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Internet marketing agencies are filling the World Wide Web online. These agencies are advertising themselves everywhere online. They are seeking work from clients to help them generate business.
Internet marketing agencies are helping you in advertising online today. For your business, you can opt for the services of the Best Search Engine Optimization Services Company in Tampa.
Many years ago, advertising agencies were hired by companies. Today, these advertising agencies have changed with technology.
Technology is completely changing our competitive business world. Customers use the internet to find new businesses and products. Businesses want to appear in search engine results clients use.
Internet marketing agencies accomplish this for their clients. Many services are used by internet marketing agencies all over. The services employed depend on the needs of a business or client.
Therefore, internet marketing agencies are quite versatile for use. Many of these online agencies are also SEO marketing companies. Even others are SEO optimization companies to help clients succeed.
The acronym SEO stands for search engine optimization strategies. Thus, SEO marketing companies help clients appear in search results. There are many things employed to achieve the top search results.
SEO marketing companies are highly skilled in these techniques. SEO marketing companies are experts in implementing these techniques. The techniques are many and are employed on and off a client site.
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How do I add a row to an existing table in Excel?
Use Insert to add a row
- To insert a row, pick a cell or row that’s not the header row, and right-click. To insert a column, pick any cell in the table and right-click.
- Point to Insert, and pick Table Rows Above to insert a new row, or Table Columns to the Left to insert a new column.
How will you add a new row to a table?
Click in a cell above or below where you want to add a row. Under Table Tools, on the Layout tab, do one of the following: To add a row above the cell, click Insert Above in the Rows and Columns group. To add a row below the cell, click Insert Below in the Rows and Columns group.
How do I add rows and columns in Excel?
You need to highlight headings of rows 1 and 3, right-click on one of the highlighted rows and select «Insert» option. To add a row or a column in Excel use hot keys CTRL+SHIFT+PLUS having highlighted the appropriate row or column. Note. New rows are always added above the highlighted rows.
How do I add multiple rows to a table in Excel?
How to Insert Multiple Rows in Excel?
- Select the rows where you want to insert multiple new rows.
- Click on the Insert icon in the Cells group under the Home tab.
- Another way to access the Insert option is to right-click on your selection.
- Fill the inserted rows with relevant data.
How do I add a row to an existing table in Word?
Click where you want in your table to add a row or column and then click the Layout tab (this is the tab next to the Table Design tab on the ribbon). To add rows, click Insert Above or Insert Below and to add columns, click Insert Left or Insert Right.
Why can’t I insert row in Excel table?
You have probably inadvertently entered something in the last row of the worksheet and hence you “can’t insert new cells because it would push non-empty cells off the end of the worksheet”. Select the entire row (click on the row number at the left). Hold both the Shift and Control keys.
How do you quickly insert a row in Excel?
Keyboard shortcut to insert a row in Excel
- Shift+Spacebar to select the row.
- Alt+I+R to add a new row above.
What is the shortcut to insert multiple rows in Excel?
The shortcut keyboard key is Shift + Space Bar. Now, if you want to insert two to three rows, select those many rows by using the Shift + Down Arrow key. In the below image, I have selected 4 rows. Now, click on another keyboard Ctrl + (plus key) shortcut key to insert a row in excel. | <urn:uuid:f3e78c12-9ff6-4530-ab93-c69e7cf11cd0> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 2,454 |
The city of Richmond Heights is struggling financially, and so is the school district. Just like the city, the Richmond Heights schools are suffering from major losses in state funding, which is why the district has placed Issue 113, a 5.3-mill continuing operating levy, on the ballot. We urge voters to say YES to Issue 113.
The district is facing a $567,000 deficit this school year and needs this levy to pass to eliminate that hole. Passage of the levy would also keep the state from sending in a representative to run the district finances, a person who would start wielding the budget ax in January without regard to who or what is impacted. Staff and transportation reductions are likely should the levy fail, as well as a potential elimination of the athletic program. For those who think the district needs to live within its means, the district has no fat left to trim.
If passed, the levy will generate $1.3 million annually, which district officials estimate would provide $854,000 over 3½ years to address critical needs such as technological upgrades and text book purchases. The levy would cost homeowners $185.50 per $100,000 of property valuation, not a small request, especially as the city hopes to increase the income tax rate. Yet the district is at a critical juncture and with a strong superintendent now in place in Dr. Robert Moore, Richmond Heights is set to make significant strides. It needs voters to believe in the leadership and give them a chance to make the district great again. | <urn:uuid:d8311581-695a-42c5-9cea-9cc410353963> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,513 |
Good health is wealth. Rising medical expenses and various types of lifestyle diseases and illness that are common today even among the younger generation is depleting the savings potential, work related productivity and happiness among people.
There are certain lifestyle changes and some knowledge on health awareness can make a big difference in our life and enable us to live longer, happy and healthy.
We need to have a well balanced diet that fulfills our nutritional requirement and as per our health and medical recommendations is required.
Skipping breakfast, binge eating, too much of junk and packaged food or eating too less and very irregular can be reasons of many illness.
Bad diet can result in weak immunity, obesity, under weight, eating disorders, GERD, liver and kidney related problems, heart related diseases, problems with brain function, diabetes, hypertension, thyroid, cholesterol related health problems.
Obesity and overweight is best to be avoided. Obesity is a result of over eating, binge eating, lack of exercise, sedentary lifestyle and at times other physical conditions and medical reasons.
Regular work out, walking and other exercises is required, it is best to walk upto 10,000 steps a day and have some light physical exercises or as per advice of competent fitness expert and doctors.
Obesity can lead to heart, joints and digestion related diseases. It can also lead to diabetes, high blood pressure, hypertension, high cholesterol levels and difficulty in movement, mood swings etc.
Regular work out and physical exercises are just not to keep body weight under control and have proper measurements of the body but also for ease of movement, flexibility, avoiding pains and injuries due to movement.
Regular work out helps us to maintain right body weight and keep the measurements of our body right. It keeps us energetic and helps us to look good.
Exercises like stretching, weight training, asanas , cardio exercises helps us to retain our flexibility, energy levels even at old age and we can keep doing our things independently for long years.
8 hours of daily sleep is important to be relaxed and rejuvenated. People suffering from insomnia (sleeplessness) and lack of sleep need to plan their sleeping time well, arrange their bedrooms with low lights and light coloured curtains and bed sheets , covers to be calm. Avoid watching television, talking over phone at least an hour before sleeping.
A sound sleep is very important for maintaining our energy levels, feel happy and good mind function.
Proper diet helps to maintain required nutrition level and it helps to keep our mind calm, mange stress better.
Regular work out keeps us physically and mentally strong and also happy.
Mind training exercises like meditation, breathing exercises like pranayams helps us to be calm, composed and have more control over emotions.
Stress and anger is a major killer as it is the reason for many diseases. These can create low immunity levels, delay in healing of wounds, heart, brain and nerve related diseases. | <urn:uuid:e8533a23-4815-4f81-98aa-8748cc063446> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,055 |
Sam is an instructional designer. Wherever there is a crisis, every course developer comes to him for expert advice. He has a solution to almost every e-learning problem, but when it comes to client meetings, the project managers bring Helen, not Sam. He is the go-to person for all learning technology problems but not for client relationships. The reason is simple: While they spent time and money training Sam on technology, they didn’t realize that he needs help in other areas as well.
Many human resources (HR) teams make this error: They focus on training rather than overall development. Is there a difference? Doesn’t training lead to development? Not necessarily; training is often just the tip of the development iceberg.
In his book Attracting and Retaining Talent: Becoming an Employer of Choice, Tim Baker argues that the traditional training approach is based almost exclusively on developing employees’ technical skills. Training provides a production-centered approach, and what organizations need is for HR and learning and development (L&D) to focus on person-centered and problem-solving approaches as well.
When HR Alone Is Not Enough
The human resources organization is expected to do many things. It pays salaries, ensures compliance and addresses grievances. It also trains employees, usually through onboarding and on-the-job training. However, it’s not enough to train on job skills; organizations must also identify what motivates employees and align training accordingly. There must be a shared vision on what leaders want and what employees want.
It is easy to underestimate the importance of personal development and its impact on overall performance. However, today’s workforce expects a wide-ranging approach to development beyond the traditional reliance on technical training. The primary motivation for an organization to invest in personal development is to enhance the personal qualities and skills that will have a positive impact on overall work.
The Mental Models of HR and L&D
It’s important to dig deeper and broaden the approach in order to enhance employees’ skills.
There is a difference between how HR professionals think about learning and growth and how L&D professionals think about it. The usual approach to training is a narrow interpretation of learning and development. It’s important to dig deeper and broaden the approach in order to enhance employees’ skills and help them become intrinsically motivated to work.
These differences demonstrate how organizations should structure their learning initiatives. You can debate the benefits of either approach, but there can be no debate that we should focus on employees’ growth and retention. There is no arguing with a holistic approach toward human development.
The Hybrid Solution
We are living in the “Conceptual Age,” according to author Daniel Pink — the age of “a whole new mind,” where design thinking is as important as analytics and where higher-order thinking and creative problem-solving are the basis of business growth. Is technical training sufficient for this age, or do we need a hybrid solution to train and prepare the Sams of the world?
Modern L&D and HR teams must operate as a hybrid function. In this model, L&D develops professional and leadership development programs, sets and enforces standards, and manages learning platforms and tools. HR develops and deploys technical training and, often, the delivery of enterprise programs. This structure allows for better connections with business units, enables more personalized learning and development, and meets the needs of the business.
The Next Steps
According to a 2015 survey by CIPD (formerly known as the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development), “in over two-fifths of organizations L&D is a specialist function/role within the HR department and in one-fifth it is part of generalist HR activities. In just under two-fifths L&D activities are split between HR and another area of the business, or are completely separate from the HR function.” It’s becoming necessary to differentiate between HR and L&D; organizations must ensure that employees can see results with the continuous upgrade of their skills and efficiency.
Though it shouldn’t matter which department manages the learning and development function, unless HR departments can support the expanded personal development needs of employees, it’s time to hand over the reins to the L&D.
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- 2018 Looking Further with Ford Trends Report highlights how global societal changes are impacting new consumer behaviors and attitudes; shifts toward activism, compassion and self-expression will shape the new year
- Sixth annual report shows that while two-thirds of adults globally say they are overwhelmed by changes taking place around them, three-quarters believe they can influence positive change; nearly half say they expect brands to take a stand on social issues
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Lagos, Nigeria, 11 December 2017 – People feel increasingly polarized by unrest, upheaval and other changes taking place in the world, and more than 60 percent of adults globally say they feel overwhelmed by things happening around them. Ford’s 2018 Looking Further with Ford Trends Report examines not only the issues dividing the world, but also the coping mechanisms that are emerging as a result.
“We’re clearly living in interesting times,” said Sheryl Connelly, Ford global consumer trends and futuring manager. “Shifting global priorities, rampant political upheaval, and a spotlight on social inequity have upended the status quo and left many disoriented. But out of the chaos and conflict, a new energy and creativity is motivating people like never before. From compassion and guilt to heightened activism, most adults believe their actions have the power to influence positive change.”
As societies cope with the rising demands of urbanization, serious threats to the environment and economic instability, Ford continues its work as a trusted mobility company developing smart transportation solutions for all. Amid concern for world suffering, a widening gap between rich and poor, and worries that artificial intelligence will do more harm than good, Ford remains committed to the belief that freedom of movement drives human progress—and is designing sustainable, meaningful technologies to help make people’s lives better.
Each year, the company focuses on global trends to understand how consumers are changing, and how companies must respond.
Key insights from Ford’s sixth annual report include:
- 39 percent of adults say they do not mind sharing their personal information with companies, but 60 percent say they are frustrated by how much of their information has become public
- 76 percent of adults around the world say they find it creepy when companies know too much about them
- 52 percent of adults say they believe artificial intelligence will do more harm than good, but 61 percent say they are hopeful about a future of autonomous vehicles
- 68 percent of adults say they are overwhelmed by suffering in the world today, and 51 percent say they feel guilty for not doing more to make the world better
- 81 percent of adults say they are concerned about the widening gap between the rich and the poor
- 73 percent of adults say they should take better care of their emotional well-being
- 54 percent of adults globally say they feel more stressed out than they did a year ago, and among 18- to 29-year-olds, that number is even higher, at 65 percent
What all this means for 2018 and beyond
This report serves as a blueprint for understanding how key trends are expected to influence consumers and brands in 2018 and beyond. Ford has identified and explored these 10 trends:
1. The Edge of Reason: Global upheaval is evident in everything from politics to pop culture, and people are responding to these changes in polarized fashion. As divisiveness grows, a sense of being overwhelmed intensifies.Consumers are hungry for inventive ways to cope and adapt.
2. The Activist Awakening: This culture of polarization means consumers are being jolted out of complacency. Conventional wisdom and expectations are being toppled as individuals debate the change we need.
3. Minding the Gap: Worldwide, the spotlight is on inequality. Activists and entrepreneurs are experimenting with new ways to improve access to quality education, increase productive employment, close wage gaps, and provide everyone with affordable access to basic living standards and infrastructure.
4. The Compassionate Conscience: With an omnipresent news cycle, we are more aware than ever of the challenges consumers face around the world. People are becoming more reflective of their roles in society and more focused on how they can be more engaged.
5. Mending the Mind: Consumers and institutions are realizing that you cannot have a healthy body unless you have a healthy mind. As such, mental health and well-being are moving to the forefront for individuals, governments and companies to address.
6. Retail Therapy: Many consumers are on an endless hunt for something new and different – seeking material goods or experiences that bring happiness. As services aiming to provide efficiency experiences proliferate, consumers now find they can buy the one thing that was never for sale – time.
7. Helplessly Exposed: Big Data claims to be able to interpret our behaviors, which in theory should help consumers. But with Big Data can come Big Bias, and once personal information is relinquished, all consumers can do is hope companies use it responsibly.
8. Technology’s Tipping Point: Virtual reality, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology – long far-fetched notions – are now being incorporated into our daily lives. Worldwide, humans are wondering what the onslaught of intelligent technology will mean for society.
9. Singled Out: Are marriage and parenthood still the desired norms for happy living? Couples today – with more choices and longer life spans to consider – are rethinking commitment and fulfillment.
10. Big Plans for Big Cities: By 2050, nearly 75 percent of the world’s population is expected to live in urban areas. To capitalize on the full potential of cities – ensuring they are happy and healthy places in which to thrive – we must smartly plan for transportation, employment, housing, wellness initiatives and an infrastructure that can accommodate booming populations.
Building a smarter future
With an astounding 87 percent of consumers agreeing cities need better transportation options, Ford is uniquely positioned to provide meaningful solutions for consumers everywhere. As connected, sustainable and autonomous technologies rapidly transform transportation, Ford is committed driving progress that consumers can trust.
“In today’s fast-moving world, consumers have less patience for the frivolous, and they demand greater emphasis on what’s meaningful and impactful,” said Connelly. “This ethos is reflected in the work we do at Ford, and our relentless focus on providing trustworthy solutions that make consumers’ lives better.”
For the full Looking Further with Ford 2018 Trends Report, please visit www.fordtrends.com.
About Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company is a global company based in Dearborn, Michigan. The company designs, manufactures, markets and services a full line of Ford cars, trucks, SUVs, electrified vehicles and Lincoln luxury vehicles, provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company and is pursuing leadership positions in electrification, autonomous vehicles and mobility solutions. Ford employs approximately 203,000 people worldwide. For more information regarding Ford, its products and Ford Motor Credit Company, please visit www.corporate.ford.com. For news releases, related materials and high-resolution photos and video please visit www.media.ford.com or www.quickpic.co.za, follow at www.facebook.com/FordNigeria, www.twitter.com/FordNigeria,www.instagram.com/FordNigeria or www.youtube.com/FordNigeria
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On May 3, more than 450 charter school supporters, including school leaders, parents and students, represented the charter school movement at CCSA's annual Advocacy Day in Sacramento. In one-on-one meetings with legislators, families shared their experiences at charter school and urged legislators to support policy that will help charters thrive. Congratulations and thank you to the many charter families who shared their voices inside the halls of the Capitol!
Before attending meetings in the Capitol, participants trained with CCSA staff, reviewed current policy and budget proposals and learned how to connect their personal stories to priority charter school issues. Additionally, participants heard from inspiring speakers, including President Pro Tem Kevin DeLeon (D-24), Majority Leader Chad Mayes (R-42) and Assemblymember Matt Dababneh (D-45).
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Celebrated during National Charter Schools Week, Advocacy Day was a great opportunity to grow and demonstrate the strength of the movement by connecting the charter community to legislators in Sacramento.
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In 1968, after the first zombie outbreak, Wanda Mayhall and her three young daughters discover the body of a teenage mother during a snowstorm. Wrapped in the woman’s arms is a baby, stone-cold, not breathing, and without a pulse. But then his eyes open and look up at Wanda—and he begins to move.
The family hides the child—whom they name Stony—rather than turn him over to authorities that would destroy him. Against all scientific reason, the undead boy begins to grow. For years his adoptive mother and sisters manage to keep his existence a secret—until one terrifying night when Stony is forced to run and he learns that he is not the only living dead boy left in the world.
I had no idea that this book was about zombies when I started to read it. If I had, I might not have read it. I am really tired of the vampire, werewolf, zombie books that have been published since the Twilight series . I avoid these kinds of books without hesitation. None of them seem to have an original plot idea and feature the same type of characters. Boring!
I am happy to report that this book has something new to offer!
The character of Stony is well written with a unique quirkiness that endears him and his family to the reader. The story follows Stony through a childhood and adolescence in seclusion with only a few close friends aware of his existence. As he reaches adulthood, the plot gets a little weird, but I found that I was able to accept the strange twists in the plot because the character of Stony was so believable.
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- This topic has 3 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 3 years, 3 months ago by Mary Evans.
- February 13, 2020 at 7:37 pm #918017Deksia JonesParticipant
I have checked the “Skip search results page and enable direct booking from accommodation pages.” box.
But now when I click on the Check Availability, it just refreshes the page without changing anything.February 17, 2020 at 3:20 pm #919083J. DavisKeymaster
Thank you for your question. First check if you use latest version of Hotel Booking plugin – 3.7.5. Also, make sure you have created Checkout Page with [mphb_checkout] shortcode and set up this page as Checkout page via Accommodation > Settings.
J. DavisJune 17, 2020 at 11:28 pm #968320GuaraParticipant
I’m having a similar issue.
I can browse through the available accomodations, select book and confirmation but then the page just refreshes on the same search page.
I’ve a Booking confirmaton page with the “mphb_checkout” shortcode written but I never get to the point.
This page is set through the settings site as the Checkout page.
Pretty lost here!June 18, 2020 at 6:57 am #968379Mary EvansParticipant
Please note that the shortcode should have square brackets. That is, make sure the page attached under your dashboard > Accommodation > Settings > Checkout Page, has the shortcode
[mphb_checkout], not simply
In case the issue still exists, please submit a ticket here, for us to have a closer look at it and assist you personally.
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Can Osteopaths contribute to the rehabilitation process of running injuries?
Yes an osteopath can help with running injuries, we regularly see runners especially over the marathon training period who need some hands on help and support. With the increase in running distances aches and strains tend to develop.
The basic running process is repetitive process of pounding the pavements exposing your joints and muscles to constant impact. Any off road running will also expose your muscles and ligaments to lateral movements. Repetitive demands and stress upon the body can often result in injury. At the end of the post we offer advice on what you can do to prevent running injuries. Running Injuries Content
What Are The Common Running Injuries
It is estimated that 70% of all recreational and competitive runners will sustain an overuse injury in any give 12 month period.
The most common running Injuries
- Knee injuries 42%
- Patellofemoral pain syndrome (runner’s knee)
- Iliotibial band friction syndrome
- Patellar tendinopathy
- meniscal injuries
- Foot/ankle 17%
- Plantar fasciitis
- lower leg 13%
- Tibial stress syndrome (shin splints)
- Achilles Tendonitis
To achieve your optimal performance it is important to find the right balance. It is repetitive and demanding so injuries are common. In this blog we have outlined some of the most common running injuries and how we can help. This is just one of many conditions that our osteopaths in London can help with.
Runners Knee or Anterior Knee Pain
This is a very common running injury. The repetitive, demanding nature of running will cause additional forces through your knee. If there is a muscular imbalance this will cause irritation into the tendons on one side of your knee through knee cap (patella) maltracking.
What Part of the Knee is Damaged in Runners Knee?
You’re patella, after putting too much strain after prolonged running. Symptoms of this injury are dull aching type pain around the knee cap (maybe swelling). The pain will be worse upon loading the knee so walking up and downstairs, running after a short distance (maybe 5 miles) and after a run that evening or the following morning. More in depth detail on Osteopathy and knee pain.
Can an Osteopath Treat Knee Pain?
Yes, seeing an osteopath to establish why you are experience pain and assess how your whole body is moving. Your Osteopath should assess your ankles, knees, hips, pelvic levels and spine. Also identify muscular imbalances, give hands on treatment and give specific rehab exercises.
Plantar Fasciitis can be caused by a sudden increase in running intensity or mileage. Also really tight leg muscles (calfs and hamstrings in particular) that cause additional tension into the plantar fascia. In addition, a change in running surface causing an increase in compressive forces going through the foot and ankle. Moreover if you have had a history of inversions ankle strains or ligament strains. It is also important to consider your footwear with not enough or indeed to much cushioning or support.
Can Osteopathy Help with Plantar Fasciitis?
Yes it would be worthwhile seeing an osteopath for an assessment, advice and specific exercises to optimise the recovery process. Fascia tissue heals relatively slowly in comparison to muscle as it is a different tissue composition. Therefore having a rehab plan to reduce your foot pain would be beneficial for your recovery
A dull achy pain down your shins that becomes progressively sharper aggravated by weight bearing would be typical signs.
Do Shin Splints Go Away?
No, if you experience shin pains, do some gentle stretching for your shin muscles (tibalis anterior) and calf muscles. Rest and book an appointment with a specialist to get it checked out. Do not ‘push through it’ in this case, as you may damage the shin bones with stress fractures. They can be caused by muscular imbalances, tightness and your technique. If you are new to running and the compressive loading through the feet and ankles this could increase your risk of experiencing pains.
How do I Stop Getting Shin Splints?
Get expert advice to address the cause of your problem as it could be a problem with your ankles, knees, hips or posture. An Osteopath can give hands on treatment to lightly stretch the muscles and articulate the joints and advise you on a rehabilitation plan to aid your recovery.
Your achilles tendon runs from the back of your heel to your calf muscles. Injury to the area may be caused poor running technique, increasing your mileage and/or speed too quickly.
It could also be due to poor function of the ankle, knee or hip functions. Tight calf and hamstring tensions are also know to aggravate AT . If you are feeling pain and tenderness to touch along the back of foot or above the heel (sometimes swelling) are normal symptoms.
What Causes Achilles Tendonitis to Flare Up?
It can be caused by excessive hill running or speed work, both of which stress the Achilles more than other types of running. If this occurs rest from training initially to allow time for the tendon to recover.
Can Osteopathy help with Achilles Tendonitis?
Yes, an Osteopath will give hands on therapy to optimise your recovery. We will look at all the possible causes before providing you with a solution to recovery.
Less Common Running Injuries
Typically you feel hamstring injuries straight away whilst exercising. You will feel a sudden pain whilst running in the back of your thigh or a deeper pain in your buttock. It will then be difficult to walk and straightening your knee will be painful. You may experience weaknesses and your hamstring will be tender to touch. Pain will be aggravated on squats, lunging and on prolonged sitting.
Is Tendinopathy the Same as a Tendonitis?
No, a tendonitis is where your tendon becomes inflamed from movements which overload your tendon suddenly. This causes micro tears to the tendon (Bass 2012). A Tendinopathy is the degeneration of your tendon through chronic overuse such as repetitive strain injuries. When this happens it is important to rest and allow the body to heal.
How do you Treat Hamstring Strain and Tendonitis?
A combination of muscular strengthening, light stretching and hands on therapy. Everybody is different and so should their rehab plans be. However typically we suggest to keep moving but try non weight bearing activities like cross trainer or swimming for 2 weeks after the injury onset. Also muscular strengthening and tendon loading exercises and then graded return to activity. To optimise your recovery we offer hands on osteopathy, massage and Pilates exercises. Also nutrition can optimise healing with synthesis of collagen production. Adopting an anti inflammatory diet or being even more specific by talking to our nutritionist would be worthwhile. At Wellthy Clinic we want to take proactive steps to prevent a recurrence by questioning why did it happen in the first place. Could your hip mobility be improved? How is your core, hamstrings and glut strength? How is your upper back and ankle mobility?
Does Hamstring Tendonitis go Away?
Yes you will recover but it will take time to heal. Recurrence rates are high (30% of people) so it’s important to have a rehab plan. Your tendonitis could also develop into a tendinosis which have longer healing times so it’s best to have an effective rehab plan.
How Long does a Hamstring Tendonitis Last?
Typically a tendonitis can take anywhere between a few days – 6 weeks depending on the individual. However it is important not to repeatedly strain the tendon otherwise this could cause a Tendinosis which could take between 6-10 weeks (early stage) or 3-6 months (chronic stage). A tendonitis is where your tendon becomes inflamed from movements which overload your tendon suddenly. This causes micro tears to the tendon. A Tendinopathy is the degeneration of your tendon through chronic overuse such as repetitive strain injuries. When this happens it is important to rest and allow the body to heal. Therefore seeing an Osteopath to diagnose correctly and formulate an effective rehab is all important to heal, stop progression into a tendinopathy and prevent recurrence.
Is it OK to Run on a Sprained Ankle?
Not really. we would advise resting (stop running) for the first 2 weeks to allow the body a chance to recover. In our experience hands on Osteopathy with ankle and foot articulation and muscle stretching will optimise recovery. In addition, ankle strengthening rehab exercises, stretching and non weight bearing exercise.
Do Ankle Sprains Ever Fully Heal?
Once you have sprained your ankle the injury reoccurrence rate is much higher so it is important to take pro-active steps to rehab effectively. At Wellthy Clinic we would give you a structured rehab plan to get you back as quickly as possible but with a stronger foundation to reduce the likelihood of an injury reoccurrence. More in depth explanations on foot pain.
How Do you Know if you have Pulled Your Hip Flexor?
It’s typical with athletes who engage in a lot of forceful flexion movements. You may feel pain whilst you were exercising or afterwards. Hip flexion will be painful and your muscles at the front of your thigh will be tender to touch.
Can I Exercise with a Hip Flexor Strain?
Yes but initially it maybe better to do some light stretching and rest for a week before returning to activity. Having a rehab plan to avoid future recurrence would be advised. Improving your core strength through Pilates and addressing hip mobility through hands on Osteopathy would be beneficial.
How Do you Treat a Strained Hip Flexor?
A combination of core strengthening and light stretching your hip flexors and hamstrings is always a good place to start. That said everybody is different so hands on Osteopathy and Pilates rehab exercises specific for the individual will gain the best results and speed up your recovery.
Running Injuries Conclusion
You can recover from all these injuries given a well structured rehabilitation sports injury plan and time. At Wellthy Clinic we will assess your posture, joint and muscle movements to identify imbalances and leg lengths. Give hands on therapy to stretch the muscles, articulate joints, manipulate joints (only if appropriate and with consent).
We will advise on the best warm ups and cool downs. Also structured training programs that don’t progress to quickly (time, intensity or distance). Build up your core strength and flexibility. Also discuss your running technique and get you race ready!
What You Can Do To Prevent Running Injuries
If it is a long time since you have participated in any physical exercise we recommend that you consult with a professional first.
- Always warm up before running (increased muscle viscosity reduces the chance of injury)
- Start with small distances and gradually build up in speed and distance (no more than 10% a week)
- Hydrate before running (hydrate whilst running once you reach greater distances)
- Allow 24 to 48 hours rest between runs in the beginning
- Do not run during the hottest parts of the day (this will lead to dehydration) Dehydration results in tighter muscles and enhanced chance of injury.
- Start by running on smooth even surfaces ( you can slowly add different terrain once you have built up strength and technique)
- Invest in shoes that are specifically designed for running
- Begin to recognise the difference between ache and pain (ache means you have worked the body and muscles well, pain points more towards injuring the body)
- Stop running when you feel any sharp pain and seek professional advice
- Join a running club, the wealth of experience and advice will be invaluable to your progression as a runner.
Bass (2012) Tendinopathy: Why the Difference Between Tendinitis and Tendinosis Matters International Journal Therapy Massage Bodywork 5 (1) 14-17 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3312643/
Goom et al (2016) Proximal Hamstring Tendonpathies: Clinical Aspects of Assessment and Management Journal of Orthopeadic and Sports Physical Therapy. 46 (6) 1-32 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301343168_Proximal_Hamstring_Tendinopathy_Clinical_Aspects_of_Assessment_and_Management
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(MEDORA) - Medora School has invited senior citizens; ages 55 and older, to attend a free dinner from 4 to 6 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 14, at the Medora School cafeteria.
