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Graffiti – Art or Nuisance? Discuss!
It's an all too common sight here is South Florida- overpasses and train cars and snails…anything stationary or near-stationary can (and most likely will) be covered in graffiti. Some of it is pretty, some of it is downright scary, but almost all of the places you find it want it removed.
There are heavy duty graffiti removers on the market, and they really work, but when does it become an eyesore as opposed to art? I've seen some beautiful works of art that were technically graffiti, and it would've been a shame to destroy it. Unfortunately though, business owners don't find it so beautiful.
I'm crafty, but not so much "artsy". I can devise a way to make a picture frame out of driftwood,<|fim_middle|> a picture to put IN the frame? Not happening. However, that doesn't preclude me from appreciating stunning works of spraypaint-or-chalk drawn art on the side of a building.
Also, graffiti has become part of our urban landscape, almost a trademark. Graffiti on the side of a skyscraper in the city downtown is not as out of place as graffiti on the side of a barn in the country would be. It's almost expected! So that begs the question – is it art or nuisance?
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Apartments raided
Multi-agency task force seizes drugs, guns
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A May 1 predawn raid on three Patterson Street Apartments units resulted in the arrest of two Atmore residents — a man and a woman — and the seizure of an unspecified quantity of natural and synthetic marijuana, along with several firearms that could turn out to be stolen.
Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks said the three-level, multi-agency operation — which included city drug agents, deputies<|fim_middle|> Wilson, 31, were each taken into custody without incident.
McDowell is charged with one count each of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was also the subject of a bench warrant that was issued after he failed to appear in Escambia County Circuit Court for a hearing on an unrelated case.
Wilson is charged with one count each of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Law enforcement officers blocked off both ends of the apartment complex as officers prepared to execute the search warrants, which turned up marijuana, synthetic marijuana (Spice), a set of digital scales and several guns.
Brooks said investigators aren't sure yet whether the weapons were stolen, but a recent rash of firearm thefts across southwestern Alabama and northwestern Florida justifies a thorough check of crime computers.
"We found drugs and guns," the police chief said. "It's still under investigation as to whether the guns were stolen or not, but we have had a lot of guns taken in burglaries around here lately."
According to an employee of the Escambia County Detention Center's booking and release division, McDowell remained in jail Tuesday, May 7, under a $10,000 bond. Wilson was released after a $5,000 bond was posted on his behalf.
Brooks said further criminal charges are pending the outcome of the investigation.
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"We had search warrants for three apartments," Brooks said. "We went in early that morning, hit our targets and got out. None of my people got hurt, and none of the tenants got hurt. It was swift and successful."
John E. McDowell, 43, and Willie D. | 100 |
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Updated: April<|fim_middle|> fishing and boating in Yellowstone, Alaska, the San Juan Islands, our local Delta, and the High Sierras.
She will be remembered for her strawberry rhubarb pie, oatmeal cookies, warm persimmon pudding, and fresh fish dinners. She loved her precious kitty Indy that she shared with her grandchildren.
The family thanks Merrill Gardens, Delta Breeze, and Palm Haven Care Center, for their special years of care in Manteca.
In lieu of flowers you may donate to the Soroptimist Memorial Fund P.O. Box 218 Manteca, CA. 95336.
The memorial service is on Friday at 2 p.m. April 2, at Park View Cemetery, in the Chapel, 3661 French Camp Road, just north of Manteca.
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Mae Greeley of Manteca, passed away at the age of 93, Saturday, March 27. Mae has been in Palm Haven since 2004. Mae was born on a race horse/cattle ranch just 8 miles out of Blackwell, Oklahoma, on May 29, 1916. Her parents were Harry Cleveland Stroup and Nina Lillian Stauffer. She was preceded in death by her sister, two brothers, her husband, and son Norman Greeley.
Mae moved west to California after graduating from Blackwell High. She met and married Donald Greeley in Los Angeles. They were happily married for almost 60 years, before Donald past away in 2000. They moved to Manteca in 1945 when their third child was just 2 years old.
Mae is survived by her children Carolyn Wulf and David Greeley. Her 4 grandchildren Dean & Constance Wulf of Alberta, Canada, and Chet & Lynn Greeley of Manteca. Mae had a great love for her family, real estate clients, and friends. She purchased an existing real estate company and building with 5 salesmen in 1957 creating Greeley Realty. Every salesman quit the first day! Because "a woman has no place in the real estate business". Her office soon became successful with both men and women sales staff with decades of satisfied clients.
Mrs. Greeley was a charter member of Manteca board of Realtors and Manteca Multiple listing service. She was part of the committee to bring the Manteca Hospital to Manteca now known as Doctors Hospital. Mae was on a Stockton Jr. College advisory board (now known as Delta College). One of the Board projects was purchasing the future college site near the NW corner of Lathrop Rd & Hwy 99.
She enjoyed her years in Soroptimist and as the 15th president of Soroptimist International in Manteca (1967-68).
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Over at Grantland Chris Ryan has revived his Reducer column, which is great news for people who like reading about the Premier League. In its return Ryan takes a look at the moves Manchester<|fim_middle|> did Ryan, and so do most fans, but its near unanimous belief doesn't make it true.
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StatsBomb Data | City made this summer and seems barely able to restrain his giddy optimism over the direction of the club. It's a good read and a nice counterpoint to some of the less optimistic interpretations floating around here. Basically he concludes, with all the appropriate caveats attached, that Roberto Mancini's Manchester City teams were boring:
For as renowned as some of their players were, for all the tabloid headlines, training-ground fights, and fireworks set off indoors, there was just something strangely anonymous about the team.
For several years, that anonymity, compounded by Mancini's punishingly pragmatic football, was an insurmountable hurdle for many football fans. It was like we were collectively wondering, You spent all that money for … this?
And Manuel Pellegirini's will be awesome:
I think this team finally is a team. They finally have an identity. Say what you will about slick-passing La Liga imports bought by an Abu Dhabi billionaire. At least it's an ethos.
And, that's all fine and good, and it may well be true (can you feel the but coming?)….but inherent in that conclusion, and in a couple of other places throughout Ryan's piece, are some widely held beliefs about what the international soccer landscape is that just aren't true anymore, if they ever were.
For starters, let's talk about this idea that Mancini's team were this dour, unfun, clinical boring squad. Fact is, over the last two seasons they were first and second in possession time, and shot the ball the fourth and first quickest per minute in possession (MiP). In other words, not only did they have the ball a ton, they shot it at a faster pace when they did have it than almost anybody else. That's not particularly what I think of as "punishingly pragmatic" on its face. Still though, talk to a Manchester City fan and they'll tell you, it wasn't so much the end result as how they got there. Watching the team, especially at 0-0, left the impression that Mancini was happy to kill off the first hour of the game, before substituting player A into role B, with tactical tweak C, and voila creating a goal through the magic of Mancini. That's a particularly dumb strategy when your owners are perfectly happy to dive into the Scrooge McDuck swimming pool any time you ask and buy enough talent to crush lesser opponents under the weight of international superstars.
The point isn't that City weren't dour. They probably were. The point is that there's a general misconception about what makes a team dour. We tend to view things in binary. A team does X, which is fun, or Y, which is dull, but that's not right and it really limits our understanding of the game. Certain traits get associated with fun, happy time football, like possession, and playing in the opponent's half, and creating good chances. Others get associated with old, bad, boring, out of touch (English) style, things like long balls, crossing, compactness, cold rainy Wednesdays in small English towns you've never heard of.
Here's the quote of Pellegrini's that Ryan pulls to emphasize the new pleasing style on its way to Manchester City.
One of the important I am here is the way my other teams always played. I think fans of Manchester City will see a different way to how they played in the other years. I am sure we are going to play an attractive game. We will always try to play in the opposition's , try to be an attacking team, do what all the other teams I worked with before did.
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Want to guess how good Manchester City was at doing that recently? They were second each of the last two years at time spent in their opponents' half, and time spent in the final third. This is Manuel Pellegrini, this time, making the incorrect assumption about how City played. They were dull, so they must have done these things badly. Not true.
Again, I'm perfectly happy to believe that Manchester City were aesthetically unpleasant. But, aesthetically unpleasant isn't the same as not playing in the opposition's half, or not attacking, or not playing long balls, or any other particular statistical trait you want to attach to it. Mancini built a lethal attacking force over the last two years, it was just one that tended to look pretty indifferent while dismantling teams.
As for the idea that Pellegrini is going to bring in a bunch of slick passing La Liga players familiar with his style… I'm pretty skeptical of that as well. Stepping away from the specifics of the situation, the idea that there are stark differences between the overall styles of the major leagues in Europe at this point is dubious. Most of the elite teams in the world (with notable exceptions in Barcelona and Manchester United) are increasingly adopting the same approach. The world is gripped by a Phoenix Suns type seven seconds or less ethos. Rather than break down defenses, teams all across Europe have decided the best shot is the first shot, the one that comes before defenses are settled in. To the extent that any of the big four leagues are immune from the trend, it's Germany, not Spain where teams are more comfortable holding the ball and trying to create quality shot opportunities. That, by the way, is despite the Bundesliga's two international power houses (sidebar: is it too early to call Dortmund an international powerhouse? Is that like asking –insert cool, hip indie band name here—to do a stadium tour?) fully subscribing to the shoot first, shoot fast, shoot often, mentality. Although, with Pep's arrival at Bayern Munich, who knows how long that will be the case.
That strategy, which City excelled at, was also one employed by Pellegrini in his only year at a club with resources to rival the ones he now has at his exposure. Real Madrid under Pellegirini had almost 60% possession and used that time on the ball to take an avalanche of shots, nearly 6 more per game than any other team in La Liga. They shot the ball at a faster pace per MiP than any team in England, Spain, Italy or Germany did this year. Now, to be fair, Pellegrini's time at Malaga looks distinctly different. Last season his squad played slowly, in a style which seemed to mimic notable-exception-to-the-fast-playing-rule Barcelona. Those two teams, along with Athletic Bilbao, were the only clubs to combine a majority of possession and a shot per MiP of slower than four minutes (and these three teams are the sum of your argument for a "La Liga playing style"). Which approach will Pellegrini bring to City? I have no idea. I also have no idea how his iconic Villareal teams would profile statistically, since they were in the pre-statistic dark ages.
Pellegrini may walk into City and completely change the way the team plays. He may have them hold the ball, and pass circles around teams, and play short, clever, Barcelona style one-twos. And people may swoon, and get all twitterpated over the newly revamped, pretty Manchester City.
He also may not.
He may keep the same Phoenix Suns-style bury 'em in an avalanche of shots gameplan. The point is there are lots of ways to attack, and there are lots of ways to look good doing it. The assumption that because City lacked the latter, they were somehow missing the former is flat out wrong, but it's ubiquitous.
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"We have to be addressing this issue right now because look at how our humanity is being mangled in this election."
Connie Britton is a strong feminist and she wants to amplify the voices of other feminists. The Nashville actress talked to The Hollywood<|fim_middle|>, interactive video that pairs scenes stereotypical of men and women with unexpected endings, created by Zanzibar Moore. | Reporter about gender equality and the "F Word" competition she helped judge, which promotes feminism.
Britton says she thinks some people have "put a lot of stigma" around feminism out of fear. "I think both men and women have, for various reasons, grown to feel threatened by the idea of feminism," says Britton. She adds that this might be because people don't understand it.
She says it's important to her that all genders be treated equally, saying this "should not in any way make us smaller, it should make all of us bigger." The actress has been an advocate for women's rights, supporting the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and Planned Parenthood and starring in videos about feminism.
Britton stresses that it's important at this time in our history and culture to "demystify" feminism and remove any stigmas or misconceptions around it, understanding it as a positive for everyone.
"We have to be addressing this issue right now because look at how our humanity is being mangled in this election," says Britton.
"This is an election the likes of which I don't think we've ever seen at least in my lifetime, maybe in the history of the country," she says, adding that it is "really devastating" to see the "vulgarity" and "disconnect with a sort of humanity" that some of the candidates seem to have in their talking points. "At the same time, we have a woman running for president, which is, in and of itself, historical."
For Britton, the presidential candidates this year are a manifestation of our culture. "There's obviously a big reflection in the discontent that has evolved in our culture," says Britton. "We really need to look at ourselves — they are simply reflecting our own thinking back to us."
"Women have so much to offer the world and I think for women to have a strong voice, and to be encouraged to have a strong voice, as much as men are, is just vital to all of us," she said.
Britton is one of the celebrity panelists working with SheKnows Media and the Ms. Foundation to judge the finalists for a shortform video contest called #TheFWord. The competition strives to "understand perspectives on feminism through the lens of intersectionality and powerful, personal storytelling," a SheKnows rep tells THR.
Other panelists include Shiri Appleby, Laura Benanti, Tonya Lewis Lee, Matt McGorry, Michael Skolnik, Salt-n-Pepa, Teresa C. Younger and more. The judges selected six finalists, and starting March 22, until April 3, the public can watch and vote for their favorite video by clicking here.
Britton said it was difficult for her to choose her favorites, and she was moved to tears watching the videos and appreciating the unique effort that went into each one.
She said she hopes each video will be a way to humanize and demysitify the concept of feminism and that "when people watch these videos they realize, 'That's just like me, or that's just like my friend. Now I understand, I don't need to fear this. I love the women in my life and nobody's threatening me.' "
Below is a brief description of the six finalists in #TheFWord competition, provided to THR via SheKnows. The winning video will be announced May 9 at the SheKnows Media's Digital Content NewFronts presentation in New York City.
• "Peighton" — The story of a young girl who has to make the decision to either confirm to society or stay true herself, created by Kevin Brooks.
• "Same Fight" — Anne Troup's video featuring a song about the global gender pay gap.
• "The F Word" — Mashuq Deen, a transgender man, explains why feminism is important for everyone, men included.
• "The Talk" — Created by Lauren Schacher and Nico Raineau, this video takes the format of a feminist comedy set in the near future in which two parents have "the talk" with their children.
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Iwaniska è un comune rurale polacco del distretto di Opatów, nel voivodato della Santacroce.Ricopre una superficie di 105,03 km² e nel 2004 contava 7.136 abitanti.
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Nella località di Ujazd, sorge il castello, o meglio quello che è rimasto del castello dopo l'invasione svedese, di Krzyżtopór. Fu commissionato dall'eccentrico governatore Krzysztof Ossolinski all'italiano<|fim_middle|> quale vi si dedicò tra il 1631 ed il 1644.
La storia del castello vede mescolarsi storia e leggenda: la struttura venne progettata in modo da rappresentare architettonicamente un calendario. Infatti vi erano quattro torri a rappresentare le stagioni, dodici sale equivalenti ai mesi, cinquantadue camere, ovvero una per ogni settimana e 365 finestre, tante quanto sono i giorni. In realtà le camere erano 366, ma una veniva usata solamente negli anni bisestili. E questa è la storia vera.
Il castello andò distrutto quasi completamente verso il 1650 ad opera degli svedesi. Furono anche proposti dei progetti di ricostruzione e conversione d'uso dell'edificio ma non se ne fece niente.
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IPL 2022: South Africa pacer Lungi Ngidi said that he had "learnt a lot" under the leadership of Chennai Super Kings skipper MS Dhoni.
In 2018, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) made a thrilling return to the Indian Premier League by defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad in the tournament final. Shane Watson smashed a stunning century (117*) in the 179-run chase as the CSK cruised to an 8-wicket triumph in the title game in Mumbai, with their spinners putting in a dominant display.
Over four years later, Lungi Ngidi, a member of the CSK XI in the final, spoke out about MS Dhoni's leadership choice in the game, which resulted in him taking the crucial wicket of Deepak Hooda. Ngidi was the match's most economical bowler, with stats of 1/26 and Hooda's wicket in the 17th over.
"I think the main thing is just the control that Dhoni has over the team and on the field, he really does bring a sense of calm. I've also learnt a lot more in my time that I've been with CSK just under his captaincy in terms of field settings, game plans and how to construct my bowling within an innings. I think from that moment it has really helped me grow as a cricketer," Ngidi told Times Now about skipper Dhoni.
"IPL was amazing and I've enjoyed every single year I've gone there. I've also been lucky enough to lift the trophy twice. So it has been an amazing journey and I pray to god that it continues."
Ngidi recalls Dhoni's decision in IPL 2018 Final and said:
"It was the final against the Sunrisers (Hyderabad) in 2018, we hadn't discussed a certain field placement but he automatically just changed my field and with that field, within a couple of balls, we got a wicket to the fielder that he had moved. So for me, that's one thing that sticks out in my mind because in a final, to have such a moment like that and to execute the plan that he wanted, really gave me confidence in terms of how to bowl and it just showed me how in tune he is with the game in terms of how he sees it's going to play out and it played out exactly the way I think he thought it was going to."
The lanky South African pacer, who has claimed 25 wickets for Chennai Super Kings in IPL, further mentioned:
"If you are lacking in a certain department, you got the right people around you to help you as well. You can bounce game plans off MS Dhoni, great batters like Suresh (Raina), Faf du Plessis, you can start to communicate with great batters and you learn your game as a bowler."
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Home Entertainment Books SD08: Impact Books — #1415
SD08: Impact Books — #1415
Impact will have their usual panel, portfolio reviews, a giveaway AND famed fantasy artist John Howe.
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* Impact University Back for its 5th Straight Year with Peter David, Colleen Doran and Orson Scott Card!
* Special Guest of the Con: Impact fantasy artist John Howe!
* Portfolio Reviews by Impact's Editorial Director!
* Plus – Impact's First Exclusive Limited Edition Comic-Con Giveaway!
It's our biggest Comic Con ever as Impact Books, the how-to write and draw comics, graphic novels, manga and fantasy art imprint of F+W Publications, Inc., once again sets up shop at Comic-Con International in San Diego, July 23-27, with panels, author signings, an exclusive giveaway, portfolio reviews and the return of the popular panel, Impact University:<|fim_middle|>8: Man of Action — #2007
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Marvel's latest Free Comic Book Day offering is a VOICES special... | How to Write and Draw Comics & Graphic Novels. The booth number for Impact Books is #1415 and here's what's happening!
This year, the Impact University panel takes place Saturday, July 26, at 6:00 p.m., in Room 7AB. Join some of the biggest names in comics as they teach what it takes to make it in comics and graphic novels. Our star-studded faculty panel this year is writer Peter David (She-Hulk, X-Factor), best-selling author Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game, Wyrms) artist Colleen Doran (A Distant Soil, Sandman), Brian Miller, owner of Hi-Fi Colour Design and Comics Buyer's Guide senior editor Maggie Thompson. Attendees will find out the best way to submit their work, learn the dos and don'ts of the business, and participate in a Q&A session.
Once panel attendees learn the ins and outs of the business, they'll be able to show their work to Pam Wissman, editorial director for Impact Books. Pam will review portfolios in the Traditional Portfolio Review Area on Friday, from 3:00 – 7:00 p.m., in Portfolio Area A.
Impact is proud to announce that worldwide fantasy artist John Howe, concept artist for the Lord of the Rings films, will be a Special Guest of the Con. John will be the subject of his own Spotlight on John Howe Panel on Saturday, July 26, at 12:00 Noon, in Room 3. John's acclaimed artwork, spanning his career, will be featured, including never-before-seen concept art from LOTR. Immediately following his panel, John will be signing his Impact book, John Howe Fantasy Art Workshop at the Impact booth at 2:00 p.m. John will also be signing in the Comic Con Autographing area on Thursday, from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. in AA5.
For the first time, Impact Books will have an exclusive limited edition Comic-Con giveaway: A 36″ x 24″ print, featuring an original John Howe dragon painting called "Wandering Fire," taken from his new Impact book, Forging Dragons. Only 1000 numbered posters were printed especially for Comic-Con and will be available at the booth each day of the Con. (Visit the booth for complete details on how to get the poster.)
Impact is proud to support the panel Hi-Fi Colour Workshop, given by Impact authors Brian and Kristy Miller, on Thursday, July 24, at 1:00 p.m., in Room 30CDE. Artists and colorists, alike, will learn the newest digital coloring techniques from the owners of the popular studio that has done work for Marvel, DC, Disney and LucasFilm.
A full schedule of author appearances at the booth include Academy-Award winning concept artist and production designer Doug Chiang (Star Wars, Terminator, Beowulf), signing his new Impact book, Mechanika; fan-favorite comics writer Peter David; artist Colleen Doran; Brian and Kristy Miller, author of the Impact book, Hi-Fi Color for Comics; Incredible Comics author Tom Nguyen; robot and Transformers artist E.J. Su; the gang from 8Fish, authors of the book Making Faces; Ryan Mecum, author of Zombie Haiku; and 100 Days of Monsters artist Stefan Bucher. Complete scheduling will be posted at the booth.
There will be plenty of giveaways, too, such as the 2008 Impact University Free Comic Book, Impact tote bags, squeezable stress brains, and much more. Attendees can enter to win signed Doug Chiang prints, too.
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Wanderlust and Wonderment, a blog about adventures in the outdoors. | All images © 2015 Chelsey Collins Stuart and William Stuart. All rights reserved.
Wanderlust and Wonderment, a blog about adventures in the outdoors.
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Wander here a whole summer, if you can. Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted. If you are business-tangled, and so burdened by duty that only weeks can be got out of the heavy-laden year … give a month at least to this precious reserve. The time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
Thank you for the advice Mr. Muir, that's exactly what we did. We completed a month in the wilderness on the John Muir Trail! Will and myself, along with our two best friends and my dad who joined us later, all completed this journey together and for that I feel like we are huge winners!
This experience has permanently cemented my belief that spending time in the wilderness is essential to the human experience on this planet. It is transformative, humbling, expanding, balancing, restorative, and I feel wholeheartedly that everyone should make a point to truly get out there!
Your perspective on your place and connection to the universe will change in the best way. Respect and awareness for the delicate and perfect balance of the natural world will grow beyond what you thought possible. You will experience truths that cannot be found in the man-made world with the usual distractions of modern life. You might also find a sense of camaraderie and community from like-minded beings and perhaps realize the necessity of sharing, communicating, and looking out for each other and the planet as we are all one big entangled being.
Our journey began in July on the seventh new moon of the year, which also happened to fall on first day of the new year in the 13 moon calendar (based on the Mayan calendar – look it up). An auspicious sign? I think so. Starting on a new moon and following its cycle along our journey was perfect.
After being rejected for a permit many, many times we finally got one after changing our starting location to Rafferty creek/Vogelsang. It was a small detour but a gorgeous way to connect with the JMT, and we had already hiked the first part of the JMT in years past.
Our first day hiking through Vogelsang to connect with the JMT was wonderful and we ended it camped near Evelyn lake admiring the sunset and the moonless sky full of stars.
The Ansel Adams Wilderness, Thousand Island lake, and Banner Peak were some of the most beautiful sections of the entire trail in my opinion. Yes it was crowded with people, but if you just keep walking further around the lake than everyone else you can still find some secluded campsites. The rain made everything more ethereal, the wildflowers were unreal, and the mountain reflections on the lake at dawn were something that stays with you forever. No wonder Ansel Adams photographed this area so much. We can't wait to explore this wilderness area more in the future.
We decided to detour a little to check out Devil's Postpile National Monument and Rainbow falls since were were practically hiking right by them. The hexagon formations were pretty amazing to see. Nature is geometric poetry.
The day we started our hike was also the day a huge fire in Yosemite erupted. We could see it in the distance erupting out of nowhere in what looked like a pinkish mushroom cloud of smoke. As the days progressed the smoke also flowed our way, traveling for hundreds of miles and filling valleys and lake basins in minutes with a strong gust of wind.
This smoke ended up being a real challenge for us for the first week or more, giving<|fim_middle|> Cathedral Peak. The peak towers over the two lakes like a majestic temple and it feels like a sacred place indeed.
On our last night we climbed up the granite divide between upper and lower Cathedral lakes and had the entire overlook to ourselves. What a gift! As the sun dipped under the horizon the sky lit up into a fiery and stunning sunset. A pair of bats came out and did a dance across the sky to greet the night and the moon rose between the trees. Moments like this are the reason we do what we do. My rejuvenated heart overflows with gratitude for this amazing experience!
Here are the rest of the photos taken on this trip.
Poem: Ode, by Arthur O'Shaughnessy. Photo: Yosemite National Park.
The world is so vast and yet so small. One of the many paradoxes of this multiverse that can make your head spin. When you spend time in a place like the Grand Canyon you definitely get a sense of the vastness of this planet and the amazing amount of time it has taken to form such perfect beauty.
Human life is so short in comparison to the life of this canyon, and yet it is interesting to see how much this place has been touched and changed by human activity.
There are so many people coming to see this wonder of the world and even when you hike for miles and miles you are still almost always surrounded by other people. Sometimes when out on a popular hike it's fun to imagine what it must have felt like to be there at a time when people were not coming in by the busload. To have the whole place to yourself when there were no permits and rules or tourists on mules or rim to rim joggers and marathoners. What a different experience that must have been.
In contrast, it is amazing that modern technology allows so many people to travel and experience the wonders of nature such as this. The restrictions placed on visitors and the rules that are enforced are a necessary yet sometimes frustrating reality. As our global population continues to skyrocket, what will backcountry camping and wilderness be like in another twenty or fifty years? Will there be any true wild places?
It is amazing to see an increase in the number of people out enjoying the planet's wild and natural places. It seems to show that there is a collective yearning to get away, reconnect and rebuild our relationship with nature. Everyone needs to spend time immersed in nature. Hopefully all the people who visit the Grand Canyon will take that magical feeling of awe and wonder and channel it into a sense of duty and responsibility to protect and care for the wondrous places such as these. They are more than just places to conquer and scratch off of a speed hiking list. We saw so many marathon thru-hikers and joggers rushing past us during this hike that we wonder did they even really check out the views or all the blooming wildflowers? In our opinion, these places need to be experienced slowly and quietly, with time taken to really look, listen and ponder. What can they teach us?
In a world where at every turn you are treated like a potential sale, vote or number in a marketing statistic chart, what is really true? What can you trust? For me truth and trust can really be found through mother nature. She never tries to sell you anything, or lie to you or sway your opinion. She is just bare truth in all its glory allowing you to be as you are. The Grand Canyon with its millions of years of geological processes carved away for the naked eye to see is a perfect example of this.
When pondering such wonders as the Grand Canyon and how we as tiny little human beings fit into it all, maybe it is possible to grasp the bigger picture. Maybe we all just need to stop talking, moving and thinking, and just be somewhere in nature in silence for a bit and then some clarity and answers will come. Not in the form of words, but in the form of a deep and prehistoric understanding. A sense of calm remembering of that which has been lost in the hustle and bustle and sales pitches. The first step is to just get out there…and then slow down and be quiet for a freaking minute!
After years of talking about this trip, and planning dates, and attempting to score a permit, and coordinating with our group, we finally got to do this dream trip with some of our amazing hike loving family no less. It was everything we hoped it would be. The best part was that we were able to go slow and take our time, with layovers at different camps where we could relax and soak in the hushed rhythm of this special place. We made sure to make time to seek out hidden waterfalls and swimming holes and soak in the sun on the beaches of the mighty Colorado river. We really enjoyed slowing down our pace on this trip and spending time to be immersed in the history and rugged, raw beauty of this place. It also helped our legs and feet to recover a bit before the completely up-hill hike out. Seeing the canyon at all its different elevations and understanding the power of the Colorado river up close and personal was incredible! Here are a bunch more photos we took on our flickr page.
We are so happy to welcome our second baby girl to the world! Her name is Satya Nova Stuart ❤️ Born on Sunday, 4/14 at 11:14 am, after a fast 5 hour labor, she weighed 8 lbs on the dot just like her sister and was born exactly 39 weeks plus a day, just like her sister was. I'm so grateful we had a successful VBAC Homebirth, healing on many levels. Luna was there witnessing her sister being born. It was wild! We are all overjoyed and doing well. | us bad headaches, blocking our views, and bumming us out. We resorted to hiking with bandanas on our mouths to filter the smoke in the air. So much for that clean mountain air we were looking forward to. At least it made for some interesting sunsets.
We found secret hot springs to soak in after talking with an old mountain man we met and camped next to. Sorry but I promised not to tell anyone where they are! Talking to locals and other hikers is always a great idea though, you never know what you might learn.
We were so thankful for the rains that came and finally cleared up the smoke in the air…until the rains became an almost greater challenge. We encountered almost two weeks of daily afternoon monsoons, and some very violent hail, thunder and lightning storms.
Everyone was a bit caught off guard by the violent and persistent storms which were unusual we were told by trail veterans (it was an El Niño year) and it most likely messed with many hikers plans as trail rumors spread about snow on Mt. Whitney, temporary closures and freezing cold temps turning people away.
We took a rest day and detour at the Lake of the Lone Indian for a day of solitude, because we liked the way it sounded on the map. That is the benefit of taking thirty days to hike the trail. There is room for spontaneity and rest! We were the only human beings at the lake the entire time. Sometimes going just a mile off the trail is so rewarding as most people have short schedules and never stray from the path.
Lunch is just better in the wilderness.
At this point it was the longest amount of time we had ever spent in the Wilderness. We awoke with the sun, hiked our miles at dawn, rested in the afternoon heat or rain, and went to sleep at dusk. We were re-connecting with the rhythms of the wild planet, remembering the sacred cycles, soaking in the moon's energy, foraging for wild plants, and living simply. We were not burdened with material possessions other than what we carried and used daily. There is magic everywhere once we slow down and really see, and feel it.
Along the way we would forage for wild dandelion greens and strawberries in the shady areas under the trees. These were the most rewarding meals of all. In the process I discovered a new passion for learning about wild edibles. This trail salad was made from foraged greens, sprouts that I brought with us and grew throughout the hike, along with smoked salmon and a little vinegar and oil. It was insanely good. Who says you can't have salad while backpacking?
We went for a cold swim in Lake Marie during a storm and then walked around the entire lake. The storm was circling around us about to erupt into a downpour, which it eventually did. Now that is what it feels like to be alive!
Although most nights we were in bed long before the stars came out, we made ourselves stay up on the night of the full moon rise. It was a supermoon and we watched as the glow over Mt. Spencer turned into a light was that so bright it lit up all the mountains surrounding us and reflected in Evolution lake. We almost needed our sunglasses.
We stayed out and basked in the moonlight until our toes were frozen down to the bones. We wanted to sleep out there under the stars but the storms had been so unpredictable and it was very cold. A violent thunder and lightning storm woke us at around four in the morning and rained all morning while we slept in.
We decided to take a full rest day at Evolution lake, our favorite place on the trail so far. We slept in and made a big brunch. Will washed our clothes in our emptied out bear canister. I climbed up high and did a watercolor painting of the beautiful landscape. Then we decided to go on a day hike to explore Sapphire Lake and bag a peak. So much for resting, but we didn't have our backpacks on so it felt like a leisurely stroll. Luckily there was no rain all day, only some threatening but beautiful clouds.
We found this huge piece of quartz perched just perfectly on top of a granite boulder, and soaked up some of its energy. As we climbed higher the views down below became more grand. We reached the summit of Mt. Spencer, and on the other side of the Mountain we discovered a little un-named tarn with the deepest and most captivating blue color we had ever seen. It looked like it had never been touched by man.
Well rested and rejuvenated from our wonderful day hike and rest day, we continued on higher towards Muir pass. The landscape was sparse and harsh, and the storms were brewing above our heads. On the way we walked past Wanda and Helen lakes named after John Muir's daughters.
The Muir hut was a beautiful structure and it felt like we had really reached a milestone by arriving there. We sat inside for a while and pondered the history of the trail and what it meant to walk the entire thing. John Muir is truly one of my heroes and in my opinion one of the most important human beings ever to walk the face of the earth. I have so much gratitude for all that he did in his life. For us to have protected wilderness areas like this where we can spend extended time to have these transformational experiences is such a priceless gift. Can you imagine if they had continued to graze and mine these areas and built roads and hotels through them all? I shudder at the thought. Thanks again John Muir!
The further we went on the trail the more rugged the terrain became. These jagged and colorful crags we came upon on the other side of Muir Pass captivated us.
In the distance we could see dark, ominous storm clouds building so we decided to set up camp a little earlier than normal. The thunderstorm of doom was heading our way. We could hear thunder and see flashes of lightning in the distance. It was moving fast and coming towards us at an incredible speed. We crawled in our tent as the rain started. Louder and louder the thunder sounded until it was like a freight train right on top of our tent, booming and flashing lightning with no time in between the flashes and the booms, one after the other like nothing we had ever heard.
The hail came next and it was pummeling our tent so loudly and forcefully, I thought for sure this would be the end of our ultralight single walled tent. All we could do was sit and wait for it to pass. We tried to play cards but we could not focus on anything else. It was thrilling and frightening. The storm finally passed over us and went higher up the mountain and our tent survived with no holes. Phew! We heard campers all around hollering "…is everyone ok?" and laughing in disbelief. It looked like it had snowed in the middle of summer! The hail was the size of chickpeas!
The unpredictable weather just reinforces the fact that you prepare for anything during extended trips in the wilderness. Even being fairly experienced backpackers we felt ill-equipped for such downpours and wished we had more rain gear at times. We encountered a few people who had their tents flooded and all of their sleeping gear soaked from drainage and hail melt. We got caught on some switchbacks with no shelter during another violent thunder and hail storm with pea sized hail pummeling us. Ouch!
Thunderstorms and weather in the mountains is different, everything is more extreme and rugged. This was a humbling experience for sure but looking back on it I am grateful for all of it. There was a lot of time spent in the tent playing cribbage and reading books during these days, when the thunder and lightning wasn't making me cower like a little puppy in fear. Exciting stuff!
We hiked through Le Conte canyon, past deer meadow and up the Golden staircase in a very long and grueling day. When we got to the top near lower Palisade lake we took off our packs and just collapsed on the ground with our limbs stretched out letting the granite rock cool our hot, sweaty backs. This was a doozy, but the Golden staircase really was beautiful. We found a perfectly secluded spot to camp near Lower Palisade Lake overlooking the valley below. We watched the last of the storm clouds dance across the sky as we drank hot tea and soaked in all that we had accomplished so far. It was a perfect evening.
The rain and storms finally passed and it was smooth sailing from then on out with cloudless skies and bright, sunny days. We were relieved and could relax a little more without anymore thunder storms of doom to worry about. Now we just had to make sure we didn't sweat out all of our salts and get dehydrated in the hot sun, which almost happened one day!
After completing Mather pass we were feeling strong and wonderful in the sunny days. We decided to take another little detour off the trail to Bench lake so we could have some solitude, because honestly there were a lot of people hiking the trail this year! We were able to have the entire two lakes to ourselves. We skinny-dipped, washed, and watched the sun set and rise over the mirror-like lake surface. It was very clear that California's massive drought was having an effect around here. The water level was incredibly low and the earth around the lakes felt parched.
After Pinchot pass we finally got below the fire line and outside of the drought induced fire ban and had one of the few luxurious campfires of our trip.
We were heading to Rae lakes next which was one of the most beautiful places on the trail. We found a shady spot to kick back and read our books and rested our tired bodies. I did another watercolor painting of the Painted Lady mountain reflecting off of Rae lake. Will went exploring off trail to the secluded Dragon Lake because he liked the sound of it on the map. He met a large group of skinny dippers that were very surprised to see him! Ha!
For our last food drop we hiked off of the trail eight miles each way, to the beautiful Onion Valley which was a major detour but it was all worth it because we were meeting up with my amazing 63-year-old Dad who joined us for the final week of our trip. He was the hiking hero of the trail for me. Coming off of a month-long journey traveling in London, his grandson's one year old birthday party, jet lagged and road weary, he drove from Arizona into the mountains to meet us and we headed back out into the wild.
He kept up with us even though we were so much more acclimated and conditioned by this point. It is amazing what can be accomplished if you really put your mind to something. The energy of the Sierra's fills up your tank like fuel if you open up to it and let it energize you.
The group's first glimpse of Mt. Whitney was a moment to remember. We had been through so much, covered so many miles, and here we were on the final stretch. We were happy, excited, sad for it to almost be over, but tired and dreaming of food and our comfy beds at the same time. A bittersweet moment.
We camped at Crabtree Meadow instead of rushing to Guitar Lake like most people do, to make our last few nights really stretch, and it was the best decision. We were all alone in this magical meadow with mama and baby deer, birds and marmots frolicking in the fields all around us. In the morning the sun rose over the sparkling, frosty meadow while we drank our coffee and marveled at this second to last night of magic.
A shout out to the most inspiring hiker on the trail aside from my Dad. We met this amazing woman many times as our paths kept crossing along the trail. As we got to talking we learned that she is a seventy-year-old solo hiker carrying almost a third her body weight and she was completing the trail around the same day as us with a shorter schedule than we had! Her sense of adventure and love of mountains and life was truly inspirational. She is a kindred spirit and I found my new role model in her. I hope to repeat this JMT trip in forty years when I am in my seventies and follow in her footsteps.
Guitar lake is where we camped before our ascent to Mt. Whitney. It was really not as bad as some people led us to believe. Yes it was crowded, but it was filled with other excited mountain lovers so it was really not a big deal. No one sleeps much the night before climbing Mt. Whitney anyway. There was a fair amount of trash littered around though, and I know everyone can do better!
Can you see the guitar shape?
We woke up around three in the morning, feeling like kids the night before going to Disneyland. This was it, our final day of the journey. We hiked the first few hours with our headlamps in the dark and then the light slowly started illuminating the sky, then the lakes and mountains. The beautiful Range of Light was beaming at us in all it's glory and I truly understood what John Muir meant when he nicknamed this amazing place.
The light was like nothing else we had ever seen. Guitar lake turned an incredible bright orange for a few fleeting minutes as the sun rose. The colors in the sky reflected off of the shiny granite and it felt like the entire place was glowing, and buzzing with a magical energy. We were buzzing as well, and going off of pure adrenaline while our entire bodies felt like frozen popsicles as we climbed higher than we had ever been before in our lives. The wind hitting us at the top felt like a razor slicing through us, and with all of our layers on it was still absolutely frigid. A ranger told us that the day before there was no wind at all and you could light a match at the top. You never know what you are going to get!
Hiking the JMT was the most physically challenging, inspiring, and humbling thing I have ever done. It was very difficult and many people quit along the way. I lost so much weight I was astonished to see myself in the mirror when we got home. It is hard on the body but so good for the soul.
