here we are talking about SCIENCE….
some one is asking about the evidence from quran ,,,, here you go !!
In fact, the Quran makes a very simple but effective appeal to our everyday experience to convince us of the existence of the hereafter.
how old is vedas? and how old is Quran ..
Hima, Vedas are nearl 1000-1500 years more older than Quran.
Will you guys just stop fighting over your darned religions, damn it!
Unfortunately this news seems to trigger another round of religious fanatism..I would not be surprised Muslim-extremists will line up for suicide-bombings now they have this "good"news.
Vedas are much older than 1000 – 1500 years than the Quran.
Vedas is the Oldest scriptures in the world and has nothing to do with religion, but have everything to do with the whole excistence.
Sorry bud, they didn't confirm the 72 virgins. Guess all those suicide bombers missed out.
We all Muslims must read Quran. Even though all Terrorism, Killing and Anti- humanism are doing by our Muslim brothers….. all over world…..Why…Why…Why..???
Why do you put down religions that are not yours? Not for you to judge who is right, who is studying the right religion.
I have actually experienced this–I am eighty years old now-but when I was 19 a manknocked on my door one night and when I answered it-he pushed me backwards onto the floor and proceeded to strangle me-everybody that I had ever known flickered through my mind with a goodbye –and suddenly I was at these gates-There was overwhelming gold –everything was gold–it was beautiful-and then some neighbours came to my house and pulled this person off me-and I had to come back!
It was SO HARD coming back after what I had seen-definitely life after death!
Thank you Ahmed. There is great beauty in the Holy Quran.
it is easy to understant proof life after death. Look at the seed..it is in a death state..how easy Almigthy God, Allah brings it to life. look at the dried and death soil…by pouring some water it become fertile( back to live) allowing any seeds to grow. these are example and retional proof the after death…as mentioned in so many verses in Quran…please read Translation of Quran.may Allah gives us guidence to submit to Him Alone.
Ohh yeah, and the Koran is 100% scientifically full proof!
That's crazy. Absolutely amazing! Two thumbs up for the scientists!
Nice news.It is good exercise and hope for retired persons and pension holders. Price of daily living items like tomato are increasing in India.
I am a Hindu and I am a vegetarian too. But nowhere in Hinduism is it mentioned that everyone should eat veg only. Veg is compulsory for sattvic people, predominantly Brahmins. People with rajasic and tamasic nature are not prohibited to eat non-veg.
This is great.I never thought it would happen. Its about time.
I PASSED AWAY ,AND I LEFT MY BODY;I FELT SO WONDERFUL IT CAN,T BE EXPLAINED;I SEEN MY LIFELESS BODY ON THE BED AND I WAS RAISING HIGHER & HIGHER YOU JUST CAN,T EXPLAIN THE LIGHT;IT WAS SO AWESOME,YOU JUST CAN,T EXPLAIN IT,THEN I HEARD A VOICE SAY,ITS NOT YOUR TIME,I HAVE THINGS FOR YOU TOO DO;I REMEMBER SAYING PLEASE I WANT TO STAY!!!! THEN I WAS GOING BACK FAST AND IWENT BACK IN MY BODY COULD SEE ME ON THE BED COVERED UP;AND I DONT REMEMBER ANYTHING ELSE!!!MY MOMMA SAID I JUST CAME BACK ALIVE;!!!
Not one of the examples you presented from the Bible was Reincarnation. There is a difference to being raised from the dead and coming into a child at birth and living another life all over again (which is mathematically impossible.
After taking Ayahuasca I can 100% confirm that their is life after death as I visited the place we go when we die and it is so much more amazing than here. I learned that natural death should be celebrated as much as birth and we only fear and dread it because we have been conditioned to by our culture.
Think about the repurcussions this has on a 'brain dead' individual a.k.a. organ donor….
For many years Raymond Moody has thoroughly researched NDE .
Of course there is.In 1975 giving birth ,I had a heart attack . I remember looking down from above my body at the room and the peace I felt was amazing.And than I was in a very bright place,I wasn't afraid at all in fact I felt so much Love, That out of the corner of my eye I look up and A Man comes out of somewhere ,so bright to look at and as he came closer the Love I felt from him was overwhelming and he new me and I knew him,so difficult to explain the feeling. He came over and sat next to me and It was like my father he started to speak to me and I to him he didn't move his lips but he was speaking to me.I won't go into the whole time only remember he asking me if I want to come with him or go back,I knew I still had to finish giving birth and I had little girls at home,he said you will have great suffering.The next thing I know is I'am yelling I'am back and I was back in my earth body,I had died and my son was still in me.So I gee birth told me they wanted to keep my son and me cause there could be brain damage to my baby.Well no damage to him or me.Till this day 39 years later I can tell you that the time I spent with this Beautiful Man and the things he spoke to me about has helped me through everything.It changed my Life as I know without question that there is a Heaven cause I was there and It is More than Wonderful!
I,d like to volunteer and see for myself as a spiritualist who works with spirits virtually every day! I have worked in an ICU as a registered nurse for 24 years. Please come to South Africa and give me this experience personally. Read the book Alec Harris and get it translated into German. Long live Elisabeth kubler -Ross.
As soon as those people can describe anything outside the controlroom like signs, letters, numbers in the room next door. No one should consider this as more evidence that people have these weird experiences due to the brain being under not usual circomstances. Give people any type of drugs and they will also claim similar effects as the next person using the same drugs(and some variations).
after live is before live. live wll never end.
Does anyone know if this work has been published?
allah says all of u who die will be made alive again hereafter and will be asked for what we hav done good or bad. allah will reward all accordingly.
"Our sould Is immortal for ever and never died. Just change bodies as per the Karma's (deeds) in present life. And the Human life is best ever in all the born. In it he can get the Moksha and Samadhi or Enlightening of Soul, it will be just possible in the life of Human Being only.
So do the best Karmas ever and get mukti from this life forever.
I died once due to an overdose. During the 45 min of my friends trying to revive me. I did not see these gates or bright lights or anything it was cold dark and not a place i ever want to be again. This scares the hell out of me. Thank science for narc-on or I am AFRAID I still might be there. IT gave me a mulligan a chance to change my ways and find my soul again.
Father God, I am longing to come Home to be with you… YOUR WILL, will be completed on my last breath.
Just amazing to know that! I'm catholic, but since my Mom passed, I'm having some doubts. Today I'll sleep a bit unfraid… Thanks for sharing Doctors!
Thank you Mr Lennon for sharing this with us. This is the best thing I have seen on facebook escpecially some of the comments from others who have crossed over and returned.
This sounds like quantum entanglement is at play here, from flesh to spirit the soul returns? Amen!
Yeah…..but don't you also have similar experiences like that through being very depressed…….I'm speaking from experience….happened a long time ago….I'm fine now…..but I'll never forget that experience…..and it lasted about 30 seconds….but I'll never forget looking down at myself….that freaked me out…..and no never took any drugs prescribed or otherwise….and still don't…..
It is a hard thing to prove, because you have to be able to prove it isn't just memories of the brain being flooded with endorphins before death. However, those people who try to disprove it by saying "There is nothing. You just stop existing and it can't even bother you." Well, in all honesty, if you truly stopped existing, then you wouldn't have any memory of the afterlife. Just by saying you did experience nothing means you had some sort of consciousness there.
Lmfao… They were on DMT… what the hell do you think would happen? This is a glorified trip report…. This proves nothing, they were on DMT! lmfao.
This doesn't prove life after death, it proves that in a clinical state of death patients experience euphoric like sensations.. perhaps this is our brains way releasing us from the pain of life so that we an find peace in death?? not enough evidence.. where are the brain scans, etc?
check out the scole experiment, if you're interested in the afterlife.. very interesting.
eu já tinha certeza da existência da reencarnação.Sabia que esta história de céu e inferno era lenda,e de que isso seria um dia provado.
Ibelive that there is only super power to whom we call god but i dont belive that we do take birth no our body is a engine fitted with brain which command our complete body but i belive the stars who gives us power energy prosperty and fame this all we get from the stars but recanation i do not belive and there is no life after death.
Yes I 've also experienced a near death when I see my body lying on my bed,wishing I could enter into it again, walking in the air, not stepping on the ground. I don't see jesus nor God but I pray to them to give me my life back which they do. The Bible says that when we dye we won't go straight to Heaven but to a resting place until Jesus comes to wake us up and get us to Heaven. So I am not disappointed by your experiment results. Heaven comes later after death. Thanks for the work.
Do you know the meaning of the phrase 'Leichtgläubiges Dorftrottel'?
I wish that i could be clinical dead for 20 minutes and experience it. is there any possibility for volontary clinically death.
Kudos for German scientists.They always are the avantgard of science.
this does not prove anything….
Punar Janam means Next life, not that which the hindus belive(next life in the world), that which muslims belive life after death.
what is sleep, only eyes and ears are taking rest and giving rest to body ,brain lungs heart work continuously. only doctor's know by their education how baby exist in mum's tummy. Every one can tell when it feel pains but no can describe its shape. Peoples who has the knowledge of holly books can describe life after death better then doctor.
One big thank you to these scientists for carrying out this research.
Bodisatva – where do you get the idea of reincarnation in Luke 9?
but that's insane, the answers of the volunteers were similar because we are programmed to think this way. it doesnt prove anything!
What a good information. The world was waiting it for a long time. Here in Brasil we have no doubt, except some people that do not know use its inteligence. Excuse my english.
Thank you for doing that. I have always thought there was more to our lives then nothingness after death. Thank you again.
Science is its own religion. It will still take time for them to catch up.
Clinic death means your heart has stopped, but your brain is still functioning!
That does not prove that there is life after death!
The people in this experiment weren't dead!
have had such feeling once, I just went up, following the light and reached a place like a on ground. I decided to go up again and did so, still followed the light. I reached yet another place and looked different. I continued my journey yet but reached a point and thought: maybe I am dying, I dont want to die now. so I started going back. the journey back was shorter and easy. I fell on my own body on the bed and it actually shook. I was astonished at that because it was not a dream at all! It also appeared to be as if I came from the inside of my body.
Dead is dead. These people were NOT dead. Death is the final sleep, and these guinea pigs were not dead, just in an artificial coma. All the medicines and drugs kept them alive although not breathing; .
Dead are the millions of Jews,gypsies, homosexuals et al. that the Germans murdered.
For me it is nor crazy neither amazing. Thit so called proof is not new. And it is no proof at all. It is known that live can, under strict conditions, a.u. temperature, be conserved for a pretty long time.
No amount of evidence,empirical or otherwise will change the heart or mind of the willfully ignorant man.
How does a person become satvic? Does a person become satvic by birth or are all vegetarians become satvic in nature? No not at all! You will noticed that a lot of brahmins or vegetarians are rajasic or tamasic! Therefore a person can train himself and become satvic by becoming a vegetarian first. One thing is sure that food plays an important part to determine whether one is satvic, rajasic or tamasic..
"The body of the subject was then put into a temporary comatic state"…death is brain death. These patients were not "dead". They were placed in a coma and in a coma the brain still has a very low level of activity, it receives nutrients, it is alive. These scientists have proved nothing other than experiences people have in comas are similar which would make sense since they received the same drugs.
yes .. I agree it..
Went to bed 11pm feeling very sore and unwell after gall bladder removal.
During the night I had this amazing DREAM Sequence.
2am 24/2 Woke again to remember and sort our son's health and travelling all over Aust. Seeking health solutions for him as well as my own heath deteriorating .
3am 24/2 Woke again this time sorting out my divorce getting together again and re-building our lives.
4 am 24/2 Woke again to sort the building of Renault 10 race sport sedan and then because of health not being able to drive it. But was reminded I achieved what I set out to do ie. Build the car.
5am 24/2 woke again to sort the feelings of joy and Love each time when son and daughter in-law presented us with our first Beautiful Grandchild and then later a very handsome grandson.
6am 24/2 Woke again after it was all presented again and was told I had achieved all I had chosen to experience in this life. And I now had the choice to stay or return home to (heaven) for want of another name I chose to stay as I promised my wife I would not go before her.
What a night I'm exhausted but feel lot's better than last night.
I to experience Death. ..and their is a heaven. ..
I saw the light and about the tunnel is black no light at all and your eyes do not get used to the Dark. ..at the very end of the tunnel ..I entered the light. ..but on my way I heard a woman crying out loud. .telling me to help her..she said you that are close to God help me talk to God for me pls help crying extremely loud. .I said I can't see you but I can hear you..what did you do that the Lord himself will not forgive her….Then I heard a man say she thought she was God trying to take blessing. .The Lord himself gave to his people. .and no one interfere with the Lord. ..
I don't know if they experience the same thing I did ….I saw the light I entered the light and I was not hungry anymore. ..I had an amazing peace tat I just can't explain. ..
Yea but scientists have also proved the brain stays active after death. How do we know its now ur brain just reacting. Now in this the brains HAVE to get air or will be permanently damaged in less then 5 mins. Maybe a lil more, def not 20 mins. So how do we just not no its a common hallucination in that state. Till some how we could sever the brain and some how bring him back u cant no for sure.
@ Ravi, Being vegetarian IS harming animals. Being vegetarian is less efficient, it takes up more room to grow food for every person, meaning that farms get bigger, and habitat for wild animals gets smaller. Its been proven many times. If you want to be kind to wild animals, then don't eat organic, and don't be vegetarian. As for what bnel;ones to whom…that is hard to say. The rich steal from the poor, the poor steal from the rich. Most commerce has some theft in it. Or at least exploitation. Do the best you can, and leave it at that.
That is what islam mentioned 1400 years ago but scientists are proving that now.
so why don't they put a fresh dead body in a MRI scanner and record such up 24 hours ?
This is amassing you do stay on earth as a ghost!!!
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Thuiswinkel.org is the inspiring digital commerce network that helps companies, entrepreneurs and their employees to become more successful. We offer relevant and practical solutions through lobbying, the "Thuiswinkel Waarborg Keurmerk" trustmark, knowledge, research and education.
More than just a trustmark for online shops
Consumers especially know us because of our Thuiswinkel Waarborg Keurmerk trustmark. This trustmark, which online shops can only receive after finishing our certification process, stands for safe and trustworthy online shopping. It is not without reason that 90% of Dutch consumers are familiar with our trustmark logo.
However, as a national e-commerce association, we do much more than just issuing a trustmark. We represent the interests of online shops on a national and international level. In addition, we support our members through free legal advice, research studies, our network, knowledge exchange, education and our review system. Finally, through our brand new Thuiswinkel e-Academy, we want to help our members' employees to become better professionals.
Thuiswinkel.org's members
Thuiswinkel.org has over 2,100 members that sell products and services online to consumers. They work in all kinds of branches, including home & garden, fashion, travel, IT, insurance, consumer electronics and sport/toys The combined turnover of our members represents 70% of Dutch online consumer spending. Because of this representativeness, Thuiswinkel.org is an important conversation partner for policymakers and stakeholders.
Website: www.thuiswinkel.org
Contact person: Menno Van der Put (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
STG Gilde Opleidingen
(Regional Education Centre for the North and Middle of the province of Limburg)
Gilde Opleidingen is the regional education centre for the region North and Central Limburg in the Netherlands and offers Vocational Education and Training for students and adults in five core municipalities.
The range of courses offered by Gilde Opleidingen is designed to meet the region's educational needs. The content of the courses is developed in close consultation with the regional business community and government, national sector organisations and employment agencies.
Gilde Opleidingen in the Dutch educational system
Qualification levels within upper secondary vocational education.
Upper secondary vocational education (VET) has a statutory qualification level. The qualification levels indicate at what level an individual may work after completing the course. In addition, each level requires an appropriate prior education.
Assistant education
At least 16 years old, and completed compulsory edu- cation
No qualifications required
Basic vocatio- nal education
No qualifications required/pre-vocational course
Theoretical, mixed and management vocational course of study
- vmbo diploma in related sector
- vmbo diploma in non-related sector with a single sector subject
Middle management education
- prevocational diploma
- transfer from 3rd year of general education
Each course can be followed along two different learning pathways:
1. Full-day education with practical experience/job placements (40% to 60% of the course time). This is known as the vocational training pathway .
2. Working and learning. The student is employed by a company/institution (at least 60% of the coursetime) and attends the theoretical courses at a regional education centre. This is known as the block or day release pathway.
Sector organisation
Gilde Opleidingen has clustered its vocational courses into four sectors of related courses:
• Business, Trade and Administration
• Hospitality & Wellness
• Engineering, Technology, Logistics
• Care & Welfare
Progression from Gilde Opleidingen to Higher Education
Full-time higher vocational education is open to students with a Level 4 VET diploma.
Catchment area: the region of North and Central Limburg
Number of students: 13,000
Number of staff: 1200
Number of courses: 182 licences (vocational training pathway and/or block or day release pathway
Gilde Opleidingen has a total of twelve campuses situated in five towns: Venray, Venlo, Weert, Roermond and Sittard.
Labour mobility in Europe is increasing and a special feature of Euregions in which partners and stakeholders from neighbouring countries cooperate in the domains of VET and working-life.
Close cross-border cooperation is effected with partners and stakeholders at euregional, national and European levels on e.g comparability and recognition of educational qualifications, implementation of tools (EQF, ECVET) and validation of Prior Learning.
Website: www.gildeopleidingen.nl
Contact person: Gerrit Janssen (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
KCH - KCH International
(KCH - KCH International)
KCH is an organisation that has expertise on vocational education, training and the labour market for the trade sector. Until august 2015, under mandate from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Kenniscentrum Handel performs a number of statutory tasks for the intermediate vocational education system in the Netherlands. KCH performs these tasks for the trade sector and for manufacturers, suppliers and traders in the Fashion, Interior, Carpets and Textile industry (known as the MITT sector). After august 2015, KCH will continue these tasks on a private base. The expertise remains the same.
Establishing qualifications for professions in Trade and MITT.
One of the legal functions that KCH undertakes is establishing qualifications (diploma requirements) for professions in the Trade and MITT industry.
The basis for a qualification file is an occupational profile. This is a description of the professional practice of a fully qualified professional. Social partners are responsible for compiling an occupational profile and ensuring that the profile is up-to-date. The Centre of Expertise develops a qualification file based on an occupational profile. This is done jointly with representatives of the education sector, the business community, employers and employees. The qualification files in which the requirements for a starting professional practitioner have been established are assessed by an independent body who is authorised by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The board of the Centre of Expertise - which has representatives from both education and business sectors - provides their advice about the qualification files. These files are officially approved by the Ministry once they have been published in the Dutch Government Gazette. For following publication, these files can be used by the schools.
Quality assurance of professional work placement in the intermediate vocational education system.
Professional work placement is one of the most essential elements in the Dutch intermediate vocational education system. During work placement students learn how to practice their chosen professions. For this purpose, KCH has recruited companies that can contribute to the practical education of these students. KCH assesses these | 1,683 |
Passive optical network (PON) is considered as an attractive fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) technology. Wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) PON improves the utilization of fiber bandwidth through the use of wavelength domain. A cost-effective solution in WDM PON would use the same components in each optical networking unit (ONU), which should thus be independent of the wavelength assigned by the network. Optical carriers are distributed from the head-end office to different ONUs to produce the upstream signals. Various solutions of colorless ONUs will be discussed. Although the carrier distributed WDM PONs have many attractive features, a key issue that needs to be addressed is how best to control the impairments that arise from optical beat noise induced by Rayleigh backscattering (RB). Different RB components will be analyzed and RB mitigation schemes will be presented. Finally, some novel PONs including signal remodulation PONs, long reach PONs and wireless/wired PONs will be highlighted.
It is now well known that there are various technologies for broadband access providing high-speed Internet access and triple-play services including data, voice, and video. Most well-established broadband access platforms now are digital subscriber line (DSL)-based and the Cable Modem-based. It is generally agreed that fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) provides the bandwidth and flexibility in upgrades when considering high-speed broadband access, especially with data rate of 1 Gbit/s or above. Passive optical network (PON) is considered as an attractive FTTH technology since it is highly cost-effective. A PON is a point-to-multipoint network architecture in which passive optical power splitters are used to enable a single optical fiber to serve multiple users. A PON consists of a service provider's central office or head-end office and a number of optical networking units (ONUs) near end users. A PON is cost-effective since generally, there is no active component between the head-end office and the ONUs. Its configuration also reduces the amount of fiber and head-end office equipment required compared with point-to-point architectures. In conventional PON, downstream signals are broadcast to each ONU<|fim_middle|> Rayleigh backscattering (RB) components generated in the carrier distributed PON will be analyzed. Then, in section IV, several RB mitigation schemes will be presented. Some novels PON architectures will be highlighted in section V. Finally, a conclusion will be presented in section VI. | sharing a fiber. Upstream signals are combined using a multiple access protocol, invariably time division multiple access (TDMA). The optical line terminal (OLT) in the head-end office will "range" the ONUs in order to provide time slot assignments for upstream communication.
WDM PON is a type of PON that uses multiple optical wavelengths to increase the bandwidth available to end users and to improve the utilization fiber bandwidth. WDM PON is capable to provide more bandwidth over longer distances by increasing the link loss budget of each wavelength, making it less sensitive to the optical losses incurred at each optical splitter when compared with conventional TDM-based PON. There is no standard for WDM PON now. By some definitions WDM PON uses a dedicated wavelength for each ONU. This means WDM PON can enable a number of ONUs located at customer premises, each working at different wavelengths, to share the same optical amplifiers and backhaul fiber in the network. However, one great challenge in this WDM PON is the transmitter (Tx) at the ONU, located at the customer premise, which must have a wavelength that is precisely aligned with a specifically allocated WDM grid wavelength. A cost-effective solution would employ the same components in each ONU, which should thus be independent of the wavelength (colorless) assigned by the network. Optical carriers are distributed from the head-end office to different ONUs to produce the upstream signals. The advantages of this scheme are that the cost of wavelength referencing and control is shared among many users rather than being borne by individual users and no multi-wavelength source inventory is required for the end users. Besides, only a single optical laser source is necessary for all the ONUs in a TDM PON if hybrid WDM-TDM PON architecture is used (Talli, G., et al., 2002).
The organization of the chapter is as follows: in section II, various colorless ONUs for the WDM PON will be discussed. In section III, the | 413 |
An Overview of Arizona's Diverse Regions
Arizona is big — 113,998 square miles. It is the nation's sixth largest state and the 15th most populous.
To help you get a general idea of the lay of the land, here's an overview of the state's five main regions.
Flagstaff and the North
Meteor Crater in Winslow, Arizona
North of Phoenix are a host of towns dotted around Arizona's high country.
Flagstaff, a college town of 70,000, about 140 miles up the I-17 from Phoenix, debunks the notion that Arizona is a vast desert. The unofficial gateway to Grand Canyon Country, Flagstaff rests at an elevation of about 7,000 feet, nestled among hills of lush trees and peaceful meadows. Its climate is noticeably cooler than many other regions of Arizona. At the crossroads of Interstates 17 and 40, and the nostalgic Route 66, Flagstaff is a popular destination for vacationers and desert dwellers looking to escape the heat. Home to Northern Arizona University and one of the<|fim_middle|> of "Flag" is Sedona, a town that draws visitors from around the world to hike among its red rock trails and seek spiritual healing.
In the eastern sections of Arizona's high country are the mountain towns of Payson, high atop the Mogollon Rim and Show Low, not far from the base of the state's largest ski resort.
Other charming towns that make up this region popular with tourists include Prescott, Cottonwood, Williams, and Winslow.
Tucson and the South
Sunset highlights Mission San Xavier near Tucson Arizona
Tucson is the largest city in the southern third of Arizona, with a population of around a million.
Year after year, people are lured to Tucson for its climate, culture, and lifestyle. Resting at an elevation of 2,389 feet (approximately 1,300 feet higher than and 120 miles south of Phoenix), year-round temperatures are noticeably cooler in Tucson, yet consistent with a desert climate. Mild temperatures, with the rare wintertime freeze, means outdoor activities such as hiking, bicycling, and golf are favorites for people who live here.
The University of Arizona, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base join with the businesses they rely on and tourism suppliers, to form a healthy and diverse economy. Popular nearby attractions include Mt. Lemmon Ski Area, Biosphere 2, Old Tucson Studios and Saguaro National Park. The cities of Oro Valley and Marana are generally considered part of the Tucson metro area.
Tucsonans also enjoy weekend or day trips to historic Tombstone, Patagonia, Sierra Vista and cities in Mexico.
Other towns within a couple hours' drive of Tucson include Casa Grande, Eloy, Oracle, Catalina, Green Valley, Nogales, Pearce, Bisbee, and Douglas.
Eastern Arizona
In the rugged terrain of Eastern Arizona lies a collection of small towns built on mining and tourism.
Homes in this region tend to be older and less expensive than in some of the faster-growing parts of Arizona.
With populations of 10,000 or fewer, Eastern Arizona towns are void of most big city hassles and exempt of HOA rules.
In exchange for the lack of modern conveniences found in more populated cities, folks in these parts enjoy a slower pace and tight community bonds.
Arizona's West Coast
The world famous London Bridge located in Lake Havasu City, AZ
Landlocked deep in the desert southwest, Arizona lays claim to zero oceanfront properties. However, the clean Colorado River and a series of manmade lakes have created what residents refer to as Arizona's west coast, which offers a plethora of water-based activities.
Stretching some 200+ miles from Lake Mead in northwestern Arizona to the border of Mexico in the south, the Colorado River winds through cities popular with retirees and action seekers alike.
Resort-style communities have sprung up in the past few decades in towns along Arizona's west border such as Kingman, Bullhead City, Lake Havasu City, and Parker.
Residents in these parts enjoy warm temperatures year round, beautiful scenery and ample recreation on the water, plus hiking, golf and off-road touring.
At the southern tip of the West Coast sits Yuma, a town made legendary by Hollywood Westerns and just as popular with migratory birds as it is with human snowbirds.
Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun
Full Moon Over Phoenix Arizona
Phoenix is Arizona's largest and most metropolitan city. Located slightly south of the center most point in the state, Phoenix is the capital city and home to approximately 1.5 million people, making it the sixth largest city in the United States.
Known for its warm temperatures year round, the occasional wintertime frost in Phoenix makes the headlines.
Having experienced most of its growth since 1960, Phoenix is a modern, urban metropolis with numerous corporate headquarters, major professional sports teams with world-class stadiums, as well as thriving cultural and recreational scenes.
Phoenix and the surrounding cities make up metro Phoenix.
As a whole, the metro is fondly called "the Valley," short for Valley of the Sun.
About 4.3 million people live in the Valley, which includes the cities of Tempe, Glendale, Scottsdale, Sun City, Chandler and dozens of others.
Although the metro area sprawls across roughly 16,000 square miles, getting around the Valley is easy thanks to two interstate highways and an elaborate system of freeways or "loops." | state's three ski areas, the town has earned a reputation for its laid-back vibe.
All the beauty and adventures of Grand Canyon National Park await about an hour and a half northwest of Flagstaff.
To the right of the canyon are the town of Page and the famed Lake Powell – known for calm, clear waters and towering canyon walls.
Less than an hour south | 73 |
Those wispy, iridescent, high-altitude clouds sometimes seen at dawn and dusk are becoming more visible due to climate change, according to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.<|fim_middle|> Scientists first began debating in the 1990s whether climate change was responsible for the increased visibility.
"We speculate that the clouds have always been there, but the chance to see one was very, very poor in historical times," said Franz-Josef Lübken, a scientist at the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Germany and lead author of the new study.
In the new study, Lübken and his colleagues at the Leibniz Institute used satellite observations and climate models to examine how greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels affected noctilucent cloud formation over the past 138 years, beginning with the start of industrialization. They found that carbon dioxide has actually had very little effect on the nighttime clouds. CO2 warms Earth's surface and lower atmosphere, but actually slightly cools the middle atmosphere, which causes the ice particles that form to be smaller and harder to see. | Rising methane emissions have increased the amount of water vapor in the middle atmosphere, the study found, which then freezes around specks of dust to form the clouds.
Humans first observed night-shining, or noctilucent, clouds in 1885, following the eruption of Indonesia's Krakatoa volcano, according to the American Geophysical Union. The clouds became an increasingly common sight during the 20th century, from being visible once every several decades to being observed several times each summer by people living in mid- to high-latitude regions. | 113 |
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| Passionately promoting excellence in the environments designed for early childhood.
It is AEC's belief that a child's early learning and growth is best achieved when the environmental conditions are right – which goes to say the architecture plays a pivotal role. We (as a society) need an architecture that says: 'We believe in these children!' as it is these very children who will one day be our future – so lets give them the very best start in life..
Kindergarten interiors - creative & imaginative spaces for play
So often the design of ECEC's schools and playgrounds have been dictated by durability, cost-savings and maximisation of space, whilst ...
CATEGORIES 03) FROEBEL - LEARNING THROUGH PLAY 04) DEWEY - LEARNING BY DOING 05) MONTESSORI - LEARNING THROUGH THE SENSES BY WORK NOT PLAY 06) MCMILLAN - HEALTHY BODIES HEALTHY MINDS 09) THE LATE-MODERN APPROACH 11) REGGIO - THE ENV. AS THIRD TEACHER 13) EMBRACING DIVERSITY - CULTURAL AND/OR CONTEXTUAL
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03) FROEBEL - LEARNING THROUGH PLAY
04) DEWEY - LEARNING BY DOING
05) MONTESSORI - LEARNING THROUGH THE SENSES BY WORK NOT PLAY
06) MCMILLAN - HEALTHY BODIES HEALTHY MINDS
09) THE LATE-MODERN APPROACH
11) REGGIO - THE ENV. AS THIRD TEACHER
13) EMBRACING DIVERSITY - CULTURAL AND/OR CONTEXTUAL
A surving relic of the 1900s progressives: Preshill School
Founded in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1930s, the privately run Preshill - The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School is a surviving experiment in progressive education.
The school started as a small cottage founded by a woman called Margaret Lyttle and moved to its current site in 1938. At the time the structure was a fairly typical upper middle class suburban house. However, many physical changes occurred over the next 44 years.
This extract from an article in the design observer by a long-time member of the school community sums up the school's somewhat contradictory formal and informal growth, resulting in a rich learning environment;
"It's the informality of it, coupled with complexity. Change in the school is almost always organic... There's a sense of evolution, of things being updated. If there's a tree, a building will twist itself around it...The school seems to have succeeded in allowing what was there 50 years ago to still be apparent".
Formal changes include the numerous classrooms, a hall, later retreat rooms and lastly - an upper floor library; each of which required conscious thought and planning. Yet additional to this have been the every-day informal (or even subconscious) changes: Plants, winding pathways, built huts, play equipment, animal pens, and even an underground air-raid shelter, which later became underground huts and mud pits. All a result of the ebb and flow of every-day school life.
The "progressive educational principles" of AS Neil, Montessori and Reggio Emilia that view the child as a competent and able decision maker inspired the young architect/parent Kevin Borland, who undertook the responsibility of designing the school hall.
Borland viewed the children as clients and active generators of the program and resulting form, and watched the children at play in the school to determine how the architecture might respond.
He also listened to the children's thoughts and ideas. For example where the adults wanted the new school hall to be at the front of the site (as they were concerned with the school's image), the children emotionally invested in the garden pleaded for the building to be located at the back. After much collaboration and negotiation, another design was born - a star-shaped hall in the rear corner of the site.
The children play an even more active role in constructing their school environment. Like the adventure schools in war-time Europe, they were allowed to test their creativity and capabilities - constructing huts and play structures. Branches, boards and sheets of ply are used in a continuous process of construction and then demolition.
Thus the children take an active role in their education, in turn developing a responsibility for their actions and ultimately their future.
Rather than being told what to think, they are taught how to think. Instead of conformity, the school celebrates the individuality of each child, allowing them to learn about themselves and uncover their own potential.
The building's of the school were perceived as offering extended opportunities for play and learning. Thus the external stairs becomes a ships prow, while a mezzanine accessible only by ladder and hardly big enough to stand up in makes a secret place connected to the classroom and yet apart from the general flow of activity.
Much learning takes place outside of the classroom - not just in the designated playground, but under buildings, in trees, among the gardens and the many nooks and crannies within the grounds. In contrast with the school's tradition of surveillance - where children are not permitted to go where they cannot be seen. Spaces, both inside and out are designed from a child's perspective - creating places to hide while collecting dust and dirt.
Today, many of the school's principles are again becoming celebrated - the school becoming a hallmark of brave innovative and progressive modernism. The school, like Italy's Reggio Emilia schools is perceived as a tool for learning, while landscaped gardens, natural materials and the promotion of active and explorative play are again popular themes in school design - with concerns on health, sustainability at the fore.
Via Design Observer, Australian Design Review, Which School? and Habitus Living. | with in professional or personal capacity, unless explicitly stated. All content provided on this blog is for informational purposes only. The owner of this blog makes no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information on this site or found by following any link on this site. The owner will not be liable for any errors or omissions in this information nor for the availability of | 73 |
How does effective social media marketing help small businesses?
Social Media Marketing plays a vital role to enhance small businesses as this kind of marketing is one of the important strategies to amplify visibility. It is the best online marketing platform where you can reach thousands of customers in a short time with fewer efforts.
So, how does effective social media marketing helps small businesses?
Yes, marketing on social media is a cost-effective marketing strategy for your small businesses. Because it is free to open the business account, but you need to spend a little money for its maintenance on content, graphic creation, and for further developments. It has the possibility to reach thousands or millions of targeted audience within a short time.
Social Media Marketing platform is an efficient tool in educating and empowering your online community. The thing you need to do is to share educational, informational posts as they help to enhance your brand identity among the community followers.
It is a two-way communication tool, by which, you can interact with your potential clients and engage customers by conducting polls or surveys or by responding to the queries. You can get an idea about the targeted audience through their likes about your products or services. Accordingly, you can make adjustments to provide quality customer service. Therefore, you can gain your customer's trust making them feel your business is credible.
This international marketing solution plays a vital role in generating sales or leads for your small businesses. By keeping consistent efforts in<|fim_middle|> content you will share.
They help to target specific content on your social media. This helps you to create a strong social media impact around these individuals and take a more targeted approach to the right people at the right time.