The dinner is to thank these citizens for their support to the community.
The evening will include dinner, door prizes, and entertainment provided by students and staff of Medora Community Schools.
The dinner will be chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls, peach crisp, and drinks.
Reservations must be made by Thursday, Feb. 9.
For more information or to make reservations, call Vicki at 966-2210.
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Future Foresters invited for Saturday Visit Day on March 16
FOR RELEASE: Sunday, March 3, 2013HUNTINGTON, Ind. Future Foresters are invited to come to Huntington University for a Saturday Visit Day on March 16.
The Saturday Visit Day will allow visitors to view the campus, engage in a panel discussion with current students and parents, and enjoy lunch in the Habecker Dining Commons.
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My wife and I are having this debate, so I am seeking opinions, and would appreciate your input. She and I are in relatively good shape. We belong to a pool, and are debating swim wear that we should wear. For me, we are kicking around the idea of longer, more "traditional American" wear, such as board shorts, or square cut suits. For her, she is thinking of a one piece or a bikini - Thoughts please ?
At the same stores, bikinis are cheaper and fit better. That's always ended the matter for me.
Most women's clothes are based on the bust, waist, and hip measurements. A one-piece suit requires that the woman's body matches the manufacturer's norms for 2 or 3 of these measurements. Ideally, there would also be size considerations of torso length and rise. Bikinis separate or eliminate all these otherwise interlocking issues, allowing the woman to get something that fits her precise bust measurement, and something else for her waist and hip measurements.
[If exposing a woman's torso is a modesty concern, look into tankinis.]
Are you there to swim or just be seen? If you're there to actually get exercise, both of you should wear suits that will let you move properly; bikinis are great for looking at, but not always so practical for swimming.
If you're there to soak up rays and be seen, then go for whatever fits your sense of style.
I head straight for the clearance rack and buy one that fits and isn't in fluorescent colors.
Don't want to hijack the thread, but this goes along with the topic. How do you guys feel about dudes wearing swim shirts at the beach? I've got a trip to Florida this summer and burn like ****, even with sunscreen half the time. So I was thinking about wearing a nice swim/surf type shirt.
What's a "swim shirt"?
If it's just a shirt, sure, it's better than becoming a lobster. I prefer not to wear a wet shirt, but if that's waht it takes--!
Having had a skin cancer scare, I recommend the swim shirt. Unless having an even tan on your torso and upper arms is that important. Just my two cents.
I live in Florida and wear a rash guard/swim shirt as one more bit of protection against skin cancer.
Put me in the anti-skin cancer group. When I go to the coast to fish, even in the summer it is usually long pants and a long shirt. If I am there to hang out, I always have shade near by, apply the screen every hour and try to stay out of the sun.
I was a lifeguard for about 5 years during high school and college. I had a few spots cut off of my back by a dermatologist before I was 30. I say go with a swim shirt or rash guard. They are different from a regular t-shirt and offer protection from the sun. Since they are made from synthetic material they are a bit warmer when it is cold out. Even better is that they are cooler when it gets hot because they wick away the moisture from your body. They also dry faster than a cotton t-shirt.
I definitely recommend these shirts. I wear them to the beach and to water parks when we go.
If you are in good shape, get some traditional trunks...pretend you are Daniel Craig emerging from the ocean in a Bond movie. :D
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If you follow this blog, you will be already familiar with sofficini, as I have published a Ham and Cheese Sofficini recipe a while ago. For all the others who still do not know them, sofficini are delicious pockets of crunchy (yet soft) dough filled with all sorts of scrumptious cheesey goodies. These are usually sold frozen by a well known brand in Italy and they are some of the most loved food by Italian children. I have eaten all sorts of sofficini while growing up, and really miss them here in Australia. So, I have resorted to making them at home. And they taste even better than the store bought version! One of my favourite sofficini fillings has always been mushrooms. I love how well the mushrooms go with cheese and béchamel! The result is so creamy and gooey and they taste so good. I always make extra and freeze them, so I have them ready whenever I need a quick lunch or dinner. This is some of my favourite comfort food! Enjoy and buon appetito!
Step by step instructions on how to make Mushroom Sofficini: delicious pockets of crunchy dough filled with creamy mushrooms, cheese and béchamel!
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup flour sifted
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 tsp salt
- 300 gms – 10 oz. mixed mushrroms I used porcini and button mushrooms
- 1 garlic clove
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 200 ml – 6.5 oz. béchamel sauce
- 6 tbsp Parmigiano Reggiano finely grated
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- 1 egg. beaten
- Breadcrumbs to coat
Chop the garlic clove and put it in a non stick frying pan with the extra virgin olive oil and let it fry on a low fire for 1 minute.
Add the sliced mushrooms and let them cook for 2-3 minutes.
Put the fire off and keep it aside.
In the meantime prepare the béchamel sauce by following this recipe.
Mix the béchamel sauce and the mushrooms, add the grated Parmigiano Reggiano and season with salt and pepper to taste. Keep aside to cool down.
Put the milk, butter and salt in a pot and put it on the fire. As soon as it boils, put the fire off and add the sifted flour. Mix well with a wooden spoon until well combined. You will obtain a pliable dough.
As soon as the dough is safe to handle with your hands, put it on a lightly floured surface and knead it until smooth and soft.
Assembling and Coating
Now roll the dough into a 3mm – 0.12 inches thick sheet. Do it on a sheet of baking paper, to make sure it does not stick. Cut out circles of 13 cm – 5 inches in diameter.
Place some mushroom filling in one half of each circle, fold the other half over it and seal them well by pressing the edges closed with your fingers.
Beat the egg in a bowl and add salt to it and put the breadcrumbs in a separate plate.
Dip each sofficino in the egg and then coat it well with breadcrumbs, pressing with your palm so the crumbs stick well to it.
Shallow fry them in warm vegetable oil. Or bake them in a pre-heated oven at 180°C (350°F) for 20 minutes, but spray them with some extra virgin olive oil before baking them.
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The park service announced the availability of its final environmental impact statement on the proposed transmission line linking the Berwick, Pa., area and Roseland, N.J., in Essex County. A record of decision due in 30 days will bring to a close the federal review begun in November 2009.
PPL Electric Utilities in Pennsylvania and Public Service Electric and Gas Co. in New Jersey hope to complete the $1.2 billion, 145-mile line for 2015. Through the park land, the 500-kilovolt line will follow an existing 230-kilovolt line.
Following state regulatory approval, the National Park Service approval and permitting represent the final hurdle to construction. The line links regions of the Mid-Atlantic power grid in need of electricity to electricity-generation capacity, the companies say. The region with capacity encompasses PPL Corp.'s Susquehanna nuclear facility in the Berwick area, where the company seeks to build a second power plant.
Human, ecological effects
Federal officials looked at the project's effect on the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and Middle Delaware National Scenic and Recreational River, through which the power line is proposed to cross.
They quantified the project's effect on human use and ecological losses in the federal park lands at $89 million throughout the transmission lines' estimated life span of 60 years.
The human-use-loss analysis looked at park visitation data, estimates of the value of recreational and cultural/historical activities and information on the likely reduction in value associated with the proposal, according to the National Park Service. At more than $80 million, the human-use-loss impact represents the bulk of the project's harm, the federal analysis found.
Impacted properties are the park lands' Millbrook historic site, Bushkill, Pa., river area and Watergate and Van Campen recreation sites, in addition to the Appalachian Trail.
Ecological impacts include short-term vegetation clearing for the power line's expanded right of way through the parks and long-term habitat losses in wetlands, uplands and floodplains.
The park service looked at six options for the power line, including one deemed environmentally preferable: not permitting the line. The alternative chosen is the same route backed by the power companies and utility regulators in both states. That's the alternative “which the agency believes would fulfill its statutory mission and responsibilities, giving consideration to economic, environmental, technical and other factors,” the environmental impact statement reads.
Work begun on line
Construction through the park represents about 4 miles of the project, PPL Electric Utilities spokesman Paul Wirth said Friday. That work is not expected to begin for about year.
Elsewhere, PPL began work in recent weeks on the line in the Berwick and Scranton areas. PSE&G began work in spring on the Roseland and Hopatcong, N.J., switching stations, company spokesman John Margaritis said.
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KOBOKO – Religious leaders from all denominations in West Nile on Friday 23 turned up in droves to express solidarity with State Minister for Investment Evelyn Anite who has claimed her life is in being threatened by mafia in government.
In special prayers held at Koboko Boma Grounds, the religious leaders appealed to God to protect their ‘daughter’ for fighting what they described as impunity and corruption in government in the face of her ongoing altercation with fellow government officials over the management of Uganda Telecom Limited.
Bishop of Madi West Nile Anglican Diocese Charles Collins Andaku, who presided over the prayers prayed that the unending power of God reigns on Anite and delivers her from threats of death that surround her.
During the prayers, the Mayor for Koboko Municipality, Mr Wilson Sanya, said: “We are gathered here to demonstrate not on streets with cards but to God peacefully with Bibles and the Quran. We chose this option of seeking for prayers to fight the evil. The dear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”
Ms Anite, who is the Koboko Municipality MP, told the congregation that she has been facing enormous threats on her life due to her fight against corruption in the country.
“Some people are bleeding the country, they are robbing the country they are robbing the taxpayers of this country,” said Anite.
Citing an example of the pathetic condition of Koboko Health Centre IV, Anite added that there are no drugs in hospitals and people are busy stealing what is supposed to be for the people.
Minister Anite said: “We cannot do without the Lord in our lives and heart. As a young girl, my parents made sure I go to Sunday school, Scripture Union and received the Lord. Many people think that politicians do not go to church. But you must testify to God to defeat the devil.”On the case of UTL, the money belongs to government of Uganda because the President entrusted me to be Minister of Investment and I needed to monitor the money. But it is not easy to find out because the mafia is evil and wanted to rob Uganda six months ago,” she added.She said the challenges she is facing are occupational hazards which started in 2016. “It is the fight against corruption and I call them mafia because they are robbing taxpayers and enriching themselves. When I chose the path to fight the corrupt, I chose the path to walk through fire,” she said.
The LCV Chairperson Koboko Hassan Nyinya commended Anite for speaking out about the threat to her life and wants the government to investigate the threats.
“If you swing your hands, do not touch the nose of the person next to you,” Nyinya further warned. “We should not watch committed cadres being subdued by people who think they are more powerful than the people of Uganda and jeopardize the peace and stability of government,” Nyinya said.
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Tik-tok-tik-tok!! As the clock ticks, another muturage is packing his/her bags from the village headed for the city, seeking the vast opportunities that the now rapidly expanding capital is offering. From a distance, city authorities keep watch, pondering on how to accommodate the budding population in its capital, composed of locals and foreigners.
After the 1994 genocide, the Rwandan government embarked on an economic recovery mission, a mission that has earned it a place in the Globeís economic circles as one of the fastest rising economies. Among the things envisaged in the countryís vision 2030 is the Kigali Conceptual Master Plan which is based on research and analysis of a wide range of background conditions and technical aspects, as outlined in the Existing Conditions Report. The report considered environmental, land use, infrastructural, cultural, and socioeconomic factors, as well as economic and demographic projections, and outlined opportunities and constraints for urban development. In doing so, it set the stage for the Kigali conceptual Master Plan, which in turn outlines the designs, strategies and actions that will guide Kigali planners and citizens into future more detailed District Plans and implementation. According to the Kigali Housing Market Study that was released early November by the Kigali City Council, Kigali City needs at least 344,068 new housing units over the next ten years to accommodate the rapidly growing population. The report indicates that half of the 223,000 houses in Kigali are in good shape, 32 per cent in dire need of elevation, while the rest are low quality structures in slums that need to be supplanted. With an annual population growth rate of 5.7 per cent, Kigali City Council projects the population of the countryís capital to rise from the current 1.1 million to two million by 2022.
According to the City mayor, Fidel Ndayisaba, being at the centre of the countryís development, Kigali needs to complement its fast-growing economy and population by employing a systematic approach to affordable housing for all the people residing in the city.
ìA key element for sustainable growth of Kigali is the provision of decent housing for all. To that end, we are committed to ensuring the availability of financing, land, utilities and building materials and an adequate regulatory framework,î Ndayisaba says. Donna Rubinoff, Kigali City Senior Advisor in Urban planning says that close to 2,562 hectares of residential land is required, which might prove a challenge considering that people will need to be evicted for land development. Rubinoff further notes that the survey provides the council with the tools it needs to overcome such challenges, illuminate the Kigali housing market and build not just houses but quality neighbourhoods for all citizensî.
Other than land shortage, KCC projects an investment of about US$2.5 billion for it to increase the rate of housing construction. ìCurrent supply of houses is about 1,000 units per year; this is very low compared to an estimated demand of 35,000 new residential houses annually,î the report states.
Building a house can be one of the most exciting experiences of your life while being also one of the most exasperating experiences.
Building a house can be o¨ne of the most exciting experiences of your life while being also o¨ne of the most exasperating experiences. When building a house, ideally, the weather will be perfect, all the materials will arrive on time and intact, and the trades people will be ready and on time. Unfortunately this is a very rare occasion. The weather could take a turn for the worse, materials could be late or items missing, the electrician could be held up at another job, or any number of things could go wrong. The point is that building a house can be a chaotic event. So how do you decide if the time and circumstances are right for you to build a home? Simon Karimba, a practicing architect with Lake Consortium, a construction and development consultants firm inRwanda takes us through the vital steps to click on your way to establishing a new house:
Before you start anything you might want to talk to your bank or mortgage companies to make sure you qualify for the mortgage to build your dream home. He says this is important as it will save you from the anguish of not getting the financing to build your home and save time during the planning and design process.
2. Commission the services of an Architect
Dare to Dream, Before commisioning the services of an architect, put your ideas into perspective and give yourself an opportunity to try out different ideas, layouts and designs either in form of notes, sketches or cut-outs from magazines. After you have compiled ideas for your dream home , take along your sketches/scrapbook to your Architect. Having your ideas on paper should save you costly time with your Architect.
Make sure when you commission an architect, they are not only a practicing but a registered Architect, otherwise you run the risk of having your application for a building permit denied. Depending on the architectural practice you chose, your architectís firm should be able to advise and provide you with the following professional services to formulate the design documentation for your dream house:
• Architectural Design Documentation
• Structural Design Documentation
• Electrical and Mechanical Design Documentation
• Cost Estimates and Bills of Quantities
These should consititute your full design documentation.
The District authorities through the Zoning and Urban Design Guidelines regulate the type of uses, development intensity, sitting and height of building on any plot. It provides landowners/developers with a clear picture of what can and cannot be developed on any particular plot. Authorities will have to approve of your building plan on the basis of these guidelines when you apply for a building permit. Other than design your dream home, your commissioned architect will be able to ensure that your documentation complies with these and other regulations set out by these guidelines.
3. Building Permit Application
After your Architect provides you with the detailed design documentation, you submit it together with supporting documentation ( land ownership papers) and apply for your building permit at the the district land office/one stop center for approval After submission of complete and sufficient documentation, the approval and issuance of a building permit is meant to take not more than 30days. There are plans to shorten this period by making construction permit application and issuance done online in a project scheduled to be piloted next month.
Depending on your approach, you could either chose to go for a self build construction or employ a general contractor to construct your home. For the case of self-build projects, one will need to assemble and manage a team of trade skills (fundis) construct your house, who will include masons, plumbers, electrician and landscapers.
If you decide to hire a general contractor to complete the works, then it will be the contractorís job to employ and carry the risk of all the trades. Another common undertaking in Rwanda is hybrid of both approaches whereby a general contractor is employed but on a labour contract. In this case the employer sources and purchases the construction materials and the general contractor builds. It is also imperative at this stage to commission your architect to carry out post contract services of supervision of the construction works for quality and quantity assurances.
5. Financing and Insurance
Arrange suitable financing. Your mortgage provider will require that appropriate insurance is in place at the start of the construction and you will want to make sure that your building is protected in case of fire, theft and other problems that can have an effect on the value of your building.
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Not too long ago, we put a question to the fans: If you could ask Steven Universe voice actor Zach Callison one question, what would it be? You asked, and Zach has answered!
Zach Callison is probably most well-known for his role as the voice of the titular character on Cartoon Network’s beloved show Steven Universe. His talents are diverse, though, and I got to sit down with this Zach-of-all-trades the weekend of Raleigh Supercon and get some insight into what it’s like playing such a beloved character, a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into a show like Steven Universe, and a sneak peek at some of Zach’s future projects. This interview contains questions from fans and spoilers through the episode “Lars’ Head.”
Editor’s note: In the audio-video below, Zach offers such gems as: how he got into voice acting; what commonalities he shares with Steven Universe and how he’s influenced the character; his other projects such as his new YouTube show and his music; and even answers fan questions that he’s definitely not allowed to answer, in the most hilarious way! Listen to the full interview by hitting play on the video below, or if you can’t listen (recommended), you can read a slightly edited version by clicking here!
What do you think after listening to Zach’s interview? How has Steven Universe changed since its beginning? What’s your White Diamond theory? In what ways do you relate to Steven or the other characters in the show?
This interview is brought to you by Alyssa Knoll via Nerdy Minds Magazine! Alyssa is a cosplayer and blogger from North Carolina. When she isn’t sewing or hot gluing, she enjoys binge-watching weird Netflix shows, overthinking things, and making people laugh. She also never shuts up about the things she loves. Connect with Alyssa at @inelegantcosplay on Instagram, Tumblr, and Facebook, and @inelegantcos on Twitter!
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We broke down some of the more intriguing numbers from LAL’s 91-85 loss vs. San Antonio:
Second-chance points for San Antonio compared to the Lakers eight. The Spurs owned a plus-four advantage on the glass, even without Tim Duncan (chest contusion) in the lineup. Tiago Splitter and Kawhi Leonard combined for 25 of San Antonio’s 50 rebounds, nine of which came on the offensive end.
Percent shooting from the Lakers starting backcourt of Steve Nash (1 of 8) and Steve Blake (2 of 12). Nash did not play the entire fourth quarter and struggled to get going throughout the game, while Blake hit his only two field goals in the third.
Fourth-quarter points for Boris Diaw, who started in place of Duncan. Diaw hit a three-pointer with 1:40 remaining to put the Spurs up 85-81, which essentially sealed the win for San Antonio.
Consecutive made baskets from Tony Parker from the 10:07 mark of the third till the final buzzer. Parker finished with 24 points and six assists, but was nearly perfect in the second half (6 of 7 field goals) as he keyed San Antonio’s win on the road. Below is a look at his second-half shot chart, courtesy of NBA.com/stats.
Turnover for San Antonio in the fourth quarter, when they shot 52.6 percent field goals. Postgame, Jordan Farmar acknowledged the difference down the stretch of a close ballgame. “They’re a really good team,” he said. “We’re still trying to find our identity and figure it out. They executed and made plays and made shots and we didn’t.” | <urn:uuid:efb8a7b1-8c2b-4b95-a601-dfd1b83d3f94> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,489 |
KEY: jP = Picture Books; jZ = 1st and 2nd Grade Readers; jE = 3rd and 4th Grade Readers; J = 5th Grade and Up
3rd - 4th Grade
|McCully, Emily||THE BOBBIN GIRL
A 10-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1830's must make a difficult decision - will she participate in the first worker's strike in Lowell?
A CLEARING IN THE FOREST
A biographical novel about Elijah Fletcher, a settler boy growing up in Indianapolis during the 1830's.
|Sanders, Scott||A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM
After being set free from slavery in 1832, young James Starman and his family journey from Tennessee to Indiana to start a new life and over the years they are joined by so many blacks that they start their own town.
|Schachner, Judith||MRS. EMERSON’S COOK
Annie Burns answers an ad requesting an extraordinary cook needed to get Mr. Emerson (Ralph Waldo, 1802-1882) to eat real food to supplement the nourishment he derives from nature through his imagination. 1835ish.
|Sperry, Portia and Lois Donaldson||ABIGAIL
10-year-old Susan, her parents and baby brother travel overland from Kentucky to a new home in Brown County, Indiana. 1835.
|Whelan, Gloria||THE INDIAN SCHOOL
During the autumn of 1839, newly orphaned 11-year-old Lucy goes to live with her missionary aunt and uncle who run a school for Indian children in northern Michigan.
|Avi||THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE
Although Charlotte Doyle was warned not to board the brig Seahawk on June 16, 1832, no young girl could have dreamed she'd face a murderous captain and rebellious crew.
|Blos, Joan||A GATHERING OF DAYS
A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832
14-year-old Catherine Hall begins her journal of a year and a half on her family’s New Hampshire Farm. Catherine writes of ordinary happenings – chores, school, church And occasional celebrations. Some excitement is experienced when a “phantom” (a runaway slave) leaves a note in the woods.
|Dadey, Debbie||CHEROKEE SISTER
Because she is mistaken for an Indian, 12-year-old Allie, a white girl, is forced to travel the Trail of Tears (1838) along with her best friend, a young Cherokee.
Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, 11-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge. Shawnee Indians. Ohio 1839.
|Frederick, Heather||THE VOYAGE OF PATIENCE GOODSPEED
Following their mother's death in Nantucket, Captain Goodspeed brings 12-year-old Patience and six-year-old Tad aboard his whaling ship, where a new crew member incites a mutiny and Patience puts her mathematical ability to good use.
|Frederick, Heather||THE EDUCATION OF PATIENCE GOODSPEED
Sequel to: The voyage of Patience Goodspeed
Summary Patience is not happy that instead of becoming the assistant navigator on her father's whaling ship as planned, she is sent ashore in Hawaii to attend a boarding school with a headmaster who is opposed to girls learning math.
|Garland, Sherry||IN THE SHADOW OF THE ALAMO
Conscripted into the Mexican army, 15-year-old Lorenzo Bonifacio makes some unexpected alliances and learns some harsh truths about General Santa Ana as the troops move toward the Battle of the Alamo (1836).
|Garland, Sherry||A LINE IN THE SAND: THE ALAMO DIARY OF LUCINDA LAWRENCE
In the diary she receives for her 13th birthday in 1835, Lucinda describes thehardships her family and other residents of the “Texas colonies” endure when theydecide to face the Mexicans in a fight for their freedom.
|Hermann, Spring||SEEING LESSONS
The Story of Abigail Carter and America's First School for Blind People
When 10-year-old Abby Carter attends the newly established school for the blind in Boston in 1832, she proves that blind people can learn and be independent.
|Krisher, Trudy||UNCOMMON FAITH
In 1837-38, residents of Millbrook, Massachusetts, speak in their different voices of major issues of their day, including women's rights, slavery, religious differences, and one fiery girl named Faith. TD>
|Mitchell, Elizabeth||JOURNEY TO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT
THE STORY OF STEPHEN BISHOP AND MAMMOTH CAVE
Summary In 1838, as the nation struggles with issues of slavery, seventeen-year-old Stephen Bishop serves his master as a guide in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave and spends his free time exploring and discovering new passages and rooms.
Always overshadowed by his competitive older brother, especially in their work as mule drivers on the Erie Canal, fourteen-year-old Howard finally finds the courage to pursue his dreams of becoming an educator after he learns about sign language and teaches it to his deaf friend in 1830's New York State.
|Rinaldi, Ann||THE EDUCATION OF MARY
A Little Miss of Color, 1832
In 1832, Prudence Crandall begins admitting black girls to her exclusive Connecticut school, scandalizing white society and eventually causing her arrest and the closing of her school.
|Stewart, Elisabeth||ON THE LONG TRAIL HOME
Meli and her brother Tahlikwa escape from the Cherokee people being herded Westward on the Trail of Tears, determined to return to their beloved mountain home (now environs Cherokee, North Carolina). 1838-9.
|Walsh, Jill Paton||GRACE
September 7, 1838. As Grace begins her watch in the dim morning hours, she longingly looks toward her former home, only to see the wreck of the Forfarshire on a closer island. This is the story of the rescue and the reluctance of the people of England to believe such a slight of a girl could do such a thing.
Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom. | <urn:uuid:c3697bd0-d0d8-48c9-8890-9191360f6e3d> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 5,750 |
BC: Summer family gathering/ birthday party | Guess I'm babysitting!?! | Me and my girl... | Out for supper with friends!
FC: Minda - Everyday, All Day
1: Rayvn and Mom just before prom. | Mothers day celebration at Jack Kemp Kindergarten...May 07'
2: Rayvn and me at Dawsons birthday.. | Guess I'm babysitting!?!
3: Nikki and Me! | Back in the saddle again!
4: Snug as a bug.... | Fun, laughter and good times as always! | Michael and Me!
5: Family BBQ July 07' | Bud Miller Park | Summer 07'
6: Sharing a frosty new years with the one we love! | Having a blast as always! | The sweet Gringo's girl.... | A New Years kiss that will last forever!
7: On our way to National Oilwell Varco's Christmas party... | Out for supper with friends! | CHRISTMAS AT OUR HOUSE...
8: Enjoying one of the many hundred walks we took at Bud Miller Park... | Loving life like never before....
9: Her boy.....His girl...! | Big family BBQ and soccer game! | My favorite place to be.....in my baby's arms! | Best friends....meshed at the heart!
10: WII tourny in our house was a big thing!!!! | Another WII tourny......no losers here:-) | The whole gang is invloved....always having a blast!
11: Me and my girl... | Summer family gathering/ birthday party
12: A campfire with Michael and kids. | Me and my sweet Michayla....Love you!
13: Guess who made me smile? | Loving each other in the midst of paperwork and trials.
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At Woodley Primary School, we provide the children with a variety of different musical experiences in order to embed skills and ultimately promote a genuine love of music. Our music curriculum aims to bring out the best in every child, enabling children to build their confidence through artistic expression. Throughout their time in school, children learn to talk descriptively about music they have heard or played, discussing the interrelated dimensions of music (pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and notation) in addition to developing an understanding of how music can have an emotional impact on the listener. We give the children the opportunity to listen to, play and appraise music from a wide variety of historical periods, traditions, and genres, and children also demonstrate their progress by composing and performing their own music for their peers and families. At Woodley Primary School we want to give the children as many enriching musical opportunities as possible, and we therefore ensure every child has the opportunity to learn to play a tuned instrument taught by a music specialist throughout the duration of Year 4. Children who wish to further improve their musical skills can also enjoy extra-curricular activities such as joining the school choir and partaking in private tutored music lessons. We celebrate musical achievements in school with annual music assemblies for each key stage, inviting families and friends to visit school and see what their children have learned. | <urn:uuid:7d5dff9c-1b52-48a4-9cee-b4b3091ad70d> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,531 |
The biggest test when remarrying is how your fiancee will fit into your family. What happens when your children are unwilling to accept your new love?
It's not always about whether or not the child likes the new partner, says Emily Ryan Smith, a social worker in Mobile, Ala.
"Children will have different emotional responses to family change based on the child's age, developmental stage and the presence of other life changes," she says. "Children often feel anxiety due to the uncertainty of the future. They may ask themselves, 'Where will we live? Will I have to share my room? Where do I fit into this family?'"
A major problem with teens, says psychotherapist Marcia Polansky, a professor at Drexel University School of Public Health in Philadelphia, is that even when the divorce is good for the parents, the kids like having both of them in the house, "even if the parents aren't getting along, even if they're quite unhappy together."
Polansky recommends that parents help maintain the bond between their children and ex-spouse because "children need access to both parents, especially if you're a teenager" she says.
Young children may regress to a period in their life when they felt safe — for example, use of baby talk or becoming very clingy to the parent. Others may act out aggressively as a way of expressing feelings of anger or fear, Smith says.
"Some children internalize their feelings and withdraw or exhibit depressive symptoms," she adds. "Teenagers may become more cynical toward the parent and stepparent."
A parent's new romantic relationship can spur other feelings as well: "Children may experience sadness as they lose hope that their parents will reunite," Smith says. "Jealousy of time and attention given to the new partner or step-sibling is not uncommon."
"No matter the age, all children need structure," Smith says. "Try to maintain the existing routine as much as possible. A healthy co-parenting relationship with your previous spouse can ease the transition for the children. Providing a safe and loving environment is crucial to adjustment."
Social worker Emily Ryan Smith offers these tips when children don't like your new significant other:
Discuss it with your ex-spouse. "If possible, co-parent with the biological parent in order to ease the transition."
Look to other family members for help. "Now is a good time for (the kids) to be in contact with supportive family members from both sides (paternal and maternal)."
Reassure them that they will continue to be loved and cannot be replaced.
Talk to your kids about their feelings. "Practice active listening skills so that you really hear your child. You do not have to agree with the child, but this time is for listening and understanding his feelings."