If this experience could be summed up in a few words it would be growth without limits. I didn't realize that I was able to hike sixteen miles in a day while carrying over thirty pounds on my back, but now I know I can. What else can I accomplish? Anything I put my mind to! It took some deep determination to keep going forward while dealing with little sleep, hunger, aches and pains, bad weather, extreme cold and heat, and sometimes hiking many more miles per day than planned. I learned that the only limits I have are self-imposed and did my best to do away with them.
Spending thirty days in the wilderness is a gift and I am so grateful for the opportunity to experience the wonder and beauty of the planet on such intimate terms, and with people who I love. We all left this journey stronger than ever and the range of light left a permanent light inside us. We will all be connected to this place forever more. As John Muir said, "Going to the mountains is going home," and it really does feel like another home for me. If anyone is compelled to experience the JMT I would not hesitate to go for it. Thank you John Muir and Mother Earth!
If you would like to see more of our photos from this trip check out our album on flickr.
I am currently on a wavelength of accelerated expansion and mountain bliss as I look back on this most recent trip around the sun. This last year I dove into the unknown and tested my limits through a series of adventures starting with thirty days in the wilderness on the John Muir trail, followed by a dream trip to hike in the Himalayas in Nepal and travel through parts of South East Asia. Wow!
This was the start of a travel and adventure extravaganza for Will and I that we have planned and dreamed about for a long time. We have a short layover in the states before we head out again to South America to hike in the Patagonian Andes and explore the Amazon jungle. We are so grateful for this opportunity!
In the meantime I am carving out some time to finally recap our JMT trip and give this poor, neglected, little blog some love. Stay tuned for a full JMT writeup coming very soon, and future posts about the Himalayas, the Andes, and more. For those of you who do actually read this, thank you, amazing kindred spirit you! My heart goes out and gives a big bear hug to yours. Lets all have a love filled year and plan some adventures on this amazing planet, shall we?
We are deep in preparation for our John Muir Trail hike, with gear strewn about the living room floor as we refine our packing list and prepare our food drops. Only a few more weeks until departure!
While packing and planning, naturally I have been thinking a lot about John Muir lately and have so much gratitude for this kindred spirit. He is such an amazing hero, voice and guardian of mother nature and wilderness. Thank goodness for John Muir and everything he did to protect and preserve the wild lands of America!
If you would like to watch an inspiring and wonderful story, this documentary of John Muir's life is pretty great and is available to watch for free online here.
Happy Equinox! Spring is upon us again, and with that brings thoughts of new beginnings, new growth, and sprouts! There is something very rewarding about growing your own food. Growing sprouts is a super easy way to grow food that is simple, portable, and really nutritious too. I have grown my own sprouts for a while now in a mason jar with a special lid on my kitchen counter. It is much more affordable to grow your own than to buy sprouts, and I think it is nice to control the growing methods and cleanliness. I really like broccoli sprouts and lentil sprouts, but there are so many different kinds to try. The seeds are found at health food stores and online or just from most ordinary dried lentils or beans. Sprouts are so nutritious and really liven up a meal. I love them!
Broccoli sprouts on the beach of Kauai.
I think a lot about eating healthy while traveling and hiking around the planet, so naturally sprouts have come into the picture because they are really small and lightweight but have so much nutrition. The first time I tried to grow sprouts while camping was during our trip to Kalalau on the Island of Kauai. It worked beautifully! We camped in the same spot for the week so I just re-used a clean snack container and poked a bunch of air holes in it.
We had lovely broccoli sprouts for a few days and it was amazing. We really enjoyed having fresh living green foods well into the latter part of our week. I will definitely be bringing seeds and beans to sprout on the John Muir Trail this summer too but this time I'm using a hemp bag tied to my backpack. Sprouts can really be grown anywhere, they are a perfect travel food, especially for backpacking in the wilderness!
Fully grown in a few days.
All you have to do is soak seeds for 8-12 hours in water and then drain them. Then rinse and drain well 2-3 times per day until they sprout, which usually takes 2-3 days or so depending on the kind. It is so easy and fun! Aren't they cute!?
Wishing you a peaceful transition into springtime, filled with light, adventures and green growing things.
Clouds Rest and Cathedral Lakes. Yosemite Perfection.
In the meantime here is some inspiration from another wonderful trip taken last summer. We backpacked to Sunrise lakes and Cathedral lakes with a detour hike to Clouds Rest. This trip was pretty much Yosemite perfection.
Clouds Rest has now become one of my favorite hikes in all of Yosemite. It should be added at the top of anyone's Yosemite bucket list for sure. The unmatched 360 degree view you get from sitting on top of Clouds Rest is truly exceptional and downright mind-blowing. You can look down on Half Dome, the valley and all the other surrounding peaks and domes and you feel on top of the world.
Standing on a mountain you just hiked up, taking in the view, breathing in the air, soaking in the sun, and receiving the strength and energy of the earth, now that's what I call living!
For the second part of our trip we made our way over to Cathedral lakes and camped out under the awe-inspiring backdrop of | 4,276 |
The Lessons For Success We Can Learn From Ray Lewis
by Elite Daily Staff
Ray Lewis is not just a legend. He's not just one of the greatest football players ever to touch the grass or one of the most motivational figures in our modern day sports world. He's not the kind of player who comes around every day.
With the upcoming Super Bowl culminating his massive seventeen-year professional football career, his performance is<|fim_middle|> its caprice; he knows a leg injury could end his career in a millisecond. Nothing is guaranteed, and time least of all.
The transience of time serves to bolster action; it provides a sense of urgency. It breeds appreciation for what we have and with whom we share lives. In that way, death is a gift. It's a blessing to know that the moments you have are numbered.
Ray Lewis has a unique understanding of time and its limitations. He understands the immediacy of carving out a legacy. And with each year and the close of a career, the concept has a habit of festering.
Leave A Legacy.
Your legacy is how you are remembered. It's your story retold long after you are gone. It's based on the greatness you have achieved and the people you have inspired. It's the driving force behind our lives.
"Life isn't about wins and losses. It's about what you can leave, it's about the legacy you can leave." -Ray Lewis
It's what type of mark you want to leave on this world and the person you want to become. Ray talks about his responsibility to make the world a better place by having an impact – a positive one – on as many people as possible.
He inspires those around him to give it all they have at every moment. It's a motivation that they will never forget. That is what makes Ray so dynamic, not just his being a legend, but his connectivity with the people he inspires.
Love What You Do
It's not a secret that Ray Lewis loves football. If it were up to him he would die on the football field in his game uniform. The man gives it his all every moment he is on the turf. In his 17th season, and at his oldest age, he still manages to be the leading postseason tackler.
The man loves what he does. He drips passion every moment he is suited up. He loved it so much that he made it his purpose in his life to be the best defensive player to ever step foot on the field. Because he loves what he does so much, it doesn't feel like work for him, it's not tedious or boring.
Success Is A Bunch of Small Things Done Great.
Some people will have the massive ideas that make them a lot of money or impact the world in a big way. The best example I like to give is of the trainer in the gym. Walking into a gym, if the first thing you see is a trainer picking up a tremendous amount of weight; it might appear easy to manage.
But when you try it, undoubtedly it will prove extremely difficult. That's because the trainer has worked hard. Rome wasn't built in a day. The trainer has done a bunch of small things perfectly, and with repetition he has learned to accomplish that.
"Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other."~Ray lewis
The message is not to look for the easy way out, or a way to cut corners. Do things correctly the first time. As the old saying goes, lazy people work twice as hard. Put in that extra efforts, become perfect, make the quality of your work superior to that of everyone else.
The more you focus on the little things and do a great job with them, the more success you will have with the bigger things.
Preston Waters | Elite.
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By Aaliyah Pasols | sure to elicit nostalgia from fans and admirers as they watch Lewis compete for the highest honor in professional football one last time.
His presence on the football field and off has been inspiration to his teammates and beyond. He is conceived as both an icon and a warrior. Because beyond the glamour and hype of the Super Bowl, beyond his own immortalization in the Hall of Fame, Lewis has remained an accessible and applicable figure to our daily lives. His climb to success is a story of motivation.
Ray Lewis didn't have an easy life, and sometimes he didn't make it any better through his own actions, but he took the gifts he was given and he made the absolute most out of them.
Only a handful of people can teach you something that you can apply to your life. These are the greats. Ray Lewis is one of them. He knows the value of time and that the clock of life is always ticking. He realizes that truly working hard is the only way to change station in life.
Success Is Earned—And You Should Never Think Otherwise.
Lewis launched his career at the University of Miami, a school renowned for the rigor of its football program. A confident, young Lewis told a reporter he was on track to become the greatest football player in its history. Seemingly brash comments from a player who had yet to see a snap in the NFL, it would be an immense feat given the wealth of illustrious careers born from that very university. Yet, Lewis did just that.
Now these comments might come across as cocky or arrogant, but what Lewis was expressing was his work ethic. He knew that his persistence and talent would eventually elevate him to a class above the program's other graduates. There weren't any "ifs" in his line of thinking. It was fact. And it was his perseverance that translated these thoughts into action.
"I just came out of the gym from three hours this morning. I got five hours of sleep. That's it. Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better."~Ray Lewis
He knew the power of hard work, and he knew that if he were more driven than everyone else, even if he wasn't the biggest, fastest or most talented, he'd be more successful than everyone. In life there's not a wide open door to success, and the road won't necessarily be easier if you are talented. Achieving success depends on your desire and adaptability. It's about the power of mind and Lewis possessed these qualities in excess.
Ray Lewis earned his iconic status. He worked harder than everyone. He's a man who elucidates our capacity to accomplish greatness. His story is educational. It teaches us that people fail when they aren't prepared. Ray didn't leave the option of failure on the table. He understood that hard work is the most valuable thing in the world.
The pride of knowing that we made the most of our talents doesn't exist unless it's earned. Real success isn't winning the life lottery – or the literal lottery – it's overcoming obstacles. Success is the result of hard work, sacrifice and an ardent belief in oneself, sometimes when no one else will. That is what this man bled for night and day.
Time Stops For No One.
Time is a commodity. Football is one of the most stringent and demanding challenges man encounters. A player's career is generally limited to, and seldom sees past, double digits. Lewis has been in the league for seventeen years and is exiting on top.
"The greatest opportunity in the world is found here today…We already know what yesterday has got for us. It's already gone. Tomorrow, too far away. What about right now!"~Ray Lewis
There are many things in life that we can control – much more than we give ourselves credit for actually – but time is not one of them. The concept of an end is the fear and motivation. Lewis knows the game and | 800 |
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Article 2 lays down the agreement that the parties would establish a working group to issue proposals for indicators that make it possible to clarify the progress of the circular economy.
Article 3 states that one of the contributions from each City Deal municipality is that all will actively participate in the development of a joint monitoring system, to be used for their own policy. Wherever possible, use will be made of existing European and national systems. The Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment (now Infrastructure and Water Management) will coordinate<|fim_middle|> indicators describe the efforts, processes and level of progress within the transition itself; these are expected to lead to the above described main objective and impact.
Given the flexibility on offer, this system of indicators presents a guide for the uniform drawing up of indicators in any context. The system for example offers useful tools at local level to be used in procurement, tendering, circular area development and land issue. At regional and national level, the indicators help to arrive at monitoring systems that at the very least will support the transition agendas. | these efforts.
The Circular Status indicators describe the primary objective of the circular economy: 100% Circular effectively means no further input of resources /raw materials and no waste.
The Circular Project/impact indicators describe the impact on the main objective and the related energy, material and other (broad) welfare effects.
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Classic work of emigrant oral history relaunched for 25th anniversary
A classic work about emigration has been revised and reissued in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. "Models for Movers: Irish Women's Emigration to America", by Dr Íde B. O'Carroll, will be launched by UCD Professor Margaret Kelleher on Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 6 pm at in the Long Room Hub at Trinity College in Dublin. The event will be hosted by Dr Catherine Lawless of the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies at TCD; the Minister for Diaspora Affairs, Jimmy Deenihan, will make opening remarks.
The publishers' website describes the book:
Models for Movers: Irish Women's Emigration to America is a unique collection of Irish women's oral histories spanning three waves of twentieth-century emigration to America in the 1920s, 1950s, 1980s. The author provides a critical gender analysis of Irish society during the three migration waves to illustrate conditions for women prior to departure. The oral histories detail how each woman created an independent life for herself in America, often in the face of multiple challenges there. As active agents, often supporting one another to leave, these Irish women are role models because they inspire us to have the courage to act. The women's voices also speak to and against the regulated silences surrounding both emigration and the reality of Irish women's lives. Finally, they provide a rich multigenerational tapestry of experience into which women leaving Ireland today, often for places other than America, can weave their stories.
•This book used an oral history approach to documenting Irish emigration history – an approach considered "ground-breaking" at the time
• This revised twenty-fifth anniversary edition comes at a time of renewed global Irish migration
•The Models' project materials formed the basis of the first holding on Irish women at the Schlesinger Library, Harvard University, the premier repository on the History of Women in America – the O'Carroll Collection.
Author Dr Íde B. O'Carroll is an Irish-born social researcher and writer who divides her time between Amherst, MA and Lismore, Waterford; she is also a Visiting Scholar at NYU's Glucksman Ireland House.
To RSVP for the launch, contact Cork University Press Tel: 00 353 (0)21 4902980 or email corkuniversitypress@ucc.ie. To order the book, visit the Cork University Press website.
Global Irish Civic Forum to take place this week in Dublin
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015
The first-ever Global Irish Civic Forum will take place in Dublin Castle this week, with over 175 delegates from 17 countries and representing more than 140 organisations in attendance. Those attending include representatives of more than 140 organisation assisting vulnerable emigrants, supporting Irish culture abroad, networking Irish business people, and campaigning on issues affecting emigrants.
One issue that will be sure to be on the minds of many participants will be that of voting rights for emigrants. Following last month's phenomenal "#hometovote" movement, which saw a large and unprecedented number of emigrants returning home to vote, it is likely that many of the delegates will be eager to talk about new ways of engagement in an Ireland to which many are likely to return.
Panel discussions will focus on such issues as identity and heritage, assistance on returning to Ireland, challenges facing new emigrants, supporting the mental well-being of emigrants, and more. The Forum will no doubt be well-covered on social media, and the suggested hashtag on Twitter is #diaspora15.
Ahead of the event, Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan said,
"I am very much looking forward to engaging with the participants attending the Global Irish Civic Forum. The event is particularly timely as we are starting to see the tide of emigration turning in response to steady economic recovery. Our focus is now shifting to facilitating those emigrants abroad who wish to return.
"The forum is also a unique opportunity to thank the many organisations working throughout the world to support our emigrants in making new lives far from home."
Minister for the Diaspora Jimmy Deenihan stated:
"I look forward to lively and engaging discussions with representatives of groups working with our emigrants abroad over the course of the Global Irish Civic Forum. Many of the groups represented are recipients of funding under the Emigrant Support Programme which has demonstrated the Government's support and commitment to global Irish communities since 2004."
Here is the programme outline:
Wednesday 3 June
Welcome Address by Minister for Diaspora Affairs Jimmy Deenihan T.D.
Panel Discussion on challenges facing new Irish emigrants
Panel Discussion on Irish Identity and Heritage
Panel Discussion on reaching out to Irish citizens abroad
Panel Discussion on supporting the mental wellbeing of Irish emigrants
Reception hosted by President & Mrs. Higgins
Thursday 4 June
Address by Minister for Foreign Affairs & Trade, Charles Flanagan T.D.
Panel Discussion on assisting emigrants returning to Ireland
'Diaspora Engagement – Past, Present and Future – How and Why Diaspora
Matters', Kingsley Aikins
Presentation by John Concannon, Director of the Ireland 2016 Project Team
Afternoon Workshops for Irish community organisations: fundraising,
communication and governance
Closing Remarks by Minister for Diaspora Affairs Jimmy Deenihan T.D.
See the full programme on the UCD Clinton Institute website.
Watch recorded proceedings on the Department of Foreign Affairs website.
"My heart leaped up with so much joy:" Happy St Patrick's Day!
Every St Patrick's Day, I am reminded of my favourite book, The Hard Road to Klondike, and Micheál MacGowan's poignant story of St Patrick's Day in All Gold Creek in the Yukon. In case you're not familiar with the book, it's the translation from Irish of the oral memoir of Donegal native Micheál MacGowan's adventures in Montana and the Alaskan Gold Rush. It's wonderful.
I love the story of this impromptu St Patrick's<|fim_middle|> Kenny to end his refusal to hold a referendum on the rights of Irish citizens living overseas to vote in presidential elections.
Uplift.ie says
More than 120 countries have provisions for their citizens abroad to cast a ballot. Ireland does not. Engagement with Irish citizens abroad has long been of enormous importance for Ireland. It has been a distinctive feature of efforts to bring a lasting peace to the island. It has built economic links resulting in trade, investment and tourism and the achievements of our citizens have enhanced Ireland's profile and reputation internationally.
The issue of voting rights for citizens outside the State has huge popular support and was also recommended by the Convention on the Constitution. The Government recently considered their response to the recommendation of the constitutional convention but have now decided not to go ahead with the referendum needed to allow Irish citizens living abroad to vote in Presidential elections.
In their Twitter campaign promoting the campaign, Uplift.ie quoted yours truly in an infographic.
In a nutshell @NoreenBowden captures why the #Right2Vote is an NB democratic issue. Act now https://t.co/SjXnYxneh4 pic.twitter.com/Infs4WflSx
— Uplift (@UpliftIRL) March 16, 2015
The petition has 727 signatures as of this writing. Add your name at Uplift.ie.
Sign the petition to save longwave
Update: RTE has backed down from the decision to shut down longwave broadcasts. They will keep broadcasting for an additional two years, until May 2017. The Department of Foreign Affairs has also pledged to conduct a study focusing on the needs of listeners. Read more details at the IrishinBritain website.
There is now a petition up at Change.org asking RTE to postpone the move to shutdown longwave.
You might want to sign it, too. Here is the text:
We are requesting that RTE keep its broadcasting services to the Irish in Britain. RTE announced with one month's notice that it would shut down its longwave service on October 27. This move was done with no consultation with its listeners, and will be a significant loss to the whole Irish community.
A wide section of the Irish community listens to RTE Radio 1 on longwave in Britain – people of all ages listen in their cars, sports fans hear GAA matches, and for many older emigrants, it is a treasured link with home. There are no adequate alternatives for many people: RTE advises listening online or via satellite, but these are not accessible to everyone. Listeners in Britain (and Northern Ireland) will not be able to use DAB, which RTE is also pushing as an alternative, as that signal is only available in parts of Ireland.
Older people are likely to be hardest hit by the shutdown, and many of them will lose this powerful link with Ireland forever. As the chair of the Provincial Council of the GAA of Britain, Brendie Brien, has said, longwave provides "a home from home – and the shutdown would be depriving them of that." The shutdown will be "a massive setback to the whole of the Irish community…We have a lot of old people who wouldn't be into modern IT – and who won't have any access to Ireland whatsoever once that would go."
RTE does not know how many people are affected by the shutdown of this vital service and have not released the amount of money this will save. The longwave transmitter is only ten years old.
We are asking for RTE to postpone the longwave shutdown until there are better alternatives for all the Irish in Britain.
The petition is being shared on Twitter and Facebook – please sign and share.
Urging RTE to keep the longwave link for the diaspora in Britain
I have an article in today's Irish Times arguing that RTE's impending shutdown of its longwave service will be deleterious to the vitality of the Irish community in Britain. The oldest and most isolated are the ones who will be hurt the most, but the shutdown will actually affect a broad cross-section of the community.
I thought the chair of the GAA in Britain said it best:
Last week Brendie O'Brien, chairman of the GAA in Britain, described the impending shutdown as "a massive setback to the whole of the Irish community".
"We have a lot of old people who won't have any access to Ireland whatsoever once that [the longwave service] goes." O'Brien described Radio 1's role in the lives of many emigrants as that of providing "a home from home, and the shutdown would be depriving them of that."
You can read the whole article on the Irish Times site. | Day parade (probably Alaska's first!), not least because it's true. MacGowan's tale captures the camaraderie, fun and poignancy of a good St Patrick's Day celebration far from home. The story opens early on St Patrick's morning with our hero, high in the hills, five miles from the nearest village, gathering a can of snow to melt for water for his breakfast.
As I stood there, suddenly I thought I heard pipe-music in the distance. At first I thought it was a dream but in a short while I heard it again. I straightened up then so as to hear it better but as luck had it, didn't the piper stop playing as soon as I was in a position to listen properly. It was some time before he started up again but when he did he seemed to be closer and the music was clearer; and wasn't the tune he was playing 'St. Patrick's Day'! I'd say that by then the piper was three or four miles away up in the hills behind us; there, then, was I, three thousand miles from home but, in the time it would take you to clap your hands, I fancied I was back again among my own people in Cloghaneely. My heart leaped up with so much joy that I was sure it was going to jump out of my breast altogether.
I ran back into the cabin and told my friends what was happening. They came out and when they heard the music, they were so overjoyed that one of them rushed around with the news to all the Irishmen in the neighbouring cabins. They too got up and when they also heard the pipe-music coming towards them they nearly went out of their minds. They went roaring and shouting around the place so much that you could hear the echoes coming back out of the mountains and valleys surrounding us. Everyone waited there until we felt the piper was coming near to us and then we all went out to meet him. Nobody was fully clothed and half of us hadn't eaten at all but our blood was hot and despite the frost none of us felt the cold a bit! When we met him, we carried him shoulder-high for a good part of the way back. He was brought into our cabin and neither food nor drink was spared on him. And it was still early in the day.
When everyone was ready, he tuned his pipes and off we went four abreast after him like soldiers in full marching order. There wasn't an Irish tune that we had ever heard that he didn't play on the way down the valley. Crowds of people from other countries were working away on the side of the hill and they didn't know from Adam what on earth was up with us marching off like that behind the piper. They thought we were off our heads altogether but we made it known to them that it was our very own day—the blessed feast-day of St. Patrick. On we marched until we came to the hotels and we went into the first big one that we met. Without exaggeration, I'd say that there were up to six hundred men there before us—men from all parts of the world. We were thirsty after the march and, though we hadn't a bit of shamrock between us, we thought it no harm to keep up the old custom and to wet it as well as we were able.
We had a couple of drinks each and, as we relaxed, I stood up and asked the piper to tune up his pipes and play us 'St. Patrick's Day' from one end of the house to the other. The word was hardly out of my mouth before he was on his feet…
The men drown the shamrock exuberantly at the town's hotels, their day only briefly disrupted by the violent dispatch of an Orangeman who didn't appreciate the celebrations. (We'll skip that bit.)
As night fell, we all gathered ourselves together again and set off up the hill along the way we had come until we reached our own cabins again. We were tired out and it wasn't hard to make our beds that night. The piper spent the night with us and next morning he bade us farewell and went off to the back of the mountain where himself and two friends of his were working.
A loyal good-natured Irishman, like thousands of others of his race, he left his bones stretched under frost and snow, far from his people, out in the backwoods, where none of his own kith would ever come to say a prayer for his soul. We heard that he had been killed in one of the shafts shortly after he had come to us to keep the Feast of St. Patrick with his music in All Gold Creek.
A bit of a sad ending there, but MacGowan himself had a much happier one. He went home to Donegal in 1901, travelling first class with the fortunes he brought from the Gold Rush. "I had seen enough of modern times in America; and it was like a healing balm to find myself under the old rafters again." He decided to stay in Donegal, fell in love, married, and raised a family – and MacGowan, one of Ireland's greatest emigrant adventurers, declared he would rather see one of his eleven children "gathering rags" than heading for America.
Happy St Patrick's Day – I hope you're parading where ever you are!
You can read a full book review I wrote several years ago over at the Emigrant.ie website.
I also wrote the entry on Michael MacGowan in Ireland and the Americas.
You should probably buy the book.
Uplift.ie begins emigrant voting rights petition campaign
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From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook will take place at 7:00 pm on January 28, 2013, at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut. The evening will be a concert of love and healing for the Newtown community from the composers, musicians and more than 100 stars of Broadway together with over 100 students from several Newtown dance groups and the Newtown High School Chamber Choir. All proceeds and donations will go directly to United Way of Western Connecticut's Sandy Hook School Support Fund.
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From Broadway With Love provides a free night of entertainment for the impacted families, first responders, and the Sandy Hook Elementary community. The Palace Theatre seats approximately 2,600 and a limited number of tickets will be on sale to the public beginning January 7th, 2013 at 10:00 am. These tickets range from $50 to $250. To purchase tickets or make a tax-deductible donation, please visit our website.
Contact Ken Mahoney at 914-419-3762 or sponsorship@frombroadwaywithlove.org for information on how be become a corporate sponsor.
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Annie Patterson, along with being the co-creator of Rise Up Singing and Rise Again songbooks, is a talented multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who has performed in folk and jazz clubs around the globe.
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Celebrate St Patrick's Day with Charlie King and Annie Patterson this coming March 17th, 2021, with special guest Peter Blood.
Tickets are $10 each. Sliding scale ticket options are available. To purchase a $10 ticket make sure you click on the "choose quantity" box directly to the right of the words "Adult $10" at the top of the ticket column. A zoom link for the concert will be emailed to you closer to the day of the concert.
Among the many performances Charlie and Annie have done together was a series of St Patrick's Day inspired concerts in 2018 entitled "The Rising of the Moon". Join them, once again, this coming March 17th, for a concert on zoom featuring Irish songs of wonder, emigration & resistance.
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We spoke to AEVA President Chris Jones to discuss.
Electric Vehicles, or EVs - as they're affectionately known in the car market - are still outnumbered compared to internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) that still dominate on Australian roads.
Chris Jones, President of the Australian Electric Vehicle Association says with "prices coming down", owning an EV is now within reach more than ever before, and to people thinking that EV's are a passing fad, Jones says, "They're not paying attention", adding "trends [are] going up, we're in the exponential part of the EV growth curve in Australia"
Governments around Australia are working to either implement or operate legislation to ease the transition to EV's through numerous initiatives, including the co-investment of a further $171 million in charging infrastructure.
Further the NSW Government committed $490 million towards EVs, helping to cut taxes, provide $3,0<|fim_middle|>Recently in collaboration with the state government the NRMA opened their 11th fast-charging station in Cobar. Part of a wider network of 21 charging points for EV drivers and tourists alike.
Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional NSW Paul Toole said the chargers at Wilcannia and Cobar formed part of the 20 sites rolling out across the regions under a $3 million partnership between the NSW Government and the NRMA to deliver the country's biggest network of EV charging stations
Cobar Mayor, Minister Saunders, Scott Barrett and Susan from NRMA
"Now that we've rolled out the final chargers along the Barrier Highway, located at Wilcannia, Cobar, Dubbo, Parkes, Orange and Lithgow, it means drivers travel no more than 300 kilometres to recharge their vehicles when making the 1000-kilometre journey between Sydney and Broken Hill," Mr Toole said.
"These charging stations are transforming the way EV drivers move around, helping to support tourism in regional centres along the Barrier, New England, Sturt, Hume, Newell and Kamilaroi highways.
The outlook for electric vehicles is that they are here to stay, with prices falling and the cost of petrol vehicles only set to increase. Chris Jones says it may be that "no manufacturer is dumb enough to try and sell a petrol or diesel vehicle in the market, because the EV options are so compelling.
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© 2023 SIX NEWS AUSTRALIA | 00 rebates and install ultra-fast EV chargers right across the State. Premier Dominic Perrottet said these incentives make NSW the best place in Australia to buy and drive an electric vehicle saying, "This is a comprehensive suite of measures, which ensures we have the right mix in place to boost the take-up of electric vehicles and give people access to the latest technology,".
Chris added that "we don't need charging infrastructure in our cities, as much as we need them between our cities". And development across western New South Wales has now made it possible for drivers to travel from Sydney to Broken Hill by electric vehicle.
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For those who did not read my post last year, World Watercolor Month is the brainchild of Charlie O'Shields of Doodlewash fame. It's a challenge designed to encourage anyone who joins in to post a watercolor painting each day of the month of July. It's a fun thing, with very relaxed rules – there are no prizes, or obligation to post each day.
We do have a list of prompts, but nobody's obliged to follow it, they're only meant to help people with inspiration. The idea is to bring together artists of all levels, from all parts of the world.
WWM started in 2016 and proved a great success, prompting Charlie to greater efforts this year. The project, which has attracted sponsorship from various well-known art supply brands, has also teamed up with The Dreaming Zebra, a non-profit foundation that provides underprivileged schoolchildren throughout the world with art and music supplies.
Day 3: Mountain village – the view from the window. Quick evening plein air sketch.
I joined in last year, and the results were beyond my expectations. It got me into the habit of drawing or painting every day, which I've kept up since. It made me open an Instagram account, and inspired me to follow many artists from whom I've learnt so much. I'm self-taught, so the encouragement, tips, comments, ideas and support I've been getting have proven invaluable. I've met new people, improved my technique and, most of all, had so much fun. I've now started getting commissions, and am even thinking of opening an Etsy shop.
I'm so grateful to Charlie, who has shown that you don't need more than enthusiasm, new ideas and a lot of TLC to make a real difference. His site, Doodlewash, hosts watercolor artists from all over the world (I was extremely proud to be included, here) and every Saturday there is a post where artist Jessica Seacrest reviews art supplies that she has tested. We're talking types of paper, brushes, paints – very addictive, although bad for the wallet! And, of course, Charlie never fails to post his own daily doodlewash, with an amusing story to accompany it.
Day 5: Starfish. Watercolor and oil crayon over comic strip glued in tiny sketchbook.
I'm getting stuck in again this year, even if some days it will mean just splashing some paint around for a few minutes. I will post my output at the end of each week, and you can tell me what you think. What you see today is this week's output.
Day 6: Summer<|fim_middle|>. Charlie has been an inspiration to many, he's so enthusiastic and encouraging.
Thanks for showing us your work again, Marina. The Rabbits are just great, and I like the other themes too.
I love the starfish! It's a wonderful balance between seeming solid and actually being translucent, and the colour is brilliant.
Your bunnies are SO good!
Really beautiful watercolours. I would say that talent is also a requirement to do something like this. Lucky child getting that hand painted christening gift! The bunnies are fantastic. Being an archaeologist and archivist, my favourite is "tools of the trade".
Thank you Debi. The bunnies are very popular – perhaps that bright pink background?
Your watercolours are so beautiful – thank you for sharing. I particularly love the ducks – what a wonderful present for a young child to receive!
Thank you! It's always nice to draw with a particular recipient in mind.
Gorgeous water colours, love the summer fields. Enjoying your posts!
Very cool! Love that sketchbook landscape. You've inspired me with the idea of creating a book of simple sketches instead of words on holiday.
I enjoyed this last year and I think it's going to be even better this year.
Thank you, April. It's always nice to feel you're improving!
You make me want to join in but I have never painted a thing in my life and don't know where to start! But I think I'm going to start – but maybe not post!
Lovely! Maybe I'll get some time to pick up the paint brush and do some too.
I love your work! I think my favourite might be the grasses in the glass. It has such life. Yes, go for an Etsy shop, and let me know if I can help out at all.
PS. I love your page in the Sketchbook ~ I loved it in the photos, but it is even better in real life!
What a great idea. It makes me wish that I could paint.
Such a nice variety of subjects/images to paint. You pay attention to things. And it must be satisfying to be able to make gifts for important persons in your life. I very much enjoyed being here for a while, reading and seeing. | fields. Mini landscape in tiny sketchbook.
And I wish I could sing, or have a green thumb!😬😬😬 We all have our talents, I'm sure, Ellen!
True. And–humans being what we are–I expect most of us drool over other people's.
Marina, this post is wonderful. Love your art, one painting after the next charming and full of life, and so thrilled for you now getting commissions. I'm also a daily follower of Charlie's site as I enjoy everything about it.
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LAS VEGAS (Oct. 7, 2021) – Red Hot Chili Peppers, with special guest The Strokes, are bringing their 2022 World Tour to Las Vegas at Allegiant Stadium Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers have been around, and have not just fallen off the turnip truck, but to a man, they have never been more thrilled, bursting with commitment and purpose, as they are regarding this upcoming tour. They have no interest in resting on past accolades, awards or commercial success, this is a mission, they intend to channel the most mighty spirits, and give everything they've got.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers, with special guests The Strokes, and King Princess are bringing their 2022 World Tour to Las Vegas at Allegiant Stadium Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022.
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The La Follette School Student Association has launched La Flog, a blog to engage people affiliated with the school to share ideas about public policy.
"I view La Flog as a public forum for students, faculty and staff to share discussions, promote events and to collaborate," says founder Nate Inglis Steinfeld, who is starting his first year of law school after completing his first year at La Follette in the dual-degree program. "La Flog lets us discuss, ponder, and relay thoughts about current issues in public policy in a forum directed toward other interested individuals."
La Flog has featured ruminations on the EDGE Project in Uganda, terrorists, the death penalty, the blog itself, bureaucracy, dental insurance and mentors. La Flog has had more than 1,600 hits since its inception in June 2009. Those who need a reminder to check it can receive an e-mail sent daily, but only when a new post is available.
For fall semester, Sylvia Fredericks has taken over as the managing editor. She plans to get more students involved in posting regular columns and expanding the readership. "Students can use La Flog to receive feedback on early ideas, explore issues of personal or professional interest, as well as get experience writing about policy issues," she says.
Fredericks is a first-year student in the Master of Public Affairs program. Prior to enrolling at La Follette she worked for the University of Florida in undergraduate and professional student affairs. She tutored elementary and middle school students through the America Reads program and taught incoming freshmen through the First-Year Florida program.
She is enjoying the experiment thus far, which is what La Flog —short for La Follette Blog — is about at this juncture. "Graduate school is a time to gain experience and explore new angles," Fredericks says. "Many of our students have been working professionals for some time and have been unable to really step outside the box with their writing and<|fim_middle|> new tools," he says. | ideas. La Flog is the perfect forum for experimentation."
Inglis Steinfeld suspects that skills with social media tools will be crucial for policy practitioners. He notes that the White House took questions via Twitter and Facebook about President Obama's September 9 speech to Congress and that a Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate suggests that technology can save the state money. "In my view, these trends mean administrators and analysts at all levels will need to be aware of and have experience with these | 94 |
AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan grabbed its third consecutive win by topping Darussafaka Tekfen Istanbul 90-78 at Mediolanum Forum on Friday. Milan improved to 11-11 and remained in 8th place. Darussafaka dropped to 3-19 and is at the bottom of the standings. Mindaugas Kuzminskas led the winners with 19 points and 8 rebounds. Mike James added 18 points, Curtis Jerrells had 16, Vladimir Micov got 11 and James Nunnally 10 for Milan. Toney Douglas led Darussafaka with 21 points. Kartal Ozmizrak added 11 while Michael Eric had 10 for the guests, which led 60-61 after three quarters. Kuzminskas, Nunnally and Jerrells took over in the fourth quarter, leading Milan to a hard-fought win.
Eric got Darussafaka going with a layup and a jump hook. Alen Omic answered with a close basket, igniting a 7-0 run which James capped with a huge dunk for a 7-4 lead. Stanton Kidd and Muhammed Baygul each struck from downtown but Dairis Bertans and Omic restored an 11-10 Milan edge. Baskets were evenly traded for the next few minutes and Milan led 19-17 after the first. Jerrells hit a jumper early in the second but Ozmizrak did better with back-to-back triples, good for a 21-23 Darussafaka lead. Eric capped a 0-8 run with a jumper, and kept pacing the guests with an alley-oop slam before Dogus Ozdemiroglu hit a jumper for a 26-29 Darussafaka lead. James and Kuzminskas combined for 8 unanswered points that made the hosts regain the lead, and Amedeo Della Valle capped a 10-0 Milan run with a driving basket, before a three-pointer by Mert Akay fixed the score at 40-36 at halftime. Jeff Brooks buried a deep two-pointer soon after the break, and a three-pointer by Micov followed by a fast break layup from James made Darussafaka call timeout at 49-40. Douglas struck three times from downtown to give Darussafaka plenty of hope, and dunks by Eric and Jeremy Evans put the guests in charge, 54-56. Micov and Kuzminskas each hit a triple but free throws by Baygul and Ozmizrak gave their team a 60-61 edge after 30 minutes. James scored in penetration early in the fourth quarter but Ozmizrak quickly answered with a jumper. Nunnally buried a three-pointer, Jerrells added a driving layup, and a fast break basket by Kuzminskas made Darussafaka stop the game at 69-63. Jerrells buried back-to-back three-pointers to break the game open, 75-63, with a game-changing 15-0 run. Baygul scored down low but Nunnally did better with a bomb from downtown. Omic took over with a tip-in but Savas and Douglas kept the guests within 80-71 with 3 minutes left. Three-pointers by Kuzminskas and Jerrells sealed the outcome, 86-73, in the next-to-last minute.
Curtis Jerrells had 11 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter, providing the spark his team needed to get the win. He hit 4-of-6 shots from downtown and stepped up when his team needed him most.
A close jumper by Kartal Ozmizrak gave Darussafaka its last lead, 62-63, early in the fourth quarter. Then a three-pointer by James Nunnally sparked a game-breaking 15-0 run in which Jerrells had 8 points - a driving layup and back-to-back bombs from beyond the arc - giving Milan a 75-63 margin and full control for good.
Despite missing its two main centers, Milan outrebounded Darussafaka by 39-34, pulling down 29 defensive rebounds - the club's second-best mark this season. It previously had 32 defensive rebounds against Herbalife Gran Canaria last week, even after losing Arturas Gudaitis midway through the game.
With his 16 points tonight, Mike James totals 442 this season. That is the most points ever by a Milan player in a EuroLeague season. The previous record belonged to Keith Langford, who scored 439 points in the 2013-14 season to win the Alphonso Ford Top Scorer trophy.
The teams return to action in two weeks' time. Milan hosts Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv in a rematch of the 1987 and 1988 EuroLeague Championship Games, which Milan won. Maccabi also won the 2014 EuroLeague title in Milan's home court, Mediolanum Forum. Darussafaka takes on Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul in a local derby.
"I think my players had a solid game, because we stayed on the game plan and didn't suffer too much on rebounds, like maybe we could expect against a team like Darussafaka. We waited and kept using the right choices on offense. We stayed in the game, in control, and in the last quarter we accelerated and won a game which is very important for us. It is important to give confidence to my team because it is a new team now and we have to discover new situations. With this attitude, we can keep competing with<|fim_middle|> play that good individually but we played good as a team, shared the ball and had a big fourth quarter, so we won. I think it was more of a team effort tonight. Like I said, I really didn't play that good but I think Kuzminskas and Jerrells played really well and they helped us out big time." | everybody."