Social media is not about enhancing your company's productivity pitch on social, it is a two-way channel where you have the possibility to enrich relationships with your targeted customers.
Avoid rephrasing the same idea several times in the same paragraph. It does, indeed, add length, but lacks relevancy for readers.
Do not hesitate to gather up some paragraphs under one big category. This will help the reader get a better idea of the article's aim, and will help you, the writer, to develop more relevant points and remain more focused. | implementing and maintaining the marketing campaign, you can get best results.
Social Media is the best platform to build branding. It depends on you in deciding how to position your organization in the minds of your clients. Posting valuable content adds value to your business and helps to build the reputation for your brand.
Social Media Marketing is a boon to professional employers who are willing to connect with other professionals in the industry. It helps to build a comprehensive network as well as gain referrals.
Social Media is to stay and grow business larger every day. Accelerating your brand occurrence and quickly master the art of business is possible through social media marketing.
Genuine engagement with consumers can be gained through social media marketing and it helps to stay loyal. Evoke positive emotions your targeted audience and by doing frequent postings consumers will feel more connected to you and your brand and be more inspired to purchase from you.
Using social media channels, you can collect valuable information about your consumers such as where they are coming from and how they found you. This helps to learn about customer trends, and be capable determining the profiles of potential customers and then reach out to them directly.
Having social media channels not only enhances your ability to reach your audiences, but it also increases the chance for them to reach you back. Customers can leave a review right after they have interacted with your business. This feature helps your business gain insights and perspectives for areas that need enhancement, as well as areas that are already succeeding.
The greatest benefits of having a social media account are that it helps to support your company website and search ranking. Besides bringing new users to your website, social media shares your business and increases search engine ranking.
In the realm of the contemporary era, social media marketing is all about handling the leads. This would help you close business deals in style. Being authentic with the people when interacting helps you a lot. A genuine interaction always helps you to gain long-standing relationships.
Using social media, trust and loyalty can be established and creative content helps to achieve more than just bridging the gap between you and your targeted market. Using social media tools, you can be able to track, participate and broadcast within a certain targeted community.
As trust and loyalty are crucial for small businesses, maintaining them among your customers is necessary.
To gain name and fame of your business, it is very important to take the apt and recognizable social media marketing services. Streamlining the process successfully online is the best option to gain the business. Stay updated always with innovative content. This helps you to make business popular through latest technologies.
Talking about your product in detail helps to enhance visibility to your product. Answering your customers neatly increases their enthusiasm.
Social Media is one of the best ways to reach your target audience. You have to figure out your targeted audience details. Those details will help you figure out which social platforms are best for you and the type of | 575 |
Is anyone else keeping track of how<|fim_middle|> say? | often I screw up the date? 3. 3 times so far including January 1st.
Good news: Amanda's Birthday is this weekend!
If we don't see you today, may everyone have a safe and fun New Year's Eve. We look forward to what 2019 brings and are excited to share it with all of you!!!
Goal is to hit low double digit numbers for sets 1-2. Whatever happens, happens after that.
- We are still on a holiday schedule! Please refer to FrontDesk for updated class times.
goal is continuous movement and catching a pump. You should be sweaty and ready by the end of 15.
- Didn't get Time to sign up for class? Just show up anyway. It's Christmas and this workout will be fun.
- Merry Christmas to all! Make sure you are checking out the schedule for both Christmas Eve and New Year's eve.
- Getting into the gym around the holidays is tough. All the food and drinks paired with traveling all over the state(s) to see family, and just wanting to relax for a while. In that light, we will be departing from our regularly scheduled fitness program to just do some classic Crossfit through this week and the next.
Performed in the way the "12 days of Christmas" is sung.
It takes however long it takes. Probably a good 25-30 minutes. Who could | 288 |
Discover the Medici's story with a walk through the most important streets and palaces. From Giovanni de Medici to Lorenzo de Medici: watch, listen and understand the power of this incredible family connected to most other elite families of the time through marriages of convenience, partnerships, or employment, so the family had a central position in the social network.
The guide will start the tour from Palazzo Medici Riccardi, the main residence of the first branch of the Medici family and then go on to the square of San Lorenzo Church, Florence's cathedral until the 8th century. From the early 15th century, the Medici family had the church entirely rebuilt in the new Renaissance style.
On your way you will also discover the Medici Chapels, the private mausoleum of the Medici Grand Dukes, where you can admire Michelangelo's New Sacristy and his Medici Tombs and then continue our visit across the city center, we reach the Piazza Della Signoria, a monument of Cosimo I, commissioned to Giambologna by Ferdinando. The guide will talk you through Piazza Della Signoria, to U<|fim_middle|>izi Courtyard to river Arno and crossing the river on Ponte Vecchio, we will be in the Oltrarno district where we finally see the imposing Palazzo Pitti, last residence of the Medici family and one of the most important museums in Florence today.
The tours take around two hours, as the guide will unveil the history and activities of the Medici family and their influence in Florence. Finally, your guide will lead you to the last stop of the tour," La Strega Nocciola" to enjoy a delicious ice cream.
Free gelato (Italian ice cream) at "La Strega Nocciola" or non-alcoholic drink, like soda or coke, at "Hard Rock Cafè" | ffizi Courtyard designed by Vasari later became a world popular art gallery.
Tour continues along Uff | 21 |
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order has only perceived a reliable recover date. You'll be means to get your hands on it from 19th July.
The diversion was primarily suggested during The Game Awards behind in Dec and will have players convention their ultimate group of Marvel superheroes from a outrageous cast, including a Avengers, Guardians of a Galaxy and X-Men, among many others.
You'll be means to play with iconic characters like Iron Man, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Hulk and Captain America,<|fim_middle|> to find a Infinity Stones before Thanos and The Black Order use them to unleash vast chaos. Up to 4 people can play together in local* or online** co-op, with a ability to dump in and out during any time. | and heroes who have seen a boost in recognition in new years like Black Panther, Deadpool, Spider-Gwen and Doctor Strange will also join a action, any with particular abilities or special moves.
In this new story, Super Heroes combine in a competition opposite iconic locations in a Marvel Universe | 56 |
On July 14-15, I will be participating in The Prouty along with thousands of my fellow community members who will bike, walk<|fim_middle|>. | , row, golf and more to raise money for Dartmouth Cancer Center. Together, we will go all in to end cancer.
More than one third of all people will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lifetimes.* It's a universal problem that touches everyone, including the most important people in our lives. That's why I joined The Prouty. All of the funds I raise go toward cutting-edge cancer research and crucial patient support services at the Cancer Center.
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Here are two ways that you can help support patients, doctors and caregivers in the fight against cancer:
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Make a gift to my Prouty fundraiser and help me reach my goal. Click the 'donate' button to support my efforts in the 2023 Prouty.
All funds raised will help fund innovative researchers and clinicians who are dedicated to finding ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer. Prouty funds also provide meaningful patient and family support services that are otherwise unfunded—such as support groups, massage, art therapy programs, transportation and grocery assistance, and more.
Together, we are changing lives. Together, we will end cancer.
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Bob Chipman | 25 Jul 2014 16:34
Still dead. Still walking.
AMC has debuted a new extended trailer for the fifth season of The Walking Dead at SDCC, while also announcing a premiere date of Sunday October 12.
The new trailer offers plenty of big-scale zombie action, while also teasing new character turns for the main group of survivors as they come up against opposing human forces at Terminus. Actual plot details are kept to a seeming minimum, but dialogue indicates that a renewed push to reach Washington and potentially "cure" the zombie apocalypse will play a key role.
Producer Gale Anne-Hurd teased the possibility of "suburban" locations and bigger than previously-seen setpieces, while it was also confirmed that The Wire's Seth Gilliam will join the cast in the role of Father | 189 |
A Day of Horror (1964)
An amateur horror film made in Hays County in 1964 uses Austin residents as actors
A Place Under the Sun
Animated film about property rights and title insurance
Accidents Don't Just Happen PSAs (1995)
Safety PSAs featuring Texas musicians, coaches, and pro athletes
Continuing the Heritage (1991)
Promotional film highlighting the history, structure, and roles of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Courtesy Service Protection
Film demonstrating the ways in which the TX DPS strives to live up to its motto, "Courtesy Service Protec...
Danger in the Urban Wildland: Urban Interface (1996)
An educational film warning Texas residents of the dangers of wildfires and encouraging their ability to ...
FMC Commercial, no. 5
A peanut farmer shows off the magic of Furadan
Made in Texas/Texas Parks and Wildlife - For Our Children's Children: Lessons from the Chesapea...
An episode from the PBS series, Texas Parks and Wildlife, that takes a look at the pollution of bays and ...
Outtakes from Wolves Or Coyotes? Controversy in Shelby County (1976)
Unedited interview about trapping coyotes for a student film
Pageant of America - 1940 Sun Carnival
Promotional film highlighting the 1940 Sun Carnival in El Paso
Project Safeguard
This educational and training film dramatizes the challenges (and benefits) that the cancellation of DDT ...
Railroad Commission of Texas: 100 Years of Service to Texas (1992)
Short documentary chronicling the history of the state agency and its role within the oil and gas industry
Safe Handling of Metal Alkyls in the R+D Laboratory
Industrial film that follows a group of Texas Representatives through Texas Alkyls, Inc.'s plant as they ...
Terrible Tuesday (1979)
Documentary telling the story of the day a F4 tornado hit Wichita Falls, known as Terrible Tuesday
The Apollo Spacecraft: Status Report No. 2 (1966)
Very technical government film about the development of the Apollo spacecraft
The Congressman Charles Wilson Collection - Campaign Ad Reel (1976)
Five campaign ads in support of reelecting Congressman Charles Wilson
The Congressman Charles Wilson Collection - Campaign Ad Reel (1986-1990)
Four campaign ads for Charles Wilson
The Congressman Charles Wilson Collection - J. D. Dowdy Campaign Ad Reel (1972)
Six campaign ads from one of Congressman Charles Wilson's opponents, J. D. Dowdy
The KHOU-TV Collection - News Clips February 28 - March 3, 1966
KHOU news clips from February and March 19<|fim_middle|> Clark and Michael Williams (1999)
Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams discusses regulatory reform, technology modernization, and e...
The South's Third Forest (c. 1969)
An educational film describing the need for reforestation in the American South
The Tyrrell Historical Library Collection - Inventor Byron Donzis (1981)
PM Magazine segment for Beaumont's KFDM-TV about Byron Donzis, inventor of football protective padding su...
Will Wilson 'Family' Political Telecast (1961)
Promotional film for Texas Attorney General Will Wilson's unsuccessful 1961 United States Senate run | 66, including news segments about a police shooting protest and...
The KHOU-TV Collection - News Clips, April and May 1965
KHOU news clips from April and May 1965, including segments about a petting zoo and flooding along the Br...
The Porter Click Family, no. 1 - Battle of Flowers Parade (1941)
Home movie scenes of the Battle of Flowers Parade in downtown San Antonio in 1941
The President, August 1968
This film, produced by the White House Naval Photographic Unit, presents the activities of President John...
The Protected School (1965)
Government film profiling United High School in Laredo, TX that was built to double as a nuclear fallout ...
The Redd Collection, no. 19 - Zimmatic Industrial Film (c. 1975)
Lindsay's Zimmatic irrigation systems make it "rain when you want it"
The Ron and Joanna Clark Collection - Austin Update with Ron | 212 |
Dream of getting back to the land? Read these books
Novelist Susan Juby talks about three of her favourite books in the "back to the land" genre.
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Susan Juby thinks farming memoirs have gained popularity because there's an appeal to reinventing oneself and gaining survival skills. (Susan Juby: Delgado Photography)
The Next Chapter9:31Susan Juby on "back to the land" books
City farming is enjoying a renaissance in Canada these days. Vegetables are a common crop, but a growing number of urban farmers own livestock, with chickens being the most popular. And as we all know, where the trends go, the books follow! Susan Juby is the author of The Woefield Poultry Collective and Republic of Dirt, two novels that are set on a farm on Vancouver Island. She grew up on a small hobby farm, but says she "assiduously avoided" being roped into gardening.
Juby joined Shelagh Rogers from Victoria to talk about her favourite "back to the land" books.
THE BOOK THAT REBELS AGAINST FACTORY FARMING
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life made a huge splash when it came out. It won many awards, and with good reason. It's just a fascinating portrait of the author Brian Brett's farm on Salt Spring Island. It's an examination of rural life as it is today, and a celebration of mixed farming as opposed to monocultures. It's a critique of agribusiness and factory farming. It's a lament and a comedy and a history and a love poem to the land.
THE BOOK WITH PIGS LIVING IN THE BACKYARD
Farm City by Novella Carpenter is filled with absurdity and humour. If you ever find yourself irritated by some of the romantic notions people have developed around local food and small farms and backyard chickens, this book is a total breath of fresh air. Novella and her partner move from Seattle to a rough area in Oakland, and turn this abandoned lot behind their apartment into this incredibly messy and fascinating little farm. She starts with fruits and vegetables, and then she gets a few hens, and then she<|fim_middle|> is a memoir divided into the four seasons that a beekeeper has, and all the tasks for each particular season. And there's just something so gracious and humane about Sue Hubbell's writing. Her affection for the bees is profound. And it's a how-to book. Given the situation that bees are in right now, I wanted to learn more about bees, and she is the perfect place to get an education in beekeeping.
Susan Juby's comments have been edited and condensed.
Anne and Nicholas Giardini on being part of Carol Shields's family
Why Christy Ann Conlin loves ghost stories
Soraya Peerbaye on how poetry can help us witness what cannot be witnessed
Peter Behrens on his father's last-minute escape from pre-war Germany
Don Amero recommends The One, a biography of James Brown
FULL EPISODE: Christy Ann Conlin on ghost stories, Anne and Nicholas Giardini on Carol Shields
Winnipeg bees get boost with new rooftop hives at The Forks
Foraging and growing food doesn't need to be an adventure
Saskatoon urban farmers use loaned backyards to grow food | gets ambitions and gets bees, ducks, rabbits and eventually pigs.
THE BOOK WITH 25 MILLION BEES
One of my all-time favourite pieces of nature writing is A Book of Bees by Sue Hubbell. She's a former librarian at Brown University who moved to the Missouri Ozarks and kept bees. At the time the book came out in 1988, she had 300 hives and something like 25 million bees. The book | 97 |
Back in November last year, Holly Wong of Seeking Delicious and I celebrated our birthdays with 9 of our friends at The Bazaar by Jose Andres. One of my friends came as far as Toronto — Canada that is — and one from Thousand Oaks.I'll have to say my review of The Bazaar will come in Part I and Part II and you will understand why once you've read this review in its entirety.
For some reason, traffic was horrific that evening and it took us about 2 hours to get from OC to Beverly Hills so our guests arrived sporadically. While waiting, several of us ordered some drinks, including Passion Fruit Up! ($16) which comprised of orange rum, passion fruit and ginger-laurel syrup, topped with passion fruit foam. It was like drinking a dessert, aromatic with a perfect combination of sweet and tart flavors.
Holly and Mahesh decided to go all out and partake in the table side service drink Caipirinha ($20). A guy comes around with a cart and starts concocting this drink consisting of Brazilian cachaça, fresh lime and sugar and freezes it as you watch, using liquid nitrogen.The Caipirinha was good but was it really worth the $20 price tag? I'll let you be the judge of that.
We start with a yogurt tamarind star anise dip ($10) served with sweet potato chips in a paper bag. A few serves were placed on the table and everyone was to share. However, we quickly ran out of the sweet potato chips and I asked for more.
Our next course arrived in the form of American caviar cone ($9/per person) — we were each presented with a baby cone filled with caviar and a lovely foam.
This was one of our favorites of the evening. The crispy cone was a wonderful contrast to the gooey, salty, poppy texture of the caviar.
Jamón Ibérico Fermin (2 oz) $28 was definitely a hit with everyone. Perfectly salty dry cured, free-range Ibérico ham served with Catalan roasted bread and a tomato spread. This is very traditional and one of my favorite Spanish tapa. For the longest time, flesh of the black pig was not allowed to be imported into the USA and I knew people who would try to "smuggle" it in their luggage from Spain. Boy was I glad when they lifted that ban!
Our next item was mussels in vinegar, olive oil and pimenton ($8) served in a tin. I know this is traditional and served at tapas bars across Spain, but I didn't enjoy this at all. Neither did I like the King crab, raspberries in a raspberry vinegar ($18), also served<|fim_middle|>.
I'm glad they saved the best for last so to speak. "Philly cheesesteak" was definitely one of the top fives of the night. Thin bread with air pockets filled with melted cheddar was topped with slices of rare Wagyu beef ($8/per person) and was absolutely DELECTABLE!! I think we were all in agreement that we would've been happy eating five of these and calling it a night.
Last but not least, our second supplement item was Cotton candy foie gras ($5) — I'm glad they kept this as the last item. I'd been waiting to try this forever. A small piece of foie gras is placed on a stick with cotton candy spun around it. The sweetness of the cotton candy paired perfectly with the soft rich flavor of the foie gras.
We moved to the "dessert" room for our desserts — which I'm not going to go into. We had ordered some champagne which didn't arrive until towards the end of the meal. I think our server was perhaps not the most well-trained, nor was she knowledgeable about our questions. Each time we asked her something, she had to go "find out" the answer, sometimes, not returning with a reply.
Our evening was not what we had hoped for and I tweeted our experience the entire evening. Still, I was very shocked and humbled when Chef Jose Andres himself tweeted me back apologizing for our evening and personally inviting me back as their guest. Therefore, Holly and my second visit to The Bazaar will be featured in Part II of my Bazaar experience to be posted at a later date.
>wow…i can't believe you still remember all the dished we had that night!did you have a chance to go back? hope it was much better!
>Gil: thank you for that link. I will definitely go check it out if I'm ever in that area. Thanks for reading! | in a tin. The raspberries completely masked the sweetness of the crab which was a real shame!
We were all perplexed as to why we were eating tuna ceviche and tuna roll ($15) because it reminded us of something we'd eat in a Japanese restaurant.
Even so, this was very refreshing, tuna was very fresh, and the avocado made it very creamy, adding to the flavor.This dish was tasty so we were thinking things were looking up, but then an array of what were the worst items of the night followed.
We just couldn't understand Catalan spinach, apple, pine nuts, raisins ($8). It reminded us of frozen spinach — tasteless and bland. The apple, pine nuts and raisins just made a strange pairing for the vegetable. Nobody at the table liked this. But the worse was yet to come.
Boneless chicken wings with green olive purée ($9) was just mind-boggling. We couldn't even figure out what it was until one of my friends (who absolutely abhors chicken) proclaimed that it was chicken. We were thinking it was something a little more exotic, like pigeon perhaps, or even quail. But alas, the server informed us it was boneless chicken wings. There was laughter of disbelief from some of the people, but the consensus was mutual — everyone disliked this dish tremendously!
Next was the braised Wagyu beef cheeks with California Citrus ($18) but they sous vide the Wagyu a little too much. The meat was mushy and reminded me of meat from one of those vacuumed packets you'd find at the supermarket. We were all flabbergasted at this point, most of us shocked that a perfectly good Wagyu was treated in this manner. Two pieces were left and no one wanted it.
Ironically, we had chicken again and we were told that it was seared chicken sous vide with dates, mustard caviar and spicy mustard greens ($10). After the beef, I was very skeptical about another sous vide item. Although it was better than the Wagyu, the chicken was so-so despite the pleasant acroutrements.
After four disappointing dishes, we were not looking forward to a fifth, but luckily, Chipirones en su tinta ($10) arrived. Baby squid with own ink was nicely flavored, but Holly, who has lived in Spain for 6 months commented on how these were the biggest baby squid she'd ever seen. We laughed it off to how everything is bigger in America and let it go at that. I enjoyed them even though they weren't as delicate as they should've been.
Papas Canarias, salty wrinkled potatoes served with a mojo verdé ($8) was tasty but wasn't unique in any way.
Neither were the Buñuelos — codfish fritters — served with a honey aioli ($9). I love codfish and these looked good, but the exterior wasn't fried to perfection making them soft and texturally dismal. I was very sad.
By now we were all dying to finish up our meal and move on to dessert, but we had a few more courses yet to come.
Next on the list was the Tortilla de patatas "new way" * ($5/per person). This was one of the items we ordered in addition to the tasting menu. This is served similarly to the caviar egg at Melisse except it was potato foam, egg cooked to a perfect 63 degrees and caramelized onions.
Thank god this was pretty good. Those of us who ordered this supplement were pleased with the result. Not caviar egg, but still, decent enough after the string of shockingly disastrous courses we had to endure.
One of my favorites of the night was Not-your-everyday Caprese, cherry tomatoes, liquid mozarella ($12). Little balls of cherry tomatoes and mozarella were filled with an air pocket, if you will, which created a perfect sensation in your mouth when you bit into them. I loved it so much I took the one remaining portion left on the plate. This is one of my top 5 items of our 18 course meal.
Green asparagus tempura ($9) with a romesco dipping sauce was again very average, something any ordinary Japanese restaurant is able to create with no problem whatsoever. I guess the only thing which sets it apart from a Japanese dish is the ubiquitous Spanish dipping romesco sauce.
Sautéed wild mushrooms ($12) with hazelnut praline topped with micro chives was a strange dish. I'm not sure I liked the hazelnut praline although I liked the wild mushroom medley. However, again, someone pointed out that sauteed mushrooms was something all of us have had elsewhere, so it wasn't anything unique | 979 |
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Precision Neuromuscular Therapy is a soft-tissue treatment that treats pain and dysfunction caused by muscular imbalance(s) within the muscular-skeletal system. These muscle imbalances can be caused by poor posture, repetitive movements, trauma, and holding a muscle in the shortened position for a period of time.
PNMT restores weight bearing equality and symmetry, which is essential for good health. This is why it is so important to bring people into neutral balance alignment.
Structural: Any distortion from the optimal position of your frame. Said distortions will negatively impact your muscles, connective tissue, and joint function.
Functional: Includes muscular strength, length, ability to relax and release, and the ability to fire in the appropriate and optimally efficient order.
Trigger Point / Referred Pain: Includes the various kinds of trigger points that disturb muscle function, refer pain, and reduce muscle length.
Neural: Includes both the ability of nerves to influence muscular function, and the capability for muscles to compress and entrap nerves.
Referred pain is a phenomenon where pain is perceived at a site adjacent to, or at a distance from, the site of an injury's origin.
For example, carpal tunnel symptoms can be caused by problems in the neck, shoulder, and upper arm, which can throw off alignment of the muscles and tendons down the arm. The result is not necessarily pain in the shoulder, but instead pain that is similar to carpal tunnel; however, when the 'carpal tunnel syndrome' is treated directly, it never seems<|fim_middle|> try. It has helped hundreds of my clients… It could help you too! | to go away.
Taking all of this into account, why not give Precision Neuromuscular Therapy a | 21 |
Groupe Bull
BULL (S.A.) Informatique
Traded as
Euronext: BULL
Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France
Bull.com
Bull SAS (also known as Groupe Bull, Bull Information Systems, or simply Bull) is a French-owned computer company headquartered in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, in the western suburbs of Paris. The company has also been known at various times as Bull General Electric, Honeywell Bull, CII Honeywell Bull, and Bull HN. Bull was founded in 1931, as H.W. Egli - Bull, to capitalize on the punched card technology patents of Norwegian engineer Fredrik Rosing Bull (1882–1925).[1] After a reorganization in 1933, with new owners coming in, the name was changed to Compagnie des Machines Bull.
The company has undergone many takeovers and mergers since its formation. In particular, it has had various ownership relations with General Electric, Honeywell, and NEC from the 1960s to the 1980s; and with Motorola, Debeka, and France Télécom more recently. It acquired Honeywell Information Systems in the late 1980s, and later also had a share of Zenith Data Systems and Packard Bell. Bull was nationalised in 1982 and was merged with most of the rest of the French computer industry. In 1994, the company was re-privatised.
Bull has a worldwide presence in more than 100 countries, and is particularly active in the defense, finance, health care, manufacturing, public and telecommunication sectors.
In August, 2014 the French<|fim_middle|>, No. 74, July–August, 1990: The very international history of a French giant
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TF1 Group | IT company Atos announced that it had acquired a controlling stake in Bull SA through a tender offer launched in May.[2] Atos announced plans in October, 2014 to buy out or squeeze out the remaining share and bondholders.[3]
Bull launched the Hoox m2, the first integrally secured European smartphone, which in June 2014 was approved for use with data classified as 'Restricted Information' ('Diffusion Restreinte') by the Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information (ANSSI).[4] The Hoox range of secure mobiles and smartphones ensures confidentiality of voice, SMS, e-mail and data communication.
On 31 July 1919 a Norwegian engineer named Fredrik Rosing Bull filed a patent for a "combined sorter-recorder-tabulator of punch cards" machine that he had developed with financing from the Norwegian insurance company Storebrand.[5] Storebrand integrated his device into its operations in 1921. The following year Bull sold his second machine to the Danish insurer Hafnia who had learned of the technology through an article in an insurance trade magazine.[6] At the time of Bull's death of cancer in 1925 at the age of 43, a dozen of his machines had been sold to different companies throughout Europe.[6] The commercial and technical development of the machines continued under the direction of Bull's childhood friend and long-time collaborator Reidar Knutsen along with his brother Kurt Andréas Knutsen.
As the business grew several outside investors were brought in, leading to the incorporation of the company H.W. Egli Bull in 1931.[7] In 1933 more investors joined and the company changed its name to Compagnie des Machines Bull, a name it would keep until 1964.
Main article: List of Groupe Bull products
NovaScale servers (Linux and Windows), Escala servers (AIX) and mainframes GCOS (design, manufacturing, distribution)
Data storage and backup systems, cloud computing infrastructure
Mobile/smart phones (Hoox)
Software and services
Open source (Novaforge.org portal)
Information technology consulting and services, custom solutions development for clients
Human resource and social welfare management systems
Managed services and web hosting
Electronic signature solutions
Encryption solutions (hardware and software)
Digital payment security
Identity, authentication and access management
High availability and disaster recovery
Systems and network monitoring
Groupe Bull:
Bull SAS
Agarik (Managed services, web hosting)
HRBC (Human Resources systems)
Bull PI (Engineering, research)
Sirus (Social welfare management systems for the public sector)
Bull International SAS
Evidian (Security; identity and access management)
Serviware (high performance computing)
Amesys SAS :
Amesys Consulting (including Amesys International)
Amesys RSS (including TRCOM)
Elexo (networking and telecommunications equipment)
Amesys controversy
Amesys, a Groupe Bull subsidiary specializing in defense and aerospace-related systems and software, became embroiled in controversy in 2011 when it was revealed that it had sold an internet monitoring system to the Muammar Gaddafi regime of Libya in 2007. The Eagle System was used by the Gaddafi regime to spy on citizens and foreign journalists. On 12 March 2013 Reporters Without Borders named Amesys as one of five "Corporate Enemies of the Internet" and "digital era mercenaries" for selling products that have been or are being used by governments to violate human rights and freedom of information. A judicial inquiry was opened by the French government in May 2012 following allegations of complicity in torture by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).[8][9][10] In March 2012 Groupe Bull divested itself of the Eagle System, selling it for the sum of 4 million euros to Nexa Technologies, a company run by a former Amesys CEO.[11]
↑ "Heide, Lars (2002) ''National Capital in the Emergence of a Challenger to IBM in France''" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-08-25.
↑ "Atos succeeds in bid to buy Bull". Retrieved 2014-10-11.
↑ "Atos to launch buyout of last 5% of Bull shares, bonds". Retrieved 2014-10-11.
↑ http://www.bull.com/hoox-m2-secure-smart-phone-gets-anssi-approval
↑ "Histoire de Bull". Retrieved 2014-10-11.
1 2 "Bull et le 20ème arrondissement", sur le Site personnel de François Holvoet-Vermaut
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↑ "Corporate Enemies: Amesys", The Enemies of the Internet, Special Edition: Surveillance, Reporters Without Borders, 12 March 2013
↑ "Firms Aided Libyan Spies ", Paul Sonne and Margaret Coker, Wall Street Journal, 30 August 2011
↑ "Life Under the Gaze of Gadhafi's Spies ", Margaret Coker and Paul Sonne, Wall Street Journal, 14 December 2011
↑ "Advanced Middle East Systems et Nexa vont faire le voyage depuis Dubai Billancourt". Retrieved 2014-10-08.
Pierre E. Mounier-Kuhn (1998). "Bull: A World-Wide Company Born in Europe". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. pp. 279–297. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
History of Bull Extracted and translated from Science et Vie Micro magazine | 1,255 |
It was cold, colder than any December in my native Manila. Japan had started to lose its autumn leaves, and the wind began to bring the songs of winter. The green and orange dormitory buildings that partly make up iCLA continued to sleep at six in the morning, except for two souls making their way to the bus stop, ready for an adventure.
In less than two hours, iCLA Japan Studies professor William Reed and I found ourselves away from the grape farms and peach trees, and surrounded by the eerie forests close to Mount Fuji. We entered a cave. This wasn't any normal cave: it was an ice cave. They call it the Narusawa Ice Cave, and it is appropriately a national monument. Even colder than the snow-covered trees outside, the ice cave boasts of amazing ice formations. A geological wonder it was said to be, and<|fim_middle|>Much is seen of Japan in the documentary, and it was an altogether breathtaking experience. | it was. Entering it was like a dream, as if we were in a totally different, unearthly place.
The Narusawa Ice Cave is located in the famous Aokigahara Forest. At the base of Mount Fuji, this place has seen a lot of action in the past, including the eruption of Fujisan. A one-of-a-kind scenery grew out of the ashes of the eruption, producing such unique trees, rock formations, and aura. While walking about the forest, Reed-sensei and I could feel the calm and serene feeling emanating from all around.
Our experience was documented in an episode of the Travel Channel's Legendary Locations show. iCLA's Shugendo instructor, Hasegawa Satoshi, is also featured in this episode in the beautiful Kawaguchi-ko Asama Shrine.
Being on camera was expected, but Reed-sensei and I didn't realize the extent to which we would be filmed. As Reed-sensei is a veteran in the media industry and I a media student, the experience was one we understood, but of course every experience is different. Filming in the ice cave was a challenging one, as there wasn't much space, and of course business was booming, as usual. This made for an even more fun experience because we got to see travellers visiting and admiring the geological gems of Japan.
What I found very cool was the use of a drone camera. I have seen it in action before, but never this up close and personal, plus directed at us! By using the drone in the forest, it made it much easier for the camera people to shoot us dodging branches and tree roots. It was incredibly fun and the drone made it much easier for everyone!
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The Rest Camp is<|fim_middle|> well stocked gift shop offers Victoria Falls tourists an opportunity to pick up last minute souvenirs and memorabilia of the rest camp and falls. | situated right in the middle of Victoria Falls town in Zimbabwe making it a perfect place to be based with all amenities within walking distance, it is a mere 2kms to the Falls themselves.
The Victoria Falls Rest Camp has got several accommodation options to choose from, including camping sites, dormitories, self catering accommodation in chalets to a few luxury tented options. Each of these self catering accommodation options is suited to different traveller's needs but the high standard of service is maintained throughout the camp no matter what option you choose.
Accommodation facilities at the Vic Falls Rest Camp include a big swimming pool that is a huge attraction for the guests. Families can be found there most of the days cooling off from the heat and relaxing while the children have fun in the pool. In Da Belly restaurant is situated in the rest camp and provides a delicious affordable menu catering for breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as snacks during the day.
Our Reception area is open and friendly with an information deck that can deal with any of your enquiries, questions and also offers clients a safe keeping facility at reception for all your valuables, ensuring a peace of mind on your trip. There is a daily laundry facility at the rest camp to ease to worry of having to try and do laundry when on holiday. The | 258 |
Holy crap, Oskar looks old. Leo looks so young by comparison!
SMELL: I have a bunch of oils but mostly only use them to make gifts–like body scrubs and little massage oil gifts. It's fun. I don't have a legit diffuser but have thought about getting one. I have a little plug-in thing that works like a Glade air freshener. It works well in just one room (like the bathroom) but doesn't have much reach. I also put a little eucalyptus in<|fim_middle|>.com/). His favorites are Friends (free), Monsters (free), Fairy Tales, and Space Explorer (the latter two are sort of find-your-own-adventure style–you fly the character through an environment and interact with different characters and scenarios–there are others like this but these are his favorites). There's one called Sound Box that I think is cool but he doesn't care about. Anyway, those are his main favorites. He also likes the Peek-a-boo barn/zoo ones but not as much.
BTW: I didn't comment on your last post but I'm still here! I still read your posts!
Thanks for the apps, Hillary! Oskar does look old! I kept thinking other people's kids just had baby faces, then I realized its ALL people's kids, so mine is the odd one. Granted he looked like a toddler as an infant. | Leo's humidifier.
SOUND: Leo loves apps by Sago Mini (http://www.sagosago | 22 |
The rise of energy humanities
Breaking the impasse.
BY DOMINIC BOYER + IMRE SZEMAN | FEB 12 2014
We've become all too familiar with bad news stories about the fate of the humanities. Whether as a result of student desires for an education that translates directly into a career or aggressive actions by governments that look only to the bottom line, many have begun to imagine that the 21st century might be the time when the humanities wither and disappear.
We'd like to offer an alternative perspective to all this bad news about the humanities. Our story is about an area of humanities research that is being recognized by the sciences, by government, indeed by industry. And not only that, this research field shows that the humanities are contributing directly to the solution of an immense "real world" social problem: how to find our way toward a sustainable energy future.
"Energy humanities" is a rapidly emerging field of scholarship that overcomes traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied research. Like its predecessors, energy humanities highlights the essential contribution that the insights and methods of the human sciences can make to areas of study and analysis that were once thought best left to the natural sciences.