Spend time doing fun things with your children, without your new partner.
Encourage your kids to talk with friends at school whose parents are divorced, to provide them with a peer support group.
"If your child appears stuck in the grieving cycle and continues to have difficulty adjusting," Smith says, "seek advice from a professional therapist." | <urn:uuid:43d03b20-b0a3-4813-9fd9-e813df856abe> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,104 |
26 June 2009 - Dr Kourosh Kayvani, Aurecon’s special structures leader for the Asia Pacific zone has been recognised in this year’s Engineers Australia Top 100 list of most influential engineers.
The annual list appears in the June edition of Engineers Australia magazine and recognises Australian engineers who have had leading influence in industry, consulting, academia, politics and public service.
“I am honoured to be included in such a list of eminent peers in Australia,” Kourosh said.
Appearing in the category of engineering expertise, the recognition is acknowledgement of Kourosh’s 20 years of professional practice, during which time he has pushed the boundaries of structural analysis and design.
During his career, Kourosh has been involved in the design of a number of innovative and iconic projects. London’s Wembley Stadium (Arch and Roof), the ANSTO OPAL reactor building, the Sydney Olympic Hockey Centre and Barito River Suspension Bridges (Indonesia) are just a few standout examples of the projects that he has worked on.
“Since becoming an engineer, I have always believed in the importance of working closely with clients and colleagues to explore both the possibilities and opportunities to design innovative, vibrant and challenging structures,” Kourosh added.
“For me, by pushing the boundaries of structural design, engineers have a great opportunity to shape the way humans interact with each other and within their communities.”
Currently, Kourosh is the President of the Lightweight Structures Association of Australia and an active board member of the Association of Consulting Structural Engineers, NSW. He is an honorary professor at the University of Sydney and a visiting professorial fellow at the University of New South Wales.
“While I am stimulated daily by my involvement with Aurecon’s major projects, it’s also a great privilege to contribute to practice-oriented teaching and research, and to interact with the sharp-minded and passionate engineers of the future,” Kourosh said. | <urn:uuid:894e602b-2a6b-47d4-b484-a711fcf8896f> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,023 |
FURTHER UPDATED: New course for Spring 2014: Thurs 3:30-6:15 (Randolph 209)
D. Mayo and A. Spanos
This new course, to be jointly taught by Professors D. Mayo (Philosophy) and A. Spanos (Economics) will provide an introductory, in-depth introduction to graduate level research in philosophy of inductive-statistical inference and probabilistic methods of evidence (a branch of formal epistemology). We explore philosophical problems of confirmation and induction, the philosophy and history of frequentist and Bayesian approaches, and key foundational controversies surrounding tools of statistical data analytics, modeling and hypothesis testing in the natural and social sciences, and in evidence-based policy.
We now have some tentative topics and dates:
|1. 1/23||Introduction to the Course: 4 waves of controversy in the philosophy of statistics|
|2. 1/30||How to tell what’s true about statistical inference: Probabilism, performance and probativeness|
|3. 2/6||Induction and Confirmation: Formal Epistemology|
|4. 2/13||Induction, falsification, severe tests: Popper and Beyond|
|5. 2/20||Statistical models and estimation: the Basics|
|6. 2/27||Fundamentals of significance tests and severe testing|
|7. 3/6||Five sigma and the Higgs Boson discovery Is it “bad science”?|
|SPRING BREAK Statistical Exercises While Sunning|
|8. 3/20||Fraudbusting and Scapegoating: Replicability and big data: are most scientific results false?|
|9. 3/27||How can we test the assumptions of statistical models?
All models are false; no methods are objective: Philosophical problems of misspecification testing: Spanos method
|10. 4/3||Fundamentals of Statistical Testing: Family Feuds and 70 years of controversy|
|11. 4/10||Error Statistical Philosophy: Highly Probable vs Highly Probed
Some howlers of testing
|12. 4/17||What ever happened to Bayesian Philosophical Foundations? Dutch books etc. Fundamental of Bayesian statistics|
|13. 4/24||Bayesian-frequentist reconciliations, unifications, and O-Bayesians|
|14. 5/1||Overview: Answering the critics: Should statistical philosophy be divorced from methodology?|
|(15. TBA)||Topic to be chosen (Resampling statistics and new journal policies? Likelihood principle)|
Interested in attending? E.R.R.O.R.S.* can fund travel (presumably driving) and provide accommodation for Thurs. night in a conference lodge in Blacksburg for a few people through (or part of) the semester. If interested, write ASAP for details (with a brief description of your interest and background) to email@example.com. (Several people asked about long-distance hook-ups: We will try to provide some sessions by Skype, and will put each of the seminar items here (also check the Phil6334 page on this blog).
A sample of questions we consider*:
- What makes an inquiry scientific? objective? When are we warranted in generalizing from data?
- What is the “traditional problem of induction”? Is it really insoluble? Does it matter in practice?
- What is the role of probability in uncertain inference? (to assign degrees of confirmation or belief? to characterize the reliability of test procedures?) 3P’s: Probabilism, performance and probativeness
- What is probability? Random variables? Estimates? What is the relevance of long-run error probabilities for inductive inference in science?
- What did Popper really say about severe testing, induction, falsification? Is it time for a new definition of pseudoscience?
- Confirmation and falsification: Carnap and Popper, paradoxes of confirmation; contemporary formal epistemology
- What is the current state of play in the “statistical wars” e.g., between frequentists, likelihoodists, and (subjective vs. “non-subjective”) Bayesians?
- How should one specify and interpret p-values, type I and II errors, confidence levels? Can one tell the truth (and avoid fallacies) with statistics? Do the “reformers” themselves need reform?
- Is it unscientific (ad hoc, degenerating) to use the same data both in constructing and testing hypotheses? When and why?
- Is it possible to test assumptions of statistical models without circularity?
- Is the new research on “replicability” well-founded, or an erroneous use of screening statistics for long-run performance?
- Should randomized studies be the “gold standard” for “evidence-based” science and policy?
- What’s the problem with big data: cherry-picking, data mining, multiple testing
- The many faces of Bayesian statistics: Can there be uninformative prior probabilities? (No) Principles of indifference over the years
- Statistical fraudbusting: psychology, economics, evidence-based policy
- Applied controversies (selected): Higgs experiments, climate modeling, social psychology, econometric modeling, development economic
D. Mayo (books):
How to Tell What’s True About Statistical Inference, (Cambridge, in progress).
Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1996. (Winner of 1998 Lakatos Prize).
Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management, co-edited with Rachelle Hollander, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Aris Spanos (books):
Probability Theory and Statistical Inference, Cambridge, 1999.
Statistical Foundations of Econometric Modeling, Cambridge, 1986.
Joint (books): Error and Inference: Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science, D. Mayo & A. Spanos (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. [The book includes both papers and exchanges between Mayo and A. Chalmers, A. Musgrave, P. Achinstein, J. Worrall, C. Glymour, A. Spanos, and joint papers with Mayo and Sir David Cox]. | <urn:uuid:da40ef7d-2a84-48e6-b23c-328787b000b3> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 5,643 |
Looking for an Alternative to College? U.S. Studies German Apprenticeships – WSJ
I love it every time that apprenticeships are in the news in the USA. What I’m sad about is that the USA seems to be constantly looking for the perfect model that will magically change the workforce and employers mind on apprenticeships.
Why O Why do you not just look closer to home. They is some magnificent apprenticeship programs already in existence in the USA. (Traditional and non-traditional).
Why look at models that look and sound good but are embedded in a completely different culture and historical context of workforce.
The USA needs to do what it does well “innovation” look at what an “American Apprenticeship” model can look like within its own cultural and historical context. Look at what the hard working apprenticeship providers both Union and Non-Union are doing.
Looking at the horizon sometimes means you miss the great stuff in front of your nose.
If you want to learn about some of the excellent apprenticeship work that is going on closer to home IN THE USA. Send me a message and I will point you in the right direction.
Birmingham, Ala., where youth unemployment remains high, is seeking German companies to bring job apprenticeship programs to the U.S. as an alternative to a four-year college education.
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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY ( Written Report )
Avila, Antonio Jr. Basco Jr., Mario A. Belarmino, Sherwin Calleja, Martin Owen Egaña, Von Leunice Erni, Ned Angelo J.
Estadilla, Jerome Cristopher H. Reyes, Juan Carlo Soriano, John Kevin M. Tayao, John Mark Vizarra, Mark Kevin
Submitted to: Archt. Jocelyn Lutap
10 September, 2012
Architectural Character: The obvious distinguishing features of Classical Roman architecture were adopted by Renaissance architects. However, the forms and purposes of buildings had changed over time, as had the structure of cities. Among the earliest buildings of the reborn Classicism were churches of a type that the Romans had never constructed. Neither were there models for the type of large city dwellings required by wealthy merchants of the 15th century. Conversely, there was no call for enormous sporting fixtures and public bath houses such as the Romans had built. The ancient orders were analysed and reconstructed to serve new purposes.
Plan The plans of Renaissance buildings have a square, symmetrical appearance in which proportions are usually based on a module. Within a church the module is often the width of an aisle. The need to integrate the design of the plan with the façade was introduced as an issue in the work of Filippo Brunelleschi, but he was never able to carry this aspect of his work into fruition. The first building to demonstrate this was St. Andrea in Mantua by Alberti. The development of the plan in secular architecture was to take place in the 16th century and culminated with the work of Palladio.
Figure 1. Raphael's unused plan for St. Peter's Basilica
Façade Façades are symmetrical around their vertical axis. Church façades are generally surmounted by a pediment and organized by a system of pilasters, arches and entablatures. The columns and windows show a progression towards the center. One of the first true Renaissance façades was the Cathedral of Pienza (1459– 62), which has been attributed to the Florentine architect Bernardo Gambarelli (known as Rossellino) with Alberti perhaps having some responsibility in its design as well.
Domestic buildings are often surmounted by a cornice. There is a regular repetition of openings on each floor, and Figure 2. Sant'Agostino, Rome, Giacomo di Pietrasanta, 1483 the centrally placed door is marked by a feature such as a balcony, or rusticated surround. An early and much copied prototype was the façade for the Palazzo Rucellai (1446 and 1451) in Florence with its three registers of pilasters
Columns and Pilasters The Roman orders of columns are used:- Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. The orders can either be structural, supporting an arcade or architrave, or purely decorative, set against a wall in the form of pilasters. During the Renaissance, architects aimed to use columns, pilasters, and as an integrated system. One of the first buildings to use pilasters as an integrated system was in the Old Sacristy (1421–1440) by Brunelleschi.
Arches Arches are semi-circular or (in the Mannerist style) segmental. Arches are often used in arcades, supported on piers or columns with capitals. There may be a section of entablature between the capital and the springing of the arch. Alberti was Figure 3. Classical Orders, engraving one of the first to use the arch on a monumental scale at from theEncyclopédie vol. 18. 18th century the St. Andrea in Mantua.
Vaults Vaults do not have ribs. They are semi-circular or segmental and on a square plan, unlike the Gothic vault which is frequently rectangular. The barrel vault is returned to architectural vocabulary as at the St. Andrea in Mantua.
Domes The dome is used frequently, both as a very large structural feature that is visible from the exterior, and also as a means of roofing smaller spaces where they are only visible internally. Domes had been used only rarely in the Middle Ages, but after the success of the dome in Brunelleschi’s design for the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore and its use in Bramante’s plan for St. Peter's Basilica (1506) in Rome, the dome became an indispensable element in church architecture and later even for secular architecture, such as Palladio's Villa Rotonda.
Ceilings Roofs are fitted with flat or coffered ceilings. They are not left Figure 4. The Dome of St Peter's open as in Medieval architecture. They are frequently painted Basilica, Rome. or decorated.
begun in 1517. but there was also a good deal of innovation in solving problems. Emblematic in this respect is the Palazzo Farnese in Rome. Walls External walls are generally of highly finished ashlar masonry. In the Mannerist period the ―Palladian‖ arch was employed. Details Courses. The different orders each required different sets of details. Basements and ground floors were often rusticated. They may have square lintels and triangular or segmental pediments. laid in straight courses. The corners of buildings are often emphasised by rusticated quoins. They may be set within an arch or surmounted by a triangular or segmental pediment. Windows Windows may be paired and set within a semi-circular arch. which are often used alternately. especially at corners. to give views. Some architects were stricter in their use of classical details than others. Moldings stand out around doors and windows rather than being recessed. as modeled on the Palazzo Medici Riccardi (1444–1460) in Florence.Doors Doors usually have square lintels. They are not integral to the building as in Medieval architecture. Figure 5. mouldings and all decorative details are carved with Figure 6. Windows are used to bring light into the building and in domestic architecture. as in Gothic Architecture. Palazzo Farnese Stained glass. internal surfaces are decorated with frescoes. Openings that do not have doors are usually arched and frequently have a large or decorative keystone. Palazzo Medici Riccardi great precision. Studying and mastering the details of the ancient Romans was one of the important aspects of Renaissance theory. although sometimes present. For more formal spaces. is not a feature. Sculptured figures may be set in niches or placed on plinths. Internal walls are smoothly plastered and surfaced with white-chalk paint. 4 . using a motif of a high semi-circular topped opening flanked with two lower square-topped openings.
with or without a piece of entablature.—More varied planning on a grand scale. which is also defined by string courses. Florence. Church naves were planned to support coffered vaults. 5 . Florence. to avoid too pronounced a division. C. both single and coupled. as in Florence. complex.— Walls are frequently screened with pilasters. Openings. and the building is crowned by a deep cornice. Church naves were planned. for vaults. Maria della Salute. Venice. Rome. Doorways are small and severe yet imposing. as in S. a broken. Venice. adapted to town rather than country buildings. which. and picturesque disposition was adopted. Staircases enclosed by walls were roofed by sloping barrel vaults. B. Staircases circular and elliptical with columnar supports are usual. or even carried through two storeys to give grandness of scale. are sometimes broken back round the columns. domes on pendentives. Rome. The old Roman type of dome over a circular space and the dome on pendentives over a square space were both used in churches. the Scala Regia. Strozzi. as in the Palazzi Riccardi. —Arcades have arches resting directly on columns. and Quaratesi. as in the Barberini. Plans. Staircases off a central court surrounded with arcades were characteristic. or timber ceilings. or flat ceilings.—Walls are characterised by multiplicity of parts produced by columns to each storey and dividing horizontal entablatures. but varied surface treatment gives character to each storey. Florence. Walls. The doorways at Genoa have triangular and segmental pediments. domes. and Braschi palaces.—Walls recall those of Egypt in severity and are frequently astylar.—Where site permitted. on each storey. but in palaces a straight front to the canals was the rule. Corsini. Windows are of three types : (a) " Arcade " type with central column and round arches. and at Caprarola.Comparative Analysis: A. — Symmetry and compactness of plan. while another treatment has a subsidiary architrave.
frequently supported the arches.—Arcades have arches supported on piers faced with columns or pilasters. Vaults were either coffered in stucco or painted. (c) " Order " type with columns and entablature. Doorways are flanked by columns. sometimes supporting round arches with carved spandrels. Domes in churches are grouped with towers. Raking vaults to staircases and waggon or cross-vaults are general. both in " cortile " and church arcades. They regulated not only the height of balustrades.—Arcades have round arches resting on columns. Doorways are flanked by columns and pilasters supporting cornice and semicircular or triangular pediment or are enclosed in rusticated blocks. or rusticated blocks. Florence.—Roofs are rarely visible and often hidden by balustrades. 6 . or have architraves and side consoles. Venice. as in the Palazzo Pandolfini. Windows are large with semi-Gothic tracery or are flanked by columns. were at first superimposed. Milan.(b) " Architrave " type with cornice.—Flat tiled roofs are sometimes visible above cornices. as in S. Roofs. staircases. Rome. and churches were elaborately moulded in plaster and frescoed. or with consoles.—Roofs with balustrades are frequent . and S. while timber ceilings are a feature in palaces. as at Verona. but later one great Order frequently included the whole height of the building. they have architraves and side consoles. Maria della Grazie. or on piers faced with columns. consoles. as in the Palazzi Pitti. Rome. Venice. while sometimes. not at first in general use for facades. Maria della Pace and the Palazzo Farnese. Vaulted ceilings of halls. — The Orders. Rome. as at the Certosa. In Milan and other north Italian cities the low internal cupola was often covered by a lofty structure in diminishing stages. after the style of the newly excavated Baths of Titus. Columns. both frescoed and coffered. but the spacing and size of windows. E.--The Orders. Domes on high drums and crowned with lanterns are usual in churches. Domes were favourite features in churches. Windows have semicircular arches enclosed in mouldings forming a square frame with spandrels. or are flanked by columns. Pavia. either single or coupled. D. based on the Colosseum facade. as in the Palazzo Gondi. Florence.
candelabra. — Florentine ornament is well illustrated in the sculptured frieze. were used. while coffered ceilings were of great elaboration as at Genoa. while heraldic shields contrast with plain wall surfaces. Rome. entablatures. pilaster capitals. Florence. pulpit. flowers. Venice.—The few and simple mouldings of string courses were slight in projection so as to throw into relief the crowning cornice. F. balustrade. Ornament. chimney-piece. of Luca della Robbia and his school are specially characteristic of Florentine art at this period. monuments. is one of the most 7 . Florence. Mouldings. lavabos. Rome. singing-gallery. while buildings by Sansovino and Palladio show a more correct and formal treatment. —Projecting columns in successive tiers with entablatures. the Triclinium. with their frescoes. Giulio Romano. angle lantern and link holder. as are also the pedimented door-heads at Genoa. although new combinations were introduced by Michelangelo and his disciples. The coloured bas-reliefs. doorways. niche.Venice. often broken back to the wall. and masks.D. Roman ornament generally can be studied from the capital.and original. pilaster. consoles or corbels. doorways.—Sculpture is both beautiful and exuberant and even competes with the actual architectural features. which was carried out on a large scale by Raphael. The mouldings of balconies. singing-gallery. fountains. fruit. and were extremely refined. tabernacle. holy-water stoup. niches. Mouldings of ornamental features—consoles. designed on Classic models. capitals. until it reached its zenith in the Sistine Chapel. 1481).— Classic mouldings from ancient Roman buildings naturally served as models which were closely followed. gave an impetus to the traditional art of painting in tempera on plastic surfaces. capitals. Mouldings of pedestals. G. and fonts. many of which were delicately carved with pagan motifs of infant genii. Venice (A. and Michelangelo. and capitals are frequently carved with intricate ornament. The unearthing of the Baths of Titus. Rome. coffered ceilings. and the Baroque treatment is seen in the Fontana di Trevi. and brackets—exhibit great refinement of line. Venice. and the altar in the Gesu Church. and reliquary. — Sculpture was refined in treatment and naturally followed Classical precedent. corbels. The Colleoni Monument. The traditional school of fresco painting by Cimabue and Giotto was influenced by the discovery of ancient Roman paintings. — Mouldings were influenced by local Byzantine and Gothic art. altar-piece. and tombs are all Classical in treatment.
especially of the triumphs of their city . Rustication is often used to give visual weight to the ground floor in contrast to smooth ashlar above. There is a general absence of pilasters as decorative features. The typical palace was built round as internal court. Figure 8. extended to three arches. as seen in the statue niche.a method of forming stonework with roughened surfaces and recessed joints. flagstaff standard. Similar to mediaeval cloister. surrounded by arcades. principally employed in Renaissance buildings. Rusticated masonry is usually squared-off but left with a more or less rough outer surface and wide joints that emphasize the edges of each block. Rome. surmounted by the bronze equestrian statue by Verrocchio. is obviously founded on the model of the Arch of Titus. where under unique conditions and influences. with a lofty pedestal embellished with columns. Rustication block masonry surfaces called ashlar. monuments. candelabrum. squared Figure 7. Palazzo Medici Courtyard 8 . balcony. The colour-loving Venetians clothed their walls internally with large pictures of subjects both sacred and profane. a type of palace building was evolved. to which huge blocks of rusticated masonry gives an unusually massive and rugged appearance. Venice (A. capital. THREE MAIN REGIONS: (FLORENCE. or else sheathed them in brilliant panels of many-coloured marbles from the shores of the Adriatic. Rustication. VENICE) FLORENCE.D. balustrade. 1540). In classical architecture. carved panel. The Renaissance of the 15th century in Italy had its birth in Florence. The bronze gates are rich in Renaissance metalwork. ROME. altar.famous in the world. and carved ornament. The Logetta. The niches contain statues of heathen gods. and the high attic has fine sculptured panels and is crowned by a pleasing balustrade. chimney-piece.rustication is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished. Sculpture was much influenced by the various preceding styles and by a Venetian love of display. Supporting the walls of upper storeys.
Capital and Brackets.reliefs in terra cotta. TABERNACLE. It mediates between the column and the load thrusting down upon it. which are therefore called ‘astylar: while sparing use of detail. The imposing appearance of these massive features fronting on narrow streets mis emphasized by boldly projecting roof cornices. not only the ornament does depend on the personality of the artist. In architecture the capital forms the topmost member of a column (or pilaster). characteristic of the Italian palace. in strong contrast to rugged. Capital that has been reduced in size.a treatment of façade without columns . which crown the walls are proportioned to the height of the buildings. carving and statues. together with concentration on pronounced features produces boldness and simplicity of style. broadening the area of the column's supporting surface. Figure 11. with their colored glazed. baptistery doors. Palazzo Medici Riccardi Astylar. Florentine craftsmanship shows highly developed artistic perception and technical skills . bas reliefs. retaining the half-dome heading usual for an apse. Figure 9. but architectural design also became the product of the individual architect rather than following the traditional lines of craftsmen. The architectural character owes much it’s interest to the contributions of sculptors and painters. Niche (left). during the Renaissance and its aftermath. fortress like character of the palaces. usually above an altar. A niche in classical architecture is an exedra or an apse Figure 10. In the facades.recess or receptacle. or palazzo. Cortile.to contain the characteristic host. Early Renaissance churches are conspicuous for refinement. internal court surrounded by an arcade. The columnar arcade is a favourite feature not only in courtyards but also in streets in the founding hospital. Tabernacle (right) 9 .
Florentine garden art was approaching its zenith. In many Christian churches.in the Renaissance term. Frieze make the Sign of the Cross using the holy water upon entrance of the church. undulating countryside has retained something or medieval character: progressively. or decorated with bas-reliefs. and a bowl to catch the water as it falls off the hands. About this time. A lavabo is a device used to provide water for the washing of hands. Lorenzo. A holy water font or stoup is a vessel containing holy water generally placed near the entrance of a church. Font/Stoup (left). In ecclesiastical usage it refers to both the basin in which the priest washes his hands and the ritual that surrounds this action in the Mass. Holy water is blessed by a priest. Lavabo (right) Pulpit is a speakers' stand in a church. the pulpit side of the church is sometimes called the gospel side. It is used in Catholic Church and some Anglican churches to Figure 12. and Catholics believe it to be a reminder of the baptismal promises. Since the Gospel lesson is often read from the pulpit. there are two speakers' stands at the front of the church. Pulpit In the 2nd quarter of 16th century. Figure 14. Frieze is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order. Cantoria. The Early Renaissance villas in the neighboring beautifully-diversified. the one on the left is called the pulpit. Figure 13. they developed towards the intimate charm of formally 10 . the room in which it is kept is the lavatory. it refers to a sink for washing hands. it is used to denote a singers gallery often elaborately carved in a major church Florence contains many examples of Early Renaissance architecture. Michelangelo led the proto baroque breakaway from the formalism of design with his new sacristy of St. but fewer of high Renaissance and Proto-Baroque and almost none of the Baroque period. It consists normally of a ewer or container of some kind to pour water. Typically. In secular usage.
The dome covers an octagonal apartment.D. around which are ranged the 11 . with eight main and sixteen intermediate ribs supporting panels. 6 ins. Florence Examples Of Renaissance Architecture In Florence: Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. and is raised on a drum.D. but his accomplishments also include other architectural works. sculpture. His principal surviving works are to be found in Florence. Dome of Florence Cathedral have been used only to a limited extent. is a miracle of design which triumphantly blended a Renaissance dome with a Gothic building and set the crown on that masterpiece of Mediaeval Florence. centred on a summer dwelling or casino. mathematics. in diameter. is Michelozzo's best-known building. consists of inner and outer shells constructed on the Gothic principle. The palace was sold (A. The plan has a cortile or peristyle as in Pompeian houses. and here Lorenzo the Magnificent kept his brilliant Court. with circular windows to light the interior. Boboli Garden. He is perhaps most famous for his studies of linear perspective and engineering the dome of the Florence Cathedral. which at any rate may Figure 17. Palazzo Medici Riccardi The Palazzo Riccardi. Italy. Florence (A. It is said that it was erected without centering. 1659) to the Riccardi family. which is pointed in form. 138 ft. growing more natural as they merged at the fringed with surrounding landscapes. 1430). Figure 16. Figure 15. Filippo Brunelleschi The Dome of Florence Cathedral which was entrusted to Brunelleschi as the result of a competition. engineering and even ship design. This unique dome.related garden compartments of different types.
Plan of Palazzo Strozzi 1763 were the projecting wings added facing the Piazza.D. bearing in its rugged simplicity a curious resemblance to the bold Claudian Aqueduct. The Palazzo Medici. off which are the stairs and surrounding rooms. was completed by Cronaca. is a Renaissance palace located in Florence. the intermediate storey has drafted stone walling with traceried windows . high. in three storeys. with its massive blocks of masonry and arches of the ground storey The cortile seen from the famous Boboli Gardens. which is further accentuated by the grand crowning cornice which projects over 7 ft. 1489) begun by da Majano. Palazzo Strozzi The Palazzo Strozzi.D. and the whole facade is crowned by a bold cornice projecting over 8 ft. and link are attractive features of this famous facade. but not until A. Florence (A. It is of astylar treatment. and is a grand and stately composition with a great central cortile and smaller lateral cortili added in A.D. in length. Florence (A. also called the Palazzo Medici Figure 18. The facade. and is about one-tenth the height of the building. The rusticated walls have moulded string courses emphasising the storeys and producing an effect of horizontality. Figure 19.various rooms with the grand stair to the " piano nobile. and the upper storey. a friend of Cosimo de' Medici.D." The exterior. The facade has one unbroken surface—an early example of the astylar treatment. The ground storey has heavily rusticated masonry with semicircular arches enclosing windows of the pediment type . with three-storeyed centre 119 ft. Italy. 1435) erected for Luca Pitti. The windows angle-lantern. is unique in its 12 . is 66o ft. It has a fine symmetrical plan. Walls of Palazzo Medicci Ricardi Riccardi after the later family that acquired and expanded it. is the largest palace in Italy except the Vatican. 1640. Pallazzo Strozzi Palazzo Pitti The Palazzo Pitti. in plain ashlar masonry. has similar windows. The chief features are a large central cortile with arcades on the three storeys. Figure 20. is an admirable example of the effective use of graduated rustication.
and is fully open to the public. The palace was bought by the Medici family in 1549 and became the chief residence of the ruling families of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. and Corinthian half-columns. The palace was built from 1565 by Giovanni Domenico and Ponzello to Nicholas Grimaldi. Palazzo Doria Tursi (interior) Figure 22. The palace is now the king's residence and partly occupied by the famous picture gallery. The spacious balconies overlooking the street were added in 1597. It grew as a great treasure house as later generations amassed paintings. the palazzo was used as a power base by Napoleon. jewelry and luxurious possessions. High Renaissance and Proto Baroque Palazzo Doria Tursi The Palazzo Doria Tursi-or Nicholas Grimaldi Palace is a building in Via Garibaldi at number 9 in the historic center of Genoa. Palazzo Doria Tursi (exterior) 13 . when the palace became the property of Giovanni Andrea Doria who acquired it for the younger son Charles. one built on three parcels of land. Palazzo Pitti (exterior) Italy. and later served for a brief period as the principal royal palace of the newly united Figure 21. it houses several minor collections in addition to those of the Medici family. In the late 18th century. to whom we owe its present name. with two large gardens framing the central body. and which are compounded by the numerous claims that he had against Philip II.columnar treatment of Doric. The facade is characterized by the alternation of materials Figure 23. Ionic. B. The building is now the seat of the municipality of Genoa. added on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 enrolled in Rolli palaces of Genoa which became a Heritage of UNESCO. Today. and its doors were opened to the public as one of Florence's largest art galleries. The palace and its contents were donated to the Italian people by King Victor Emmanuel III in 1919. plates. Since 1848 is the town hall of Genoa. appealed to the "Monarch" for the number of possible titles that could boast. Duke of Tursi. It is the most imposing building of the street. of which was the principal banker.