"First of all, congratulations to Milan. They are one of the most talented teams on offense in the EuroLeague. If you want to sum up the game, we managed to keep them at 60 points after three quarters, which said that our strategy was good enough, but they scored 30 points in the last quarter and got their average. Our one-on-one defense especially was not good at all and against a team with so much talent, you cannot solve everything with team defense. You have to stick to your one-on-one stopping abilities, which was the main reason we couldn't keep up with Milan. I wish them good luck in the remainder of the season."
"Right now, we were are getting to the end of the regular season, every game and every victory is like a final for us. I am happy because in the last weeks we are playing pretty good basketball, sharing the ball, and playing better defense. I hope that we will continue doing that and we will improve more. Our team's strength is that we have a lot of good players. In one game, one player steps up, in another game, it is another. Individual performances are not that important, the most important is that we are winning. We are going to fight (for a playoffs spot)."
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Berliner Witschaftsgespräche as Guest at B-Part Am Gleisdreieck
A Panel Discussion on "Mobility and Infrastructure Development in Berlin – Vision and Future Perspectives (Moderator Gernot Lobenberg, Oliver Friederici, Dr. Rolf Erfurt, Regine Günther, Kristina Jahn, CEO Berliner Wirtschaftsgespräche e.v., Volker Krane. Image credit: Business Network)
On the evening of September 10th, an exciting discussion, as part of the Berliner Witschaftsgespräche, took place at B-Part Am Gleisdreieck. The debate was on the importance of infrastructure development for Berlin as a business location. As host of the event Marc F. Kimmich, founder of COPRO, initiated the evening and was pleased to welcome the guests personally after a long break due to the Corona-Pandemic. "With B-Part, we have made the area of the former freight station accessible to the public again after more than 100 years", said Kimmich. "With the urban quarter of the future, the Urbane Mitte Am Gleisdreieck, we will create an area that stands for mobility and work of the future.
Panelists were the Senator for Environment, Transport and Climate Protection Regine Günther, Oliver Friederici from the Berlin CDU, Dr. Rolf Erfurt, Director of BVG, Uwe Northmann from CISCO Systems, and Volker Krane, Director of ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg. Senator Günther recently presented a climate and mobility concept – but the decision on this was postponed at short notice. The senator summarised the concept's goal: "We want to create a city worth living in, loving and which also meets the requirements of climate protection.
Traffic expert Oliver Friederici saw the need for a significant change in transportation for Berlin's growing city and urged expanding the public transport system. He also called for more courage in implementing existing ideas and concepts. He pleaded for the S-Bahn line 21, which runs through the Gleisdreieck interchange station: "The S21 is very important and creates a new north-south connection, which will be<|fim_middle|> is of particular importance in this context: "We transport around 3 million passengers – per day," said BVG board member for operations Dr. Rolf Erfurt. "We are now converting our bus fleet to e-mobility and have achieved great success in this context in a short time." ADAC board member Volker Krane stated that car traffic in the city has to be reduced. He criticized that "there are too few attractive offers for commuters" and that "all means of transport must be better coordinated.
"30 percent of traffic is parking search traffic," said Uwe Northmann of Cisco System, a global networking provider. "We need a multimodal transport system that offers a wide range of information and thus makes the interaction of different means of transport possible in the first place.
There was consensus on the need for new concepts for transport and mobility. Nevertheless, there were also disagreements. ADAC board member Volker Krane criticized the test request for the City-Maut initiated by Senator Günther as a concept from the past: "To demand five euros from people who drive into the city – the City-Maut is old-fashioned and outdated. Digital concepts and solutions are the opportunities for the future.
(Moderator Gernot Lobenberg, Marc F. Kimmich, Oliver Friederici, Dr. Rolf Erfurt, Regine Günther, Kristina Jahn, CEO Berliner Wirtschaftsgespräche e.v., Volker Krane. Image credit: Business Network)
Turning new ideas into reality
Thus, the round ended with the formulated goal of creating an affordable and flexible transport offer for all road users' needs and minimizing the mutual obstructions of individual motorized traffic, public transport, and bicycle traffic. The ongoing digitalization offers great potential to show new ways. But all this also requires courage to put new ideas into practice – the decade is still young, but the road is still long.
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AI and Machine Learning - what should HR be doing?
There's lots of hype about it, but there is no doubt that the application of AI, machine learning and autonomous systems is everywhere and growing fast.
It's already having some impact in the workplace, for example in customer service with fully artificially intelligent bots such as the RBS/NatWest Luvo system powered by IBM's Watson. This impact will rapidly accelerate this year.
Which roles will be impacted?
It's hard to say exactly which roles will be affected and when, but it's safe to say that anything that is repetitive will feel some impact sooner rather than later. There are already advanced trials among the Big Four accounting firms using automated AI systems for conducting financial audits, testing self driving trucks and conducting legal sifts through mountains of documents at the disclosure stage of proceedings, something that is usually done by junior lawyers. A key feature is that AI systems will impact professional roles equally as much as blue collar one. AI is blind to the colour of your collar.
HR teams need to scan for the impacts of automation and AI and make plans accordingly. This includes identifying and working with those about to be affected, possibly providing retraining, encouragement and the opportunity to develop.
Previous technology<|fim_middle|> surrounding the innovation. Odds are this will happen again, but we need people to be open and curious to any new opportunities.
It is also vital to engage with the unions. If there can be friction about who presses the door opening button on trains, (not exactly deep automation!) imagine the grief when self-driving trains, cars, trucks and planes are everyday?. Early dialogue with the unions is the key. Jobs WILL be lost (but others created), so why put off engagement until it's too late and risk a pitch battle? Better to work together now – again focus on constructive development of those (about to be) impacted and reskilling.
Which roles will be affected? Look at any task that is repetitive however sophisticated.
What technologies are out there and just about to impact our business? Get curious and find out.
How can we help the people affected? What roles will potentially be created? What training, encouragement and support can we offer? Focus on people skills, creativity and other areas where AI is less likely (for now) to have an impact.
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A jazz chanteuse with a taste for pop, country, and blues at their best, Norah Jones became an overnight sensation in 2002 with the release of her album Come Away With Me, which earned both critical acclaim and blockbuster sales. In 2004, Jones was touring in support of her well-received second album, Feels Like Home, when she and her band arrived at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium for a special concert appearance, which was captured by a camera crew for home-video release. Norah Jones and the Handsome Band: Live in 2004 features Jones joined by guests Dolly Parton and Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, as well as former bandmates Kevin Breit and Richard Julian. Selections include "Don't Know Why," "Creepin' In," "The Prettiest Thing," and "Carnival Town."
Live @ festival Jazz à Vienne 2017
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Night Sessions - Live in Concert
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Live at Soundstage - Part Two
John Mayer's convincing vocals, guitar virtuosity and compelling songwriting has earned him the respect of his contemporaries as well as significant radio airplay and a solid fan following. On the second part of this Soundstage episode, John Mayer continues his set with favorites "My Stupid Mouth," "Neon" and the Grammy Award-winning Song of the Year "Daughters." Towards the end of this episode Buddy Guy returns to end this show on a high note (literally). This time the roles are reversed as Buddy takes the lead on the classic blues "Feels Like Rain," while Mayer steps back on guitar and lets the teacher do his thing.
Live at Soundstage
Cyndi Lauper, the punky New York princess who just wanted to have fun in the 80's, has matured into a woman who can add an organic honesty to classic standards, as featured on this Soundstage and in her most recent album At Last. From Edith Piaf's "La Vie En Rose" and "Hymn to Love," to the playful "Makin' Whoopee," to somber serenades like "Unchained Melody," "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" and "Walk on By," Lauper elevates her adoring audience with a revealing candor, an impressive range and a pensive sense for interpretation.
But her performance is also a celebration with Lauper's innate sparkle shining through the fun flashbacks "Time After Time," "True Colors," "Money Changes Everything," "Shine" and, of course, "Girls Just Want To Have Fun." With the audience dancing on chairs, and the artist running up the aisles and delivering anecdotal asides, Grammy-winning Lauper reveals that she's a true performer - at ease with her identity as a modern pop powerhouse, but prepared to revel in her most recent reincarnation.
Live at Soundstage - Part One
John Mayer has become an emerging superstar without conforming to any single genre – sometimes bluesy, sometimes pop, sometimes rock, but always excellent. Writing incredible songs that appeal to a wide audience, he provides that rare common ground among listeners of all ages. With fan favorites like "No Such Thing," "Why Georgia" and "Bigger than my Body," Mayer rolls out nothing but the best for this Soundstage audience. Mayer has always had a special relationship with the blues, and he can count one of its greatest practitioners as a fan. In the first episode of this two-part Soundstage, the legendary Buddy Guy surprises viewers by joining Mayer midway through "Come Back To Bed," and remains for and extended jam on "Damn Right I Got The Blues." Other Mayer hits, including the blockbuster "Your Body Is a Wonderland," also define this set.
Three time Grammy-nominated performer Jewel is best known for her charismatic live performances. In this episode, Jewel performs at the historic Rialto Theater with an ethereal backdrop and, at times, is accompanied by a chamber orchestra. In part one of this Soundstage special Jewel not only performs her well-known hits but she also showcases her vast vocal styling by performing standard classics such as Cole Porters "Anything Goes."
In Session 2004
Vanessa Carlton performs live In Session in 2004. The show, I support of her second album, Harmonium features performances of White Houses," "San Francisco; and "Who's To Say."
Live At Hangout Music Fest 2014
Amos Lee
Amos Lee is an American singer-songwriter whose musical style encompasses folk, rock and soul. Lee's "folksy, bluesy sound" has been compared to that of John Prine and Norah Jones. His music is said to utilize the "supple funk of his vocals and arid strum of his guitar" while recalling "the low-volume, early-'70s acoustic soul of stars like Bill Withers and Minnie Ripperton." The "Live At Hangout Music Fest 2014" concert experience catches Amos Lee performing the all-time favorites as "Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight, " "Tricksters, Hucksters and Scamps," "Southern Girl," "Street Corner Preacher," and many more including a great cover of the "Fat Bottomed Girls / Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)."
Live In Hollywood
MARIANNE FAITHFULL, one of the iconic figures of 1960s music, has sustained a successful and highly acclaimed career for 40 years. Her distinctive voice and passionate songwriting have ensured that her fan base has remained intensely loyal and that she has continued to attract new devotees. This concert was recorded in Hollywood in Spring 2005. It features tracks from her most recent album, 2004's Before The Poison, along with hits such as Ballad Of Lucy Jordan and As Tears Go By, and classic tracks like Sister Morphine and Broken English.
Live in London
'LIVE IN LONDON' is the first live recording and concert film from acclaimed artist Regina Spektor. Captured mainly at London's famed Hammersmith Apollo Theatre, 'LIVE IN LONDON' features 23 remarkable performances that span Spektor's brilliant catalog of music, including three new songs that have only been performed live ('Silly Eye-Color Generalizations,' 'Bobbing For Apples and 'Love, You're A Whore'). 'LIVE IN LONDON' was recorded during Regina's UK tour in support of her latest album, 'far,' which debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200. For the first time, fans can see Regina up close as she performs fan favorites like 'Us,' 'Fidelity,' 'Samson' and 'Eet,' along with backstage footage, inside peaks at sound check and more. 'LIVE IN LONDON' is a captivating 64-minute concert film directed by Adria Petty. An artist praised for her remarkable originality, inspired storytelling and enthralling performances, Rolling Stone raves, 'Spektor put on one of the most intensely joyful rock shows we've seen all year.' The Philadelphia Inquirer adds, 'Everything she did was greeted with thunderous applause... the audience could not get enough. Perhaps what was most remarkable about Regina's performance, aside from hearing Spektor's gorgeous vocals in person, was her ability to enrapture the crowd... Spektor's passion, vitality and sheer musical talent transformed the Electric Factory into a world of intimacy.' The Boston Globe simply says, 'multi-talented Spektor is capable of anything and it shows on stage.'
Solos: The Jazz Sessions
Greg Osby
Saxophonist, composer, producer and educator Greg Osby has made an indelible mark on contemporary jazz as a leader of his own ensembles and as a guest artist with other acclaimed jazz groups for the past 20 years. Highly regarded for his insightful and innovative approach to composition and performance, Osby has earned numerous awards and critical acclaim. In this special set of solo performances, Osby explores a range of emotional and musical states, always seeking to tie his ideas together; his long alto-lines linger in the air as he weaves new ideas beneath and over-top. A true innovator, these solos showcase an artist unadorned, free to pursue his musical alchemy.
Alto Saxophone Jazz Solos
One of the most individual of all alto saxophone players, the cool-toned LEE KONITZ has always had a strong musical curiosity that has led him to consistently take chances and stretch himself, usually quite successfully. The Jazz Sessions spotlights unaccompanied performances by some of the legends and bright young stars of the jazz world. Designed and recorded specifically for television, SOLOS offers viewers front row seats for an intimate and unique jazz experience. Each program features complete musical pieces, insightful interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage. Shot in stunning HDTV with multiple moving cameras and a medley of elegant cinematic lighting, SOLOS showcases an exciting and dynamic variety of jazz styles - from the blues and boogie-woogie to bebop and the experimental.
Mind, Body & Soul Sessions features R&B phenom Joss Stone live in concert in 2004. Recorded at New York's Irving Plaza, the show begins with an introduction by the legendary Betty Wright, who co-produced the Brit's stunning debut, The Soul Sessions, and co-wrote several songs on the second, Mind, Body & Soul. The barefoot singer then gets down to business, performing a solid selection of material from both albums, including "Super Duper Love" from the first and "You Had Me" from the follow-up. Stone receives strong support from a tight band, distinguished by powerful drummer Caesar Griffin.
Grammy Award-winner Peter Cetera performs classic favorites for the SoundStage audience. He is joined by four-time Grammy-winner Amy Grant for their duet Next Time I Fall, classic hits such as Baby Baby and songs from her latest album.
Brave Enough: Live at the Variety Playhouse
Captured in Atlanta on May 20, 2013, Brave Enough: Live at the Variety Playhouse is a solo live performance by Grammy-nominated, platinum-selling singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles. Recorded during Sara's "The Brave Enough Tour," which sold out nationally in three minutes, the set captures her entire performance. The release features show highlight "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," Sara's never-before-released breathtaking version of Elton John's classic song.
A Moonlight Serenade On The Queen Mary 2
Surrounded by a room of ballroom dancers and backed by a 15-piece orchestra, Carly Simon taped two nights of concerts on the Queen Mary 2 in early September of 2005. The six-day voyage (from New York City to Southampton, England) onboard the most famous ocean liner in the world.
Grammy nominated and multi-Platinum artist, Macy Gray, performs live at the intimate In Session in 2007. The Session features performances of "Finally Made Me Happy", "Glad You're Here" and "I Try". The Session concludes with an interview with Macy Gray.
The Jazz Sessions spotlights Andrew Hill, a great and even groundbreaking composer and pianist. While many of his contemporaries were totally jettisoning the rhythmic and harmonic techniques of bop and hard bop, Hill worked to extend their possibilities; his was a revolution from within. He exhibited a determined command of his materials, however abstract they might sometimes be. His composed melodies were labyrinthine, rhythmically and harmonically complex tunes that exhibit a sophistication born of mastery, not chance or contingency.
These two concerts from Montreux in 1991 and 1992 catch Tori Amos right at the start of her solo career. The first from July 1991 was filmed a few months before the release of her Little Earthquakes album and the second from July 1992 followed a few months after. There is a fascinating progression from one year to the next as she grows in confidence and skill as a live performer, buoyed by the critical and commercial success of the album. Naturally most of the songs are taken from Little Earthquakes but there are also rare songs from her various EPs released across the two years which didnt make it onto the album including her distinctive takes on Led Zeppelins Whole Lotta Love and Thank You and Nirvanas Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Bring Me Home: Live 2011
This musical release from exotic siren Sade captures a live performance by the songstress, recorded in 2011. Some of the songs featured in the release include "Soldier of Love," "Your Love is King," "Love Is Stronger Than Pride," "All About Our Love," and more.
Live In Paris
Recorded live at the Paris Olympia to a sell out audience, the captivating voice of Diana Krall delivers a sensual collection of romantic ballads and bossa novas.Diana is accompanied by the Orchestre Symphonique Europeen & Paris Jazz Big Band, as well as her own recording jazz band members flown in especially from LA. In addition to this she also welcomes legendary conductor Claus Ogerman.This concert performance features tracks from her latest album The Look Of Love and the full set from her sensational world tour. The Grammy award winner takes us through a variety of well-known standards all performed in the totally individual, yet classic style that is Diana Krall.
Jazz and the New Song Book
Carmen Lundy
This film features all original songs by vocalist Carmen Lundy joined by top jazz musicians from New York, Miami and Los Angeles - Robert Glasper, Billy Childs, David Roitstein, Curtis Lundy, Nathan East, Kenny Davis, Phil Upchurch, Victor Lewis, Marvin 'Smitty' Smith, Mayra Casales, Steve Turre, Bobby Watson, Mark Shim, Krystal Davis Williams, The L.A. String Quartet.
Symphony in Vienna
Kicking off that phenomenally successful year, in January 2008, Sarah Brightman recorded and filmed Symphony -- Live in Vienna within | 2,737 |
Athletics launches the Trailblazer Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Working Group
NORTH<|fim_middle|>athletes and staff to promote awareness, engagement, and spark dialogue. In addition to those roles, Beckwith will begin promoting the NCAA's One Team initiative and work with national offices when the opportunity arises. The position is part of a broader action plan by the department to address racial justice, diversity, and cultural awareness within the department. Beckwith, along with the working group, will assist the department with identifying current issues around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
The department has focused on new initiatives to strengthen the MCLA community and provide a better tomorrow for our students. The department can be a catalyst for positive and lasting change within the campus community and beyond. Just a few of the initiatives are listed below:
Educational Programming for student-athletes and staff
Launching of a DEI webpage as a resource for student-athletes and staff
Professional Development among staff around racial equity, social justice, and civic engagement
Collaborate with institutional programs centered around DEI
The DEI webpage is a one stop shopping center for the athletic community. The page covers upcoming DEI events for students, staff, and campus community members. The site lists staff professional development initiatives and resources for student athletes. It also details the working group and provides communication outlets. To view the webpage, click the link below:
MCLA DEI Webpage
For more information or questions regarding DEI, please contact Amanda Beckwith at a.beckwith@mcla.edu or visit www.mcla.edu.
MCLA Athletics DEI working group:
Amanda Beckwith: Co-Chair Athletics DEI Coordinator/Head Volleyball Coach
Arlene Theodore: Co-Chair Associate Director of Diversity Programs and MERC
Laura Mooney Director of Athletics
Dr. Ann Billetz Faculty Athletics Representative (Biology)
Adam Hildabrand Men's Soccer Coach
Adriane Baird Softball Coach
Christopher MacDonald-Dennis Chief Diversity Officer
Oscar Castro Alumni- Admissions Office Staff
Travis Rice Alumni- Men's Basketball
Natalie Caney Alumni- Women's Lacrosse/Soccer
Bryan Rosario Baseball Student-Athlete
Anissa Baptiste Women's Soccer Student-Athlete
Gavin Butler Men's Lacrosse Student-Athlete
Reagan Scattergood Volleyball Student-Athlete | ADAMS, MA- The MCLA Athletics Department is excited to announce the formation of the Trailblazer Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion working group. The department is committed to a providing a safe and inclusive environment, respecting differences, and encouraging social change. The department strives to provide opportunities to student-athletes and staff of all races, age, ethnicity, genders, gender expression, religions, sexual orientations, countries of origin, and abilities.
The working group will be co-chaired by Amanda Beckwith and Arlene Theodore (Associate Director of Diversity Programs). Beckwith began her new duties as the department's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Coordinator over the summer. As the coordinator for DEI, Beckwith will spearhead programming for student- | 156 |
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• From "puente del Cardoso" (bridge of El Cardoso):
Guadalajara, Spain, Europe
Tomás Blázquez
Cerrón
Climber's Log Entries
41.15591°N / 3.47322°W
A long day
The beginning of this route is very near of "hayedo de Montejo", at the opposite side of the bridge over the river Jarama (province of Guadalajara). A hundred meters following the road from this point you will see a forest trail (closed normally to traffic of cars with a barrier) that enters into the oakwood and goes up by the valley of river Jarama (the river stay on the left of our way).
A few minutes afterwards you will arrive next to a meadow with livestock (there are cows and sheeps by these valleys) where there is a junction; take the forest trail of the right (Ermito valley) and follow until a nearby new junction; take again the right and continue by this trail, approaching to the West face of Santui (1.927 m.). The forest trail turn left, passing a stream. Climb to Loma del Ravinate, turning again on the right and then on the left. You will arrive to a meadow with a excellent view to Loma Mediana<|fim_middle|>: It's a bench mark ("vértice geodésico"). Exceptional view to Pico del Lobo (2.272 m.), Alto de las Mesas (2.257 m.) and El Cervunal (2.194 m.) to the north; Tres Provincias (2.128 m.) and Coto de Montejo (2.047 m.) to the west; Rocín (2.049 m.) and Ocejón (2.049 m.) to the east and Sierra del Rincón (Centenera, 1.810 m. and Tornera, 1.865 m.) to the south, in the border with the province of Madrid.
View • From "puente del Cardoso" (bridge of El Cardoso): Image Gallery - 5 Images
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"It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over, that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed." --Meursault in 'The Stranger' | (W) and Tres Provincias (2.128 m.), named thus because this mountain is the only one where the provinces of Madrid, Guadalajara and Segovia meet.
From this point, the forest trail dissapear and a narrow path climbs straightly, crossing a pine-grove. Bushes replace pines and other trees when you reach the col of Calahorra (collado de la Calahorra, 1.849 m.) in the beggining of the slopes of the northern face of Santui. Here you can take a new forest trail (N) that ascends to the col of Agua Fría (collado del Agua Fría, 1.996 m.), two kilometers away. We are next to the last slope of El Cerrón, that appears like an undress summit, with a visible crest of rocks on the top.
Climb directly to this crest and follow to the summit (be careful in winter with the ice; the West face of El Cerrón is rugged). On the top there's a pillar with a plate | 232 |
There's actually plenty for families and mid-weekers to do on Put-in-Bay, which has a reputation for non-stop weekend partying.
One stop they'll surely want to make is the Perry's Cave Family Fun Center, where there's an attraction to appeal to almost every taste. There's a rock-climbing wall, an antique car museum, miniature golf, panning for gemstones and a giant maze.
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The attractions are open seven days a week May through September. They also have large, themed gift shops for those who promised to bring home souvenirs. | there are two distinctive things you shouldn't miss that are out of the realm of the usual family resort attractions. One is Perry's Cave itself, 52 feet below the surface, where a tour guide will share the history of its discovery and use and its geological features. The other is the butterfly house where visitors can stroll and relax among an array of flowers and shrubs and more than 50 varieties of butterflies, some | 86 |
WFXP (channel 66) is a television station in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States,<|fim_middle|> area broadcasting in the time-slot.
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Nexstar Media Group | affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Nexstar Media Group, owner of ABC affiliate WJET-TV (channel 24), for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios on US 19/Peach Street in Summit Township (with an Erie mailing address), where WFXP's transmitter is also located.
WFXP began broadcasting in 1986 as WETG, owned by Gannon University, a Catholic university in Erie. It gradually became a more typical commercial independent in its early years of operation and affiliated with Fox in April 1990. The growth of Fox led to new affiliate requirements that saw Gannon sell the station to private owners. Nexstar has managed WFXP since 1998 and airs dedicated morning and late evening newscasts from the WJET-TV newsroom on the station.
History
Channel 66 in Erie began broadcasting September 2, 1986, as WETG, operated by a joint venture of Gannon University and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erie. Gannon had won the permit to build the station from a pool of three applicants in 1984 and promised to broadcast religious and entertainment programs as well as telecourses. Gannon students produced programs for the station, including a televised Mass and daily talk show, and participated in station operations for credit; in 1989, 46 of the 96 students in the university's communication arts program were involved in running WETG. By that time, the station's broadcast day had expanded from eight hours a day at launch to 15 hours, and the programming had grown more typical of an independent.
In April 1990, WETG became Erie's first Fox affiliate. Gannon University continued to own the station until 1994, when the network began increasing its requirements for affiliated stations. As a result, the university sold the station to a consortium of local investors known as Erie Broadcasting. Power was increased from 35,000 to 600,000 watts, and the call sign was changed to WFXP; though the studios were to move off the Gannon campus, this did not take place. Erie Broadcasters then sold the station to Jason Elkin, former founder of New Vision Television; Elkin also tried to buy NBC affiliate WICU-TV but withdrew when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 failed to authorize the creation of duopolies, common direct ownership of two stations in a market. He instead assigned his option to buy to SJL Broadcasting. WICU then filed to run WFXP under an LMA, a move delayed by an objection by WJET-TV, which had lost out on an attempt to take control of the station.
In 1998, Nexstar—the new owner of WJET-TV—entered into an agreement to maintain responsibility for WFXP's daily operations except programming, with WICU citing the fact that it looked unable to acquire channel 66 outright in the near future; Nexstar had more experience with lease arrangements. Digital broadcasting for WFXP in high definition began in December 2007.
Newscasts
In May 1997, WFXP began broadcasting a 10 p.m. newscast produced for it by WICU-TV. WJET-TV assumed production of this newscast on August 1, 1998.
On September 10, 2007, WJET-TV began airing an hour-long weekday morning show at 8 on WFXP (called Fox 66 News in the Morning). This is the only local newscast in the | 790 |
The iconic Cape Quarter complex, which is situated in Green Point Cape Town, has undergone significant renovation and rejuvenation since it was purchased by the Tower Property Fund in 2013.
All of the renovations and green retrofitting undertaken at the Cape Quarter have been handled by the centre's management company, Spire Property Management. Property Manager St John Gardner, highlights some of the initiatives which have given the Cape Quarter its new lease on life.
As the flagship property within the Tower Fund, the Cape Quarter was the first property in the portfolio to undergo a lighting and solar retrofit, which is in keeping with Tower's commitment to a greening and<|fim_middle|> the greening programme to other major properties.
Vacancies increased to 10 percent in the reporting period largely because of two large tenants in the Clearview Motor Village in Roodepoort absconding from their lease obligations. Edwards said both these tenants were motor dealerships but declined to identify them because legal action was currently being taken to recover the debt.
He said vacancies had subsequently been reduced to 7 percent because of new letting deals finalised and new acquisitions.
Tower has identified a significant development opportunity through the group's development arm at Cape Quarter.
Tower acquired two properties, the final phase of the Constantia View Office Park in Randburg and the Medscheme building in Florida North, in the past six months for a total of R122m.
It now has a portfolio of 32 commercial, industrial and retail properties valued at R2.2bn.
Edwards said they expected the value of the fund's portfolio to be at R3.5 billion by end of May and at R5bn by end of May next year. He expressed confidence Tower would meet its distribution forecast of 86.6c for its financial year to May.
Shares in Tower declined 3 percent on Friday to close at R9.40. | occupancy cost reduction strategy.
The Cape Quarter also received an extensive PV solar system installation where 702 solar panels were installed over a period of four weeks on the roof of the Cape Quarter Square by Sola Future Energy, who were selected to conduct the Cape Quarter PV solar installation after several months of research and due diligence.
"The Cape Quarter PV Solar installation is monitored through a roof top weather station that feeds results through to an online portal which allows us to see how the system is performing at any time," says Gardner. Results show that the solar panels on the roof of the Cape Quarter allow for an electricity saving of approximately R400 000 per annum.
Through a creative reshuffle of tenants at the Cape Quarter, Spire Property Management has also succeeded in creating an additional 813 square metres of space which now houses Deloitte's new state-of-the-art Innovation Centre.
To create this extra space, smaller tenants that were occupying individual shops on the upper level were moved down onto the Square and what was previously common space has also been incorporated into the new Innovation Centre. In addition to this, ATM's have been moved to a more convenient location closer to the entrance from the parking, and certain stairwells and access points have also been relocated.
One of the key tenants relocated within the Cape Quarter was the Palladium Hair Company who were successfully transferred to a more prominent position on the Square in the space of three days – starting on a Saturday afternoon after trade. This meant that by Wednesday morning this hugely busy hair and beauty salon was back up and running in their trendy new industrial look premises – a down time of only two working days.
In a bid to unlock value within their portfolio by maximising the use of underutilised space, Tower, together with managing agents Spire, have started work on the 32 Napier Street development, which will form part of the Cape Quarter Precinct and when completed will be made up of 11 residential apartments as well as several retail tenants on the ground and first floors of the building.
Sean Paul, Executive Director of Spire, says that all of the recent renovations and redevelopments at the Cape Quarter have attracted many queries for space to let by a variety of retailers, and vacancies are at an all-time low.
This increasingly popular centre looks set to continue improving and developing in response to market demand and the owners and management concur that they have identified further opportunity for development within the precinct going forward. "The findings and successes from Cape Quarter will also be rolled out to other buildings within the Tower portfolio," concludes Edwards.
The Tower Property Fund, which upon listing on the JSE in July 2013 set a clear strategy of occupancy cost reduction across the board, with a strong focus on "greening", has continued to make good on its intentions and is currently rolling out green measures to several buildings within the fund's portfolio.
Marc Edwards, CEO of the Tower Property Fund says that following the successful implementation of a lighting retrofit and solar installation at the Cape Quarter, the flagship property in Tower's portfolio, the fund has begun to roll out solar and lighting retrofits to several other buildings within its portfolio.
"382 Jan Smuts Avenue in Randburg, and 6-8 Sturdee Avenue in Rosebank will be undergoing both solar and lighting retrofits. 73 Hertzog Boulevard is undergoing a lighting retrofit and the Deville Shopping Centre in Durbanville, which has already had a lighting retrofit, is currently in the process of having solar installed on its roof space – which will be the largest solar installation undertaken by Tower to date," explains Edwards.
Edwards advises that since the start of the green retrofit at 382 Jan Smuts Avenue, the largest tenant has renewed their lease and the building has the lowest vacancy levels since Tower purchased the property, with ongoing enquiries for space to let.
Simon Penso, Head of Sustainability for Spire Sustainable Solutions, a division of Spire Property Management, who are handling the green retrofitting for Tower, explains that solar panels are being installed on the roof of 382 Jan Smuts as well as at 6 – 8 Sturdee Avenue and the DeVille Shopping Centre. Between them they are expected to supply approximately R1.2m worth of electricity in the first year of operation.
Weave Energy recently put the finishing touches to the 319kW PV solar system at the DeVille Shopping Centre and they are expecting to complete 382 Jan Smuts and 6 – 8 Sturdee in mid-February 2016.
Penso goes on to explain that the lighting retrofits being undertaken at 382 Jan Smuts, 6 – 8 Sturdee Avenue, and Hertzog Boulevard will entail all outdated fluorescent and cove lighting being replaced with LED lighting.
According to Penso it has been calculated that the lighting retrofits at these three buildings will result in approximately 750 000 kWh reduction in consumption per year, equating to an estimated 742 500 kg reduction in annual CO2 output at current Eskom pollutant rates. The buildings are expected to save R1.2 million in reduced electricity costs from the lighting retrofit in the first year alone. Additional savings will be incurred from reduced maintenance costs because the LEDs are guaranteed for a minimum of three years so no replacements are necessary.
Tower's portfolio is no stranger to "best of breed" green buildings, with Block F Upper Grayston Drive being the first small building to achieve a 6 Star – Green Star SA Office v1 – As Built Rating. The office block, situated just off Ann Crescent in the heart of Sandton, has been lauded as demonstrating 'World Leadership' in the South African sustainability sphere.
"Block F, Upper Grayston Drive has also just received an award in the Green Star Leadership Awards at the 2015 Green Building Council of South Africa Convention – which took place from 2 – 6 November," explains Edwards. The annual Green Star Leadership Awards recognise the people and projects that are Inspiring Better Buildings and progressing the South African commercial property sector.
Recent global research has shown that green buildings outperform normal buildings significantly – on average achieving rental premiums of 6%, capital value improvement of 12%, while reducing operating costs by 30%.
"Greening initiatives remain high on Towers list of priorities with the view to reducing occupancy costs to enhance desirability and affordability. Tower hopes to reap the benefits of these initiatives in the next 12 to 18 months – benefits that will be shared by the fund and its tenants," concludes Edwards.
For more information visit www.towerpropertyfund.co.za or contact (021) 685 4020.
The Cape Quarter now features a bank of highly efficient solar panels on its roof.
This flagship property within the Tower Property Funds portfolio recently received an extensive PV solar system installation as part of the funds greening and occupancy cost reduction strategy.
702 solar panels have been installed on the roof of the Cape Quarter Square and so far initial results show that the installation is outperforming its expected cost savings – by 20%.
The Cape Quarter PV Solar installation is being monitored through a roof top weather station that feeds results through to an online portal that allows Spire Property Management to check how the system is performing at any time.
Initial results indicate that the solar panels on the roof of the Cape Quarter will allow for an electricity saving of approximately R400 000.00 per annum. "These figures mean that the solar installation will pay for itself within eight years," says Penso. The lifespan of the system is 25 years.
Marc Edwards, CEO of the Tower Property Fund explains that the Cape Quarter has also undergone lighting and other retrofits which will save the centre an impressive R1 million per annum in energy costs for the property. According to Edwards, there are additional exciting plans on the cards for even greater future energy savings at the Cape Quarter.
"Recent global research has shown that green buildings outperform normal buildings significantly – on average achieving rental premiums of 6%, capital value improvement of 12%, while reducing operating costs by 30%. Tower has set a clear strategy of occupancy cost reduction across the board for all the buildings within the fund's portfolio, with a strong focus on "greening", and as the funds flagship building we rolled out this solar retrofit at Cape Quarter first, but this will soon be followed by similar initiatives in other properties within the portfolio.
For more information on the Cape Quarter or the Tower Property Fund please contact (021) 685 4020.
Eskom's woes push property companies over the sustainable edge.
As South Africa's energy crisis worsens with no indication of abating, more JSE-listed property counters are starting to place renewable energy solutions on the agenda.
Eskom is not only battling to keep the lights on, the power utility's cash flow issues are threatening an increase in electricity tariffs. Rolling power outages are now seemingly a part of daily life due, Eskom says, to the lack of maintenance of the country's power system.
It is this precarious energy scenario which has prompted shopping centres to investigate the benefits of renewable energy solutions.
Emira Property Fund (Emira) announced on Thursday that it has installed a R6 million solar farm on the roof of its 6 961 square metre Epsom Downs Shopping Centre in Bryanston.
Emira said the photovoltaic solar project – which is a pilot at this stage – will produce 30% of the electricity required by the shopping centre. The solar project is expected to save 515 172 kWh of energy per annum.
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) granted Eskom a 12.69% rise in electricity prices for this year. Development manager at Emira Justin Bowen said with the increase in electricity prices, the financial viability of solar initiatives is becoming achievable.
Some counters are beefing up their green initiatives, such as Tower Property Fund (Tower). The company recently announced that it is now replicating the energy efficient light retrofitting programme at its 13 500 square metre De Ville Shopping Centre situated in Durbanville. The retrofitting initiative was originally launched at its 26 000 square metre Cape Quarter mixed-used precinct in Green Point, Cape Town.
CEO of Tower Mark Edwards said the retrofit programme at Cape Quarter is saving the company "R850 000 per annum" – which is more than what the company expected. The precinct has seen operating costs reduce by 13.5%.
Tower has also jumped on the solar energy bandwagon.
The company installed a R3 million solar project at Cape Quarter in December. With the roof space of the precinct being utilised to generate energy, Tower estimates that the solar initiative will save over R350 000 per annum and 348 000 kWh of electricity per year.
The payback period – the time when an energy efficient initiative is installed and when savings materialises – for light retrofits is one year, according to Edwards. The payback period for the solar initiative is six years.
Tower's green initiatives have piqued the interest of investors.
"It's proactive approach to 'greening' their portfolio since listing [in 2013] should be even more beneficial going forward given the current electricity crisis," said Stanlib's head of listed property funds Keillen Ndlovu.
Hyprop Investments (Hyprop) has also followed the solar energy route. Hyprop installed a solar photovoltaic plant at Clearwater Mall, west of Johannesburg. The R8 million plant installed on the centre's roof is expected to conserve about 900 000 kWh of electricity per year. It supplies approximately 3% of Clearwater Mall's annual electricity.
Hyprop CEO Pieter Prinsloo said similar green solutions will be rolled out at other centres in the portfolio.
Emira Property Fund's R6 million solar farm on the roof of Epsom Downs Shopping Centre in Bryanston. Photo: Emria Property Fund.
Tower Property Fund's R3 million solar project at Cape Quarter in Cape Town. Photo: Sola Future Energy.
A REDUCTION in costs resulting from energy savings by listed Tower Property Fund was largely responsible for significant increases in the fund's operating profit in the six months to November.
Revenue increased by 38 percent to R118 million and operating profit by 37 percent to R96m compared to the previous corresponding period.
Distributable earnings grew by 59 percent to R63m and the interim dividend increased by 27 percent to 42c a share.
Tower chief executive Marc Edwards said on Friday that the fund's operating costs were down 13 percent net of recoveries following good results from its lighting retrofit programmes and the solar energy project at its flagship Cape Quarter property.
Edwards said the savings from the greening programme had exceeded expectations, with R850 000 being saved annually at Cape Quarter through the lighting changes while electricity demand had been reduced by 13 percent.
"We expected annual savings of R750 000 at the Cape Quarter from the lighting retrofit programme. We have achieved total savings of R1 million at Cape Quarter. The solar initiative will save more than R350 000 a year and accounts for 5 percent of the building's demand," he said.
Edwards added that savings at the De Ville Shopping Centre were also on track to beat their expectation and total about R300 000 a year. He said they were looking at extending | 2,829 |
TSTT introduces its first Gigabit Community to a gated housing project in Chaguanas.
TSTT's Damian Ali, right, explains the health monitoring system (foreground) installed in a room at the model house of Legacy Housing Development to Minister of Public Utilities Nizam Baksh, left, and TSTT chairman Everard Snaggs. Photo by Mark Lyndersay.
Last Wednesday, TSTT launched its Gigabit Community Project, which combines a pilot programme and research initiative that puts a fully symmetrical gigabit connection into upscale residential households at Legacy Housing Development in Chaguanas.