Energy is a perfect example of an issue that exceeds the<|fim_middle|> just a new kind of applied research or humanistic consulting work, energy humanities is already producing theories that any hardcore scholar would love. Timothy Mitchell's Carbon Democracy, for example, on how the Keynesian model of growth depended fundamentally on a cultural understanding of oil as an inexhaustible, inexpensive resource, has had an immediate impact on research across the disciplines. Stephanie LeManager's book, Living Oil: Petroleum and Culture in the American Century, constitutes a rich archive of the omnipresence of petroleum in daily life and the way in which energy shapes affect, belief and belonging. Geographer Matthew Huber's Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital, traces in detail the ways that an existence organized around property, mobility and entrepreneurship is linked directly to the presence of cheap and seemingly inexhaustible forms of energy. We can no longer fully understand developments in culture, society, politics and economics without paying attention to the role played by energy in each domain.
In "Meet the Humanities," Mike Hulme, a professor of climate change, notes that the research cited for the third Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was dominated by the natural sciences. Dr. Hulme thinks this is a big mistake, and we do too. We can only solve our current energy and environmental dilemmas by making humanistic research part of the conversation – and a big part. Once its contributions to the fight against climate change are given the credit they are due, it may be much easier to persuade anxious students and skeptical politicians that the humanities are absolutely strategic and vital to the future of the planet.
Dominic Boyer is director of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Imre Szeman is a professor of English, film studies and sociology and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. | traditional division of labour within the university. As the fact that humanity has entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene sinks in, experts and publics across the world are wondering: how can we cope with a rising demand for energy when our current portfolio of energy sources is already inducing global warming, ocean acidification and climate change?
An October 2013 report by the World Energy Council (WEC) offered two possible scenarios for the energy supply mix that would develop by the mid-21st century: an "affordable and accessible" one and a "sustainable" one. In the WEC projections, by 2050 we are likely to be using 60 percent more total energy than we are using today, with the bulk of that increase to come from coal, oil and gas. Even in the "sustainable" scenario, we would be using 27 percent more energy, though nuclear, biomass and renewables would make up more of the total than they do now.
Given these numbers, it is not an exaggeration to ask whether human civilization has a future. Neither technology nor policy can offer a silver-bullet solution to the environmental effects created by an energy-hungry, rapidly modernizing and expanding global population. What we energy humanists contend is that today's energy and environmental dilemmas are fundamentally problems of ethics, habits, values, institutions, belief, and power – all traditional areas of expertise of the humanities and humanistic social sciences.
The impasse afflicting humanity – the gap between knowledge and action, insight and involvement – is an impasse that has repeatedly been addressed in post-Enlightenment humanist thinking. And thus, it follows logically, solving our dilemma requires the humanities' involvement – not as an afterthought to technology and policy, but as a forerunner researching the cultural landscape around us and imagining the future relationship between energy and society that we need to strive toward.
We'll make a bold, upright claim: The humanities are key to moving this civilization forward. Without greater insight into these areas of impasse that research in humanities can provide us, it is all too likely that we'll lazily opt for "affordable and accessible" instead of "sustainable," and never get to where we need to be in the constitution of our future social lives.
The good news is that this is not just a story we humanists are telling ourselves about why we are so important. When energy humanists start talking with scientists, engineers, government officials, and even the energy industry, we often discover that they have been waiting for us to arrive. Those who are closest to the blunt necessity of energy for our complex, modern societies are aware of the enormous challenges of mitigating the environmental effects of energy use. They are looking for change. But when it comes to how they might participate in change, or how the public would react to policies that might necessitate significant transformations in their daily lives, they realize they need insight and guidance from humanists and social scientists.
To quiet the concern from our scholarly colleagues that this is | 620 |
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Crime by the Numbers<|fim_middle|> Yes We Can bleed the working poor dry. Yes We Can conduct illegal wars while retaining our status as the moral beacon of the universe. We can have it all! "Yes We Can" was the cry in the night of a people whom, frightened to face a dire reality, chose to bludgeon it with their weighty illusion. So who could have been surprised that these revelers topped up as the finish line rapidly approached? Many had come to assume that although we hadn't figured it out yet, we'd be able to fly by the time we came face to face with gravity. The real economy, the illusory economy, the commodities market, the housing market, the balance of power, global diplomacy, everything we could get our hands on, was in disrepair. We were experiencing a loss of inhibitions, dammit! But, mercifully, the blackout was coming.
All of this led to the almost fantastical night of November 4, 2008. In Chicago's Grant Park, everything somehow still seemed possible. But once again, this permutation of the American Dream had nothing to do with the American Reality. But believe it millions did, change, hope, all that. These were the Happy Times! But they could not hold, for they held no actual weight. They were a mirage of wishes and delusions from all sides, all projected onto a candidate all too ready to enjoy the moment. And who could blame him? That moment might be all he gets. President Obama looked far too real for a nation battling uneasiness after debauchery, pain, grief—veisalgia. But soon enough, bubbles of all sorts burst with astonishing speed and force, and we were left with no choice but to nurse the Great American Hangover.
In many ways, what was dreamed to be a progressive, healing presidency has been one primarily of damage control. While Bush repulsed many Americans by reveling in the excesses of presidential power, for most of his term Mr. Obama confounded many of his fans by illustrating the limits of it. With overlapping economic, political, social, and military crises coming home to roost, Mr. Obama seemed to sacrifice much of the liberal idealism upon which he gained support and adoration. There is little sexy about the man's first go round, and often he has been reduced into praising himself by hypothesizing just how bad things would have been if the steps he took weren't taken. Unemployment would have been that much higher, this many millions of people would still have no path to health insurance, the banking system would have been even more corrupted, the auto industry would have been irreparably destroyed, Osama Bin Laden would still be alive. Running on this series of unknowable potentialities is hardly a way to inspire the masses. And so, tasked with getting re-elected, Mr. Obama has chosen to articulate the problems of the Republican Party more so than the solutions presented by the Democrats. The strategy is to remind his base what is at stake if he loses, rather than what is possible if he wins. Not "Change We Can Believe In," but "Change We Don't Believe In." There is nothing original about this plan, and it's one that has been used by many incumbents before him. But for some, it seems beneath him, and an articulation of how he has failed to deliver whatever it was that his base thought he had promised.
Much has been said and written about whether people will rally behind Obama, whether he'll find the same enthusiasm from his volunteers, the same drive to make sure he gets a second term. For many, the disappointment centers around what they view as a watered-down healthcare reform, an inability to eliminate the Bush tax cuts for the rich, a foreign policy that has for them not changed enough, and a desperate desire to negotiate with opponents who seem more interested in grinding the levers of power to a halt than creating anything approaching workable legislation. While feeling somewhat let down by President Obama is not entirely unreasonable for those of a certain political persuasion, the real question is: What should they do now? If a system is so broken that Mr. Obama's election was less the beginning of a movement and more a feeting endorphin-releasing moment, does it make sense to bail out, to refuse to lend legitimacy to a process that many on the left feel excluded from?
The answer, for them, is a frustrating, maybe even begrudging, no. It may be depressing to realize, but the truth is that this mangled framework is still the one that creates the power and the policy. Conflating the two parties may not be altogether unfair from some macro perspectives, but it is still dangerous and false at an important micro level. The Republican primary season has done enough to reveal that there still are things at stake, even if they are things to protect rather than ways to evolve. The danger to women's health will increase with more Republican power. A draconian and narrow-minded foreign policy will only get worse with Romney in the Oval Office. An unfair system of taxation will be exacerbated. The attacks on government programs will move beyond rhetoric and into reality. With Obama, even if the results of his first term are not what some wished for, these and other regressions are avoidable. This is an unfortunate, defeatist brand of politics, but it may just be the only viable option. Beyond that, much is of course unknown. What does a second-term Barack Obama look like? What can he do? What does he want to do? For those who wanted more from him, there is no reason to leave him now. The best option is to, even if somewhat ironically, hope. If that fails, reach for the bottle.
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In 2000, a clinical designation for a hangover was coined: veisalgia. Derived from the Norwegian word kveis (uneasiness after debuachery) and the Greek root -algia (pain, grief), the word came just in time for the Bush presidency and, two terms later, it was nice to be able to diagnose the sickness of a nation whose moral authority, global standing, and economic health had come off the rails. America was suffering from a chronic bout of veisalgia.
For centuries man has searched for the cure to this ugly, self-induced trauma. Water, sports drinks, greasy breakfasts, prickly pears found beside cactii in the desert, tripe soup—anything that could make it go away. But what we've realized after centuries of trial and error is that while some things can help a hangover pass, there is no real solution. All one can do is wait.
But time waits for no American. This is a society of now, no really, right now. Not surprisingly, by 2008, America seemingly could take no more of its debauched political and economic environments. And, for millions of its citizens, filled with shame and nausea from a party that had gotten wildly out of hand, the only choice was to deal with it by the hair of the dog. As a stumbling linguist who claimed to be a recovering alcoholic was staggering out of the Oval Office, many were enthralled by a magical last call, the spectacular and historic election of the nation's first black president, one where you'd have to have been blind drunk to believe the rhetoric that was hurled your way for months and months.
America had been on a Hall of Fame worthy bender, a debauched and depraved rape and pillage of itself, its friends, and its enemies. The party lasted years, and affirmation was its cocaine. "Yes We Can" was not just an effective slogan, it had been the mentality of the scum that drank this country into a complete stupor. Credit America for going full bore. Half-assed is about as un-American as you can get. "Yes We Can" is not a liberal creed, it is the motto of a deluded populace. Yes We Can increase spending while cutting taxes. | 1,175 |
Duterte's Popularity a Boon to Economy 2
President Rodrigo R. Duterte's higher approval rating in December 2018 is a clear affirmation of his mandate to govern the country and implement policies to improve a lot of the Filipinos and the overall economy.
And There They Go!
Last February 12, candidates running for the 2019<|fim_middle|> they could ever have.
Manny Villar: At Home in His Empire
Tycoon Manuel B. Villar, Jr. is undoubtedly one of the fathers of the Philippine property industry.
But he stands out because his is an empire he himself built from scratch or to put in more specifically, out of a single red truck for gravel and sand. Indeed, he didn't have a head start because he was not a second generation builder. | senatorial elections began their 90-day campaign to convince the electorate that they are the right persons for the job. For the voters, it is the beginning of three months bombardment of information about candidates — some useful, others not so useful.
Initial Economic Data Encouraging
As we predicted last year, consumer prices became tamer at the start of 2019, as the Duterte administration showed its resolve to manage the price situation.
Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority show that inflation rate, which gauges the movement in prices, eased to 4.4 percent in January 2019, the slowest in 10 months. It gradually declined from a nine-year peak of 6.7 percent in October 2018, 6.0 percent in November and 5.1 percent in December.
Manny Villar is On His Way to Building a Million Filipino Homes
I have always said I would like to be the man who has built the biggest number of houses for our people. I want to build a million homes. I'm already close to it. I've always believed in housing, shelter is very important.
The King of Our Home
Manuel B. Villar, Jr., the rags-to-riches billionaire, is many things to many people—a politician, one-time presidential aspirant, real estate and retail tycoon, kingmaker and so much more but to his three children—Vista Land president Manuel Paolo Villar, Public Works Secretary Mark Villar and Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar, he is, more than anything else, the king of their home, the best father | 337 |
You can reach Port Roscoff by calling VHF9.
Port Roscoff is also known as Port de Plaisance Roscoff and it specializes in recreational and nautical activities, offering its guests a wide variety of options when it comes to entertainment and relaxation. It is hosted by the commune that wears the same name which is located on the French coast of the English Channel, where waters are blue and emerald green and historical buildings can be seen from off shore. The beauty of this destination was given centuries before our times and it is still being admired by a great number of tourists every year. Many beaches like Beeach Saint-Luc, marinas and nautical sports are popular among tourists in this area and travellers will be enchanted to spend a few days here, while admiring the small town or enjoying the high quality services offered here. Those who want to spend some time here can accommodate at hotels such as the Best Western Roscoff, Hotel La Residence des Artistes, Hotel aux Tamaris, Hotel du Centre and many more.
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Developers are introverts. It's just part of the gig.
Developers are introverts. It's just part of the gig. The iconic image of a developer is clamped with headphones, gazing down at a tottering laptop screen, drenched by its blue light in an otherwise dark room. Face it, we thrive in isolation. We're fuelled by music and stymied by meetings. We build things the way we want them to be, and we're our own harshest critics. Code is art. We're artists. Like all artists, we thrive on a steady diet of the liberty to create beautiful things. Alone.
So wouldn't it be great if life really afforded for us to act like that? We all know the sad realities of billable time, sprint goals, planning sessions, client needs, and that pesky bug in the universe that won't let a<|fim_middle|> far, it's working very well.
It's important to remember what a peer review is not a failsafe. When things go catastrophically wrong, you may be tempted to blame the peer reviewer for failing to surface the critical bug. The logic is that the peer reviewer is the last link in the chain, and ultimately the decision to merge the bad code is what brought the site down. Stop thinking that way. That's not what peer reviewing is about. Peer reviewing is just a safety net. Ideally, it should catch everything, but sometimes it won't. If you're constantly relying on the peer review to surface critical bugs, you should take that as a queue to look further down the food chain for problems.
Instead, think of peer reviewing as a security system on your house. In most cases, just having it in place is enough to improve outcomes. Sometimes, it will be defeated, and bad things will happen, but that is not a reason to remove it all together.
So take off those headphones every now and then. Turn on the lights. Look around. Learn your co-workers' names. You might learn something.
But once you do, don't forget to jump back into that dark coding abyss. It's nice in there.
Whether you already have a peer review process established, or are new to the idea, these ten tips, for both reviewers and reviewees, can help you become a more aware developer and position you for growth. | day exceed 24 hours. All of that amounts to a huge infringement on our desire to work in a vacuum. It's maddening.
It shouldn't be, though. It's not such a bad thing that we're forced to come up for air once in a while and join the rest of the functioning world. Getting other people involved in what you do may feel intrusive, and it may disrupt the delicate ebb and flow in that code laboratory between your ears, but I can promise you -- it will make you a better developer.
Having your code peer reviewed, and becoming a peer reviewer yourself is a great way to get out of your head a bit and remind yourself that what you're creating is about much more than you. The people who surround you aren't just fixtures on rotating chairs. They can help you, and, in turn, you can help them.
Your job as a developer is not just to write code. The end game is to produce a great product, and helping out your team members is one way to increase your chances of getting there.
At SilverStripe, we have a team who wanted to encourage this type of proactive peer reviewing, and decided to gameify it. Team members earn points every time they voluntarily walk over to another team member's workstation and offer their help. At the end of the sprint, the team member with the most points wins a small prize. So | 283 |
Fox sports news info
The Fox News channel is one of America's leading cable news and satellite channels. Owned by the Fox Entertainment Group it has a viewership of approximately 102 million people throughout the United States. It also broadcasts for an international audience airing programs mainly out of its New York City studios<|fim_middle|> Fox College Sports Pacific and Fox College Sports Central. These channels cover all of the action and news from college sports which are licensed from the NCAA such as baseball, football, soccer, wrestling, swimming, tennis etc.
The Fox Sports website bring across all the updates as well as the latest in sports news. They provide comprehensive coverage of all sports activities giving in depth sports information in addition to the stories surrounding players and teams. | .
Fox news was created by the media mogul Rupert Murdoch and was launched in 1996 and rose to prominence steadily gaining the location of United States number 1 news network. Fox sports, however, has been in existence since 1994 and functions as a division with the Fox Broadcasting Company. They began with broadcasting the National Football League games and moved on to receiving the rights of broadcasting the National Hockey League, NASCAR, Major League Baseball and also the Bowl Championship Series.
FOX Sports offers the exclusive coverage on the Daytona 500. Other than this they also exclusive cover other NASCAR events such as Canadian Grand Prix, the US Grand Prix as well as the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Auto racing is one of the most watched professional sports activities in the US coming second only to professional football. Fox Sports brings these sporting events live from the race track to its viewers. Aside from these Fox Sports as well as its sister concern, known as the Speed channels also covers the F1 and Rolex 24 racing events.
Other than auto racing the Fox Sports network also provides the exclusive coverage of the World Series and has been airing this Major League Baseball Championship since 2000 and also as per the new contract shall be the exclusive broadcaster till 2013.
Fox Sports also operates with a network of regional broadcasters that help to cover regional games. However, this operation is conducted in accordance with the broadcasting agreements following league market distribution terms and conditions. Since they make use of the Speed Channel to cover the NASCAR and F1 events, the FOX Soccer channel broadcasts all major League and Premier League games. This channel is likewise owned by the News Corporation and concentrate on bringing soccer events news and stories from around the globe. They air live and taped matches from countries including Argentina, England, Brazil, Japan, Italy Australia as well as the US. One of the other championships this network covers is UEFA Super Cup and the UEFA Champions League.
FOX Sports also bring news and sporting events from the world of extreme sports. They've partnered with Fuel TV to get across action sports including snowboarding, surfing, skateboarding, FMX and BMX events. Additionally, Fox Sports identified the magnitude of college sports in the country and has 3 separate cable channels that cover college sports from throughout the country. They are called the Fox College Sports Atlantic, | 472 |
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2010: Mélodies, Duparc, accompanied by Alain Altinoglu on piano (Cascavelle)
2012: Mélodies, Ravel, accompanied by Alain Altinoglu on piano (Naive Classique)
2013: Thérèse, Massenet, with The Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Montpellier conducted by Alain Altinoglu (Ediciones Singulares) | Gubisch
French Mezzo-Soprano (b. 1971, Paris)
Nora Gubisch first studied piano with Catherine Collard, before deciding on singing at the Radio France master. She took lessons from Christiane Eda-Pierre and Vera Rozsa at the Conservatoire de Paris, where she won the Orphée d'Or for Best Performer in 2011.
She is both a recitalist and an opera singer, regularly performing on-stage. She has also recorded two albums of French songs, including the complete works of Duparc, which have been highly praised. Since the 1990s, Alain Altinoglu has accompanied her on the piano; Nora Gubisch has worked with him to build up a large repertoire, which has allowed them to tour internationally. She has also been invited to perform with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the Orchestre National de France, sometimes conducted by Alain Altinoglu himself or under the direction of Sir Colin Davis, Georges Prêtre, Lorin Maazel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, James Conlon, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Christoph Eschenbach or Armin Jordan.
She made her opera début as Carmen in Berlin, a role she reprised in Paris, Zurich and in many productions around the world. Her repertoire draws on some of the great lyrical composers as well as more baroque or contemporary ones - Vivaldi, Offenbach, Britten, Rossini, Massenet, Mozart, Monteverdi, Berlioz, Bartók, Verdi, Wagner or Bizet, Dusapin, Lancino, Eschaich, to name a few.
Six landmark dates in the life of Nora Gubisch
1988: She meets Alain Altinoglu at the Conservatoire National in Saint-Maur where they are both studying piano.
1991: She joins the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSM), in Christiane Eda-Pierre's singing class.
1995: First prize for singing at CNSM
1995: Opera debut in Bizet's Carmen, in Paris, Berlin and Zurich.
2000: Her international career takes flight
2011: She wins the 'Orphée d'or' Award for Best Singer.
Six key recordings by Nora Gubisch
2003: Les Fées du Rhin, Offenbach, with the Orchestre National de Montpellier conducted by Friedemann Layer (Musidisc)
2005: Perela, uomo di fumo, Dusapin, with the Orchestre National de Montpellier conducted by Alain Altinoglu (Naive)
2005: Hary Janos, Kodaly, with the Orchestre National de Montpellier conducted by Friedemann Layer (Accord | 643 |
Farmstrong a hit at Fieldays
Written by Rural News Group
Crowds at Fieldays 2015.
Farmstrong say they are pleased with level of interest they received at this year's Fieldays, with 70 farmers getting a free health check and 376 testing their physical health.
Farmstrong, the country's newest rural wellbeing programme, takes a positive and<|fim_middle|> risk and we want action," says Penny Mudford, Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) national chair.
Bridging the gap in rural health care
Professor Jane Mills, pro vice-chancellor of Massey University's College of Health, explains how the future for rural health in NZ is positive.
Resilient farmer moves on to new fields
Doug Avery, author of The Resilient Farmer, has launched a new workshop to help farmers improve their mental health and their businesses.
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Initially established as an inhouse programme by Lion New Zealand, Alcohol&Me is now reaching nearly 30,000 New Zealanders. | preventative approach to wellbeing and has been built on research as well as on farmers' personal advice and experiences.
Fieldays was an opportunity for farmers to learn more about Farmstrong, get a free heath check with medical doctor Tom Mulholland and take on a cycle challenge where farmers had to see how far they could cycle in two minutes.
A total of 376 people took up the cycle challenge at Fieldays, with 540 kilometres cycled over the four days. Challengers included: All Black Sam Cane, Olympic silver medallist Sarah Walker and Minister of Primary Industries Nathan Guy.
"We found farmers were competitive and enjoyed the challenge and were quite shocked at how tough cycling for two minutes was," says Farmstrong's Fit4Farming project lead Ian Handcock.
"Most acknowledged that they could be fitter and thought the challenge was a great idea - an eye-opener around their own physical wellbeing.
"Many commented that they used to get more exercise before family and work commitments increased, and said that exercise was a good time to clear the head and manage stress. The challenge certainly got people thinking about how fit they are and what they may need to do to improve their personal wellbeing," says Handcock.
Farmstrong also provided free health checks for farmers with medical doctor Tom Mulholland. Seventy people took up the opportunity to be tested with 48 men and 22 women heading through the pop-up clinic.
Among the findings,
• Two people were diagnosed with diabetes
• 14 people were at high risk of developing diabetes unless they made changes to their lifestyle
• Nine people had high blood pressure – with one showing as dangerously high
• 19 people were found to have high cholesterol levels
• Only two identified themselves as smokers
Each person through the clinic was given a copy of their results to pass on to their doctor. People were very grateful for the early warnings, and more than 95% committed to making healthier lifestyle choices such as reducing sugar, salt and fat intake and increasing exercise.
"Overall the feedback and support Farmstrong received from farmers and the agri-business sector while at Fieldays was overwhelmingly positive," says Farmstrong spokesperson Gerard Vaughan.
"We were inundated with people who wanted to know more, who wanted to pledge kilometres, who wanted to get involved, or just tell us they fully supported the positive approach we're taking.
"It's incredibly humbling to hear these comments from the very people we're trying to support, so it shows we're on the right track to achieving our overall aim of making a positive difference to the lives of farmers and growers across the country," says Vaughan.
For more information on Farmstrong or to pledge kilometres for the Fit4Farming challenge, please visit www.farmstrong.co.nz
FARMSTRONG
TOM MULHOLLAND
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Rural women and babies at risk
"Women's and babies' lives are at | 625 |
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This piece of furniture has the capability to Float delicately on water or land, making it a great accent for almost any situation. The LED Glow Globe diffuses light in a manner that looks great and evenly lit, for many design requirements and architectural spaces. From temperate climates to outdoors near a stream at a wedding reception, the Glow Ball may be used both indoors and outdoors as a bold statement for every occasion. The LED Light is recharged by simply placing it on its base or removing the bulb and placing it on the charging station. No special tools are required in order to charge the sophisticated Lithium Ion batteries, which hold a charge on high brightness for 8+ hours. Don't even worry about the need for a remote, the Glow Globe can hook up directly with the bluetooth on your smartphone, allowing you to turn the lights on and off, change coloration modes, or select your favorite color, without even getting off your keester. This ball is a great addition to any environment allowing you to create an | 287 |
The History of Moorfields Eye Hospital, Volume III
R Grey
Bristol Eye Hospital, Lower Maudlin Street, Bristol BS1 2LX, UK; linda.claytonubht.swest.nhs.uk
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjo.2004.057166
Ed<|fim_middle|>. He himself has made major contributions to the standing of Moorfields Eye Hospital and the book is written in the typically clear and polished style, reminiscent of his own scientific contributions.
Copyright 2005 British Journal of Ophthalmology | Peter K Leaver, London: Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd, 2004, pp 360; £30. ISBN 1-85315-580-2.
Like John Mortimer's book of a similar title this third volume of the history of Moorfields Eye Hospital is an affectionate but critical look back at the hospital that has been a major influence in many ophthalmologists' training and subsequent practice. The volume is written in a positive upbeat style but also describes some of the faults and difficulties that have beset it in the past four decades. In a complex organisation such as a hospital there are inevitable inefficiencies and problems with personalities but the author has wisely stuck to the facts and has plotted the course of the management of the hospital in a very readable way; he has sensibly avoided petty confrontations and offers a lucid outline of the course of Britain's flagship ophthalmic hospital.
The two previous histories of Moorfields described times past when ophthalmic practice changed only gradually and political upheaval was minor. The current author has been in the unique position of being involved with Moorfields throughout the 40 years he describes. Given the turmoil, both professional and managerial, that has engulfed the delivery of health care during this period he was fortunate that many of the individuals involved with the hospital were available for interview, thus providing first hand accounts of the good and bad times that affected the hospital. The various chapters outline lucidly the clinical and political changes of the time; Moorfields represents in microcosm all the influences to which NHS consultants of all disciplines have been subjected. One special feature of the period described is that it also covers the first 40 years following the foundation of the Institute of Ophthalmology and the not always easy relationship between the hospital and the institute is recorded both openly and tactfully.
The book comprises a number of chapters outlining the various aspects of the hospital development—for example, clinical, managerial, financial, etc. The first chapter is an overview involving all aspects of the hospital during the 40 years from 1963 to 2003. It provides a concise synopsis of all the forces bearing on the hospital; not only clinical but also in terms of research, teaching, and political upheaval. Indeed, for those younger ophthalmologists entering the profession at the present time this chapter gives a concise overview of those political influences that have shaped the lives of the NHS and its staff during recent decades.
As the author points out in his preface the subsequent chapters take up the issues raised in the first chapter and analyse them in more detail. If one, therefore, picks up the book and reads it cover to cover there is a strong repetitive element but it was not really the author's intention that the book should be necessarily read in this way. Each of the later chapters is written in a stand alone fashion dealing with clinical progress, academic development, research, management, and finance so that some repetition is inevitable. The major characters in the story of Moorfields development are given due weight; particularly Professor Barrie Jones, under whose influence Moorfields progressed from a rather slow moving organisation to the establishment of all the subspecialist services we know today.
Apart from rather a large number of nautical metaphors such as "calm waters," "stormy seas," and a few petty errors of detail, such as dates, this volume is a good read, particularly if approached as the author intended | 707 |
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Performance indicators are usually nationally or locally agreed. Some national examples might be achieving certain rates of screening or delivering certain interventions within a specific time period<|fim_middle|> Patients are likely to leave hospital promptly and less likely to use emergency care. This is good news for everyone and shows why it's important to do these interventions. Siting a stoma is now best practice guidance and this spreadsheet shows how to monitor performance against that standard. It allows the stoma nurse to record when a stoma is or is not sited prior to surgery, if not why not and then if education is delivered. This can then be used to see how well the service performs against the national standards and also if there is an issue it allows the nurse to articulate what that issue is.
Have a look at this and see if you think it is possible to do the same thing for your area of practice. | . Local examples that a specialist nurse might use include reviewing all referred patients within 24 working hours, that certain interventions are performed or that 80% of patients are seen within 15 minutes of appointment time.
When choosing a performance indicator for your nursing service take some time to choose one or two things to record data about. If possible choose an influential or national indicator for example if working in cancer you might choose to use compliance with undertaking a holistic needs assessment or record why it was not done. In other specialisms you might choose some best practice guidance to audit performance against. The easiest way to approach this is to choose something that should happen in a patient pathway and see how often it does or does not happen. If it does not happen record why. Its also a good idea to record a little more fundamental data such as patient number, date etc. This will also help you build a picture of your caseload.
Siting a stoma prior to surgery & delivering patient education has been shown to produce better outcomes. | 207 |
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Vigilante: inexorable tragedy with Catalyst style
A new Catalyst Theatre production. Their first show in the Maclab Theatre intimate thrust stage at the Citadel. Part of the Citadel subscription series. It didn't matter what it was going to be about; I was going to see it for sure.
The fact that it was about the Black Donnellys of 19th century southwestern Ontario, their feuds with neighbours and their brutal mass murder, was a bonus. I grew up in southern Ontario, and this was one of the true-crime stories that my classmates did fascinated book reports on (that and the story of Evelyn Dick and the murder of her husband even closer to home in the 1940s). Although I hadn't actually read The Black Donnellys, The Donnellys Must Die or James Reaney's play cycle, I felt familiar with and connected to the story. And with that superficial knowledge acquired as a young person, I think I probably reconciled the story in my brain as "fair" on some level – a family of outlaws commits various crimes on their law-abiding neighbours and gets murdered because of it.
But partway through last night's first preview performance of Jonathan Christenson's new rock musical about the family, I changed my mind. Christenson's version provided some sympathetic portraits of the young immigrants James and Johanna Donnelly (David Leyshon and Jan Alexandra Smith) fleeing their feuding families in Co. Tipperary, Ireland for a fresh start in Canada, discouraged and cheated in acquiring Ontario farmland, and discovering their immigrant neighbours tenacious in the grudges of the Old Country. As in the best of Shakespeare's tragedies, the family's strengths (fierce loyalty to each other and determination to succeed) are also the qualities leading inevitably to their downfall. The performance made me care about them and mourn them.
So that's the story. But it was a Catalyst Theatre production, with Jonathan Christenson credited as writer, director, composer, and librettist, and the Catalyst design aesthetic expressed in ragged near-colourless layers of costume<|fim_middle|> of the story a bit.
The action started slowly in the first act, with William and his brothers giving an introductory narrative then Johanna and James falling in love in Ireland despite family opposition. Things speeded up after intermission, with the family members' doom coming closer and more unavoidable.
Vigilante is playing at the Citadel until March 29th. Tickets are available here. Tonight (Sunday March 8th) is the Pay What You Can performance, and I would imagine that the ticket line-up for that at the Citadel box office is forming as I write. I liked it and I found it challenging, so I'm trying to figure out if I have time to see it again. But on this week's calendar I also have Fiddler on the Roof, The Falstaff Project, First Time/Last Time, and a U of A Drama production of A Winter's Tale, and before the end of the month also Arcadia, dreamplay, and Book of Mormon. So much theatre, so little time.
This entry was posted in Theatre and tagged benjamin wardle, carson nattrass, catalyst theatre, citadel, david leyshon, eric moran, jan alexandra smith, jonathan christensen, kris joseph, lucas meeuse, matthew skopyk, scott walters on March 8, 2015 by Ephemeral Pleasures. | by Narda McCarroll, in cold stark lighting by Beth Kates, and in the spare barn-skeleton set by Christenson and James Robert Boudreau, so it was told with style. I've seen two other Catalyst productions, The Soul Collector and Nevermore: the Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe (which is playing off-Broadway until the end of March). I found Vigilante more passionate and more accessible than either of them, but still stylized and atmospheric. Like the other two plays, much of the story is told in narration to the audience, in this case mostly by eldest son William Donnelly (Carson Nattrass). Most of the text seems to be prose, unlike Nevermore which is full of rhyming couplets. And there was music. The music played by Matthew Skopyk, Morgan Gies, Emily Siobhan McCourt, Nathan Setterlund, and Kurtis Schultz had elements of screeching hard-rock guitar, frenetic Irish-dance fiddle, lyrical love-duet poetry, and persistent compelling drumming, and there was singing and movement. I don't have a very good memory for tunes, so I can't recall anything well enough to sing it today, but I wish I could. Oh, except for the repeated motif "tick…tock… goes the clock … light the lamp and lock the lock …" I loved the music, despite some occasional difficulty hearing the singers over the band in the first act. There were also a few moments where the music, the powerful movement in boots, and the industrial shadow-lit set reminded me of the U of A's recent Studio Theatre production of Threepenny Opera.
Neighbours and adversaries of the Donnellys were played by the same actors who also played the six sons, Nattrass (William), Scott Walters (Tommy), Kris Joseph (Daniel), Eric Moran (Robert), Lucas Meeuse (Johnny), and Benjamin Wardle as the youngest Michael. All of the characters in the story had accents with enough Irish features to be credible yet comprehensible, consistent with growing up in an immigrant community. The Donnelly sons also swore a lot when they were angered or when being wound up to fight by their mother. Sometimes the modern-sounding vulgarities made audience members giggle nervously, and pulled me out | 481 |
The New<|fim_middle|> exit strategy. | PR: Building Images and Reputations in 3D
June 9th, 2010 | Tom Gable | Public Relations
In researching new approaches to reputation management and brand building for the upcoming fifth edition of The PR Client Service Manual, it has become more clear that PR is taking on an increasingly important leadership role in strategic planning and intelligent execution of the most complex communications programs. We are evolving to what I'll call the three-dimensional chess model, or image-building in 3D.
The PR profession continues to master new tactics and tools that go beyond the flat two-dimensional approaches used in most programs. The concept is to go high, wide and deep in creating images with the substance to break out of the competitive clutter for maximum impact.
Only PR has the capability to strategically and intelligently integrate the many disparate channels of communication and move image in the right direction over the long-term. The 3D approach can create extraordinary image momentum and ROI as the game pieces move in an intricate orchestration toward ultimate victory: building reputation as desired.
The importance of adopting a 3D approach has been reinforced by experts at many recent conferences, including the recent Counselors Academy spring meeting. A key message: don't fall in love with your tools; figure out how to work them strategically for maximum impact.
Envision all your target audiences and their sources of information. What channels do you need to use to ensure they get the right information in timely, strategic fashion to reinforce your program goals? Where do you build your positions of strength and support? As the plans unfold, can you envision five moves ahead, ten and twenty or more?
Analyze the key milestones in your program – the known deliverables, activities, encounters, events, presentations, financial news releases, analyst meetings, government conferences, etc. What exists? Then, look for the holes, the gaps. What exists? More importantly, what doesn't?
The approach is essential in building new brands, launching new products or technology or positioning and repositioning organizations.
Why does PR lead and not other marketing, management or communications disciplines? Given a fact-based, no-hype approach, it's where strategy, core values and communications intersect to build a depth of awareness and credibility that paid media can't deliver.
For a brief case history, we used the old 2D model several years ago to introduce disruptive technology into a crowded field where all competitors sounded alike: issuing a launch release and holding a press conference at the major trade show of the year. The results weren't spectacular.
Using the 3D model for a more recent similar challenge, we established an 18-month plan to manage the flow of information, build relationships and connect to multiple audiences and through different channels. The client had a brilliant scientific advisory board (SAB). To begin laying the foundation and also getting critical feedback, SAB members began vetting the technology with some of their respected peers in business, technology and academia.