14 .The Porta Pila was originally designed to be part of the fortification of Porta Maurizio.foyer. Following lengthy discussions and tumultuous demonstrations.Baroque I. Palazzo Carignano Palazzo Carignano (Carignan Palas in Piedmontese) is a historic building which is one of the finest examples of Baroque architecture. It consists of two different buildings and is located in the center of Turin. The floor above the large windows skirting alternates from the original design with rustic pilasters projecting replaced. contributing to the plastic rendering of the facade. guardian of the city. rectangular courtyard elevated above the porch and staircase with two flights . common sense prevailed: it was decided that the transfer and buttressing the door to the ramparts of Monte Sano. Together with the Royal Palace and the Senate is one of the most important buildings of the city. Mascheroni by grimaces animalistic surmount the windows on both levels. upstairs. It was moved to its current place in 1940. the gray-black slate. Particularly innovative is the new and ingenious architectural solution that with the sequence of interior spaces . The main facade consists of two superimposed orders. During demolition of the Fronti Bassi the door was demolished as well. by Doric pilasters.of different colors: pink stone of Finale. II. but instead was transported by the order of Padri del Comune sometime between 1647 and 1649. with the statue of Our Lady. Porta Pila the Brignole train station. In 1898 due to the opening of the new Via XX Settembre in danger of being demolished. The majestic marble portal is crowned with the coat of arms of the city of Genoa. although this site no longer exists due to the expansion of Figure 24. staircase. violins Niccolò Paganini and Camillo Sivori and numismatic collections and that of ceramics from the city of Genoa. C. The building is the culmination of residential splendor of the Genoese aristocracy. but it was saved and moved in 1899 to the Montesano Bastion. or the Genoese painting of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.creates a wonderful play of light and perspective. the white of the precious marble from Carrara. Porta Pila Porta Pila was erected in 1648. remained where it had been erected by the avi. but a clergy uncompromising claims that ancient port. the Penitent Magdalene by Canova. The building is connected to the adjacent Palazzo Bianco and houses the last room of the museum gallery.
also in brick. with the regiment Carignan-Salières. From the courtyard instead of the elliptical body stands out from the wings. Figure 25. with a U-shaped plan and a unique architectural structure: an elliptical tower is slightly behind the facade and two wings unfold to form a square courtyard surrounded completely by body of the building. Nearby are the National University Library and the Teatro Carignano. with white stone and pink stucco 15 . become as plastic and moldable The decorations on the facade of the main floor. The large decorative frieze on the façade main bearing the inscription QVI NACQVE VITTORIO EMANVELE II was added in 1884 by Carlo Ceppi. The interiors are beautifully decorated with frescoes and stucco. also recalled the use of exposed brick. architect and mathematician Guarino Guarini (builder of the famous Chapel of the Holy Shroud) a palace for his family . This Palace is mainly related to the history of Italian Risorgimento. on the occasion of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy . the Museum of the Risorgimento has been closed for a period of about three years for a challenging restoration and redevelopment and reopened March 18. In the course of the extension work carried out at Giuseppe Bollati by Gaetano Ferri between 1864 and 1871 was built the back side. including victory in Canada performed alongside the French in 1667 against the native Iroquois. Guarini designed a beautiful building that is one of the most important works of the Piedmontese Baroque. in an eclectic style. Some frescoes are by Stefano Legnani said Legnanino. are references to adventures and enterprises of Carignano. Agostino Silva was the author of the stucco still visible in the room with an alcove on the first floor of the south side of the courtyard. making a magnificent effect. Since 1692 the hall. 2011. since the facade alternates concave with convex parts. In the monumental façade the ellipse is distinguishable because it makes room sinuously. the staircase and the hall are decorated with stucco and 29 busts of ancient sculptor Pietro Somazzi. surpassing them in height.Now houses the National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento. From April 2006. respecting the Baroque style in brick. The bricks perfectly sharpened and grouted with mortar powder cooked. In the second half of the seventeenth century (1679-1684) Emanuele Filiberto (known as the Mute) of the cadet branch of Savoy-Carignano commissioned the famous Theatine father. The building model is also sought at the Oratorio dei Filippini Borromini. in a configuration perhaps due to projects by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for the Louvre palace and the castle of Vaux-le-Vicomte. Palazzo Carignano The building overlooks the square and the side facade of the Palace of the Academy of Sciences and the imposing rear of the church of San Filippo Blacks creates a unique architectural extraordinary value.
after the crucifixion of Jesus in the second quarter of the 1st century A. known in Italian as Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano. He was crucified near an Egyptian obelisk in the Circus of Nero. a fisherman from Galilee. a theologian of early Christian interest in Alexandria. by his own request because he considered himself unworthy to die in the same manner as Jesus.D.. Peter was crucified head downwards. and the construction of a new church over the old Constantinian basilica began on 18 April 1506 and was completed on 18 November 1626. took the leadership among Jesus’ followers and a great importance of the founding of the Christian Church. Peter’s Basilica is a Renaissance church located in the Vatican City. Peter. he met his martyrdom. Peter travelled to Rome and during the reign of Roman Emperor Nero in the year 64 A. one of his twelve disciples. now home to the National Library.D. It is also hailed as ―the greatest of all churches in Christendom‖. History The site was the burial place of St. Peter’s Square and revered as a ―witness‖ to Peter’s death. The basilica is famous as pilgrimage site and liturgical functions. According to the records of the Biblical book the Acts of the Apostles. known as Peter. Belongs to Late Renaissance period and one of the largest churches in the world. It was the interior facade of the building at the time when it was the residence of Savoy. Peter’s Basilica The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican.D. 16 .embellished with magnificent columns and pilasters. porch on the ground floor and topped raised by a balustrade on the top in the center. one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. St. after ministry of about thirty years. which is now Piazza Carlo Alberto. According to tradition. The most renowned and most important work of architecture from Renaissance period. Built on a site which has a church since the 4th century A. Simon. Peter’s Basilica (aerial view) holiest Catholic sites although it is not the cathedral of the Bishop of Rome and neither the mother church of the Roman Catholic Church.. St. but more popularly known as the St. According to Origen. The obelisk is now standing at the St. Overlooking the garden. His execution was one of the many martyrdoms of Christians after the Great Fire of Rome. the building was connected by walls Directly opposite the stable structure.. It is regarded as one of the Figure 26.
Peter’s Basilica was a 4th century church begun by Emperor Constantine between 309 and 333 A. In this plan also the foundation stone of the building has Figure 28. from the Circus. Years later a shrine was built on the site and almost 300 years later. Peter’s Basilica Architecture of the St. with a row of complex apsidal chapels off the aisles on both side.D. On 1513. I. a feature maintained in the ultimate design. an ambulatory encircles each semi-circular apses. The name Old St. a road which ran east to west along the north wall of the Circus on land now covered by the southern portions of the Basilica and the Square. These are the works of three famous architects of the period in the person of Donato Bramante. a wide nave and two aisles on either side. The chancel and transepts’ plan made the squareness of the exterior walls more definite by having the size of the towers reduced. His grave was initially marked by a red rock. Peter’s body was buried just outside the Circus. on the Mons Vaticanus across the Via Cornelia. Pope Julius died and Bramante was replaced by Guiliano da Sangallo. The Old St. produced the present day basilica. Pantheon. The difference between Bramante’s dome and Pantheon’s is that the Pantheon’s dome is supported by continuous wall and the new basilica’s dome was to be supported only by four large piers. Plans Bramante’s plan was a Greek cross in shape with a dome inspired by the circular Roman temple. Figure 27. The Old St. During the period. and Michelangelo Buonarroti. Raphael did the works because Sangallo and Fra Giocondo died in 1515. three plans from three different architects were chosen to be used. Rapahel Sanzio . and Raphael. symbolic of his name. Peter’s Basilica has been used since the construction of the current basilica for its predecessor to distinguish the two. The main change in the plan of Raphael is the five bayed nave. but for non-Christians it’s meaningless. and Bramante died the previous year. 17 . otherwise very similar to the lantern of Florence Cathedral.According to tradition. It was of typical basilical Latin Cross form with an apsidal end at the chancel. Old St. less than 150 meters from his place of death. The dome was to be surmounted by a lantern on a small dome. Fra Giocondo. lasted for 120 years and directed by many popes. The design was selected from a competition held by Pope Julius with the scheme as the grandest building in Christendom. Bramante's Plan been laid. Peter’s Basilica was constructed. Peter’s Basilica The plan of rebuilding the basilica which started in 1506.
Guilio Romano. Raphael's Plan decoration than that of Bramante and it also includes ribs on the exterior. He also recognized the quality of Bramante’s original design and reverted to the Greek Cross plan. 18 . For this Michelangelo wrote ―I undertake this only for the love of God and honor of the Apostle. He inherited also the numerous schemes designed and redesigned by some of the greatest architectural and engineering minds of the period. Peruzzi died in 1536 without his plan being realized. He is the principal designer of the large part of the building as what it is today. and the refusal of Jacopo Sansovino to leave Venice. As it is today. There were certain elements found in these schemes. Raphael. Peter’s has been extended with a nave by Carlo Maderno. Antonio da Sangallo the Younger also submitted a plan with the features of Peruzzi.Raphael died in 1520 at the age of 37 and succeeded by Baldassare Peruzzi. Michelangelo did not simply dismiss the ideas of the previous architects even though the work progressed only for a little 40 years. and they all called also for a symmetrical plan of either Greek Cross form or a Latin Cross.‖ Figure 30. Michelangelo’s work is best appreciated from distance. 1547 during the reign of Pope Paul III. Peruzzi maintained Raphael’s proposed changes to the internal arrangement of three apses. Because it is located at the Vatican State and the nave projection screens the dome from sight when you’re approaching from the square. Michaelangelo's Plan Michelangelo Era Michelangelo took over the building site at which four piers were rising behind the remaining nave of the old basilica. It is the chancel end with the huge centrally placed dome by Michelangelo. Michelangelo succeeded Sangallo the Younger as ―Capomaestro‖. His dome proposal was more elaborate on structure and Figure 29. but reverted to Greek Cross plan and other features of Bramante. Michelangelo was forced to do the job by Pope Paul III which is frustrated at the death of the one he choose to do the work. They all proposed for a dome equaled to the one engineered by Brunelleschi century earlier which dominated the skyline of Renaissance Florence. on January 1. Sangallo also proposed that the dome should be surmounted by a lantern which he redesigned to a larger and more elaborate form. The plan did not go ahead because of some difficulties with church and state. and Bramante’s combined and extends the building into a short nave with a wide façade and portico of dynamic projection. He drew on them in developing a grand vision. the superintendent or Chief Architect of the building program. St.
The solid wall which is used at the Pantheon is lightened at the St. His dome is constructed of two shells of brick. which is countered by the downward thrust of heavy masonry which extends above the circling wall. In 1564.57 meters from the floor of the basilica to the top of the external cross. The internal diameter of the dome is 41. accounting all that had gone before. The reason is the dome is ovoid in shape rising steeply as the dome of the Florence Cathedral. The work continued under Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola with Giorgio Vasari. Peter’s follows that of Pantheon very closely. Pope Sixtus appointed Giacomo della Porta in 1585. 15 meters high. The architects of the St. and like the Pantheon it was designed to be constructed in tufa concrete. with such arcade set back in a tier above the first. like the designs of Bramante and Sangallo. Michelangelo and Giacomo della Porta Era. Peter’s by Bramante. the outer shell having 16 stone ribs. Bramante and Sangallo Era. The Dome of St. to be assisted by Domenico Fontana. leaving the dome’s drum complete and Bramante’s piers bulkier than originally designed. 1506 and 1513 Figure 31. each 18 meters across. except that in this case the supporting wall becomes a drum above ground level on four massive piers. like the one in Florence. It holds the title as the tallest dome in the world. The dome is raised from piers on a drum. Peter’s looked for solutions on how to go about building what was conceived as the greatest dome of Christendom to the domes of the Pantheon and Florence Cathedral. a watchdog appointed by Poe Pius V to make sure that Michelangelo’s plans were carried out exactly. piercing it with windows and encircling it with a peristyle. of a large wooden model still exists. surrounded by a projecting base. Sangallo’s plan (1513). twice the number at Florence but still far fewer than in Sangallo’s design. looks to both these predecessors. The profile is very similar with the exception of the lantern surmounting it. Michelangelo redesigned the dome. like that of the Pantheon. Littke happened in this period despites Vignola’s knowledge of michelangelo’s intentions. Bramante’s encircling peristyle of and Sangallo’s arcade are reduced to 16 pairs of Corinthian columns. 1547 and 1585 In 1547. a peristyle and surmounted by a spire of conic form because of Sangallo. 19 . The delicate form of Florence-based lantern became a massive structure. He extended and strengthened Bramante’s peristyle into series of arched and ordered openings around the base. Peter’s Basilica Bramante’s plan for the dome of St. Michelangelo died. Dome The dome rises to a total height of 136. Visually appear to buttress each of the ribs. Realizing the value of the coffering at the Pantheon and the outer stone ribs the Florence Cathedral. connected by an arch.II. but structurally quite redundant.47 meters. therefore exerting less outward thrust than a hemispherical dome.
. successor of Sixtus V. Around the interior of the dome is written. Façade The stunning 114. V.. Clement VIII.Completion of the Dome In 1590. cracks appeared in the dome. so four iron chains were installed between the two shells to bind it. like the rings of that keep a barrel from bursting. erected in honor of the Prince of Apostles). the earliest possibly planned by Michelangelo himself as a precaution. Jesus Christ with talleleven Apostles. one containing a fragment of the True cross and a relic of St. Below a huge cornice on a 1 meter tall frieze an inscription reads: IN HONOREM PRINCIPIS APOST Figure 32. The next pope. Peter's Basilica PAVLVS V BVRGHESIVS ROMANVS PONT MAX MDCXII PONT VII (Paul V Borghese.. like what did Brunelleschi did at the Florence Cathedral. had the cross put into place. Gregory XIV. in the year 1590 and the fifth year of his pontificate. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 16:18-19 And beneath the lantern an inscription reads: S. PONTIF.69 meters wide by 45. PETRI GLORIAE SIXTVS PP. Supreme Roman Pontiff. as many as ten chains are installed. the seventh of his pontificate.you are Peter. (To the glory of St Peter. The façade is surrounded by giant orders of Corinthian columns and a central pediment rises in front of a attic surmounted by thirteen statues. TIBI DABO CLAVES REGNI CAELORVM. Andrew and the other. Facade of St. At various times. 20 . pope. . In the mid-18th century. M. in the year 1612.. medallions of the Holy Lamb. della Porta and Fontana brought the dome to completion. Carlo Maderno. Sixtus V. XC.55 meters high façade of travertine stone was a work of Swiss-Italian architect of the Renaissance period. and on this rock I will build my church. and was accompanied by the ringing bells of all the city’s churches. Pope Sixtus V’s last year of reign. in letters 2 meters high: TV ES PETRVS ET SVPER HANC PETRAM AEDIFICABO ECCLESIAM MEAM. A. an event which took all day. D.. with the exception of Peter whose statue is at the left of the stairs.. Two lead caskets are set in the arms of the cross. a verse from The Scriptures that translates to ". V. and John the Baptist. saw Fontana complete the lantern and to the honor of Sixtus V placed an inscription around its inner opening.) III.
the Chapel of the Sacrament and the Choir Chapel. These are decorated with marble. in which to the single bay of Michelangelo’s Greek cross plan he added further three bays. Peter’s tomb is behind the Niche of Pallium. and the ornate marble floor is beamed with light reflected from the piazza. Peter which lead to his martyrdom. 21 . Narthex V. This is the place where the Cardinals and other privileged persons could descend in order to get nearer to the burial place of thr apostle. He made dimensions slightly different to that of Michelangelo. It then became apparent that each is over 2 meters high and real children cannot reach the basins unless they scramble up the marble draperies. three are framed by huge salvaged antique columns. Nave The nave was also a work of Maderno. gilt. Because an Egyptian obelisk had been erected in the piazza but had not been quite aligned with Michelangelo’s building. an equestrian figure of Charlemagne by Cornacchini in the south and Emperor Constantine by Bernini in the north. thus defining where the two architectural works meet. stucco. an area often found in Italian Romanesque churches. Confessio refers to the Confession of Faith by St. Five portals lead into the basilica. and illuminated by small windows between pendentives. Peter’s was to design a crypt-like space or ―Confessio‖ under the dome. sculpture and mosaic. This the part of design in which Maderno is most satisfied. Madereno compensated.IV. carrying between them two Holy Water basins. Its long barrel vault is decorated with ornate stucco and gilt. Peter’s stretches a long narthex. The marble steps aree remnants of the old basilica and around the balustrade are 95 bronze lamps. The last work of Maderno at St. Narthex and Portals Behind the façade of St. Each aisles have two smaller chapels and a larger rectangular chapel. in order to at least align it with the Figure 34. The central portal has bronze door by Antonio Averulino in 1455 for the old basilica and enlarged to fit the new space. Figure 33. St. The cherubs appear o quite a normal cherubic size until approached. Four cherubs flutter against the first piers of the nave. At each end is a theatrical space framed by ionic columns and a statue is set within each. Nave St. The axis of the nave was also tilted by Maderno. Peter's Basilica Basilica’s façade.
known in Italian as Chiesa di Santa Susanna alle Terme di Diocleziano. Peter's Square After working on the interior of St. Church of Sta. St. is a Roman Catholic church in Quirinal Hill. Rome. there has been a Titular church associated at this site. Rome. Susana At about 280. the domus belonged to two brothers 22 . is a piazza located directly in front of St. Susana. which was in a house. designed to accommodate the greatest number of people that could see the Pope give his blessing either from the middle of the façade or from the window in the Vatican Palace. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City. History Figure 36. The four column deep colossal Tuscan colonnades frame the trapezoidal entrance and the massive elliptical piazza. According to the 6th-century acta of Susanna. At the base of the obelisk is an elliptical block of stone with carved relief of five billowing gust of wind known as the West Ponente. like many of the earliest Christian meeting places. not to compete with the palace-like façade by Carlo Maderno. Peter’s for decades. Italy Formally known as the Church of Saint Susana at the Baths of Diocletian. an early Christian house of worship was established on this site. With a goal of redesigning the square to be an appropriate forecourt. Under the direction of Pope Alexander VII. The current church was rebuilt from 1585 to 1603 for a monastery of Cristercian nuns founded in 1587 which still exists. which is founded in the United States. The colonnade consists of 284 Tuscan columns swept outward I 4 concentric arcs of diminishing size. Sta. An Egyptian obelisk marked the center of the elliptical piazza and two fountains stood at perfect symmetry at both sides of the square at the two geometric focal points.D. using Tuscan form of Doric. Italy. Peter’s Square Known as Piazza San Pietro in Italian. Figure 35.St. The church serves as the national parish of Rome from the United States since that was established at the church in 1921 by the Paulist Fathers. Gian Lorenzo Bernini redesigned the open space outside the basilica from 1656 to 1667. As far back as 280 A. Bernini gave order to the space with his own colonnades.
remained to be constructed. with a circular apse forming two side-chapels. The frescoes on the curved side of the apse shows Saint Susanna being threatened by Maximian. sister of Pope Sixtus V. but defended by the angel of God. Architectural History At the end of the 7th century Pope Sergius I restored the church. Caius has been identified both with Pope Saint Caius and with Caius the presbyter. was situated outside the wall of the Baths built by Diocletian and Servian Wall. he added the great apse and conserved the relics of the saints in the crypt. the first wall built to defend the city. To the right Susanna can be seen refusing to worship the idol Jupiter. built on remains of three Roman villas still visible beneath the monastery. where the saint was martyred. In the 4th century it was marked with the designation ad duas domos (at the two houses). The entrance and roof are surrounded by triangular pediments. but Pope Leo III. prominent Christians. This first three-aisled basilica was almost certainly built under the pontificate of Pope Leo III (795-816). Nebbia's frescoes of the dome of the apse depict Saint Susanna flanked on either side by angels with musical instruments. Six scenes of Susanna’s life from the Book of Daniel is represented in t he frescoes of the central nave by Baldassare Croce. still maintaining rigor. Chapel of Saint Lawrence Domenico Fontana constructed the second side-chapel to the left dedicated to Saint Lawrence. the painting depicting the beheading of Saint Susanna is by Tommaso Laureti. The dynamic rhythm of columns and pilasters. Maderno completed the façade in 1603. fourth-century documents by its title "of Gaius" by the Baths of Diocletian or as "ad duas domos" ("near the two houses"). There is an incipient playfulness with the rules of classic design. the chief architect of Pope Sixtus V. who was a prefect and who is a source of information on early Christianity. not as a martyr and previously the church was identified in the earliest. the church was built on Susanna’s house. Gabinus or Gabinius is the name given to the father of the semi-legendary Saint Susanna. Interior . crowding centrally. The present present church of Santa Susanna on its ancient foundations was the first independent commission in Rome for Carlo Maderno. who had trained as an assistant to his uncle Domenico Fontana. Her earliest documented attestations identify her as the patron of the church. Chapel of our Lady of Graces The chapel of our Lady of Graces has on its walls two recent frescoes of Saint Benedict and Saint Bernard. . a highly influential early Baroque design. commissioned by Camilla Peretti. rebuilt it from the ground in 796. . It is mentioned in connection with a Roman synod of 499. Behind the high altar. It is one of the oldest titles in the city of Rome. As tradition says. the fourth pope whi had benn a pastor of this church. The church consists of a single nave.named Caius and Gabinus. The paintings are by the Milanese 23 . and the protrusion and increased central decoration add further complexity to the structure. The windows are replaced by niches. A façade.
Later along the Strada Pia. St. probably in the mid 1630’s. It is also Borromini’s first independent commission. Borromini received the commission. it was only constructed towards the end of Borromini’s life and the upper part was not completed until after his death. carved to the design of Carlo Maderno. while to the right. It defines the 24 . is a Roman Catholic church in Rome. However. Chiesa di San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Italian. Presbytery Two frescoes decorated the presbytery. the financial backing did not last and subsequently the project suffered financial difficulties. Exterior The façade of San Carlo is of concave-convex form and undulates in a non-classical way. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Also known as the Church of Saint Charles at the Four Fountains. Sant’Andrea al Quirinale. In this chapel are venerated Saint Genesius of Rome. It is one of the three churches in Rome dedicated to San Carlo. Ceiling The valuable ceiling of the nave and of the presbytery is made in polychromed gilt wood.artist Giovanni Battista Pozzo (1563–1591). History Figure 37. Lawrence. Baldassare Croce depicts the martyrdom of Saint Gabinius. The site of the church and monastery was at the south-west end corner of the ―Quattro Fontane‖ which refers to the four corner fountains set on the oblique at the intersection of Strada Pia and Strada Felice. an oval church of Bernini is built. The church is an iconic masterpiesce of Baroque architecture. The altar painting by Cesare Nebbia depicts the martyrdom of St. In 1634. St. patron of actors. Designed by Francesco Borromini. in the act of receiving baptism. To the left. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane The monastic buildings and the cloister were completed first after which construction of the church took place during the period 1638-1641. built as part of a complex of monastic buildings in Quirinal Hill for the Spanish Trinitarians. In 1646 it was dedicated to Saint Charles Borromeo. under the patronage of Cardinal Francesco Barberini. Although the idea for serpentine façade must have been proposed early on. Tall Corinthian columns stand on plinths and bear the main entablatures. who has a palace across the road. others are San Carlo ai Catinari and San Carlo al Corso. an architect from Ticino. and the bishop Pope Saint Eleuterus. Paris Nogari shows the martyrdom of Saint Felicitas of Rome and her seven sons. Italy. an order dedicated to the freeing of Christian slaves.
Sixteen columns. Crypt The crypt follows the size and form of the church and has a low pierced vault. Interior The interior of the church is both extraordinary and complex. with an octagonal chapel on the south-east side where Borromini intended to be buried. This creates an undulating movement effect which is enhanced by the variation in treatment of the bays between the columns with niches. the central oval aedicule of the upper order and the oval framed medallion borne aloft by angels. but the rectangular ordering is interrupted by 25 . Cloister Next to the church is the cloister. cherubim herms frame the central figure of Saint Charles Borromeo by Antonio Raggi. In a hierarchical structuring of light. Plan of St. in the lower part of the church. The arches which spring from the diagonally placed columns of the lower Figure 38. And statues of St. rise to meet the Fontane oval entablature and so define the space of the pendentives in which roundels are set. the coffering of the dome is thrown into sharp and deep relief and light gradually filters downwards to the darker lower body of the church. smaller columns with their entablatures weave behind the main columns and in turn they frame niches. founders of the Trinitarian Order. John of Matha and St. are at either side. The pendentives are part of the transition area where the undulating almost cross-like form of the lower order is reconciled with the oval opening to the dome. which is a two-storey arrangement. mouldings. windows. crosses and hexagons which diminish in size the higher they rise.main framework of the two-storey building and the tripartite bay division. The arrangement seems to refer cross plan but all altars are visible as the two central columns in each arrangement of four are placed on the oblique with respect to the axial ordering of the space. Carlo alle Quattro wall order to frame the altars and entrance. Light floods in from windows in the lower dome that are hidden by the oval opening and from windows in the side of the lantern. carry a broad and continuous entablature. in a group of four. Chapels open off this space. Between the columns. the illuminated lantern with its symbol of the Holy Trinity is the most brightly lit. The main altar is on the same longitudinal axis as the door and two altars on the cross axis. the transition zone of the pendentives and the oval coffered dome with its oval lantern. Above the main entrance. Felix of Valois. The oval entablature to the dome has a 'crown' of foliage and frames a view of deep set interlocking coffering of octagons. a variety of sculptures as well as the main door. and doors. The three principal parts can be identified vertically as the lower order at ground level. The space is longer along the entrance axis than it is wide.
the curvature of the corners. Roman technicians located a source of pure water 13 km from the city. When the Goth besiegers in 537-38 broke the aqueducts. Geometrical themes are reinforced by the central octagonal wellhead on an oval base and the octagonal capitals of the upper columns. In 19 BC. It served Rome for more than four hundred years. and the inventive balustrade.cutting the corners so it could also be understood as an elongated octagon. Gian Lorenzo Bernini was asked by Pope Urban VIII to sketch possible renovations but the project was abandoned when the pope died. Further complexity is introduced by the variation in the spacing of the twelve columns carrying alternating round and flat headed openings. Pope Nicholas V finished mending the Acqua Vergine aqueduct and built a simple basin. Fountains 26 . the coup de grâce for the urban life of late classical Rome came. In 1453. Design and Construction In 1629. fountains. Pope Clement XII organized a contest in 1730 in which Nicola Salvi initially lost to Florentine Figure 40. designed by the humanist architect Leon Battista Alberti. the revived Aqua Virgo. which was also used as a sewer. The eventual indirect route of the aqueduct made its length some 22 km. standing 26 meters high and 20 meters wide. History The fountain at the junction of three roads marks the terminal point of the "modern" Acqua Vergine. to herald the water's arrival. This Aqua Virgo led the water into the Baths of Figure 39. It is also one of the most famous fountain in the world. competitions to design buildings. In 15th century the Roman custom of building a handsome fountain at the end of an aqueduct was revived with the Renaissance. one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water to ancient Rome. and even the Spanish Steps had become the rage. Fontana di Trevi Agrippa. During the Baroque era. Medieval Romans were reduced to drawing water from polluted wells and the Tiber River. there are many Bernini touches in the fountain as it exists today. supposedly with the help of a virgin. Italy is the largest Baroque fountain in the city. Fontana di Trevi The Trevi Fountain in Trevi district in Rome. Though Bernini's project was never constructed.