It's a bold move, but one that the company is handling with measured language. Despite the bold declaration by TSTT's chairman, Everald Snaggs that "gigabit capacity development throughout communities in Trinidad and Tobago is an area of major focus for us at TSTT," the company's officers explain the project in more moderate terms.
In terms of infrastructure, 10,000 homes in T&T are ready for the direct fibre optic connections that gigabit connectivity requires, though the company noted that having the cabling available doesn't guarantee that gigabit speeds will always be possible on every fibre optic connection.
A gigabit connection runs at 1,000 megabits, or ten times the speed of the fastest current connection in T&T. It's also the first connection to be promoted as symmetrical, which means that upload speeds are supposed to be as fast as downloads.
The first 10,000 homes are mostly in the northwest of the island, but 30 percent of the connections run to BelAir in South Trinidad and Orchid Gardens in Central Trinidad.
One factor governing gigabit connectivity will be the presence of Calix nodes at the telephone exchange. All of the company's current exchanges are compatible with the technology; part of the infrastructure upgrades that the company has been pursuing over the last four years.
TSTT hopes to have 40,000 homes ready for fibre optic connections by the end of 2014.
Legacy Housing got the nod for the pilot project at least partly because it was under construction and at the launch, still was, with concrete being poured at several sites within the development while nattily clad guests made<|fim_middle|> to have discussions with developers working on current sites to win space in their duct pipes.
Tobago won't be left out of the development loop either. A new fibre optic cable link to the island was laid three years ago, and the company is evaluating sites there to establish another gigabit community.
Gigabit communities are a useful developmental benchmark for nations catching up with the global pace of broadband deployment, but they are not the only one. A nation's capacity to participate in digital networks is better measured by the number of connections per capita that run to 10 megabits or better.
In his address last week, George Hill described the project as a first in not just Trinidad and Tobago, but also in the English-speaking Caribbean.
It's all part of TSTT's new five-year strategic plan, one pillar of which is the provision of broadband service to 95 per cent of the population.
The project will run for at least six months.
Related: Guardian Business news report on "The Gigabit Community." | their way to the model home that serves as the proving ground for the technology deployment.
That allowed TSTT's technical teams ready access to the underground ducting on the site and the homes, built with future technology in mind, proved very easy to wire.
Underground ducting is best practice for a fibre optic deployment and HDC developments are compliant. TSTT hopes | 74 |
MacMost Now 199: Video Sharing With mDialog
In this MacWorld Expo special, learn about mDialog, a video sharing solution that works well with Macs, iPhones, iPods and Apple TV.
Check out MacMost Now 199: Video Sharing With mDialog at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
Video Transcript: Gary Rosenzweig: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. Today<|fim_middle|> that allows you to have all these features, enter the contests and do all that off of our iPhone app. But as well, Safari on the iPhone will also present our embedded player. It allows you to not just view videos on the Safari but you can shuffle through the episodes with your embedded channel player, which is kind of cool. And then we also reach the web of course, we're fully Mac, PC compatible and everything I've just mentioned. And we actually make our way into the living room with set-top boxes such as Apple TV and Tivo. Well, we've got a couple of different price points. We have a free one that really allows people to have fun with it to get started. And then we also have what we call a friends and family and that's $49.95. And then we go to an Indy membership and a broadcaster membership and the broadcaster goes all the way up to half a terabyte of online storage, as well 2 terabytes of video delivery a month and we can go well beyond that. Gary: One of the cool things about mDialog is that they have iPhone specific solutions. So when you publish your videos, they can appear in the iPhone on the browser or they can also appear on the mDialog app. Greg: Our embedded iPhone player on Safari on the iPhone, it shows you that obviously you can just press the play button and it'll play the video. But something that we added to the mix is the ability to shuffle through videos in the channel. You can do that like this. Which is kind of cool. This channel has about five or six different videos on it and so it allows the publisher to really do that once and they didn't have to do anything specific for the iPhone. This is the best way to present a channel on the iPhone. But we really want them to take advantage of things that the iPhone can do and for that we have our own video app on the iPhone, it's in the app store and it's free. There's all different channels that video publishers are putting on there. Gary: You can find out more and sign up for a free account at mdialog.com. Until next time this is Gary Rosenzweig for MacMost Now.
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Glen Farmer
Nice video Gary.
I don't know what that guy was talking about but the girls behind him were hot.
Did you interview any of them,ha,ha.. | 's MacWorld Expo special, I look at mDialog, an easy way to get into video publishing on the web. So I often get asked if there's an easy way to get into video publishing on the web. And there are a lot of different free solutions out there. But there's one that's very Mac friendly and it's mDialog. I caught up with them at MacWorld Expo Greg: Hey I'm Greg Fieldberg from mDialog. I'm the founder and the president and we're here at MacWorld and I wanted to just talk to you a little bit about what mDialog is all about. So we're an online video delivery platform and we focus really hard at being good at four things: the publishing, the engagement, the distribution, and monetizing video content on the web. On the publishing side we're doing a couple of cool things. We'll release a Safari plug-in that will encode, describe and upload a video using QuickTime's MPG-4 H264 codec and what that will do is create three versions of your video: an iPhone optimized video, a web version and an HD version. And all of that gets delivered to the right devices because our systems know if it's an iPhone it's calling up the video. Or if it's a set-top box like Apple TV that'll get the HD version. On the engagement side, we've got announcements and some different things that we're doing here. We really believe that you've got to engage your audience. The web gives you a back channel so that you can have a dialogue with your audience. So to do that we've got a survey engine where you can hang surveys at the beginning or at the end of your video and poll or engage your audience. We also have something called the collaboration feature where you can let your audience submit videos into your channel. You can approve them or reject them and you're kind of outsourcing your video channel. As well we also just released a contest adder, which allows someone to create a contest or a film vessel embedded in your site using our embedded player. Your audience can sign up to the contest and can use our mLoader technology to encode and upload their short film for example and then they have the choice to allow the audience to vote in on that. So a few other collaboration features or engagement features that we have are grading, voting, send to a friend, email to a friend. On the distribution side we strongly believe that the video should follow the audience around, not the other way around. And so to do that we have the three screens, we have an iPhone app | 528 |
There are so many things to like about this story. It is well written, nicely edited, and engrossing from beginning to end. A Dangerous Secret turned out to be somewhat what I expected (from the description) and a<|fim_middle|> there are shades of the film Get Out, though not to the same extent as the movie.
As is obvious, I liked A Dangerous Secret. It took twists and turns that I hadn't expected, kept me fully engaged throughout, and gave me a new appreciation for this genre of mystery and suspense. | lot that I didn't.
The beginning finds Garry dealing with the loss of his mother. The grief he experiences is very true to life and expressed with great depth and understanding. What he learns just before she dies however, puts the wheels of the story into motion, and the search that continues from that day on.
I don't keep reading a novel very long if I don't in some way identify with, or have some empathy for, the main characters. That was not a problem in this story. Garry, his wife Delia (Deel), and their family (Cassie, Tom, Chris, Adam), are not only likable, but also very believable.
A Dangerous Secret is a well paced story, which gives just enough detail for each scene, without lingering too long either. It is as much a search for family, belonging, and understanding, as it is a mystery, genealogical exploration, and a wee bit of horror. Without giving anything away, | 199 |
After the hectic pace of<|fim_middle|> know we live in Wellington where NOTHING can ever be flat not even a fancy Italian cake? | the last few weeks, a cake and a pudding look like a doddle. Sure, it's a Genoise Sponge that looks like something in the window of a patisserie and the pudding has to spew molten chocolate from a perfectly formed outer crust, but compared to other lessons not too much can go wrong.
My risk radar is still pretty highly attuned. I have learnt much from my favourite pastime of making duck egg Victorian sponges. (I do also occasionally read books and watch documentaries on telly). Measurement is going to be critical, as is folding in the dry ingredients and melted butter – and what about the oven? We are all guilty of opening the oven door too often to check on our precious creations but it could be fatal in this class – but how to deal with it? I dislike the thought of sounding like a bossy old shrew in class so decide to raise it with Chef. Will it be important Chef, to keep the oven door closed? "Ah oui, yes, all cakes in the oven at the same time or you wait." Whew!
Another possible hurdle is the buttercream which will smother the cake. We're adding butter, and loads of it, to an Italian meringue. You add a hot syrup (116 degrees) to beaten egg whites and then mix in the butter. (This is not the type of icing we put on the chocolate and banana cakes we made as kids). And then, there's the decorating.
I know I can make a good cake but the fancy stuff often alludes me. I decide I am going to seriously take my time and maintain 100 percent concentration until the cake is safely delivered in all it's glory to Chef. I cut the cake in half. Perfect! I spread it liberally with jam and pipe on the creme chantilly. Perfect. I start on the buttercream. It's painfully slow but I get great satisfaction at how it looks. The flaked almonds cover every single millimeter of the sides. The buttercream on the top is smooth and rosettes aren't too bad at all. I am expecting Chef to be very impressed. He examines the cake closely, bends down to eye ball it and declares it is uneven. One side is slightly higher than the other – only ever so slightly, in fact until he pointed it out I hadn't noticed. The fact that the sponge and buttercream were perfect doesn't matter. It's about the whole package.
As for the pudding, after 11 and a half minutes cooking and two minutes resting the crust forms on the outside and when Chef cuts into it, the liquid goo spreads out across the plate to the strains of Ooh la la. And to top it all off it's a one tea towel day, meaning I was Miss Neat and Tidy. Now that's worth celebrating.
Ooh yum. To hell with the level I say. Doesn't he | 601 |
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BEAUTY IN THE BATHTUB
by Zac Sanford
Beasts of the Southern Wild takes us deep into the murky waters of the south, not within the safety net of the Louisiana levee system, but just on the other side, in a little commune known as the Bathtub. Here, the few residents celebrate all that life has to offer them, not confined to work nine-to-five, but to survive off the land, eating those animals that you've raised, spending time with friends and family, but ultimately, surviving even the worst of storms.
Wink (Dwight Henry) knows his time remaining on this planet is coming to an end, so he must take all he's learned in his years and pass it along to his daughter, Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis). Once he's gone, she'll have no one left to call family. Her mother has been gone for countless years, and there really isn't any explanation of what happened to her, other than she simply "swam away." Life is tough in the Bathtub, so Hushpuppy must learn to catch crawfish barehanded, survive on what little food she can find (even when it isn't meant for human consumption), and ultimately to survive.
Hushpuppy looks up to her father, and with great direction from first timer Benh Zeitlin, along with the superb camerawork of Ben Richardson, everything in the film hovers over her. The camera movement is free flowing, shot from the hip, as Beasts is a film from the point of view of our six-year old narrator. In less capable hands, and without the huge influence of Terrence Malick on Zeitlin, the film could easily fall into heavy melodrama as Wink and Hushpuppy are dealt a worse fate than any that came before.
Quvenzhane Wallis and Dwight Henry
When a flash-flood of epic proportions (similar in scope to that of Hurricane Katrina) slams into the Bathtub, Wink and Hushpuppy must hold on tight. Wink yells to his daughter over the pounding rain in the shack, stacked high above the ground to avoid being carried away by the waters. She must be strong; she must not get scared. The storm will pass, and once again, life will go on within the bayou. But this is no normal storm. The bathtub has been ravaged. Pets and animals that were meant to be food have all but vanished. The water is too polluted to drink, but somehow, our characters know they must be strong and continue living as a community.
The haunting images of the flooded bayou are enough to break any viewer's heart. The shacks that are homes to the locals have varying levels of damage. Even the local bar will be on short supply as no one will be coming in and out of the area for quite some time. So Wink and a couple cohorts decide to head on out to the levee, to find a way to release some of the pressure, allowing them to live a somewhat normal life, at least in their eyes.
Hushpuppy is once again left to survive on her own. This is her land and her people, and through her constant narration, she will do whatever it takes to find the way to a lighthouse where she feels her mother has been living. And if it isn't just to see her mother, it is also to escape the Aurochs, beasts formerly frozen in ice, but now free due to global warming, that are in route to the bathtub.
Beasts has been the buzz on the festival circuit since it premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. What this film lacks in stars, it more than makes up for in the visual imagery and the wonderful performances that easily catapulted it to win the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and the Caméra d'Or award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. One has to wonder why Fox Searchlight decided to release the film so early in the year. As it stands right now, it is easily the front-runner for many end-of-the-year top-ten lists and countless nominations for its cast and crew.
Most notably of all are the performances by first-time actors, Quvenzhane Wallis and Dwight Henry. Wallis was only five years old when she was cast from a local call of over 4,000 submissions. While most films with kid leads are sunk by their young actors, she shines and carries the film, filling the frame with such a force of emotion and heart. Dwight, a local baker in New Orleans, carries a heavy burden of impending death and of constant sorrow. It is amazing to think he and his costar had no previous training before being cast in the film. They both embody their characters, and it will be interesting to see if either of them are able to break through and have a career in their future. As of release, Dwight Henry will next be seen in Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave.
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Labels: Festival Award Winner, Fox Searchlight, Sundance
A DEEPER IMPACT
Hollywood has a long running fascination with the "end of the world" scenario, and as the clock ticks closer to the end of the Mayan calendar, a slate of films has hit the multiplexes exclaiming the "end is near." In Seeking a Friend For the End of the World, it isn't the CGI spectacle that drives the narrative, but the range of real emotions as the human race comes to its end.
And that end is just around the corner, three weeks to be exact, after an Armageddon-style mission to stop a doomsday asteroid fails. The clock is now ticking and it is too much for many to take. The first casualty is the marriage of Dodge (Steve Carell), as his wife bolts from the car, running into the night, never to be seen again. And this is the central question within the movie - with only a finite amount of time before you cease to exist, what would you do?
Dodge takes the high road. A man to never rest on his laurels, he still arrives to work daily, but won't take the newly vacated CFO position. He fills the 9 to 5 by answering calls at his insurance job, exclaiming that the pending disaster would not be covered under one's policy. But why go to work? To some, the normalcy is a way to keep your mind at a distance from the bleak future that is right around the corner. Or maybe as best exemplified by Dodge's housekeeper, there may be a bit of faith buried under the surface that things might not go as expected, or there's something better awaiting in the afterlife.
While the themes of the future and what could or couldn't happen aren't really explored within the context of the film, most of the characters Dodge comes across in the first act have a chance to live out every fantasy. There really aren't any repercussions when the end is near. Dodge's best, and it seems only friend, Warren (Rob Corddry), wants to make the best out of his last few days. It's time to smoke those Cubans and to teach his children to "drink through the burn" as they take their first alcoholic drinks. It is the party to end all parties; girls will sleep with any man,<|fim_middle|> truly lies for this whole mess, and they finally turn their guns on the right people.
God Bless America is currently playing in limited release, but is also available by Video on Demand.
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This is a film blog about "story." It is not about acting or directorial technique. There are plenty of other sources for those. For several years I have served on the review committees of film festivals, written constructive coverage for scriptwriters and provided post-production critique for filmmaker friends. I attend multiple film festivals on an annual basis, and I see many good films that have limited distribution to the general public. The only way to see them is at film festivals or by DVD from obscure sources, and for a few lucky ones, limited art house screenings. I'm often asked to recommend titles by friends and avid film goers I meet. I hope this blog will fill that need and help you find the American independent and foreign films with stories that speak to you. | including one of Patton Oswalt's stature, and since there's no time to worry about getting addicted, why not enjoy the heroin that someone brought to the party.
But Dodge doesn't want to try new things. He is a man who has lived a life of regrets, most notably letting the first love of his life get away from him. When he comes across a letter that has been in the possession of his neighbor, Penny (Keira Knightley), for an unknown amount of time, he makes it his mission to find a way to reunite with her one last time. Penny also has a life of regret. Instead of heading out on one of the last flights to be with her family in the UK, she decided to stay with her boyfriend (Adam Brody). When Penny gets in a final fight with her boyfriend, only Dodge is there to console her and says he can get her to a plane if she can drive him to find his lost love.
And that's when the movie shifts gears a little. Sure there's a couple more episodic bouts with doomsday preppers and overzealous cops, but the real heart in the story is trying to find that human bond and connection within a time of chaos. Lorene Scafaria, who previously wrote Nick and Norah'sInfinite Playlist, penned the script and is behind the camera for the first time. She perfectly maneuvers the change from an over-the-top comedy into a dramedy, and as the movie gets closer to the final moments before impact, the film goes into longer stretches without a comedic beat.
Keira Knightley and Steve Carell
The road trip aspects allow a real chemistry to be built between Carell and Knightley, considering so much screen time is filled with the two. Keira does a great job playing against type, while Steve doesn't bring too much new to the table. We've seen him play the affable guy who is a little down trodden. But somehow the bond is quickly built and believable between the two. And like any good rom-com, you hope and root that they'll end up together, but is the end of the world enough to send them in opposite directions? Or will they ultimately spend the last remaining seconds together, true friends in the end?
Seeking a Friend For the End of the World is a fun twist on the doomsday scenario. What it lacks in special effects in makes up in heart, hopefully making this a memorable film in the end.
Labels: End of the World, Fox Searchlight, Keira Knightley, Lorna Scafaria, Mayans, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Steve Carell
Best of 2011 Now on DVD
When Summer Blockbusters Don't Do It
by Mark Dispenza
The kids are out of school and the studios want their money... and yours. It's the season of the summer blockbuster.
Not wanting to leave money on the table, the larger distribution houses have picked up a few eagerly awaited indies for the summer, Beasts of the Southern Wild and Woody Allen's To Rome with Love among them, but we know it's never going to be enough to fill the void and satisfy the longing for good, adult stories. For those quiet times when the young people are out with their friends and the grand kids are back home from their visit, here are a few recent releases of outstanding indies from the last awards season.
Not only is The Artist a good film, but as a silent movie it's absolutely perfect for those who seek serious quiet time. You'll need to read the subtitles, but it's well worth the effort. This marvelously entertaining film won five Oscars, including Best Picture, and numerous other awards.
Scheduled for DVD release on June 19, this film is the best yet from brothers Jay and Mark Duplass. Like most of the other Duplass films, this one centers on a dysfunctional family and tells a wonderful story about finding the joys of life right in your own backyard.
Tilda Swinton deals with the unthinkable when her son becomes the perpetrator of a ripped-from-the-headlines mass murder at his high school. This film is particularly noteworthy both for Swinton's performance and its unique style of non-linear storytelling.
Tyrannosaur
Not for the squeamish, this film takes a hard look at the long-term consequences of uncontrolled rage and domestic violence. Amid the horror there is an unexpected and touching humanity that makes this film both satisfying and watchable.
Made in the Phillipines on a shoestring budget, John Sayles said this may be his last indie film. Let's hope not. The story takes place during the mostly unknown events of the Phillippine-American War. The players may look different, but in every war they're the same.
ALSO ON DVD
These are a few titles from last year that have been out on DVD for a while, but you may have missed them. Shame on you.
The Descendants - A terrific cast headlined by George Clooney plays family members who explore themes of life and death, love and loss, and the sacrifice of doing the right thing while their wife and mother lies comatose.
Midnight in Paris - Prepare for the upcoming theatrical release of To Rome with Love via a stopover in Paris for Woody Allen's most entertaining and highest grossing film ever. It may be a romantically self-indulgent view of Paris, but that's exactly the point in this wonderfully enjoyable film.
Attack the Block - You might be tricked into believing those grand kids are still around while listening to all the teen slang in this wonderful cross-genre mash-up from across the pond. Its theatrical release in the USA was on the same day as the big budget Cowboys & Aliens. By the time disappointed audiences turned away from that film, Attack the Block was already gone.
Drive - Last year I recommended that you add this film to your guilty pleasure list. Now you can watch it in the privacy of your own home... over and over again. It's a must-see for Ryan Gosling fans.
Submarine - A coming-of-age film for both teens and adults, it tells a wonderful story about sustaining love in a world where the pressures of life are always threatening to drive us apart.
The Double Hour - After plying the film festival circuit last year, this Italian noir thriller has finally been released to DVD in the USA. Your perception of reality will be challenged in this ground-breaking twist on an old genre.
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Lola Versus
Millennials Lost
On the cusp of turning thirty, all seems on the right track for Lola (Greta Gerwig), the titular character in Fox Searchlight's latest offering, Lola Versus.
Lola's been living with her boyfriend Luke (Joel Kinnaman) for long enough that he's finally ready to settle down. Isn't that typically what people in their thirties do if they haven't already? Besides her wonderful boyfriend and eclectic group of friends, Lola is working on her dissertation covering the topic of the "Silent Moments in French Cinema." What could actually go wrong?
Joel Kinnaman and Greta Gerwig
As Lola and her parents (played by Bill Pullman and Debra Winger in thankless and under-utilized roles) prepare for the upcoming nuptials, Luke comes down with a case of cold feet and calls off the wedding. Also, since Lola and Luke shared an apartment together, she must now find solace in a new locale as she continues a downward spiral of sexual encounters, alcohol and self-pity. But something about Gerwig's performance makes the sad state of affairs endearing, keeping the viewer locked in and along for the ride.
It also helps that Gerwig has wonderful actors to play against. Alice (Zoe Lister Jones, who co-wrote the script) is the best friend who is always just a phone call away. She's the ear for Lola to dump upon and always fires back with a witty response that isn't always helpful to her friend-in-need. Henry (Hamish Linklater), a close friend of Lola and an even closer friend to Luke, becomes another support system. There's always been somewhat of a spark between them, but based on the previous relationship, they've held back. One night when Lola can't be alone, she calls up Henry, who is more than happy to oblige sharing a bed with her for the night. The two must learn to balance their growing feelings for one another, considering Luke is still in both of their lives.
If all this sounds a little familiar, it might be the fact that the film doesn't break much new ground in the RomCom genre. The plot is razor thin and lately a typical episode of Girls on HBO will have more depth than the entire run time of Lola Versus. But the chemistry of Greta Gerwig and her close friends make this a more believable ensemble than those littered through the scripts penned by Lena Dunham. If only I could find the best of both programs and combine them into one movie or TV show, I'd be one happy viewer.
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Labels: Fox Searchlight, Greta Gerwig, Hamish Linklater, Joel Kinnaman, romantic comedy, Sundance, Zoe Lister Jones
Bobcat in Your Face
Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait continues to go where sane filmmakers fear to tread in God Bless America.
Better known as the stand-up comic with the high-pitched voice, as well as actor and cast member of the Policy Academy films, Goldthwait moved into a new career phase as an indie writer/director with Sleeping Dogs Lie in 2006. Like that film God Bless America comes from the deep, dark, guilty thoughts that may cross our minds in a moment of weakness, but we'd never actually act on. Goldthwait's protagonists do act on those thoughts.
Before I go any further, I have to warn you that you will be offended by this film. I don't mean you'll be offended if you're particularly sensitive or if you feel Goldthwait takes too many liberties exploring the dark recesses of the human mind. I mean you will be offended - period - because that's what Goldthwait does. He reaches into your psyche, grabs onto that terrible fantasy that crosses your mind on the rare occasion, and then he slaps you in the face with it in a humiliating, public way.
That experience is going to be a bit much for many people. Frankly I found Sleeping Dogs Lie to be so offensive to my sensibilities, I never want to see it again. While I felt he went too far in that case and I didn't get the relevance of it, I feel like he's getting his sea legs with God Bless America. This latest film is a cornucopia of visual comedy and timely social commentary. It was well-received by the audience at its SXSW US premiere.
Frank, played by Joel Murray, is an average, working class, lonely, divorced man who is beaten down by the pointless drudgery of his life. He fantasizes about taking a gun and blowing away his rude, noisy neighbors and his obnoxious coworkers, but of course, he'd never actually act on those thoughts. Then one day he is diagnosed with a terminal illness and he gets fired from his job. His young daughter, who lives with his ex-wife and her new fiance in another city, tells him that she doesn't want to visit him anymore because he's boring and there's nothing to do at his home.
Frank turns on the television and watches a young man with no talent whatsoever be humiliated on the highly-rated American Superstarz, an American Idol-type talent show. In complete despair he takes his gun and sticks it in his mouth, but before he pulls the trigger he sees another reality star on the screen. Chloe (Maddie Hasson) is the spoiled, petulant teen star of her own reality series. She's unbearably obnoxious and prone to go off on temper tantrums at the smallest inconvenience. Realizing that she's the role model for his own spoiled daughter, Frank decides to perform a service and do away with her before taking his own life.
As he does the deed, he encounters Roxy, a high-strung 16-year-old classmate of Chloe's. Roxy, played by Tara Lynne Barr, sticks to him like glue and convinces him to continue the work he started with Chloe, because there are a lot more obnoxious people out there who deserve to die. From there the oddly matched Bonnie & Clyde embark on a road trip of murder and mayhem as they dispatch mean-spirited cable talk show hosts who spread fear to get ratings, reality show stars, and just plain rude people one after another.
Tara Lynne Barr and Joel Murray
With her cute young girl style, bangs and pigtails, Barr perfectly encapsulates the YouTube generation of corrupted innocence. While on the surface she's the modern teen who'll do anything for a rush, Roxy's awakening adult mind knows that there's something very wrong with the society she's forced to live in. I'm sure we'll be seeing Barr in a lot more roles after this.
One of Goldthwait's strengths as a director is his ability to present the absurdity of society gone bad with effective, if not somewhat over-the-top, visuals. In one early scene Frank discusses the previous night's episode of American Superstarz with a coworker. Like the rest of his office mates, this one can talk about nothing else except the terrific entertainment provided by the episode's humiliation of a talent-deprived young man put on public display.
Frank launches into a monologue in which he perfectly unmasks the mean-spirited nature and mental masturbation inherent in that type of entertainment. As he delivers his perfectly crafted and sensible argument, other coworkers stop their own conversations and begin to listen - with abject horror on their faces, as if Frank has just engaged in an act of cannibalism right in front of them. It's a great scene illustrating the absurdity of a world in which right and wrong, good judgement and stupidity have somehow swapped places.
This is not a perfect film by any means. Although Goldthwait the writer/director appears to be growing and getting better, the film's most glaring weakness is that he succumbs to the temptation of preaching to the audience. The point he is trying to make is so clear from the story itself, that this tendency to stall the movie while we listen to Frank discourse about the "bread and circuses" decline of our society detracts from the experience. I kept wanting to say, "Okay, okay, Bobcat, we get it. Move on!" I have to share with you what Indie Film Guru co-contributor, Zac, said when I told him I would be posting this film: "I liked the concept, but ultimately it felt like a long speech over the course of 90 minutes." That pretty much sums it up.
Despite it's weaknesses, I have to recommend this film for what's good about it. It's offensive and funny at the same time, the visuals are smart, and the casting is perfect. If you see this film and are rightly horrified, perhaps you'll think I need counseling, That may be, or perhaps in a world where the concepts of decency and good sense have been turned upside down, I'm on to something here.
Fortunately Goldthwait delivers the coup de gras in the climax of the film without excessive preaching. After infiltrating the season finale of American Superstarz, Frank and Roxy realize where the fault | 3,225 |
What's the difference between a Muslim extremist and Samson in Judges 16:28-30? Why God gave him his strength back while Samson wanted to avenge HIS two eyes (and not the honour of God)?
That means that the contest<|fim_middle|> it wasn't altogether absent in Samson's thoughts. This OT hero of faith wasn't without some glaring faults. They are not to be glossed over but it only magnifies the grace of God also evident in his life. | here wasn't between the Philistines and Samson but between Dagon and Jehovah! We tend to forget this ceaseless wrestle through the history of time.
Samson in this setting comes to his last and probably his most courageous act as judge of the nation of Israel. He sacrificed himself for a nation that has basically abandoned him. In that sacrifice he took down the "top brass" of the Philistines as they had all gathered there in temple of Dagon. By that 'military self-strike' he crippled the nation of the Philistines for decades to come and in that way paved the way for their eventual overthrow under leadership of king David.
Did he commit suicide? No, I don't think we should look upon his sacrifice as a revenge act or a suicide exit from the misery he was in. It appears that 'revenge' was a motive (see vs. 29b) and maybe | 188 |
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Daniel Sherbert, M.D., F.A.C.S., of West Maple Plastic Surgery in West Bloomfield, MI, considers himself a healthy mix of surgeon, artist and collaborator. First and foremost, though, he is a highly trained surgeon. Sherbert, who grew up outside Kalamazoo, MI, spent most of the 1980s and early '90s learning and perfecting<|fim_middle|>s, liposuction, and abdominoplasty. Sherbert has also trained in the latest techniques of ultrasonic-assisted liposuction and carbon dioxide laser skin resurfacing. He views his doctor-patient relationships as honest, collaborative efforts. This means Sherbert takes special care to understand each patient's goals - and in return he educates them about the feasibility of meeting those expectations. "This is an odyssey that we both go through," he says. After the decision to proceed, "The only thing you are limited by in plastic surgery is your ingenuity," he says.
Because of his expertise (only one other surgeon in the Detroit area has studied with Hartrampf) - Sherbert is in demand. He performs reconstructions out of two local hospitals. His cosmetic surgical procedures are performed at the cosmetic surgical center at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak. Sherbert sees about 700 new patients a year and completes about 100 to 125 breast reconstructions annually. That says a lot about customer satisfaction. Nearly all of his work comes from referrals.
Sherbert has served the metro Detroit area since the beginning of 1994. Although his practice has kept him busy, he spends plenty of off-hours time with his wife, Beth and his children, Griffin, Evan, and Hannah.
Our office is located in West Bloomfield on W Maple Rd West of Orchard Lake Rd. | his craft. He went to Michigan State University as an undergraduate and followed that with training in general and plastic surgery at Providence Hospital in Southfield, MI. He capped his schooling off in 1994 with a six-month fellowship with Dr. Carl Hartrampf of St. Joseph Hospital in Atlanta, GA. Hartrampf was a pioneer in breast reconstruction. In 1981, Hartrampf took tissue removed in an abdominoplasty - a "tummy tuck" - and used it to create a new, living breast. Before that, an implant was the only available choice. Sherbert was intrigued with Hartrampf's work. "It completely revolutionized breast reconstruction," he says. Now, Sherbert says, this method is the "gold standard" for breast reconstruction surgery. The experience with Hartrampf led to Sherbert's finesse as a sub-specialist in the field. Emotionally, "I've always found that breast cancer was one of the most devastating diseases," says Sherbert. "Not only to the patient, but to the family."
He was attracted to reconstruction, he says, because "You can truly add a bit of wholeness back to the patient." With what Sherbert modestly terms a simple act of surgery, his experience has shown that reconstruction can completely change a patient's outlook on her diagnosis and its treatment - as well as her life and personal relationships. "The simple act of doing an operation can really restore more than a breast," he says. "We're restoring a human being again." The notion of restoration - physical and psychological - is woven throughout Sherbert's work.
He enjoys the challenge of reconstruction. In order to match a new breast with its mate, many elements of cosmetic breast surgery - including reduction, augmentation, and resuspension - can come into play. Sherbert combines these skills, along with his own creativity, to lend a natural, "unoperated" look. And since each person's anatomy is different, each patient poses a unique assignment.
Approximately 60 percent of his practice includes cosmetic breast work and breast reconstruction. He is also accomplished and enjoys other facets of plastic surgery - including facelifts, eye-lift | 459 |
As you all know my friend Mike was hospitalized with Gu<|fim_middle|> Powerball winnings.
I'd like to believe that God is concerned with more important things.
James in the second reading is fairly straightforward about our covetous natures.
We're always wanting something, someone.
Whatever we have, never seems enough, or exactly right.
And it's not just that we should be satisfied with what we have.
The poor should not be satisfied with misery.
The sinner should not be satisfied with sin.
It's a matter of settling on the right things to desire.
The apostles of course begin thinking that linking up with Jesus could be like winning the lottery.
–what it was going to be like when their best friend became king.
These were not bad men, but even good people can want the wrong things.
This week, just for a week, maybe we can focus on winning a different kind of lottery. | illian Barre for three months.
Especially at the beginning, things did not look good.
My friend Vicki and I who were caring for him began buying lottery tickets.
Our logic: It looked like Mike would need a lot of expensive care forever.
how we would apportion it, what we would be able to do for him with it.
to make our own lives easier. Vicki wanted a new car.
Well, then the jackpot grew larger and larger and larger, and Mike got better and better.
We still bought the lottery tickets, but our conversations turned to fairly extravagant lifestyles.
–in case God was listening.
We never won the Powerball.
Did God overhear our conversations?
Did God judge our greed?
I'm not sure God had anything to do with | 156 |
Grand Theft Auto, video game created<|fim_middle|>. Jackson to provide voice cameos for the game.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Michael Ray, Associate Editor.
Article Title: Grand Theft Auto
URL: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Grand-Theft-Auto-video-game | by the American company Rockstar Games and published in 1997 and 1998 by the American Softworks Corporation (ASC Games) for play on video game consoles and personal computers. After an immensely popular debut, Grand Theft Auto went on to generate multiple sequels and expansions, including Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004), and the critically lauded Grand Theft Auto IV (2008).
In the Grand Theft Auto series, gamers control criminals and attempt to increase their standing by completing missions in various virtual cities. The first game of the series offered a simple bird's-eye perspective of the landscape from which the gamer could view and engage in carjacking, robberies, gun fights, and other forms of delinquency. Approaching a vehicle and removing the driver allows the player to take control of the vehicle, change the radio stations, and wreak as much havoc as necessary to complete the objectives. Later games in the series offered improved graphics and different modes of play. Strategically placed video clips develop the story line, giving each title its own distinct narrative and characters. The ability to move about the cities freely—combined with intricate and challenging levels—made Grand Theft Auto one of the most innovative and popular gaming titles of the late 1990s.
David Jones, the Scottish designer of Grand Theft Auto, also designed the successful Lemmings video game series in 1991, and his decision to help create the long-running Grand Theft Auto series proved financially wise, considering its tremendous popularity among many gamers. Grand Theft Auto's unique style and appealing game play helped convince celebrities such as singer Phil Collins and actors Burt Reynolds and Samuel L | 354 |
We all love to have a good party, don't we? And personally, I love all the prepping and planning that goes into a party – be it a garden party or a wedding party or a children's party. I also love to make things for our parties and I love co-ordinating everything too. This is where our Shabby Chic party decorations come in- we customised some old tin<|fim_middle|> by peeling off all the paper from your can – if it helps soak the can and scrub it off. Let dry fully.
2) Paint in your desired colour. We actually made a set in purple (enamel) and white (acrylic). The lighter colours DO work better for the decoupage. If you are using darker colours, you may want to use cuttings from magazines, as napkins will go a little see through once the decoupage glue is applied.
3) Cut out your patterns. On the whole smaller patterns work better (I think). Also look at the smaller details of your napkins are there other parts you can use? We used the boarder of or napkin to create a border for our tin!
4) Add a layer of decoupage glue and then gently place your cut out on top. Using your brush, gently press it down – going from one side (top to bottom or left to right) to gently push out any air bubbles. You want to make sure that the whole area under your cut out has glue. Once you're happy, add a SECOND layer of glue over the top to "seal" your napkin. Remember, this is Shabby Chic, so you don't have to get a perfect finish. If you have a wrinkle here or there, it is fine, no one is going to notice.
Also – if you want your cans to be fully waterproof (on the outside, the inside WILL be waterproof), add a layer of waterproof varnish.
Note: "normal" napkin decoupage only uses ONE layer of napkin (check out these Easter Eggs), using one layer, will result in some moresee-through-ness, which may not be the desired colour or effect you want. For these tins, where the finish doesn't have to perfect, I actually used the whole napkin and didn't separate any layers off. I made sure I applied enough glue to soak through the whole napkin and seal it in place.
Here we had a go with purple and yellow flowers. It does work, but I think if the can had been any darker, we wouldn't have been successful! Experiment!!! | cans to match some of our other party decor. We used our selected party napkins as decorations to turn "old junk" into something pretty and new. Perfect.
Enamel paints will be more waterproof and I think will last longer, however, you are likely to have to "order them in especially" and lighter colours (e.g. white often need 2 coats of paint).
Acrylic paints are readily available, however they are water based, so if you want these shabby chic tins to be waterproof on the outside (e.g. if you are leaving them in the garden), acrylic paint is not so great.
Also, if you want the cans to stay outdoors, you will have to get WATERPROOF decoupage glue or get some waterproof varnish to finish them all off!
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"Is That You John Wayne? Is This Me?" – Problems of Identity in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket
Rahul Hamid
Sunken Film: Bill Morrison Talks The Village Detective: a song cycle
Rocha, Glauber
Bridges and Streams: the 7th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival
City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination edited by Murray Pomerance
The Colour of Pomegranates
Floundering for some way to describe obtuse or complex art, critics often rely on the adjective "poetic". It can come to mean nearly anything in this context and the word loses any descriptive power. In The Colour of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova), the late Soviet director, Sergei Paradjanov, makes an earnest attempt to fuse poetry and film by seriously exploring the poetic potential of the cinema. This deliriously beautiful film is made up of autonomous, resonant images that – like lines of poetry –stay in the mind long after the film has run its course. The Colour of Pomegranates seems to resist<|fim_middle|> traditional, illusionist spell of the cinema, betraying Paradjanov's playful sense of humour. Ultimately, The Colour of Pomegranates is a heady mixture of styles and ideas, both archaic and modernist. It is this iconoclastic director's masterpiece and must be enjoyed with all of one's senses.
Galia Ackerman, "Introduction", Sergei Paradjanov, Seven Visions, trans. Guy Bennett, Green Integer, Los Angeles, 1998.
Charles Dowsett, Sayat'-Nova, An 18th-Century Troubadour: A Biographical And Literary Study, Peeters Publishers, Leuven, 1996.
The director states this in the documentary Paradjanov: A Requiem (Ron Holloway, 1994) included as an "extra" on the Kino International DVD release (2001) of The Colour of Pomegranates.
The Colour of Pomegranates/Sayat Nova (1968 USSR 79 mins)
Prod Co: Armenfilm Studios Dir: Sergei Paradjanov Scr: Sergei Paradjanov, based on the poems by Sayat-Nova Phot: Suren Shakhbazyan Prod Des: Stepan Andranikyan Ed: Sergei Paradjanov, M. Ponomarenko Mus: Tigran Mansuryan
Cast: Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan, Giorgi Gegechkori, Spartak Bagashvili, Medea Djaparidze
The Steamroller and the Violin
Andrei Roublev
Rahul Hamid teaches film at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study and is an editor at Cineaste Magazine.