With the initial relationships built understanding in place, the agency began educating the media – without asking for coverage – six months before launch, preparing for when the client would blast out of the stealth mode with power and momentum for long-term branding. Select media were pointed to academics for background. Analysts were pointed to academics and media for validation. We pitched exclusives to media in different categories (dailies, financial media, trades, blogs, etc.). The bottom line: the client exploded onto the scene with major coverage online and in dailies, trades and financial media the first day of the biggest industry conference of the year. The instant buzz at multiple levels and through highly credible channels drove interest from potential investors and strategic partners.
The momentum built from there with a series of academic papers, presentations, speeches and presentations at financial conferences. The client was acquired within two years – ahead of its | 776 |
Planet of the Space Bats
By John Michael Greer, originally published by The Archdruid Report
As my regular readers know, I've been talking for quite a while now here about the speculative bubble that's built up around the fracking phenomenon, and the catastrophic bust that's guaranteed to follow so vast and delusional a boom. Over the six months or so, I've noted the arrival of one warning sign after another of the impending crash. As the saying has it, though, it's not over 'til the fat lady sings, so I've been listening for the first notes of the metaphorical aria that, in the best Wagnerian style, will rise above the orchestral score as the fracking industry's surrogate Valhalla finally bursts into flames and goes crashing down into the Rhine.
I think I just heard those first high notes, though, in an improbable place: the email inbox of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA), the Druid order I head.
I have no idea how many of my readers know the first thing about my unpaid day job as chief executive—the official title is Grand Archdruid—of one of the two dozen or so Druid orders in the western world. Most of what goes into that job, and the admittedly eccentric minority religious tradition behind it, has no relevance to the present subject. Still, I think most people know that Druids revere the natural world, and take ecology seriously even when that requires scrapping some of the absurd extravagances that pass for a normal lifestyle these days. Thus a Druid order is arguably the last place that would come to mind if you wanted to sell stock in a fracking company.
Nonetheless, that's what happened. The bemused AODA office staff the other day fielded a solicitation from a stock firm trying to get Druids to invest their assets in the fracking industry.
Does that sound like a desperation move to you, dear reader? It certainly does to me—and there's good reason to think that it probably sounds that way to the people who are trying to sell shares in fracking firms to one final round of clueless chumps, too. A recent piece in the Wall Street Journal (available outside the paywall here) noted that American banks have suddenly found themselves stuck with tens of millions of dollars' worth of loans to fracking firms which they hoped to package up and sell to investors—but suddenly nobody's buying. Bankruptcies and mass layoffs are becoming an everyday occurrence in the fracking industry, and the price of oil continues to lurch down as producers maximize production for the sake of immediate cash flow.
Why, though, isn't the drop in the price of oil being met by an upsurge in consumption that drives the price back up, as the accepted rules of economics would predict? That's the cream of the jest. Here in America, and to a lesser extent elsewhere in the industrial world, four decades of enthusiastically bipartisan policies that benefited the rich at everyone else's expense managed to prove Henry Ford's famous argument: if you don't pay your own employees enough that they can afford to buy your products, sooner or later, you're going to go broke.
By driving down wages and forcing an ever larger fraction of the US population into permanent unemployment and poverty, the movers and shakers of America's political class have managed to trigger a classic crisis of overproduction, in which goods go begging for buyers because too few people can afford to buy them at any price that will pay for their production. It's not just oil that's affected, either: scores of other commodities are plunging in price as the global economy tips over into depression. There's a specter haunting the industrial world; it's the ghost of Karl Marx, laughing with mordant glee as the soi-disant masters of the universe, having crushed his misbegotten Soviet stepchildren, go all out to make his prophecy of capitalism's self-immolation look remarkably prescient.
The soaring price of crude oil in the wake of the 2005 global peak of conventional oil production should have served notice to the industrial world that, to adapt the title of Richard Heinberg's excellent 2003 summary of the situation, the party was over: the long era in which energy supplies had increased year over year was giving way to an unwelcome new reality in which decreasing energy supplies and increasing environmental blowback were the defining themes. As my readers doubtless noticed, though, the only people who willing to grasp that were out here on the fringes where archdruids lurk. Closer to the mainstream of our collective thinking, most people scrunched shut their eyes, plugged their ears with their fingers, and shouted "La, la, la, I can't hear you" at the top of their lungs, in a desperate<|fim_middle|> I'd hoped for. The contest fielded more than thirty entries, ranging from the merely very good to the sidesplittingly funny. There were two winners, one chosen by the members of the Green Wizards forum, one chosen by me; in both cases, it was no easy choice, and if I had enough author's copies of my new book After Progress, I'd probably just up and given prizes to all the entries, they were that good. Still, it's my honor to announce the winners:
My choice for best squirrel case—drumroll, please—goes to Steve Morgan, for his fine gosh-wow sales prospectus for, ahem, Shares of Hydrocarbons Imported from Titan. The Green Wizards forum choice—drumroll again—goes to Jason Heppenstall for his hilarious parody of a sycophantic media story, King Solomon's Miners. Please join me in congratulating them. (Steve and Jason, drop me a comment with your mailing addresses, marked not for posting, and I'll get your prizes on the way.)
Their hard-won triumph probably won't last long. In the months and years ahead, I expect to see claims even more ludicrous being taken oh-so-seriously by the mainstream media, because the alternative is to face up to just how badly we've bungled the opportunities of the last four decades or so and just how rough a road we have ahead of us as a result. What gave the fracking bubble whatever plausibility it ever had, after all, was the way it fed on one of the faith-based credos at the heart of contemporary popular culture: the insistence, as pervasive as it is irrational, that the universe is somehow obligated to hand us abundant new energy sources to replace the ones we've already used so profligately. Lacking that blind faith, it would have been obvious to everyone—as it was to those of us in the peak oil community—that the fracking industry was scraping the bottom of the barrel and pretending that this proved the barrel was full.
Read the morning news with eyes freed from the deathgrip of the conventional wisdom and it's brutally obvious that that's what happened, and that the decline and fall of our civilization is well under way. Here in the US, a quarter of the country is in the fourth year of record drought, with snowpack on California's Sierra Nevada mountains about 9% of normal; the Gulf Stream is slowing to a crawl due to the rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheets; permanent joblessness and grinding poverty have become pervasive in this country; the national infrastructure is coming apart after decades of malign neglect—well, I could go on; if you want to know what life is like in a falling civilization, go look out the window.
In the mainstream media, on the occasions when such things are mentioned at all, they're treated as disconnected factoids irrelevant to the big picture. Most people haven't yet grasped that these things are the big picture—that while we're daydreaming about an assortment of shiny futures that look more or less like the present with more toys, climate change, resource depletion, collapsing infrastructure, economic contraction, and the implosion of political and cultural institutions are creating the future we're going to inhabit. Too many of us suffer from a weird inability to imagine a future that isn't simply a continuation of the present, even when such a future stands knocking at our own front doors.
So vast a failure of imagination can't be overcome by the simple expedient of pointing out the ways that it's already failed to explain the world in which we live. That said, there are other ways to break the grip of the conventional wisdom, and I'm pleased to say that one of those other ways seems to be making modest but definite headway just now.
Longtime readers here will remember that in 2011, this blog launched a contest for short stories about the kind of future we can actually expect—a future in which no deus ex machina saves industrial civilization from the exhaustion of its resource base, the deterioration of the natural systems that support it, and the normal process of decline and fall. That contest resulted in an anthology, After Oil: SF Stories of a Post-Petroleum Future, which found a surprisingly large audience. On the strength of its success, I ran a second contest in 2014, which resulted in two more volumes—After Oil 2: The Years of Crisis, which is now available, and After Oil 3: The Years of Rebirth, which is in preparation. Demand for the original volume has remained steady, and the second is selling well; after a conversation with the publisher, I'm pleased to announce that we're going to do it again, with a slight twist.
The basic rules are mostly the same as before:
Stories should be between 2500 and 7500 words in length;
They should be entirely the work of their author or authors, and should not borrow characters or setting from someone else's work;
They should be in English, with correct spelling, grammar and punctuation;
They should be stories—narratives with a plot and characters—and not simply a guided tour of some corner of the future as the author imagines it;
They should be set in our future, not in an alternate history or on some other planet;
They should be works of realistic fiction or science fiction, not magical or supernatural fantasy—that is, the setting and story should follow the laws of nature as those are presently understood;
They should take place in settings subject to thermodynamic, ecological, and economic limits to growth; and as before,
They must not rely on "alien space bats"—that is, dei ex machina inserted to allow humanity to dodge the consequences of the limits to growth. (Aspiring authors might want to read the whole "Alien Space Bats" post for a more detailed explanation of what I mean here; reading the stories from one or both of the published After Oil volumes might also be a good plan.)
This time, though, I'm adding an additional rule:
Stories submitted for this contest must be set at least one thousand years in the future—that is, after March 25, 3015 in our calendar.
That's partly a reflection of a common pattern in entries for the two previous contests, and partly something deeper. The common pattern? A great many authors submitted stories that were set during or immediately after the collapse of industrial civilization; there's certainly room for those, enough so that the entire second volume is basically devoted to them, but tales of surviving decline and fall are only a small fraction of the galaxy of potential stories that would fit within the rules listed above. I'd like to encourage entrants to consider telling something different, at least this time.
The deeper dimension? That's a reflection of the blindness of the imagination discussed earlier in this post, the inability of so many people to think of a future that isn't simply a prolongation of the present. Stories set in the immediate aftermath of our civilization don't necessarily challenge that, and I think it's high time to start talking about futures that are genuinely other—neither utopia nor oblivion, but different, radically different, from the linear extrapolations from the present that fill so many people's imaginations these days, and have an embarrassingly large role even in science fiction.
You have to read SF from more than a few decades back to grasp just how tight the grip of a single linear vision of the future has become on what used to be a much more freewheeling literature of ideas. In book after book, and even more in film after film, technologies that are obviously derived from ours, ideologies that are indistinguishable from ours, political and economic arrangements that could pass for ours, and attitudes and ideas that belong to this or that side of today's cultural struggles get projected onto the future as though they're the only imaginable options. This takes place even when there's very good reason to think that the linear continuation of current trends isn't an option at all—for example, the endlessly regurgitated, done-to-death trope of interstellar travel.
Let us please be real: we aren't going to the stars—not in our lifetimes, not in the lifetime of industrial civilization, not in the lifetime of our species. There are equally good thermodynamic and economic reasons to believe that many of the other standard tropes of contemporary science fiction are just as unreachable—that, for example, limitless energy from gimmicks of the dilithium-crystal variety, artificial intelligences capable of human or superhuman thought, and the like belong to fantasy, not to the kind of science fiction that has any likelihood of becoming science fact. Any of my readers who want to insist that human beings can create anything they can imagine, by the way, are welcome to claim that, just as soon as they provide me with a working perpetual motion machine.
It's surprisingly common to see people insist that the absence of the particular set of doodads common to today's science fiction would condemn our descendants to a future of endless boredom. This attitude shows a bizarre stunting of the imagination—not least because stories about interstellar travel normally end up landing the protagonists in a world closely modeled on some past or present corner of the Earth. If our genus lasts as long as the average genus of vertebrate megafauna, we've got maybe ten million years ahead of us, or roughly two thousand times as long as all of recorded human history to date: more than enough time for human beings to come up with a dazzling assortment of creative, unexpected, radically different societies, technologies, and ways of facing the universe and themselves.
That's what I'd like to see in submissions to this year's Space Bats challenge—yes, it'll be an annual thing from here on out, as long as the market for such stories remains lively. A thousand years from now, industrial civilization will be as far in the past as the Roman Empire was at the time of the Renaissance, and new human societies will have arisen to pass their own judgment on the relics of our age. Ten thousand years from now, or ten million? Those are also options. Fling yourself into the far future, far enough that today's crises are matters for the history books, or tales out of ancient myth, or forgotten as completely as the crises and achievements of the Neanderthal people are today, and tell a story about human beings (or, potentially, post-human beings) confronting the challenges of their own time in their own way. Do it with verve and a good readable style, and your story may be be one of the ones chosen to appear in the pages of After Oil 4: The Future's Distant Shores.
The mechanics are pretty much the same as before. Write your story and post it to the internet—if you don't have a blog, you can get one for free from Blogspot or WordPress. Post a link to it in the comments to The Archdruid Report. You can write more than one story, but please let me know which one you want entered in the competition—there will be only one entry accepted per author this time. Stories must be written and posted online, and a link posted to this blog, by August 30, 2015 to be eligible for inclusion in the anthology.
Tags: collapse of complex civilizations, peak oil, shale bubble
The Attacks on Abqaiq and Peak Oil in Ghawar
Reforesting, Rewilding, and Re-thinking Civilization
Don't Police our Emotions – Climate Despair is Inviting People Back to Life
As Society Unravels, the Future Is Up for Grabs
Bleak Financial Outlook for US Fracking Industry
Misreading the Story of Climate Change and the Maya
The Future of Technological Society: Will They Really Think of Something?
Progress and Amnesia
Jay Hanson Dies in Diving Accident
John Michael Greer
John Michael Greer is a widely read author and blogger whose work focuses on the overlaps between ecology, spirituality, and the future of industrial society. He served twelve years as Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, and currently heads the Druidical Order of the Golden Dawn.
The Twilight of the Monofuture
By John Michael Greer, originally published by Ecosophia
The Flight from Nature
America and Russia: Stirrings in the Borderlands | attempt to keep reality from getting a word in edgewise.
For the last five years or so, any attempt to talk about the impending twilight of the age of oil thus ran headfirst into a flurry of pro-fracking propaganda. Fatuous twaddle about America's inevitable future as the world's new energy superpower took the place of serious discussions of the predicament into which we've backed ourselves—and not for the first time, either. That's what makes the attempt to get Druids to invest their life savings in fracking so funny, in a bleak sort of way: it's an attempt to do for the fracking boom what the fracking boom attempted to do for industrial civilization as a whole—to pretend, in the teeth of the facts, that the unsustainable can be sustained for just a little while longer.
A few months back, I decided to celebrate this sort of thinking by way of the grand old Druid custom of satire. The Great Squirrel Case Challenge of 2015 solicited mock proposals for solving the world's energy problems that were even nuttier than the ones in the mainstream media. That was no small challenge—a detail some of my readers pointed up by forwarding any number of clueless stories from the mainstream media loudly praising energy boondoggles of one kind or another.
I'm delighted to say, though, that the response was even better than | 274 |
Patreon Showcase 4 - Fast Times At La Luna High
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Patreon Showcase 3 - Q&A Live on Discord, April 2020
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S1E99 - Departure
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Part Two of Four. Join us for this special Patreon Showcase, as we take a little break before Season 2 premieres on January 6th, 2021. This second episode takes a look at our "Behind the Screen" series, in which John, Joshua, and Spencer have a few drinks and talk about the ins and outs of building the story of Issac's...
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Part One of Four. Join us for this special Patreon Showcase, as we take a little break before Season 2 premieres on January 6th, 2021. This first episode takes a look at our "Epilogues" series, in which we introduce the world to John Good's character | 185 |
A reissue of The Rulers of Venice, 1332-1524: Interpretations, Methods, Database, edited by Monique O'Connell, is now available in the HEB collection with an updated preface. The new preface contains a users' guide to the revised version of the online database (edited by Benjamin G. Kohl, Andrea Mozzato and O'Connell) that accompanies this edition.
Rulers of Venice was originally published in 2009 by ACLS Humanities E-Book in collaboration with the Renaissance Society of America, and represents one of HEB's interactive XML editions. The monograph component consists of four case studies about the ruling class of Venice in the 14th and 15th centuries. The essays were intended to provide background information and complement an online database that has at its core the nine registers of the Segretario alle Voci, listing the noble Venetians elected to office from 1340 to 1524. This includes transcriptions of a total of 70,000 records with as complete information as possible for each officeholder, derived from 1500 frames of digitized microfilm (which are also available to users for closer examination). The database underwent substantial technical upgrades starting in 2012, and now offers enhanced search capabilities to improve users' experience while still drawing on the same data.
Who held office in late medieval Venice? The Rulers of Venice project as a whole attempts to answer this seemingly simple question. While<|fim_middle|> to gain a much deeper understanding of the way the Republic's politics intersected with family strategies and individual careers.
This book and the accompanying database are freely available on an open-access basis. | there is extensive documentation relating to Venetian elections between 1324 and 1524, determining whether a particular individual held office in Venice or not often turns out to be bafflingly complex. The database represents an invaluable tool for students of Venetian history, allowing researchers | 60 |
Darryl Glover's fashion portfolio includes commercial, editorial, and celebrity styling, as well as costume<|fim_middle|> trying new things. | design. Professor Glov er joined the FIT family in 2008 as a student of the Continuing Education Department. After completing the Fashion Styling & Costume Design certificate programs, he joined Local 764 Wardrobe Union where he began as a costumer for the Metropolitan Opera. He also acts as a Creative Director for young artists. In 2013 Professor Glover returned to FIT to begin his tenure as a classroom teacher. He returns semester after semester with exciting new experiences to share with his students. Outside of the classroom, he spends time dressing the who's who of Young Hollywood.
Students can't be what they don't see. I pride myself on exposure and try to create as many opportunities for hands-on experiences as possible. I tell my students that we are all students and that the experiences we create together are the teacher.
Best Dressed List, Celebrity Stylist – Elle, Esquire, E!
I personally dress from all departments of a store. I don't feel the need to restrict fashion to a certain gender. To me, clothes are clothes, and I can rock it as long as it matches my makeup.
I always go to Starbucks! I don't sleep enough, ever!
My favorite thing about FIT is the accepting, supporting, and uplifting community of like-minded individuals who all come from different backgrounds but work together to learn.
Besides big influencers like Manny Mua, Jeffree Star, and James Charles, music inspires me the most.
I want to continue my career in cosmetics marketing. I have already started unlike most of my peers.
I like trying new materials and not having to follow the rules with my work. I also love drawing!
FIT is a great university and I'm happy to be doing this experience and meeting new friends and | 357 |
The town of Pardubice lies on the confluence of the rivers Elbe and Chrudimka. Pardubice is famous<|fim_middle|>ateau courtyard. Another event takes place here in May – the gastronomic celebrations in the honour of Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová, a famous Czech cookery book writer.
You could climb up to see the ruins of the Gothic castle Kunětická Hora which stand above the Elbe valley and enjoy an incredible view of the region.
A beautiful countryside in the surroundings of the channel challenges to hiking, cycling or water sports. There are 32 mills along the 26 km long channel. Every year there is a local event of shooting down the channel. The race begins at the village of Opatovice nad Labem and ends in Bohdaneč. | mostly for its horse race called the Velká Pardubická Steeple-Chase and for the excellent local gingerbread. After the great fire, most of the facades were rebuilt to the Baroque style with the typical terracotta elements. When visiting Pardubice you should have a look at the Renaissance Chateau, the famous Jonah´s house decorated with plastic reliefs of the whale swallowing the prophet Jonah. Then you can visit the tower of the Green Gate and the Church of Saint Bartholomew.
Relax in the Bohdaneč spa which is situated in the marvellous countryside of the Elbe Lowland. Surroundings of spa are full of parks, forests and ponds. Thanks to the mineral springs rich in pure alkaline minerals, the spa treats the muscular-skeletal system with a focus on inflammatory rheumatic diseases, vertebral syndrome, arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis. The spa offers a wide range of pre- and post care rehabilitation programmes. It has acquired good reputation in the rehabilitation of total joint replacement. More info.
Every year you can treat yourself to an extraordinary exhibition which engulfs all of your senses. You can learn about the history of the gingerbread handicraft and the gingerbread of Pardubice. The exposition contains over a thousand of gingerbread samples from all of the Czech Republic. There are many interactive shows and exhibitions for children too.
The Nový Dvůr Craft Museum is the largest museum of crafts in the Czech Republic. There are more than 50 exhibitions of the work of cabinetmakers, shingle-makers, wheelwrights, woodcarvers and many more. You can see how the schoolroom looked a century ago, see the display of craftsmen at work and historical cars.
You should visit this beautiful Chateau of the Auesberg family with a large park full of chestnut and cherry trees. The local horse breeding farm is a part of the Kladruby nad Labem National Stud Farm.
Come to see the oldest major stud farm in the world! You can admire the Kladruber Old White horses, small herd of the Czech Thoroughbreds and the Kladruber Old Black horses. In Švýcárna, you should visit a museum where you will learn more about the breeding of Kladruber horses, which are on the UNESCO heritage list. You can also take a horseback riding lessons or carriage ride or you can watch the horse-drawn sleighs.
A collection of folk buildings shows the visitors the village life at the times of no electricity and no machines. You will see 30 picturesque cottages, unique technical monuments, for example. a tanning equipment or an oil plant. Six weeks before Easter there is the Shrovetide procession full of masks which is listed on the UNESCO list.
The Toulovcovy Maštale national reserve is ranked amongst the most interesting and picturesque places of the Pardubice region. You can admire the sandstone rock formations Toulovcovy and Urban Stables. There are many trails for both pedestrians and cyclists.
The greatest pride of the city is the Renaissance Chateau with its sgrafitto decoration,one of the most beautiful sights in this style north of the Alps,also included on the UNESCO list. You will be fascinated by the monastery gardens, fountain and a collection of five statues. Don´t forget to touch the Bronze fish which will make your wishes come true.
Explore the Portmoneum! You should visit the home of the art lover Josef Portmon, where you will see wall frescoes, bookcases and other decorated furniture. You will marvel at the ornate ceilings of demons, imps, ghosts and other creatures.
There are many other modern buildings in Litomyšl, such as the New Church of the Bohemian Brotherhood or the Chateau Brewery.
Litomyšl is the birthplace of the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. At the end of June and beginning of July, Smetana´s Litomyšl opera festival takes place there, with concerts held in the ch | 837 |
Primary deputy/assistant of department/faculty jobs in Thailand
Deputy Head of Primary Phase
Amnuay Silpa SchoolThailand
Start dateApril or July 2022
Apply by 2 Jan 2022
Required for April 2022 (the beginning of the Thai academic year) or July 2022
We are searching for an exceptional, innovative and inspiring teacher with successful leadership experience either in the UK or a British Curriculum school overseas.
The Deputy Head will work alongside the Deputy Head of the Foundation Phase to develop and deliver the School's strategic plans, mission and ethos. The successful candidate will support the day-to-day management and running of the Primary Phase. In addition they will:
play a key strategic and advisory role as a member of the Academic Leadership Team
lead all aspects of learning & teaching and pastoral care in the Primary Phase
Amnuay Silpa is the leading bilingual school in Thailand. Dedicated to preserving the Thai Language and Culture in our students we have successfully implemented a unique Synchronised Dual Teaching Model, incorporating the UK and Thai Curriculum (taught by Thai teaching staff). Providing high quality education to just over 1000<|fim_middle|> a candidate for accreditation in November 2021.
The package on offer includes:-
A two year contract (renewable)
A competitive salary (paid in Thai Baht)
Flight into and out of the country at the commencement and completion of the contract
End of service gratuity
An inclusive and well-resourced school
Candidates are expected to:
Possess Qualified Teacher status or a Bachelor degree and a PGCE
Possess strong teaching and leadership skills and be enterprising and proactive
Have excellent communication, problem solving and negotiation skills
Have the ability to implement and monitor effective management systems
Support the distinctive ethos of the School and actively participate in the School community
Possess the empathy and understanding required for effective people management
Be enthusiastic, adaptable and highly committed
Have knowledge of the UK curriculum
Have proven experience in the UK (essential) and overseas (desirable)
For an application pack, please contact the School Principal, Mr. Joseph Pine at applications@amnuaysilpa.ac.th. Applications are by the official application form only. Please do NOT apply directly via the TES quick apply or send CVs or covering letters with any emails. Further information can also be found on the school website www.amnuaysilpa.ac.th
The school is committed to Safer Recruitment and Safeguarding students and all candidates will be expected to provide an Enhanced Police Check and complete a self-disclosure form.
First interviews will be via Google Meet in early January 2022 with final face to face interviews in London in mid January 2022. Shortlisted candidates will be expected to submit a short video of a demonstration lesson.
Closing date for applications to be submitted by noon (UK time) on 2nd January 2022 but please note:
We will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and this advert may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response, therefore early applications are encouraged.
Amnuay Silpa School
304/1 Sri Ayutthaya RoadRatchatheweeBangkok10400Thailand
http://www.amnuaysilpa.ac.th/+66 2 354 5267 | pupils aged 3-18, Amnuay Silpa is an exciting and dynamic place to teach with a very clear vision for the future. In 2013 ANS was accredited by Exeter University as the First Thinking School in Asia and in 2016 was awarded Advanced Thinking status. As the hub of excellence in the thinking approach, we are able to provide excellent professional development opportunities for those successfully appointed. In June 2017 we also became a CIS Member School and are now are | 106 |
John couldn't wait to dream. As he slipped into his navy pajama bottoms, his right leg caught the fabric halfway through and pulled him down to the floor.
He lay defeated for a while, feeling hot not so much from the pain but from the embarrassment, although he was the only one to witness the fall. He got up, sat on the bed, and successfully slid his legs into his bottoms. After turning off his bedside lamp, John slipped under the covers and closed his eyes as he pulled his blanket tightly around him. His chest started rising and falling at a steady rhythm, and he drifted off to sleep as he half-consciously scratched at a tickle on his upper right thigh.
When John woke up, he blinked several times and couldn't believe his eyes. He was still in his own bed in his room. He sat up and cycled through endless possible explanations. Was it a problem with the hardware? No way — the error rate was less than one in a trillion. A bug in the latest SimChip firmware upgrade? But he had been dreaming without any problems for the past couple months. He racked his brain but no satisfactory answer came to mind. For a second, he considered submitting a support request, but immediately dropped the idea. A Sim Technologies support representative unable to solve a problem with his own SimChip? He'd never hear the end of it.
The annoyance of missing out on a dream lingered in the back of John's mind as he headed into the bathroom. He splashed water onto his face, squeezed exactly enough toothpaste to cover half of the toothbrush, and proceeded to count to sixty in his head. Twenty brush strokes for the left side of his mouth, twenty for the middle, and twenty for the right. After showering, he neatly combed his dark brown hair to the side and headed to his closet to put on a crisply pressed white dress shirt, a black silk tie, black trousers, and a black jacket — the same outfit he wore to work every day. Only the business department of Sim Technologies, not the support department he was in, had a dress code, but he found it much too cumbersome to select a different outfit every day.
In the kitchen, John removed the two perfectly toasted slices of white bread from the toaster and set them down on a plate. As he reached to grab the peanut butter jar from the cabinet above, he stopped short. He had forgotten to buy more peanut butter after it had run out yesterday. John unscrewed the lid of the jar and saw that there was more left than he had expected, just barely enough for one more sandwich. He<|fim_middle|> He enjoyed those. He couldn't remember the last time he got one.
"Sure." John turned his chair towards his supervisor.
"Sure." His supervisor was repeating the same exact thing that he had told John yesterday.
"Thanks, John. Also, try to speed up your responses. You're answering fewer queries than you usually do." He patted John on the back and walked away.
John turned to the clock on his monitor and watched the seconds crawl by. He often fantasized about quitting his lifeless job and trying something new, but then again he got to try something new every night when he went to sleep. Maybe one day he'd actually move next to the beach and learn how to ride the waves.
When John got home, he changed out of his suit and slumped into his couch in front of the television. He hoped there was a good show on to justify declining to go out for a quick drink with some of the other support representatives. He hadn't felt like it. He hadn't felt like it yesterday either, or the day before that, and he knew they were already thinking of no longer asking him to go out with them. John turned on the television and flipped through some channels. Nothing exciting. He thought about just turning off the set, but sat through a rerun of a movie he had watched yesterday since he had nothing better to do anyway until his 12 hours were up. When it finally ended, he walked to his room and hoped that his SimChip would work tonight. | scraped the remaining peanut butter onto a slice of toast and glanced at his watch as he twisted the lid back onto the jar. It was 10:15 A.M., which meant that he had to leave now in order to catch the subway. After tossing the used knife into the sink, John absentmindedly shoved the peanut butter jar back into the cabinet and grabbed his briefcase and sandwich. Before the SimChip came along, he used to eat two sandwiches for breakfast. Now, since he and everyone else he knew stayed awake for only 12 hours, his two sandwiches had become one, and his lunch and dinner had also been reduced accordingly. More time dreaming meant less time awake. Less time awake meant less energy needed.
Making sure that he had his wallet and keys in his left pocket and his Sim Technologies badge clipped on the right side of his trousers, John locked his apartment door and jiggled the door two times before calling the elevator. As he stepped out of his apartment complex, John quickly merged into the stream of people on the sidewalk. He walked one block south and two blocks east, keeping his gaze fixed on the sidewalk below him the entire time while taking quick bites out of his sandwich. As he walked into the subway station, someone bumped into him from behind. "Sorry," John muttered. He stood sideways against the wall to let the person pass, deliberately looking away to avoid eye contact. On the subway car, John sat with his eyes closed and head tilted back. He usually spent his commute thinking about his dream from the night before, but this time he had nothing.
John had been in college when Sim Technologies took the world by storm with their upgraded SimChip. A few years prior, they had released the initial version of the SimChip — a chip, installed using a minimally invasive surgical procedure through the skull, that could measure and record all the signals being passed between nerve cells in the brain. Effectively, this meant that everything a person experienced — their thoughts, their feelings, their sensory stimuli — would be captured by the chip. It was a mind-blowing feat; the chip allowed people to capture the raw data of their existence. Despite great excitement in the scientific community, the product had resulted in poor adoption. Although some of the personal analytics applications that built on the data were quite impressive, most people didn't want to have the SimChip installed just to see some pretty graphs.
All that changed when Sim Technologies added replay functionality to the SimChip. Sim Technologies had devised a method for replaying a select portion of the data — the signals created by sensory stimuli — back on the brain when it was dormant in sleep. The amazing part was that the signals could be replayed not just on the person whose recording it was, but on anyone with a SimChip installed. For the first time in history, people could see, hear, touch, smell, and taste as someone else entirely. With that breakthrough, SimChip adoption caught on like wildfire, and after enviously hearing his college roommates trade stories about their SimChip-created dreams, John had finally scheduled an appointment to have a SimChip installed.
John quickly nodded, embracing the tradeoff. Everyone else was doing it, and his life wasn't interesting enough to make him worry about any important secrets being revealed.
And remember he did. When John had initially woken up in that first dream, he tried to brush the wavy blonde hair away from the front of his eyes. When his body sat up instead of brushing the hair aside, he understood what the support representative had meant about not panicking. He had no control over his own movements. Everything was already predetermined by the recording that John was simply replaying — all that John could really call his own were his thoughts and feelings.
As John walked into the bathroom, he wanted, with every fiber of his being, to go back into the bedroom and make the bed. It wouldn't help make the room appear any cleaner, what with the piles of socks and shirts everywhere on the bedroom floor, but it was a personal ritual that he had performed every morning without fail since he was a child.
I shouldn't care; it's not my bed after all, he thought, trying to quell his irritation. His displeasure was swallowed up by the surprise of seeing himself in the bathroom mirror. I must be at least six-foot three. He wanted to examine himself more, but he involuntarily proceeded to close his eyes and splash water on his face. He cringed as he haphazardly moved a toothbrush around in his mouth without any clear pattern or direction. He caught a glimpse of himself again as he left the bathroom, getting a better look at his sturdy, broad shoulders and the long hair that rested on them.
John found himself driving for a good while before getting out of a jeep in front of a beach. He had never been to a beach before, having always lived in landlocked regions, and he immensely enjoyed the sensation of the cold, smooth sand weaving in and out between his toes as he walked toward the water in his wetsuit. He felt the hefty weight of his surfboard under his arm, and he knew that he would never have been able to carry it with such ease in his real body.
John felt his free hand shoot up and mouth spread into a grin. "Mornin', Brad!" John enjoyed hearing his own voice; it felt strong with rough edges, like the sound of a double bass mixed with sandpaper being rubbed.
When John walked up to Brad, they performed a highly practiced handshake that ended with a smack on the side of each others' head. "Have a good dream last night?" Brad asked.
John and Brad paddled out into the sea, and John felt more panic the further away he got from shore. By the time John stopped paddling to turn his board toward the distant shore, his mind was racing with questions. What if I get attacked by a shark? What if I get swallowed up by a wave and drown? John wondered if he had made a mistake but told himself that AJ couldn't have died surfing, or else his dream wouldn't have been uploaded for John to replay. Maybe AJ went to sleep in the hospital after having his arm bitten off, though.
Just then, John felt his chest lower onto the surfboard and his arm paddling hard against the water. As his head jerked forward, he caught a glimpse of a massive wave rising behind him. This is it, I'm going to drown, he thought. As the wave caught up to him, he felt his arms push him off the surfboard and his right leg slide up toward his torso as he stood up in one fluid motion. John tried his hardest to close his eyes, but his eyes remained wide open and his body shifted with movements sturdy and sure. He smoothly rode down the foot of the wave as it rose up, gigantic, behind him. The crest of the wave started crashing in front of him, and he spread his arms and lightly grazed the wall of water with his forefinger as he continuously taunted death by speeding sideways toward the hole at the end of the tunnel of water around him. As he sped through the opening with the wave dying behind him, John felt complete unison between mind and body as he grinned and waved at a barely visible Brad flashing him a thumbs up.
When John had woken from that first dream, he had laid in perfect silence on his bed for an hour, simply absorbing all that he experienced. After that initial wave, John had gone on to surf for a couple more hours before devouring fish tacos with Brad and ending the night making s'mores over a bonfire with a group of friends at the beach. Dreaming was far more fun and exciting than anything he had ever done. John had excitedly gone back to sleep in the middle of the day, only to find himself jolted awake after a few, short hours replaying a day of a school janitor. Cleaning high school bathrooms wasn't quite like surfing, but the experience, seemingly mundane, was new and fascinating. Confused about the dream's abrupt interruption, John had contacted a support representative to learn that the SimChip replays a downloaded recording only for the duration of the length of the most recently uploaded recording. That day, John had decided to adopt the SimChip lifestyle; from then on, he would stay awake for exactly 12 hours every day in order to maximize time spent dreaming.