History The construction of the Ducal Palace was begun for Duke Federico III da Montefeltro around the midfifteenth century by the Florentine Maso di Bartolomeo. an architect from Dalmatia who had been influenced by Brunelleschi's cloisters in Florence. Palazzo Ducale 27 . Laurana's light and noble arcaded courtyard at Urbino rivals that of the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome as the finest of the Renaissance. Urbino The Ducal Palace (Italian: Palazzo Ducale) is a Renaissance building in the Italian city of Urbino in the Marche. In high. Overcoming the exigencies of the Figure 41. Salvi was awarded the commission. The palace continued in use as a government building into the 20th century. housing municipal Figure 42. The Ducal Palace is famous as the setting of the conversations which Baldassare Castiglione represents as having taken place in the Hall of Vigils in 1507 in his Book of the Courtier. After Laurana's departure from Urbino in 1472. Domenico Rosselli. Many of the refined Early Renaissance carved details are so similar to features in paintings by Piero della Francesca that scholars have debated his possible input in the execution of Laurana's plan. chimneys and friezes created by Barocci. One of the most important monuments in Italy. Luciano Laurana. who was mainly responsible for the façade decoration.architect Alessandro Galilei. plainly stuccoed rooms the richly sculptured doorways. which made an irregular massing of architecture necessary. The second floor was added in the first half of the following century by Girolamo Genga. After the death of Duke Federico (1482). works were continued by Francesco di Giorgio Martini. it is listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site. Arcaded Courtyard cliff-like site. Palazzo Ducale. The portals and the window sculptures were executed by the Milanese Ambrogio Barocci. the famous courtyard and the great entrance staircase. The work began in 1732 and completed in 1762 when Pietro Bracci’s Oceanus (God of all Water) was set in the central niche. but due to the outcry in Rome that a Florentine won. from the 1460s onwards Laurana created what contemporaries considered the ideal princely dwelling. and their workshops stand out. who was also the decorator of the interior rooms. The new construction included the pre-existing Palace of the Jole. designed the façade. the construction was left partially unfinished.
the newly-completed palazzo was seized by the first Medici Pope. Pope Sixtus IV. like the church of Saint Clement[disambiguation needed] among others. meaning the Papal Chancellery) is a Renaissance palace in Rome. the Cardinal's titular church. who had not forgotten the complacency of Pope Sixtus at the time of the murderous Pazzi conspiracy intended to replace the Medici in Florence with a Della Rovere regime. the Jacobite "Henry IX of Great Britain". The 5th-century church (its interior has been rebuilt) sits. In 1517. the parliament briefly sat here. The building has traditionally been attributed to Bramante and Andrea Bregno. Cardinal Duke of York. Restorations completed in 1985 have reopened the extensive subterranean network to visitors. and is regarded as the earliest Figure 43. Palazzo della Cancelleria: the 18th-century engraving by Giuseppe Vasi exaggerates the depth of the Piazza della Cancelleria in front of the Palace. upon a Roman mithraeum (pagan sanctuary). not subject to Italian sovereignty. see below). that sits to its right. and public collections of antique inscriptions and sculpture (the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche. situated between the present Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and the Campo de' Fiori. Its long façade engulfs the small Basilica Church of San Lorenzo in Damaso. the Properties of the Holy See. From 1753 the vicechancellor was the Jacobite pretender to the throne of Great Britain.archives and offices. The palazzo houses the Papal Chancellery. During the Roman Republic of 1849. with the palatial front continuing straight across: the entrance to the church is on the right side of the facade. Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church. Palazzo della Cancelleria The Palazzo della Cancelleria (Italian for "Palace of the Chancellery".and 5th-century foundations of the grand basilica of San Lorenzo in 28 . The rumor was that the funds came in a single night's winnings at gaming. Italy. The Cancelleria was built for Cardinal Raffaele Riario who held the post of Cardinal Camerlengo to his powerful uncle. Palazzo della Cancelleria Renaissance palace in Rome. Current opinion of the architect's identity is divided. It is designated as a World Heritage Site as part of a group of buildings. Leo X. Henry Stuart. excavations beneath the cortile in 1988 – 1991 revealed the 4th. and is an exclave of the Vatican. Palazzo della Cancelleria was the first palazzo in Rome to be built from the ground up in the new Renaissance style. in the rione of Parione. It was built between 1489–1513 by an unknown architect as a palace for Cardinal Raffaele Riario. with Francesco di Giorgio Martini and Baccio Pontelli suggested as having been involved in the early stages of design.
Bramante moved to Rome. Lorenzo. Peter's martyrdom. It is more likely that the form of the courtyard is derived from that of the Ducal Palace in Urbino. however they were originally taken from the theatre to build the old Basilica of S. in the courtyard of San Pietro in Montorio. the Tempietto is considered a masterpiece of High Renaissance Italian architecture. and one of the most important early Christian churches in Rome. built for a city of over a million people that now housed some thirty thousand. Brunelleschi's cloisters of Santa Croce in Florence. it is composed of slender Tuscan columns. The grand doorway was added in the 16th century by Domenico Fontana on the orders of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. for it has little architectonic use. the "Tempietto" is one of the most harmonious Figure 44. it is hard now to sense the impact this building had at the beginning of the 16th century. The façade with its rhythm of flat doubled pilasters between the arch-headed windows is Florentine in conception. since the individuals involved in the early planning of the palazzo had come from Urbino. comparable to Leone Battista Alberti's Palazzo Rucellai. cut with smooth surfaces and grooves around the edges. and a dome. The Tempietto buildings of the Renaissance. 1570). for the Eternal City was a field of ruins. founded by pope Damasus I. The building greatly reflected Brunelleschi's style. The so-called Tempietto (Italian: "small temple") is a small commemorative tomb (martyrium) built by Donato Bramante. The overall pattern of drafted masonry. is Ancient Roman in origin. where he was recognized by Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere. Given all the transformations of Renaissance and Baroque Rome that were to follow. the soon-to-be Pope Julius II. Also commissioned by Ferdinand and Isabella. A cemetery in use from the 8th century until shortly before the palazzo's construction was also identified. It is almost a piece of sculpture. The building's bone-colored travertine was scavenged from the nearby Roman ruins of the Theatre of Pompey. Perfectly proportioned. The forty-four Egyptian granite columns of the inner courtyard are from the porticoes of the theatres upper covered seating. 29 . The Tempietto The Tempietto in Andrea Palladio's Quattro Libri (woodcut. One of Bramante's earliest commissions. After spending his first years in Milan. which may have also inspired the courtyard of Luciano Laurana's Palazzo Ducale of Urbino (circa 1468) has been suggested as a possible source of inspiration. It is meant to mark the traditional (section) exact spot of St.Damaso. a Doric entablature modeled after the ancient Theater of Marcellus. possibly as early as 1502.
Venice Palace in Venice on the canal Rio di San Luca. at the confluence of the latter in the Grand Canal. The Gothic facade was originally clad with diamonds of red and straw yellow Verona marble. then Giovanni Grimani . Zest interior . but this plan was never executed. Figure 45. the modern species belongs to the 1556-1575 year. Vicenza The Basilica Palladian is a public building facing onto the Piazza dei Signori. Palazzo Grimani di Santa Luca.According to an engraving in Sebastiano Serlio's Book III. in the years 1532-1569 consistently reconstructed the heirs of Duke.Hall of Psyche. where the Council of the Four Hundred met. The palace consists of three parts and a small rear patio. Cardinal and Patriarch of Aquileia . Palazzo Grimani the succession order to perform the last Michele Sanmikeli .Door portal decorated by Alessandro Vittoria . Presumably. The copper-lined. adding the famous loggias with serliana openings in white marble to the existing Gothic building.After his death. Basilica Palladiana. The facade of the palace is decorated with colored marble. The upper floor is entirely taken up by an Figure 46. It was built in the Renaissance. the palace was completed in 1575 by Giovanni Rusconi .Also in the design of the palace attended by Taddeo Tsukkaro and Giovanni da Udine. the general procurator of the city. who redesigned it. built in Gothic style in the mid-fifteenth century to a design by Domenico da Venezia. Bramante planned to set it in within a colonnaded courtyard. Finally. which are still visible behind Palladio’s addition. first Vittore Grimani . The building on which Palladio worked was the Palazzo della Ragione. decorated with frescoes by Francesco Mentsokki Camilo Mantovano and Francesco Salviati . A loggia surrounding the building was 30 . In the present building is located in the Venetian Court of Appeals. Its name is linked to Andrea Palladio. inverted ship’s-hull roof was inspired by that of the Palazzo della Ragione in Padua. It was originally built for the Doge Antonio Grimani. Basilica Palladiana enormous hall with no intermediate supports.
ultimately. The project was awarded to Andrea Palladio (1508-80) in 1549. While the influence of Jacopo Sansovino and his Palazzo Corner della Ca'Granda on the Venetian palace architecture and especially on the Rezzonico palace is unmistakable. sits on a narrow strip of land between the Grand Canal and the St.The building has three independent exhibition spaces that are used to host architecture and art exhibitions of international renown. They included Jacopo Sansovino. Sta Maria Della Salute Potential designers competed for the right to create this magnificent new basilica and. Sta Maria Della Salute. following a competition. After the epidemic had subsided. who had been inspired by the model of the Roman basilica for civic use. Longhena's plastic design of the upper floors goes a Figure 48. The reconstructed building was called a basilica by Palladio himself.commissioned after its completion. which had already killed about a third of the city's population. It was completed posthumously in 1614. It is constructed of Istrian stone and a marble-dust-covered brick known as marmorino. Palazzo Rezzonico In 1649. The Salute is octagonal in shape and sits on a platform of 100. Figure 47. Venice The Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute. it is currently closed to the public for restoration. The Senate promised to build the church in honor of Mary if she would free the city from the plague. Mark's Basin. the Senate kept its promise and construction of the church soon started. but continually delayed due to various structural difficulties and the nature of the ground beneath.000 wooden piles. Longhena designed a massive structure with large domes and volutes. though not complete. At the beginning of the sixteenth century the double order of porticoes and loggias. The Council called on many leading architects of the time to resolve the difficult problem of its reconstruction. it contains some Byzantine elements. The church was proposed in 1630 by the Venetian Senate in response to a particularly terrible wave of the plague. collapsed. Sebastiano Serlio and Giulio Romano. designed by Baldassarre Longhena. Palazzo Rezzonico 31 . Filippo Bon decided to replace two old houses of his family with a new large palace. Longhena died five years before the church opened in 1687. He would never see his masterpiece completed. and he worked on it for the rest of his life. referred to by most locals as simply Salute. Though classic in design. Baldassare Longhena was chosen.
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Russian pianist Ilya Petrov plays two concerts in the Houston area over the next few days. A recipient of a fellowship grant from the Guzik Foundation, he is on a tour that will take him to The Centrum in Spring in addition to the campus of the International Festival-Institute at Round Top. He previews a little of both recitals from the KUHF Performance Studio. Listen. Download.
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St. Mary’s Medical Center has received the American College of Cardiology’s
Get with the Guidelines Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2015.
St. Mary’s is one of only 319 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor.
The award recognizes St. Mary’s commitment and success in implementing
a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and signifies that
St. Mary’s has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients
to standard levels of care as outlined by the American College of Cardiology/American
Heart Association clinical guidelines and recommendations.
To receive the ACTION Registry–GWTG Platinum Performance Achievement
Award,St. Mary’s consistently followed the treatment guidelines
in the ACTION Registry–GWTG Premier for eight consecutive quarters
and met a performance standard of 90 percent for specific performance
measures. Full participation in the registry engages hospitals in a robust
quality improvement process using data to drive improvements in adherence
to guideline recommendations and overall quality of care provided to heart
“Earning this award again is a proud achievement for us,” says
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YUMA, Ariz. – A former Yuma Recreational Vehicle (RV) dealership claimed it could take any vehicle in on trade for years is now being accused of leaving customers in the dust.
R.V. Peddler, Incorporated closed its doors early April. The company was placed on a four-year probation as part of a settlement agreement with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Now, Attorney David Karnas is spearheading a mass-action lawsuit against the dealership.
Karnas says, “The lawsuit was filed today based on four plaintiffs, the Neals and the Kahlers.”
Lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit are David and Alta Neal of Yuma. The say they traded in a truck and RV for another RV, but claim R.V. Peddler, Inc. never paid the liens. So they haven’t been able to obtain a title for their RV.
David Neal, who is suing R.V. Peddler, Inc. says, “We signed over our vehicles and we had clear titles on them.”
The Neals say they got the run around from the owner.
“It’s in progress, you can trust us,” is what David Neal say he was told by the dealership.
The Neals knew they needed to seek legal action.
“What happened at that point, we knew we had some problems coming,” says David Neal.
Now the Neal family fear the worst, losing their traveling home because the title is faulty.
David Neal says, “You worry that you are going to wake up and your motor home isn’t going to be there. You worry about the future.”
Karnas says the law firm has received several calls and complaints for help.
“We anticipate, based on our investigation, that they’re over 100 victims; it’s sad to see,” says Karnas.
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On this ID the Future, philosopher of biology Paul Nelson further explores AlphaFold 2, a cutting edge computer program from Google’s DeepMind designed to rapidly suss out important secrets in the realm of proteins, indispensable molecular biological workhorses that come in thousands of different shapes and sizes. Nelson enthuses about AlphaFold 2 but also explains why he is convinced that AlphaFold’s creators have hit a series of immovable obstacles. The watchword here—orphans. Tune in to learn what these mischievous orphan proteins are about, and what they suggest for AlphaFold, evolution, and intelligent design.
On this ID the Future Cornelius Hunter continues discussing determinism, which he describes as a “bizarre position” held “with great confidence” by scientists such as the German physicist Sabine Hossenfelder. It’s bizarre, says Hunter, because if it’s true, then the universe’s initial conditions and the laws of nature produced the particular works of Beethoven and Shakespeare willy nilly. If it’s true, then all one says or thinks — right or wrong, true or false — was determined some 13.8 billion years ago. But if that’s the case, then there are no reasonable grounds for concluding that one’s belief in determinism is true. And like David Hume’s argument against miracles, determinism makes a false dichotomy between natural law and free will. Read More › | <urn:uuid:816957d5-8cf5-4326-8908-c15dc5a50931> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,384 |
I have been a full time portrait photographer for 20 years, and here is exactly what I do on each shoot. It’s a system that is customizable to any type of portrait shoot, families, children, individuals, groups, weddings. This works on location, it works in a studio, it works anywhere. Doing this system you’ll get perfect exposures, perfect color and skin tones, you’ll get great expression, and you’ll have full control.
It takes some practice and you’ll have to learn the manual features that give you full control and give up the auto features that keep you guessing why things aren’t working. But when you do, it’ll all get easier and easier. You’ll see solutions in your mind, you’ll be more creative, and you’ll be able to light someone amazingly well in any circumstance.
This is everything, all 3 hours of my lighting course. For the first hour I first break the system down into parts. These are the things I think about quickly during an actual shoot. After that we go into some various shoot and use these systems. You’ll come with me through various photo shoots, inside and outside and in various lighting conditions. The we review the photos from the shoot and the poses, talking about what worked and what didn’t. And you see the images un-retouched too, to see how well the systems all worked.
In the outdoor shooting situations, you’ll often see me holding my own main light. Don’t feel the need to do that if you don’t want to. I tend to work fast, and I like my light to move as quickly as my ideas. But I’ve also worked up to that over the years. Try standing your light on the ground, just like it were in the studio, or have an assistant hold your light if you need. And if you’d like to see how I’ve got my light pole rigged, here’s a link to an article on exactly that.
This course is available for immediate streaming below for members, or as DVD for purchase in the store.
And all of this goes hand-in-hand with my ‘Getting Expression – The Art of Social Dynamics‘ course, also available for members, or for purchase on DVD. During this lighting course, you see me talking with models and getting the expressions I want. And the ‘Getting Expressions’ course goes into more detail into the Social Dynamics of why and how to do exactly that. | <urn:uuid:06a2cb30-79f7-4da8-9486-7e1c71be85a7> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,267 |
Loren Renzo Gray age 88, beloved husband, father, and grandfather, passed away on Saturday, June 11, 2016, in his home in Pekin, Indiana.
Mr. Gray was born on July 27, 1927 to Arthur and Alberta Gray. Loren grew up in Pekin, graduating high school in 1946. Following graduation, he served in the United States Army Air Corps and attended Purdue University. He was a life-long member of Bunker Hill Christian Church where he served as an elder for 36 years. He worked for the Pekin Post Office as a Rural Mail Carrier for 36 years. He grew up on, and continued throughout life, working the family farm.
Loren is survived by his wife of 63 years, Anna (McDonald) Gray, and three children, Thomas (Gloria) Gray of Pekin, Indiana, Lorna (Denny) Myers of Mooresville, Indiana, and Robin (Jeff) Sanders of Zionsville, Indiana. He is survived by seven grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren. He is also survived by one brother, Gerald Gray of Henryville, Indiana, and one foster sister, Brenda Reed of Georgetown, Indiana. He was preceded in death by his parents, Arthur and Alberta Gray, and by his brother, Elvin Gray.
Viewing will be held at Weathers Funeral Home in Salem on Monday from 4-8PM and Tuesday from 10AM-noon at Bunker Hill Christian Church. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at Noon at Bunker Hill Christian Church. Burial will follow in Bunker Hill Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be sent to Bunker Hill Christian Church Cemetery, 11499 E. State Road 160 Salem, Indiana 47167 or Hosparus of Southern Indiana (www.hosparus.org). | <urn:uuid:c5773d6c-91ea-4b61-96f3-2c90b99f4786> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,573 |
Wearing pink, pointy-eared "pussyhats" to mock the new president, hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets in the nation's capital and cities around the world Saturday to send Donald Trump an emphatic message that they won't let his agenda go unchallenged over the next four years.
WASHINGTON — Wearing pink, pointy-eared "pussyhats" to mock the new president, hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets in the nation's capital and cities around the world Saturday to send Donald Trump an emphatic message that they won't let his agenda go unchallenged over the next four years.
"We march today for the moral core of this nation, against which our new president is waging a war," actress America Ferrera told the Washington crowd, which included plenty of men, too. "Our dignity, our character, our rights have all been under attack, and a platform of hate and division assumed power yesterday. But the president is not America. ... We are America, and we are here to stay."
Turnout was so big that the original march route alongside the National Mall was packed, and instead of trekking en masse to the Ellipse by the White House as planned, the protesters were told to make their way there on their own by way of other streets. In Chicago, organizers canceled the march portion of their event for safety reasons after the overflow crowd reached an estimated 150,000.
The women brandished signs with slogans such as "Women won't back down" and "Less fear more love" and decried Trump's stand on such issues as abortion, health care, gay rights, diversity and climate change. Their message reverberated at demonstrations around the globe, from New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles to Paris, Berlin, London, Prague, Sydney and beyond.
"I feel very optimistic even though it's a miserable moment," said Madeline Schwartzman of New York City, who brought her twin 13-year-old daughters to the Washington rally. "I feel power."
Officials said the crowd in Washington could be more than half a million people, more than double expectations. The event appeared to have attracted more people than Trump's inauguration on Friday, based on figures from transportation officials.
More than 600 "sister marches" were planned around the world. Organizers estimated 3 million people would march worldwide.
Seventy-one-year-old Allan Parachini, who traveled from Hawaii to the Washington march, called it "the most impressive crowd I've seen since Woodstock."
Retired teacher Linda Lastella, 69, who came to Washington from Metuchen, New Jersey, said she had never marched before but felt the need to speak out when "many nations are experiencing this same kind of pullback and hateful, hateful attitudes."
"It just seemed like we needed to make a very firm stand of where we were," she said.
As the demonstrators rallied alongside the National Mall, Trump opened his first full day as president by attending a prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral, a tradition for the day after inauguration, and later visited the CIA. As he traveled around town, his motorcade passed large groups of protesters that would have been hard to miss.
The rallies were a peaceful counterpoint to the window-smashing unrest that unfolded on Friday when self-described anarchists tried to disrupt the inauguration. Police used pepper spray and stun grenades against demonstrators. More than 200 people were arrested.
Marlita Gogan, who came to Washington from Houston for the inauguration, said police advised her family not to wear their "Make America Great Again Hats" as they walked through crowds of protesters while playing tourist on Saturday.
"I think it's very oppressive," she said of the march atmosphere. "They can have their day, but I don't get it."
On the streets, feminist leader Gloria Steinem described the worldwide mobilization as "the upside of the downside: This is an outpouring of energy and democracy like I have never seen in my very long life."
"Sometimes we must put our bodies where our beliefs are," she told the crowd, labeling Trump an "impossible president."
Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump, took to Twitter to thank the participants for "standing, speaking and marching for our values."
The marches displayed a level of enthusiasm that Clinton herself was largely unable to generate during her campaign against Trump, when she won the popular vote but he outdistanced her in the electoral vote.
At rallies around the world, many participants wore hand-knit "pussyhats" — a message of female empowerment aimed squarely at Trump's crude boast about grabbing women's genitals.
They "ain't for grabbing," actress Ashley Judd told the Washington crowd.
The marches were a magnet for A-list celebrities, unlike Trump's inauguration, which had a deficit of top performers.
Alicia Keys sang "Girl on Fire" for the Washington crowd. Madonna addressed the gathering. Cher, also in the nation's capital, said Trump's ascendance has people "more frightened maybe than they're ever been."
In Park City, Utah, it was Charlize Theron leading demonstrators in a chant of "Love, not hate, makes America great." In New York, actresses Helen Mirren and Cynthia Nixon and Whoopi Goldberg joined a crowd of protesters marching to Trump's local home.
Tens of thousands of protesters squeezed into London's Trafalgar Square. In Paris, thousands rallied in the Eiffel Tower neighborhood in a joyful atmosphere, singing and carrying posters reading "We have our eyes on you Mr. Trump" and "With our sisters in Washington." Hundreds gathered in Prague's Wenceslas Square in freezing weather, mockingly waving portraits of Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin.
"We are worried about the way some politicians talk, especially during the American elections," said organizer Johanna Nejedlova.
In Sydney, thousands of Australians gathered in solidarity in Hyde Park. One organizer said hatred, bigotry and racism are not only America's problems. | <urn:uuid:e8bb5b43-ece0-4cb5-b377-413fdcb33de9> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 5,955 |
Tipping employees in various service professions (barbering, food service, etc.) is as American as apple pie. Unfortunately, the retention of employee tips by employers is a less common, but nonetheless pervasive, practice. Both employers and employees would do well to note that an employer’s retention of any employee tips (except as part of a valid “tip pool”) is illegal, as the 2018 amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) make clear.
It was not always this way. For example, prior to the 2018 amendments, federal appellate courts were split on the issue of whether an employer could keep employee tips if the employer paid the employee above the minimum wage.
But the law has changed, and both employers and employees should know that employees have a right to demand and receive the tips paid by customers. The gains that employers can expect from skimming tips are simply not worth the risk of being caught in a lawsuit. In addition to requiring employers to pay the full amount of improperly withheld tips, the FLSA further entitles employees to additional liquidated damages, which is an amount equal to the improperly withheld tips, plus attorneys’ fees and expenses. (This means a court award of double the actual damages of the wrongfully withheld tips plus the attorneys fees and expenses of the litigation.)
Because the FLSA is a federal law, it applies to nearly all employers and employees in the United States, including those in the Cincinnati tri-state area (Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana).
If you are an employee who has been shorted on their tips or an employer who needs to update its policies to accommodate the requirements of the FLSA, consider speaking to one of the labor and employment attorneys at the Finney Law Firm: Stephen E. Imm (513-943-5678) or Matt Okiishi (513-943-6659). | <urn:uuid:a915df23-f82a-40f3-a46c-84aa982a409a> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,820 |
Some very interesting thoughts on how disconnected our government has become. Check these out. They will definitely have you shaking your head I can guarantee!
Hard work and success is rewarded with higher taxes and government intrusion while doing nothing rewards you with welfare checks, subsidized housing, food stamps and free cell phones.
Your government believes the way to eliminate a multi-trillion dollar debt is to spend trillions upon trillions more.
You can get arrested for expired tags on your car but not for being in the USA illegally.
Your governments plan to get people back to work is to offer 99 weeks of unemployment checks to not work.
You have to have a signed parental permission to go on a school field trip but nothing to get an abortion. | <urn:uuid:abd64358-38ac-490f-bba1-4a7cab37a3b3> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 764 |
Four Ways That Water Gets Into Buildings
Water enters buildings by bulk transport, by capillarity, by piggybacking with infiltrating air, and by vapor diffusion. Once you get your priorities straight, you can implement strategies to prevent water damage.
Poetry used to be memorized, not written down, and handed from bard to bard, memory to memory, down through the generations. Perhaps folks out there have memorized poems back when schools taught such things, or for personal interest.
Not counting things I have written, I know only one poem by memory, written by David McCord. As proof, I will recite it for you here.
Epitaph on a Waiter
By and by
God caught his eye.
Water gets in through four pathways
Some things are inevitable. Like the Phillies beating the Red Sox in the World Series. And water getting into buildings. Water gets its way--or four ways, actually.
Water moves in, on, and through buildings through the following four paths. I'll go through these in order of magnitude--the most water is involved in the first path, and the least is involved in the fourth. That order is important because it helps us set management priorities.
1) "Bulk" water: rain, runoff, and wind-driven water
Liquid or "bulk water"--rain, runoff, and other flows--is driven primarily by gravity but also by wind and pressure differences. Bulk water on the exterior of a building is managed by moving water down and off of the building, while site features move the water away from the building. A system of interconnected flashings, drainage planes or weather-resistive barriers, free-draining spaces, and claddings manage exterior bulk water.
Inside the building, we manage bulk water by preventing or containing plumbing leaks and condensation. Collection trays or pans, sensor-driven shut-offs, and routine maintenance defend against interior bulk water problems. Sprinkler systems introduce bulk water inside of a building in the event of a fire, but in addition to their benefits in quickly dousing a fire, they often prevent much larger magnitudes of water from being hosed in by the fire department.
2) Capillary water
Capillary water moves under tension through porous building materials or narrow channels between building materials that act like tubes. The porous nature of many building materials, and the incredible cohesion and adhesion of water means that liquid water can move against the force of gravity quite effectively.
The primary defenses against capillary water movement are capillary breaks in appropriate locations, such as the between the foundation and moisture-sensitive materials sitting on it. Capillary breaks are non-porous materials--such as sheet metal, impermeable membranes, closed-cell foams or plastics--or free-draining air spaces, generally 3/8" (10 mm) or larger.
3) Air-transported moisture
Air-transported moisture is the vapor content of air as it leaks out of or into a building. Air leakage is driven by a combination of holes through the building envelopeExterior components of a house that provide protection from colder (and warmer) outdoor temperatures and precipitation; includes the house foundation, framed exterior walls, roof or ceiling, and insulation, and air sealing materials. and one of three driving forces: wind, stack effectAlso referred to as the chimney effect, this is one of three primary forces that drives air leakage in buildings. When warm air is in a column (such as a building), its buoyancy pulls colder air in low in buildings as the buoyant air exerts pressure to escape out the top. The pressure of stack effect is proportional to the height of the column of air and the temperature difference between the air in the column and ambient air. Stack effect is much stronger in cold climates during the heating season than in hot climates during the cooling season., or mechanically induced pressure differences (fans) between the inside and outside of the building.
The primary concern (other than the heat content of the escaping or entering air) of moisture-laden leaking air occurs when it is accompanied by a temperature drop, increasing condensation potential. For example, warm, humid air from a shower in the cold winter months can leak around the bathroom light fixture into the attic, condensing on the roof sheathingMaterial, usually plywood or oriented strand board (OSB), but sometimes wooden boards, installed on the exterior of wall studs, rafters, or roof trusses; siding or roofing installed on the sheathing—sometimes over strapping to create a rainscreen. --eventually leading to rot.
We manage air-transported moisture with a continuous air barrier in the building envelope, built with interconnected air-impermeable sheet goodsMaterial, usually plywood or oriented strand board (OSB), but sometimes wooden boards, installed on the exterior of wall studs, rafters, or roof trusses; siding or roofing installed on the sheathing—sometimes over strapping to create a rainscreen., caulks, sealants, and spray foams. To be completely effective, air barriers should be in contact with thermal barriers (insulation).
4) Vapor diffusion
Vapor diffusion is the movement of water as a gas according to relative humidity gradients or differences in vapor pressure. Water vapor moves from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration.
You often hear about use of vapor barriers to restrict vapor movement in buildings, but anything that slows vapor movement is a double-edged sword: while we may want to control the movement of vapor into a building assembly, we should be much more interested in how the vapor permeability of individual building materials and assemblies affect the movement of vapor out of building assemblies. While building assemblies can get wet by all four forms of water movement, once water gets in, the main way it can get out is by diffusion, so it pays to make sure that assemblies can dry through diffusion in one or more directions.
Quite often the vapor drive of water into building assemblies is climate- and season-related: vapor drive is from the inside of heated buildings in the winter and from the outside of cooled buildings during the summer. We need to balance the restriction of this climate- and season-based vapor movement into building assemblies with the allowance for drying of the same assemblies. We do this by conducting a vapor profileA vapor profile is an assessment of the relative vapor permeabilities of each individual component in a building assembly and a determination of the assembly's overall drying potential and drying direction based on vapor permeabilities of all of the components. The vapor profile addresses not only how the building's enclosure assembly protects itself from getting wet, but also how it dries when it gets wet. For a detailed treatment of this subject, see Building Science Corporation's article Understanding Vapor Barriers. analysis or hygrothermalA term used to characterize the temperature (thermal) and moisture (hygro) conditions particularly with respect to climate, both indoors and out. (humidity plus temperature) modeling.
Water management and insulation
That's a lot to digest, but it helps to understand these fundamentals when you are thinking about adding insulation to your building. Insulation restricts the flow of heat, which in turn reduces ability of building assemblies to dry out when wet. Lots of old buildings don't manage moisture very well, but that's not a problem for them because they are so poorly insulated that they dry out easily. Adding insulation to older buildings is a good idea for a lot of reasons, but we must think about moisture at the same time.