1969: The Colour of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov) | or even defy explanation. With that in mind, I would like to simply present a few lenses through which the film can be viewed, rather than impose an interpretation that might reduce, confine, or minimise the dazzling experience of this lovely film.
A Georgian-born Armenian, Paradjanov (1924-1989) was one of the most controversial directors of the Soviet era. He was jailed for nearly five years on suspicions of homosexuality, illegal trading in antiques, and incitement to suicide, among other vague charges. After making a few documentaries and features in a roughly Socialist Realist idiom, Paradjanov came into his own style in 1964 when he made Tini zabutykh predkiv/Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, a dream-like film that combines expressionistic camera techniques, ethnography, and the logic of folktales. The film was released to great international acclaim, and is credited with founding the new "pictorial school" of '60s Soviet cinema. At home, however, the film was attacked by the authorities for what was interpreted as a prioritisation of aesthetics over ideology, and was subsequently banned. Chastened, Paradjanov left the rigid confines of Moscow and Kiev for his ancestral home, Armenia, to make The Colour of Pomegranates in the same vein as Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. But even there, he faced constant harassment by government officials, and was denied basic filmmaking equipment, lighting, and adequate film stock. Disgusted with the experience, he wrote to the director of the State Film Committee:
I was thirty-nine when a sad set of circumstances forced me to come to Erevan. I am now forty-two… It's hot. Peaches are two rubles a kilo. I'm suffocating in schemes and poorly ventilated hotel rooms, keeping company with cockroaches. I strongly urge that Sayat-Nova be banned and that I be sent back to Kiev. I am willing to abandon the cinema. (1)
His words were prophetic. The controversy over The Colour of Pomegranates instigated his trial and imprisonment, and he would be forbidden from making films for the next 15 years.
The film at the heart of all of this controversy is a biography of the Armenian troubadour-poet Aruthin Sayadian (1712-1795), who was known as Sayat-Nova. Born in the capital of Georgia, Tiblisi, Sayat-Nova began his career as a wool-dyer in his family's trade. Educated in literature by the Armenian Church, he composed hundreds of songs and poems and would rise to become a poet in the royal courts of Tiblisi and Telavi in Eastern Georgia. In his later life, after the death of his wife, Marmar, Sayat-Nova became a monk at the Haghpat monastery. He lived there until his death at the hands of the Persian army, when Agha Mohammed Khan sacked Armenia (2). His songs continue to be sung in the Caucasus today. While The Colour of Pomegranates avoids the typical formula for a biopic, all of these events are clearly depicted in a linear order.
Paradjanov has described the film as a series of Persian miniatures (3). The camera remains fixed in place, as in early cinema, while the director's mise en scène resembles a tableau-vivant, a mixture of theatre and painting. Rather than zooming or changing focal lengths, people and animals move closer and farther away from the camera, objects relating to each other in a two-dimensional manner. Each significant aspect of the poet's life is thus represented in these highly stylised, synthetic scenes: Sayat-Nova's work as a dyer; music lessons; and the burial of a Catholicos, an important Armenian Church father, for whom the poet wrote an elegy. Mirroring Sayat-Nova's lyric style, Paradjanov heightens the sensory details of the scenes: the sound of hot, wet, newly dyed wool hitting metal salvers, the squishy sound of grapes bursting underneath toes. Significant moments are repeated and replayed as in memory and verse, sometimes with slight variations to account for shifts in feeling and perspective. For example, the lace covering Marmar's mouth in the marriage scene changes from the white of innocence to the red of passion and the blackness of death and loss. Red in the form of dye, pomegranate juice and blood appears throughout the film, bearing the weight of metaphoric meanings, from love to the martyrdom of the Armenian people.
One of the "miniatures" replays the young Sayat-Nova's erotic awakening as he peers into a Turkish bath, where he glimpses nude male and female bodies. He sees a woman's chest and imagines one breast covered with a conch shell. From that point on, Paradjanov uses the shell to represent a breast, clearly visualising the metaphor. Similarly, in a quick tribute to Eisenstein's intellectual approach to montage, Paradjanov shows us the Catholicos buried with his staff, a symbol of his power – the casket is covered with the staff on top. In the following cut we see his tomb decorated with a stone carving of the staff. In a few short edits, the person and staff are joined. The man is transformed into myth through symbolic tribute and becomes a cult object of faith.
Paradjanov's style is punctuated by the blurring of the line between symbolic and ethnographic filmmaking. His love for the ethnic artefacts, costumes, and landscape of Armenia is obvious in every scene. Paradjanov despised the state imposition of Socialist Realism for destroying the artistic potential of his entire generation of filmmakers. Nevertheless, its influence can be seen in the film's commitment to the material reality of Armenian life. Even in his most carefully constructed, jewel-box-like scenes, sheep wander in and out of the frame. Characters also stare at the lens, breaking the | 1,240 |
This is<|fim_middle|> pass you by. Balance is key.
The journey is so much more important than the destination. My book has a working title of 'The idiots guide to getting a PhD – if I can, why can't you?'.
I accept that it can feel like we are walking in the valley of the shadow…however, we must never give up.🙏 It's worth it.
Previous Post What would you do if today was your last? | a quick F1 style pit stop to say I'm still on the PhD journey. I'm reading, writing, networking and learning something new at every step of the way.
I am learning that I have strengths that I never even knew I had in such abundance. Resilience, dedication, tenacity and passion to name a few.
Today was one of my treasured 'research days'. They are days that I have negotiated with my manager to focus on my research. It will never be enough, however, it is a start and is very much appreciated. Highlight of my day: My conference poster was accepted today!
I've received the link to the ethical approval application forms as well today! Oh dear!😳 This may take some time to decipher. Luckily, help is at hand. I have an ever growing network of peers on social networking media without who, I would have really struggled to remain motivated on this research journey.
As I tweeted earlier, doing a PhD can feel like hard labour, physically, mentally and every ally you can think of. I was reminded that it will be worth it. It most certainly will.
PhD students who are also employed deserve more than a medal. We need to have tea at Buckingham Palace! C'mon, give us as much incentive as possible.
You need to have emotional intelligence to survive a PhD. Know your trigger points. Know when to take breaks.
You need to have some level of self deprecation balanced against self-belief and self-confidence. Don't take yourself too seriously.
Oh yes, humour is vital. You must be able to laugh out loud or you'll cry silently.
As my friend and colleague said to me in the corridor earlier this week. Life gets in the way of doing your PhD. We laughed for a minute and carried on with our duties. It is so true though. You still have to live when doing a PhD. You can't let life | 388 |
The first chapter of this dissertation analyzes the necessary and sufficient conditions for stability under recurring structural changes. Using a<|fim_middle|>ness of this result. Furthermore, to illustrate this outcome I develop empirical results for a model similar to Cagan's 1956 work on hyperinflation for Germany and the United States. I find that during the time of active currency market intervention, monetary policy was not mean-square stable for both the U.S. and Germany.
In the second chapter, I analyze if economic agents could have learned the policy decisions of the Plaza and Louvre accords. New techniques in Markov switching Adaptive Learning models (MSAL), shows that economic agents would not have learned the rational expectations outcomes of exchange rate interventions and therefore contributed to exchange rate overshooting and excess volatility during this time. These finding help to explain why forecasts of short-term exchange rates have historically been poor while long-run forecasts do much better at matching the data.
The third chapter analyzes empirical data from the forward exchange rate premium to interpret the puzzle, made famous by Fama, using Markov Switching Adaptive Learning (MSAL) techniques. This chapter addresses the need for using Mean-Square Stability as the criterion for stability rather than traditional stability conditions. Moreover this chapter observes the possibility for a self-referential solution to occur under specific conditions similar to what is found empirically. Furthermore, this chapter is able to replicate the results typically found during the analysis using a Markov-switching constant gain model, indicating that economic agents may posses some form of bounded rationality or information asymmetry which produces the observed bias. A central tenant of this chapter is that agents facing a regime which tend to produce the forward premium bias present in most empirical applications even in the face of highly persistent fundamentals.
Reed, Jason Robert, "Essays In Adaptive Learning And Mean-Square Stability In Regime Switching Models" (2015). Wayne State University Dissertations. 1363. | finite state Markov process to model stochastically evolving, state-dependent parameters I find that by employing the conditions unique to mean-square stability, the minimum state variable (MSV) solution, found in non-linear models of this reduced form, is also stable in the learning sense. However, the choice of parameter values limits the robust | 66 |
Laxdale Bunkhouse is contained within Laxdale Holiday Park which is a small family-run park set in peaceful tree-lined surroundings. Located 1.5 miles away from the town of Stornoway this is an ideal centre from which to tour the islands of Lewis and Harris. Built in 1998, the bunkhouse has four bedrooms with four bunks in each room and caters for backpackers, families or groups looking for convenient, low cost accommodation. There is a drying room, a spacious fully equipped dining kitchen which provides two cookers, fridge and microwave and a comfortable<|fim_middle|>aving metropolis. You'll find all the facilities you need here as well as serving as a launch pad for exploring the amazing island.
Lewis has always had a distinctive personality and a history to match. As you explore the island you'll find its blackhouses – robust low slung crofts; standing stones; Iron age buildings; Viking chessmen; will let you dream a landscape of tough challenges and tough people. It is a landscape worth enjoying in its own right too. From perfect sandy beaches to the peat bogs of the centre and the dramatic rocky coastline, there are all kinds of enchanting corners to discover.
Laxdale Bunkhouse is part of Laxdale Holiday Parkin peaceful tree-lined surroundings. Its is a purpose built bunkhouse, for backpackers and families – but especially having wheelchair accessible facilites. Some rather cool glamping 'Wigwams' were added in 2014, the same year that Lewis and Harris were named as the best island destination in the world by trip adviser. At the time of going to press, we cannot confirm that these facts are linked. A mile and a half from Stornoway, and even less to the sea, its a great place to explore the islands from.
Any picture, map or photograph of these islands pulls at me and urges me to visit. If you glance at a map of the area, you'll see its a patchwork of about a million small lochs, pale sanded beaches and rugged hills. It has been described as an 'unreal landscape'. It is certainly the stuff of legends and wonder. A visitor from mainland Britain feels the unfamiliarity of the islands as a magical strangeness.
I might book myself a room right now. | TV lounge in which to relax. Toilets and showers are located within the building and are suitable for the disabled. Outside there is a covered veranda, picnic table and BBQ area. Sole use booking of the bunkhouse is available or you can book a room for your own use or book by the bed. Wigwams were a new addition in 2014. This accommodation is featured on our map of West coast of Scotland, Skye and the Hebrides and here is its own website.
March to Nov. 9am - 10pm.
£18 adult, £16 child, £65 room (3 or less people) £250 sole use.
July and August booking advisable one week in advance.
From Stornoway ferry terminal take the A857. Take the second turning on the left past the hospital. Follow camping signs for one mile out of town. The bunkhouse is located inside the holiday park. From Tarbert or Leverburgh take A859 for 40 miles to Stornoway. Turn left at the roundabout and 2nd left after hospital then as above.
Buses every 30 mins stop close to hostel. Taxi fare from town centre approximately £5.00.
This accommodation is by the sea, is available to individuals and is on the The Hebridean Way and the Skye and the Hebrides map.
Lewis is steeped in history and has a timeless island culture.
The Isle of Lewis is an outer Hebrides island off the west coast of Scotland. It's rather an unusual island in that it is joined very solidly to the Isle of Harris, with the only border between them being a narrowing of land between two sea lochs. It is the landscape which distinguish Lewis and Harris most, Harris being mountainous and Lewis being flat and low lying, except for Ben More in the south east. Lewis is steeped in history and has a timeless island culture. There are ancient stone circles including the massive Callanish Stones and Gaelic is commonly spoken alongside English with a soft Scottish lilt. As you travel over the flat lands of Lewis you will see sea Otters in the many lochs that intersperse the heathy landscape. Empty white beaches with seals, sea lions are often in view. Locals can still be seen cutting the peats and will easily stop for a chat. The distrintive earthy smell of the peat fires drifts in the wind in winter. Come and visit the treasures of Lewis and stay at Laxdale Bunkhouse on Laxdale Holiday Park, just outside the islands main town and port at Stornoway.
The modern and attractive bunkhouses on Laxdale Holiday Park, Stornoway, are wonderfully self-contained and ideal for families. Coloured brick-red and with a veranda overhanging, they might be mistaken for a classic American mid-western barn. They're split into 4 bedrooms of four bunks; shared toilets and showers; and a communal dining kitchen. So you've got all the charm of camp site, with the conveniences of self-catering and the communality of a bunkhouse.
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We went to sign papers and get our pictures taken for our residency cards. They take a month to arrive so I've currently got the paper copy to carry around in case anyone stops me to ask for it. So now I'm allowed to stay here, woo hoo!
But speaking of staying here, one of my friends decided to go home. We all love her and support her decision, because it's her life and she knows what is best for her, but it's still sad because I thought she was pretty awesome and I'm going to miss her. She lives in another village but I wanted to get to see her before she left, so I went to her village with another girl. We left our friends at a reasonable time (we thought) hoping to catch a bus home, but they never came.. And no taxis would stop for us.. So as we're holding our arms out to try to flag down a bus/cab, a random guy stops and asks us where we were going, we tell him, and he tells us to get in. So we can now cross hitch-hiking off our lists, though I<|fim_middle|> wine hanging out waiting to be ready for drinking, and wine collections of famous people.. Putin's wine right across from John Kerry's, just chillin'. Literally chilling; it's kind of cold underground where they keep the wine. We didn't get to actually have any wine, but it was fun to get the tour!
Then Olivia and I decided we wanted to go to Chișinău to see some of our friends (the education people don't get sworn in on the same day, because they have practice school to do and other stuff I don't know about, maybe). Our driver said he was going there, so we just asked if we could stay on his bus. He said, sure, of course! But do you mind if we go to the car wash first? We didn't mind, so we went to the car wash where some young guys washed the rutiera while we sat inside. The driver came back in and tried to communicate to us that one of the boys wanted Olivia's phone number.. We still don't know if it was the driver or the boy that decided he wanted her number, but she gave it to him because there had been so much discussion and attempted translation that she pretty much had to at that point. We left the car wash and the driver called his sister who speaks English so he could ask us where we wanted to go.. He could have asked us in Romanian but I don't think he thought we knew anything. Little does he know, Olivia and I rock at Romanian. Desigur. I have no idea where he was going (I assumed he'd pick up other passengers, but nope) but he took us to some place and got out of the rutiera to flag another one down for us that would take us where we wanted to go. He talked to the driver and told him that we were American and wanted to go to this certain street. We now have Igor's phone number and are to call him if we have any problems. So that's cool. And strange. He was very nice, but only wanted to talk to Olivia, so I asserted myself and answered all his questions and told him my name too. He can have two American friends. So there.
Upcoming in my Moldovan life: I have my final language evaluation on Tuesday, swearing-in as a volunteer on Wednesday, and then Wednesday I move to Căplani. SO CRAZY! | don't think it was on there to begin with. He stopped the car and turned it off just on the outskirts of our village and he turned back to look at me (we were both in the backseat, of course) so I thought he wanted me to get out, which I did, not knowing that the reason he had stopped was because he had gotten pulled over by the police. My friend and I just started walking and no one told us to stop, so we just walked the rest of the way home (Which was good, because remember a second ago when I mentioned that paper copy of our residency cards we're supposed to carry? My friend didn't have hers). We survived our first hitch-hike, admittedly probably not our last, because this is Moldova and we can't drive.
The next day we had school and technical training, and Naomi was planning to come to my house after to hang out and use my Internet, so we get there and there is a big masă and relatives I'd never seen (probably the reason for the masă). I gather that they are visiting from Italy. There was really good cake that I had then and for breakfast the next day, so I hope that didn't come from Italy so I can have it again. We had shots of probably 3 different liquors, all sorts of food, and we sat there and talked forever, all in Romanian.. Naomi and I didn't contribute a whole lot to the conversation but we tried and I did understand most of it, so that was good!
Thursday was our last hub site day in Chișinău. After that, two of the mentors went out for pizza with us, which was fun! I stayed up way too late (100% due to my procrastinating) preparing for my interview with the Country Director the next day. There were questions we had to answer and send to her, along with a kind of statement of intent.. Which of course I'm not sure if I did exactly correctly, so I hope it's not a dealbreaker one way or the other. I spoke with her at hub site and told her to be prepared for me to cry during the interview. Half of my statement was talking about how much I cry and how it's okay and that she shouldn't worry, because I'm going to do it whether I'm here or not.
It came time for my interview. I walked into the room, Kleenex pack in my back pocket, fully ready to have to talk about my future in Moldova (for some reason I assume I'm going to cry about this).. And then we have a great conversation and it's over and I haven't cried. My entire group was shocked.
Yesterday after language, our teachers all came with us to Cricova, which is a winery just down the road. It's got the Guinness record for largest underground wine cellar in the world, which we drove around in. It's so big that there are street names for underground. We saw tasting rooms, huge barrels of wine, rows and rows of sparkling | 625 |
I'm back from India and have everything and nothing to say. Do you ever feel like that? Caught in between two extremes? This was my fourth trip to India and I'm often asked why I continue journeying to this amazing land. I am drawn to the extremes and the lessons of surrender they bring. My life in America is pretty balanced and I feel like I have control over things for the most part; my temperature, my diet, transportation, water temperature, water availability, knowing I can find a bathroom - simple things, right? Things we take for granted.
I think I go to India every year to continually wake myself up. My trips are rooted in spirituality, so my experiences in India most definitely reground my heart and soul. But with every trip, I reenergize my senses. The days are thick with new smells, tastes, sounds, sights, and new things to touch. I return home to New York with new eyes, new ears, new taste buds…I feel like who I am, the real me, gets fortified. I strengthen my resolve.
In India, there is a constant subtle chaos that seemingly creates extreme circumstances. Water heaters either provide scalding water for your shower or liquid ice cubes pour from the faucet. The middle ground of warm is hard to come by. I am lucky that I travel with groups (shout out to Yogamaya New York!) that strive to provide us with the optimal circumstances, (this year, 3 out of 5 of our hotel accommodations were converted palaces!) But even with their best efforts, the extremes show their faces, and we are left to surrender to whatever conditions are available. And this is what I love – not getting comfortable or complacent. Really appreciating what is offered despite it not being our ideal situation or what we're used to.
When I step out of my comfort zone, my senses are heightened. I am more aware of my surroundings, and I feel like I'm living on a higher frequency. Colors are more vibrant, smells are more intoxicating, food tastes extra sweet, extra spicy, extra sour, extra savory, and the sounds of constant horns blowing, temple bells ringing, and street vendors bellowing act as a musical soundtrack that I've come to expect and love. I always feel like I am an extra on the set of some exotic movie when I am in India. And like any actor, whether a supporting character or the lead, our job is to stay fully present.
My teacher Dhanurdhara Swami, whom I always see during these trips when we go to Vrindavan, teaches that only black and white exist, they are the absolutes. The color gray is just an illusion. The sand under our feet may look gray, but our mind creates this color when we see specks of black sand next to specks of white sand. These absolutes of color are also extremes. What other times<|fim_middle|> be grateful for what I have, to make the best of situations, to feel things more intensely. They remind me not to coast, to keep my eyes and ears open. More importantly, to keep my mind and my heart open.
You don't have to travel to India to find the extremes of life, or to learn their lessons. We are smacked daily with feelings of abundance/depletion, experiences of racism/acceptance, feeling loved/unloved, or greeted with success/failure. These absolutes can be overwhelming. So what to do? We temper the circumstances the best we can. Adjust. Look for balance, the illusion of gray. These seem like absolutes, like whatever is happening is locked into being black or white, right?
When I am faced with extreme circumstances, I try to ask myself 'who am I' despite what is going on around me. Dhanurdhara Swami also taught me that our essence is 'that quality which cannot be changed.' Wherever I go - India, home to Missouri, back to New York City - life will always hand me something different. Whether I rue or marvel at what I'm facing, I must greet it with my truest self. My essence, my core, the part of me that cannot be changed.
This lassi also came in only two flavors, not a mango in sight, simply SWEET and SALTY. Such a metaphor for India – and life! I chose sweet.
Bliss. Ambrosia. Divine nectar. It was the best lassi in all of India.
This is my humble effort to recreate what I tasted. Pretend you're in India, drinking an exotic smoothie!
In an electric blender, smooth out the yogurt with a little bit of milk, blending for one minute. Add the remaining milk and honey. Blend for one minute. Add the ice cubes and blend for one minute. Add the saffron and cardamom and blend for 30 seconds until frothy. Pour into 2 glasses and garnish with the chopped pistachios. | in our lives do we take extremes and temper them to create something new? Yes, ideally, hot + cold = warm. In India, at bath time you often fill a bucket of the scalding water and let it cool and then take a 'bucket shower.' The hot spice of a dish can be calmed with yogurt. In New York, I go to concerts and wear earplugs. They don't mute sound, but they muffle the hard edges and soften the sound, and actually allow me to hear the music better. When I travel in India I often wear earplugs to soften the sounds around me.
These extremes, more than anything, deepen my experience of life. They remind me to | 144 |
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Super Sad Robot Sex: Cherry 2000
Mason Johnson
Like Enemy Mine, a movie that sought philosophical answers about warfare, and Alien Nation, an allegory for America's treatment of immigrants, Cherry 2000 asks difficult and introspective questions about the human race. Well, mostly one question, actually: Would you stick it in a robot.
Please don't make me tell you what "it" is.
Made by Orion Pictures, Cherry 2000 got shelved after it was finished in 1985 because Orion just wasn't doing too hot financially. Even 1986's monstrous success Back To School (RIP, Rodney) couldn't help the company collect enough cash to release this… thing. It took the success of 1987's RoboCop to finally allow Cherry 2000 to have a very, very, very limited theatrical release in 1987 before being released on VHS in 1988.
Thanks, RoboCop! I guess…
Cherry 2000's main character is Sam, who's played by David Andrews, an actor who has been in plenty of films you've seen, but in parts you probably don't remember (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Apollo 13, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, World War Z…). After Sam arrives to his 2017 home, where everything is just as you would expect the future to be (very round and very plastic), he starts to get his sexy on with his beautiful homemaker wife, Cherry. And by sexy, I mean weird. Sam seems to have some sort of cleanliness fetish. As they start making out, Sam doesn't seem bothered by the fact that Cherry's wearing those big, yellow rubber gloves you use when you clean the dishes, touching the side of his face as their lips tango (they thought of their rubber texture creeps me out). When Sam's futuristic dishwasher (which looks like an oldschool hairdryer over their sink) starts to overflow, covering their kitchen floor in bubbly water, Sam doesn't freak out. Instead, he rolls around in the bubbles with Cherry as they continue their foreplay.
What spontaneity!
Sadly, their lovemaking ends short after Cherry freezes up. Literally. As it turns out — SURPRISE! — Cherry's a robot and the water and bubbles have apparently fried her circuits.
So now not only does Sam need a new dishwasher (one that doesn't explode bubbles everywhere) and possibly a new floor (water damage sucks, man), but he also needs a new goddamn subservient sex robot that also cleans the house.
The only problem? Everything outside of Sam's city is a desert wasteland (why does the future always suck?) and the only place to find an exact replica of Cherry is in a warehouse… in the worst part of the desert outside of Sam's city.
Sam, the city slicker that he is, just doesn't got the skills to venture out himself to find another robot sex slave, so he hires E. Johnson, a tracker. Played by a young Melanie Griffith (sorry it didn't work out with Antonio, Melanie), she's a rough and tumble adventurer who risks her life for a living. She's the opposite of both Sam and Cherry — she's brash, tough and wild.
And this is most of the movie. These two wacky opposites — the adventurous tracker E. Johnson and the corporately clean and reserved Sam — attempting to survive the wastelands together. How are they going to survive if they can't even get along?! Will they ever retrieve a replacement of Sam's Cherry???
One thing I've certainly wondered: Does the strongwilled E. Johnson cancel out the mysoginistic ideas behind Cherry, aka, robot sex slave? Honestly, I don't think I'm equipped to answer that question. I've seen this movie three times, once as a child and twice as an adult, and I was too<|fim_middle|> therefore forced to not really give a crap whether any of those motivations succeed or fail. Combined with a plot that barely makes sense, I have very little idea why anyone would ever want to watch Cherry 2000.
For me personally, this movie encapsulates a nostalgia I can only find in a handful of places. This is one of many sci-fi movies that I would watch during the summer when I was a kid, or when I faked sick and stayed home from school. No, Cherry 2000 is not Road Warrior, Blade Runner, or even The Last Starfighter. But it still comes from a setting and time period that flips a switch in my brain. A switch that causes me to want to see the real world altered and skewed. No, Cherry 2000 doesn't have a scene that's like my favorite part of Enemy Mine, where Willis Davidge finds out that his alien counterpart, Jerry, is pregnant, even though they've been stranded on an alien planet for three years (point to asexuality reproduction all you want, I'm blaming this baby on love). Cherry 2000 does exist in the same general science fiction bubble that allows alien love children to be a possibility though.
And for that, I love it.
Super sad robot sex.
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This entry was posted in Welcome Kink and tagged Cherry 2000, Larry Fishburne, Melanie Griffith, robots, sex with robots. Bookmark the permalink. | drunk both times I watched it as an adult to really be able to comment on meaningful social issues. My guess is that even E. Johnson, as independent as she is, is too much of a caricature to really do feminism any good. But who knows.
One thing I know for certain: It's really hard to watch this movie sober.
One scene early in the movie, probably meant to illustrate why Sam's happy to be with a robot instead of a flesh and blood lady person, shows what a bar is like in the city Sam's from. Inside, men and women don't sip on alcohol waiting to get drunk enough to flirt with each other; men and women sip on alcohol, letting lawyers negotiate the minute details of their one night stands. A young Laurence Fishburne (credited as Larry Fishburne!) plays the lawyer in one scene where a man and a woman uncomfortably work out the details of their "arrangement."
"Let me see this," the woman says as she grabs the contract from Laurence Fishburne's character. "My lawyer better see this one. For instance, the oral clause here seems a little… sticky."
Hey-oooo!
Bad joke aside, this aspect is one of many little interesting interpretations Cherry 2000 makes about the future. The rise of lawyers involved in every aspect of family life the last few decades, along with technology's penchant for making communication more and more impersonal, make this scenario almost seem plausible. Too bad the execution, like many aspects of Cherry 2000, takes the cheap route.
The second half of the movie is dominated by Sam and Johnson's attempts to avoid Lester, played by Tim Thomerson, as they traverse through the desert. Lester, for whatever reason, hates trackers, and seems to dedicate his life to killing all trackers. After Lester and his crew of tracker killers, who are young, beautiful and dressed like Arizona retirees, attempt to blow Johnson and Sam to hell, Sam finds himself knocked out, eventually waking up in Lester's little desert colony. It's pseudo-dystopian, in that they've been able to find comfortable ways to live in an otherwise unlivable hellhole. The catch (there's always a catch with dystopian societies!) is that they take a lot of joy in murder.
Why does Lester and his crew love killing trackers? Shrug. It's never fully explained where he get his penchant for murder.
Oh yeah, when Sam wakes up in Lester's colony, he is met by his ex-girlfriend. Since this is the first time we see Sam's ex, we're left wondering what the hell the significance of her being in this colony is (except as a cheap device that keeps Sam alive so the movie can move forward).
Lester and his band of weirdo killers may make no sense, but at least Tom Thomerson is funny. He plays the part as exagerrated and weird as possible, which helps ease the fact that there's little motivation behind anything he does.
The only captivating part of Cherry 2000 is the fact that it takes Sam so damn long to be attracted to E. Johnson. Despite a brief makeout session with Johnson about two-thirds of the way through the movie, Sam does a good job of staying faithful to his robot lady, dedicated to retrieving her new body or shell or whatever the hell you want to call it. It's interesting that this terrible movie is actually able to briefly convince you that maybe, just maybe, Sam really is going to choose his robot woman over the flesh-and-blood Melanie Griffith.
While Cherry 2000 proposes many interesting questions about the future, artifical intellgience, love and relationships, it never seeks to really find any answers. Whatsoever. Characters definitely have desires and goals, but the viewer is left without any real insight why those motivations exist, and is | 789 |
What Makes Exceptional, Exceptional? It's all in the Attitude!
The goal of each business is to provide exceptional customer service; but do we really understand what exceptional service really is?
There are two mindsets when it comes to how a certain business interacts with customers and the industry – one is a selling mindset and the other one<|fim_middle|> products of services. Assure your customers that you can help them make a difference. If there are issues that you're unsure of your ability to help, tell them honestly; but don't forget to help them look for other ways and means to overcome those obstacles.
Champion your client's goals. If you truly believe in your customer's business, then you are a right match for each other. Having the same direction and championing each other's cause provide a lot of motivating power and will generate results. If both your goals are contradicting, then there shouldn't have been a partnership in the first place.
Sensible time management is also paramount. Always make sure to set clear project scopes, job specifications, and time-keeping. Honor the value that your business brings to the relationship by making sure that you get what is appropriate for your efforts. Absolutely say 'no' to customers who won't pay the set price for your services as they do not see what value you can provide their business.
Adapting a genuine customer service attitude allows you to exceed all expectations; without having to follow any guidelines or rules in doing so. It just shows how exceptional service is natural to your way of doing business. Taking time to listen, showing that you care, and demonstrating a willingness-to-help attitude will almost always win you faithful customers.
A selling mentality may well be good in achieving short term goals; but having a customer service mindset most likely results to solid, long-term, and loyal partnerships; with tons of referrals to boot. Still, the decision is up to the business owner; you. If you want a big stream of customers of who you never hear from again, then focus on a selling mentality. If you want customers who hang around for a long time, give you repeat work, and refers you to their own customers or colleagues, then we suggest putting focus on exceptional service.
This entry was posted in Customer Service on October 21, 2011 by Janine McKalister. | is a service mindset. These two mindsets determine the personality of the business and how it is perceived not only by clients, but also by the entire industry.
The selling attitude is deeply rooted in the business' goal of maintaining revenue and managing customer turnover. The sales mindset pretty much stems from every business' direction of being profitable and sustainable. Moreover, adapting this mindset entails that every customer interaction should always start with a question of "What can I sell you today?" There's nothing really wrong with adapting a selling mindset; but it all goes awry when the attitude itself becomes the only focal point of an organization. Getting sales as the only focus will lead the business on a downward spiral of short term solutions and short-lived results.
A service attitude, on the other hand, begins with the primal instinct of assisting others. With this type of mindset, there is an unquestionable interest in problem solving so that others can also achieve their goals and be successful. More importantly, having a customer service mindset dictates that the level of engagement demonstrates genuine commitment.
Below are some tips on how to demonstrate exceptional service to your customers.
Approach each new customer with questions like "How can I help" and "What challenges are you currently facing?" Showing unpretentious interest towards your customers, their businesses, and their challenges is a true demonstration of exceptional service.
Always remember to partner with your customers. Use partnering words like 'we' or 'us' in any communication. In whatever challenge the customers are facing, make them feel that you're also in there, facing it with them.
Treat your customers' businesses like it's your own. A customer's challenges are your challenges; and their success, your success. Always be ready to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty.
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Here's a continuation of my "Balance" Journal. Just wanted to be playful and happy because these winter months have been rough. Gave this a child-like quality with rough brush strokes and a heart balloon. I found a quote for this month's lesson, and while it didn't fit on this page, it's waiting for another journal page: "We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result<|fim_middle|> they usually do! And if they don't, if I'm tired, I just turn off the light and say, "I'll try tomorrow". | of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have" - Frederick Keonig. Enjoy what's left of the month! Happy Journaling!
I have been reading "Creative Awakenings" - scroll down and see it on my Shelfari, on the right. I vowed to make a 12-month commitment to live the artful life I desire. As a start, I created these journal pages. It's a large journal, which is out of my comfort zone, but I kept at it until I completed these pages to my satisfaction. I used some magazine clippings for the woman's face and the birds. I also started a "milestones passport"(See "Creative Awakenings") to record my monthly progress. Since January is over, I recorded my progress tonight which included teaching 3 new journaling students, creating and mailing valentine ATCs, creating Frida skinny book pages, registering for a photoshop course in Spring, and making an effort to spend a little time each day in my studio -- to not beat myself up for not having an idea, but to go in there and play around to see if ideas pop up - and | 243 |
Wood argues in his thesis that Thomas Paine, while an extremely influential cog in the machine that was the<|fim_middle|> revolutionize and activate the direct changes to the American government, his role seemed to be more of a translator, as he reworded great philosophies into words any average pamphlet-reader could understand and ideally agree with, as he didn't tangibly change the structure of the government or directly help in its founding. Paine's lack of connections in the American world also minimized his apparent significance today. | American Revolution, he has been denied the right to be called a Founding Father, and rightfully so, in my opinion. Wood points out that Paine provided only a tangible representation of the ideas, thoughts, and philosophies of enlightened European thinkers at the time. Thomas Paine largely just converted preexisting thoughts into an accessible format for encouraging opposition to British rule. Another factor playing against Paine is that he spends a very brief period of time in America, growing up overseas and eventually returning there once he fades into oblivion in terms of popularity. The fact that he didn't even stay in the new country he so influenced, coupled with the fact that he was of a lower socioeconomic standing and never garnered political success distances him even further from the core Founding Fathers. While Thomas Paine did help | 160 |
Why Myth?…
October 8, 2018 October 8, 2018 | Stuart France
'…history became legend, legend became myth…'
What a pleasant conceit, to suppose that this process produces myth. Whilst undoubtedly true for many legends the process can also work the other way. Many legends for example have produced history. Pre-eminently in this respect, at least for Britain, is 'King Arthur' whose story the scholars do indeed now refer to as a mythos.
But what is really going on here?
It is probably more accurate to regard all these forms as stories. We are not supposed to regard History as a story but as 'recorded fact' and also 'true', but well, really, the clue is in the name. So why do we set such store by stories? The clue is in the question.
The truth of stories lies in a realm other than the literal. And what is 'the literal' anyway'?
'The literal is something that actually happened.'
'And what do we mean by something?'
'We mean an 'act'.'
'Do we mean an act in a play?'
'No, we mean a physical act; we mean the physical actions of a person.'
'What, any act, and any person?'
'Usually a significant act and a significant person'…
…A woman set off in the west, coming this way.
She was carrying her baskets for plant foods, her digging stick and a fire-stick.
She was coming, travelling along, camping and then setting off again.
As she went along she was looking about her and where she saw plenty of small creatures and plant food she would stop and eat and then camp.
At sunset she would settle down and sleep and early in the morning she would set off again.
Going on she saw that salt-water tide had come up at a place she hoped to go across.
So she camped there.
She made a sleeping platform in a tree because so many mosquitoes were biting her.
When at last early morning came she made a paper-bark canoe, paddling with her hands to cross to the other side.
Then she started off again and eventually came to a cave house…
…A Dust-Devil was living in the cave house.
Tall, thin and hairy he was with a crooked body and bat-like wings.
'My woman has come,' he said, 'my body's no good but today we two will sleep together.'
When they met the woman offered him vegetable food and the Dust-Devil reciprocated with fish.
They slept together but the woman did not like the look of him so she cast about the cave house, found a stone axe and began sharpening it whilst he slept.
The Dust-Devil woke up.
He stretched himself and was preparing to eat the woman. She slashed his neck.
Then she looked around made a fire and cooked his body.
Perhaps he just tossed away the flames that Dust-Devil?
He came out the fire, 'you woman, why did you kill me? I will cover you with my wings.'
The woman tried to hide but he found her.
He sealed her up in the cave where she was lying.
That cave remained for her then a dark cave.
She kept on talking in there, abusing the Dust-Devil.
At last she became like a rock.
She stands there a rock, forever.
– A Young Woman meets a Dust-Devil
(Adapted from 'Speaking Land' by R.M. Berndt and C.H. Berndt)
North-easterly V: Layers
September 30, 2018 September 25, 2018 | Sue Vincent
A short walk along the coast from Craster is another of the most iconic sights on the Northumbrian shore…Dunstanburgh. The castle has inspired artists and poets over the centuries; Turner and Girtin both painted the ruins, and so did I, long ago, when I was teaching myself to paint. I had only ever seen the castle from a distance, though… this was the first time I would step within what remains of its walls.
Like the castle at Bamburgh, just nine miles up the coast, Dunstanburgh was built on a much earlier site. Our earliest ancestors had used the rocky outcrop and had built a promontory fort there, ringed with earthworks that were, almost two thousand years later, incorporated into the defences of the thirteenth century castle. It is a curious feeling to see those same ancient earthworks still intact, topped by the ruins of a grandeur a mere seven hundred years old.
The earth itself provides the foundations of the castle that is built on black basalt that juts up from the green earth and a gilded shore. Around the castle are the remains of the meres, the artificial lakes that would have provided fresh water for livestock and additional defences, whilst making the mirrored castle seem twice as impressive. There are fish ponds too, for the raising of freshwater fish, with the water being fed into the meres through a stone channel from a nearby spring. Within the castle is a well, and even besieged there would have been a water supply.
There are legends of tunnels connecting the castle to local farms and towers… stories of unknown men passing to and from the castle in secret through concealed trap doors. While it is possible that these legends are no more than a garbled memory of the water channels, it is no secret that Dunstanburgh was a place of intrigue and plots.
The castle was built between 1313 and 1322 by Thomas, the Earl of Lancaster. Thomas and his cousin, King Edward II had a very poor relationship and, by the time the castle was built, in full view of the royal castle at Bamburgh, Thomas saw himself as a rival for power. Having been involved in the capture and murder of Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall and the king's favourite in 1312, Thomas was severely out of favour at court, so the castle may have been a safe retreat, away from the king's armies in the south.
He may also have built the castle as a direct challenge, a taunt or a political statement. It was one of the largest castles in the country and cannot have met with anything but the king's displeasure. Whatever the reason, the castle never served Thomas' purpose. He rode to war, but was himself captured and executed after the Battle of Boroughbridge. The stories tell that the executioner was unfit for his job and that battle-seasoned soldiers who witnessed the execution fainted as the headsman struck eleven times before finally ending Thomas' life. It is, they say, for this reason that his ghost walks the castle, carrying the severed head which bears an expression of utter horror…
The castle changed hands many times over the centuries, and even in its ruinous state still played a part on the defence of the north-eastern coastline during World War II. Dunstanburgh is a place of many layers, and as we walked towards it, we began to consider some of our own layers. The analogy of the castle as the ego, built layer upon layer by our own experience and that of those who went before still held true.