Now out of the subway station, John headed through the sliding glass doors into Sim Technologies. He looked straight ahead, purposefully avoiding eye contact with the guard at the front desk, and tapped his badge on the turnstile. He recalled how he had once felt immensely proud to be working there, a company that was pushing the frontier of shared human experience. He had been the envy of his college friends, who had all become SimChip fanatics, when he was hired by Sim Technologies. Little did they, nor he initially, know that his role as a support representative would be little more than a glorified question and answer database.
When he stepped into the elevator, he pressed the button for the fifteenth floor and shifted his eyes to the floor. There was someone in the elevator to his right, someone with sleek, black pumps. He turned his head ever so slightly and peered out of the corner of his eye to just barely make out her basic features. He shifted his gaze back to the floor. He hadn't looked at her directly, but he had seen enough. Curly dark brown hair. Thin, glossy lips. Green eyes. Maybe slightly blue. Gorgeous. She looked slightly familiar too, but he couldn't figure out where he'd seen her before. He thought about what it'd be like to get to know her, and the mere thought of talking to her made his pulse quicken.
He looked back at the elevator buttons and noticed that the only other lit button was for a floor somewhere in the thirties. He would have the entire trip to his floor to start the conversation. He could compliment her shoes. No, that could come off as creepy and even inappropriate. He could bring up the latest Sim Technologies metrics. The billionth SimChip installation had occurred a week ago, and the company was still abuzz from the announcement. No, she was probably sick to death of hearing about it. He could ask her about her dream last night. Outside of work, it was considered rude to ask a stranger about their dreams, but inside Sim Technologies it was somewhat of a norm. No, he didn't have a dream to share.
The elevator came to a stop and the doors slid open. John surprised himself with how quickly he bolted out of the elevator. He hadn't planned on practically running out, but maybe he hadn't realized how nervous he had been. She probably wouldn't have been interested in talking with him anyway. He was just a support representative after all.
John walked past a dozen cubicles before reaching his own. He sat down, turned on his computer, and began answering support questions. The first one was from a woman in Wyoming who wanted to know if she could replay her husband's recordings. John found the script explaining that no, you can't select whose recordings you replay, and sent the reply. The second one was from a man from London who wanted to save the recording he downloaded last night so that he can have the same dream over and over. John found the script explaining that this too was not possible and sent it along. During his first couple weeks as a support representative, John used to feel guilty when dashing people's hopes by telling them that they couldn't do what they wanted. Now, he just copied and pasted the standard responses and didn't give a second thought. All the questions he saw every day were exactly the same, just worded differently and signed by different names from different places. Once in a while, he would get a unique question that would make him actually look things up and type out a non-scripted response. | 2,453 |
At the heart of the play "Red", two men stand before a massive canvas.
It's center stage in Mark Rothko's cavernous studio. The blank expanse towers before the artist and his young assistant. As the young man pours thick red paint into two galvanized buckets, Rothko, played by Alfred Molina, drops the needle on TLU.
He looks up and says "Okey-dokey. Let's prime the canvas" . . .A knowing smile and the two men attack. With a ferocious exuberance they begin a painter's pas<|fim_middle|>ko's Four Season's murals will be part of the Getty's Pompeii exhibition which opens September 6th. | de deux. Wielding brushes as wide as brooms, they duck under one another working from side to side. As one man moves down the other swoops up. It's like a duel with each parrying the brushstrokes of the other. This is not the gentle gesso-ing of oil painting. This is the virulent world of abstract expressionism, an almost ritualist abolishing of an empty canvas.
But amid this frenzy, there is a grace, an elegance to their movements.
Described differently: two men painted a big red square. It all depends on the viewer.
"Red" is a fictionalized account of Mark Rothko's 1958 commission to provide "600 square feet of paintings for the most exclusive room in the new Four Seasons restaurant at the Seagram Building in New York." As one critic put it, "the most prestigious public commission that had ever been awarded to an abstract expressionist painter." The play circles around the question: why would a rebellious artist accept a commission to, in effect, decorate the backdrop of privileged consumption?
Playwright John Logan's way in is through a fictional young assistant who enters Rothko's studio a naive, aspiring painter. It's part bio-drama, part wonderful art history seminar, and part coming of age story as a young man becomes an artist and an artist faces the cold realities of aging. But it's really a romance - not between the two men - but a celebration of the romantic ideal of the artist, of art itself.
On the page, the script could be, like the canvas, a bit flat and predictible. What keeps the play urgent and engaging - like the painting of that 'red square' are the two stunning performances by Alfred Molina as Rothko and Jonathan Groff as his assistant. Directed with a graceful precision by Michael Grandage, Mr. Molina delivers a truly tour-de-force performance. He captures the cantankerous passion and sardonic wit of the artist and navigates the shifts of tone with taut precison.
This is a performance, and a play, not to be missed.
"Red" plays at the Mark Taper Forum in downtown LA through September 9th.
Runtime: 90 Minutes without intermission.
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Chudeřice (deutsch Chuderzitz, 1939–1945 Kuderschitz) ist eine Gemeinde in Tschechien. Sie liegt sieben Kilometer östlich von Chlumec nad Cidlinou und gehört zum Okres Hradec Králové.
Geographie
Chudeřice befindet sich am Fuße der Dobřenická plošina (Dobrzenitzer Hochfläche) auf der Chlumecká tabule (Chlumetzer Tafel). Am nördlichen Ortsrand verläuft die Bahnstrecke Chlumec nad Cidlinou–Międzylesie, dahinter die Staatsstraße I/11 zwischen Nové Město und Hradec Králové. Zwei Kilometer südlich des Dorfes verläuft die Dálnice 11/E 67. Im Südosten erheben sich der Lhotáček (290 m n.m.) und der Soudný (288 m n.m.), südlich die Jitra (272 m n.m.) und der Kačerový kopec (271 m n.m.). Gegen Südosten liegen die Teiche Lhotáček und die Běloveské rybníčky, südwestlich der Kněžský rybník und der Starovodský rybník. Östlich von Chudeřice befindet sich die Wüstung Haškova Lhota, südöstlich die Wüstung Nedabylice.
Nachbarorte sind Kosice, Třesice und Kosičky im Norden, Babice, Požáry und Káranice im Nordosten, Ovčín und Michnovka im Osten, Pravy, Kasaličky, V Austrálii und Na Obci im Südosten, Voleč, Amerika, Žáravice und Chýšť im Süden, Klamoš und Rtanov im Südwesten, Stará Voda im Westen sowie Nová Hospoda, Oktaviánov und Přestavecko im Nordwesten.
Geschichte
Die erste urkundliche Erwähnung von Chuderzicz erfolgte 1318 in der Landtafel, als das Gut dem Zemanen Všeslav von Zachrašťany zugeschrieben wurde. Im Ort bestand zu<|fim_middle|>indet. 1869 hatte Chudeřice 201 Einwohner und bestand aus 25 Häusern. Zwischen 1870 und 1873 wurde nördlich des Dorfes die Bahnstrecke Chlumetz–Königgrätz angelegt; einen Haltepunkt erhielt das Dorf jedoch nicht. Im Jahre 1900 lebten in Chudeřice 178 Menschen, 1910 waren es 184. Im Jahre 1913 löste sich das Dorf von Káranice los und bildete eine eigene Gemeinde. 1923 erfolgte die Elektrifizierung des Dorfes. 1930 hatte Chudeřice 201 Einwohner und bestand aus 35 Häusern. In den 1930er Jahren entstand eine Dorfschule. Im Zuge der Gebietsreform von 1960 wurde der Okres Nový Bydžov aufgelöst, seitdem gehört die Gemeinde zum Okres Hradec Králové. Beim Zensus von 2001 lebten in den 64 Häusern der Gemeinde 195 Personen.
Sehenswürdigkeiten
Gemauerter Glockenbaum
Sandsteinkreuz im Ortszentrum
Denkmal für die Gefallenen des Ersten Weltkrieges
Literatur
Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2005, Teil 1, S. 460
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Einzelnachweise | dieser Zeit eine Feste. Im Jahre 1386 gehörte Chuderzicz zu den Gütern der Feste Přestavlky, der Besitzer war Unka von Přestavlk. Das Geschlecht, das auch das Prädikat de Chuderzicz gebrauchte, wurde 1430 letztmals erwähnt und erlosch wahrscheinlich – wie auch die Feste Chudeřice – während der Hussitenkriege. In der Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts erwarben die Herren von Pernstein die wüste Feste Přestavlky mit den zugehörigen Dörfern und schlugen sie der Herrschaft Chlumetz zu. Johann von Pernstein, der die Herrschaften 1533 erworben hatte, veräußerte sie an König Ferdinand I., der sie 1547 zu einer Kammerherrschaft Chlumetz vereinigte. König Matthias überschrieb 1611 die Kammerherrschaft Chlumetz für treue Dienste bei der Erlangung der Böhmischen Krone an Wenzel Graf Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau. Nachdem Wenzel Graf Kinsky 1620 in die Chlumetzer Pfarrkirche St. Ursula einfiel, um hussitische Gottesdienste zu unterbinden, brach in der Gegend ein Aufstand aus. Im Jahre 1775 brach in der Herrschaft ein großer Bauernaufstand aus.
Im Jahre 1833 bestand das im Bidschower Kreis gelegene Dorf Chuděřitz aus 16 Häusern, in denen 112 Personen lebten. Im Ort gab es einen Meierhof mit Schäferei. Gepfarrt war das Dorf zur Dechanteikirche der hl. Ursula in Chlumetz. Bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts blieb Chuděřitz der Fideikommissherrschaft Chlumetz untertänig.
Nach der Aufhebung der Patrimonialherrschaften bildete Chudeřice ab 1849 eine Gemeinde im Gerichtsbezirk Chlumetz. Ab 1868 gehörte das Dorf zum Bezirk Neubydžow und wurde nach Káranice eingeme | 551 |
Janet Gohlke has been working in the real estate industry since 2003, when she started working for a national real estate developer, and then for a corporation specializing in 1031 exchanges and tenant-in-common investments. While there, she obtained her real estate license and assisted employees with their personal transactions. She held several management roles and in 20<|fim_middle|> granddaughters (who live out of state). She's lived in Idaho for twenty-four years and enjoys many outdoor activities such as running, camping, backpacking, and spending time at her family cabin in the mountains when time allows. She also enjoys reading in her spare time.
We are so excited to welcome Janet to The Mike Brown Group's team of real estate professionals! | 07 she became an independent real estate agent at Keller Williams Realty Boise.
After working in real estate within a corporate structure, Janet realized how rewarding it was to assist people in such a life-changing and important transaction. She knew this was what she wanted to do, "…to be a part of a person's biggest, and possibly their most important life-decision." Janet says, "My number-one priority for my clients is surpassing their goals!" She enjoys putting their wants, needs, and desires together, and making their move smooth and seamless.
When she's not busy working her real estate business, Janet loves being a grandma to two beautiful | 130 |
DNA 515XC
By: Norman Holtzhausen, Photography by: Norman Holtzhausen
When David McKain was looking for a new boat he thought he would stay with a fibreglass model. But the space, durability and ride quality of the DNA 515XC pontoon model convinced him otherwise, and he is now an aluminium boat convert.
David McKain has owned only three boats in the past twenty years, and the first two were both fibreglass. Each was his pride and joy for about a decade, and McKain has been fiercely loyal to that construction material. So when the family grew up and he was looking to downsize, it seemed his next rig would be an obvious choice. However, he had some very specific requirements for his new ride, and, he believed, a moulded fibreglass boat was not going to be sufficiently customisable for his needs.
He started to look at options in aluminium and soon came across DNA boats, based near Nelson. Jason Elvines, managing director of DNA, says they have spent several years developing their standardised hull designs in both monohull and pontoon configurations. These form the basis of their dozen or so models, some of which are also available in kitset form for DIY experts to build themselves.
By using the latest in CAD software and CNC cutting machines, they have the ability to custom build every single boat. The extremely fine tolerances of the CNC machine enables them to create interlocking full-length frames, while also allowing them to incorporate unique design features most conventional alloy boat builders are unable to achieve.
Custom criteria
McKain started with the DNA 515XC cuddy series. The X designation of the DNA range indicates a pontoon boat, and this model features a stylish stepped pontoon profile tapering gently towards a slightly squared- off bow. McKain says what attracted him to this model was the substantial cockpit space, larger than most of its competitors in this length.
The pontoons provide stability at rest, while the 20-degree deadrise provides smooth-riding performance. In the DNA hull the pontoons lift just clear of the water when underway, reducing the wetted area and hence lowering drag while still being there to provide buoyancy when the going gets tough. So McKain's second criterion, namely a soft-riding boat, also got the big tick.
Unlike many blokes' fishing boats, this is clearly a joint venture between McKain and his wife Meg, and it was refreshing to see her as excited about the new boat as he was. The third criterion, due to a back injury some years ago, was additional secure handholds all over the boat. For the same reason, a rocket launcher wasn't practical, so Elvines designed a miniature ski arch on the transom with four rod holders.
An option in the 515XC is an underfloor fuel tank, but the McKains elected to go with two of the new 45-litre tote tanks. This boat will be based at their bach in Rotorua and, rather than tow the whole boat to the petrol station, they will just take the tanks out for refilling. The transom has therefore been set high enough for these tanks to slip neatly underneath and out of the way.
The McKains opted for the Targa top and clears to give shelter from the sun and rain. One of the cool things a CNC cutter can do is a custom cut-out, and they opted to have the boat's name, Te Namu (sand-fly), and a graphic of a trout fly of the same type cut into the arch supporting the top. Although the top is removable, there's no height issue at their bach so they opted to have the arch bolted on rather than mounted with hinges and clips. The Targa top has plenty of head height, even for those over six feet tall, and extends far enough forward that the clears drop down almost vertically to the windscreen.
Something looked slightly uncommon in the cabin layout and it took a few seconds to work out what one of Meg McKain's most unusual customisations was: the passenger seat (a moulded plastic unit mounted on a huge under-seat locker with a supplementary rear-facing seat) is set further forward in the cockpit than the skipper seat. This ensures the passenger can reach the handholds and foot rests while also ensuring the rear-facing seat doesn't occupy much in the way of cockpit space. Looking at how this works I can see the benefits of this asymmetrical arrangement, and it's something other designers should consider.
One final option the McKains selected was to have the entire boat, inside and out, apart from the treadplate deck, Nyalic coated. This is out of concern for the sulphur dioxide sometimes present in the air in Rotorua, and since the boat will be stored there most of the year they wanted to inhibit any corrosive effects. Of course, the Nyalic makes the boat gleam like it's been polished, and it will continue to gleam for years to come.
When it came to powering the vessel, David McKain chose to keep the Yamaha 115hp four-stroke from his previous boat, as it had relatively few hours on the clock. Although right at the upper end of the recommended horsepower for this hull (75 to 115hp), a bit of extra power is usually preferable to being underpowered. The 115hp is one of Yamaha's best-selling models and is generally regarded as being extremely reliable and economical to run. This is a decision McKain is unlikely to regret.
DNA built the boat to the McKains' exact requirements. One of the advantages of this custom-build process is the ability to see the quality of the workmanship as it all comes together, and McKain says they received regular updates and photographs of the hull as it was assembled - no dodgy welding hidden under the deck when the client is watching the entire process! Also, although the boat is designed on the CAD system and the client gets to explore the design beforehand, during a custom build like this the client can choose to change aspects of the boat as it progresses. This is much easier to accommodate than retro-fitting any changes to an already-built hull.
Open throttle
It was a very pleased couple that took delivery of their new boat in mid-February, and it was during their couple of weeks of shakedown trips that we caught up with them. Since their boating will be almost exclusively fresh-water, and often in shallow water at that, they have the motor mounted perhaps slightly higher than is optimal. However, this allows a shallower draught for coming in to shore, while the stainless prop ensures an occasional powered clean-off in the mud will not cause undue harm.
We managed to get out onto Lake Karapiro on a brilliant sunny afternoon, and once we'd dodged the numerous jetskis and waterskiers, we headed up the lake. The boat proved to have amazing handling. Cutting through the huge skiboat wakes was no problem, and the chop down at the rowing club end of the lake hardly worried her. At low speeds the pontoons come into play, stabilising the entire hull.
Once clear of the rowing lanes and jetskis we opened the throttles and hurtled out of the blocks. Well over 30 knots came up in seconds, and the curved chine, located just under the pontoons, kept spray well away. The boat rides on those chines under normal conditions, giving a smooth and stable feel.
The 515 does not have any planing strakes, nor does it need any, as the chines serve this purpose. Tight turns with no side-slip are also possible thanks to those same edges, with the pontoons providing extra grab when pushed very hard. Holeshot performance, with the big engine, was quite extraordinary as one might expect, but I believe it would be good even with a more modest power plant.
Since this boat will mostly be used for trout fishing on Lake Rotorua, stability at low speeds and in a wind and chop was paramount. The pontoons take care of all of this, and even three large adults leaning far over one side simply settled the side pontoon slightly further into the water.
The cu<|fim_middle|> no sharp edges to the aluminium.
For more details visit dnaboats.co.nz or give Jason a call on 03 542 3977. DNA Boats will also be at the Hutchwilco New Zealand boat show from 17 to 20 May, so visit them on stand B136.
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The helm seat, a plastic pod-mounted unit, was comfortable. The steering was incredibly light, almost as if it was a powered hydraulic unit, so clearly the motor position and trim is just spot on. A modest Garmin 500C colour fishfinder is fitted, as is a VHF radio.
The entire deck is treadplate but, for bare-foot comfort, a tube mat has been fitted over this. Two additional seats with padded squabs are set in each corner of the transom, and access to the boarding platform is by stepping onto these. The outboard motor pod and boarding platforms on either side is a single unit, with a slight gap between the hull and boarding platform. An alloy T-style boarding ladder is fitted.
This is the first DNA boat I have reviewed, and I have to say I'm impressed. The ride quality was excellent and the stability equal to, if not better than, the best in its class. Performance was exceptional. The build quality was also very good, and the precise CNC cutter means there are | 290 |
Founded in 1983,<|fim_middle|>7 Mengke Safety Grating Co., Ltd. | Mengke Safety Grating Co., Ltd. has established a reputation for supplying high quality safety gratings and courteous and knowledgeable service. For more than 30 years, we have been focusing on manufacturing safety gratings including Traction-Grip, Diamond-Strut, O-Grip and Interlock Grating. They are extensively used in industrial plants and commercial areas where pedestrian traffic is heavy.
Although our company has been built for 30 years, it has been widely recognized as partners by our customers from many countries. There are two important points between the long business relationships: high quality products and business supports in all aspects such as price and delivery time. Our policy is to "Do What's Right for The Customer". From sales to engineering to production, our employees are motivated and compensated on the fact that we are a team. You will find a different level of service at Mengke, because we look forward to serving your needs.
Mengke Safety Grating Co., Ltd. has been manufacturing safety plank gratings for 30 years since its establishment in 1983. During that period, our company has built perfect inspecting system to ensure the high quality. At the same time, our staffs of Research and Development focus on innovating new products and custom products for customers' special requirements.
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Don't panic! Click on the file at left (Our Country Our Parliament) for a great booklet created by the Parliament of Canada to help explain itself to the citizens of this country. Highly visual with language that is easy to understand, this reasource might help make things a little clearer for you. Of course, don't hesitate to ask your<|fim_middle|> the classroom over six days. | teacher for help.
Citizens of counties, towns, and cities elect representatives to be responsible for municipal, or local, government. The elected representatives of counties and other rural bodies, such as improvement districts, are called reeves (the heads) and councilors. People elected to run towns and cities are called mayors (the heads) and aldermen and/or councilors. In both cases, the group together is called a council, and by "local government," we mean the various councils. Councilors may belong to political parties, but they do not represent a party when they run for election. Also, unlike the Prime Ministers or Premiers, reeves and mayors are elected directly to their positions.
Government in the provincial order consists of the Premier and Cabinet Ministers. Like their federal counterparts, the Premier and ministers are almost always from the same political party, the one with the most elected members in the Legislative Assembly.
The premier, cabinet ministers, and all other elected members together make up the Legislative Assembly and are called Members of the Provincial Parliament or MPPs (i.e. Ted McMeekin), while the Legislature is the Legislative Assembly together with the lieutenant governor (who represents The Queen). The provinces' areas of responsibility, defined in the Constitution Act, 1867, include health, child welfare, municipal government, highways, labour, property and civil rights, and education.
In the federal order, the government consists of the Prime Minister and cabinet ministers. The Prime Minister and cabinet are always members of the same political party, usually the one that has the most members in the House of Commons, unless a Minority Government is currently in power.
In the federal order, the government is part of an institution called Parliament. Parliament consists of the Queen, represented by the governor general, and two Houses, the House of Commons (the "lower House") and the Senate (the "upper House"). In turn, the House of Commons consists of all Members of Parliament - MPs - while the Senate is made up of Senators appointed by the Queen on the advice of the prime minister. Parliament's areas of responsibility under our Constitution include citizenship, foreign policy, national defense, currency, banking, and the postal service.
Bowling for Columbine is an excellent way to review concepts of bias, political and personal ideologies and their impact on poltics.
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Can you find some clues that tell you about Barack Obama and John McCain's political ideologies?
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What is an attack ad? The following campaign against Prime Minister Jean Chretien was infamous during 1993 - do you think there is any value to such a strategy?
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Performance profiling helps coaches understand their athlete or client strengths and weaknesses from both a physical and physiologic aspect. It also helps coaches to create a base line measurement of the individual they are dealing with. Once profiling has been performed it will<|fim_middle|> next necessary steps to take in order to achieve the highest level of performance.
Screening individuals provides you with an oversight on movement deficiencies and create a clear picture of any potential movement limitation. The parameters we look to measures are mobility, stability, and core movement patterns. This helps provide coaches with an oversight on how to maximise injury prevention and improve overall performance.
Vertical jump testing measures both strength and power. This system of testing is reproducible on a weekly or monthly base and can be used to not only test the power output of athletes but also to monitor fatigue.
Measures your acceleration capabilities over a set distance. Speed and good acceleration qualities are important aspects of most sports. During our speed testing, we show coaches how to create a full speed profile on their athletes.
Understanding the strength capabilities of your athlete is fundamentally important not only from a programming perspective but also from an injury prevention standpoint. During our strength testing, we show coaches how to properly perform full body strength testing.
Creating a profile of your athlete's energy system or fitness requirement not only allows them to become high performers at their sport but also keeps the athletes healthy and free from injury. During our ESD testing, we show coaches how to segment and test all of the individual's energy system. | provide a clear indication as to the | 7 |
An FDA postscript on arsenic and rice
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Last week, I wrote a post called "The FDA Side Steps on Arsenic in Rice" in which I pointed out that the agency's big announcement that it had discovered that<|fim_middle|>ainRhett Allain
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In fact, the announcement seemed to deliberately downplay the real health issue, which is chronic exposure to low-dose arsenic. This is a problem which is increasingly linked to health issues ranging from diabetes to cardiovascular disease. I speculated this emphasis was largely a move to appease the U.S. rice industry, which has not particularly enjoyed news coverage linking its product to one of history's more famous poisons. I received a strong positive response to that story, including a note from the folks at Consumer Reports, who have been advocating for safety limits on arsenic in food supply, and who agreed that "this was never about short term risk."
Perhaps my favorite feedback - and this undoubtedly says something about me - was a column by the excellent Minnesota environmental writer, Ron Meador, who described me as snarky but sensible (a description I love). And then went on to strike a similar note: "If you doubt Blum's conjecture as to FDA's interest in comforting industry, check out the commissioner's blog post that accompanied announcement of the test results — a sort of upbeat travel story from the California rice fields, full of praise for all the growers and processors who are working so hard "to better understand how arsenic gets into rice and what growing and processing strategies might be employed to reduce arsenic levels."
But today I got a note from the FDA's press office. It said: "Deborah – We read your blog, "The FDA sidesteps on arsenic and rice" and wanted to bring your attention to our FDA Blog which addresses many of the issues you raised in your blog. It included a link to a piece posted yesterday titled "Next Steps on Arsenic and Rice" and written by agency researcher Suzanne Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick's point is that most serious phase of the agency's evaluation of rice safety is just beginning - and that actually is an assessment of long-term risk:* "I am a toxicologist and will be looking at the data on possible different adverse effects from arsenic exposure in rice. Nutritionists will be studying rice consumption patterns and epidemiologists will be looking for patterns of disease. There will be statisticians, experts on exposure to arsenic, and many others."*
And I think it's important to emphasize that here because I find that far more reassuring than last week's happy talk announcement. I like knowing that a federal agency tasked with protecting the public health both recognizes the critical questions raised by arsenic in the food supply and is working to address them. And I even like knowing that they're going to take some time to get it right, another point that Fitzpatrick emphasizes. (In the meantime, she recommends that we consumers eat a varied diet of grains that also includes wheat, barley and oats. And she adds that although rice cereal has often been touted as the starter cereal for infants, there's no medical evidence suggesting that it's a better choice than other grains.)
The "FDA is very focused on the long-term risks and we appreciated your article," was the closing line of my email from the agency, Which I thought was a pretty smart way to respond to criticism.
So I'd like to return the compliment. And I mean that in a sensible way with no snark at all.
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Hello World, you might be wondering just who I am. I am the princess in<|fim_middle|> insect bite or a bit of a rash, Mummy reaches for Jorubi Aloe gel. When I was little, Mummy used it to treat my diaper rash too. It feels cool, soothes and heals my skin quickly. It has no added chemicals and is 99% pure aloe vera. If I am feeling overheated, Mummy gives me a spritz of Avene Springwater spray. | my family, much loved by Mummy and Daddy.
Mummy has a history of eczema and sensitive skin, so she's made sure that all my skincare keeps me moisturized, happy, healthy and free from the itchies. I cannot wear make-up yet because Daddy would have a fit. So let's get on with the serious stuff and end the idle chit chat.
I love a nice warm bath. I use Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser for my body and face, like Mummy does. During the dry winter months, Mummy adds in some Mustella Stelatopia Milky Bath Oil to give me extra moisture. Its main ingredient is sunflower oil, which is known to be rich in Vitamin E that helps to preserve moisture on the skin. Be careful when stepping out of the bath because it can get slippery!
For my hair, I use Physiogel Shampoo plus for sensitive scalp to ensure my scalp as well as my hair are cleansed from all the running around I do all day. You will not believe what the workout from whizzing the slides and hanging with my friends does to my hair. This shampoo contains Vitamin B5 and is gentle yet cleanses thoroughly, keeping my hair shiny and scalp healthy.
After a brisk drying with my fluffy Little Giraffe towel, I ensure my skin stays moist and silky with Unicare Skin Balsamcream in the drier months and Physiogel cream in the warmer and humid months. I have tried a few "fancy" creams but they don't do the job as well as these 2. Best of all, these are affordable and effective.
Unicare isn't greasy and a little goes a long way. Its main ingredient is Sorbolene with 10% Glycerin. It keeps my skin moisturized to prevent eczema or rash. Its unscented and has no colouring. A pretty plain and simple product. I apply this to my face and body too.
Physiogel cream is free of preservatives, non scented and has no colouring. It can be a little oily so don't apply too much near the hairline unless you are going for a "greased" look.
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Gennaro Gattuso described AC Milan as "two-faced" after his team conceded an injury time equaliser against Atalanta.
Gonzalo Higuain gave Milan a second-minute lead and Giacomo Bonaventura restored the advantage after Alejandro Gomez's equaliser.
But with Milan seemingly on track for victory at San Siro, substitute Emiliano Rigoni scored in the first minute of added time to earn Atalanta a draw.
Milan have won one of their last four Serie A matches to sit in the bottom half of the table and Gattuso could not contain his frustration after seeing his side drop points again.
"There is great regret, we are a two-faced team," Gattuso told Sky Sport Italia<|fim_middle|>"We are giving good performances, but we need continuity of play and mentality. We cannot suffer and keep the field well for 90 minutes.
"There are no alibis. This is a young team, with room for improvement, but we cannot lose ourselves on the way. It's a fact that what we do is not enough, it's a team problem.
"Today we had a great first half, but the last half hour worries me." | . "We played a great first half, in the last half hour we struggled and we suffered against our opponents.
"It has been happening for four games this time; sometimes we play good football, but that's not enough, we have to do more.
"We have to improve because if you do not close the games it is normal that they can then become a problem. This is the aspect to be improved.
"Another aspect not to be underestimated is that we struggle to change the type of game and take a few second balls. Even in these aspects we must grow.
"Playing well is not enough and is not synonymous with victory. We last too little, we give 30-40 minutes and then leave the opponents to the field."
Milan missed their target of Champions League qualification last season and they are already well off the pace, although they have a game in hand.
"I know that we played well," added Gattuso. "But now I would prefer to play badly and have more points in the standings.
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The barrier to becoming a financial planner is low, which means there's a wide gap in talent and ability in the field. Some "advisors" don't have much of a financial background. Besides, dentists and other medical practitioners require someone who understands the intricacies of running a practice. Who's handling your money?
When it comes to financial planning for dentists, here are four questions you should ask before getting out your checkbook.
How Do You Invest Money for Your Clients?
Ask the advisor to explain his investment strategy. It's a good idea to ask for academic and professional credentials and who influenced their decision to work as a financial advisor.
No one can predict the future, so you should be wary of financial advisors who say they can determine the movement of stock, bonds and other investment instruments. Instead, look for answers that indicate the advisor watches the market carefully and invests their clients' money with prudence and caution. Investment performance is a matter of forethought and preparation, not prediction.
Good financial advisors establish a process that can be retraced, and you should make sure that your financial planning goals and objectives are carefully documented. Rather than going with an advisor that works alone, consider working with a<|fim_middle|> competence. Financial planners should have broad experience and a Certified (CFP) certification is the most meaningful credential in the field.
Another relevant credential for someone investing your money is the Certified Financial Advisor (CFA) credential. These certificates take time and effort and cover the basics of the industry as well as the legal and ethical ramifications.
You ask this question to gauge the advisor's experience and competence. Qualified advisors should launch into detail if they are passionate about what they do and how they protect and serve their clients. Not everyone will have the same process and philosophy, but good financial advisors know why they do what they do and should be able to articulate that. | larger firm, where a team-based approach gives you a backup if your advisor moves or retires. Whoever you work with, make sure they understand the intricacies and seasonality of your practice so that they can help you time your investments appropriately.
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Whole young whiting are perfect for making fish stock.
It's my second September living year-round in Maine, and the access to fresh, affordable seafood is one of the things I'm most grateful for after more than a year here. Of course the produce is incredibly bountiful now, though a chill is setting in. I can barely keep up with our C.S.A. and my neglected community garden plot's bounty. I'm actually a member of three C.S.A.s at the moment–incredibly indulgent I know, though I believe they are saving us money on food costs if you pencil everything out. In addition to the vegetable C.S.A., I just started John Bunker's incredible bi-weekly "Out on a Limb" heritage apple C.S.A. program. And on and off for almost a year now I've had the privilege of being one of the inaugural members of the Salt & Sea Community-Supported Fishery, which does a weekly drop of fresh-from-the-boat fish and shellfish in Brunswick. I've had a chance to cook with some of the freshest fillets of pollock, Acadian redfish (my new favorite…especially pan-fried for fish tacos), haddock, dabs and monkfish you can imagine. Every week, owner Justine Simon emails us a suggested recipe for that week's fish, which can usually be assembled with ingredients you have on hand. It takes all the guesswork out of coming up with dinner and then procuring those items. Effortless, delicious fish dinner!
The potato-and-tomato-rich simple stew we made with the sweet stock.
Unfortunately, Justine says last week's share caught many members off-guard. I was delighted to get her announcement of whole fish for the first time: "some lovely little whiting (silver hake) tonight from Jerry and crew on the Teresa Mare IV. They caught them close to shore as they were coming in from their trip," Justine wrote. It's also GMRI's fish of the<|fim_middle|> cook up the summer's bounty before the chill sets in here in Maine. In Oregon and here, September is prime salad-making time. You've got just about every fresh, locally-grown vegetable at your disposal.
I've brought salads to several events of late, so I'm in a groove. And rather than bring the same old dressed lettuce, I've sought out variety, recipes that really test our sense of the word "salad." I love how deliciously broad a category it is.
Take, for example, otsu: the tangy, gingery cold soba noodles tossed with toasted tofu, cucumber, scallions, toasted sesame seeds and shredded carrot kraut (last ingredient my addition). I gladly stumbled upon the recipe in popular food blogger Heidi Swanson's Super Natural Cooking book, a thank-you gift I received for judging a hazelnut cooking competition. Swanson's technique of roasting the drained tofu cubes in a dry non-stick pan (or well-seasoned cast iron skillet) was a revelation to me. Finally crispy cubes of tofu that didn't require additional oil. I might use this technique to prepare tofu for a stir-fry or simmer sauce, to give in a more satisfying texture. Be careful not to overcook the soba (Japanese buckwheat noodles) here…those thin suckers cook up quickly.
Other salads I made this week included a visually-grabbing tri-colored beet salad with cut blanched green beans and yellow tomato. Tonight, I was inspired by the Samin Nosrat's grilled pepper and corn salad. It came out more like a liquid-y salsa, but a nice acidic complement to greasy ribs we picnicked on from a surprisingly authentic BBQ place in nearby Bath (great domain name, Beale Street!). The liquid leftover from the salad would make nice Bloody Mary's. Nosrat's recipe calls for pre-pickling the onions in red wine vinegar and pressing garlic with salt into paste for dressing–techniques I recognize from my beloved Tamar Adler. Which isn't surprising, I suppose, since both women worked at Chez Panisse. Must have learned the techniques from Alice Waters. | month in their excellent Out of the Blue Campaign.
I've had a fascination with whiting ever since living in Baltimore, where filets of the cheap fish are fried and known as the local delicacy, Lake Trout (not from a lake nor a trout). As Justine went on, "Whiting is considered a delicacy in many different types of cuisine, and is more often than not prepared whole." I'm not sure if you can call young whiting "scrod," but seems to be similar to young cod, haddock and other whitefish.