Last week's column: Recycled Content in Building Products: Should You Care?
Peter Yost at BuildingGreen contributed to this week's post.
Tristan Roberts is Editorial Director at BuildingGreen, Inc., in Brattleboro, Vermont, which publishes information on green building solutions.
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Croatia Airlines is a full-service carrier that provides domestic and international air passenger and cargo transport services. It also provides aircraft maintenance and professional training of aviation personnel. In its more than 27 years of operations the company has been recognized by its passengers for flight safety, quality of services and professional staff.
As a flag carrier, Croatia Airlines significantly contributes to the development of Croatian tourism considering that, on an annual basis, one third of all tourists arriving to Croatia by plane fly Croatia Airlines. For further information please visit www.croatiaairlines.com
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Nov 2004 Joined Star Alliance
25 Airports Served
75 Daily Departures
Kresimir Kucko President and CEO, Croatia Airlines
Kresimir Kucko was elected Croatia Airlines President and Chief Executive Officer in September, 2012.
In this capacity, Mr. Kucko has played a key role in positioning Croatia Airlines as the leading airline in the region and has helped the company adjust to challenges in the industry, contributing enormously to the completion of major successful projects within the airline, such as organizational restructuring.
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|Revenue Passenger KM||1.37 bn|
|Sales Revenue (in US$)||234 MUSD|
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The following analysis of the Western Washington real estate market is provided by Windermere Real Estate Chief Economist Matthew Gardner. We hope that this information may assist you with making better-informed real estate decisions. For further information about the housing market in your area, please don’t hesitate to contact your Windermere agent.
Washington State employment jumped back up to an annual growth rate of 2.4% following a disappointing slowdown earlier in the spring. As stated in the first quarter Gardner Report, the dismal numbers earlier this year were a function of the state re-benchmarking its data (which they do annually).
The state unemployment rate was 4.7%, marginally up from 4.5% a year ago. My current economic forecast suggests that statewide job growth in 2019 will rise by 2.6%, with a total of 87,500 new jobs created. | <urn:uuid:1120ee60-e072-476e-8bb6-2aa7e6a7c0b6> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 857 |
M.Com. (Hons), Chartered Accountant,
Richard has more than 25 years of accountancy and tax experience dealing with a wide range of businesses as well as individuals both locally and internationally.
Earlier in his career Richard worked in a Big Four Accounting firm, as well as another reputable New Zealand Chartered Accounting firm.
He furthered his accounting experience with time as a corporate accountant for a large multinational publicly listed corporation, where he was nominated for New Zealand young accountant of the year.
Richard is an internationally recognised sports personality having competed at the 1988 Olympic Games, the 1986 and 1990 Commonwealth Games. He still swims regularly and was the World Masters Champion in 2008, 2009, 2015 and 2017.
BSCom, Chartered Accountant
Thirteen years of service with Lockhart O’Shea Limited has stood Brenda in good stead in understanding the wide and varied range of the practice clients.
Brenda is a fully qualified Chartered Accountant in New Zealand and holds a certificate of Public Practice.
Brenda is a firm believer in genuinely understanding clients’ affairs and businesses. Only then can we deliver best practice advice and services.
Brenda’s key responsibilities are focusing on smooth running of the practice and making sure all deadlines are met, mentoring junior and intermediate staff, and dealing with clients on a daily basis or as required.
Brenda is also a keen runner and loves reading fiction and movies.
B.Com, GradDipCom, Chartered Accountant
Brendan is a chartered accountant and has been in practice for 8 years since finishing university. Brendan is technically competent in accounting, taxation and xero accounting solutions. He always puts his clients first and believes in providing a service ‘above and beyond’. Clients normally refer to Brendan as their ‘Xero super star’ because he can quickly find a workable solution. Brendan is focused on delivering integrated accounting solutions to make managing your business finances a lot easier.
Brendan is currently studying for his Certificate of Public Practice.
In his spare time, his young family keeps him busy. He painfully loves his Vodafone Warriors and enjoys personal fitness. You can normally find Brendan running loops around Auckland Domain during his lunch.
ACCA, BSc (Hons) Applied Accounting, TEP, Chartered Accountant
Ken is a NZ and UK accountant with over 20 years of management experience within the accounting and taxation fields.
He has held senior roles in many different jurisdictions, these roles have included head of accounting of one of NZ largest Trustee Companies, Deputy CEO of a licensed Trust Company in Bermuda, Chief Financial Officer for a Middle East based private bank and Executive Director of Operations and Client Development for a Middle East based trust company.
Ken’s clients attest that he has what he describes as a ‘roll-my-sleeves-up-and-get-it-done’ attitude. He is accessible, approachable and works hard to put himself in his client’s shoes. He takes the time to get to know his clients and their businesses, listening to their needs and offering appropriate, timely and strategic advice. He brings together the wide range of services the firm provides to help clients with compliance, problem-solving and future planning.
As well as holding two accountancy designations he is also the holder of the Trust and Estate Practitioners (T.E.P) designation from the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and the Executor and Trustees Institute of Australia.
In his spare time, Ken enjoys spending time with young daughter, is an avid Rugby fan and occasional (terrible) runner. | <urn:uuid:b0585e7f-1eb4-4741-9cb7-427f08cdaa8d> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,659 |
Free Tracing Handwriting Worksheets – As men and women we study all the time; or else textbooks, then email messages, information on the internet, highway indicators, company letters and documents. Learning how to go through is critical for your personal child’s success at school, and printable preschool worksheets can be a major help.
Use Free Tracing Handwriting Worksheets
Whenever your little one is initially brought to the letters in the alphabet, all those letters are often related to images of items that begin with that letter. There are actually ‘Annie Apple’, ‘David Dolphin’ and other terminology employed across the world to introduce kids to noises and letters. Except if you’re artistic and can pull, Free Tracing Handwriting Worksheets may be an easier remedy – and generally more affordable when compared to a publication.
Free Tracing Handwriting Worksheets to Improve Letter Recognition
As your child understands seems, they are going to also figure out how to recognize the letters from the alphabet. A terrific way to educate this really is by using a printable worksheet that displays the letter, a picture, as well as the ‘name’ of the letter – like Annie The apple company!
While your child remains to be learning how to identify the letters from the alphabet, you can use photos (or the genuine item) to help them practise their seems. Get images of the pet bird, a tennis ball, a bat, a shower, a magazine, and the like to practice the letter ‘b’. Go with a letter for a day and motivate your child to locate items that get started with that letter throughout the house. Free Tracing Handwriting Worksheets ought to have good workout routines for this at the same time.
A ‘Sound Treasure Hunt’ will have your kids gathering items around the house all beginning with similar letter – and of course there should be some ‘treasure’ following the game, so prepare yourself! ‘I spy with my small eye’ is yet another excellent video game if you utilize noises rather than labels of letters, also it can be played everywhere.
You don’t require Free Tracing Handwriting Worksheets just for this one sometimes, but you really should be a part of your local library as an alternative to spend lots of cash on guides that the youngster outgrows as fast as they grow out of their clothing! The better you read in your kid, with your little one and in front of your child, the faster they will figure out how to read through, and learn how to appreciate it too.
Understand that reading is not merely utilized to go through books. Your youngster must study recommendations, worksheets, text message guides and analyze papers for some time. The greater they are able to study, the greater their understanding is going to be, and also the greater their analyze rankings is going to be also. An extensive pair of printable preschool worksheets will cover the basic abilities your kids requirements to enable them to begin school with confidence. | <urn:uuid:0cd7d709-e668-4b10-ae47-3ab5e4190523> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 2,957 |
Term One....some new developments..
Elspeth Dugdale | April 30, 2016
WTA School numbers have increased steadily .... and now the school is completely full, having reached its limit of 600. However, teaching the occasional group of 140 and even 160, on occasions, this term became 'somewhat tiring'.. as they say. But the new classrooms will mean that all S1-S4 classes can be divided into two groups of 65 - much easier to teach and manage, plus that will ensure a much better quality of teaching. Exciting times.
The importance of the library has been a big campaign this term, to encourage reading for pleasure and learning to do research . When reading culture does not exist at an early age, library lessons are also a vital part of the timetable to build up good reading habits. There is a new Library Assistant, former student Banya Simon Peter (2012). His role is to support remedial English by teaching small groups, run a Reading Club and help Study Groups.
Thanks to gifts left by recent visitors, WTA now has a Games Cupboard for Uno, Jenga, Puzzles, Scrabble, Chess etc - 'Board' not Bored! It is great to walk around on a hot Saturday or yet another public holiday and watch students being so totally absorbed in doing something fun!
Sports has continued to develop with Teacher Jackson (another former student) from The Bridge also working as Sports Coach. Football and Basketball teams have played really well both in leagues and friendly matches, and have qualified to regional and national level.
The Bridge has continued to make a great impact on the Lukomera community - which has led to a greater number of students wanting to register as day scholars at WTA. They host regular interschool quizzes and formal debates and even a Bridge primary football tournament - all teams beautifully kitted out thanks to recent team donations.
We spent time looking at two new sites to locate two more Bridges - one is near Luwero and one near Gulu - and we have been given provisional permission to proceed with both. More news next month, hopefully.
Teacher Esther has joined as Librarian and Early Years Assistant - she is also a former WTA student. She started as a holiday club helper and is settling in as a fulltime member of staff - she is fantastic at action songs and storytelling!
The Rock continues to provide vital medical care and support for the community, in particular antenatal/ postnatal care and safe provision for delivery. Manager Annet has observed that many local women continue live in dire poverty and are without income or support, therefore unable to provide basic needs for babies and children. Most recently, Annet set up a Craft Cooperative Group for 20 women called the 'Trustworthy Project', with a startup loan for raw materials. They will meet together on Sunday afternoons to learn new skills and to work as a team to become financially independent. At the same time, they will also be learning about child nutrition and childcare. Some 'crafty' S4 students will also be joining the group to share their skills. An creative new initiative! | <urn:uuid:ba87f884-8e0a-46c5-b9ff-cfd2b7d0645f> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,082 |
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THE HISTORY OF ST LUKE’S & ST ANDREW’S CHURCH OF SCOTLAND
Bain Square, Calton
The history of St. Luke’s & St. Andrews Church Of Scotland is truly a storied and tumultuous one which dates all the way back to the 19th Century. Located in Calton’s Bain Square at the very heart of Glasgow’s East End and a stone’s throw from the city’s legendary Barras, it was commissioned via the extension plans of former Church of Scotland leader Thomas Chalmers. Designed by Glasgow’s own James Wylson and erected in 1836/1837, its construction came to fruition thanks to extensive missionary work in the surrounding community and was initially used as a “chapel of ease” for the residents of the nearby Barony parish.
For those unfamiliar with this term, it meant that St. Luke’s was originally intended as a building other than the official parish church to assist those who couldn’t conveniently make their way to its larger counterpart. It made life easy for many and was particularly beneficial to those in western Calton thanks to its very central location in what was its main street.
Created in accordance with the stipulations of the General Assembly and the 1834 Chapels Act, the church was given the status of ‘quoad sacra’; meaning that it held no local government functions. Whilst this remained the case for almost 10 years, a confrontation regarding the congregational rights of not only St. Luke’s but churches of the same ilk led to a great deal of patrons aligning themselves with the newly minted Free Church Of Scotland. This move didn’t prevent those who’d removed themselves from the ranks of the more traditional organisation from using the building however, as they continued to so until February of 1849 at which time they were forced to abstain from using the building due to a House Of Lords’ decision which proclaimed that property rights would be held by The Church Of Scotland.
Without a place of worship, the members of the Free Church took to various different venues before landing on The Mechanics Hall in Canning Street as they awaited a new church. Their new religious institution finally came in the shape of St. Luke’s Free, located at the junction between London Road and Risk Street. Eventually, their sanctuary became known as St. Luke’s United Free Church Of Scotland which is a moniker which stood until it eventually closed its doors. Amusingly, the new church attained an aspect of the original church due to the donor of St Luke’s clocks requesting they be removed following the House Of Lords’ verdict before they eventually returned in the new incarnation.
Disbanding its ties with the parish of the Barony as a whole in 1849 and instead being repurposed as a Chapel Of Ease to Tobago Street’s newly established Calton Parish Church, it took up until 1863 for St Luke’s to finally branch out on its own and become the fully fledged St. Lukes Parish Church.
Whilst there was a lengthy period of respite from the unsettling years that the church endured, tragedy struck in 1924 when a fire tore through the once pristine and ornate house of worship and left it in ruins.
In the wake of the fire, a great deal of restoration took place, rendering the church safe for use once again but unfortunately resulting in the loss of its clock tower due to its inability to be salvaged.
1961 saw the church’s congregation increase tenfold due to a union with the Macmillan Calton Church, causing in another change in its title to Calton New, whereas ‘Calton Old’ was deemed to tbe the premises that remained in Helenvale Street.
Operating under the same moniker following new affiliations with the congregations of St. John’s Chalmers and Greenhead Barrowfield in 1963 and 1971 respectively, this meant that Calton New eventually became a hybrid of 9 distinct congregations which had all stood independently in 1929 but were conjoined due to the population of the surrounding areas decreasing drastically. Aligning with one of the Burgh Churches; St Andrew’s, in 1976, the move saw a minister split his time between both flocks before they were finally consolidated in 1992. This merger led to the church finally adopting the name by which it is now most commonly known ; that of St. Luke’s & St Andrews.
A decline in attendance saw many efforts to remodel the church’s interior but they were to no avail and eventually St. Luke’s & St. Andrew’s lay deserted.
With such an imposing and once beautiful structure laying barren, one of the fair city of Glasgow’s oldest church’s was eventually purchased by Michael and Tony Woods in 2013.
Restoring the landmark to its former glory albeit with slight alterations being made to befit its new use, St. Luke’s is once again preparing to bring joy to the citizens of the east end and beyond as a multipurpose music venue, bar & kitchen; serving to revitalise the community while maintaining many of its stunningly rendered original features. | <urn:uuid:c80c16f5-07f7-4ea0-9554-9c68d58b7f60> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 4,945 |
Confession: I suffer from G.A.S. (Guitar Acquisition Syndrome). I’m not in denial, but I don’t see it as a problem. No one does except my wife (wives must always, in some way, be opposed to their husband’s interests). In fact, those to whom she expresses her misplaced concern see no problem with my G.A.S. (I love enablers!). In this posting is reviewed my latest acquisition: Yamaha’s A4K Limited, as well as its sibling, the A5R ARE. They are both dreadnoughts with built-in electronics, and are all solid wood, and very well made guitars.
The dreadnought A4K Limited is an all koa guitar — solid top, back, and sides. As you may know, koa is a hard wood, and comes principally from Hawaii. Koa, in my opinion, gives a bright , crisp, and clean tone which is quite pleasant. Other materials of this guitar are mahogany neck, and ebony fretboard and bridge. The binding appears to be mahogany, as is the case for the A5R ARE. The lower bout is a generous 16.25 inches (41.3cm), and the nut width is a typical 1 11/16 inches (43mm) of a dreadnought.
The A5R ARE sibling has a solid sitka spruce (torrefactioned, or ARE as Yamaha describes the process), and solid rosewood back and sides. It too, has a mahogany neck, with ebony fretboard and bridge. The body and neck dimensions are identical to the A4K Limited.
Both models have identical electronics which consist of volume, treble, bass, and blend (you can mix mic and under saddle piezo pickups to you taste). The controls are laid out on the upper bout on the bass side of the bodies. A plastic “dear dummy” applique surrounds the controls and labels them for the player. The packaging that comes with the guitars contains smaller decals which are to be applied for identification at each knob. Both models have an attractive pick guard (surprisingly rare these days on many dreadnoughts).
I met both A Series guitars at Tacoma’s Ted Brown Music in August, 2018. I have seen an A5R ARE elsewhere, and have played an A3R before at this store a few years ago. My experience with Yamaha’s A Series models have impressed me in the past. In a recent e-mailing from Premier Guitar there was a video introduction and demonstration of the A4K Limited. By this video, I learned that only 75 of these guitars were made. With this information in mind, I was surprised that Ted Brown had an A4K Limited in stock. It begged to be played! It’s clearly one of the easiest guitars to play I have encountered — everything is smooth and effortless with its fabulous neck and setup! A personal test for playability is my own acoustic version of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. The movements from a descending Am chord were without any effort as I find on some other guitars. (The A5R ARE is equally a delight to play, and if blindfolded, I couldn’t distinguish between the two, except for tone — the A5R is clearly of rosewood back and sides.) Gary, a friend and sales associate, plugged the A4K into a Fishman Loudbox Mini Charge acoustic amplifier. With electronics I usually shrug my shoulders and utter a silent, “Whatever…”, but the guitar was a joy to hear as its sound came through this outstanding Fishman amp. (Perhaps I won’t dismiss electronics so easily from now on!).
I’ve never been interested in “limited runs:” The prices of such guitars are over-the-top in my opinion, and for my budget. Regarding koa, other manufactures, such as Taylor, have made limited runs of all koa, but at a heftier price tag. The A4K Limited has a price of $1499 in shops and when offered online. (The A5R ARE sells for $1399.) This price is very reasonable for an all koa guitar. The reason is clearly that they are Chinese made, but as is increasingly the case, very well made, and if North American made, it would sell for well over $2,000. (The A5R ARE is make in Japan.)
Back to G.A.S. I kept truly, and honestly, hoping that someone would buy the koa dreadnought (G.A.S. can be suppressed — for awhile at least). Well, on October 6, 2018, I innocently happened to stroll into Ted Brown Music, and there in the acoustic room was the A4K. Hmmm…Well, needless to say, G.A.S. took over, and I took this beauty home with me. And I’m pleased I did. And by the way, my wife thinks it was a good call! As of November 17, 2018, six A4K Limiteds can be found on reverb.com. So act quickly to get one, because I don’t want to be able to say, “I got one and you didn’t!”
Keep on playing!
In his epistle (letter) to the Church in Galatians, St. Paul writes,
But knowing that a man is not justified by works of the Law, but through faith in Jesus Christ. And we believed in Christ Jesus, in order that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law, because by works of the Law no flesh is justified (Gal 2: 16).
Here, St. Paul writes of the Mosaic Law — the Law given to Moses by God in the Sinai wilderness. This Law helped define the Jewish people, and set them apart from their Gentile counterparts. However, through much of his ministry St. Paul battled the Judaizers. These were Jews who came to faith in Christ, but insisted Gentile converts to Christ become subject to the Mosaic Law, chiefly circumcision. In brief, St. Paul countered their argument by stating, “if you Jews cannot keep the Law, why do you want to impose it upon Gentiles?”
St. Peter had a life changing encounter with Christ one day along the Sea of Gennesaret. Christ was teaching the crowd a short distance off the shore in St. Peter’s boat. After he concludes his teaching, he instructs St. Peter to put out in the water and drop his nets. St. Peter reluctantly agrees. The result was an incredible, miraculous catch of fish. His response to Jesus was an emphatic: “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man” (Luke 5: 8). Jesus does not leave. He remains in the sinner’s presence and says to him, “Fear not! From now on you will be catching men” (Luke 5: 10).
St. Peter’s response should be the response of all of us. We are to acknowledge our sinfulness in the understanding of the holiness of God Incarnate — Jesus of Nazareth. Sin cannot exist in the presence of an all holy God. Darkness can have no fellowship with light. Psalm 5 informs us of this truth. Its words speak to St. Peter’s self understanding at the moment he encountered the presence of holiness, “For you are not a god who delights in wickedness; evil may not sojourn with you” (Psalm 5: 4). But, we have Jesus’ words: “Fear not!” For Christ did not come into the world to judge it, but to save it. We find this famous verse in St. John’s gospel: “For thus God loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, in order that everyone who believes in him might not perish, but have eternal life” (John3: 16).
The name Faith Guitars is little known in the United States. I discovered the brand just a few years ago. I must admit the name Faith drew my initial interest. Now, I can have a lot of fun with the name since I am a priest in the Orthodox Church, but I’ll spare the world such plays on words. This is my third review of a Faith guitar. Here reviewed is the Mars Legacy.
This third part of my commentary on St. John chapter six may seem out of sequence — I should be writing about Christ’s “Bread of Life Discourse” which begins with St. John 6:25. However, I have put things in this order to counter an objection made by evangelicals and others who employ a single verse in their attempt to negate Christ’s own teaching about the Eucharist — that his Body and Blood are real food and drink to be consumed for eternal life and union that is to exist with him and the believer. The verse which they employ is St. John 6: 63, “It is the Spirit which brings life, the flesh counts for nothing: the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.” This verse is used by evangelicals, and other Protestants, to state that Jesus did not mean what he said, he was just speaking symbolically, and we do not really consume his Body and Blood in the Eucharist. It is a very weak argument, but much confidence is falsely placed in its usage. Examination of the context of this verse with the whole of St. John’s gospel reveals the exact opposite: those who reject this teaching have only carnal understanding and cannot understand the ways of the spiritual life of faith in Christ.
“Oh! Who can be ever tired of Bath?”, writes Jane Austen. I think I get it. The highlight of a recent vacation in August, 2017 to the UK and Ireland was hands down Bath, England. Bath is some distance west and a bit to the south from London. Prior to my time in this city, I knew Bath for its famous Roman Baths, its cathedral, the lovely Avon River, and of course, Jane Austen (and, yes, there is a Jane Austen museum). I had seen photos and videos of all the above, its Georgian architecture, and surrounding countryside, but nothing compared to the actual experience of three days in the city.
This year, per the calendar, the seventh Sunday after Pentecost was quite full in terms of its readings. The Church commemorated the Fathers of the first six Ecumenical Councils, and the Great Prince Vladimir of Kiev, Equal to the Apostles. Great Vespers put forth six Old Testament readings. There were three epistle and three gospel readings set for the Divine Liturgy. I did not count all the scriptural verses read, but St. Paul’s epistle to the Romans chapter nine, verses 1 – 7 held my attention, especially Romans 9: 7, “Welcome one another, just as Christ welcomed you unto the glory of God.” This verse is eucharistic at its core.
This Sunday’s gospel reading, the sixth Sunday after Pentecost, comes from St. Matthew who records the healing of a paralytic. The paralytic was brought by friends before Christ on his pallet to be healed. Their faith brought them to Jesus: “And Jesus, observing their faith said to the paralytic, ‘Take courage child, your sins are forgiven’” (Mt 9: 2).
The gospel text two weeks prior to this Sunday put forward the the account of Jesus’ healing of the centurion’s paralyzed and suffering servant (Mt 8: 5 – 13). In this reading, Jesus observed the remarkable faith of the gentile centurion. In both cases Jesus observed faith, and his observation led to his healing action.
There are often obstacles to the exercise of faith. The centurion had no obstacle placed before him. His access was immediate. The paralytic and his companions had a different situation. Jesus statement, “your sins are forgiven”, is met with the Jewish scribes objection: “This is blasphemy!” The scribes of the Law tried to shut things down by their supposed authority. However, it is Jesus who has true authority! He then speaks to the scribes: “In order that you might know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins, “Get up! Take up your pallet and go to your own home” (Mt 9: 6).
The paralytic and his companions had faith. By that faith which Christ observed, he acted to bring healing without any regard to the scribes’ powerless barrier which they put up to stop our Lord.
We too have our own infirmities and paralyses which are primarily spiritual. We approach Christ with our faith no matter how weak or feeble our faith may seem to us.
The account of the healing of the centurion’s servant as recording in St. Matthew’s gospel (Mt 8: 5 – 13) is a demonstration of great faith by the gentile Roman. The exchange between Jesus and the centurion occurred as Jesus was entering Capernaum: “A centurion approached him urging him to heal his servant saying, ‘Lord, my servant has been placed in my house paralyzed and is suffering greatly’” (MT 8: 6). Jesus agrees to come to heal the servant. However, the centurion objects and gives his famous response: “Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under the roof of my house, but only say the word and my servant will be healed” (MT 8: 8). Our Lord marveled at this and gives his commentary: “Truly, truly I say to you in no one in Israel have I found such faith!” (Mt 8: 10).
In this gospel passage we have an account of a great demonstration of faith manifested before Christ, his disciples, and the crowd that followed along that day. Such great demonstrations of faith are rare. In fact, Jesus also marveled at lack of faith (Mk 6: 6). Therefore, we dare not have fantasies that we will be able to make such a great demonstration of our personal faith, and have such an outcome as did the centurion. Such an opportunity may come our way, but would we able to respond in a way that would please our Lord? Honestly, we may fail.
This Sunday’s gospel reading comes from St. Matthew 4: 18 – 23. Here, Jesus calls his first disciples: Simon (Peter) and Andrew, James and John. All four men were by occupation fishermen. Our Lord calls them as we read in Mt 4: 19 – 22:
And he says to them [Peter and Andrew], “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.” And immediately they left their nets and followed him. Going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother in the boat with their father Zebedee repairing their nets, and he called them. And they immediately left their boat and father and followed him.
These and the other Apostles, and the whole cohort of Jesus’ first disciples, became fishers of men. Their apostolic ministry gathered Jews and Gentiles alike to Christ, that all may be in Christ, and all may exist in the Ship, the Nave, which is the Church. And it is in this Ship that we are transformed into the image of Christ. (It is interesting to note that though we are likened to fish, yet we are to become like the Fish — the Ixthus — the Greek word for fish which became an acronym meaning “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.”)
As stated in Part One of this series of postings on the sixth chapter of St. John’s gospel, the entire chapter is to be taken as a whole — every verse relates to all other verses. Looking at the entirety of the chapter, it represents St. John’s teaching about the Eucharist. Hence, the second miracle found in this chapter is part of the whole, and gives meaning to Christ’s words found later in it. This second miracle found in chapter six is St. John’s account of Jesus’ walking on the water of the Sea of Galilee.
Both St. Matthew and St. Mark record the miracle of Jesus walking on the water sequentially following the miracle of the Feeding of the Five Thousand. (However, St. Luke does not follow their chronology.) In his account St. John omits some details found in, for example, St. Mark’s account (Mk 6: 45 -52), but adds others not included in the other gospel recordings. However, the act of Jesus’ walking on water is meant to have common interpretation.
As an introduction, the entirety of the sixth chapter of St. John’s gospel is to be taken as a whole. It is not to be fragmented into isolated parts that have no connection with one another. This can be stated because an inclusio holds the chapter together: the Greek phrase meta tauta (“after these things”) begins the chapter, and the same phrase begins chapter seven of this gospel. This phrase brackets the chapter together. Taken all as one, St. John’s sixth chapter is his teaching about the Eucharist.
The first event recorded by St. John in the sixth chapter is the miracle of the Feeding of the Five Thousand as recorded in verses 1 —15. This miracle is recorded in all four gospels. However, St. John interprets it, and presents it, differently than the accounts found in the three synoptic gospels. He sees this miracle as a New Testament type of the Eucharist.
Fishing can be a wonderful past-time. It can also be frustrating. Though getting “skunked” presents its disappointment, nothing is more frustrating than the inexplicable, insoluble, and massive knot that can come off the bail. There is no time to undo the undoable. You cut, retie as quickly as possible, and cast again. Fortunately, God has patience with such messes.
The Fall produced its own insoluble knot. Pride, deceit, disobedience, cowardice, and capitulation destroyed the simplicity and clarity of the Garden. The “No!” shouted out by our first parents drew all of humanity and all of creation into the massive tangle of the knot of sin, death, darkness, and alienation. All of human history existed in this tangle of misery. However, we weren’t left in this twisted prison: “But when the fulness of time came, God sent his Son, born from woman…” (Gal 4: 4).
I am told I come from Irish and Welsh ancestry. These ancestors likely fled to America to escape famine and poverty. Thus, with the last name of Williams, I have no reason to doubt the claim. I do recall two very ancient great aunts who were from Ireland visiting my father’s and uncles when I was a small child. They spoke an unintelligible form of English, and they scared me quite a bit. Yet, I never thought that much of my Irish/Welsh heritage until much later in life — not until my theological conversion from evangelicalism to all things catholic, and then becoming an Orthodox Christian and priest — was any importance realized. This posting is not much more than a sharing of my photos, experiences, and thoughts of too short a time in that lovely country.
During late August, 2017, my wife (Janice), my cousin (Charlie), his wife (Renee), and their daughter (Charlene), and I were in our final days of a wonderful vacation to England, Wales, and Ireland. Our first experience of Ireland was in the wonderful city of Dublin. I was coming down with a head cold whose grip began to be felt while flying from Glasgow to Dublin — some of my energies were spent concocting the perfect “cocktail” of prednisone, decongestants, and antihistamines (no worries…I am also a pharmacist!). However, the remaining energies were devoted to our Irish experience.