We build the shell of the ego from our reactions to all the situations and stimuli we encounter, including those passed down to us from our parents and to them from their parents… the layers go deep. This can be a good thing, as we learn from their experience… and just as we are taught early not to touch what may burn, or eat what will make us ill, we can also learn how to live within the society into which we are born and how best to treat each other. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work in a positive fashion. The accumulated wisdom of generations may also be contaminated by the acquired prejudices and misconceptions of an earlier era… and if we too acquire them, then the problems continue until we stop, look and challenge them for ourselves, stripping back the layers to see a kernel of truth from which we can form our own beliefs and make our own choices.
Steve also introduced the second thread of the weekend's theme, that of pilgrimage… a sacred journey, deliberately undertaken. Although Dunstanburgh is a castle, not a sacred destination, we do not know for what purpose our earliest ancestors may have used the place. We had seen in Cornwall that the promontory forts may have ritual, rather than defensive roles. But for our purpose, it was symbolically perfect.
The ego is a necessary part of the human experience. It is our haven and shield, the face we present to the world, yet it is not who we are. Beneath the acquired layers, we are something more than our reactions, and the quest of the seeker is to take down the walls we have created around the shining core of being. Not completely… for the ego has its uses. Like this castle, where the natural erosion of time and weathering has reduced the impenetrable structure to<|fim_middle|> the great castles of the area, and on the Sunday, will spend time on Lindisfarne, the Holy Island, a place of stark beauty, and one which has more history in its thousand acres than many cities.
There are the graceful arches of the old priory, a church that has been a serene presence since Saxon times… although it has also seen the incursions made by the Vikings and other marauders… and, when the sun pours the gold of its setting across the waters, lighting up the ancient stones with a rosy glow, there can be few more beautiful places to be…
…especially as the first day of the workshop coincides with my sixtieth birthday. I have no problems with attaining that age. I count it a privilege, even though I distinctly remember turning thirty and thinking that sixty was positively ancient. The fact that I still feel thirty… inside, at least… is sufficient compensation for attaining the threshold of venerability. And I will be celebrating with friends in a landscape I love. Why not come and join us?
Castles of the Mind
Seahouses, Northumberland
Friday 14th – Sunday 16th September 2018
Do we have 'castles of the mind'?
Traditionally, ancient castles were built where there was trouble… Do we have the equivalent in our minds and emotions? Have we, over the course of our lives, built up strong fortifications with which to repel those intrusions which, as children, we considered frightening?
Our 'walk and talk' events are friendly and informal. We ask those attending to bring one or two readings from their favourite books, poems, or other sources of inspiration. We listen and talk… and share. If someone is ready to enter their personal borderlands, we hold their hand and walk with them.
The cost per attendee is £50.00. This is an administrative cost, only. All personal costs and bookings, such as hotels, meals and admission charges are the responsibility of those attending. Meals are generally shared in a local pub.
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Flight of the Seer V…
May 1, 2017 April 28, 2017 | Stuart France
Any creative endeavour involves hazard.
We are fortunate enough to work with an eclectic and talented bunch of souls which inevitably lessens that hazard.
With our previous Workshop, Leaf and Flame, we had made a rod for our own back by extending the compass of R4 out into the night and into the realms of spectacle… and fire… and dance… and legend, courtesy of the street entertainers known as Mister Fox.
So, what this time for our R4 extension?
"It'll need to be big, brash and in your face to counteract the, 'Beyond the Veil' section of R4."
"We'll hand it over to Dean and Ali."
"Our Lore Keepers?"
Dean Powell and Alienora Browning have been April Workshop stalwarts since the Silent Eye's inception and have on numerous occasions stepped in to cover more than their primary roles when illness or mishap has dictated.
"So how do we play it?"
"Just give them the story we want performed…"
"…and let them get on with it."
We were not disappointed.
"It was better than watching telly!"
"It was brilliant!"
"They are legend!"
Trust is the other side of hazard.
Trust is also an antidote to fear.
So… Trust!
Ali and Dean as, The Lore-Keepers.
Circles Beyond Time – Convoy
October 5, 2016 October 3, 2016 | Sue Vincent
We left Higger Tor after the sunrise and headed back to our respective breakfasts. Most would have to pack their bags too, before gathering for a final journey together. We were the lucky ones with time to spare and a drive back across the moors into the edges of the city. The early morning light was beautiful, though the first hint of autumn was showing in the iridescence of the clouds and the turning colours of the moor. For most of the year these high, wild places wear the colours of autumn… the russet, copper and pale gold that anywhere else would mean a sleeping time. It is only for a few brief weeks in late summer that they dress in amethyst and emerald and show their true colours. It matters little to me… though the heather makes my soul sing, it is the heart if the high places that speaks to mine.
We gathered in the car park, most of us taking advantage of the clear, bright morning to capture last shots of Carl Wark where we had begun the journey so short a time before. A lot happens on these weekends and time seems to bear little relation to how much we manage to see, do and experience. As the party would be breaking up after lunch some miles away, we had ourselves a convoy as we headed back across the moors, passing Barbrook and Gardom's and then onwards into territory we had yet to share.
It is times like these that I don't want a convoy… I want a mini-bus. "Over there to your left you can see the traces of the medieval ridge-and-furrow field system," " to your right you will see Devil's Drop, officially known as Peter's Rock, that features heavily in the Doomsday books," "on the horizon you can see the huge hillfort above Great Hucklow where we hold our annual ritual workshop…" So many things I would have liked to point out and share… but there is only so much you can do. At least we could stop halfway and tell a tale or two.
So we stopped at Monsal Head and looked out over the valley so high above sea level now, but whose rocks are made from petrified coral, waiting for ice-cream and we told the legend of the beautiful shepherdess, Hedessa and the misshapen giant, Hulac Warren, who had loved her and of how she fell to her death to escape him…and how, where she fell, a healing spring welled from the ground. And we showed them where to look to see the giant's form in the rocks.
And we told them of the tragedy of Fin Cop, an enigmatic site upon the top of the hill. There too, like Carl Wark, there are walls that were built to protect an ancient enclosure. The wall stood ten feet high and in front of it was a deep trench and wide embankment. Yet it did not stop those who came with murderous intent. They took the plateau, a place of women and small children, toppling the walls upon their victims, it seems. One of them was either heavily pregnant or bore a new-born child. Their bones were found beneath the stones.
The ice-cream was still not forthcoming and time was getting short. There would be no time on this to do more than look at the valley from our vantage point, which was a shame as there is a lot to see here. Through the valley, the river winds; in places, wide and slow, in others magical and strewn with flowers. There is even a waterfall…and high on the hillside, a fairy castle…or so it seems… that hides a cave where yet another skeleton was found. To look at the beauty of the place, you would never guess that it hides such tragedy… yet that too is a lesson and is true of many faces, not just places.
We piled back into the cars and headed off on the final leg of our journey, leaving the heather and bracken behind and entering into the other Derbyshire, of rolling green hills and dry stone walls. It is a very different landscape, yet you can see it shares a common ancestry with the high places, where the pale rocks thrust through the green of the fields. We were heading for the great stone circle of Arbor Low… | beauty and bare bones, the ego dissipates as we grown and learn to know the inner beauty of the light within.
Curiously, another legend associated with Dunstanburgh is that of Sir Guy the Seeker. As night fell and a storm raged, an errant knight sought shelter beneath the ruined towers of the deserted castle. From out of the shadows, a wizard came forward to greet the knight… some say it was Merlin himself… and promised that, if Sir Guy would accompany him, he would be granted a vision of great beauty. The knight followed the wizard, who led him to a secret room. There, sleeping on a single radiant crystal, was the most beautiful woman Sir Guy had ever seen. She was surrounded by an army of sleeping knights, and on either side of her were a sword and a horn.
Sir Guy had, said the wizard, only to make the right choice and the maiden would be wake and be free of her crystal prison. The knight, dazzled by beauty, stretched out his hand and took the horn. Raising it to his lips, he blew a single note… and was plunged into darkness. As he lost consciousness, he heard a voice chastising him, crying shame on him for a coward for choosing the horn when a true knight would have drawn the sword.
Waking next morning, Sir Guy searched the castle for some trace of the maiden or the secret room, but none was to be found. So ardent was his determination to find and free her beauty that he spent his life wandering the castle in search of her, losing his mind and all thought of home. He wanders there still, and on stormy nights, they say you can still hear his desperate cries…
The castle is populated by ghosts. As well as Sir Guy and Earl Thomas, Margaret D'Anjou walks the castles grounds, weeping for those lost in battle. There is another story too, that seemed to fit our theme…that of a child imprisoned in the castle. The quest of the spiritual seeker…the pilgrim… is to release the inner Child from its prison. The story tells that she used the key to the dungeon, where many were tortured and killed, in order to escape. Once beyond the walls, she tossed the key into a field… and to this day that land remains infertile.
And so we wandered the empty space within the castle, passing the ruined chapel and exploring the gatehouse towers. In one, the breeze whipped through the empty windows, creating a vortex that whirled a mass of feathers around me like a snowstorm beneath the blue roof of late summer. From the other we looked out over the landscape and the castle's tiny harbour to Bamburgh and beyond to the Holy Isle. Where next would our footsteps take us?
July 24, 2018 July 23, 2018 | Sue Vincent
This weekend saw the monthly meeting of the Silent Eye in the north of England… a time when we reconnect, share and explore ideas and discuss plans for the four workshops we run every year. Work is already well under way for Lord of the Deep, the April workshop, which will explore the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest stories known to man, but our next workshop is a far less formal affair.
These informal workshops are held at various places across the country, making them as accessible as we can to anyone who would like to come along and meet us, see what we do, and visit a variety of historic or ancient sites in the process.
Readers who have followed our adventures at previous workshops, such as the recent Giant and the Sun weekend in Dorset, will know that we manage to see and experience a goodly number of places while exploring the mysteries of the human heart and mind, the spiritual quest …and a few odd theories for good measure.
For our next workshop, Castles of the Mind, organised by Steve, we will be exploring some beautiful parts of the north- eastern coast and its history. It is an area I love, one of which I have many fond memories and in which I have some personal roots; my grandmother and great-grandmother were from the area and my father's ashes were scattered on the beaches he loved, many years ago.
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In 1980, a vegan living in Forest Grove, Oregon, describing himself as a teacher, naturalist and hippie, started a business specializing in Tempeh made from scratch. This business eventually expanded and in 1995 introduced the world to its Holiday Roast, Tofurky. Tofurky Vegetarian Roast helped the food brand grow and introduced many families to the idea of veganism and vegetarianism.
The company's success has also helped usher in a wave of new vegetarian brands like Impossible Foods, Morning Star and Beyond Meat. Today, the company sells more than 35 meatless products around the world, confirming that the product launch was a success… for some. Tofurkey and companies like this are trying to attract an audience that is not geared towards eating without meat. Take for example the Impossible Food slogan "We Are Meat". The campaign is for a burger that "bleeds" because of the peas in beetroot juice. Or the Beyond Burger patty which is designed to look and cook like beef. The goal is to attract people who want to reduce their meat consumption without forgetting the taste and appearance, and they are doing it.
You can find plenty of meatless alternatives in grocery stores and fast food chains around the world, but veganism and vegetarianism aren't new. The first records of vegetarianism date back to the 9e century in India.
This means that for over 1,000 years cultures have thrived creating and cultivating meatless dishes without the idea of animal flesh even needing to be emulated. For many people who have practiced vegetarianism or veganism all of their lives, the idea of trying to eat something that tastes like meat doesn't appeal to them. As the meatless world develops, it is important that these cultures come to the fore in the conversation, because good food is good food, and recipes that have been developed over thousands of years should not. be ignored.
Nowadays, there are options for those trying to expose themselves to the meatless lifestyle.
For a city as diverse as Houston, there are plenty of dishes to choose from, whether you're looking to wade your way through some of the newer alternatives to faux meat, or opting for older, tried and true dishes, the city has something for everyone. Options in Houston include items that will appeal to vegetarians and vegans, as well as meat eaters. Whether you're just starting your vegetarian journey, dabbling in the occasional Meatless Monday, or being a full-fledged vegan, Houston has a dish for you.
Here are some of the restaurants offering vegan and vegetarian options in the city.
Maharaja Bhog
No list on vegan or vegetarian food would be complete without including food from India, whose vegan and vegetarian tradition dates back centuries. The name of the restaurant means 'offering food made for royalty' which the restaurant does in a way, as it provides a fine dining experience for those who wish to sample traditional Indian cuisine. The restaurant is one of five with its other locations in Mumbai, Kochi, Prune, and Dubai. Maharaja Bhog has a Thali restaurant which offers an all-you-can-eat buffet with table service and a daily changing menu, an Indian bistro for those who want a quicker meal and a box-lunch service for those who want a quick bite to eat .
Houston Sauce Co., Houston Sauce Pit, Mo Better Brews, Sauce Co Shoppette
Houston Sauce Co. is a collection of restaurants run by husband and wife team Courtney and Chasitie Lindsay. Starting as a hot sauce business, then expanding into a barbecue pit, the business took a turn when the couple went vegan. Switching to a vegan menu on a barbecue truck proved to be an unlikely success, helping the two expand their business into a vegan storefront called Sauce Co Shoppette, a vegan barbecue trailer named Sauce Pit, a food truck called Houston Sauce Co , and more recently, a vegan breakfast restaurant called Mo 'Better Brews, which specializes in coffee, vegan brunch, and vinyl.
Meeks Vegan Pizza
With offerings like the CBD-infused Big Chill Pizza, mini peppers stuffed with Beyond Sausage, and NYC Italian ice cream, Vegan Pizza from Meek try to help those who crave pie, but without meat. There are fake meat options like The Meathead Pizza, which has everything fans of a pizza for meat lovers would expect, while also offering items like The Greek Freak Pizza with a collection of peppers and of onions on vegan mozzarella.
Sunshine's vegetarian charcuterie
Sunshine's Health Food Store and Vegetarian Deli offers a series of salads, fresh juices, and other vegetarian options. Opened in 1983 by Vergis "Sunshine" Bourgeois, this was one of the first health food stores serving raw and cooked vegetarian dishes in Houston. Stop in for their Black Bean Burger, 7 Kale Baked Cornbread or one of their different wraps and wash it all down with one of their 26 freshly squeezed juices. Sunshine's is also a health food store, so if you're looking for different types of elderberry soaps, oils, or syrups, they have them for you.
Vegan Soul Food
Sitting on emancipation in the middle of the city is Vegan Soul Food, the brainchild of Chef Taliek and Chad Cossey. Chef Taliek's goal is to teach healthy eating practices and help people make the transition to veganism by preparing traditional, meatless soul food cuisine. Soul Food Vegan offers traditional dishes like Mac N 'Cheese, red beans and rice, collard greens and dirty rice, while also offering non-traditional dishes like barbecue mushrooms. They also offer a series of desserts and children's meals like spaghetti and some fruit smoothies.
Korny Vibes
Want to try vegan food but don't want to give up classics like Al Pastor or Carne Asada? One of your best bets would be to try Korny Vibes. Located on Westheimer's, the restaurant specializes in American-style appetizers like mozzarella sticks and onion rings, but their main draw would be their burgers and tacos<|fim_middle|> to miss out on the tasty Asian food you're used to? You're in luck because there are many Asian restaurants in the community that offer vegan and vegetarian options that have been popular for hundreds of years. If you are looking for many Asian American staples that have grown here over the past hundred years, look no further than Chef Kenny's Asian Vegan. Offering up favorites like Orange Chicken, General Tso's Chicken, Coconut Shrimp, and Beef with Broccoli will help anyone trying to make the transition to vegetarianism to keep eating the food they are eating. they like. Kenny's also has a collection of vegan sushi rolls, vegan hand rolls, and even vegan nigiri sushi.
Love hut
Love hut is an international restaurant chain with operations in San Francisco, Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong. There are many Loving Hut locations here in the United States, each operating with an independent menu. The overall aim of the company is to provide healthy food alternatives to the masses. While the menu can vary widely from location to location, here in Houston the Loving Hut location offers gold rolls, golden wontons, pho, hot pot, burgers, wraps, fried rice, noodle dishes and other main dishes.
Houstatlantavegan
The Restaurant is a play from Drake's first mixtape single, So Far Gone, where the rapper introduced himself as an artist blurring the lines between Hip Hop and R&B. This food truck is the goal is to blur and mix the lines between Houston and Atlanta but, with a vegan style. Try their loaded burgers, wraps or fries.
Govinda's vegetarian cuisine
This restaurant is located near the temple of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness in the Garden Oaks district of Houston. Offering a buffet of Indian dishes, by Govinda prepares daily vegetarian cuisine with a fully vegan menu on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The menu is filled with different types of Tofu, Masala, Paneer dishes, rice, fresh roti and more.
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Vegan Green Seed
Matti Merrell and her husband Rodney Perry started their food business ten years ago, growing from a food truck to a restaurant on the corner of Almeda and Wheeler Ave. Their menu is 100% vegan and soy free. They offer a collection of paninis, wraps, and raw vegan options that will satisfy those looking to take the meatless diet a step further. They also have several smoothie choices if you are just looking for a refreshing drink. Vegan Green Seed celebrated its tenth anniversary in March. If you get the chance, stop by and sample the food that has made many Houstonians happy and healthy over the past decade.
Vegan Asian cuisine from Chef Kenny
Trying the meatless lifestyle, but don't want | 201 |
Labelled as the greatest Rugby League World Cup of all time, The 28 matches were watched by record crowds and bumper television audiences and introduced new sponsors and thousands of people to the sport for the first time, many of whom will be keen to engage with Rugby League in the future.
Australia's 34-2 victory over New Zealand in front of a capacity crowd at Old Trafford on Saturday brought down the curtain on a tournament that will be forever remembered.
RLWC2013 has worked hard to ensure that our key community initiatives have been deployed in our host areas in a bid to engage and educate new fans to our great sport.
Culminating pre match and during half time, a variety of dance, match-day festivals, reading projects and education celebration parades were seen on the worlds stage and many have left with a new found thirst for Rugby League.
See the links below for our community inititiaves and how we are moving them forward beyond RLWC2013.
Having brought that excitement to the classroom, RLWC2013 Education programme has truly brought some world class enagagement into your schools.
From mascot design compeititions, programme covers to designing your very own pair of Rugby League boots, children have been able to put their pens to paper in a world class way.
Although RLWC2013 is over, our site is very much alive and is still filled with engaging and inspiring exercises and activities.
All the resources use key themes and<|fim_middle|>. Having engaged over 20 great businesses, we celebrated their involvement with a photo at our games and awarded them with a special glass memento so they too can have something special to take away for their generous donations.
Businesses like Napoleons Casino & Restaurant in Leeds took part and donated their tickets to 'Candlelighters' which are a charity formed by parents of children who have or who have had cancer, ex-patients and the medical staff that treat them. Others such as Karro Food Group in Hull got involved to donate tickets to two charities, Sunshine House and Edinburgh Street Community Centre so that these worthy causes could attend RLWC2013.
Day to Remember has been an incredible success and has inspired many. The generosity and passion that has been showcased here by the individuals involves reflects RLWC2013 values and long may this legacy continue.
In a dance programme that has been a real celebration of light, colour and dancing, more than three thousand dancers have been recruited to take part in spectacular celebrations across the UK for Rugby League World Cup 2013 which kicked off at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on October 26th.
Click here to find out more about the programme and how the work will continue post RLWC2013.
Rugby League World Cup 2013 Cheersquad is a team made up of various girls from Rugby League cheerleading squads across the country.
Places were won at an audition in early September, where dancers performed as a squad and then as individuals to battle for a place in this highly regarded team.
RLWC2013 Official Cheerleading team enjoyed performing at all of Englands group stage games aswell as at the Opening Ceremony, the Quarter-Finals, THE BIG HIT Sem-Final and RLWC2013 Final.
Legacy is always a hot topic amongst sporting disciplines and it's evident there is a need to engage children in the game in order to build on it.
"RLWC2013 will be the perfect platform to help achieve public awareness in the world class sport of Rugby League. Our devotion to the younger generation attained through our Match Day Festivals is a perfect example of this and will help encourage coaches, parents and spectators to engage with the primary game," says Mark Foster, Marketing Manager of RLWC2013.
We plan to make offer some great opportunities to youngsters and focus on the fun and positive aspects of the game leading up to and during the tournament.
To find out more about the various Match Day Festivals that took place across the tournament, visit our dedicated page within our community initiatives tab.
Six Book Challenge is an annual challenge for anyone and everyone who wants to get back to reading. It invites people to read six bits of reading material; whether these be books, magazines or even poems and asks them to document their progress in a diary. Those who complete their list of six reads will be presented with a certificate to mark their achievement.
Find out more about Six Book Challenge.
The Try Reading project is being funded with an award from the National Lottery supported £6 million Grants for the arts libraries fund. It is among the first projects to have received an award through this fund and it recognises the positive connections that can be made between sport and the arts.
There will be events, activities and competitions for the whole family throughout the year, which will culminate in the tournament in October and November. These Try Reading 'fixtures' will be announced in April.
You can keep up to date with the Try Reading fixtures as they're announced by following them on their website that will be available soon, however you can find out more by clicking on our dedicated Try Reading page.
Rugby League is rightly proud of its reputation as an approachable sport that is in tune with its heritage and RLWC2013 is keen to continue this tradition with its Trophy Tour.
From its visit to 10 Downing Street with the Prime Minister to the community visits in Workington, we devised a schedule of events where anyone and everyone will be able to take advantage of a World Class Trophy visit in their organisation.
Now that the Australians have won the Trophy, this glamourous piece of silverware is in their hands, however if you were lucky enough to see if on its travels, make sure you upload your picture to the Trophy Tour page or visit it to see who did! | lessons from the pitch and aim to educate your class as they are intergrated into your school curriculum.
If you or your school were inspired by RLWC2013 and want to get involved, simply sign up and begin downloading your free resources to today.
RLWC2013 Day to Remember Scheme has been a very successful piece of the world cup puzzle by enabling business to invest in their community and reward them with tickets to witness this once in a lifetime spectacle | 95 |
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How to Keep the Greater Good in Mind During the Coronavirus Outbreak
In the midst of our panic around COVID-19, we must look to each other to help us get through it.
By Jill Suttie | March 10, 2020
I just learned that my son's college, the University of Washington, would be cancelling all in-person classes and finals to help contain the spread of the coronavirus. One confirmed on-campus case prompted the university's response.
Though the university will incur high costs—they have to deep-clean the whole campus, for example—I, for one, am truly grateful for their swift action and putting students first. It's one of the many ways that I feel cared for in the midst of this crisis, and one of many caring acts that I expect to see in the weeks ahead.
Why expect more cooperation and compassion in the face of an epidemic? Because, contrary to popular belief, crises often tend to bring out the best in people. A report that looked at how people responded during the September 11th Twin Tower attacks showed that people bent over backwards to help others escape, sometimes at great personal risk to themselves. Other reports on the aftermath of natural disasters show that strangers will stick out their necks for each other to help.
While it's true that sometimes disasters can lead to a minority taking advantage of the situation—for example, stealing people's possessions when they have to leave their house—this is not a common response, much as it grabs headlines. Instead, when we face a common enemy, like an epidemic, we are more likely to pull together for the benefit of everyone.
Notice how many young and healthy people are taking seriously the need to wash their hands frequently, cover their mouths when they cough, stay home when sick, or wear masks when in public. Sure, no one wants to get sick—but, at the same time, no one wants to be responsible for making others sick.
In fact, research shows that protecting others is a huge motivator for doing the right thing. For example, one study looked at what prompts handwashing behavior in hospital doctors and nurses. Researchers found that signs saying, "Hand hygiene prevents patients from catching diseases," were more effective at prompting handwashing than signs simply saying, "Hand hygiene prevents you from catching diseases." In other words, appealing to the health care workers' altruistic care for their patients was more effective than appealing to their self-interest.
In fact, it may simply be human nature to be kind and helpful when others need us. In one recent study, children only four to five years old who were told that resisting a treat would benefit another child were better able to delay gratification than children told their actions would only affect themselves. Similarly, babies as young as 19 months old were willing to give food away to someone who appeared to need it, even when hungry themselves.
Of course, not everyone acts altruistically in these situations. So, what makes it more likely they will, and how can we use that to our advantage? Here are four ways we can encourage more altruism for fighting the virus.
1. Look to the heroes
There will always be heroic efforts in a disaster—people who sacrifice themselves for the good of others. Think of the health care workers who are treating people infected with this virus at great personal risk. Or those infected with the virus who voluntarily isolate themselves for weeks to protect the public.
When we hear stories of these people, we feel what is called moral elevation—a warm feeling inside that inspires us, fueling optimism and a desire to act altruistically ourselves. While the temptation might be to focus on fear and everything going wrong, we can redirect our attention to those who are doing the right thing, which will lead us to be better citizens ourselves.
2. Stay calm and focused
It's easy to be lost in fear when disaster strikes. However, it doesn't help anyone to stir up panic about the situation, because we don't think as clearly when we are in emergency mode. You can see how this has played out already, as people have been stockpiling masks and creating a shortage that could affect the people who truly need them—those who are sick and need masks to avoid spreading the disease<|fim_middle|> for keeping a cool head—like practicing mindfulness, which has been shown to both lessen emotional reactivity and help us make better decisions. We might take a walk in the park or nearby woods and let nature soothe us. Or we could talk to a friend—a calm friend, that is—who can help us reduce our anxiety.
Of course, our normal ways of connecting socially—like singing together at a concert or going to large parties—may have to change. But whatever we can do to maintain an air of calm, and to spread it to those around us, the better. After all, our emotions tend to be contagious in our social circles, and we should do our best to keep fear and panic contained.
3. Show gratitude
One of the kindest things we can do is to say "thank you" to those who are doing what they can to fight the outbreak. As with my son's university, it doesn't hurt to send a message of thanks to people and organizations that are doing the right thing—whether it's a tour group that offers refunds for cancelled trips, the neighbor who delivers a spare mask to you, or viral experts who give you straight-up information on how to stay safe.
When we show gratitude toward others, we let them know that their actions matter, which encourages more of the same kind of behavior—not only toward the grateful person but to others. Creating a cycle of altruism is helpful when we are faced with a challenge that affects us all, helping to foster trust in each other and care for each other's plight.
4. Remember our common humanity and show compassion
When we are fearful, our first instinct might be to cast blame on others or to indulge in prejudice toward groups we see as responsible. News reports already show that some people of Asian descent in the United States are finding themselves shunned or the victims of racist profiling, simply because the virus appears to have originated in China. Though we might rationally know that no one person or country can be blamed for a viral outbreak, our minds still seek simple explanations.
Research suggests that when we recognize our common humanity and show compassion, we are more likely to pull together and to solve issues that may be complex in nature. You can start by giving yourself some compassion, which can help you become more willing to admit mistakes and take steps to correct them. This is important, as human error can be costly when there is a viral outbreak, and we need to work together to learn from our mistakes.
Of course, all of these guidelines don't supplant the importance of practicing good hygiene. We need to continue to frequently wash our hands and avoid touching our faces, so that we can lessen the chance of infecting ourselves and others. But we also should remember our social hygiene—looking for the heroes, staying calm ourselves, being grateful, and remembering our common humanity. In this way, we can help to make the world safer for all of us.
Jill Suttie
Jill Suttie, Psy.D., is Greater Good's former book review editor and now serves as a staff writer and contributing editor for the magazine. She received her doctorate of psychology from the University of San Francisco in 1998 and was a psychologist in private practice before coming to Greater Good.
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Life with 4 turtles wasn't much different from life with 2 turtles. The new guys, came without names. When we asked what their names were, their former keeper looked at us like we'd grown shells of our own. So we called them Darlin'- about <|fim_middle|> to deter your friends. His friend watched from his comfy spot under a heat lamp.
Your student was certainly a trooper when it came to following the music sheet in more ways than the usual. How funny and how neat to see. You're so good at describing events you make me want to keep on reading.
I have an ominous feeling about the next part but will be brave and look forward to part 6.
Turtles, as you're probably aware, can (barring accidents of course) technically live forever!! One, who arrived with the first fleet, is still resident at Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney.
What can we learn from their longevity? Your interesting story tells us they are not territorial and seem to have an inquisitive stable approach!
Su - 5 was really not much more trouble than 2, and there weren't that many for long. And they seldom came out from hiding all at once.
I saw a huge tortoise at a zoo once..... Magnificent!
"Following the music sheet in more ways than the usual" ..... Too funny!
Fear not. There are tribulations, but no fatalities.
I'm relieved to know in advance I won't be reading about fatalities next time.
We're not allowed pets here but you've made having a turtle as a house guest sound most appealing.
one night again, i thought i'd say hello, having also paid a long-overdue visit to susan's place. glad to read your chums are not going to be turtles passing on... i have become attached to the visions your words conjure up. you are a wonderful writer! | 8" of shell and timid femininity and Hunka - slightly smaller in diameter - after Elvis Presley's 'Hunka Hunka Burnin' Love. We were told he was a male. His shell was very distinctively differently shaped from that of Darlin', with squarer shoulders and a deeper carapace. They had spent all of their 20 + years in a tank, so were not immediately comfortable with being free range turtles.
They did immediately discover the under-stairs turtle cave, and unanimously agreed that it was home base. Turtles don't appear to be territorial - there were no turf wars, and we often found all four of them in a heap together under Superman's cape or a crinoline. Both of the new turtles were bigger than Chili and Somethingorother.... perhaps turtles respect their elders, or don't mess with someone bigger than them... or perhaps they were glad for the company. At first the only indicator that the turtle population had doubled was an increase in things that go bump in the night.
And then there were five..... That summer there was an unexpected addition to the family. The local Animal Control Officer was the leader of the boys' Scout Pack, and was an old friend to our pets. He called up with a request for us to foster an injured Mississippi Red Eared Slider that had been found wandering the streets of Peace River, an hour's drive from us. This unfortunate lady proved to be bigger still, than any of the others. Akela speculated that she may be as much as 30 years old. She had some cuts to her legs and shell (he thought it looked like a dog had attacked her), and a dislocated joint on one of her hind legs. We gave her a special diet high in vitamins, and lots of time in the tub. She seemed to make a full recovery. She was also the most sociable of our turtles, seeming to enjoy the company of homo sapiens, when the others merely tolerated us, if they noticed us at all. We thought that, considering her mature age and apparent health (aside from the recent injuries) and her obvious familiarity with human society, someone must be attached to her, and wanting her back. As notices and advertisements had been posted about her, we felt certain it wouldn't be long before someone came to claim her. As the months drew on, and no one claimed her, we succumbed to our fond feelings for her and began to consider her a permanent part of the family. We dubbed her 'Sweetie'.
With 5 turtles in the family, it seemed only right that they should have their own room - at least for the summer. Next to the greenhouse we dug a hole for a pond, lined it with vinyl, added some stones for basking, plantings for shade, and and built a low fence around it. It was quite picturesque, and most satisfying to see them paddling in the water or soaking in the sun.... once they got over their agoraphobia. We hardly saw them for the first week or 2 they spent outside. Turtles are wizards at hiding. And devious. Just when I was getting less anxious at seeing no turtles in the pen, and ceased to hunt every one of them down in the pen every time I went outside, some primal memory kicked and and they started to dig. Under the fence.
The summer was one of repeated crises, as we recovered escaped turtles all over the yard, almost daily. They spent nights in the house, so never had a long time to plan and implement an escape, but, now fearlessly accustomed to the out-of-doors, they were determined to explore. We learned to keep an eye on them while they were out, meanwhile wracking our brains for new, harmless ways to barricade them in. Rocks didn't work, even if we buried them. They just dug under or around or between them. Once, when they all got out and scattered in different directions, Hunka almost made the Great Escape. After gathering up the other 4, we searched the neighborhood all day for him, with no sighting. By dark we had given up on him, and gone to bed heartbroken. Breakfast was a morose affair, the only conversation being worried comments on all of the terrible things that could have happened to him. We were nearly resigned to life without him when a neighbor showed up with him in a box in in his car trunk the next afternoon. He'd found Hunka in the middle of the road, a block away, heading south. The boys were deliriously happy to see him. He was indifferent as usual. We speculated that his choice of travel direction might be an indicator of an early winter.
By autumn, as it got too cool for them outside, all 5 turtles were once again emptying the bookshelves, or basking in the sunspot on the living room floor. This was, incidentally, the space I used for violin lessons. My students soon learned that the thumping under the stairs wasn't the dragon (she lived in the furnace room, and was responsible for heating the house... loudly), but one or more of the turtles redecorating its living space. Frequently someone, usually Sweetie, would wander out during a lesson, particularly if the sun was bright. These moments were the highlight of music lessons. One memorable day, my young virtuoso and I were engrossed a new and challenging composition. We didn't notice the arrival of Hunka. Not at first. Before long, it was impossible to ignore him. He made his way to the base of the music stand, still unnoticed, until the stand began to move, having wedged its legs on his shoulders. Mum and I were proud beyond words, of the determined young musician who continued to play from the moving score, following it across the room as Hunka made his oblivious way to the bookshelf for his favorite read. The show must go on!
With Autumn also came the completion of friend Paula's home renovations, and the day for Chili and Somethingorother to move to their new digs. Lucky turtles - radiant floors, and more than twice the square footage we had to offer. They were moving to the Ritz.
We hunkered down, as the first snows fell, with no premonition of the hardships an exceptionally bitter, cold, and long winter would bring for our beloved turtles.
Awaiting ... the rest of the story. A fun read this morn.
Good morn. I hope you're not having our wind & snow.
oh my, snow and wind and snow and more??? I think I would die or move! course I'm a cal. native so a complete wuss!
as I said below, I loved reading more about the turtle gang. we used to find them and my kids and I could NEVER keep them in any sort of corral! and they were very imaginative too! turtles are very clever little beasts. I wonder if prehistoric turtles existed and if so, how big we're they ? imagine.... that's a painting for susan!
but now what happens? you've got me on pins and needles! ;) much love to you!
another 2 or 3 inches of snow this morning when i woke. and more in the forecast..... groan. your beautiful green photos are the best therapy!!
glad you're still enjoying the turtles. more soon. you have wild ones!? way cool!! my daughter's dog was afraid of them too. she'd never before seen such a thing.
i suspect if something or someone threatened you, your big white Yeti/chicken would transform into a very different creature.
What a wonderful continuation. I'm so sorry I've arrived days late but ditzing out seems to have become one of my less socially acceptable habits - that and the fact I never look at my back page rss feeds.
It must have been really amazing having five turtles all at once. I had no idea from when you've talked about them previously that you ever had more than three at once. I'm glad Chili and Somethingorothet welcomed their new pals with such grace. I bet there were some wild tales being told in that hidey space under the stairs.
Making them their own swimming and basking pool was a very cool idea. Having spent some time watching a large African tortoise making a valiant effort to dig his way out of the enclosure at the natural history museum a few weeks ago, I can understand how a little dirt wasn't going | 1,740 |
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Rose Hickman Smith
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, MA, JD
Marina Del Rey, California 90292
"Do you have an irrational, gut feeling you can't seem to shake? Maybe something telling you that you're not good enough, unsafe, powerless...? Sometimes, difficult experiences in our past can cloud how we live in and see the present. We find ourselves overreacting to things or people, feeling anxious or worthless. Our head can tell us we are being irrational, but that doesn't change the feeling. One of my goals is in helping you re-process the experiences in your life that push these feelings, so you not only know that you're okay - you feel it."
Lisa Anne Penny
"I support families, couples, and individuals. Whatever the problem, challenge, trauma or pain, the power to change exists within you and your family. I believe that an effective therapist's job is to support a "shift," not to create it for you. Together, we can make progress toward your goals and desires. "
Tejal Yarmand
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MFT
"I work with people struggling to change and make sense of one or more aspects of their lives. Going to therapy is difficult work, I encourage you to interview therapists and to find someone you feel a connection with so you can make the most of your experience. For more information and links, please visit my<|fim_middle|> & Family Therapist, LMFT, ATR-BC, ATCS
"Life often gives us challenges that we have difficulty resolving on our own. Ever in a funk you just can't get out of? Are you ever at your wits end and don't know where to turn? This is when a therapist can really help. Whether you are dealing with sadness, loss, or anxiety and helpless, talking with a therapist can help you gain a new perspective, solve problems, and resolve present and past issues. Therapy can help to bring about a clearer understanding of ourselves and not only resolve current difficulties, but help avoid future problems as well."
Mandana Naghi
"In a world where we can often feel disconnected, detached and cutoff from ourselves and others, therapy is a place where we can start to put the pieces back together to start feeling WHOLE again. I have a gentle yet direct approach and I offer a supportive environment where your strengths and wisdom are acknowledged. I gently challenge you by offering honest and clear feedback while respecting where you are at and what you need. My approach is collaborative as we work together as a team to help foster growth and health."
Yourie Gibson
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA
"Starting therapy often brings up anxiety and fear, yet let us acknowledge and honor your courage to take steps towards change. I provide a safe, supportive, client-centered space for you to share and process. Together, we can work towards better understanding yourself and your goals for growth and healing. I earned my Masters at Antioch University specializing in Spiritual Depth Psychology and Trauma studies. I work within a psychodynamic framework that includes mindfulness, cognitive behavioral, culturally-sensitive approaches designed uniquely for each client(s). As a wounded healer myself, I believe in continuing my own therapeutic work as well."
Margaret Lauren
"I provide a safe place for individuals, couples, and families to deal with their relationship, career, and other issues, as well as with the anxiety, depression and anger that often accompany them."
Wendy J Salz
"Psychotherapy is an investment you make in yourself so that you can have a more fulfilling life. For therapy to be successful, it is important for you to feel heard and understood. My clients feel safe and supported as I work with them to understand how past patterns and old beliefs contribute to their current struggles. No matter what your concerns--relationship, self-esteem, family problems, troublesome behaviors, or any of a multitude of issues--I can help you explore these areas and work toward being a stronger more successful you so that you can have a happier today and tomorrow."