The whole fish thankfully came gutted and cleaned. Justine said folks most often remove the head, fins and tail, then dredge the fish in egg and flour and either fry or bake them. But my in-laws had just arrived, so we opted for take-out (something we rarely do) to avoid the mess of frying fish.
We simmered potatoes, carrots, celery, fennel, onions and tomatoes from our CSA and/or my garden in the stock, which made for a delicious meal. I just used a mesh ladle strainer to remove the fish bodies, picking off the sweet delicate meat that gave right away from the bone. It would also be perfect for bouillabaisse, cioppino or my grandmother's Manhattan-style clam chowder.
Bagels from Union Bagel in Portland. Pale perhaps, but still chewy and delicious. At least far better than the insipid, roll-like, Mr. Bagel or Einstein's alternative.
Surprisingly, Justine reported "overall the whiting didn't get great reviews from the CSF." How I often forget my tastes are more exotic and adventurous than my average fellow American. Fortunately, several members rallied to tell Salt & Sea they liked it! So they'll at least offer it again as a preference that people of which people can opt out. Count me in! I'm ready to continue to get my hands dirty with fresh fish. If only I could have smoked these small fish as a stand-in for whole smoked whitefish at our lovely Yom Kippur break-fast we had with friends this year. I brought the bagels, local Maine lox and cream cheese instead.
Tri-colored beets (golden, candy-striped Chioggia and plain red) salad I topped with goat cheese and maple syrup-candied chopped almonds.
I've been falling in love with salads again as I frantically try to | 498 |
It has been demonstrated that ADO rates in single cells might be different for different types of heterozygous cells. The ADO rate may exceed 20% in blastomeres, compared with ADO rate in single fibroblasts and PB1, which was shown to be under 10%. A high rate of ADO in blastomeres may lead to an obvious misdiagnosis, especially in compound heterozygous embryos. As mentioned, most misdiagnoses, especially those at the initial stage of application of PGD for single gene disorders, were in the cases of blastomere biopsy from apparently compound heterozygous embryos. To avoid a misdiagnosis because of preferential amplification, a simultaneous detection of the mutant gene together with up to three highly polymorphic markers, closely linked to the gene tested, was introduced.1-1'2-1 Each additional linked marker reduces the risk for misdiagnosis significantly, which may practically be eliminated with the application of three markers. So a multiplex nested PCR analysis is performed, with the initial PCR reaction containing all the pairs of outside primers, so that following the first-round PCR, separate aliquots of the resulting PCR product may be amplified using the inside primers specific for each site. Only when the polymorphic sites and the mutation agree are embryos transferred. So the multiplex amplification allows detecting ADO and preventing the transfer of misdiagnosed affected embryos.
Another efficient approach for avoiding misdiagnosis is a sequential genetic analysis of the PB1 and PB2 in PGD for maternally derived mutations. Detection of both mutant and normal alleles in the heterozygous PB1, together with the mutant allele in the corresponding PB2, leaves no doubt that the resulting maternal contribution to the embryo is normal, even without testing for the linked markers as a control. However, it is ideal to test simultaneously at least for one linked marker to confirm the diagnosis. Alternatively, the mutation-free oocytes may also be predicted when corresponding PB1 is homozygous mutant, in which case the corresponding PB2 should be hemizygous normal, similar to the resulting maternal pronucleus. However, the genotype of the resulting maternal contribution may be quite opposite, i.e., mutant, if the corresponding PB1 is in fact heterozygous but not detected because of ADO of the normal allele.
The other method with the proved potential for detecting and avoiding misdiagnosis because of preferential amplification is fluorescence PCR (F-PCR), which may allow detecting of some of the heterozygous PB1 or blastomeres misdiagnosed as homozygous in conventional PCR. In addition, the method also allows a simultaneous gender determination, DNA fingerprinting, and detection of common aneuploidies.
Finally, because of high rate of chromosomal mosai-cism at the cleavage stage, testing for the chromosome, in which the gene in question is mapped, is of an obvious value to exclude the lack of mutant allele because<|fim_middle|> For example, in some cases, a particular set of outside primers has to be designed to eliminate false priming to the pseudogene, as described in PGD for long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-Coa dehydrogenase deficiency. In addition, the preparatory work may frequently involve a single sperm typing needed for establishing paternal haplotypes, so that linked marker analysis could be performed in addition to mutation analysis, especially in cases of paternally derived dominant conditions or PGD combined with preimplantation HLA matching. | of monosomy of this chromosome in the biopsied blasto-mere. As mentioned, aneuploidy testing is technically feasible and may be performed by adding primers for chromosome-specific microsatellite markers to the multiplex PCR protocols worked out for specific genetic disorder.
Because of need for the development of a custom-made PGD design for each mutation and each couple, a preparatory work has become an integral part of PGD for single gene disorders to ensure avoiding the potential misdiagnosis. | 102 |
I have a lot of feelings about magnets. Let's get that out in the open first thing.
I'm not being ironic here. I believe souvenir items are a genuinely wonderful phenomenon, and magnets are their apex form.
People spend a lot of time choosing souvenirs. We idle in front of the postcard rack long past our parking meter expiration. Buses are missed; tour groups abandoned. Entire families weigh in on the perfect choice and often end up picking separately to reach satisfaction. The perusing of the souvenir shelves often reflects the amount of time spent in front of the artworks themselves, and for very good reason.
As to why we buy souvenir magnets<|fim_middle|> Bills, shopping lists, love notes, reminder notices, calendars, the kids' latest artwork – all the significant items of the Now, arranged in the centre of our daily routine.
And what is it that we use to hold the Now in place?
Our souvenir magnets. Like memory anchors, these are our micro-monuments of the Then. On the fridge, all the essentials of our everyday are held up by the moments that we were transformed.
We keep our present tethered with our past, and if that's not a marvellous thing to be having feelings over I don't know what is.
Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'm late for the train.
Footnote: The sales of all souvenirs from the Gallery Shop directly contribute to the Gallery and its collection, which is also pretty magnificent. | in particular, I've got a theory.
Souvenir magnets almost always go on the fridge, right? The one place we're all guaranteed to visit multiple times a day. The stuff we keep on the fridge, therefore, is all the important day-to-day stuff. | 54 |
When the fall hits, it is the perfect time to have all the heating maintenance done that you need to have done. A lot of people will be rushing to have the technicians come out to their home and do what needs to be done, so the sooner you call them to have them come out, the better.
Why Call in the Fall?
The fall time is a signal that says that the temperatures are becoming cooler, heat is going to be needed and winter is just around the corner. When this happens, you don't want to turn on the furnace until everything is done to it that needs to be done. You might need a new filter, might need repairs or anything else.
Making sure that the furnace is in the best working order before using it is highly recommended. You don't want to find out later that something is wrong when the temperatures are too low, and you have a family that needs to stay warm during the winter months.
If you're unsure of the maintenance that needs to be done on your furnace, then it is increasingly important that you speak with a professional that knows what needs to be done. They can provide more insight and give you<|fim_middle|> attempt to do certain things for your furnace that you're unsure of, as this can not only ruin the system, but it can be dangerous, as well.
When you're ready to have annual maintenance on your furnace, make sure to always speak with a professional to come out and handle it. Let us help you get in contact with the professionals working in your area when you give us a call or fill out our form.
Contractors Today is more than happy to direct you to the professionals! | a list of things to ensure that your furnace is in the best possible shape it can be in. Never | 21 |
Autoworld is a one of a kind location, located in the stunning grounds of the Palais du Cinquantenaire, right in the heart of Brussels' European Quarter and close to Mérode and Montgomery stations. As well as easy access and parking, Autoworld Brasserie also offers a magnificent view of the most beautiful car collection in the world, the Autoworld Museum.
At Autoworld Brasserie it's the food that brings diners in and the showcasing<|fim_middle|> many other legendary drivers and co-drivers who have marked the history of Belgian rally driving. | of 100% Belgian products in high-quality dishes, with a Belgian Touch to the recipes, produce and accompaniments. Respect for the source of our produce is central to the concept that showcases Belgian artisans. The produce we use is as fair trade, finely-selected and organic as possible. The Brasserie's setting is warm and welcoming, with its intimate table arrangement and its decor shining a spotlight on Belgium.
Our Brasserie welcomes you every afternoon for a moment of relaxation, a business lunch or a family meal. On one side a stunning view of the Autoworld museum, on the other the feel of a typical brasserie, with unique photos of Brussels and Belgium. Our seasonal menu allows you to discover (or rediscover) our country's best dishes and specialities.
Autoworld Brasserie is also a place where car enthusiasts like to discuss their latest exploits. Here it is not unusual to find Georges Hacquin, Yvette Fontaine, Pierre Rubens, Willy Braillard, Christine Beckers, Claude Dubois and | 211 |
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Raidlight have come<|fim_middle|> absorption and rebound meaning not only will you feel less impact but you will also be propelled into your next stride.
Final details include a reinforced toe bummer for protection on the trail. All-in-all the Raidlight Responsiv XP is a great choice for anyone looking for a protective, supportive and well specified trail running shoe for longer races and training. | a huge distance with their latest range of trail running shoe and the Raidlight Responsiv XP is a perfect example of this progress.
Aimed at faster paced training and racing on mixed terrain the Responsiv XP immediately feels like an extension of your foot. Close fitting but without being restrictive the Responsiv XP has feeling of precision and contact with the ground. The internal design and lacing system help to ensure this excellent fit while reducing lateral movement or applying pressure to any point of the foot. A 4mm heel to toe drop encourages a fast, flowing feel.
Outsole wise, the XP Sensor sole provides a solid 4mm tread with a sticky rubber compound that excels on gravel and rock making this a highly versatile off-road choice. Cushioning wise the Sensor3 footbed have been specifically designed to provide different densities of cushioning at strategically positioned points for optimal shock | 175 |
Double amputee competes in Singer Island Triathlon
Updated: 6:45 AM EDT Jun 12, 2016
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Hector Picard has competed in 137 triathlons--an amazing accomplishment for anyone, but even more incredible for him.He was severely injured in a work-related accident 24 years ago."I got hit with 13,000 bolts of electricity twice that forced the amputation of my entire right arm, half my left and second and third-degree burns on 40 percent of my body," Picard said. Download app: iOS | AndroidPicard went through some tough times, but he decided to live life to the fullest."You have to keep living," Picard said. "I had a second chance at life and I was going to make the most of it."And he has. Picard has mastered triathlons despite not having his arms."I had to create my own form of swimming," Picard said. "I had to make modifications to my bike and I had to convince myself that I don't dislike running."This year, each race has a cause. He set out to complete 30 triathlons with the sponsorship from Novation Settlement Solutions. Each race he wears the picture of a child from Broward Children Center around his neck and when he's done, he gives that child his medal.To find out more about Picard's story and to learn how you can help in his efforts to give back to young children with disabilities, click here.
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Hector Picard has competed in 137 triathlons--an amazing accomplishment for anyone, but even more incredible for him.
He was severely injured in a work-related accident 24 years ago.
"I got hit with 13,000 bolts of electricity twice that forced the amputation of my entire right arm<|fim_middle|> help in his efforts to give back to young children with disabilities, click here. | , half my left and second and third-degree burns on 40 percent of my body," Picard said.
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Picard went through some tough times, but he decided to live life to the fullest.
"You have to keep living," Picard said. "I had a second chance at life and I was going to make the most of it."
And he has. Picard has mastered triathlons despite not having his arms.
"I had to create my own form of swimming," Picard said. "I had to make modifications to my bike and I had to convince myself that I don't dislike running."
This year, each race has a cause. He set out to complete 30 triathlons with the sponsorship from Novation Settlement Solutions. Each race he wears the picture of a child from Broward Children Center around his neck and when he's done, he gives that child his medal.
To find out more about Picard's story and to learn how you can | 206 |
You know you want to achieve more next year. Maybe you've even set some SMART goals. How do you keep your goals on track? Or, if you haven't set individual goals and sub-goals, how do you start? Setting a good stretch goal is vital.
Stretch goals are your "big picture" goals, and they can be the source of much more detailed plans. Envision where you want to be at the end of your process. This end goal, this image of you in that better place, may seem far off or difficult. That's what makes it a stretch goal. You now have to stretch yourself to get there.
Let's say your stretch goal is to run a marathon. You then create smaller sub-goals for the steps up to that point and turn them into SMART goals. This could include running in the park 3x a week at first, then doing your first 5K and 10K races. Eventually, you have worked your way up to the marathon. If your stretch goal is to be healthier, lose weight, or be stronger, you can also break that down and set SMART goals for things like working out, losing X pounds by your deadline, and making changes to your diet<|fim_middle|> to take to reach that point, and turn them into your SMART goals. Then, keep yourself accountable for your results. In no time, you'll find yourself well on the way to achieving a new you and a better life. | . Your stretch goal is the vision. It's the ultimate destination. All your SMART goals can then serve that stretch goal.
As you're going into 2017, throw out the "resolution mindset." Many people set resolutions, never really expecting to fulfill them because "that's what you do this time of year," or, "everyone's doing it." Take a little time to envision what you would like to see in your life this year and where you really want life to take you. Figure out what steps you need | 107 |
Jonathan Hawkins – KidKraft
Playing the legal game
Written by: Jim Cavan
Produced by: Erin Clark
There's a scene in "Big," the 1988 film about a boy whose wish to be a grownup magically comes true, where the lead character, played by Tom Hanks, invites his best friend to see his new office at the headquarters of MacMillan Toy Company.
Surrounded by the latest games and gadgets, many of which have yet to hit store shelves, the friend's response pretty well captures what every viewer is thinking: "You're the coolest guy I know."
It's a line that Jonathan Hawkins has heard more than once—even if he doesn't make a habit, as Hanks did, of wearing unbuttoned Hawaiian shirts to work (jeans, on the other hand, are quite common).
"There's something really fun and energizing about working in a place where imagination and creativity are everywhere," says Hawkins, vice president and general counsel for KidKraft, a Dallas-based purveyor of toys, playgrounds and the like. "It's a lot more tangible than being in a service industry. It's one of the reasons I came here."
But while the vibe and environment might harken to Penny Marshall's classic movie, for Hawkins and his legal and compliance teams, the demands are hardly child's play—particularly in light of the company's recent growth spurt.
While KidKraft has been around for more than 50 years, its acquisition by a private equity firm in 2015 required the creation and development of a legal department to support KidKraft's global business—a transformation Hawkins was tapped to lead when he was brought on board in early 2016.
His earliest efforts included organizing and streamlining processes: installing a new contract management system; overhauling the company's global insurance program; creating and implementing an intellectual property (IP) strategy for trademark and patent portfolio development; and streamlining global corporate governance matters—in the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong and China.
More broadly, Hawkins created the legal department's role in matters of corporate strategy, ensuring KidKraft's resulting growth—the company has nearly doubled in size since the 2015 acquisition—wasn't just encouraged, but also properly managed.
"When you're driven by profitability the way we are in a private equity environment, it's critically important that the legal arm understands business operations at both a granular and strategic level," Hawkins says. "We have sourcing and production management offices in Asia, a sales and logistics management office in Amsterdam, a U.S. distribution center near the Dallas-Fort Worth airport—all in addition to our Dallas headquarters, which houses an array of functions. All of these roles have to be understood, so we know when and where legal can and should offer support."
Team game
That level of involvement has required Hawkins to reevaluate how he staffed and augmented his own team. To help grasp the legal department's outlays—in particular, money spent on outside counsel and other service providers—Hawkins brought in SimpleLegal, a company specializing in legal operations software, specifically e-billing and spend management, matter management, and legal analytics.
"Working with SimpleLegal was one of the most critical things we did in terms of getting better visibility into how the company was spending money on external counsel and other legal services," Hawkins says. "They understood what we cared about and provided us an intuitive platform that could generate comprehensive reporting. All while giving us the biggest bang for our buck. It blew me away how much value we received from their system and how easy their tools were to use."
Thanks to insights gleaned from SimpleLegal's platform, Hawkins was able to better align the legal department with the company's strategic objectives, while also creating a more effective and cost-efficient roster of outside counsel, freeing up his team to focus on KidKraft's most pressing business needs.
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One of the biggest is the company's growing intellectual property (IP) portfolio. Given KidKraft's international presence—it sells its wares in more than 90 countries—filing the proper patent and trademark paperwork is crucial to operations and overall value creation for the business.
However, maintaining such an expansive patent and trademark portfolio can be expensive—particularly for a company of KidKraft's size. In order to guarantee appropriate cost controls, Hawkins developed formalized patent and trademark filing strategies that align to the strategic business objectives of the company.
"I needed to allocate these costs in the right ways, and at the right times," he says.
Whenever KidKraft develops an innovative product idea—a new structural or assembly design concept for an outdoor playground, for example—Hawkins will<|fim_middle|> want to make sure we make decisions that address our business needs while also accounting for practical risks in an appropriate way—even though it may not be required," Hawkins says. "When your integrity is on the line, there's no such thing as a small decision."
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But while his legal responsibilities loom large, Hawkins has been an equally formidable voice on the business operations side. For instance, after taking a hard look at the company's contractual trade terms (included in major retailer agreements), Hawkins helped investigate and recommend cross-functional process improvements related to retailer give-backs to bolster KidKraft's margins.
He also identified the need to replace the company's external insurance brokerage agency and managed the process of overhauling and renegotiating KidKraft's global insurance coverage portfolio for its 18 subsidiaries across North America, Europe and Asia, resulting in a 25 percent cost reduction.
More broadly, as part of the company's five-person executive team, Hawkins plays a critical role in helping shape KidKraft's culture, brand development, global operations and transformation into a platform for growth—all while growing its bottom line in a way that accomplishes what is required in today's private equity environment.
Above all, by streamlining how the company operates, Hawkins hopes to have more time to spend with his favorite kids' games of all: the ones he plays with his two young sons.
"My goal for this year is to get my parenting skills on par with my legal and business skills," jokes Hawkins, whose plethora of pastimes includes playing drums in an '80s and '90s cover band and brewing his own beer. "As the company continues to improve and grow on a daily basis, finding a work-life balance is becoming easier and easier."
One thing's for sure: Take Your Child to Work Day will never be a hard sell.
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SimpleLegal | meet regularly with the company's designers to determine whether, to what extent, and in which countries the innovation warrants intellectual property protection.
Once the idea is given the green light, Hawkins works with both internal and external legal teams to execute the filing strategy and ensure appropriate protections are in place.
"The main thing we're trying to determine is whether we can get enough elbow room within the market to give us a real advantage," Hawkins says. "We're not just filing for the sake of filing; we want to prevent competitors from finding a workaround and profiting from our innovation."
Safety—and quality—first
As KidKraft's global supply chain grows more complex—whether due to international trade wars, rigorous country-level children's product safety requirements or overall increased consumer expectations with regard to safety and quality—so too have the resulting compliance demands.
In each country where KidKraft's wares are sold, for example, members of the 50-person compliance team conduct testing for each item to ensure locally required regulatory and safety compliance.
For most regulatory criteria (lead content, for example), the standards are black and white: Either the product meets the threshold, or it doesn't. By contrast, much of the quality assurance function (QA) and related quality control (QC)—things like minor cosmetic flaws or design problems that do not present safety concerns—often aren't governed by specific regulations, but can be critical to consumer perception.
"It's really important that we consider how certain decisions will impact the bottom line and the company's perception, but I | 309 |
Vis<|fim_middle|> will help you! | by is one of the most popular destinations in Sweden , experience the genuine old town center surrounded by the city wall with a myriad of restaurants and bars. Visby often tops the statistics for the most hours of sunshine per year in Sweden which also contributes to the popularity! Please see http://www.gotland.net for a list of everything you can visit and see!
Flying to Visby is easier than most people think. Since Visby is a popular destination for us private pilots ATC is also very familiar with our type of traffic. So the approach, parking and handling at the airport is very smooth and fast.
Determine your personal minimums before the flight and stick to them , the flight will be fun and a positive memory! TAF and NOTAMs can easily be found at AroWeb/MET/Low Level Forecast – LHP, area B SE ( southeast).
The flight to Visby is a relaxing flight. You will have contact with Sweden Control on the way. As you approach Visby TMA request to leave Sweden and contact Visby Control to request clearance into Visby TMA. Also check the status of the restricted areas 31 and 28.
Clearance required into Visby TMA. Check the airport hours via NOTAM, if they are active contact their frequencies in advance for clearance. There will not be any problems.
NOTE: PPR may be required at certain hours, you cannot take off or land outside the airport hours without PPR.
Are you out for taking a turn over Gotland and watch our beautiful island, the tower requests advance information about the flight via telephone 0046-498-21 23 49.
If crossing of Restricted Area 28 / 31 request clearance.
Since Visby is a controlled airport (open tower), your flight plan will automatically close when you land and is activated when you start the journey home.
Around Visby, it can at times be a lot of traffic so be sure to keep a look outside (see and be seen!).
NOTE: two waiting areas at RWY 03, one located on TWY K and one on TWY M, listen carefully to the ATC to which one You are cleared to!
Do not forget the life jackets!
At the airport, you park on a grass parking located at the flying club. After you parked and left the aircraft, you can go out through a gate located at the red-white mast at the clubhouse opened by a button on the mast. On the way you pass a concrete building where the gate code is posted on the south side of the building. It's recommended to refuel at arrival, especially if there are many aircraft on the grass parking lot. In July, it may be queued to the filling station when everyones going home. Payment of fuel is with a debet or credit card. OBSERVE: no automatic stop on tank nozzle, keep an eye on the tank level when filling!
Taxis are one option. Taxi Gotland 0046-498-200 200, TaxiKurir 0046-498-500 00. It is about 2,5km to Visby, if you like to walk it takes about 30 minutes. At the flying club there is usually access to bicycles for rent.
Flying club offers 6 double bedrooms and a dorm for 8. Contact Hans on telephone 0046-73-445 44 31, he | 727 |
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I love how his tail turned out! Golly was that long and cumbersome to crochet though, lol. You have to stuff the body as you go because the tail gets too narrow to add stuffing further down, so you have a totally stuffed animal you are hanging down and turning round and round as you make it longer. I made the tail in church and it got quite a bit of attention, lol. I really like the tighter spiral though and think it turned out really cute. I also could've done more changes with the legs (made them narrower and the toes bigger) but I couldn't be bothered and was trying to get him finished. Oh well.
Interestingly the mouth is sewn to the head - I tried to get him a bit more smiley by adding to the outer mouth row, but it doesn't seem to have<|fim_middle|> this guy was a nice little addition :) The little kids loved it, which makes it all worth while.
Now to start planning for next Halloween!
That is such a cute toy. My daughter watched tangled and fell in love with the chameleon. Guess I'll make this for her since I know it will make her really happy. | done much. I used I Love This Yarn in Jelly Bean and Antique White for this project. And a lot of polyfil.
I'm really happy with how my whole costume turned out, and | 40 |
The Arrogant Butcher restaurant is no newcomer to the downtown Phoenix scene. However, despite opening its doors and ovens back in 2011, the eatery has managed to stay at the top of its game and establish itself as a bona fide landmark that's now at the epicenter of the area's renaissance. Just a short walk away from Talking Stick Resort Arena where, on any given night, you might catch anything from<|fim_middle|> layer with a soft-whipped yolk that was topped with crisped prosciutto chips and chives. These bite-sized delights vanished all too quickly among our party of competitive—and unabashedly hungry—culinary souls.
The entrée course allowed me to savor three marvelous mains. The first was the Almond Crusted Rainbow Trout, which was plated with sides of green beans, potato purée, shallot confit, brown butter and a charred lemon. So savory and texturized the herbed pan-finished crust, caramelized to perfection, and so succulent the meat within, this is a dish I would order time and time again. The second dish was the Grilled Fish Tacos, lovingly layered with pico de gallo, tomatillo salsa, smashed avocado and white bean. This is definitely one of the healthier items on the menu for the calorie-conscious. The third and last entrée was the almighty Filet Mignon, which was perched atop a generous bed of Boursin creamed spinach and paired with a crispy potato. Up ahead, I know to order this steak at a higher temperature than normal, as in this instance it was prepared slightly under. But, it was delectable nonetheless. | a NBA game to a Justin Timberlake concert, as well as Chase Field where the resident Arizona Diamondbacks strive to dominate the MLB year after year. There is no shortage of venues in this bustling metropolis.
My party also designed our own cheese and charcuterie plate. Our meat choice of Salumi Fra' Mani paired with Montchevre "Le Cabrie" Goat Brie Cheese along with a sharp Prairie Breeze Aged Cheddar was dressed to impress. The platter was served with a sassy side of cherry marmalade and spiced mustard. Thick cut crusty bread slices pulled the whole masterpiece together. To this DIY platter I also opted to add on the Crispy Prosciutto Deviled Eggs, which were presented as a beautiful hard-boiled outer | 160 |
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The body of a man broke the surface, facing down, the anchor rope wrapped around his waist. There was no way Ben could get the corpse into the boat without capsizing, so he yanked the cord on the old Evinrude and the motor roared to life. He eased the boat forward, and the rope slithered like a snake in the water until it was taught and the body was in tow.
At the boat launch, the body floated face down in the shallows. Ben gathered his nerve and gripped the man under the arms. He pulled the corpse onto the concrete where it lay, still facing down. Ben shook with fear and anxiety. Not many people fished this lake. What if he recognized the face when he turned the man over. What if he was a friend? He gripped the man's soggy shirt, pulled up and tipped him over.
Ben looked into the dead man's face as if into a mirror and saw a scar that ran down the left cheek from his ear to the corner of his mouth. Ben stumbled backward and fell hard on his hip, but the pain could not distract him from what he had seen. How could this be? It was impossible. When his heart slowed, Ben crawled forward to have a second look, to convince himself that what he thought he had seen was a mistake. He touched the scar on his own cheek. "My face. How can he have my face?"
Ben sensed the presence of another in his mind. He heard a click as the door to his consciousness was unlocked and swung open on rusty hinges. Neatly stacked memories floated through the doorway.
Lidded eyes opened, a hand grabbed Ben's throat, and a familiar voice spoke.
"I'm hungry."
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"Hello, Sherry? Jack?" said Ben as he entered his friends' home without knocking. A sixty year old woman stood in the kitchen doorway, her face, normally rosy and pretty, appeared grey, her brow furrowed. She half turned and pointed.
"He's in there—eating. Eating all the meat he can find. Ben, he won't talk to me." Sherry's eyes glistened with tears she had not yet shed.
"Let me give it a try," said Ben. He slipped past Sherry and entered the kitchen. A tall, slightly built man sat at the table and gnawed on a drumstick like a beaver on a birch branch.
The two men had been best friends since the 1970 Cambodian Operation. Jack had been pinned down by a Viet Cong machine gun nest and Ben had provided cover fire along with a grenade so Ben could escape back behind the American troops' line. One of the VCs had whipped Ben's grenade back in his direction and the blast had been enough of a distraction for Jack to sprint to safety. But a piece of shrapnel had lacerated Ben's left cheek from his ear to the corner of his mouth. The scar was just one of the excuses Ben used to explain why he had never married. The closest he had ever gotten to that sacred institution was when he was best man for Jack's and Sherry's wedding.
After coming back from the war, the two had become fishing buddies. A small, secluded lake about ten miles from town was their favorite fishing spot. Ben and Jack would pack up their gear and some food on a Saturday morning and get home late in the evening with a cooler full of bass and bluegill to clean.
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A few days before Jack's huge behavior change, the two had been sitting on his back porch drinking beer and watching the stars appear after sunset. A bright light had flashed across the sky and appeared to have gone down in the vicinity of the lake. Jack had commented that the meteor hadn't had a tail, which he thought was strange. If the pile of empty beer cans hadn't been so large, they might have driven out to see where the meteor, which is what they assumed it had been, had hit.
"Looks like you worked up an appetite out there on the lake today. Any sign of that meteor we saw the other night?" Ben was still standing in the kitchen doorway watching his friend stuff turkey into his mouth. "Catch anything worth keeping?"
Jack looked up and gave his jaw a break for a few seconds, then went back to cleaning off the bone.
"You're soaking wet, you know," said Ben. "Where's the boat? It's not in the driveway."
Jack finally gave up his obsession with the turkey leg and went to the refrigerator. He had emptied that of meat, so he checked the freezer and returned to the table, munching on a frozen hotdog.
"Alzheimer's?" said Sherry from the doorway.
"I don't think so, but what do I know?" said Ben. "He should see his doctor right away."
"I already called. Doctor Jamerson wants me to take Jack to the ER right now." Sherry untied her apron. "What are you going to do?"
"Go to the lake. Apparently he left the boat out there, but I can't imagine why. He loves that old piece of junk. Come on, I'll help you get him into the car before I leave."
Ben drove Jack's truck so he could pull the boat back. The seat was still soaked from Jack's wet clothes so he sat on a raincoat Sherry had pulled out of the hall closet. Whatever had happened to Jack had changed him considerably, and the answer was most likely waiting out at the lake. He thought of Sherry taking Jack to the emergency room all alone and hoped he wasn't giving her any problems. Ben pressed the accelerator to the floorboard and raced along the county roads.
The dirt two track wound through the state forest for half a mile. How many years had he and Jack been taking this route to fish in Oasis Lake? Could it really have been forty years? They spent a good deal of the time in silence while they fished, occasionally breaking it to voice one of their deep thoughts. Which one of them had changed the name from Oasis to Osmosis Lake? The remoteness and serenity, the music of croaking frogs and singing birds, the smell of pine and fresh air had turned them both into amateur philosophers.
Ben scanned the lake and surrounding forest. He stopped when he came to the north end. The shoreline, which was kept in nearly perpetual gloom by overhanging trees, lay exposed to the afternoon sun. Tree trunks and branches were splintered for hundreds of feet into the forest but there was no sign of fire. Ben was stunned at the sight but forced himself to stay focused on finding out what had happened to Jack. The boat was floating in the middle of Osmosis Lake. That explained why Jack's clothes were wet when he got home. For some reason, he had swam to shore and abandoned the boat.
The boat launch was a crumbling concrete slab that sloped down into the water from the gravel parking area. He was about to resign himself to swimming out to the boat, when he remembered a small dingy someone had left in the weeds not far from where he stood. He found it and wondered if he might be better off swimming. The wood was spongy and the oars were missing. Among the junk in the bed of Jack's truck was an aluminum canoe paddle, one of those things a person hung onto, not knowing why, just that it seemed to be a good idea.
He sat in the bottom of the dingy and paddled toward the fourteen foot fishing boat. His mind was a juggernaut through history. He saw an explosion and Jack sprinting across an open field, the air around him filled with pieces of turf kicked up by bullets from the VC guns. He saw his best friend sitting in the kitchen with a pile of turkey bones on a plate and a frozen hotdog sticking out of his mouth like a stogie.
He let the dingy drift for a moment while he leaned back against the stern and rested his arms. The frogs and birds were silent and the air smelled of rotten fish. It was as if the vitality had been sucked out of the entire area.
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The two boats bumped, and the modest sound bounced back from the surrounding forest. The dingy was taking on water. Ben had to either stay in the the tiny boat and try to pull the fishing boat to shore before he sank or he would need to crawl out of the dingy and into the bigger boat. The rising water around his feet and ankles helped him decide.
Ben grasped the gunwale of Jack's boat and pulled the boats together. Something thick and sticky coated his fingers, and his hand slipped. He landed on the rotten boards of the dingy and looked at his hand. The crimson shade of congealing blood covered his palm. He hadn't cut himself though. The blood had been on the edge of the fishing boat.
Cool water rose above his belt and shocked him back to the present. He struggled to where he was suspended between the two boats and labored until he lay exhausted on the bottom of the fishing boat in half a foot of water mixed with blood. Ben looked around to see if Jack had been cleaning fish, but saw no carcasses. Besides, there was far too much blood to have come from even the biggest bass in the lake, or a dozen of them. Blood coated everything, the seat, the motor, the inside of the hull.
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If you are travelling to Prague during the winter months, you are in for a treat. The Czech capital begins a transformation into a winter wonderland as the streets become covered in powder-soft snow and the rivers turn frosty. As well as looking like the pages of a fairy tale, winter is a magical time for events and activities as the festive season approaches. From market shopping to musical events, here is a list of exciting activities to tick off your list when you travel to Prague this winter.
Embrace the festive season fully with an evening of Christmas songs. Including choirs from all around the world, the International Festival of Advent and Christmas Music is an event not to be missed. Head to Prague's historic Old Town Square, where the air will be filled with harmonious sounds. There is a week of performances and fun to enjoy.
You can't visit Prague without a trip to their iconic Christmas markets. The Old Town Square Christmas Market is the biggest (and probably best) one in the city. You'll be greeted with an array of dazzling stalls, stacked high with handmade gifts and Christmas decorations. Once you are all shopped out, head to one of the tasty food stands for a timely break. If you are lucky, you'll also catch a carol concert or live music performance in the centre of the square.
Winter in Prague would not be complete without an al fresco ice skating session or two. Ovocny Trh is a beautiful spot in the Old Town surrounded by historic buildings<|fim_middle|>The market fun doesn't stop after Christmas in Prague, the Vinohrady Carnival Market at Tylovo Square starts at the end of January. It is a way of celebrating Prague's folk past, with handmade goods made from wood, wicker and animal skins. You can also sample a range of delicious delicacies like speciality cheeses and traditional sweets. | . It closes late in the evening, is free to visit with skates to rent, and is probably the most popular choice. For a slightly larger space to showcase your moves, Na Frantisku has a pretty (though slightly more expensive) rink next to the Vlatva River.
If you are looking for somewhere magical to ring in the New Year, Prague is the ideal destination. Their annual fireworks display is the jewel in the crown of their celebrations. To welcome in 2019, a spectrum of amazing colours will light up the sky. Gather with the crowds at Old Town Square, Wenceslas Square or along the the Vltava River for the best views of the show.
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Surprising Facts about U.S. President James Monroe
James Monroe was the son of a Virginia plantation owner. He became an orphan in his mid-teens. Fortunately, he stayed with his uncle who liked James and his siblings. In 1774 Monroe attended William and Mary College in Williamsburg. Monroe and his friends found plenty to do outside the classroom. The Royal Governor had already left town due to the spirit of rebellion among some Virginians in the colony's capital. Along with a few classmates, Monroe helped to raid the absent governor's palace. The young men took 200 muskets and 300 swords which they gave to the Virginia militia. In the winter of 1776, Monroe joined the Virginia infantry.