St. Gregory was born in Constantinople in the year 1296. He was born to an aristocratic family. His father was in service to Emperor Andronicus II Paleologos. His father died while Gregory was relatively young, and is then raised by the Emperor. His intelligence and abilities were recognized, and he received the finest education available to him. Though the Emperor hoped Gregory would serve his government, the young man desired to serve Christ instead. His monastic life began when he was about 20 years old on Mt. Athos at the monastery of Vatopedi.
His monastic disciplines grew at various monasteries under a variety of teachers, as did his spirit in Christ. Then, in 1326, he and other brothers escaped Turkish invasion and fled to Thessalonica where he was ordained a priest. After some time, he gathered together a small community near the city. In 1331 he returned to Mt Athos and began to write theological works (he was in his mid-thirties). During this decade all changed for Gregory.
Trembesi. Interesting name. So, trembesi is not the site of a battle during the Napoleonic Wars. Neither is it a monument, or square, of historical interest in London. It is a tropical hardwood native to Java. It has been used for furniture for years, but recently has been used for guitar tone woods. Britain’s Faith Guitar company now uses trembesi in two of its guitar series: the Trembesi Series (possessing a spruce top), and the Blood Moon Series. The Blood Moon Series consists of three body styles: the Neptune (mini-jumbo), Saturn (square-shoulder dreadnought), and Venus (concert-style body). The Neptune and Venus bodies come with cut-aways and Fishman electronics. As the title indicates, this posting reviews the Neptune model.
Lent is coming! In preparation for it, the Orthodox Church gradually enters into the season (we don’t dive directly into the deep end!). We prepare with three Sundays whose themes ready our hearts and minds for Lent. The Church’s first pre-Lenten Sunday examines Jesus’ parable about the Publican (or tax collector) and the Pharisee. The gospel text comes from St. Luke 18: 9 – 14:
Now he spoke this parable towards those who consider themselves to be righteous and despise others. “Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee, and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or like this tax collector. I fast two times a week, and I tithe from all that I acquire.’ But the tax collector stood afar. He did not wish to lift his eyes up to heaven, but he beat his chest saying, ‘Have mercy on me a sinner!’ I say to you, this man went down to his home having been justified rather than the other one, because every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted!”
January 6 marks the Feast of Theophany for the Orthodox Church. Theophany commemorates Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan River by St. John the Baptist. The Third Antiphon of the feast proclaims the day’s theology:
When Thou, O Lord, wast baptized in the Jordan, the worship of the Trinity was made manifest! For the voice of the Father bare witness to Thee, and called Thee his beloved Son! And the Spirit, in the form of a dove, confirmed the truthfulness of his word. O Christ our God, who hast revealed Thyself and hast enlightened the world, glory to Thee.
The following day focuses on the holy Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John. Such a day is called a Synaxis — the Church gathers together to commemorate the the feast’s “supporting actor(s). In his gospel, St. Mark writes of St. John’s purpose and ministry:
Behold, I will send my messenger before your face, who shall prepare your way: a voice crying in the wilderness, “Make ready the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.” John was baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins (Mark: 1 – 4).
Any tradition must be living to be valid — otherwise tradition becomes dead “traditionalism.” That is, there must be “creative faithfulness” to the established, ongoing tradition. Hence, each new generation must both live within the established tradition, and express the tradition with a new, excited, winsome voice.
The Orthodox Church, which I serve as a priest, isn’t the only bearer of tradition — the acoustic guitar also stands within a sound and revered tradition. The acoustic guitar of 100 years ago is still recognizable today: there is a neck, body, sound hole, bridge, saddle, tuners, and strings. And the acoustic guitar of the twenty-first century has the very same features. The twenty-first century guitar, however, is constructed in its factory or workshop very differently than the one made 100 years ago. Here, the creative faithfulness, in fact, has produced superior acoustic guitars which stand solidly within this venerable tradition. Such creative faithfulness to the production of the acoustic guitar is alive and well, and taken to the next level, in the RainSong brand of guitar!
Within the salvific model of Christus Victor there is the wonderful aspect of recapitulation. I have written several postings about Recapitulation and refer to it frequently. We have a New Testament declaration of this subject. It is found in St. Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians:
Having declared to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he intended for him [Christ], for the purpose of the fulness of time: to gather together all things in Christ, those things in the heavens, and those things on earth (Eph 1: 9 – 10).
St. Paul is declaring that all that was lost and scattered into the exile of sin, death, darkness, and alienation by Adam’s disobedience and capitulation has been gathered together into relationship, light, life, and holiness in Christ. All that is of creation — all that is imaginable — from the smallest subatomic particle to the most bizarre, remote and distant extraterrestrial thing is gathered together, and contained within, the God-man, Jesus Christ: this is Recapitulation. St. Paul writes again of Recapitulation in his epistle to the Colossians:
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Based on the novel of the same name by Jens Lapidus, Easy Money is a grittily realistic, engaging, and unpredictable “Stockholm noir” film about three characters whose lives become entwined by their desire to make easy money. Unsurprisingly, there are no simple solutions and no clean getaways in this story. The climax is pulse-pounding, and the movie thankfully does not have an unrealistically happy ending.
The central characters are Johan “JW” Westlund (Joel Kinnaman, Johan Falk: Special Operation), Jorge (Matias Padin Varela), and Mrado (Dragomir Mrsic). While all three of them are interesting to follow, Mrado’s character arc is the most affecting one because he is forced to take care of his 8-year-old daughter Lovisa (Lea Stojanov). In a poignant scene, Mrado and his daughter are in a grocery store and Mrado, not really knowing what to buy for his daughter, resorts to following another man with a child around the store and buying the same groceries as that man buys.
The three lead actors deliver strong performances and are convincing in their roles. With his voice and expressive body language, Kinnaman very effectively conveys all of his character’s emotions. Lisa Henni does a good job as Sophie, one of the few female characters in the film. Stojanov’s acting is natural and she has an impressive screen presence.
Daniél Espinosa directs Easy Money with a sure hand, handling both the scenes of violence and the low-key moments with aplomb. The screenplay, written by Maria Karlsson, keeps the narrative strands under control, which prevents the film from feeling disjointed. Jon Ekstrand’s score is occasionally a bit intrusive, and the second-rate sound mixing makes the authentic-sounding dialogue difficult to hear at times.
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PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY PROGRAM
What is PLP?
PLP is a program of the RCDSO created in the 1970s to administer malpractice protection for Ontario dentists.
In accordance with the RCDSO’s public protection mandate, PLP works to provide timely, reasonable compensation to patients injured as a result of dental negligence. To ensure that funds are available for those patients and in order to protect the reputation of the profession, PLP vigorously defends any member whose care was appropriate and/or did not cause harm. PLP also promotes patient safety and responsible dentistry by providing individual and group risk management guidance to members.
- Administers the errors and omissions policy for RCDSO members issued by a commercial insurer (currently ENCON).
- Prepares documentation to assist members in refunding fees to patients.
- Provides advice to members on dealing with dissatisfied patients and responding to allegations of wrongdoing by patients or their representatives.
- Assists members in avoiding dental-legal difficulties through one-on-one discussions, presentations to dental students, societies and associations, articles in Dispatch magazine and pamphlets on important risk management topics.
PLP’s highly skilled team consists of administrative staff, paralegals, professional liability and legal advisors, a senior dental consultant and a director. In addition, PLP retains lawyers with expertise in dental malpractice from a select group of Ontario law firms to assist members involved in court proceedings.
The activities of PLP are subject to oversight by a standing committee of the RCDSO Council. The PLP Committee approves settlements and provides trial authority in appropriate cases, monitors and reports to Council on PLP’s overall performance and makes recommendations to RCDSO Council on policy and strategic issues affecting the program.
Dispatch Magazine Articles
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A graphene research initiative has been selected by the European Commission as one of two winners of its Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) multi-billion euro research excellence award competition. Each project will receive €1 billion to fund 10 years of research “at the crossroads of science and technology” — the biggest research grant ever awarded by the Commission. The second winner of the FET award is a project that aims to develop a model of the human brain.
The Graphene project will “investigate and exploit the unique properties of a revolutionary carbon-based material” — exploring the physical and chemical properties of a material that is just one atom thick; conducts electricity much better than copper; is 100 to 300 times stronger than steel; and has “unique optical properties”.
Researchers have already been looking at how graphene could improve battery capacity and exploring its water-repelling properties. But the EC is betting on graphene becoming “the wonder material of the 21st Century” — replacing silicon in ICT products and becoming as important as plastics were to the 20th Century:
Graphene: this material looks to become as important as steel or plastics in the long-term. Research on graphene is an example of an emerging translational nanotechnology where discoveries in academic laboratories are rapidly transferred to applications and commercial products. Graphene and related materials have the potential to make a profound impact in ICT in the short and long term: integrating graphene components with silicon-based electronics, and gradually replacing silicon or enabling completely new applications. Beyond ICT, graphene research will significantly impact energy and transport, and also health.
The Graphene FET flagship project will be led by Professor Jari Kinaret, from Sweden’s Chalmers University, and will involve more than 100 research groups, with 136 principal investigators, including four Nobel laureates.
The consortium of research partners also includes industry members from a variety of sectors. One industry partner in the graphene consortium, mobile maker Nokia, said it is “flying the flag for the electronics corner, as well as the mobile one, with realistic dreams of improving the industry”. Writing on the Nokia Conversations blog, Henry Tirri, EVP, CTO of Nokia, said the company started researching graphene in 2006, adding: “Since then, we have come to identify multiple areas where this material can be applied in modern computing environments. We’ve done some very promising work so far, but I believe the greatest innovations have yet to be discovered.”
Nokia’s Tapani Ryhänen, Head of the Sensor and Material Technologies Laboratory at Nokia, added that graphene’s impact will not just be in the future, through the development of new materials, but that graphene will be able to improve existing materials and products in the near term. “We have kept our eyes open, and believe that this will bring immediate impact to our products over the coming years in some way or another,” he wrote.
The second FET competition winner, called the Human Brain Project, will create the word’s largest experimental facility for developing the most detailed model of the brain. The model will be used to study how the human brain works — with the ultimate aim of developing personalised treatment of neurological and related diseases. The project involves scientists from 87 institutions and is led by Professor Henry Markram of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
The EC said sustained funding for the full duration of the projects will come from the EU’s research framework programmes — principally the Horizon 2020 programme, which kicks off next year and is currently having its budget negotiated in the European Parliament and Council. The ambitious scope and scale of FET — both in the level of funding but also the length of the research period — was designed to increase the level of science in the research projects, to aim for “greater benefits to Europe over the long-term, including new technologies and faster innovation”, according to the EC.
Commenting on the two winners, EC Vice President Neelie Kroes said in a statement: “Europe’s position as a knowledge superpower depends on thinking the unthinkable and exploiting the best ideas. This multi-billion competition rewards home-grown scientific breakthroughs and shows that when we are ambitious we can develop the best research in Europe.”
Speaking at the press conference announcing the winners, Kroes added that she wanted the project to result in “graphene valley” being situated in Europe — “the home to the successor to Silicon Valley”. “The story of graphene shows there is still wonder in science,” she added.
Last week, Cambridge University announced it would be opening a new £25 million Graphene Research Centre, backed by government funding grants and industry support, including from Nokia, Plastic Logic, Philips, Dyson and BaE systems. | <urn:uuid:6d8834f2-d36d-4310-9de5-580284ee1341> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 4,988 |
We found that the number of new chemical compounds has grown exponentially with a 4.4% annual production rate from 1800 to 2015 not even affected by World Wars. There are three distinct growth regimes: proto-organic, organic, and organometallic, with decreasing variability in the production of compounds over time. Contrary to the belief that organic synthesis developed only after 1828, synthesis had been a key provider of new compounds already at the beginning of the 19th century. By 1900, it became the established tool to report new compounds. We found that chemists are conservative when selecting starting materials and that despite the growing production of new compounds, most of them belong to a restricted set of chemical compositions.
Exploration of the chemical space and its three historical regimes
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I have the net pots 2" and am making a floating raft bed out of 1 1/2 inch Dow BlueBoard. What size hole saw do I need. The net pots are the ones shown in the link.
I have looked online for a 1 7/8" hole saw which I think would work but haven't been able to find one that won't tear-up the foamboard and is deep enough.
When I've drilled holes through thicker foam, I found I needed to start the whole on one side and then flip the board over to finish the whole from the other side. Might require a longer bit to create the pilot hole all the way through before you start so that you will be able to line it up when you flip it over.
I've done holes through such board using regular old hole saws for wood. The biggest challenge with the net pots is you don't have very much lip to hold the pot on the surface (I used yogurt cups that had the nice big rim and I didn't need the holes to be perfect in order to hold the cups.)
Some people have recommended to run the drill backwards as you do the hole saw through the foam, I'm not sure how well this works but maybe it won't tear up the foam so bad? Make sure to do it in a well ventilated area since you will likely be burning the hole through the foam more than cutting it that way.
I'd take the net pot in to the hardware store with you and see if a clerk will open a hole saw kit and let you check sizes. You definitely want the outside of the hole saw to be smaller than the rim of your net pot, perhaps even hold the net pot up so the rim doesn't even rest on the surface, that way you will get some wear out of it before the net pots are likely to start trying to fall through the foam. | <urn:uuid:ec9bdb36-dace-42e6-8e6b-b79844e9ad21> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,644 |
NY Agenda Oct. 4-10
Fri. Oct. 5, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Vanderbilt Hall, 89 E. 42nd St.
During this 75th anniversary celebration, Woman’s Day’s editors will be on hand to provide beauty advice. Guests can also participate in craft and cooking demonstrations, get makeovers, and get style advice.
Sat. Oct. 6, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Chaise Flatiron, 40 E. 23rd St., 3rd Floor
Work every muscle from head to toe during this two-hour bootcamp. Then, celebrate your hard work with stretching techniques and healthy living tips — a great way to detox before your Saturday night!
Sun. Oct. 7, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
World Yacht’s Princess at Pier 81, 81 W. 41st St.
World Yacht’s Princess will be transformed into a beautiful haven as you get the royal treatment. This all-pink event will support The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and will feature treats from Minx Nails, Oasis Day Spa, John Barrett Braid & Ponytail Bar, Molton Brown, and more.
Sun. Oct. 7, 8 a.m.
Riverside Park, 103rd Street Promenade
In New York City, more than 40% of children between the ages of 6 to 12 are considered overweight or obese. This Sunday, join the West Side YMCA for their second annual Fit For All 5k and do your part to fight back against childhood obesity.
Wed. Oct. 10, 5:45-8 p.m.
Henri Bendel, 712 Fifth Ave., between 55th & 56th sts.
Enjoy wine and cheese, get made over, and shop till you drop at this beauty-centric event at Henri Bendel.
Wed. Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m.
Clay Health Club, 25 W. 14th St.
Union Square health haven Clay launches Rooftop Yoga this fall. Get your downward dog on Wednesday evenings.
xx, The FabFitFun NY Team
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The daughter of rock stars Chrissie Hynde and Ray Davies has been held by police after protesting against plans to lay a road through a beauty spot.
Natalie Hynde, 29, was held on suspicion of trespassing after she chained herself to an under-threat tree in Combe Haven Valley, East Sussex.
Hynde had climbed up into the tree as part of a protest against the Bexhill-Hastings link road, mounted by Combe Haven Defenders.
She spent three days living in a tree house perched on a branch with 11 other protesters.
Up to 70 bailiffs accompanied by police stormed the protest camp to remove the offspring of rock royalty during a clampdown on Tuesday. Clashes between protesters and the authorities have taken place since December, leading the dispute to be dubbed "The battle of Hastings."
Hynde was understood to be weary and looking forward to a rest, after she was bailed by police. Protests will continue, the group has vowed.
Speaking ahead of her arrest on Tuesday, Hynde condemned the development on environmental grounds. She also told The Guardian: "This is an anti-roads campaign and it's linked in with so many other issues - the cuts and the misdirection of enormous wealth into a £100m road.
"It's grotesque when you look at the beautiful place it's destroying."
Hynde and her fellow protesters drew anger from council leader Peter Jones for interfering with the road building work. He branded the Combe Haven Defenders "a threat to democracy" and told the group to "shove off."
Combe Haven Defenders spokesman Gabriel Carlyle told IBTimes UK: "Peter Jones is the campaign's strongest asset. Every time he opens his mouth he helps make our case with his intemperate language and misinterpretation of reality."
Natalie Hynde obviously inherited the protest bug from her 61-year-old mother, who founded US band The Pretenders and has been prominent in the pressure group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals. In 2003, she was arrested in Paris during a protest against fast food retailer KFC. | <urn:uuid:ebf504cd-a75b-48da-82c0-aa356588f6de> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,002 |
Dr. Sebi was asked about water a number of times, mainly people wanted to know which water one should drink. One of the questions was about Kangen water. Of course Dr. Sebi does not endorse the consumption of Kangen water, let’s find out a bit more about Kangen water and why it was not approved by Dr. Sebi.
Kangen water is not naturally alkaline
Kangen water, also known as ionized water or electrolyzed water, is not naturally alkaline. It is produced using a water ionizer machine, which changes the pH of water by separating it into acidic and alkaline components through electrolysis. The alkaline water produced by these machines is sometimes marketed as “alkaline water” or “Kangen water.”
The process of creating ‘alkaline Kangen water’ typically involves passing regular tap water through an ionizer, which uses electrodes to separate the water into two streams: one that is more alkaline (with a higher pH) and one that is more acidic (with a lower pH). The alkaline water produced can have a pH ranging from 8 to 11 or even higher.
It’s important to note that the alkalinity of Kangen water is achieved through artificial means. Dr. Sebi had pointed out that natural and artificial alkalinity is not the same thing. In order for any alkaline substance to be accepted it must be naturally occurring, though nature, not human manipulation.
Kangen water does not have naturally occurring minerals
Kangen water, as produced by water ionizer machines, typically does not contain naturally occurring minerals. The primary process of water ionization involves altering the pH of water through electrolysis, creating separate alkaline and acidic streams. The resulting alkaline water generally does not derive its alkalinity from naturally occurring minerals but rather from the artificial separation of ions in the water.
Naturally occurring alkaline water, on the other hand, may have a higher pH due to the presence of dissolved minerals like calcium, magnesium, and bicarbonate ions. These minerals can provide alkalinity to the water and are often found in certain natural spring waters.
Kangen water and similar ionized waters are generated using tap water or purified water, which is then processed through ionization to achieve the desired pH level. While some people believe in the potential health benefits of consuming alkaline water, it’s important to understand that the alkalinity in these waters is typically achieved artificially and does not necessarily provide the same mineral content or health benefits as naturally occurring alkaline spring waters.
As a result of this process, Dr Sebi did not, and would not have supported the consumption of Kangen water.
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Magic Spell Candles GREEN Luck
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Pack of 12 GREEN Magic Spell Candles.
Magic Spell Candles are solid colour all the way through (not dipped or coated).
Candle Magic is one of the simplest forms of ritual or spell casting one can perform. Be sure to allow the candle to burn completely, never blow the candle out during a spell.. make sure you have enough time up your sleeve to complete your workings!
- Each candle has an approximate burn time of 1 hour.
- Each candle is approx 10 cm in height.
- Made from paraffin wax.
How is candle colour achieved? The colour of a candle is often achieved by blending two or more colours, resulting in the final colour once the candle is cooled and set. For this reason, you may see variations within the melted wax once you have burned the candle. This is normal and does not impact the candles ability to perform as the set colour during spells and or rituals.
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Shot sporadically over the course of 12 years in order to capture the literal aging of young Texas protagonist Mason (stunning newcomer Ellar Coltrane), Boyhood boasts a conceit that’s impossible to ignore. Jumping ahead years at a time without fanfare, with simple cuts suddenly revealing how Mason's getting older, Richard Linklater’s film can’t help but call attention to its own central structural device. The result is a unique work that’s constantly making one aware of its own formal construction, and the effort that went into making it, in stops and starts, for more than a decade. Far from disruptive or alienating, that self-consciousness proves to be one of the most powerful aspects of Linklater’s latest, because it’s directly tied into its very themes. At heart, Boyhood is a masterpiece about time—and, more specifically, about the way that we process the many alternately unimportant and momentous moments that, year by year, come to comprise our lives.
Which isn’t to say that the director treats his subject matter in an overtly philosophical manner. One of Boyhood's many marvelous aspects is that, on the surface, it plays like an engagingly naturalistic coming-of-age saga. Introducing its main character with a shot of him staring at the sky and daydreaming while lying on his back outside school, Boyhood trails Mason from the age of 6 to 18 with a pseudo-verité interest in his interactions with his divorced single mother, Olivia (Patricia Arquette), often-absentee dad, Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke), and older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater), as well as friends, girlfriends, and mom’s two subsequent, alcohol-loving husbands (Marco Perella and Brad Hawkins). With an unshowy, gently empathetic gaze, Linklater charts the kid’s various ups and downs dealing with disappointment, heartache, humiliation, and joy, conveying a stew of complex human emotions through conversations and encounters marked not by expository dialogue but by telling asides, sideways glances, and silent looks.
Mason’s distress over his dad not being around much, or the contrast between his mythic conception of his father and the reality of the man, or, as in a sterling early scene, mom’s anger over dad’s desire to be a cool, GTO-driving drop-in who brings presents and good times while she’s stuck being the parent responsible for getting kids to do chores and homework, is all articulated without underlined Big Statements or showboat-y histrionics. Boyhood simply presents a series of naturalistic scenes in which everyday incidents are allowed to organically reveal characters’ incessantly fluctuating internal states. It’s the rare film capable of dramatizing both the ho-hum minutia and life-changing events of life through signpost-free dialogue that, as with the action itself, feels like the spontaneous byproduct of everything that’s come before it.
And that, in turn, speaks to Boyhood’s larger, more awe-inspiring portrait of time, and the underlying nature of life. As the film progresses, Mason develops from a round-faced, wounded-eyed kid to a shaggy haired tween and then to a lanky, scraggly facial-haired young adult. Watching him mature before one’s eyes involves constant reconsideration of how he’s changed, both outside and in. By compelling viewers to acknowledge and contemplate Mason’s transformations, and, by extension, the fact that the film was made so that this could be possible, Linklater prompts us to also view Mason’s story as one that’s fundamentally about aging, and about how life is a step-by-step march forward, and about how each one of those steps is simultaneously ephemeral and yet crucial (in ways either large or small) in defining who we are.
By fixating on Mason doing all sorts of average things that average kids do (i.e., squabbling with his sister, slacking off at a job, dealing with a break-up, being bullied in a school bathroom), the film, at a hefty 166-minute runtime, accumulates many microcosmic occurrences into a macro vision of growing up as a process of enduring, wrestling with, and enjoying an unpredictable and often-uncontrollable string of varied episodes.
Consequently, nothing earth-shattering actually takes place in Boyhood. Mason simply gets on with what’s in front of him, be it dealing with a drunken stepdad throwing a glass near his head, being hazed by older kids about sex, or making out with a girl in the backseat of a car and then, upon returning home, having to talk to his mom while mildly stoned. Linklater understands that all of these things aren’t part of a well-laid-out grand plan, but pit-stops along the way to future unanticipated pit-stops. That this is the way of things proves both a source of misery and hope in Boyhood. As Mason goes off to college, Arquette’s character cries because she had hoped there was more to life than merely a procession of accomplishments leading to the grave; meanwhile, Mason, in the quietly pivotal final scene, casts an optimistic eye to the horizon, and then toward and then away from, and then back to, a potential new love interest. With that comes an acceptance: Day after day, “the moment seizes you.”
The greatness of Boyhood lies in the fact that, even as it repeatedly highlights its this-was-produced-over-12-years composition, it expresses insights about human experience without having to openly state them. It asks us to watch Mason mature and, in doing so, shows us that no matter how hard we try, we can’t ever hold on to any one moment, no matter how much we want to, or how important we believe said moment to be. Ambling alongside Mason as he morphs from a boy into a man, Boyhood attunes itself to his adolescent condition(s) with piercing sensitivity.
It’s a film about what life is, what we are, and what it all means, and one that tackles such weighty concerns through incidents as ordinary as a father and son sitting around a campfire, or a boy and his girlfriend eating queso in a diner at 3 a.m. An achievement of immense depth and profundity, Boyhood locates monumental truths in the commonplace details of growing up, growing older, and, with any luck, growing wiser.
Nick Schager is a film critic who's contributed to The Dissolve, Esquire, and The Atlantic, among numerous other publications. He tweets here.
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Webinar: Further Aspects of Partnership Tax – CGT
At our tax webinar on Thursday 13 September, Anthony Newgrosh and David Whiscombe focused on the application of the capital gains tax (CGT) rules to partnerships and LLPs, including:
- Allocation of gains between partners
- Change in profit-sharing ratios
- Entrepreneurs’ relief for partnerships
- Rollover relief on replacement of partnership assets
- Relief on incorporation of a partnership business
- Relief on gifts of partnership interests
Also available: webinar slides.
As mentioned during the webinar, David Whiscombe is also the author of Partnership Taxation 2018/19, published by Bloomsbury Professional, who are very kindly offering a 20% discount on the book to our webinar listeners. Please use the discount code PT20 when ordering the book from the Bloomsbury Professional website. The discount code will expire on 14 November.
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Yeah, we made a fucking sequel. Why not right? This one has been sitting on my table for a while and I've finally gotten a chance to finish it. It was fun going back to the old shitty animation style. As usual, big thanks to Tom and the NG crowd for increasing my upload limit. Give this fucker look see.
EDIT: I don't know why it starts playing the movie again with no sound after it's finished. Since I usually work in after effects, Flash is sometimes strange and foreign to me. I uploaded Prostitute Mickey 3 this week and didn't seem to have an issue. Bullshit is what it is. I blame the communist.
Anywhoo... next year is going to be huge for us what with the movie and all, but with a small christmas break I've been able to catch up on some old projects and have even started on a new holiday themed one that should be out soon. Be sure to keep an eye on us in the coming weeks. | <urn:uuid:e1d15b4f-c359-4ac2-a8d9-8015cbd9f9f9> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 886 |
October 28, 2023
Join Casa Navarro for a walk downtown and learn about the magnificent murals between Nueva and Houston Streets. The tour will take an hour and will be around a mile long. Tickets will be $4 and will cover admission to the site after the tour. Bring comfortable sneakers and a water bottle!
LocationCasa Navarro State Historic Site 228 S Laredo,
San Antonio, 78207, TX , US
Host: Casa Navarro State Historic Site
Name: Antonio Coffee
Ages: All ages
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Blush Mixed Floral Print - Bemberg™ and Recycled Fibre
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Learning how to install a car amplifier and subwoofer is quite simple to learn. It does not really involve highly technical skills to be able to do the task. With these simple steps you will learn how to install a car amplifier and subwoofer with better ease.
You will need:
- amplifier wiring kit
- wire connectors
- wire cutters and strippers
- electrical tape
- Remove battery terminals. This is to ensure that you will not short anything out during installation. Disconnect first the negative terminal, then the positive terminal done in that order. Check the firewall for possible hole leading into the cab of the car. If a hole is not available, make a drill making sure to put some kind of rubber gasket before running the wire to prevent the metal edges from cutting the wire of the audio system. You can start running the power wire or cable. The fuse should be removed before you connect the wires.
- Remove the internal plastic panels leading to where you are going to install the amplifier. This is usually found in the truck area of the vehicle. You should remove the panels from both sides of the vehicle. You should also remove the CD or DVD player to easily access to the wires where you will need to hookup.
- Run the power cable. This is the most difficult part of the whole process because you have to go from the engine compartment to the interior of the vehicle. You will find a place to run the power cable near the steering column. You can bring the power cable under the dash up to wherever you will put the amplifier which is typically at the back of the car. Be careful under your dash that you will not obstruct the pedals or any other mechanical devices in any way.
- When the power cable is in place, run the ground wire. This wire connects to the chassis of the vehicle and mostly uses the seat bolt to ground. Take a bolt out where the seat connects to the floor and then put the wire in place and screw the bolt back in. Be sure it is tight and the ground wire is touching the exposed metal. Never use painted metal because it may cause some grounding issues.
- Connect the amplifier. This is to process the sound and send it on to the subwoofer. Modern car decks have a set of RCA connector on the back. Just run the RCA cable from there to the amplifier. Be sure not to run the RCA cable right next to the power cable because it can cause audio interference like static. When the audio input was placed into the amplifier, you can run the wire from the amplifier to the subwoofer.
- Double check all the connections and reconnect the battery terminals in reverse order. Connect the positive terminal, then connect negative terminal and finish by inserting the in-line fuse.
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When doing 3D2D, your scale determines your pixel:unit ratio.