"Stop Over-Thinking. You know what it's like. When you're stuck inside your head, you feel like you can't shake the cycle. You feel sad, anxious or frustrated. Stuck. It gets harder to break out. The things is, you have more control over thoughts and feelings than you realize. That's why we'll focus on the tools you need to "let go" of the thoughts that keep you stuck. You deserve to have a better life. Together, we'll create a plan - and make it work. Call today. Free phone consult at 310-850-4707"
Carrie Zerling
"Many of us struggle with issues such as stress, depression, anxiety, social isolation, fear, grief, loss, trauma, relationship difficulties, or feel generally overwhelmed with life. You don't have to be alone with these struggles. Psychotherapy is an empowering tool that helps you to better understand yourself and the obstacles that are preventing change. I have worked with clients from various backgrounds in race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, socioeconomic status & political affiliations. My mission is to help you to improve your life skills and to progress from the difficult experiences that you've had."
Ronald C Boutelle
Psychologist, PhD, PsyD
"As a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, I strongly believe each person has the potential to overcome inner conflict in order to experience contentment and happiness. However, people often are unable to overcome negative emotions in their lives and relationships because they don't truly understand themselves. Childhood experiences and our family background are powerful influences in shaping who we become as adults -- significantly influencing our career, friendship, and romantic relationship choices. Psychotherapy can provide the key to understanding and ultimately overcoming the obstacles to achieve a fulfilling life."
Anais Munoz Kelly
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, PsyD, MFT
"Hello my name is Dr. Anais Munoz Kelly. People come to therapy for many reasons. You might have gone through something painful recently or perhaps you feel numb and don't know why. Life may have lost it's meaning. Yet there is another side of you that is willing to do the work it takes to understand your feelings and your experiences. Together we can sort this out and find new options. One helpful aspect about therapy is finding compassion for yourself and others."
Stephanie Francis
"I help individuals, couples, and children to identify and overcome problems that are hindering their everyday lives. I provide a welcoming and warm environment to create and foster change. I work to create a strong connection with all my clients to help them feel heard and safe. I use an eclectic approach utilizing cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic practices to collaborate and interact with clients. I provide services to those seeking help with the following issues: interpersonal and relationship concerns, depression and anxiety."
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If you're looking for couples counseling in Marina Del Rey or for a Marina Del Rey couples counselor these professionals provide couples counseling services in Marina Del Rey. They include counselors for couples. Couples therapy, sometimes called marital therapy, can be defined as treatment for the relationship of the couple. Conjoint treatment--seeing the couple together--is the approach used most of the time by therapists who identify themselves as doing couples or marital therapy.
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For example, if you're seeking a marriage counselor in Marina Del Rey you'll find that most therapists are trained in marriage counseling or couples counseling in Marina Del Rey and couples therapy. And they welcome families for family counseling in Marina Del Rey or family therapy in Marina Del Rey. | website www.healthyandhealing.com"
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"Afraid that you've lost your old self and are becoming a person that you do not want to be? Wondering, "Why can't I just be happy?" Don't give up! It is tough navigating all the self-critical thoughts that show up when we are trying to do our best. Although we are not taught to show kindness to ourselves-- mindful self-compassion counteracts the barrage of judgment that we inflict inwardly. This process is crucial our overall well-being. Let's meet and help you find your ability to fully experience a meaningful, rich and vital life by practicing self-compassion."
Alexandra Mcclung
"My personal approach centers around providing a supportive environment to help clients feel safe and understood. I have over eight years of experience working with children, adolescents, couples and adults with poor social skills, emotional stress, depression, anxiety, sexual abuse and severe trauma histories. With compassion, humor, and understanding, I will work with you to help you build on your own strengths and attain personal change and growth."
Kara Morgan
"Are you longing for a change? Maybe you've been feeling anxious and fearful. Or perhaps, you have been struggling with emptiness, depression, or self-doubt. Maybe you've tried therapy before and were disappointed. I can help you get the results you want. For over 25 years, I have successfully worked with individuals to experience more joy and happiness. Their self-esteem increases and there is a deeper sense of value and authenticity. They begin making choices that lead to success. I also coach men and women in finding the "right one" for a committed and fulfilling relationship."
Marie Freschl
"Life continuously moves in all directions and can often impact the space we are in. Whether it is complex issues that have built up for several years, or a brief problem that has temporarily become a part of your life, I hope to empower you through your journey in finding hope and healing."
Rita Seiden
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, PhD
"Need help with relationships, emotional distress, marital and parenting issues, work/career concerns, and caregiving? Having trouble giving up old habits like smoking? want to sleep better? want help managing pain and anxiety?, let's try some hypnosis! kindness and compassion are the bases of healing."
Deanna Olivas
"Do you want to feel more empowered, have a greater understanding of your circumstances, become more trusting of yourself, and regain hopefulness about your situation? This is absolutely attainable with therapeutic support. My objectives are to create a safe environment for you to express yourself and regain hope in your life. I employ cognitive behavioral techniques, while integrating interpersonal and systems approaches to best meet you where you are. I approach my work with compassion, normalization, humor and a passion to motivate positive change and healing. "
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"I will work with you individually within your relationships, to improve communication, to a positive emotional direction, and an improved life path.. My concentration includes the comfort and safety of confidentiality and a setting to encourage positive solutions to life difficulties. We will address the present as well as addressing past events. Our past is our knowledge. We have all learned and earned life from our past. Self-express; say what you need to say and mean what you say. Don't be afraid to say, yes; don't be afraid to say, no; kindly. Find Emotional Freedom and heal your present."
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The Great New Zealand 1kg of Cheese
This 1985 promotional film for the New Zealand Dairy Board catalogues diversifying taste in cheese as Kiwis move beyond the big block of cheddar. New varieties — feta, brie, camembert — are pitched as part of an evolution towards a more exotic and 'gourmet' culinary culture. A camel-riding Catherine Saunders looks at the process of how cheese is made in NZ; a highlight is the making of blue vein mould, and fondue gets a mention ("gruyère is best"). The film opens with an ad anointing "the great New Zealand 1Kg!" alongside a line-up of iconic Kiwi measurements.
Alison Holst Cooks - Bread and Cheese
In this short clip, sponsored by the New Zealand Dairy Board, cookbook queen Alison Holst provides a rundown on four easy meals that can be made out of bread and cheese. Made long before the more hyperactive Food In a Minute, Holst's calm charisma gently talks us through the ins and outs of mouse traps, cheese rolls, mini pizzas and, of course, cheese toasties. A surprise bell from the microwave threatens to throw Holst off her stride, but then a dive into her rich supply of kitchen tips helps her get things right back on track.
Top 40 NZ TV Classics
This collection of 40 classic Kiwi TV series offers<|fim_middle|> to discover she's travelled back in time 100 years. When some futuristic technology goes missing and the family farm ends up on the line, the children must put their differences aside. The episode also features a memorable appearance by Craig Parker as the family's accountant.
A jandal-shod journey through Kiwi pop culture. Kiwiana takes a light-hearted look at the fashion, art, architecture, attitudes, and icons (Buzzy Bees, Edmonds, Swanndri, Pavlova etc) we call our own. Directed by Shirley Horrocks, and shot by Leon Narbey, it featured personalities Gary McCormick, Ginette McDonald, John Clarke, Peter Jackson, and others. Screening at a time (1996) when New Zealanders were just beginning to appreciate these neglected everyday objects as 'collectibles,' it rated highly, and inspired a sequel, Kiwi As. | up images spanning 50 years. The titles range from Gloss to Gliding On, from Olly Ohlson to Nice One Stu, from Ready to Roll to wrestlers. In this special backgrounder, Stuff's James Croot writes about favourite moments of Kiwi TV. The list is in rough chronological order of when each series debuted.
Staines Down Drains - Fool's Gold
This cheese-themed episode from the second series of the animated show is musically narrated by Kiwi cartoon icons Ches And Dale (both voiced by Outrageous Fortune's Frank Whitten). The duo join Stanley and Mary-Jane on a pipe into Drainworld, where they battle Dr Drain's plans to use cheese to convert an army of rats to his evil plans. Created by Jim Mora (Mucking In) and Brent Chambers of Flux Animation, the first series marked New Zealand TV's first international animation co-production; the second season of Staines Down Drains was produced by Flux for TVNZ.
Over the Sea and Near Away
Sponsored by the Crusader Shipping Company, this 1966 National Film Unit production joins one of the firm's ships as it transports NZ products from Auckland to Asia — home to "one quarter of the human race, 900 million customers". As milk powder, wool, mutton, apples, cheese and deer antlers are delivered to ports in the Philippines, China, Japan, and Hong Kong, director Ron Bowie observes cultural difference and economic opportunity; and a "westernising" Orient is beautifully captured by Kell Fowler. The NFU crew were rare foreign observers in Chairman Mao's China.
The Dairy Industry
This 1970 documentary surveys New Zealand's dairy industry — "probably the most advanced in the world" — from pasture to export. Dairying then produced a quarter of NZ's income, but with Britain due to join the EEC, NZ was forced to seek new markets. This film proclaims the industry's readiness, thanks to an artificial breeding centre (with 'calf-eteria'), room-sized computers, and cheeses designed for the Asian market. The country's 25,000 dairy farms were each owner-operated, and averaged 90 cows. The Dairy Industry won top prize at an agricultural film competition in Berlin.
It's in the Bag - Waimamaku (Series Four, Episode Four)
In 2009 Māori Television rebooted the Selwyn Toogood-hosted 70s game show, with presenters Pio Terei and Stacey Daniels Morrison giving contestants the immortal choice: the money or the bag? In this episode — complete with web players — the road show comes to Ngāpuhi territory: the Northland town of Waimamaku. The series is bilingual; but how ever you say it be careful what you choose: as Stacey says, "Instead of a TV you might get a can of V!" The show ends with Pio leading a 'Pokarekare Ana' singalong. "Too much!"
William Shatner's A Twist in the Tale: A Crack in Time
Presented by William Shatner, A Twist In The Tale was an anthology series with each episode featuring a new story for Shatner to tell a group of children gathered round the fireplace. In this adventure, a freak storm causes a strange girl (Westside's Antonia Prebble) to appear in a boy's bedroom cupboard, only | 713 |
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Small to medium size businesses (SMBs) who need to develop new revenue streams and drive growth all want to leverage the power of mobile, cloud and social platforms. The challenge is having in-house talent that can handle developing and managing these newer technologies while at the same time, managing the company's network and keeping everyone's devices up and running. The reality is that most companies' core competencies do not include technology. Smart companies use managed IT services to bridge that gap and keep focused on running the business with the right partners to manage the technology tools and infrastructure. | important functions like Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR), disaster recovery, applications management and network security at risk. Add mobile technology, tablet use, and cloud-based storage into the mix and organizational capacity is stretched beyond what is tenable. Using managed services can provide affordable and effective alternatives for smaller enterprises that drive big results.
Utilizing our framework for providing managed services, PCA provides a range of proactive services to keep your IT systems up-and-running and your people and organization productive.
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Adventure is something that you always want in your life, rock climbing is one such kind<|fim_middle|> at all times. Walking, running, hiking, weight lifting, skiing, snowboarding, uphill cycling all these will help you to prepare physically. | of adventure that you will always want to do. However, rock climbing is not like your average sport, instead it is a lot more challenging and requires optimum physical fitness. That is why, rock climbing is not for everyone but if anyone wants to give it a first try it is better to start small at an indoor facility. If you are climbing for the very first time, then there are some things that you must know and that is exactly what you will find here.
It is very important to first learn about your environment and carefully plan out every move. Acquire as much knowledge as you can about the sport. It is to be noted that rock climbing not only requires you to be physically fit but it also demands mental toughness. Read some books that solely educate you about rock climbing. Read about experiences of professional climbers to get the real picture. Watch documentaries on rock climbing to visualize the real scenario.
Get yourself familiarize with the gear you'll need. Do some research about when is the best time to climb, learn about different weather conditions, and how to asses an environment (wind speed and direction, humidity, temperature and etc.). Last but not the least talk to professionals, as they are the best guides you can have.
Mental fitness is absolutely necessary when it comes to rock climbing, if you give up easily, you don't push your limits, you easily panic, then you might not want to go climbing because while going up the hill it's important for you to stay calm, find best solution to problems quickly, and don't panic when conditions are not in your favor. Physical fitness is equally important and it should be kept in mind | 330 |
CRAS AES Student Chapter & Waves Audio Conduct In-Depth Live Sound Workshop
WavesLive Was Developed and Presented by Waves Audio, Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences (CRAS), & CRAS AES Student Chapter Representatives to Teach Live Sound Techniques Utilizing Waves Plugins & Gear
Gilbert, Ariz., Feb. 13, 2017 – The Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences (CRAS; www.cras.edu), the premier institution for audio engineering education, and its AES Student Chapter, recently opened its doors at its Gilbert, Ariz. campus to Waves Audio for WavesLive, an in-depth workshop for CRAS students and local audio pros.
"The live sound workshop was incredibly informative and insightful for our students," said Kirt Hamm, CRAS administrator. "Waves designs and produces top-shelf pro audio gear. Having them come in and train our students is real-world knowledge they can take with them into the field, which is invaluable at this stage of their education. The CRAS AES Chapter is incredibly active, and it was evident here during the WavesLive workshop."
The session was a CRAS AES event that was developed and presented by Waves and David Kohr, a CRAS instructor and CRAS Faculty Liaison for the AES Student Chapter. In all, approximately 200 students and local audio pros participated in the workshop.
The event began with introducing CRAS AES, where co-presidents CJ Smith and Josh Badger spoke about student AES activities. That was followed by Waves artist's Ken 'Pooch' Van Druten (Linkin Park, Kid Rock, Kiss) and Eddie 'El Brujo' Caipo (Enrique Iglesias, Gwen Stefani) demonstrating how they mix their artists on tour using Waves plugins. Waves Live Product Specialist Kent Margraves also gave an overview of SoundGrid and DiGiGrid products as well as demonstrating some of Waves' most useful plugins in a live sound setting.
"Education and audio instruction have always been a Waves priority and as such, we are delighted to cooperate with CRAS where students can explore the latest in cutting-edge audio technology and hone their craft," said Mick Olesh, Waves EVP of Sales & Marketing. "CRAS is the perfect vehicle for training the next generation of sound engineers and musicians."
There were open dialogues between Waves, CRAS instructors, and CRAS students throughout the workshop. The students were encouraged to be involved as much as possible so they could learn every facet of live sound recording.
"Here at the Conservatory, we have one of the most active student chapters of the Audio Engineering Society in North America, and its companies like Waves reaching out to us to host this amazing WavesLive event that makes getting an education from the Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences so much more unique than what you can get anywhere else," said Kohr. "Waves has some of the best plugins available and now, with the Waves LV1 software mixer, they have an amazing console as well. Waves has always been involved with the Conservatory, providing a valuable platform of education for our students."
Besides being trained on gear, Waves educated the participants on how far live sound has come over the decades, as well as how to get established in the live sound industry and recommended reading to get ahead.
"The event was very well rounded," added Hamm. "Being successful<|fim_middle|> their first-hand knowledge and experience."
The Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences is composed of two nearby campuses in Gilbert and Tempe, Ariz. A CRAS education includes broadcast audio, live sound, film and TV audio, music, and video game audio, all taught by award-winning instructors who have all excelled in their individual fields, including sound reinforcement, audio recording and production, digital recording, troubleshooting/maintenance, and music business.
CRAS structured programs and highly qualified teaching staff provide a professional and supportive atmosphere, which is complemented by its small class sizes allowing for individual instruction and assistance for students in engineering audio recordings. CRAS has been providing quality vocational training in audio recording for more than three decades. The curriculum and equipment are constantly being updated to keep pace with the rapid advancements in the music and sound recording industries. CRAS' course offerings and subject matter have always centered around the skills and knowledge necessary for students' success in the audio recording industries.
The 11-month program is designed to allow every student access to learn and train in all of the Conservatory's studios which are comprised with state-of-the-art audio recording and mixing gear, the same equipment used in today's finest studios and remote broadcast facilities, including Pro Tools 12, API Legacy consoles, SSL AWS consoles, Studer Vista consoles, and much more. All students must complete a 280-hour industry internship to graduate from the Master Recording Program II that may ultimately lead to industry employment. Currently, a CRAS graduate has been nominated for a 2017 GRAMMY® Award. In addition, 32 CRAS graduates worked on 35 2017 GRAMMY-nominated albums and songs across 35 categories, of which 11 graduates received multiple credits on nominations.
"We want everyone to see, hear, and feel how our 11-month program focuses exclusively on what a student needs to know to begin living their passion in any one of the many facets of the recording arts," explained Hamm.
For more information on the Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences, please visit www.cras.edu..
About Waves Audio Ltd.:
Waves is the world's leading developer of audio DSP solutions for the professional, broadcast, and consumer electronics audio markets. Since its start in the early '90s with the introduction of the Q10 equalizer plugin, Waves has gone on to develop a comprehensive line of over 200 audio plugins, including industry standards like the L1 and L2 Ultramaximizers, popular vintage console models, and innovative mixing tools like Vocal Rider and the Artist Signature Series. For its accomplishments, Waves received a Technical GRAMMY® Award in 2011, and the Q10 was selected as an inductee into the TECnology Hall of Fame. In 2016, Waves released the eMotion LV1 mixer, a revolutionary live digital mixing console that provides real-time audio mixing for front-of-house, monitor, studio and broadcast engineers. Waves technologies are now used to improve sound quality in virtually every sector of the audio market, from recording, mixing, mastering and post-production to broadcast, live sound, and consumer electronics. Waves has over 20 years of expertise in the development of psychoacoustic signal processing algorithms that leverage knowledge of human auditory perception to radically improve perceived sound quality. Waves' award-winning processors are utilized to improve sound quality in the creation of hit records, major motion pictures, and top-selling video games worldwide. Waves offers computer software and hardware-plus-software solutions for the professional and broadcast markets. The company's WavesLive division is a market leader in all live sound sectors, spearheading the development of solutions for all live platforms. Under its Maxx brand, Waves offers semiconductor and licensable algorithms for consumer electronics applications. Waves Maxx technologies dramatically enhance audio performance and are used by industry leaders such as Dell, LG, TCL, Lenovo, Asus, Denon and more.
About The Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences
Based in the heart of The Valley of the Sun with two campuses in Gilbert and Tempe, Ariz., The Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences (CRAS) is one of the country's premier institutions for audio education. The Conservatory has developed a unique and highly effective way to help the future audio professional launch their careers in the recording industry and other related professional audio categories.
SOURCE: Waves Audio Ltd. | is not just about how to work the gear. It's about relationships and how to work well with the artists. Waves did a fantastic job educating our students with | 32 |
SHANGHAI - Danish firms are flourishing in the Chinese market as commercial ties deepen between Denmark and the world's second-largest economy.
Danish companies have carved out a niche for themselves in a broad swath of Chinese industry sectors, including logistics, food and beverage, food ingredients, furniture manufacturing<|fim_middle|>231 to 465 since 2003, wrote Jesper Kamp, head of the commercial department at the Danish embassy in Beijing, in a research note.
Shanghai, meanwhile, is home to one of Denmark's four Innovation Centers worldwide, the others located in Silicon Valley, Munich and Hong Kong, Hyldelund said.
The Innovation Center Denmark in Shanghai acts as a conduit between Danish research institutions and companies and their Chinese counterparts, focusing on cleantech, life science and information and communication technology (ICT), she added.
Looking ahead, Overgaard believes China will be a long-term source of growth for Danish companies as a center for sourcing, outsourcing and R&D.
"Eventually, I think China will also evolve into a global talent pool for Danish businesses," he said. | and retail.
Several of Denmark's most prolific businesspeople in China were recognized Saturday at an annual business awards ceremony hosted by the Danish Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.
Simon Lichtenberg, chief executive officer of the Shanghai-based Trayton Group, was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year. The Trayton Group is one of China's largest furniture manufacturers and retailers with four factories, twelve stores under the BoConcept name and more than 2,500 employees.
Lichtenberg first came to China to study Mandarin at Fudan University in 1988. He founded the Trayton Group in Shanghai in 1995. Last year, the company launched the Danish luxury lifestyle brand Georg Jensen in China.
Lichtenberg advised aspiring foreign entrepreneurs at the ceremony to take heed of their Chinese competition.
"I would recommend that you get into an industry that does not have thousands of Chinese competitors," he said.
John F. Christensen, founder of the Wagas café and partner in the freight forwarding supplier Prime Cargo Denmark, won the Business Person of the Year award. Christensen launched Wagas in Shanghai in 2000. The café has since grown more than tenfold and today there are 22 outlets throughout the city. Next year, Wagas will expand outside of China's commercial hub.
Christensen and his partner Jackie Yun operate a total of 40 different restaurants and bakeries in Shanghai employing 1,000 people.
At the end of the year, Christensen will launch Peak Wines, a wine importer that will sell to Shanghai restaurants and the retail market.
Finalists for Entrepreneur of the Year included Casper Tollerud, chief executive officer of the travel agency Genuine China Tours and Simon Gjeroe and Lars Ulrik Thom, owners of Beijing Postcards. Genuine China Tours creates customized travel packages for Danish clients. Gjeroe and Ulrik Thom's company produces postcards and stationery featuring vintage China photos taken between the 1880s and 1950s.
Torben Nielsen, chief executive officer of Kopenhagen Fur and George Kahwati, China general manger of the shoemaker Ecco, were finalists for the Business Person of the Year award. Kopenhagen Fur is the world's largest fur auction house with a 60 percent share of the global market. Ecco has more than 600 shops in 31 Chinese provinces.
Danish companies large and small have much to offer China, said Christian Overgaard, vice president of Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa at Chr. Hansen – a food ingredient company - and chairman of the Danish Chamber of Commerce in China.
"Sino-Danish cooperation will be focused on innovation and quality moving forward," he said.
"For one thing, I think we will see Chinese and contemporary Danish designers teaming up."
"Another area with strong potential for cooperation is automated production. Companies that want their costs to be competitive and still manufacture on the east coast of China will need to move in that direction," Overgaard said.
Denmark can export the machinery required for automated production to China, he added.
Denmark can also utilize its expertise in energy efficiency services to support China's environmental protection efforts, Overgaard explained.
"Water cleaning would be highly beneficial to Chinese rivers," he said.
Overgaard believes China and Denmark can cooperate on food safety as well. The Danish foreign ministry recently arranged for a Chinese government delegation to visit Denmark and meet with Danish food safety experts. The exchanges between the two sides were fruitful, Overgaard said.
"Denmark's foreign ministry has its largest global presence in China," said Susanne Hyldelund, the Danish consul general in Shanghai. "We offer strong support for two-way government exchanges and the business community."
The number of Danish companies operating in China has more than doubled from | 778 |
7 of the Best Hand Sanitizers That Soften Hands While Killing Germs
Erin Bunch・May 19, 2020
Photo: Getty/Klaus Vedfelt
One of my best friends has been using hand sanitizer religiously for as long as I've known him. I always thought it was a weird quirk as I'd never even opened the one bottle I owned. Then came COVID-19, and now I don't leave the house without this previously superfluous-seeming product. These days, I rely on a few hand sanitizer brands with skin care in mind.
Several skin-care companies have added hand sanitizer to their offerings in recent weeks. In large part, they've done so in order to pitch in during this unprecedented crisis in a way that made sense for their brands."When this global pandemic hit, the importance of readily available hand sanitation became clear," says Lather founder Emilie Hoyt, whose brand recently added a hand sanitizer to its lineup of products.
"Readily available" is the key phrase there, and SpaRitual founder Shel Pink tells me that it was when she realized hand sanitizer was hard to come by in her personal experience, at the start of the pandemic, that she directed her company to begin manufacturing it. "We saw the need to help people prepare [for COVID-19] and knew there would be a city-level need as well for the people on the frontlines," she says.
Meanwhile, Herbivore Botanicals—which is based in Seattle, home to one of the earliest U.S. outbreaks of COVID-19—pivoted when the company's workers suddenly found the hand sanitizer they needed to keep themselves safe at work hard to come by. "For their own safety and the safety of our customers, they formulated their own hand sanitizers to use while at work," says Alexander Kummerow, co-founder of Herbivore Botanicals. "I am so impressed with our team—we went from concept to launch in under a month."
Some of the brands expanding into the hand sanitizer market are donating product in addition to selling it to consumers to meet that aforementioned city-level need. SpaRitual sent its first 5,000 bottles to the City of Los Angeles for use within its homeless population. Herbivore Botanicals, meanwhile, has donated 75,000 bottles of its new hand sanitizer offering, with 50,000 going to the United Way in Seattle and 25,000 going to hospitals in New York City.
Some have also made the decision to add hydrating ingredients into the mix as the high alcohol content in sanitizers makes them extremely drying. (Note: the FDA cautions that "additional ingredients may impact the quality or and<|fim_middle|>itual's pure hand sanitizer also boasts 75 percent alcohol level. It's available in a 2-ounce on-the-go size as well as a 16-ounce bottle.
3. LATHER Hand Sanitizer with Moisturizing Aloe, $18
Lather's version relies on aloe vera and green tea extract for their moisturizing benefits, and contains 65 percent alcohol content.
4. Maapilin Hand Sanitizer, $12
This hand sanitizer brand features 75 percent alcohol content and a heady blend of bergamot, jasmine, and cedarwood essential oils.
5. Love Dirty Air-Free Eco Pump Dispenser, $18
Love Dirty's hand sanitizer contains 64 percent alcohol and comes in two different containers. One has a pump feature and the other, smaller squeeze version fits easily into a purse or pocket.
6. Pipette Hand Sanitizer, $5
Baby skin-care brand Pipette, which is owned by the makers of Biossance, is also offering a hand sanitizer. It's safe enough for baby and effective enough for mom and the whole family, with an alcohol content of 65 percent. It also features the brand's favorite hydrating ingredient, squalane.
7.OLIKA MINNIE FRAGRANCE FREE PINK MARSHMALLOW, 3-pack, $18
Photo: Olika
As far as hand sanitizers go, this spray tops the list as the cutest one ever to exist. It's made with 65 percent ethyl alcohol to obliterate germs, and doesn't have any sort of fruity or fragrant scent. Just be ready to share, though, because the minute you pull it out of your bag, your friends will be begging to try it for themselves.
Tags: Skin-Care Tips, Summer Skin Care, Winter Skin Care | potency of the product," so it's important to do your homework; hand sanitizers containing less than 60 percent of alcohol are not effective.) Pink, whose company opted out of additives, explains that it is important to prioritize hydration alongside sanitization, not just for aesthetic reasons but for the good of your health, too.
If possible, both Pink and Hoyt recommend hand washing as a preferable defense because it is less damaging to the skin. "To be completely transparent, I have always preferred soap and water to hand sanitizer," says Hoyt. "Alcohol by nature is inherently drying, oftentimes resulting in the breakdown of skin barrier, which can ultimately make people more susceptible to getting sick."
With that said, hand washing isn't always an immediately available option. "If you don't have access to soap or water, use an effective hand sanitizer instead, and make sure to always keep the skin on the hands hydrated [with moisturizing creams or salves]," says Pink.
Below, shop the best hand sanitizer offerings from skin-care brands to give the newest ritual-you-never-asked-for a little boost.
The best new hand sanitizer options from skin-care brands
1. Herbivore Hand Hero, $12
Herbivore's product contains hydrating hyaluronic acid and aloe vera in addition to effective sanitizing ingredients, including 75 percent alcohol content. (The CDC recommends a minimum of 60 percent). It's also available in two scents—lavender and pink grapefruit.
2. Sparitual Hand Sanitizer Spray, 4-pack, $20
SpaR | 332 |
It was an hour flight from Teterboro, New Jersey to Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C., On the way to the venue we passed the Lincoln Memorial and the White House.
Tonight's show was in<|fim_middle|> the last few shows of this fantastic tour. It hard to believe it all began last April, how far we've come and how much we're still enjoying and refining the music.
A day off tomorrow that will be spent with Rudy Pensa at his brilliant guitar shop in Soho and visiting old friends from Nashville who are now relocated here in the city.
New York City, New York 20 October 2015 | the Warner Theatre. It was built in 1924 as a movie and vaudeville house and originally called the Earle Theatre the later renamed in honour of Jack Warner of Warner Bros. renown.
Mark Bartel, the fellow who makes Tone King Amplifiers met us with a brand new prototype amp that sounds like a million bucks. He was pleased to see that there were three Tone Kings on stage tonight as every night. Mark, John and I use Tone King Imperials and love them. Also, there was a great picture in today's New York Times as part of an article on performance artist Laurie Anderson in conjunction with an installation that includes a wall of Tone Kings that belonged to her husband and founding member of Velvet Underground, Lou Reed. Check it out here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/movies/laurie-anderson-is-telling-stories-hers-and-ours.html?emc=edit_th_20151018&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=65815463
A relatively small theatre seating just 1,690, it had the feeling of a club gig, very intimate. Another wonderful audience and another great show. It's really hit home now that we're on | 269 |
Speziell (Special) was founded in 2002 by Sybille Fleckenstein, Jens Pohlmann and Thilo Schwer. The three product designers believe in the<|fim_middle|> team members contribute their different experiences and priorities. This enables pithy solutions to be created which focus not on an individual's ego but on a jointly discovered approach. The focus of the design agency's work lies in the furniture, kitchen and bathroom areas; the projects range from lighting to office furniture and from porcelain sets to trade fair stands and have received numerous design awards.
Viswall rotating room dividers allow you to create private zones and third spaces in the office.
Brainstorm Mobile Table is stackable, with optional height adjustability and can be optimally wired up.
Brainstorm Nesting Table offers intelligent functionality and encourages communication.
Brainstorm Training Tables offer personal workstation solutions for training rooms and seminars. | strength of a design process to which different | 8 |
This post is on answer to a writing prompt from Void of the A Green Mushroom blog.
Is there any particular game series that you will always be attached to? What is it that makes the series as a whole compelling (as opposed to just a certain game in the series)?
For me, there have a number of series I have been attached too, Call of Duty I was a huge fan of from the beginning, but more because of the World War 2 aspects in the early games. When devolved into the current Modern Warfare incarnation, I lost interest.
One game that has kept my interest though, is Assassin's Creed. With the exception of the latest game, which I'm led to believe<|fim_middle|> series! I end up picking up every main game, even though some are hits and some are misses at this point. I just love the premise and the moment-to-moment gameplay. Even the last one, despite it's bugs.
I'm excited for the next one to release in a few months. Industrial revolution London looks like a fun playground!
I still haven't played a single one of these games! | is buggy as Hell, thanks to Ubisoft rushing it out, the series has kept me gripped. From historical aspects to the incredible free-running game play, I love it. Climbing towers to reach the top, particularly when there's a view point to be found is always excillerating to me and the chases through the streets and across rooftops, no matter what the setting is thrilling.
The more recent games, set in The American Revolution and Pirate eras have introduced an excellent crafting system, giving even more depth and the games seem to have the right level of collectables to make me want to find them all without it becoming a grind.
I'm very much looking forward to the forthcoming game in the series, set in Victorian London. Having lived there for over 20 years, any game in that setting interests me (GTA London was especially awesome) but throw in Assassins and you've got me!
I also love the AC | 191 |
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I am really getting into the exercise this week. Both Thursday and Friday evenings after work I've done at least an hour on the Wii dancing my derrier into action. It's actually quite<|fim_middle|> muddy (our little White Westie came home with orangey coloured muddy paws along with an orange underside and mouth!) it was lovely and windy but not very cold so we were ok. Luckily even though it looked like it was going to rain it didn't so we were quite dry. | fun and I do get really hot and sweaty so I guess that's a good thing.
Today we decided to take the dog on a long, muddy walk over Sandwell Valley Country Park. It's only a ten minute car journey away and we roughly know the area so we got wrapped up and headed down to the Park.
I've also been using a brilliant app for my iphone which tracks where you walk and gives you all the stats like how far you've been walking, for how long and elevations etc. It's really good.
Today we walked for just over an hour and we managed to walk 2.47 miles. Stupidly we did walk around Swan Pool and off the beaten track so we got really | 146 |
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Under Apartheid, law prohibited social integration -and interaction between black and white cultures. This bred mistrust and hostility on both sides. Commercial fishing, Melkhoutfontein's only sustainable source of livelihood, had all but dried up by mid 1985. Tourism, to Anthea's mind, (already working in social development and poverty relief there since 1985), with all the attributes the area offered, was the path to the future. Social tourism entrepreneurship was the vehicle to drive it.
Her commitment to break down the many barriers, which includes emotional and lack of confidence, to become part of the economic benefits and the peripheral advantages of tourism, would take years to fulfil. In 1988 Anthea tabled her model of sustainable and responsible community based tourism, in Melkhoutfontein to offer an alternative experience, by the community, to visitors. In 1990 Melkhoutfontein was proclaimed one of the most destitute communities in South Africa by the Human Science Research Council.
The outcome of this research further motivated Anthea to continue in her quest to use what the people of Melkhoutfontein had, (their humanity and history), to offer local engagement encounters, participating in community life, at the heart of this personal experience. These experiences would not be staged cultural experiences traditionally offered. It would engage life as lived and turn create paths to mutual understanding, trust, and respect.
Abandoning a career with lucrative options, in the absence of tangible benefits of tourism evolving in township communities, Anthea chose to commit 90% of her work time as a volunteer since Dreamcatcher's inception, to facilitate socio-economic transformation through inclusive enterprise participation by predominantly women enterprises. Working tirelessly among the women with the vision to include youth to develop a new generation of enterprises in South Africa, she pioneered various socio-economic development models to turn the impossible into the possible in terms of access to business in a fiercely tourism industry and deliberately including development of peripheral enterprises of which local crafting and creative, the environment.
Anthea's mission was to ensure that money circulated in communities and that business enterprises, by virtue of the particular poor economic activities in the communities where poverty was rife, to develop pluralistic models which could impact positively on local society. In this time, despite a hostile political and social climate initially she pioneered the concept of townships tours. This was followed by the concept of a unique type of guest house experience was developed: local community based home stays in comfortable local accommodations where guests can participate in family and community life. Ultimately her efforts led to her involvement as founding member of the Global Community Based Tourism Network, initiated under the auspices of the Netherlands Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI). Known as the "mother" of tourism in communities across South Africa, Anthea is currently the elected spokesman for this organisation which, through its visionary founding a decade ago, is currently in the process of developing a new website. This project embarked upon with over a dozen country representatives of community based tourism, initially, the platform will assist the travel industry to find authentic, unpretentious, truly local community based experiences offered by wholly owned local enterprises who contribute to the socio-economic growth, unique culture and day to day lifestyle of their communities. These are the "unstaged"experiences which an ever growing discerning new generation of travellers are seeking.
From inception 30 years ago, her plan and vision was simple: offer tourists the change to engage the "real" South Africa. Enable visitors discover and become part of the soul of the country, engage and interact with its fascinating people, diversity of traditional lifestyles and to share their own at local level. To make this transition an integral part of the "must do" experience of South Africa (and any country). Passionate about the environment, the abundant wildlife and stunning natural vistas these are not negated. On the contrary Anthea views its sustainable survival dependant on the people of South Africa who are considered the custodians of this environment. For nature to survive, its people must thrive is her ethos. Anthea refers to this shift in orientation within the tourist industry as "Changing Lanes to the true South Africa". In Anthea's vision that travellers from around the globe, conscientious of the important positive impact their patronage could have on local communities is all coming into fruition as the numbers of travellers seeking out cultural travel experiences, volunteer and interning opportunities that help them broaden their horizons and become better citizens of the world, continue to grow.
3 decades later, Anthea still spends 80% of her work time as a volunteer at Dreamcatcher, developing sustainable models to improve quality of life and sustainable self-sufficiency in communities. A gifted speaker and tutor, 20% of remaining time is dedicated to delivering keynote addresses and motivational talks drawing on her many years of real world experience in community development from the boot straps, mentoring and tutoring. As an expert community and stakeholder engager, working in diverse, multi-cultural environments, with a significant track record in facilitating sustainable economic growth at the grassroots level, she also provides guest tutorials at universities, schools and educator groups both in South Africa and internationally.
In addition to her work in South Africa, her expertise in stakeholder -and community engagement and behaviour change saw Anthea working part time in behaviour change projects and research with 2 Housing Associations, running trials on community engagement for Defra (Department for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs) in the United Kingdom, implementing her innovative community and social engagement model and approach to tackle a challenge and turn it into an opportunity. The outcomes of her work earned her the prestigious Gatwick Diamond<|fim_middle|> Top Social Innovators Globally, by the World CSR Organisation.
Key to Anthea's approach is her gifted leadership of enabling ways to build bridges of understanding which eliminate barriers, instil knowledge and training purposed to practical outcomes purposed to inspire community contributors. A true visionary, those who know Anthea find her unassuming, gracious people oriented leader, unmotivated by accolades, who gets things done, turning impossibilities into probabilities. Her greatest joy is to assist individuals and communities find ways to develop to their full potential in pathways of learning and socio-economic empowerment.
Says Anthea: "Viewing the world around me, I am pleased that I made the choices I did. To use an African word, I am Ubuntu. I am who I am through my association with others. I made the choice consciously to get down to grass roots and remain in touch with the real world and life as truly lived. It is such fun. There is never a dull moment. I chose to share and adhere to ideals of Nelson Mandela: to build bridges of hope and universal understanding, not just by talking about it, but by living it and ensuring a lasting legacy of hope to make his dream and those who struggled for political freedom, work in terms of socio-economic freedom. There is so much to do. Let's get on with it!".
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Anthea is able to engage with people on all levels of society, including those considered "hard to reach". Projects she spearheads are characterised by the development of a community spirit among residents, defusing tension and earning her respect among thousands of local people in communities across South Africa and wider afield. With a approach of fostering individual empowerment, collective accountability and an ethos considering the greater good of society, she has the ability of focusing people, even in most conflicting platforms, to work towards sustainable living, addressing poverty, environmental impacts of waste on health and the environment, fair and inclusive access to opportunities for women, youth and those with physical challenges and concerted efforts to promote universal intra-cultural harmony and tolerance. This has earned her the accolade of one of the | 171 |
Your shady roof<|fim_middle|> ultimately drives down the cost of solar," Aljarbou says. | is solar-power friendly now.
The number of homes with solar panels has grown quickly in the last few years. But there could be a lot more. Up to three-quarters of houses are still thought to be unsuitable for solar because of shading, ownership, and structural issues. Shading is also a serious issue even for homes with solar. Covering up just 3% of an array leads to a loss of 25% of power, according one estimate.
That's why an invention by graduate students at MIT is potentially significant. It could both raise the performance of shaded panels and put homes that are currently excluded from solar into play.
The team's integrated circuit recently picked up two prizes: the Department of Energy's $100,000 Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Clean Energy Prize and the MIT Clean Energy Prize, worth $125,000.