By the time he became president, Monroe's resume included service as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, U.S. senator, minister to France and England under President Washington, governor of Virginia, and positions as secretary of state and secretary of war under President Madison. He became friends with James Madison and Thomas Jefferson while the U.S. government was being formed. Together, the three of them opposed the policies of John Adams and other Federalists.
Portrait of James Monroe
Though he often receives less attention from scholars than other presidents who came from Virginia, Monroe's elections and administration were notable for several reasons. In the 1820 election Monroe got all the electoral votes except one. When elected, Monroe was the first president to hold his inauguration outdoors. He was also the first chief executive since Washington to take a national tour of the country. Unlike his friends Jefferson and Madison, Monroe had an outgoing personality that endeared him to the other Americans he met. His cross-country tour was such a success that he travelled several times while in office.
As president, Monroe utilized his agreeable personality to great effect. He had a talent for picking men with great minds to serve in his administration and maintained good relationships with his cabinet members. Despite his opposition to John Adams' political views, Monroe chose Adams' son, John Quincy Adams as secretary of state. Monroe's easy going personality allowed him to get along with almost anyone, so the two men established a good working relationship. Adams encouraged Monroe to make a statement about European influence in the Western Hemisphere.
In his annual message to Congress, Monroe stated "the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers." This part of Monroe's message came to be known as the Monroe Doctrine. The doctrine made it clear that America had a right to protect any nation in the Western Hemisphere against European aggression. As a product of both John Quincy Adams and Monroe's ideals, the doctrine apt<|fim_middle|> Custis.
At seventeen, Martha was considered an adult, and she became secretly engaged to Daniel Custis, a wealthy man twenty years older than Martha. Though it seems strange to us that a young girl would marry someone so much older, young girls often got engaged to older men in the 1700s. Martha and Daniel also genuinely liked each other, which was probably less common.
According to a family account, even as a teenager Martha "excelled in personal charms, which with pleasing manners, and a general amiability of demeanor, caused her to be distinguished amid the fair ones who usually assembled at the court of Williamsburg." She was not beautiful, but she was pretty and good-natured and conversed easily with everyone. Her charm also won over her future father-in-law John Custis, who originally objected to the match.
After she became a wife, mother, and then a widow, she was courted by George Washington.
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The Childhood of Civil War General Robert E. Lee
Most history books show pictures of Robert E. Lee as an aging man with white hair and a beard. It's almost impossible to imagine that this man was once a child. Like everyone else, the famous American Civil War general did have a boyhood, though it was not always happy.
The Lee Family Heritage
The potential for Robert E. Lee to be a great man started before his birth. Robert's father, Henry Lee, served in the cavalry during the American Revolution. Henry impressed his general so much that he said Henry had "come out of his mother's womb a soldier." After the war, Henry served in the Continental Congress and encouraged his home state of Virginia to ratify the Constitution. By the nineteenth century, however, things started to go wrong for Henry Lee. He made bad investments and ended up in a debtor's prison for a year.
His wife Ann Carter Lee gave birth to her son Robert in 1807, shortly before her husband's imprisonment. She already had several children, and admitted to a friend that she did not want another child. Later on, however, when her husband left the family for the West Indies and never returned, Robert became her favorite.
Robert E. Lee Grows Up
Robert comforted his mother in her husband's absence. He did household chores and served as a nurse to his ill sister and his mother. Though obedient to his mother, like most boys his age Robert enjoyed swimming and playing sports with his cousins. He especially loved tricking foxhunters by following hounds on foot. He became so good at taking shortcuts to find the foxes that when the adults arrived, Robert was already there. Even at a young age, Robert understood how to use geography and the element of surprise to his advantage—skills that would one day make him a great general.
Though Robert didn't have a father, he did create a father image for himself. When the family moved to Alexandria, Virginia, http://www.alexandriava.gov/historic/default.aspx Robert and his siblings often visited President George Washington's adopted son, George Washington Parke Custis. Custis told the children stories about Washington and showed them Washington's pistols and uniforms. Though Washington had died many years earlier, the people of Alexandria cherished their connection to the former hero. Washington's career may have partly inspired Robert to pursue a military career, but in reality there was little money available for him to go to college. Luckily, he had family connections that helped him get one of the 250 spots available for the West Point cadets.
Robert At West Point
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point had many rules, and Robert was one of the few cadets who followed them. Others, like Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederacy, partied and drank on a regular basis. Robert was a serious student who graduated second in his class. He was not a snob, however, and made close friends at West Point. His friend Joseph E. Johnson remembered that Robert "was the only one of all the men I have known that could laugh at the faults and follies of his friends in such a manner as to make them ashamed without touching their affection for him, and to confirm their respect." His military training and the ability to positively influence others would come in handy when the U.S. Civil War broke out.
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Future First Lady: Martha Washington's Childhood
Like most kids, I learned a lot about George Washington in school. He was celebrated as an American hero and someone whose childhood we should all admire. I knew almost nothing about Martha Washington, except that she was a supportive wife to America's first president.
Of course, when she was born, Martha had a different last name. The first born of nine children, she was named Martha Dandridge, but her family nicknamed her Patsy. She grew up on a plantation near Williamsburg, Virginia. In the 1700s, the word plantation meant property that was devoted to a single crop, not necessarily thousands of acres of land with a mansion. In Virginia, plantation owners like Martha's father grew tobacco. Martha did not grow up in a fancy home, but it had two stories, two chimneys, and comfortably housed all the Dandridge children.
With a total of eight siblings, Martha learned to care for children at an early age. Her father John Dandridge had slaves who worked in the fields, but could not afford household slaves. As a result, Martha's mother taught her how to do every necessary chore. With her mother Frances by her side, Martha learned to kill and cook chickens and other fowl, make clothes and bed linens, wash clothes in a big boiling kettle without burning them, and how to preserve food and make home remedies for illnesses. Based on later accounts of her work stitching clothes for U.S. army soldiers, she learned her lessons well.
In addition to chores, Martha learned the skills she needed to be a success in Virginia society. Dancing was an especially important social skill. Dancing masters traveled to various towns to teach young people, boys and girls, to dance. Learning to dance was a break from chores, but some of the dances had such complex steps that practicing them seemed like a chore. Conversation was also considered an art, and Martha took to it easily. She genuinely enjoyed other people and cared about them—an asset that served her well as First Lady.
Although Martha did not have the same academic education as some young women from New England, she learned to read and enjoyed books all her life. Her grammar and spelling were inconsistent, but she got her point across in letters. She did better in math, which came in handy when she had to manage the business accounts of her first husband, Daniel | 1,286 |
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The Suitcase Junket Rebuilds In A State Of Uncertainty On 'The End Is New'
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Since his folksy, homespun debut "Sever and Lift" in 2010, Matt Lorenz has created an archetype that many dream of becoming: the vagrant cowboy. Under his moniker The Suitcase Junket, he adheres to the antithesis of traditional; he's a one-man band, a puppeteer orchestrating a rig of suitcases, various knickknacks and a vintage clunker of a guitar, reworked to blast distortion like a noisy cannon. Now, a tumultuous decade<|fim_middle|> the churning noise. Upon first listen, it reads as a cue for what's to come, the acutely familiar sounds of a Suitcase Junket record sculpted as a sort of overture. After concluding the album in full, the introduction seems more veiled; perhaps it's a continuation of the past, a humble transition meant to usher in something new. And despite the weighted presence of the chaotic world, "The End Is New" shows that Lorenz hasn't hardened with despair, but instead matured with valor, building something remarkable with a little more than just some quirky bits and bobs.
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About The ARTery | later, the hefty heartland rock of his sixth album, "The End Is New" (out Nov. 20), finds Lorenz in a state of catharsis and at odds with the world, a space that has yielded the most thoughtfully composed and polished release of his career.
For someone who dwells so effortlessly in rickety, clattering music, Lorenz uses "The End Is New" to fortify new structures, ones built sturdily with passion and patience. After a prelude, the blistering "Black Holes And Overdoses" opens the album — a defiant, foot-stomping parlor blues led by a searing guitar riff and Lorenz's soulful howl. At first glance, it feels like a recognizable staple in his repertoire, but within the lyrics lies a frustrated take on a relentless news cycle, a perspective that feels contemporary and relatable. It's uncharacteristically plugged-in for the Western Massachusetts-based musician, who rusticly spends the bulk of his time living in a van and constructing instruments from junkyard salvage.
Despite his folkloric charm and eccentric sound, one thing Lorenz has deployed over the course of his discography is consistency. The peculiar elements of his music — throat singing, scrappy sounds, modified instruments — have always been present in his music, and the vast majority of his discography feels instantly captured, like the spectacle of his show is unfolding before you in real time. While "The End Is New" is undeniably a creation in his canon, the poignant and kinetic energy is captured more meticulously and methodically, using layers of familiar sounds and contemporary rock music production to build something significant and more striking than ever before.
As a whole, the album is also the most overtly brooding compositional work we've heard from Lorenz. He approaches its more somber moments with an unabashed purity, as heard on the forlorn, enveloping drama of "Light A Candle," an intriguing stint in pop melodrama that features a wailing guitar solo from Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis. The album's despairing closer "More" moves like a dirge, an industrial percussive beat giving way to a soaring chorus that recalls The Beatles' sinister operatic outro in "I Want You (She's So Heavy)." The song instills an ecological distress that can be found throughout, perhaps most notably on the bluesy "And Then There Was Fire," a pensive ode to the alarming trend of global wildfires earlier this year.
Lorenz has taken to describing his music as "doom folk," a characterization gleaned from the solemn wayfaring as presented by his character. Perhaps it's an apt description in certain selections, but to fully blanket his music in such a dark shade is a disservice to the bright moments in which he shines. The explosive Americana rock of "Breathe Forever" is uplifting and energized, recalling the galvanizing battle cries of Bruce Springsteen at his most romantically patriotic. "Jesus! King Of The Dinosaurs" finds Lorenz at his most playful and irreverent, chiding biblical extremists with a gritty Southern rock backbone and all of his rig's baubles on full display. The transcendent vocal performance within the heavy, mid-tempo groove of "Can't Look Away" showcases Lorenz's likeness to the great voices in the blues-rock/pop crossover, like Bonnie Raitt and Jonny Lang.
Where the album feels most mature and majestic is in songs like the aforementioned "Black Holes And Overdoses" and the dangerous cowboy-rock of "Rock Bottom," a ragged folk selection that could have easily melded into Lorenz's back catalog, both excelling under the skillful production techniques of producer Steve Berlin. The difference in these examples compared to previous work is the dedication to the heart of the song, rather than the spectacle of the performance. Berlin employs strings, organs, horns, traditional percussion instruments and accommodating harmonies throughout to make the songs feel polished and well-mapped. Whereas Lorenz's music once portrayed the charm of a talented street busker, his new approach feels slick, even commercial, with his chesty tenor vocals and melodic sensibilities comparable to pop-rock singers like David Gray or The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach.
The most evident sign of Lorenz's evolution arrives within the album's first 30 seconds on the introductory "Prelude." As the unfiltered sound of a distorted drone begins to take shape, Lorenz's signature overtone throat singing floats untethered in | 933 |
The Wienerberger Brick Award provides architects from all over the world with an opportunity to show-case modern, innovative architecture with ceramic materials. It aims to inspire architects and people alike, to share design concepts and explore new ways of fulfilling built ideas. 2018 marks the eighth time that Wienerberger is presenting this internationally established award. Nearly 600 projects from 44 countries were submitted, this year with a particularly strong European focus.
Prizes were awarded in the following categories: Feeling at home, Living together, Working together, Sharing Public Spaces and Building outside the box. The last category is aimed at innovative concepts and ways of utilizing brick, new construction technologies or the usage of custom-made bricks and new ornamentation in the project.
The award is endowed with a total of<|fim_middle|> Dating back to the 13th century, the church was destroyed during the Spanish Civil war. The renovation of it is an unusual approach to dealing with historical building fabric. This project shows the versatility and adaptability of brick and creates a unique dialog between the present and history. The project was listed in the category: Building outside the box.
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© Adrià Goula | € 34,000 in prize money in five categories, including Grand Prize and Special Prize winners. After the end of the submission phase an independent pre-jury narrowed down the projects to 50 nominations. From this shortlist a jury of five internationally renowned architects selected the winners.
This year, two projects were awarded the Grand Prize. One went to the Westkaai Towers 5 & 6 by Tony Fretton Architects, in collaboration with De Archtitecten NV. Situated in Belgium – the towers are part of a larger residential project within a new developed mixed-used quarter. Thanks to the brick work an overall monumental expression is combined with an individual façade. The project is also the category winner of "Living together".
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The second Grand Prize winner, Kunstmuseum Basel Extension by Christ & Gantenbein, Switzerland, fits well to the existing listed building. The solitary grey brick structure is connected through an underground hall with the main building. LED lights are integrated in the relief-like grooves made of moulded bricks in the façade – informing passers-by about current exhibitions. In addition, this project also came out as winner in the "Sharing public spaces" category.
In the category "Feeling at home" Atlas House by Monadnock, The Netherlands could convince the jury the most. A private living space organized on three floors on a small plot, it is a good answer to demonstrate how private quality housing can be built in small-scale. The brickworks both in- and outside are carefully detailed and perfectly fit to the house.
Terra Cotta Studio by Tropical Space is the working and living place of a famous ceramic artist in Vietnam. The category winner of "Working together" is a brick cube at the foot of a river, bamboo shelves protect the artwork for occasional flooding. The unusual perforation of the façade already attracts attention at first glance and allows the wind to blow through and cool the workspace naturally. The building combines working production and domesticity.
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Category "Building outside the box" prize winner Värtan Bioenergy CHP Plant by U.D. Urban Design & Gottlieb Paludan Architects, is located in the city of Stockholm. It includes the world's largest urban biofueled cogeneration plant and makes a significant contribution to the reduction of the city's CO2 footprint. The over ground part of the plant has been clad in a curved façade of vertical ceramic elements.
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This Special Prize winner, San Bernardo Chapel by Nicolás Campodonico Estudio is a small masterpiece. It is dedicated to the patron saint of a small community near where it was erected, in the Argentine Pampa. Neither running water nor electricity are available at the site itself. Only the light of the sun and nature determine the atmosphere. The sunlight, together with two wooden poles shade a Christian cross on the wall in the east once a day. It belongs to the category: Sharing public spaces.
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The revitalization of Old Church of Vilanova de la Barca by AleaOlea architecture & landscape was awarded with the second Special Prize. | 659 |
<|fim_middle|> Park City. In the two years since I've been here, I've traveled close to 68,000 miles to 26 cities in 7 countries. What an incredible gift.
There are more words than I can possibly write about the gratitude that I feel towards the company that I call home. I have a true sense of community and ownership. I have a true sense of belonging, and I'm just as passionate as the day that I started. I've grown up at Automattic and have learned more about myself than I ever thought possible.
Thanks for the amazing two years. Here's to many more laughs, ah-ha moments, forward movement, late nights, and making the web a better place. Here's to the future.
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In the last year, I've seen quite a few changes in both my life and my work.
I now help to lead our Store Team, and do less user-centric support. I harmonize happiness for 35 incredibly talented, driven, and passionate people. These people keep me up at night thinking about all that is possible. They drive me to push harder and be the best that I can be. These are the people that make the world go round, and I'm so lucky to be of service to them.
I lost the person who understood me most. Automattic held me up and allowed me to take the time that I needed to process and move myself forward. I would be in a very different place if it weren't for this support. I'm eternally grateful for those who stood by me, and made this life transition as smooth as it could have been.
I started walking. After years of sitting all day, Automattic purchased a tread-desk for me. I now walk about 6 miles each and every workday. I have more energy. More focus. More happiness. Walking every day fixes something that was broken for way too long.
I've started to give back more to the community. I became one of the organizers of the Philly WordPress Meetup, and of WordCamp Philly. I'm excited to give back, even a little bit, to the community that has given me so much in life. I'm excited to continue to learn.
I traveled quite a bit to meet my coworkers. Italy, Kauai, New York, New Orleans, Mexico, Charleston, and | 383 |
'Star Wars Rebels' to end with 'darker' Season 4
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By Chris Taylor 2017-04-15 16:41:22 UTC
This will be a day long remembered: it marked the end of the Rebellion. Sort of.
Lucasfilm announced here at its Star Wars Celebration event that its only current TV show — the animated series Star Wars Rebels — will come to a close at the end of season 4.
SEE ALSO: Why Rose should be your new favorite Star<|fim_middle|> to Yavin IV, as seen in Rogue One and the original Star Wars. Filoni confirmed that the leader of the Rebellion, Senator Mon Mothma, would return — as would Saw Gerrera, voiced by Forest Whitaker. He added that the style of the show would have a little more of the "used universe" look of the original Star Wars.
Some other story lines that need to be resolved: what will happen to fan favorite villain Grand Admiral Thrawn? Will we see former Jedi apprentice Ahsoka Tano again? Will the crew survive Scarif and continue to be part of the war against the Empire — maybe even help to attack a Death Star or two — or go out in a blaze of glory, Jyn Erso style?
We'll find out when Season 4 debuts this fall.
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Over the final 15 episodes, the story of the crew of the Ghost, who gets pulled into the wider rebellion, will reach a conclusion that was apparently always planned.
What remains to be seen: given that the Ghost was seen briefly (and its pilot Hera namechecked) in Rogue One, will the finale take us into an animated version of the battle of Scarif?
Rebels "will be the complete journey that it was meant to be from the very beginning," showrunner Dave Filoni, who also ran the canceled Clone Wars and will continue working on Star Wars projects, said. "We all felt that the time was right, and that the characters were at a point where their story, and their destinies, should finally be revealed."
The "darker" season 4 of Rebels will take the heroes | 169 |
So just what is Retail Watch? I'm establishing this new "blog" as a collection of thoughts, musings, and opinions specifically related to the worlds of fashion, retail, beauty and brands. As an Art Director/Designer with over 8 years experience in these areas, I have a deep understanding of how this crazy world works. I also love brands (a lot of people say that, but I really do), and I have LOTS of opinions.
This blog will of course live on, but I want to focus my portfolio site/blog about all this fashion and retail, and focus this blog on design and inspiration. So worry not!
Fashion is a strange type of magic. It's art that you live in. Or it can be. Once upon a time, fashion was about labels, and the status they carried. Labels evolved into brands, then lifestyle brands, and experiences and now they touch every aspect of what we see and do. And while todays retail landscape is more challenging than ever, there's also more opportunity than ever.
So what can brands do? There's not one simple solution. But it has to be about ideas, innovation and experiences. The solution has to go BEYOND retail. And that's what I'll explore on this blog. Gap is off to a great start with their newly launched Generation Gap campaign. Nordstrom has their pop-in shops, H&M/Nike and Adidas has their design/artist/athlete collaborations.
Can retail move forward by looking back? I think so! What happened to all those regional department stores we grew up with? What made them unique and special? What about certain brands creates a connection that lingers? That's what I want to explore! Feel free to follow, comment, share and let's start a conversation.
The next time you find yourself in the Netherlands, you'd be mad to not check out the beautiful flagship store of lifestyle brand MARIE-STELLA-MARIS. Located in central Amsterdam, MARIE-STELLA-MARIS sells body, skin, and hair care products in addition to it's namesake line of<|fim_middle|> in London (above & below).
For these windows, BG partnered with paper artist Sean Slaney to create these BEAUTIFUL windows (above & below).
Book lovers unite! BG celebrates its favorite tomes with a special exhibition of vintage books featuring hundreds of books hand-selected from the Seventh Floor's The Cary Collection (above and below).
Love this analog/Television-inspired window (above).
Hope you love these windows as much as I do. Stay tuned for more BG windows this week! | Mineral water and home products. This store is a graphic designers paradise, bold graphic typography, beautiful packaging and advertising, and a tastefully-designed interior to bring everything together. MSM was founded by founded by Patrick Munsters, who strongly believes in the idea of taking care of one another. MSM products are made with only the finest natural ingredients, and for each product you purchase, MARIE-STELLA-MARIS donates a fixed amount towards clean drinking water projects worldwide.
I'm pretty much in-love in every aspect of this brand, from their mission, to their branding, store design and packaging. All of it is so clean, graphic and minimal. And by supporting this brand, you're helping someone in need. It's a win-win! So get into world of MARIE-STELLA-MARIS, and check out their website and foundation here. Get into it!
Isn't their production photography + advertising beautiful?? (above and below).
Totally obsessed! You can buy their products online here, and they even offer international shipping! Get into it.
Several months ago I heard that "& Other Stories" (along with COS!) are opening in NYC's Soho neighborhood, as part of H&M's mission to take over NYC. I've followed & Other Stories on tumblr for a while now, not realizing they were soon opening here. A few days ago I heard they installed a new hoarding barricade to create anticipation for their new store opening. Yesterday I decided to take a long walk home just so I could pass by in person. On the barricade are dozens of hand-painted colored tiles. Such a simple idea turned into an beautiful art instillation. As someone working in retail store design, I think this is a really great idea. Take a look below a some of the process images & Other Posted, and if you're in NYC check out this beauty before the store opens soon. Get into it!
Awesome colors right? See the process below!
Bergdorf Windows – Day Two!
A few days ago I blogged about the beautiful store windows of Bergdorf Goodman, and as promised, here's a few more of my favorites! First up are the spring 2014 "Art Matters" windows (pictured above and below). For this set of windows BG commissioned 10 artists to design 10 windows for the store celebrating "Art" as their muse. I especially love the image with custom wallpaper by artist Adam Parker Smith (above). The wallpaper was created by arranging hundreds of tiny 3D objects together to create a patterned wallpaper. The picture doesn't really do it justice as I was lucky enough to see this in person. Also the clothes displayed in the window matched the concept so perfectly. If you're digging the look of this, check out Flat Vernacular's wallpaper that follows the same idea. Moving along, I love the series of mannequin-inspired windows (further below), as I'm obsessed with mannequins!! From all my jobs in fashion/retail, I'm surrounded by mannequins and there's just something about them. They're a little bit creepy and a little bit fun. So I love that BG created a series of windows with mannequins as a focal point. Lastly, I wanted to share BG's holiday windows celebrating Halloween + Jason Wu. How great are the masks? I like how BG takes one idea (like Halloween masks) and fleshes them out in different ways: masks printed and titled on paper, lots of small mask gridded on a wall, etc etc. Great right? Hope you enjoyed this second look into the legendary store windows of Bergdorf Goodman. Get into it.
Tom Ford "Art Matters" window above.
Mannequin-inspired windows (above and below). Love how BG took this idea and presented it so many ways.
Love this series of windows, what a playful way to present Halloween windows. I just wish these photos had been taken during the day!
Bergdorf Goodman windows inspired by The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (above).
Last fall I blogged about Bergdorf Goodman's windows celebrating Diana Vreeland's Memos book, and since then I've become more and more obsessed with their store windows. There is probably no store in the world as highly regarded as BG for their store windows. Most are truly custom art installations showcasing clothing from the best (and most exclusive) fashion designers in the world. This week I'm going to share a few of my (many) favorites. If you want to read more about their windows, BG has a section of their blog decided to just their windows here. Also check out the documentary Scatter my Ashes at Bergdorf's which documents the history of this legendary department store and follows the creation of their iconic Holiday windows. Now that my working world is consumed with all things retail and window design, I can now fully appreciate the skill, design and planning that goes into creating these works of art. So next time you're on 5th Avenue in NYC, check out Bergdorf's window – you'll be happy you did!
These typographic balloons are everything (above). I'm betting these windows inspired J.Crew's store opening windows | 1,061 |
Vacation! I love them but I know I'll be bad! There is a scrumptious bakery close by and I know we will be visiting nearly every day! I'll make sure I work out though. Last weigh in the other day was 147.6 I think.
It's Raw week over<|fim_middle|> A little bit sour, but they were edible.
I have picked three batches so far, picking every 2-3 days! It's exciting to be able to gather fresh blackberries from my own backyard!
Last time, I mixed them with sweet blueberries from the CSA farm, and yum! I love eating healthy. This has been the most food adventurous summer I have ever had! I have found such an appreciation for so many different seasonal foods. Summer is definitely my favorite season, but it's going to be fun to come into autumn's veggies too. It's just so exciting! I am so inspired!
I received some lovely zucchini in this week's CSA share, and I wanted to make some more of the yummy zucchini onion pancakes, but didn't have the time to sit and cook pancakes tonight. I needed something that could be thrown into the oven and easily baked with virtually no assistance.
So, hmm, I thought, how about a baked gratin? yum.
We got 3 ears of fresh sweet corn on the cob in the CSA share this week.
My DH was going out for the evening, and I was hungry. I couldn't waste time cooking the corn, so I ate all three raw, as a late afternoon snack. Oh it was fabulous. Brought me back to my childhood at our summer house. My mom used to buy fresh corn at the farm and we used to eat an ear or two raw. Yum, I just love corn. I don't believe the nah-sayers that say it's not good for you! | at the "I Heart Cooking Clubs" web site. Raw? Hmm, what kind of inventive dish could I make that's raw?
I launched the Mark Bittman "How To Cook Everything" iPhone app and searched for "raw" – the first recipe that popped up was "Linguine with Raw Tomato Sauce" – oh that sounded good.
I was hungry for lunch this afternoon, so I decided to make one serving for me.
The ingredients and cooking steps are so simple, it's laughable!
I bought a box of fresh local apricots the other day and I wanted to use them up, along with one overly-ripe lonely banana. Wouldn't a nice loaf of whole wheat sweet bread would do the trick!
So, I googled, and would you believe most of the apricot/banana bread recipes use "dried" apricots. These were yummy FRESH apricots. Then, I thought, wait, apricots are just like peaches, so why not find a nice peach bread recipe and modify it with apricots instead.
I found what looked like a good ginger peach bread recipe over at honestfare.com – yummy, never thought of adding ginger. Great idea! So, this recipe is inspired partly by Honest Fare and partly by my other two sweet bread recipes. Of course, it's made with whole wheat flour, and it's got less refined sugar and more fiber than most sweet breads.
I was curious to figure out if our backyard bush was indeed a blackberry or perhaps instead, a black raspberry bush.
After some research online (isn't google grand?), I am now fairly confident that we have a BLACKBERRY bush, not raspberry.
The big difference is the way the stem affects the berry. A raspberry has a hollow opening when picked, the blackberry does not.
And here is a photo of a few of the blackberries picked a few days ago from the backyard bush. The blackberry has a white core from the stem.
I found this web page on wikihow that explains it very well, with photos too.
I don't know why I never noticed these berries before this season. We've been living in our home for a couple of summers, but for some reason, I never really paid attention!
Anyway, a few weeks ago, I saw a few branches of green berries. I tried googling, but couldn't decipher if they were unripened blackberries. I wasn't sure when the season began for berries in New England; I assumed they should have been ripened by now, so I figured they were inedible.
But suddenly, yay, I noticed some of the berries were turning red, then a dark blue/black. I picked a couple and brought them inside. After carefully and gently washing them, I bravely took a bite. | 576 |
1957 Cardinal. Beautiful little trailer. This trailer has had a FULL res-model--from the frame up. Everything is new--except the original screen door and cabinets. They were cleaned and fixed up and look great. This is truly a one-of-a kind! The exterior has a professional paint job--sprayed on with a white, vintage pearl green, gray and black design. The colors and paint design are awesome. Very classic and fun. The skin is new--in excellent condition. It is smooth and dent-free. New exterior towing lights. New tires and new spare. Exterior storage compartments with locking mechanism. Windows were all removed, polished and sealed. New screws and hardware. New trailer hitch/jack and built-in rear jacks to keep it stable. The door handle is from an old Airstream. The screen door is wood--original. It has been cleaned and oiled. It works well and looks awesome. The interior has been re-configured. It is VERY roomy and can easily seat 8 adults. This configuration would be awesome as a home office, guest house, or place to live. You can use a portable table if wanted--we just LOVED the open roomy feel! This trailer is very simple and low maintenance. It has a battery that powers recessed, LED lights. The battery has a charger and battery tender. New water tank, hoses, and faucet with electric 12-volt water pump. It has a NICE, new Pioneer stereo and speakers. Beautiful sound!! New icebox. There is no propane. The kitchen includes a coffee maker, toaster oven, and frying plate--this is new and is electric.
The cushions were all professionally re-covered and have zippers so that you can remove and wash them. (Cold--hang to dry). The fabric is a gray with a white dot--cute and classy. Brand-new foam--covered in batting for comfort and nice fit. The wood-looking vinyl floor is solid, and will hold up to years of use. It is a beautiful contrast to the gray cabinets. Cabinets are sturdy and have been painted gray with black hardware. The front couch makes into a bed for one adult or two kids. The back u-shaped couch will sleep tow adults. So spacious and roomy.
The trailer comes with LOTS of extras. A portable air conditioner, water hose, jacks (built-in on rear), as well as two for the front. It has a large outdoor carpet and a porta-potty. It also included blinds if you want to install those.
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Apiaceae: Parsley or Carrot Family. Identify herbs, plants, and flowers.
The Parsley Family includes some wonderful edible plants like the carrot and parsnip, plus more aromatic spices found in your spice cabinet, such as anise, celery, chervil, coriander, caraway, cumin, dill, fennel and of course, parsley. But unlike the Mustard or Mint families, the Parsleys are not all safe for picking and eating. In fact, the Parsley family is among the most important families of plants to learn, since it includes the deadliest plants in North America: poison hemlock and water hemlock. Note that the hemlock tree is totally unrelated.
For identification, the most distinctive pattern of the Parsley family is the "compound umbels". Notice how all the stems of the flower cluster radiate from a single point at the end of the stalk, kind of like an umbrella. At the end of each of these flower stems there is another umbrella of<|fim_middle|>inosum. Northern Biscuitroot. Photographed in eastern Washington.
Lomatium canbyi. Canby's Biscuitroot. Native to the western states and common on the Columbia Plateau.
Lomatium canbyi. Canby's Biscuitroot. Photographed in eastern Washington.
Lomatium macrocarpum. Bigseed Biscuitroot. Native from California to Manitoba, west to British Columbia. Common on the Columbia Plateau.
Lomatium macrocarpum. Bigseed Biscuitroot. Photographed in eastern Washington.
Glehnia littoralis. Beach Silvertop. Photographed in Washington.
Eryngium planum. Blue Glitter Sea Holly.
Eryngium planum. Blue Glitter Sea Holly is a member of Parsley family, but greatly resembles the Teasel family. | even smaller stems, hence the "compound umbrella" or "compound umbel". To be a true umbel, the stems or spokes must all radiate from exactly the same point. Other flowers like the common yarrow may appear to have compound umbels, but look closer and you will see that the flower stems are staggered off the main stalk, so the yarrow is not a member of this family. Another pattern of the Parsley family is that the stems are usually, but not always hollow. Kids have been poisoned using hemlock stems for straws.
When you recognize the compound umbels of the Parsley family then you know you have to be careful. You must be 100% certain of what these plants are before you harvest them for food or medicine. More than that, you must be right! People die just about every year thinking they have discovered some kind of wild carrot.
So how do you distinguish the poisonous members of the family? Don't rush it. You might think that learning plants is just a matter of filling up the disk space in your head with data, but there is a bit more to it than that. No matter what you study, whether it is plant identification, art, or math, you learn by connecting neurons in the brain to build a neural network for processing the information. Getting started is the most dangerous time, because all the plants tend to look alike-- kind of green mostly. Just practice pointing out compound umbels everywhere you go, starting with the dill or fennel in the garden. The more you practice this and other family patterns, the more you will learn to see just how unique and different each plant is.
When you are proficient at recognizing the major plant families, then go back and start studying more of the individual plants. Even then, avoid rushing to conclusions. Keep in mind that when your goal is to find an answer, then you will find one, whether it is right or not.
If you are positive that you have identified a member of the Parsley family correctly, that's good. Now wait and see if you are still sure of your answer in a few days or a week. When you get good at recognizing certain species every time you see them, then you might consider trying out their appropriate edible or medicinal uses. Worldwide there are about 300 genera in the Parsley family, representing more than 3000 species. About 75 genera are native to North America.
Key Words: Compound umbels. Usually hollow flower stalks.
Angelica arguta. Lyall's Angelica. Photographed in Yellowstone National Park.
Angelica douglasii. Douglas Angelica. Near Glacier National Park.
Conium maculatum. Poison Hemlock. Widespread.
Cicuta douglasii. Water Hemlock. The deadliest plant in North America.
Cicuta douglasii. Water Hemlock. Widespread.
Cicuta douglasii. Water Hemlock. Widespread. The deadliest plant in North America.
Sanicula marilandica. Maryland Sanicle. Photographed in the Big Snowy Mountains of Montana.
Daucus carota. Wild Carrot. The plant was introduced from Eurasia and is now widespread across North America.
Daucus carota. Wild Carrot. The roots of first year plants are edible. They become woody by the second year.
Daucus carota. Wild Carrot. The wild carrot is the same species, but a different variety than the carrots we grow and eat.
Osmorhiza berteroi. Mountain Sweet Cicely.
Lomatium ambiguum. Wyeth Biscuitroot. Methow Valley, Washington.
Lomatium triternatum. Nine Leaf Biscuitroot.
Lomatium far | 774 |
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Home » Byzantine Treasures » Fragment of a Tunic
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Fragment of a Tunic, Period: Early Byzantine; circa: 5th – 7th century; Materials: tapestry weave; wool and linen. The Cleveland Art Museum Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. Closed Mondays.
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Button, Early Byzantine
Precious Stones Glass Early Byzantine
Button, Early Byzantine circa: 500s. Materials: Rock crystal with a garnet mounted in a gold granulated star. The Cleveland Art Museum Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. Closed Mondays.
Slipper; leather; with pointed toe and thick sole with gilt borders on the upper part and the figure of an animal. Culture: Coptic. Period: Early Byzantine; circa: 4thC-6thC; Made in: Egypt. Length: 2<|fim_middle|>: 8 million objects, Oldest object in the collection: Stone chopping tool (nearly 2 million years old).
Enkolpion with Enthroned Virgin, Nativity, Adoration; and Baptism. Period: Early Byzantine Last quarter 6th century (ca. 583). Materials: gold. The museum is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday, 11:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., except for federal holidays
Coptic Textile fragment, Period: Early Byzantine circa: 4th–6th century A.D. Object Place: Egypt. Materials: Linen plain weave with wool tapestry insert. Dimensions: 34.5 x 65 cm (13 9/16 x 25 9/16 in.).
The MFA is open 7 days a week. Monday and Tuesday 10 am–5 pm, Wednesday–Friday 10 am–10 pm, Saturday and Sunday 10 am–5 pm.
Lamp and Stand, Syria
Lamp and Stand, Period: Early Byzantine, 4th century. Materials: Silver. 9.2 x 16 x 7 cm (3 9/16 x 6 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Art Museum Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. Closed Mondays.
Fragment of a Large Hanging, Period: Early Byzantine; circa: 6th century, Made in: Egypt. Materials: tapestry weave (with plain tabby borders): wool and linen. The Cleveland Art Museum Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. Closed Mondays.
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Square Segmentum with Two Birds
Square Segmentum with Two Birds, Period: Early Byzantine; circa: 400s – 500s; Made in: Egypt, Material: tapestry; linen and wool. Dimensions: Overall: 10 x 10 cm (3 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Art Museum Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. Closed Mondays.
Copper Alloy Weight
Copper Early Byzantine
Copper Alloy Weight, Period: Early Byzantine, 6thc-7thc, discoidal with double-grooved convex profile; lathe-turned with rims; face engraved with double wreath enclosing cross above denominational mark, both inlaid with silver. British Museum is closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January, but is open every other day of the year.
Mosaic Panel. Period: Early Byzantine; circa: Late 6th – early 7th century. Findspot: Istanbul, Kalenderhane Mosque excavations. Decorated the southern niche of the apse; it depicts the earliest presentation scene, the hypapante, found in Istanbul. Materials: stone, glass. In the Istanbul Archaeological Museum collections, there are rich and very important works of art belonging to various civilizations from the regions from Africa to Balkans , from Anatolia and Mesopotamia to Arab Peninsula and Afghanistan that were in the borders of the Ottoman Empire.
Gold Earring; Cyprus, Early Byzantine
Gold Earring; Period: Early Byzantine (6thc-7thc), one of a pair crescent-shaped loop. Found: Lambousa (Cyprus). British Museum is closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January, but is open every other day of the year.
Fragment of a Tunic, Period: Middle Byzantine circa: first half of 7th century, Made in: Egypt. Materials: tabby weave with inwoven tapestry ornament, linen and wool. Overall: 26.1 x 74.3 cm (10 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Art Museum Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. Closed Mondays.
Spoon; Early Byzantine
Silver spoon, Period: Early Byzantine; 650 (circa). Found: Acheripoetos Monastery, monastery (near)(Europe,Cyprus,Nicosia (district),Kyrenia,Acheripoetos Monastery) British Museum is closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January, but is open every other day of the year. Fast facts about the British Museum: Founded: 1753, Collection size: 8 million objects, Oldest object in the collection: Stone chopping tool (nearly 2 million years old).
Horse and Lion Hanging, Period: Early Byzantine, 6th century A.D. Materials: wool and linen. The museum is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday, 11:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., except for federal holidays.
Solidus of Constantinus III, Mint: Constantinople, Period: A.D. 641–668, Early Byzantine. Material: Gold. The MFA is open 7 days a week. Monday and Tuesday 10 am–5 pm, Wednesday–Friday 10 am–10 pm, Saturday and Sunday 10 am–5 pm.
Earrings (pair), Period: Early Byzantine; circa: 600s; Materials: gold, pearls, glass, and emeralds. The Cleveland Art Museum Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. Closed Mondays.
Gold Pendant; Early Byzantine
Pendant; Material: gold. Period: Late Roman; Early Byzantine; (5thc.) Found: Medinet el-Faiyum, Egypt. Open-work; composed of central setting with a stone (now missing), around which are eight small medallions, with a pearl in the middle of each. British Museum is closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January, but is open every other day of the year.
Plate with Cross and Greek Inscription 'Hope of God'
Plate with Cross and Greek Inscription 'Hope of God', Period: Early Byzantine, 7th century A.D. The museum is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday, 11:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., except for federal holidays.
Earring with Emerald and Sapphire
Earring with Emerald and Sapphire, Period: Early Byzantine circa: early 5th century. Size: 6.5 (2.6). Material: gold and gems. Found in 1910 during restoration work in Piazza della Consolazione, Rome. The museum is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday, 11:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., except for federal holidays.
Key, Materials: Bronze. Made in: Constantinople. Period: Early Byzantine (?). The Benaki Museum of Greek Culture is housed in one of the most beautiful neoclassical-style buildings in Athens, near the National Garden and the Hellenic Parliament.
Necklace, Early Byzantium
Necklace, Period: Early Byzantine, circa: 6th century. Made in Constantinople. Material: gold. Technique: carving, engraving. Dimensions: Lenght 27 cm. The collection of the State Hermitage includes over 3 million works of art and world culture artefacts. It contains paintings, graphic works, sculptures, works of applied art, archaeological artefacts and numismatic objects. The Hermitage is considered to have been founded in 1764, when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of works from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky. The museum celebrates the anniversary of its founding each year on 7 December, St. Catherine's Day. Opening Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday: 10.30-18.00 Wednesday, Friday: 10.30-21.00 Closed: Monday. | 62 millimetres. British Museum is closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January, but is open every other day of the year. Fast facts about the British Museum: Founded: 1753, Collection size | 54 |
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A special Scottish location, the perfect place on the planet to elope.
Caisealrag Cottage is fully licensed for weddings inside and out, all the way down to the sandy beaches and rugged coast. Chose your perfect place for your wedding ceremony when you arrive!
Caisealrag has to be the most romantic cottage on the west coast of Scotland, offering total privacy in warm and stylish surroundings.
Getting here is simple. There are more flights from London to Glasgow than any other route in the world. If time is tight, it is easy to pop up from the south for just a weekend.
You can enjoy unlimited walking for miles around in all directions straight from the door. A short stroll away you are overlooking the Paps of Jura with uninterrupted views to the Isles of Islay, Jura and Gigha & the lighthouses of Rathlin Island.
As a romantic destination wedding venue in both winter or summer, Caisealrag Cottage at Crear is perfect for a couple with a king size double bedroom & en-suite bathroom. The cottage sleeps six guests in total with four in the separate annex.
Built in the 1880's, the traditional stone cottage has been sympathetically restored with an emphasis on comfort, warmth and understated luxury.
With a large open plan living area with warm stone floors, you can sink into deep squashy arm chairs and relax and unwind in front of the wood burning stove watching the vast expanse of ever changing skies through floor to ceiling windows.
The original stone cottage sleeps two in a king size double bed with en-suite bathroom. We would be happy to act as your witnesses but if you choose to invite friends & family for all or part of your stay, we have two guest bedrooms with en-suite shower rooms in the annex. We have two pop up beds for children under 5 if required & a travel cot for babies.
There is no single occupancy charge for your guests. The annex is exclusively for your family & friends, however please note that as it is completely self contained with its own private entrance, it may not be suitable for children under the age of 14 sleeping alone. We suggest bringing a baby monitor. Dogs are very welcome if they promise to sleep in their own bed.
Caisealrag Cottage is fully equipped to self cater stocked with the basics, with an electric hob, single fan oven, fridges & freezer. Towels are also provided. There is also a wood burning stove with plenty of logs, dishwasher, washing machine, iron, iron board, hairdryers,<|fim_middle|> a landline is also provided. If you need anything at all or have left anything behind, the Crear team are on hand 24/7 - from extra towels to advice on a walking route.
To respect your complete privacy, housekeeping will only be at your request.
Wee weddings are relaxed & stress free. Once you have booked, you simply contact your celebrant & the registrar directly to arrange your marriage ceremony & apply for any travel visas you require. You decide where your wedding will take place on your wedding day.
Your final choice of flowers can be made eight weeks prior to your wedding. A warm welcome & soup on the stove awaits your arrival. We will be on call for the duration of your stay, ensuring you have everything you need. On your wedding day we will be with you before your ceremony with your bridal flowers & to help with bow ties & buttons!
Please consider that at Crear there may well be more than a wee puff of wind so your hair needs to be firmly pinned or in a style that will only improve when wind swept. What may work well inside where you are in control of the climate is not the style for a Crear bride!
The DIY option would be to have a professional make up lesson to discover what is the best look for you & invest in some luxury products that will last longer than your wedding day.
For freshly caught seafood landed daily in the fishing village of Tarbert, try the Starfish Restaurant, the Sea Bed Restaurant at the Anchor Hotel & the Seafood Cabin at Skipness Castle.
A stunning drive down the Kintryre peninsula to Southend is so worth the journey when you taste the delicious cakes at the Muneroy Restaurant & Tearoom.
Lochgilphead is the nearest town with a Co-op supermarket as well as a deli, butcher, greengrocer & fishmonger in the main street. We can advise on where to buy freshly landed seafood in Tarbert.
On your way to Crear you will drive past the original Loch Fyne Oyster bar which has a fabulous shop of local produce as well as oysters & salmon. Our local brewery, Fyne Ayles is just before it.
Crear is fully licensed if you would like a little refreshment during your stay. We are also very proud of our Crear Whisky to enjoy a dram & take home.
If you plan to marry on the beach, flip flops in summer & wellies in winter are handy to negotiate the pebbles before popping on your heels! A brollie can also be handy.
In summer don't forget the sunscreen & your swimsuit. In winter we also suggest a wrap to keep you warm if your winter wedding is outside & long johns are a cosy option under your dress.
Caisealrag is situated in one of Scotland's richest prehistoric landscapes. Burial cairns dating back 3000 BC are a short stroll from the door & Kilmartin Museum is a complete gem giving an insight to what surrounds you.
Aside from the beauty of the country & the abundance of wildlife in every direction, there is something for everyone in the surrounding area. We can offer wee weddings for music lovers, wee weddings for gourmets, wee weddings for golfers, wee weddings for garden lovers ....... the list is endless. | TV, Wifi & ipod dock.
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PAG 2015 | Shweta Bhattad
Public Art Grant 2015 | Shweta Bhattad
The FICA Public Art Grant 2015 will support the Gram Dhara Chitra Utsav by Shweta Bhattad. The jury this year included Anuradha Kapur (Adjunct/Visiting Professor, School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University, and former Director of NS<|fim_middle|>14-16); Mapping Gender, curated by Sandhya Gajjar, in collaboration with Artcore Derby, UK (2013) among others. She has been awarded Khoj Ecology & Byways, Negotiating routes - V, 2014; Art Intensive Scholarship, at Khoj Delhi, India, 2012; 50th National Exhibition of Art organized by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi at Chandigarh, India, 2008. | D, New Delhi); Pushpamala N (Visual Artist); Sabih Ahmed (Senior Researcher, Asia Art Archive, New Delhi); and Bhooma Padmanabhan from the FICA team. The decision by the jury was made after two rounds of short-listing and selection.
Shweta Bhattad's project was selected for its focused attempt to engage with a rural community (farmers, villagers, and social workers) and bring about a dialogue on traditional knowledge systems with regard to farming and water management with the help of artistic processes. After considering various parameters, such as, her deep-rooted relationship with the village community, her ongoing work there, her commitment to using artistic and dialogical means to develop the work, and her ability to mobilize a group of artists in this process, the jury made their selection.
Gram Dhara Chitra Utsav (loosely translated as 'Village Land Art Festival') aims to bring together artists with young farmers and youth from the Paradsinga village, on the border between Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, to rediscover traditional methods of farming and irrigation through developing land art installations in collaboration with each other. As Shweta puts it, it is "a collaborative work between artists, farmers, villagers and social workers", and will involve monthly workshops and interactions between these groups, and culminate in a one day utsav, imagined as a village mela or festival with various elements of art, craft, performance and discussions on the project itself.
Shweta Bhattad is a visual artist and performer. She is a trained sculptor, having completed her BFA in Nagpur, and MVA in MS University of Baroda. She has worked across mediums in the past, with a strong focus on issues of women's safety, education, and the female body. She has done two solo shows - Kabhi Namak Tumhe Kam Laga Kabhi Namak Tumhe Jyada Laga Kabhi, Latitude 28, Delhi, (2015) and Wax Magic, SCZCC, Nagpur, India, (2005). Her group exhibitions include Ma Ma curated by Shu Lun Wu, Topia Arts, Hualien City, Taiwan, (2015); I Have A Dream, a collaborative global farming project, Vancouver Biennale (20 | 486 |
Volunteers with the Friends of Lardeau River set up the diversionary salt licks on April 18. Photo submitted
The goat problem vexed Leonard Sielecki for over a decade.
Every spring, goats suffering from mineral deficiency following the long winter trek down mountains in search of salt. They find it on B.C. highways, which either have salt left over from icy conditions or may draw the animals in with the road's brine residue.
Sielecki, who manages the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure's wildlife program, is an expert on vehicle collision mitigation. But luring goats away from the roads proved more difficult than he expected, at least until he realized he should just give the animals what they wanted.
"It sounds very simple now but for some reason it took a lot of thinking to come up with that," he said.
Sielecki's not kidding. He'd previously tried a number of deterrents, such as mixing cayenne pepper into salt (which worked on goats and, unexpectedly, also on allergic drivers) or magnesium chloride (which not only made the goats sick but also damaged vehicles and cars).
He even tried placing satchels of dog fur from wolf-like species such as huskies and malamutes along the highway. That also backfired. "If you're ever going to do an experiment like that, make sure you freeze all the boxes because you'll get fleas," he said.
Finally, after at least one goat was killed last summer on Highway 31 between the small West Kootenay towns of Lardeau and Argenta, Sielecki decided to try another tact.
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Watering restrictions begin in Mission | ielecki contacted Nelson-based wildlife research biologist Kim Poole, who partnered with the Friends of Lardeau River to haul approximately 125 kilograms of livestock salt up the hill from the highway late last summer. They set up small piles and hoped it would distract the goats from the nearby highway.
"I put some cameras up and if you can believe it, within 55 minutes of us leaving the goats were on the lick site," said Poole. "So in the short term it looked really promising."
Mountain goats have long been a fixture on the Lardeau Bluffs.
The Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development estimates the herd's population is 50, but Poole said he's had locals tell him it is more likely 25 to 30. The goats are also protected from hunting after a ban was placed on the bluffs in 2004.
Protecting the goats, Poole said, is a local prerogative.
"It's not like you have several hundred goats running around in that area and dropping one or two to a vehicle isn't such a bad thing," he said. "It's just not a lot of goats. You don't want to lose too many of them."
Last year the salt licks were placed too late in the season to judge how successful they were. This year, Poole and nine volunteers returned on April 18 with 175 kilos of salt that were placed in two different locations about 150 metres from the highway. The transportation ministry has purchased approximately 400 kilos of salt, which Poole said he'll use to replenish the licks every four-to-six weeks.
The salt is placed in spread-out piles to simulate natural licks. Sielecki said he opted against using blocks to avoid the possibility of animals sharing diseases.
It's still too early to know if the project is a success, but Lardeau isn't the only community trying out the licks. Three sites have also been added in the East Kootenay and Sielecki has plans for two more.
Although the salt can keep drivers safe from collisions, Sielecki said protecting animals is his priority. He recalled meeting a woman in Kaslo and mentioning the Lardeau goats.
"She knew the herd. That was really neat because I'm trying to help a herd she knows locally. It's that attachment people have, that love people have for the wildlife of our province."
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This group hauled 150 kilograms of salt up a steep hill in order to protect the local goat herd. Photo submitted
These goats were caught on video taking advantage of a salt lick near Lardeau meant to divert | 565 |
I<|fim_middle|>. Natasha very highly, but I decided that I wouldn't worry too much about nutrients being damaged, since other methods of cooking also damage nutrients.
My friends rave about their Instant Pots every so often which would get me thinking about having one of my own. And I've always loved the idea of pressure cookers, mostly since you can cook so much faster. According to the manufacturer, cooking with high pressure can reduce cooking time by up to 70%. We only have so many hours in the day… we do a lot of cooking when eating real food so the option of being able to cook faster is definitely enticing.
On Black Friday, November 27, 2015… I caved and bought my Instant Pot. I purchased the IP-DUO60 7-in-1 Multi-Functional Pressure Cooker. If you are planning to buy an Instant Pot, definitely watch for sales on holidays at Amazon.
I've had my Instant Pot for 8 months. I have mostly used it as a pressure cooker. One of the recipes I have perfected and shared here at the blog is Copycat Chipotle Carnitas Salad Bowl (Pulled Pork in the Instant Pot). For this recipe, I used the saute/browning feature, plus pressure cooking. I am also working to perfect a chicken stock/soup recipe to share.
With the Instant Pot, you program it, and leave it (unlike the stove top pressure cooker where I had to babysit it constantly to assess when to turn the heat up or down, switching burners, etc.).
The Instant Pot is silent. No hissing or spitting while cooking, like the traditional stove-top pressure cooker. (It does hiss when you are releasing pressure quickly).
The Instant Pot includes a stainless steel insert, which can be removed. This makes it easy to refrigerate the leftovers.
So… you may be able to free up some space on your counter top, or in your cupboards.
With the slow cooker function, you can put the ingredients into the stainless steel insert, set the timer to begin later, slow cook for the day and when it's done, it will automatically switch to the warming function to keep your food warm. Can you imagine putting ingredients into the pot for stock and coming home to flavorful and nutritious broth?
I have also used the "rice cooker" setting to cook buckwheat, which is an advanced food on GAPS, and the saute/browning, steamer, and warmer functions.
When the weather cools down I am planning to order GI Prostart, (the starter I used to make my coconut milk yogurt) and try the Yogurt Maker function.
To help me use my Instant Pot more fully, I invested in Hip Pressure Cooking. Laura D.A. Pazzaglia is the founder of the blog hippressurecooking.com and her book has more than 240 recipes to help you get the most out of your modern pressure cooker. I will admit it has a lot of recipes that are not GAPS legal, but it is a wealth of information on modern day pressure cooking.
The last thing I wanted to mention are the safety features in place in the Instant Pot.
Click here to find your Instant Pot! | remember my mother using a pressure cooker when I was growing up. Of course hers was an old fashioned aluminum based cooker complete with the jiggling mechanism on top that spit and hissed. However, I don't recall any disastrous accidents, so I wasn't traumatized with regards to pressure cookers.
In my thirties, I invested in the Fagor pressure cooker. I already knew about the hazards of cooking with aluminum so the set I bought was stainless steel. It included an 8 quart pot and a 4 quart pot. I used it on and off but not on a regular basis. I did find it to be a bit of a challenge, because stove top pressure cookers have to be carefully watched. If you have an electric stove, like I did, you have to learn the switching method where you bring the cooker up to pressure and switch to a burner which is at a lower temperature. Then you have to adjust the heat manually on the burner until the hissing regulates. It is not something you can start and leave.
However, the construction of the pot itself was awesome. Heavy duty and perfect for steaming large amounts of vegetables, or making big pots of stock and soup, or chili. I still have these pots and use them regularly.
Question: What are your thoughts about using an old-fashioned pressure cooker to expedite preparation of meat stocks?
Answer from Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride: I don't recommend pressure cooker, as it destroys food to a degree. It is better to cook food slowly on lower heat.
So I ignored anything I heard about pressure cookers for a long time.
Dr. Andrew Weil: Is Pressure Cooking Healthy?
Wellness Mama: Do Pressure Cookers Destroy Nutrients?
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Tue, 08/23/2016 - 2:11pm Vic MacDonald
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The football team will host its annual Fan Appreciation Day on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Bailey Memorial Stadium.
PC football | 1 football opener, coach, athletic director and voice will be on Upstate morning program
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Reese, Nichols to Appear on Your Carolina on Wednesday
Presbyterian College Athletic Director Brian Reese and head football coach Harold Nichols, along with "The Voice of the Blue Hose" Eric Thacker, will make an appearance on Your Carolina with Jack Roper and Megan Heidelberg on Wednesday morning.
The show airs at 10 a.m. on WSPA Channel 7 in the Upstate.
The trio will be appearing on the show to discuss Presbyterian athletics as a whole, as well as promoting the upcoming 2016 football season, which is set to begin in just nine days. Nichols and the Blue Hose travel to Central Michigan on September 1 to open the season.
The hour-long show highlights local events and things going on around the local community in the Upstate.
The athletic season kicks off for PC teams this weekend with men's and women's soccer hosting a doubleheader at Martin Stadium on Friday, while | 216 |
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'American Idol' contestant nearly makes Katy Perry faint, as 12 of the top 24 perform
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(ABC News) On Sunday night's "American Idol," 12 of the top 24 contestants performed solo for judges Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan – with one of them leaving Perry breathless.
Here are Sunday's highlights:
Dominique — who vowed to quit his job if he makes it into the top 10 — came a step closer to realizing that dream with his version of "Ain't Nobody" by Chaka Khan.
It's #IdolSolos tonight and @LegitDominique kicks us off with "Ain't Nobody" by Rufus and @ChakaKhan! #AmericanIdol #IdolTop24 https://t.co/HjVWYwWDpj— American Idol (@AmericanIdol) April 9, 2018
"You have arrived," Perry exclaimed afterwards, adding that she felt like she was "in a club" and "caught a vibe." Richie agreed, saying "there's an opening attraction and a starring attraction," and Dominique was definitely "the star attraction."
Before her performance, 16-year-old Layla Spring from Lebanon, Kentucky, had the chance to video chat with her idol — and "American Idol" season 10 runner-up — Lauren Alaina, who advised her that the show would "change her life," but she would "have to continue on that journey." Layla showed a more emotional side of herself with her cover of Martina McBride's "A Broken Wing," after which Richie praised the teen for not only listening to their advice, but actually following it. Perry noted that Layla had "grown leaps and bounds," and Bryan added that Spring was "mature far beyond your years."
Perry critiqued Catie Turner for her choice of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance." She more than atoned for that on Sunday with her take on Blondie's "Call Me" — her dad's choice — knocking over the mic stand at the end for effect. Turner got a standing ovation from the judges, including Bryan, who said he "couldn't quit watching" her, adding, "You're quirky and crazy Catie, but we love you." Perry praised the singer for her "cool song choice and incredible presentation." Richie added that Catie was "something" when they first saw her, and now she's "made us believers in [her] style."
.@hashtagcatie is ready for her "Blondie by a Ginger World Tour" with her #IdolSolo performance of @BlondieOfficial's "Call Me" #AmericanIdol #IdolTop24 https://t.co/eqyWbIQqIU— American Idol (@AmericanIdol) April 9, 2018
Michelle Sussett also took Perry's advice to heart and utilized her bilingual ability, delivering Beyoncé's "If I Were a Boy" in both Spanish and English, picking up the tempo midway through the song, while dancing around the stage. Perry was impressed, noting that Michelle's bilingual skills are her "ace," although she felt Sussett was a "good singer" and could've held the audience a little longer with it before breaking out her dance moves.
On the advice of the judges, New Hampshire native Kay Kay tried to "get lost" in her performance of Rihanna's "Love on the Brain" and succeeded. Bryan declared Kay Kay was just "born as a star." Perry said of the singer — who had come off as a little too polished in her previous performances – that the whole package "has finally arrived," and that Kay Kay had "turned a corner."
Brandon Diaz went out on a limb, putting his touch on Lionel Richie's 1983 hit, "Hello." Perry praised Brandon for being "so brave." As to whether or not he nailed it, she thought his version "landed somewhere in the middle," explaining, "There was a little turbulence in the air," but Diaz "landed it so well." The man himself – Lionel Richie – agreed, admitting that he was nervous throughout the song, hoping Brandon would "own it," and he succeeded at the very end. Later, he joined Brandon for an impromptu duet of the tune.
It was a BIG risk to sing "Hello" in front of @LionelRichie (and with @RyanSeacrest) – will it pay off for @BrandonDMusic? #AmericanIdol #IdolTop24 https://t.co/T5eyHaIhzO— American Idol (@AmericanIdol) April 9, 2018
County singer Gabby Barrett wants to "make it Madison Square Garden in five years," and got a little advice on making it as a female country artist from one of her favorites, Maren Morris. She chose Morris' "My Church" for her solo performance. All three judges agreed that Gabby had a great attitude, but were disappointed they didn't see it until the end.
Rocker Cade Foehner — who's also a minister — closed out the show with a fiery performance of Jimi Hendrix's version of the Bob Dylan tune, "All Along the Watchtower," showing off some rock star moves as well as his guitar chops. Perry was overwhelmed by the performance, joking afterwards, "I saw some things my minister parents had to shun." When he noted that he was also a minister, Katy replied, "You sure are a minister and you can preach to me anytime." She then declared that regardless of how America votes, he's "a star" in her book, before pretending to faint.
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Venue: North Boarhunt Social Club
Town: North Boarhunt nr Fareham, Hants
Website: http://www.amygoddardmusic.co.uk/
Live music is about so much more than just the performance and having to travel to the event can become part of the experience. It so happened that the launch of Amy Goddard's EP coincided with the first warm, sunny day of spring which made the drive down to Hampshire and through the lovely scenery of the Meon Valley, with friends, a real treat. Serendipity also played its part when a quick Google search and reprogramming of the satnav meant we found one of the best Indian restaurants, the Veranda of Wickham, I've ever visited and there have been a few. I could probably write a whole review on it and the rather pretty market town its to be found in but if you're ever in the area, do give it a try.
Once fed and watered a short drive took us to the venue for the night, the North Boarhunt Social Club is well appointed and looks out over green fields. Amy has used it before, for the "Secret Garden" album launch where we were led into a magical fairy dell. This time we entered a mine, the stage decked out with black material although the sparkles suggested there were diamonds in with the coal. It's that attention to detail that turns a show into a performance. The audience for the night were mainly friends and family so there was plenty of talking and mixing, saying hello to people you've not seen for a while, which generated a really happy and relaxed atmosphere<|fim_middle|> a song with a chorus that needs plenty of voices and they certainly did it justice. After a break to refresh glasses, Dave opened the second half and also gave a short but very good set of songs. It was starting to become a real folk club atmosphere.
Amy's second half featured some familiar songs from previous releases including the very sweet "Morning Train", which is a song about her travelling from Cardiff to Portsmouth when she and, now husband, Matt were courting and the dramatic "Lover's Leap" for which Matt joined her on stage and in best Marcel Marceau fashion demonstrated the mimed version which helps him remember the words. We got some new songs including "The Hedgehog Song", inspired by Matt's comment that Amy be a little prickly on occasions! He may have wished there was still a train journey between them after saying it but it produced another song that is full of charm and gentle humour. Of course no Amy Goddard set would be complete without her version of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark" and it's a version I really enjoy. Stripped of its stadium rock persona there are some very touching lyrics.
Yes, the encore was already on the set list but was still warmly and genuinely wanted by the crowd. Everyone came back on stage for Mervyn Vincent's "Farewell Shanty" and a fair number of the audience were familiar enough with it to join in. It was a fittingly beautiful end to the evening and there were plenty of memories to talk about on the trip home. It was a lovely day!
The EP is now released and is available through Amy's website. If you enjoy traditional songs, mining songs or just good music in general it come highly highly recommended and keep an eye out for new releases including possibly another EP. and the third album which is being recorded, in the future. There may be a few more trips to Hampshire.
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George Wilson, well known on the south coast folk scene, opened the evening with a short but excellent set of songs and plenty of comedy mixed in. Whilst not a writer himself he certainly knows how to recognise a good tune and for me the stand out of his set was "Angel of Mercy" by Ron Trueman-Border, a song that has been described as "the Street of London for the 21st Century". I'm amazed I've never heard it before as it is at least as good as its better known comparator but with a much harder edge.
Amy's first set was the EP sung through, mainly solo but with Dad Alan and husband Matt joining her on stage for a couple of the songs. With all the awards won, including FATEA Song of the Year 2016, and sets at Cambridge Folk Festival Amy has every right to go forward with a lot of confidence and that reflected in this event as she she looked very relaxed and happy, there were even some jokes during the set which was lovely to see.
The songs she's written for this album including "Aberfan", the award winner, and "Green Is The Colour", which opened the evening, show what many of us have known for a long time, that Amy is a writer of real quality and this exploration of mining related music has really given her the chance to fully explore the human condition. Her delicate voice, with that hint of vulnerability to it, is perfect for representing those who never get a fair crack of the whip because the circumstances of their lives condemn them to always being the underdog.
In releasing a whole EP of mining songs Amy didn't restrict herself to just the UK, or just coal. Dylan's "North Country Blues" fitted in perfectly and we really wouldn't have minded hearing all ten verses. By this stage everybody was enjoying the music so much we wouldn't have minded anything that would have kept the evening going for as long as possible.
The first half finished with a mining song not on the EP, Paul Metsers' "Farewell To The Gold", and for this Amy had all her guests on stage; as well as those already mentioned Dave Phillips joined in. It's | 453 |
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Ten years ago, Nicole Ayers' "The Madlab Post" was a blog. Today, it's a designated film space, screening short films from across the world in South Philadelphia.
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Over the past two years, Nicole Ayers gradually transformed her movie-oriented blog, "The Madlab Post," into an actual film studio and screening space located on the fourth floor of the Bok Building. (Grace Maiorano/SPR)
While attending the former William Penn High School, Nicole Ayers filmed student-body activities and transformed the footage into miniature documentaries.
Though she's since upgraded her camera, the North Philly native has paved a career led by filmmaking, creating her own projects while concurrently highlighting the work of others.
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© Newspaper Media Group | last two years, Ayers gradually transformed her movie-oriented blog, "The Madlab Post," into an actual film studio and screening space located on the fourth floor of the Bok Building.
Established in 2005, "The Madlab Post" website was originally intended to publicize Ayers' own films. However, the Madlab mission evolved over time – altering into a movie news source, a series of screenings and now a tangible residence at Bok, which she started renting two years ago.
"I wanted to find a place that I could call my own without having to ask for permission or be restricted by time and budget in regards to things that I wanted to do," Ayers said. "I wanted to encourage more people to appreciate the hard work that filmmakers put into their films and also get locals to be able to see films that they wouldn't otherwise have a chance to see and even films that they never heard of."
After graduating from William Penn, Ayers studied film production at the former Art Institute of Philadelphia before working as a videographer for Community College of Philadelphia's athletics department.
She later dabbled in freelance writing for various companies and publications, including corporate and movie content, but Ayers was continuously crafting film scripts in her free time and eventually launched The Madlab Post.
Shedding light on serious topics through a humorous lens, Ayers wrote one short comedy about AIDs and a mock commercial surrounding the high prices of adoption – to name a few.
As a strong advocate against freebooting, she also made a short documentary about the online piracy of films. She even assisted other filmmakers on their works, including Kenya Branch's "Are We Neighbors?" in 2012.
And although she occasionally went on a filmmaking hiatus, Ayers found a new life for Madlab.
"I stopped making films, but I loved writing," Ayers said. "So knowing how difficult independent filmmaking is, I decided that instead of shutting down the website, I would continue it but just use it to help other filmmakers."
Interviewing local filmmakers, Ayers would post stories highlighting their work to help them raise funds for their projects.
"I wanted to find out how they make their films, particularly how that production process impacted them," Ayers said. "And if there were difficult challenges they had to overcome so that they could hopefully inspire other filmmakers who might be on the fence."
Around the same time, Ayers began volunteering at various local and national film festivals, including the Philadelphia Film Festival while also hosting her own screenings at theaters, including a space in Mount Airy.
Among her travels in 2012, she stumbled upon Couch Fest Films, a Seattle-based international festival of short films that are hosted in private homes. The single-day event eventually turned into a worldwide celebration, including an event in Philadelphia – thanks to Ayers, who became an ambassador of the festival.
Though it didn't take place in a home, Ayers, through the Madlab domain, actually hosted a Couch Fest at a Laundromat in the Olney neighborhood, localizing a worldwide global film event to a small community nestled in North Philadelphia.
"I wanted to be able to entertain and educate people through film while also earning enough to benefit other people," Ayers said.
For the following few years, Ayers managed Couch Fest and a few other international film festivals, such as the shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival, an 11-day event, in different spaces around the city.
In 2016, she even hosted a festival at The Whole Shebang, an arts and wellness studio located off of 11th and Moore streets, where viewers were required to remove their shoes before entering the screening.
About a year later, she discovered Bok, 1901 S. 9th St., a former public vocational school that has been recently repurposed as a creative hub for artists, artisans and other professionals.
"It's been crazy running around looking every year for a space…It is about accessibility," she said. "(Viewers) don't want to spend a long time trying to get out to another area. It's easy for them to get here, and also, I think it's a way to get people to meet each other."
For the last two years, Ayers has hosted various screenings at the space, converting an old 1930s-constructed South Philly classroom into both a film studio and intimate setting housing esteemed short films from across the world.
Currently at the Bok space, Ayers is hosting the only Philadelphia event of the 22nd Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival, which began on Sept. 26 and continues through Oct. 6. It features the screening of 10 films that are being considered for Academy Award nominations in 400 cities worldwide.
Of course, amidst the metamorphosis of The Madlab Post, Ayers didn't lose her filmmaking itch.
She produced a short, "Abyss: The Greatest Proposal Ever," surrounding the story of an Army sergeant getting stranded by SEPTA while planning to propose to his girlfriend, which screened at the NewFilmmakers NY Winter series at the Anthology Film Archives Theater in 2014. She says the film even helped to raise funds for the American Red Cross.
And although she's had other recent filmmaking opportunities, Ayers says she's found a purpose in exposing the moviemaking work of others to the South Philadelphia community, recognizing the need to elevate the craft of short films.
"A film period – whether it's short or a feature film – it's very difficult to make," Ayers said. 'So, it could be very disheartening and discouraging to not have your work seen or not have your work validated…I want to create, I guess, an environment where I can build the profile of short films and have them taken seriously and be on equal grounds. If not equal grounds, then at least a little bit higher on the scale."
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