"Our technology focuses on solving the problem of shading on solar panels, where a small percentage of shading can cause significant losses," explains Bessma Aljarbou, one of the team members.
Because solar panels are made up of cells in series, one bad cell can affect performance of the whole panel. Likewise, one bad panel can affect the performance of a whole array. The whole system is only as good as its weakest link, because ideally you want power to flow equally between all points.
To get around this problem, many systems have added power optimizers that isolate certain panels, thus improving overall performance. But that's far from ideal. It's a sledgehammer solution to a nut-sized issue, Aljarbou says.
The circuit from the MIT team instead balances power between cells that are energized and cells that are shaded. "When you're doing it at the cell-level, you're capturing more energy," Aljarbou says. The team claims its prototype recovers double the energy compared to existing power optimization methods.
For now, the circuit is only working in the lab. The team, which has formed a company called United Unified Solar, now plans to develop a commercial prototype and start working with manufacturers on a full product.
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The largest Christmas Tree (750m) in the World is in Italy
With height of 750 meters (!), included in the Guinness Book of Records, sparkles every year in the Italian medieval town of Gubbio in Umbria region.
The main particularity of this Christmas tree is not only in its size. But also in the fact that it's not just a tree, but the illumination, created of 1000 colorful lights, placed on the hillside of the mountain Ingino.
The Christmas Tree entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1991. It usually remains on during the entire Christmas period and is turned off after Epiphany.
The Christmas Tree is<|fim_middle|> lights outline the shape of a Christmas tree that is 650 meters high with the centre filled with 400 multi-colored lights. At the top of the tree, a star made of more than 250 lights.
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Roy Stanley Emerson Tennis Great: In a country where you have to be exceptional to have your name mentioned as one of the all-time greats of tennis, the name of Roy Emerson is one that will cause no debate, if for no other reason than his being one of the few able to prevent Rod Laver from winning every tournament held.
The two men staged some epic battles over the years. Another Australian, Fred Stolle, figures prominently into the mix, as does Tony Roche. Ken Rosewall and John Newcombe often found themselves on the negative side of the equation in Grand Slam tournaments. "Emmo," as he was known, also defended the homeland by defeating up-and-coming American Arthur Ashe twice consecutively in the Australian Championships in 1966-67.
Before going any further, however, we once again have to beat the horse we have so thoroughly beaten in the past when the subject has been tennis. Emerson played in the era when along with Singles, players were expected to play Doubles and Mixed Doubles, unlike some modern players who would not stoop to share space with another player on the same side of the court even if more than one ball was to be played simultaneously.
Emerson first picked up a racquet there, but he was showing prodigiousness early on, so his family moved to Brisbane. He was the recipient of a much higher level of instruction whilst at the Brisbane Grammar Scholl and Ipswich Grammar School. He began his amateur career, and at that time the world's top tennis players were amateurs all, in 1953. Emerson did not turn professional until 1968, when the true so-called Open Era of tennis began. Thus, all of his major accomplishments, including all of his Grand Slam Singles victories, occurred when he was an amateur.
Over the course of his career, he compiled 397 victories against 156 defeats in Singles; he was 204 – 65 in Doubles. He had a remarkable career, as would be expected, considering the state of Australian men's' tennis at the time, in the team format of the Davis Cup. He took part in four consecutive wins from 1959-62, again in 1964, and finally three consecutive 1965-67.
The list of the various records he holds is almost embarrassingly long. He is the only male tennis player who has won the Career Grand Slam in both Singles and Doubles. His 12 Grand Slam Singles tournament victories was the mark that lasted from 19<|fim_middle|> French Open, which he had won the prior year.
The exclamation point we will use for describing Roy Emerson's career is his record of winning 10 straight victories in Grand Slam tournament finals. That remarkable string began with his second Australian title, which was the first of five consecutive. It concluded with his 1967 French Open victory, his second at that event. Sandwiched in between were victories at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.
Emerson did not retire until 1983, although his latter years were more of his expressing his gratitude toward the game and the legions of fans he attracted. He won his last professional title, his 105th overall, in the 1973 Pacific Coast Championships in San Francisco. He played sparingly thereafter, appearing a few times up until 1977. His swan song was a tournament in Gstaad, Switzerland, where he had won the Swiss Open five times.
Today, he lives in California with his wife Joy and daughter Heidi. He has a home in Gstaad. Many honours have been conferred upon him, including the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. | 67, the year he won the last, the French Open, until 2000, when Pete Sampras finally caught up to Emmo. For those interested in the comparison, Laver won 11 Grand Slam Singles titles.
To the 12 Singles Grand Slam titles, add 16 Doubles Titles. He was the runner-up three times in Singles and 12 times in Doubles. He was twice runner-up in Grand Slam finals, the 1956 Australian Championships where he partnered Mary Bevis Hawton, and the 1960 French Championships, when he paired with Ann Haydon Jones.
Roy Emerson's first Grand Slam victory came in 1959 in the Doubles at Wimbledon, where he partnered his courntryman Neale Fraser. Emmo had reached the final in the Australian Championship Doubles in 1958, but he and Robert Mark fell to Ashley Cooper and Neal Fraser in a match that went the full five sets. Then, in 1959, just prior to Wimbledon, Emerson and Fraser lost the French Open on the slow Roland Garros clay in straight sets to a couple of Italian chaps.
His first Grand Slam Singles title came at the Australian Open over Laver in 1961 and his second came at the end of the Grand Slam season when he took the U. S. Open, allowing his opponent Rod Laver to win only 10 games over the course of three sets.
Emerson made what would be considered a career for many tennis players in beating Fred Stolle for five of his Grand Slam Singles victories. Those were the 1964 Australian Championships, Wimbledon, and U.S. Open. He beat Stolle again in the 1965 Australian and again at Wimbledon. Over the course of those five wins, he permitted Stolle to take only three sets. Keep in mind now, that Stolle was no weekend hacker.
He himself won two Grand Slam Singles titles and was runner-up in another five. His misfortune, however, was that across the net from him in each of those five was Roy Emerson. The 1965 Australian Championships must have been a bitter pill for Stolle, seeing as he had a two sets to nil advantage at the start. Stolle, to his credit, sent Emerson down twice in Doubles, once at the 1964 Australian and once again at Wimbledon in 1965.
Emerson achieved the number one world ranking in 1964. He won three out four Grand Slam Singles titles, failing only in the | 537 |
"Unleashing the Potential That Lies Within Each of Us"
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"Please join me on the journey of unleashing the potential that lies within each of us." Kirk J Goodwin
These words, penned by my friend, and fellow John Maxwell Team Founding Partner, Kirk Goodwin, are powerful words. They are an invitation to teamwork, an invitation to making a difference and, more than that, these words speak life over every individual. There is potential in everyone.
Today I am not posting my usual 'series related' blog. My heart is heavy, and sad for Kirk's family, because last night Kirk left this world. This gives his words even greater impact–a challenge to leave a legacy that inspires others. A challenge to make a difference in the years that I am given, a gift from God.
My first connection with Kirk was in April 2011, via Facebook, and in August I had the privilege of meeting him in person at the John Maxwell Certification Training, in West Palm Beach. We started with the normal 'ice breaker' chatting, inevitably talking about our families.
Kirk asked about my husband and our kids. I shared the usual. We have our hands full,<|fim_middle|> in changing lives, in making a difference.
My heart is heavy and sad that Kirk's life was taken so abruptly. That tragedy has left a family grieving this loss. My thoughts and prayers are with them, and my hope is that those of us who knew Kirk, and even those who never met him, will be inspired to carry on the legacy.
Live your potential today. Believe in the potential that lies in every one of us. Invest in others and invite them to join you in making a difference.
What legacy are you building today, that people will remember tomorrow?
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Walter Q. Mason August 7, 2012 / 1:39 pm
I actually worked for Kirk when he was running Navigator Technologies. This man was a saint. He gave me a chance when many others would not. I love you Kirk and I will miss you.
Trudy Metzger August 7, 2012 / 2:12 pm
Thank you for sharing that, Walter. It is one thing for someone to leave a dynamic impact in a few encounters. It's even more powerful when those in close proximity testify to that legacy of greatness. Comfort and blessings to you in this time of grief.
Sarah Cranston August 7, 2012 / 2:35 pm
Thank you Trudy, for sharing your Kirk story… It is a joy to know and connect with like-minded souls and a pleasure to have known someone who chose to see the best in others. Hugs to you…
Peter Wiebe August 7, 2012 / 4:15 pm
What a beautiful tribute to someone that impacted your life. May we all endeavor to make an eternal difference in the lives of others for the time is short, indeed.
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Mark Stevenson August 8, 2012 / 11:41 am
Kirk and I go back at least 16 years ago when we both went to the same church. Many years later Kirk served as a leader in our home school support group. Years after that, like Walter, I worked for Kirk for a brief stint.
Kirk and I have enjoyed a friendship so unlike my other friendships. We could both disagree on a lot of things and still remain close friends. I believe we had mutual respect for each other.
Last year when I participated in one of his Mastermind groups, I was to learn from Kirk that I had introduced him to his first John Maxwell book, Developing the Leader Within You. Kirk took the leadership journey a lot further than most of us realize.
He has served his family and community well. I, like Walter, I will always have a place in my heart for Kirk. He has made such a huge impact on me. And if I could say something to Kirk right now it would be, "I love you, my friend! Give the Master our love and see you in a little while."
Trudy Metzger August 8, 2012 / 11:45 am
Thank you for sharing, Mark. That is a deeply touching and powerful testimony to Kirk's depth of character. Grace and peace to you, to Kirk's wife and children, and all his friends and loved ones.
Pingback: Loss of a Friend | Defining Vision – Disciplining Focus – Achieving Positive Legacy | but they're great and Tim is an amazing dad. Two boys have varying degrees of ADHD, one is on meds during school, the other self-manages, and one daughter is ADD. Can't sit still, none of them, but they do well in school. …Wonder where they would get that?
Kirk chuckled. Little did I realize that he would understand more than most, what I was describing, and my personal challenge with managing ADHD/ADD over the years. He told me about the S.U.P.E.R. Learning Centre, specializing in helping kids with Autism, ADHD/ADD, PTSD, and other challenges. He talked about the role animals–particularly horses–can play in bringing out the best in kids who have some of these challenges. He mentioned a place in Ohio–not connected with the S.U.P.E.R. Learning Centre, if my memory serves me right–where you can take kids and have them interact with horses. He recommended I bring my boys sometime.
When Kirk said, "…unleashing the potential that lies within each of us…", he said it because he believed it. His eyes sparkled enthusiastically as he shared the testimonies of kids, whose lives were changed through their work. And the way he took an interest and entered into my life, offering practical insight and sharing resources, was his potential coming through–his gift of impacting and changing lives.
Today, as I read the words Kirk wrote, I am reminded of the importance of living our potential now. We don't have forever. We have today. It reminded me of the importance of encouraging others, and inviting others to join us | 331 |
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Taking a bike ride through The Peak District is one of nature's natural highs, as the eclectic scenes along this forested journey through the nature park speaks volumes about the British outdoors.
According to Einstein: 'Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance you must keep moving.' Nice idea, Bertie, but speaking as a reluctant cyclist, just staying upright on two wheels is hard enough. Encouraged<|fim_middle|> prised from a fireside glass of Merlot, I'm reminded that we're here to explore the region on two wheels. Forgoing the mountainous Derbyshire Dales outside the door, we head west to Buxton and the start of the Monsal Trail, an off-road track that follows a disused section of the former Midland Railway.
It's seen a surge of interest recently as the trail has reopened a series of old railway tunnels through the Wye Valley this year, which connects Buxton and Bakewell. This off-road route is flat, safe and perfect for beginners like me.
Moments after hiring bikes from the Blackwell Cycle shop, we're wheeling along the grassy-banked trail towards our first tunnel. Unaccustomed to cycling through dark underpasses, I forget to take my sunglasses off and rumble through the pitch-black Chee Tor, muttering about heath and safety all the way.
Cycling the 21km route through the valley from Wye Dale to just past Bakewell takes around an hour or so, not accounting for the numerous breathers and photo opportunities. There are basic amenities at both ends of the trail and you can hire bikes at Hassop too, which boasts an excellent station café.
Getting more confident with each mile, I speed past the ominous grey façade of an 18th-century mill and navigate quickly through the dimly lit Cressbrook Tunnel, to be rewarded with a renowned Peaks view: the Headstone Viaduct. These Victorian stone arches are one of the most photographed views of the Peaks.
As we approach the final stretch towards Bakewell, my legs tiring a little, a duo of chatty pensioners overtake us, ringing their bells as they pass. While I don't think Lance Armstrong has anything to worry about, these well-balanced ladies can certainly give us a run for our money. | by his philosophy (not to mention the Lycra-clad rears of our Olympic cycling team), I head to the bosomy hills of the Peak District to try out the Monsal Trail, a famously flat and newbie-friendly cycling track that reopened this year.
The Peak District, which stretches across Derbyshire and into Cheshire, Staffordshire and Yorkshire, is celebrating 60 years as a national park. It was the first rural area of Britain to be designated as such back in 1951 and was swiftly followed by the Lake District, Snowdonia and Dartmoor, all of which also turn 60 this year.
Well, I can certainly see the attraction. Situated in the hamlet of Stone Edge, between the market towns of Bakewell and Chesterfield, Peak Edge is surrounded by patchwork green hills, criss-crossed by miles of traditional dry stone walls. Chatsworth House, Jane Austen 's inspiration for Pemberley in Pride And Prejudice, and home to the 12th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, is a short ride away and well worth a visit.
The Red Lion pub and bistro known for its dark wood beams dating back to 1788.
The hotel is an extension of the widely acclaimed Red Lion pub and bistro. Although its dark wood beams date back to 1788, it's a typically modern, rural gastropub. Leather armchairs are tucked into cosy snugs, grand candelabras grace antique dining tables and there are no fewer than four log fires, perfect for an autumn evening. While the pub is stacked with ye olde inn charm, the hotel has with stylish rooms equipped with life's modern essentials (free Wi-Fi, HDTVs, fancy biscuits).
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More than kin and less than kind
Am I really the me I think I am -the cogito ergo sum I have been led to believe? Or have I been naïve all these years in assuming my identity rests solely inside somewhere -in the uniqueness of my brain, maybe, or in the peculiarities of my experiences that no one else could ever hope to share in the same intimate fashion? Am I, in other words, a self-portrait?
I was raised in a society that values self-fulfillment as if were a birthright. Even the motto of my high school was ad maiora natus sum –'I was born for better things'. Not we, you understand but I… me. And, of course, my teachers were only too happy to inculcate the values of independence and self-reliance in each and every one of us. Competitions on the sports field, and gradations in our marks, only heightened the feeling that each of us was separate, and in charge of our ranking, somehow. It seemed only natural -to some of us, at any rate- to see ourselves as nascent statues seeking our own pedestals.
There's nothing wrong with that, I suppose, except that as I grew older and gained more experience, I began to realize that I was not alone. Much like my shadow that followed me everywhere, so did the world. Indeed, everything I did, and much of what I thought, was influenced by others -either by assimilation, or unwitting imitation. The opinion of others, although sometimes shunned, was more often modified and subsequently integrated as if by disguising it, I became the author. And yet, deep down, I realized<|fim_middle|> thinking I was just stating the obvious.
She nodded. "Let him fix the place, and pay more rent."
"Could you not come to a fair compromise with him about the price? Or maybe agree to a gradual increase over, say, a year, or something?" I smiled conspiratorially at her. "After all, rent controls only kick in if you complain."
I could see her eyes widen as she thought about it. She nodded her head, slowly, and a smile quietly spread over her face. "He's actually a decent guy…" Suddenly she reached for the pull cord. "My goodness, we've been talking so much I almost missed my stop," she said as she stood and squeezed past me. And then she turned to face me as she struggled through the people standing in the aisle. "I'm so glad I talked to you," she said. "Thank you," was the last I heard from her as she disappeared through the sea of dripping coats.
Sometimes it's good to talk about your problems, I thought and smiled to myself, glad that I might have helped her. 'A person is a person through other persons' -wasn't that the Zulu phrase Abeba Birhane had quoted in that article…?
Abeba Birhane, Aeon.co, Descartes, landlords, me, Mikhail Bakhtin, rent controls, solitary confinement, tenants, University College Dublin | that the parthenogenesis of ideas was largely fictive. I was swimming in the same waters as everyone else…
But it was not as traumatic as I might have predicted in my tutored youth. In fact, on reflection, it has been more affirming than repudiating, more reassuring than discouraging -almost as if I had finally been accepted as a member of something I had unconsciously coveted all along. I had not capitulated to something I had struggled against, but, instead of staring through its windows like a bewildered shopper, I was welcomed through the door.
But why? Why the initial reluctance to accept my membership in something to which I had always belonged? Some of the answers emerged in an online publication, Aeon, from an essay by Abeba Birhane, a cognitive science student at University College Dublin. https://aeon.co/ideas/descartes-was-wrong-a-person-is-a-person-through-other-persons
'We know from everyday experience that a person is partly forged in the crucible of community. Relationships inform self-understanding. Who I am depends on many 'others': my family, my friends, my culture, my work colleagues… Even my most private and personal reflections are entangled with the perspectives and voices of different people, be it those who agree with me, those who criticise, or those who praise me.'
'The 17th-century French philosopher [René Descartes] believed that a human being was essentially self-contained and self-sufficient; an inherently rational, mind-bound subject, who ought to encounter the world outside her head with skepticism.' The only thing I can say for certain is that I am, because I am the entity able to conceptualize it. The rest of the world could be a dream -but not the dreamer… So this leaves the effects of anything else on us in a sort of limbo.
Of course others have tried to get around the problem: the 20th-century Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin 'believed that it was only through an encounter with another person that you could come to appreciate your own unique perspective and see yourself as a whole entity… Nothing simply is itself, outside the matrix of relationships in which it appears. Instead, being is an act or event that must happen in the space between the self and the world.'
I love that. It suggests that we derive our identity -our very existence as that identity- through our interactions, recognition and validation by others. Think of people in solitary confinement in prisons. 'studies of such prisoners suggest that their sense of self dissolves if they are punished this way for long enough. Prisoners tend to suffer profound physical and psychological difficulties, such as confusion, anxiety, insomnia, feelings of inadequacy, and a distorted sense of time. Deprived of contact and interaction – the external perspective needed to consummate and sustain a coherent self-image – a person risks disappearing into non-existence.'
And it's not just in prisons we can disappear. I met her at a bus stop -or, rather, she met me. I happened to be the first person in a lengthy, but orderly queue waiting in the rain for a long overdue bus.
"I was actually first," she said, staring at me defiantly. She was well dressed in a grey skirt and I could just see a frilly white blouse under her upmarket raincoat. Her short, dark hair was barely mussed in the wind and rain it was now enduring. "I was waiting over there… Out of the rain," she added, as if to prove her point.
I smiled pleasantly at her as the bus pulled up. "I should have done the same," I said, furling my embarrassingly inadequate umbrella.
"I didn't want you to think I just came along, you know," she persisted. "Sometimes people get really upset when they've been waiting in line…"
The way she said it made me think this probably wasn't the first time she'd crashed a queue. "No, please go in front of me," I said, trying to show I was not upset. "It's raining and you don't have an umbrella."
She promptly boarded the already crowded bus, then signalled me to sit beside her on one of the only remaining seats. "Do you live in the city?" she asked as soon as I was settled. She looked anxious.
I nodded politely, thinking she was just looking for a way to start a conversation.
"A house…?"
I nodded again, but her eyes immediately landed painfully on my face.
"Landlord, or renter?"
"Excuse me?" It seemed like a trick question, and I was immediately wary.
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I nodded, carefully.
"Are you renting it?"
This was getting uncomfortable. "Why do you ask?"
Her eyes scratched at my face for a moment, before flying off again. "Because the city is trying to institute rent controls." She frowned as she said it.
I brushed her cheek with a quick glance before I stared at my lap. I still wasn't sure why she was asking. "Do you think that's a good thing…?" I asked, trying to seem tentative.
"Oh yes!" she hurried to answer. I could almost feel the exclamation mark hovering between us. "Landlords shouldn't be able to take advantage of their tenants."
"So, I take it you are a renter?" I said kindly.
"Of course! I'm a single woman now. I'll never be able to buy a house…"
"Do you like the place you rent?" I asked, trying to change the subject a bit.
She blinked at me, probably wondering if I was trying to trap her, but she relaxed a little. "It's a bit of a hovel, really. The fridge makes a noise and only one of the burners on the stove works. The walls need some paint, and the rug is frayed…" She sighed and fiddled with a button on her coat. "But it's the only place I could find." She looked at the person sitting in front of her for a moment. "I thought it had promise when I first saw it, though…"
I had obviously unleashed something.
"The landlord says he wants to fix it up."
"Certainly sounds like it could use some work," I said, smiling.
She glared at me for a moment, and then softened her expression. "That's exactly what he said." She glanced out of the window at the rain. "But then he said he would have to raise the rent to pay for it."
"Do you think that's fair," I asked.
I could see she was about to say 'no', but she changed her mind and turned her head to look out of the window again. Finally, she shrugged. "We're both caught, aren't we? On the one hand, I don't want to pay more, but on the other, I'd love to see the place fixed up."
"But if rent controls come into effect, he's also in a bind, isn't he?"
She nodded sombrely. "I mean, they're probably a good idea, but…"
"But they don't work for you or your landlord…"
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He repeated his appreciation that the Duke lived a full and meaningful life. | kchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India – Following the announcement of the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has written to express his condolences to both Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles.
To the Queen he wrote: "I am sorry to learn the sad news that your husband, H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh has passed away. I will pray for him and offer my condolences to Your Royal Highness and your family at this sad time.
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Death of an avaricious God 1
God is dead.
He died last April.
He had been incarnated as a man known as Sai Baba. He performed miracles. And he never accepted gifts, but simply couldn't help becoming very rich on donations for his good works.
From the Telegraph:
A lifetime of claiming to be the incarnation of God had brought him a £5.5 billion fortune and a worldwide following of 50 million people. …
The big draw of Sai Baba was the darshan – a<|fim_middle|> including the controversial figure of Satyajit, Sai Baba's carer, apparently the only person who could penetrate the chambers' elaborate security. They took the lift to the first floor, opened the door and stepped inside.
What they found made even the wildest rumours seem tame: stacked around the room were piles of gold, diamonds and cash. Cashiers with counting machines were summoned …
A procession of cashiers bearing counting machines, hurrying to the treasuries! A movie scene that.
… and reported that the haul included £1.6 million in rupees, 98 kg of gold and 307 kg of silver. (No figure was provided for the diamonds.)
The Trust denied any previous knowledge of the hoard, said it had immediately paid tax on its value, and denied any impropriety.
Well, we don't see anything too bad there. Why shouldn't God be rich when he comes to earth?
Thing is, they're accusing him of deception, of getting money under false pretenses, of being wily and worldly and not sufficiently God-like. What a shock!
Rumors spread "of more treasure hidden away around the sprawling building, of false ceilings and further underground hoards". …
One source within the ashram said: "The police have definite intelligence of the existence of secret vaults, and concealed storage in false ceilings and behind false walls in Sai Baba's personal living quarters. They strongly believe that the wealth hidden there could be much more than what was actually found, perhaps on a staggering scale."
Suspicion began to grow that vast sums had already been smuggled out. Three days later, police stopped a car carrying Trust members near the border with a neighbouring state – and found the equivalent of £50,000 in cash inside.
What, those honest Trust members, so quick to pay taxes, stole money and tried to smuggle it out of the country? (But why such a paltry sum once they were doing it?)
The Trust first denied any connection with the money, then claimed it had been donated by devotees to pay for a memorial.
The revelations have tested the faith of even the staunchest devotees, said a former member of Sai Baba's security and intelligence wing. "News is constantly trickling in from Puttaparthi that Sai Baba devotees have been shaken by the huge haul of wealth as well as big cash seizures in the following days," he said. "Many Sai Baba devotees I know, real hard-core devotees that is, are not even attempting to defend or deny the gold, cash hauls, and are in a complete state of confusion.
Some blame trust members, while a few are asking, "Why did Swami have to keep so much gold and cash? Didn't Swami always say he never accepted gifts? Who to believe or what to believe?"
Why indeed? And who and what to believe? The eternal questions.
God's death is turning out to be bad for business in the area:
The implications have not been lost on the people of Puttaparthi, whose livelihoods depend on a constant stream of pilgrims. It was a tiny village when Sai Baba was born there; as he grew in stature it became a thriving town, but business has slumped since his death.
Mind you, miracle-worker though he was, he'd lost control of his own limbs well before the end came:
In later years a stroke obliged Sai Baba to make his way through the vast hall in a specially converted car before taking his place on the stage in his removable white leather car seat, trimmed with gold painted plastic. Still the faithful came. …
But death is a real bummer. Gods should not let it to happen to them.
India is not short of gurus and the fear in Puttaparthi is that those seeking enlightenment will now turn their attentions to other, more vital, sages.
The commercial empire God acquired remains:
There is still a £5.5 billion empire up for grabs, including 1,200 centres in more than 100 countries and a string of hospitals and schools around the world – and there is no shortage of contenders to take control.
The front-runners include 39-year-old R.J. Ratnakar, the guru's nephew, who owns a petrol station and a cable television network, and Satyajit, 33, Sai Baba's closest companion for the last nine years.
But they face a spirited challenge from Isaac Tigrett, the Hard Rock Cafe founder, one of the guru's earliest and staunchest supporters – so much so that he borrowed Sai Baba's "love all, serve all" slogan for his restaurant chain to help publicise the guru's message. Mr Tigrett, who donated £4 million to build a hospital at the ashram and has spent much of the last few years at the compound, claims to be the guru's "living will". Sai Baba had, he said, confided in him along his plans for the future of the organisation – and he would reveal all later this year.
That cut no ice with the board members of the Trust, however, who dismissed his claims.
"Even a couple of months ago, what has now happened was still unimaginable," said Robert Priddy, the Sai Baba organisation's former Norwegian leader.
Norway is a nation with an exceptional appetite for BS. Norwegians award Peace Prizes to terrorists and community organizers who've never achieved a damn thing. So we're not surprised to learn of a Norwegian branch of the Sai Baba cult. Though Mr Priddy seems to have been given pause before the posthumous revelations broke:
Mr Priddy was once a believer but lost his faith as the allegations of sexual abuse which dogged Sai Baba's final decades began to mount – though not before himself donating a total of £13,500.
Allegations of sexual abuse? God was lubricious as well as avaricious?
For former devotees like Robert Priddy, all this is simply proof that they were right to walk away when they did. "I feel satisfied that his death 10 years before his own prediction and under such inauspicious circumstances further vindicated my views on the falsity of his claims of omnipotence and divinity," he said.
Into the most faithful heart a little doubt may creep. But there's a good chance that the disappointed Mr Priddy, and the kings and presidents, and Sarah Ferguson and Goldie Hawn, and Isaac Tigrett of the Hard Rock Cafe chain, and Sachin Tendulkar, and the politicians and the Bollywood stars will find someone else's claim to omnipotence, divinity, and complete lack of any care for base material things such as filthy lucre, more lastingly believable. Any day now.
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This post has 1 comment. | glimpse of the God made incarnate – that came twice a day as the little man with the big hair walked among the faithful, sharing a few words with the lucky ones, before taking his place on the long stage beneath which he is now buried. …
As many as 10,000 people could pack into the gaudy main hall, with its golden lions, pink, blue and white colour scheme and glittering chandeliers dangling overhead, to listen to his message of love and compassion. ..
In his prime, the diminutive holy man with the bright orange robes and huge afro haircut could count kings and presidents among his friends, and the likes of Sarah Ferguson …
There's glory for you!
… among the admirers of his home-spun, "love all, serve all" philosophy.
And "con all" practice.
The film actress Goldie Hawn has visited his religious centre or ashram at least three times and donated tens of thousands of dollars to his projects … while the cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, who gave £40,000 for a statue of the guru, and a myriad of Indian politicians and Bollywood stars claimed inspiration from his message of putting service above self.
Sai Baba's … non-denominational ashram in the town of Puttaparthi in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh was a beacon for Indians and westerners seeking spiritual enlightenment, no matter what their original religion – which the guru said they could maintain.
Now that he's dead, the spiritually enlightened are finding out that even a God can have his faults.
After a decent interval, the stone was rolled back from the mouth of his tomb and … No, wait! That was another story. The discovery in Puttaparthi was this:
Members of the Sathya Sai Central Trust, which runs the ashram, a religious centre, decided that speculation about what might be inside the guru's private chambers was getting out of hand. The rooms had lain apparently untouched since the 84-year-old spiritual leader was taken ill in March.
The Trust decided to open the rooms, but with caution: the police were kept at a distance and the media were locked out. A select group assembled, | 455 |
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Thermal Expansion Coefficients of Unidirectional Carbon Fiber/PEEK Composite Made of Commingled Yarns
Hogyu Yoon, Kiyohisa Takahashi, Kazuhisa Harakawa
Unidirectional carbon fiber (CF)/poly(ether-ether-ketone) (PEEK<|fim_middle|> extended equivalent inclusion method and on the classical lamination theory exhibited good agreement with experimental data. However, it could not be predicted that the TEC's parallel to the fiber direction were depressed at around 30°C. The cause of this discrepancy was supposed due to the temperature dependence of TEC's of the carbon fiber itself.
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JF - Nihon Reoroji Gakkaishi | ) composite was manufactured from the commingled yarns composed of CF and PEEK filaments (this composite is named 'commingled composite'). The thermal expansion coefficient (TEC) of the commingled composite was measured and compared with that of CF/PEEK unidirectional composite made of prepreg sheets (this composite is named 'prepreg composite'). The minimum value of TEC's parallel to the fiber direction was observed at around 150°C for both specimens which were not thermally treated. This minimum disappeared after the thermal treatment at 230°C for 30 minutes or the repeating measurements (0°C→230°C, 0°C→230°C,………). While the TEC of the prepreg composite was almost independent of temperature, that of the commingled composite showed a remarkable decrease at temperatures above the glass transition temperature (Tg) of PEEK. This could be interpreted in terms of the orientation distribution of carbon fibers in the commingled composite. The differerence of longitudinal TEC's between heating and cooling experiments was attributable to the temperature difference between the surface and the inner parts of the specimen. The TEC's transverse to the fiber direction were scarcely influenced by the thermal history. The TEC's increased slowly below 100°C and increased rapidly above 100°C with increasing temperature. Theoretical predictions based on the extended equivalent inclusion method and on the classical lamination theory exhibited good agreement with experimental data. However, it could not be predicted that the TEC's parallel to the fiber direction were depressed at around 30°C. The cause of this discrepancy was supposed due to the temperature dependence of TEC's of the carbon fiber itself.
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Yoon, H., Takahashi, K., & Harakawa, K. (1993). Thermal Expansion Coefficients of Unidirectional Carbon Fiber/PEEK Composite Made of Commingled Yarns. Nihon Reoroji Gakkaishi, 21(1), 11-17. https://doi.org/10.1678/rheology1973.21.1_11
Thermal Expansion Coefficients of Unidirectional Carbon Fiber/PEEK Composite Made of Commingled Yarns. / Yoon, Hogyu; Takahashi, Kiyohisa; Harakawa, Kazuhisa.
In: Nihon Reoroji Gakkaishi, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1993, p. 11-17.
Yoon, H, Takahashi, K & Harakawa, K 1993, 'Thermal Expansion Coefficients of Unidirectional Carbon Fiber/PEEK Composite Made of Commingled Yarns', Nihon Reoroji Gakkaishi, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 11-17. https://doi.org/10.1678/rheology1973.21.1_11
Yoon H, Takahashi K, Harakawa K. Thermal Expansion Coefficients of Unidirectional Carbon Fiber/PEEK Composite Made of Commingled Yarns. Nihon Reoroji Gakkaishi. 1993;21(1):11-17. doi: 10.1678/rheology1973.21.1_11
Yoon, Hogyu ; Takahashi, Kiyohisa ; Harakawa, Kazuhisa. / Thermal Expansion Coefficients of Unidirectional Carbon Fiber/PEEK Composite Made of Commingled Yarns. In: Nihon Reoroji Gakkaishi. 1993 ; Vol. 21, No. 1. pp. 11-17.
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Acquiring First House Fixer Upper Putting and painting walls in new floors or carpets are inexpensive repair work that the new owners can do on a timetable that meets their requirements. and their spending plan. Make certain that your house is structurally audio and habitable, obtain a wonderful cost, | 702 |
Mrs. Willie Bell Clickscale Jones
Funeral services for Mrs. Willie Bell Clinkscales Jones of Fitzgerald, Georgia formerly of Plains, Georgia will be held on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at 11:00 A.M. at the Zion Hope Baptist Church with Rev<|fim_middle|>." befriended local funeral directors and they taught him the trade of funeral service. In 2009, the Georgia Funeral Directors Association recognized him with an achievement award for 40 years of service. He also served as a council member on the Board of Commissioners of Dawson, Georgia. He was given an award in appreciation for 9 years of dedicated service to the citizens of Ward 6 in Dawson, Georgia, from March 3, 2004 to December 31, 2013.
His memories shall be cherished by his surviving family members. To include, his wife Elmyra Whitehead Essix Ward, devoted brother: David Lee (Annie Mae) Ward, of Dawson, GA; Loving sister: Amie Lee Ward of Dawson, Georgia, loving and caring children, step-children, grandchildren, great – grandchildren, great -great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, godchildren, family, and friends. A special friend that he considered a brother, Mr. Lawrence Williams and one he looked at as a son, Mr. Robert Eric West. His legacy shall be forever remembered and never forgotten by all.
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Mr. Willie "Sho Nuff" Laster
Funeral services for Mr. Willie Lee Laster of Montezuma, GA formerly of Plains, GA will be held on Saturday, September 9 at 11:00 A.M. at the Greater New Lebanon Baptist Church on Hwy 308 in Plains, GA with Pastor Glenn Bryant, Sr. officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery.
Mr. Willie Lee Laster was born on May 9, 1960 in Plains Georgia to the late Mrs. Irene Watts Laster and the late Mr. L.C. Laster. Willie was affectionately known to some as "Sho Nuff" and to others as "Snoop Dog". At an early age Willie joined the Greater New Lebanon Baptist Church. On February 23, 2012 he married Ms. Carlessa Tookes. Willie died on Saturday, September 2, 2017 at his home in Montezuma, Georgia. He was preceded in death by two brothers: Ernest Monts and Joe (Earlean) Laster and two sisters: Irene Grier and Sarah Roberts.
He leaves to cherish his memory his wife Carlessa Tookes Laster of Montezuma, GA; his children : Adayshia Laster of Montezuma, GA, Janisia Wicker, Kanetria Laster (Kevin), Lakeisha Hightower (Nikki) all of Americus, GA, Kizzy (Henry) Edmundson, of Jackson, North Carolina, James (Victoria) Jordan, Willie Laster Jr, Marcus Laster all of Americus, GA; two step sons: Jontavous Jackson, Brandon Jackson both of Montezuma, GA; his siblings: Vera (James) Robertson of Ellaville, GA, Charlie (Ida) Laster of Albany, GA, L.C. (Lorraine) Laster of Americus, GA; four sisters-in-law: Maryland Tookes, Lydia Oliver (Vinson) all of Montezuma, GA, Vernell Marks and Annie Tookes (Micheal) all of Decatur, GA; three nieces including two devoted nieces: Mary Baisden (Calvin) of Americus, GA and Shanica (Bryant) Floyd of Warner Robins, GA and Lillie Myers, Americus, GA who was like a sister. Several other relatives and friends also survive. | . George F. Monts officiating. Burial will follow at the Greater New Lebanon Baptist Church Cemetery.
Mrs. Willie Bell Clinkscales was born on July 27, 1951 to the parentage of the late Mr. Willie Clinkscales and the late Mrs. Leola Clinkscales. At an early age she joined Bethlehem Baptist Church, Plains, Georgia. She attended Plains High School and was employed by Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, Georgia. She was married to the late Samuel Jones. Mrs. Jones died on Saturday, September 30, 2017 at Navicent Healthcare in Macon, Georgia. She is preceded in death by her siblings: Johnny Clinkscales, James Clinkscales, Robert Clinkscales, Jimmy Sims, Jennie Barner and Christine Smith.
She is survived by two devoted sisters: Mrs. Fannie Bradley and Mrs. Alice Bradley both of Sumter City, Georgia; one brother, Andrew Clinkscales Sr. of Montezuma, Georgia, and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends, including a devoted nephew Henry Bradley also survive.
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Mr. S.L. Ward
Funeral services for Mr. S.L. Ward of Dawson, Georgia will be held on Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 1:00 P.M. at the Beulahland Baptist Church in Dawson, Georgia.
Sammie Lee Ward, known as "S.L." was born on November 4, 1929 in Dawson, Georgia, to the late Mr. Sammie Lee Ward, Sr. and the late Mrs. Johnnie Bee Lewis Ward. He was educated in the public schools of Terrell County. At an early age, "S.L." confessed his love for Christ and joined Jerusalem Baptist Church. Later he joined Beulahland Baptist Church in Dawson, Georgia, where he served as a Deacon for many years. He was a man who believed in prayer and the power of prayer.
On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 Sammie Lee Ward transitioned to his eternal resting place peacefully. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by two children: Forrest Ward and Sherry Ann Ward Shanks; two brothers: Frank and J.C. Ward and a host of family and friends.
"S.L." obtained his license as a Funeral Director and in 1969 his dreams of becoming a funeral home owner became true. "S.L | 546 |
The Slate Islands Heritage Trust is a charity formed in 1<|fim_middle|> the interpretation material, and learns something of the slate industry within the parish.
The Trust runs The Ellenabeich Heritage Centre in Ellenabeich, which was opened in 2000. The centre has been created in a former slate quarry-worker's cottage and has 19th century life displays, matters relating to the local dominate industry of slate quarrying as well information relating to the local flora, fauna and the area's geology. The Ellenabeich Heritage Centre is run in close association with the museum on the neighbouring island of Easdale.
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The Trust collects and publishes information regarding the area of the Slate Islands; it also records and researches information regarding the areas former industries as well as information relating to the architecture and sociology of the area. It also seeks to preserve and protect documents, records, artifacts in order to both preserve and protect them but also to make them available to members of the public.
The trust ensures that the majority of visitors to the village should have an understanding of the village origins and the industry that formed it. The trust also ensures that everyone in the community has access to the research and findings that informed | 171 |
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