So, let’s say we have a screen that looks like this:
We know two points on the model - the upper left, and the lower right. From these two points we can derive the upper right ( lr.x, lr.y, ul.z ) and the lower left ( ul.x, ul.y, lr.z ). From this, we can then “measure” the dimensions of the screen similar to this:
function GetScreenBounds( a, b, scale )
c = Vector( b.x, b.y, a.z )
d = Vector( a.x, a.y, b.z )
return a:Distance( c ) / scale, a:Distance( d ) / scale
We know the distance between the upper left and the lower left ( the height ) as well as the distance between the upper left and the upper right ( the width ). Since a larger scale indicates less pixels and a scale of 1 indicates each unit is a pixel, we need to divide by the scale - so .5 would give us a display twice the size as normal, and a scale of 2 would give us half the size as normal.
As for text color - your font probably has additive set to true - change it to false. It’s a really crappy image, but it should show what it sounds like is happening:
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Welcome back, Viscerati!
So, this was a huge year for us here at Cinema Viscera. In summary:
We won a place in Creative Partnerships Australia's MATCH Lab program, meaning the government would match up to $7,500 that we could raise for our new film. We premiered our first ever feature at a Melbourne film festival. We had our first public, non-festival cinema screening. We raised the money to shoot our second feature. We secured distribution for Trench (coming to DVD, iTunes and Amazon early 2019). Pez and I traveled overseas together for the first time (my first time ever out of Australia!) to London and Paris, the latter of which we fell hard for, rediscovering ourselves and cinema. I won an award for editing a webseries. Pez wrote for a television show. We wrote our second feature and had two live reads of the script, which received terrific feedback. We have cast, filled most crew roles and secured the major location for the new flick.
You bet your ass we're ready for 2019.
Our World Premiere of Trench in April, in a sold-out screening at the Setting Sun Film Festival in Yarraville's gorgeous Sun Theatre, was simply perfect. The film got a lovely response, Pez, Sam Hill and I had a fun Q&A afterwards, and we remain endlessly grateful to Anna Bourozikas and everyone involved with the SSFF and everyone who came out to see us.
Same goes for our excellent screening at Lido Cinemas in Hawthorn, which attracted over 100 people and saw Trench have another fine time, with a hugely positive response and a fun Q&A, hosted by none other than our great friend Guy Davis, who's wonderful in the film as shock comic Jimmy Kay. Again, we thank Eddie, Bridgette, Juanita and James at the Lido for all their help and hospitality, and everybody who attended. We love you all.
But enough about me and mine, you're all here for the countdown, right?
PAUL ANTHONY NELSON'S TOP 20 FILM DISCOVERIES OF 2018.
Every year, at this point in the post, I present my top 20 first-time viewings of films that are more than 2-3 years old. I will get to that in due course... but first, allow me to share something, by way of context, that was even more important to me this year...
So the photo gallery above might give you an idea as to what my major cinematic discovery of 2018 really was: the 5th and 6th Arrondissements of Paris, which contain over 20 cinemas between them (also, a shoutout goes to the BFI Southbank and Prince Charles Cinema in London)!
Cinema culture is truly alive and well in the City of Lights, with a veritable cinematheque (in addition to the actual Cinémathèque Française) screening in most districts every single day. Within a 30 minute walk of our AirBNB apartment, we were treated to everything from classic Golden Age Hollywood -- Lubitsch, Hitchcock, Westerns -- to '70s New Hollywood -- Dennis Hopper, Michael Cimino, a sidebar dedicated to cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond -- as well as all the new releases. (Thankfully, most French cinemas play non-French films in "Version Originale", meaning, in their original languages with French subtitles... which meant, with our extremely limited knowledge of French, we were restricted to watching English language movies**, as the other retrospectives that were showing, films by Ozu and Pasolini, were in Japanese and Italian, respectively.) But there was so many options on offer, even with this minor restriction we were spoiled for choice. What's more, no matter what the film, the size of the cinema or time of day or night, every session had at least 15-20 people in it, right up to over 100 at times. Cinema, like art and literature, is in Paris' bones.
Our favourite cinemas were often the independent, what Parisians call "neighbourhood cinemas", tucked into side-streets and hotel/restaurant strips: Le Grand Action, La Filmotheque du Quartier Latin and the sister cinemas Christine 21 and Écoles 21 which, we only found out after we left, were owned by Isabelle Huppert and ran by her son! (We didn't get to go to the stylish Le Champo, nor see a film at the Cinémathèque Française, which closed for August holidays soon after we arrived. We did see its excellent museum and incredible gift shop, though.)
**We did get caught with one session, however: the Christine 21's Dario Argento retrospective played four out of five of his films with their English dub... until our session of Profondo Rosso/Deep Red unspooled and we suddenly realised we had to piece the dialogue together from the Italian language track and French subtitles! Thankfully, in a testament to this most boldly visual of directors, we were able to understand the narrative without much issue; we absorbed about 90% of the plot -- which wasn't much less than what made sense to me in its English language dub -- and Pez, seeing it for the first time, adored it, instantly becoming her favourite Argento picture!)
BFI Southbank's diverse and incredible programming had them playing seasons on Harold Pinter and Joan Crawford, and about to launch into a season called 'Black and Banned', on previously banned films by Black filmmakers and/or featuring progressive or provocative portrayals of Afro-English life. Leicester Square is also a hotbed of big screen treats, led by the amazing program of the Prince Charles Cinema, chock full of cult delights, nostalgia hits and special events, alongside the classy arthouse cinema Curzon Soho and the giant Vue multiplex.
This may read as a digression, but this trip truly made Pez and I rediscover our love of taking the time to see films on the big screen, especially older films. Pez fell hard for cinema, in a way even I had never seen before, and I recaptured the rush of discovery and the instant, powerful love of a place where downloading and streaming services weren't at the front of mind, where a smorgasbord of brilliantly curated cinema history was just a short walk away. Now, we just need to learn to fluently read French...
With this in mind, I give you my top 20 discoveries of 2018, counting down from 20 to 1...
#19-20: The inaugural Paracinema Fest -- Melbourne's brand-new film festival of the weird and wonderful -- was where I discovered the wonders of 'Wakaliwood' and Ramon Film Productions, Uganda's first and preeminent action filmmakers. I saw their first action epic, 2010's Who Killed Captain Alex?, and their 2016 action-comedy-drama BadBlack, in a double feature (they run for barely over an hour each) and enjoyed the most fun I've had in a cinema in years. Both rough as guts (Captain Alex was reportedly made for US$200) and surprisingly proficient, they're also extremely smart about their limitations -- the films are accompanied by a voice-over by a person named "VJ (Video Joker) Emmie", who hilariously hypes, explains and mocks what's on screen -- and, while I enjoyed the bonkers Captain Alex slightly more, BadBlack has moments of pathos that are genuinely affecting. These films bring back the sheer joy we felt when we first picked up a camera and told our friends to pretend, to make the kickass movies we always imagined ourselves in. Wakaliwood forever!
#18: While in Paris, I found a giant DVD box set containing the complete works of François Truffaut, which I couldn't buy at the time and coveted furiously -- it was a bit costly and too heavy to pack into our luggage -- but mere weeks after we arrived home, you best believe I secured that shit. With the possible exception of Agnes Varda, Truffaut has always been the French New Wave filmmaker for me. His mix of novelistic storytelling, observational asides, open-hearted humanity and kindness to his characters -- not to mention his affection for and subversion of cinema history and genre conventions -- has always endeared him to me. 1960's Shoot the Piano Player, his still-underseen sophomore effort after The 400 Blows, is full of the kind of puckish playfulness, unpredictability and romantic musings I love him for, and at 82 minutes, it's a breeze that captures the adventure and lawlessness of the Nouvelle Vague.
#17: Frank Henenlotter is a madman. For proof, look no further than his debut feature, 1982's Basket Case, which is as deliriously deranged as cult or 'grindhouse' cinema gets. In short, a quiet young man checks into a crumbling New York City hotel, unusually protective of his mysterious basket... which contains his deformed, seperated siamese twin, more vampiric growth than man, with a thirst for blood and vengeance. This delivers on everything its berserk premise promises, with blood and gore and sleaze aplenty, but there's also a humanity here, which also runs through Henenlotter's subsequent, equally bizarre work; the outsider community of New Yorkers who share the fleapit hotel with our brothers grim are hilarious, fascinating and bring a comic reality to the utterly insane goings-on... and we even feel a pinch of sadness for poor Belial, as well. He may be a toxic, possessive, screwed-up little tumour, but we know why he's angry.
#16: 1983's Betrayal was a welcome treat delivered by London's BFI Southbank (on 35mm) as part of its Harold Pinter season. A three-hander adapted by Pinter from his own play, which famously tells the story of an infidelity in reverse chronological order, it stars Patricia Hodge (perhaps known best nowadays as Miranda Hart's mother on TV's Miranda) and Jeremy Irons as the cheating couple, and Ben Kingsley as Hodge's husband and Irons' best friend. Beginning with Hodge and Irons meeting after their affair has ended, we're taken, months and years at a time, backwards through their seven-year affair, ending just before the affair begins. It's a novel device, making the usually rote and tawdry infidelity plot incredibly poignant, as the film ends with such hope and love despite all the hurt and, yes, betrayal we've been through. Also, this is Pinter, so the dialogue is consistently scorching, funny and full of secrets and lies, the characters achingly flawed and puffed up on their own middle-class visions of themselves -- and the three superb leads rip into every single moment of it, and director David Jones knows well enough to let them play. Not easy to find, but worth seeking out.
#15: The Leopard Man, legendary horror producer Val Lewton’s third and final collaboration with director Jacques Tourneur after Cat People and I Walked With a Zombie, drips with just as much atmosphere but even more terror -- and, in 1943, just might have been Hollywood's very first Serial Killer thriller. Filled with exquisite chiaroscuro moments of pure dread courtesy of cinematographer Robert De Grasse, while Ardel Ray and Edward Dein's script presents every last one of its characters with hints of rich interior lives, which makes the suspense and kills incredibly effective and borderline upsetting. Sure, there's a couple of slightly silly moments, but on the whole, it's intelligently crafted, takes no prisoners and clocks in at a mere 66 minutes, with perhaps the very best set-pieces of all Lewton’s films.
#14: Something of a love letter to human beings — from the perspective of angels watching over us — emerging from a West Germany (the Berlin Wall was three years yet from falling) still wrestling with its past and its own humanity, Wim Wenders' 1987 classic Wings of Desire is beautifully played and touchingly sincere without ever growing sentimental. It ambles a bit at times — those trapeze sequences could do with a trim — and some of its characters’ voiceover monologues are more grandiloquent than they need to be (and this is coming from someone who just used the word “grandiloquent”), but this is such an utterly gorgeous, hopeful, thoughtful film... and if you need any more convincing, you get Peter Falk playing himself to loveable effect, Robby Müller’s luscious black-and-white cinematography and (in a fashion) Nick Cave playing Cupid. A gorgeous, big-hearted film, as relevant today as ever.
#13: Speaking of Truffaut, 1964's The Soft Skin must rank high among his most underrated films; this domestic drama of infidelity, laced with dark comedy, is a slow-burn to begin, following Pierre, a pompous, egotistical star academic, from his seemingly happy family home to barging his way into an affair with a flight attendant... Now, don't let this initial perspective scare you away -- it's borderline crazy at first, given how difficult it is to identify with this guy (even given Jean Desailly's excellent performance, somehow both hapless sad-sack and dominating blowhard) -- because we slowly discover that this is Truffaut lashing out at himself as a vainglorious artist who’s been careless with the women around him. From there, in a series of blackly comic calamities worthy of the Coens, not-so-lucky Pierre begins to feel his world collapse from beneath him — and it’s the women, brilliantly played by Nelly Benedetti and Françoise Dorleac, who take hold of the story as they begin to realise they’re better off without this jerk... manifesting in dramatically different ways, leading to a shocking ending that's as savage a self-criticism as any director has ever put on screen.
#12: Previous a lost film of some legend, Dennis Hopper’s second film, 1971's The Last Movie, may have burned all his credit with Hollywood studio credit to the ground, but I found it to be not only a more than worthy follow-up to Easy Rider but even better, and not at all the out-of-control drug-fuelled clustercuss we’d been led to believe. It’s an inspired, experimental, energetic, thoughtful and witty takedown of the desolation of Hollywood excess, movies’ effect on culture, misogyny (although, to be fair, the film falls on both sides of the line at times), Hopper himself, the end of the counterculture and Old Hollywood making way for the New — whether it liked it or not. It's shaggy and undisciplined, but also riveting and often thrilling. So glad this has been given the full restoration/rerelease treatment, to be rediscovered for the lost gem it is.
#11: A very special cinematic discovery we made in Paris were the films of Ernst Lubitsch. Seeing a retrospective of his films at the amazing Filmotheque du Quartier Latin proved that the once-famed "Lubitsch Touch" is not only a thing, but that it endures. A delightful and surprisingly progressive highlight was his 1933 comedy Design for Living, featuring a hilarious, winning Miriam Hopkins as Gilda, an American in Paris who can't choose between her two boyfriends (also struggling Americans in Paris), intellectual playrwright Tom (a brilliant Fredric March) and hot-blooded painter George (a surprisingly funny and loose Gary Cooper), who also happen to be best friends. How they begin to compromise and navigate this three-way relationship is both incredibly funny and enormously daring for the time -- hell, even by today's four-quadrant-seeking Hollywood standards -- it doesn't quite go where you may think, but, boy, it gets refreshingly close. As you'd expect of a play by Noël Coward adapted for the screen by Ben Hecht and directed by Ernst Lubitsch, it's also a screwball comedy of the highest order, matching even Howard Hawks' best work, providing some of the biggest laugh-out-loud moments I had all year.
At #10 is that man Truffaut again, with 1970's Bed & Board, the third film in his Antoine Doinel cycle, which started with The 400 Blows. Picking up just two years after Stolen Kisses, Bed & Board finds Antoine happily married, until he — still young, restless and pathologically unemployable — starts to chafe against the boundaries of married life... which is a problem, because there’s a baby on the way. Not as ebullient or hilarious as its predecessor, but emotionally true to two idealistic characters we love — one who dreamed and one who perhaps settled, both far too young — whose marriage seems to be deflating before our very eyes... or is it merely the pains of growth and compromise endemic to married life? Jean-Pierre Léaud and Claude Jade are charming as hell, and Truffaut injects impish gags amongst the emotional rollercoaster of his increasingly-semi-autobiographical tale (such as Antoine’s bizarre jobs, which become a constant source of hilarious bemusement). While it all ends on a hopeful note, whether Antoine and Christine will last the distance is no clearer then than at the beginning... but we know they’re in with a shot, which is only what all we can all hope for, really.
#9: For some reason, I'd never managed to catch up with Jocelyn Moorhouse's 1991 debut feature, Proof, and I'm now slightly ashamed that I slept on this modern classic of Australian cinema for so long. A wonderfully caustic three-hander about control and obsession, and how we can sometimes substitute those for love, with all three leads -- Genevieve Picot, Hugo Weaving and Russell Crowe -- in cracking early-career form. Moorhouse makes a smashing debut that’s wryly observant of human nature, tightens the emotional screws at every turn and is hell of a lot funnier than one may expect.
#8: While we're on 'Modern Australian Classic' detail, I'm thrilled to have crossed paths with Rolf de Heer's beautiful 2013 collaboration with David Gulpilil, Charlie's Country. As achingly sad and thoroughly lived-in as it is infused with humour, humanity and hope, this compelling portrait of modern-day life for many indigenous Australians manages to both simmer with anger and be fiercely proud. It’s told through the eyes of Charlie, who’s very much informed by star/co-writer Gulpilil, people he’s known and the two worlds he’s straddled his entire life — the culture of his people, and the culture and rules that were forced upon them. In a career built upon wry, soulful performances, this might be Gulpilil’s finest hour.
#7: Another film I was shocked I hadn't seen before now was 1995's La Haine, a thrilling, absorbing, propulsive look at three underprivileged kids (electrifyingly played by Vincent Cassel, Saïd Taghmaoui and Abdel Ahmed Ghili) living on the fringes of Paris, looking for a good time and finding trouble (sometimes prejudicial, sometimes self-inflicted) over 24 hours across the backdrop of a community about to explode... all careening towards one of the greatest, saddest, most chilling endings in film history. One heck of a debut (sadly, to date, never matched) by writer-director-actor Mathieu Kassovitz.
#6: How is Scarecrow, a Cannes Palme d'Or winner starring Al Pacino and Gene Hackman in 1973, mere moments after The Godfather and The French Connection, not considered a major work of the New Hollywood?! It's a character study of two itinerant men on the fringes, hot-tempered Max (Hackman), who dreams of opening his own car wash, and jovial, naive Lion (Pacino), who's returned from sea to reunite with his young son. Their initially wary alliance becomes an affectionate, co-dependent friendship as we follow them from California towards Pittsburgh, where Max's own Shangri-La -- the car wash he's saved what little he has to buy -- is located. It's a treat to see two great actors showing rare sides of themselves -- Hackman as a hair-trigger tornado right out of a Bukowski novel, and Pacino as a soft, loveable goofball -- to devastating effect. (Richard Lynch also makes a strong impression as a convict.) Unafraid to sit with its characters' flaws and imbued with real affection for folks living on the outside of the American Dream, this is a lovely, funny, tragic and ultimately heartbreaking film, which builds to a pitch-perfect ending.
#5: After watching it in fragments over the years -- never in one sitting, and every time at least five years apart -- I finally got to see Sam Peckinpah's seminal Western, 1969's The Wild Bunch, on the big screen and... oh boy. Wow, I was not prepared. The film is merciless, punishing and pitiless, presenting the good ol' American Wild West as a dystopian apocalypse -- self-mythologising and “legends” be damned. Everything about this West is damaged, decayed, dusty and decrepit, where death is easy, honour is hard, money is the goal, women are commodities, love is mocked and machismo is both a survival mechanism and a death wish. Legends are created because, often, that's all person has left to bargain with. The all-star cast are excellent from top to bottom, but the mood and tenor of this film belongs to Peckinpah. I’m surprised anyone made a western again after this. In terms of abandon-hope-all-ye-who-enter-here bleakness, I’ll stack Peckinpah’s worldview up against any social realist filmmaker on the planet.
#4: At his best, Abel Ferrara is an exploitation filmmaker with an artist’s soul — but even given that, he really surprised me here: his 1981 thriller MS. 45 (formerly known in Australia as Angel of Vengeance) is thrilling, unsettling, witty and quite ahead of its time in a lot of ways (especially the way it depicts everyday sexist micro-aggressions) and a huge cut above in the r*pe-revenge genre I normally loathe — it’s not male-gazey or gross — led by a hugely effective performance by Zöe Tamerlis. It’s basically #MeToo: The Movie, fuelled by righteous rage, but one that eventually spirals out of control. Plus it’s all set in the gloriously grimy early ‘80s New York that I love — you could never get so many amazing location shots on a US$62k budget today! Brutal at times, but highly recommended.
#3: What if somebody made the best, most formally audacious horror film of the 2010s and nobody cared? Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani's 2013 giallo-gasm The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears is a stunner from beginning to end, crafted with surgical precision and an undeniable enthusiasm for the genre, deploying image, montage and sound with the playful inventiveness of experimental cinema, while also managing to draw us into its bizarro, persona-shifting murder plot. What’s more, the directors build some truly intense sequences of suspense and murder — often involving straight razors — while subverting and critiquing the film history they adore, luxuriating in their thematic and sensual pleasures. The way Cattet/Forzani play with truth, identity, time, the past’s relation to the present and the very way storytelling is delivered is consistently intriguing, beguiling and, more often than not, thrilling. Every aspect of this film, from Manuel Dacosse’s sublime cinematography, to the intricate production design and to-DIE-for locations, to the score (both original and repurposed), to the Argento-on-steroids lighting design and the way they use and isolate sounds, is exquisite — it’s a dark, devious, pervy pleasure ripe for rediscovery... and your total submission. <...cue creaking leather sound...>
#2: While not John Carpenter’s “official” debut, 1976's Assault On Precinct 13, his second feature, feels every frame like the director’s origin story. Both gritty little exploitation flick and supremely entertaining, surprisingly sharp ‘70s drive-in homage to the works of Howard Hawks, that puts all of Carpenter’s visual signatures — 2.35:1 widescreen frame, colourful expressionistic lighting, unnamed & unknowable assailants emerging from darkness — from day one. (Many of these qualities would show up, to devastating effect, two years later in Halloween.) The performances, dialogue and storytelling are much more sophisticated than anyone going into this would have any right to expect, and it’s this care and quality control — as well as his facility for action and suspense — that immediately marks Carpenter as a talent to watch. What’s more, with its African-American cop lead, defiant white crim and kickass female secretary — not to mention its surprisingly racially diverse street gangs! — its approach to casting and characterisation is disarmingly progressive. It’s a blast to watch characters in a micro-budget ‘70s drive-in movie doing a wonderful riff on Bogie and Bacall — if Bogie and Bacall we’re locked in a crumbling L.A. police station besieged by evil gangs. I literally applauded at the end.
For my #1 discovery of 2018, we return to Ernst Lubitsch and 1942's To Be Or Not To Be. Hilarious from the opening minutes, moving a million miles an hour yet giving us everything we need, we know we’re in safe hands — this indeed sees Lubitsch at his most laugh-out loud funny, but he’s also revealed here to be at his most deft, political and daring. The film was made before America entered World War II, when the US government and Hollywood establishment were still taking pains not to offend Hitler, so Lubitsch constructed this comedy as his plea to convince the US that the Nazis were a major threat the world needed to mobilise against. As non-stop funny as the film is, the fact that it never keeps the Nazis' very real atrocity far from mind is even more of a magic trick. While it runs like a sleek joke machine, this is, above all, a comedy based in character, irony, vanity and inherent decency. Given this monster of a script to play around with, Carole Lombard (sadly, this was her final film role, before dying in a plane crash) and Jack Benny give remarkable comic performances, surrounded by a wonderful ensemble. Fast, funny and truly furious, this might be Lubitsch’s most accessible masterpiece.
MY FAVOURITE FILMS RELEASED IN 2018.
As usual, the criteria for this list are feature films that received their premiere paid public release in Australia - whether via cinema, video, VoD or film festivals - during 2018, that I saw this year (as opposed to, say, seeing in festivals last year).
For the first time in years, the number of new films I saw didn't plummet from the previous year; I saw 84 new films in 2018, as opposed to 85 in 2017.
I should also let you know that I didn't catch such lauded or popular titles as American Animals, Ant-Man and The Wasp, Aquaman, Beirut, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Cold War, Creed II, Deadpool 2, Eighth Grade, Fahrenheit 11/9, Ghost Stories, Hotel Artemis, The Incredibles 2, Lean On Pete, Outside In, Ralph Breaks The Internet, The Rider, A Simple Favor, Searching, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Support the Girls, Sweet Country, They Shall Not Grow Old, Thoroughbreds, Three Identical Strangers, Under the Silver Lake, Vice, Won't You Be My Neighbor? or A Wrinkle in Time. (Some titles, such as Burning, If Beale Street Could Talk and The Tale, are due for 2019 releases here.)
Up front, I have to say 2018 was a damn strong year for cinema. I liked 44 of the 84 films enough to rate them 3.5 stars and up. Of course, it's easier to be positive about any year in movies when you're not forced to see everything, as a critic would, but in my experience, this has been one of the better years of the 2010s for cinematic offerings.
Okay. Less chatting, more counting down. Annnnnnnd go:
With Madeline's Madeline, writer-director Josephine Decker delivers the best prolonged cinematic anxiety attack since mother! and does an alarmingly great job of placing us in its lead character’s fraught, precarious subjective reality, and she both examines the rush of artistic discovery and the interpersonal boundaries (or lack thereof) of the artistic process, and skewers the hubris of creators that cast aside any duty of care toward their performers. Molly Parker, Miranda July and startling newcomer Helena Howard deliver a fascinating, deftly layered triangle of performances that threaten to combust whenever any combination of the trio share space together. To be honest, I was eating out of this film’s hand until the final ten minutes, where subjective reality tips over into pure fantasy and — while I think I can see why Decker did it — I wasn’t wild about the choice or depiction of this resolution. Still, this is a compelling, thoughtful and riveting personal drama, crafted like a psychological thriller, that’s absolutely worth diving into.
Tully sees Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman -- always bringing out the best out of one another -- dipping into magical realism to explore the everyday strains of motherhood, the point when you've given so much of your life to maintaining your family you begin to lose yourself, and emerge with a frank, funny and all-too-rare portrait of what a giant pressure and compromise motherhood (and marriage) can be. In a beautifully calibrated performance, Charlize Theron portrays a woman whose efforts to maintain a functioning family life have hit physical and emotional breaking point -- Theron's comic timing is excellent and continually underrated. Cody's screenplay again shows she's lost none of her hammer for nailing uncomfortable truths, and even a late development which feels fanciful at first, is, upon reflection, very much earned and well-placed. Reitman steers the ship with class and deft, unobtrusive skill, letting Cody's script do the heavy lifting. Sure, the pacing's a little floaty at times, and it ultimately lacks the acidic, take-no-prisoners bite of this trio's Young Adult, but this is a very funny, deeply felt take on a subject that few films are willing to tackle so honestly.
Definitely delivering what it says on the box, Panos Cosmatos’s Mandy is as stylistically berserk and thrillingly dreamlike as any film we’ve seen in the 21st century thus far... but more unexpected, is the depth of emotion at play here. The first half of the film is dreamy, creepy and increasingly poignant, driven by the performances of Andrea Riseborough and, yes, Nicolas Cage, leading to a disarmingly moving scene where his character breaks down with grief (which, annoyingly, the audience around us seemed to find hilarious, presumably primed to cackle at watching Cage spack out, rather than actually sit in the moment with the character). Of course, this all explodes into a second half of righteous heavy metal vengeance (with a magnificent late title reveal!) that is as dark, bizarre and bloody as one had been led to expect, to a showdown that’s very effective, if somewhat protracted... but, to be honest? I kinda missed the sadness.
Cargo already had a head start for me, as Martin Freeman is one of my favourite people to watch on a screen right now, and the 2013 short this is expands upon is my favourite Tropfest finalist ever, but Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling’s feature debut is a tense, gripping and disarmingly lovely take on a tired sub-genre. Surrounded by an equally terrific cast, Freeman brings subtle grace notes of grief, anger and confusion to his role as a dying father who needs to find someone to care for his daughter in a world gone to hell. The way this film engages with Australia’s past and indigenous culture is intelligent and sensitive, while retaining a welcome empathy for even the worst of its characters. There are a few script moments that clang, a lack of clarity around some aspects of the story and world, but they only stand out because Ramke & Howling get everything else so right. In the end, it delivers all the emotional and sociopolitical beats it needs to, without sacrificing complexity.
Avengers: Infinity War might seem like a season finale of an epic TV show, but thankfully the Russo Brothers and Marvel have delivered a smashing entertainment, full of terrific character asides, genuinely epic showdowns, shockingly robust VFX, mostly coherent battles and curveball twists. Brolin’s Thanos eventually convinces as a flesh-and-blood character, the Guardians mesh with the Avengers surprisingly well, and — given its ridiculous scale — it deftly avoids character overload. (Oh, Thor is the film’s MVP, in case you’re wondering.) Given the entire thing was shot in IMAX, there’s far too much dark metal-on-dark metal and floating debris substituting for production design, but I found myself genuinely impressed by the writing. The way it gives every character something to do (except Black Widow, sadly), imbues its Big Bad with emotional depth and keeps all its plates spinning without losing a step, is quite something. All this and the sheer number of active participants means it's the rare blockbuster where the 150 minute running time feels not only justified, but goes by in a flash, barely stopping to race toward its somewhat audacious climax — and a wonderful final (pre-credits) scene that plays more like Brothers Coen than Russo.
Climax, Gaspar Noé’s latest descent into Hell, introduces us to a diverse troupe of young dancers at a private party, where, after a stunning dance sequence, we overhear conversations revealing festering tensions, toxic attitudes and sexual frustrations... then, after a customarily vibrant mid-movie credits sequence, a rogue element is introduced and everything goes to... well, you know Noé. As ever, he skillfully, if bombastically, uses every element at his disposal — swirling cinematography, segmented soundtracks, dancers’ bodies — to create a full-scale anxiety attack. But rather than empty style, Noé re-purposes a reportedly true story to present a microcosm of a modern France still grappling with immigration, globalisation and national identity, ever-struggling to live up to its credo of Liberty, Egality and Fraternity. It’s also a fractured study in humanity, and a vigorous assault on the senses... which can be frustrating at times: sounds, visuals and sentiments are repeated, like a thumping house track, to a numbing, even aggravating, extent -- but like any rave, it’s all part of the experience. Sometimes it’s best not to fight the chaos, but rather carve out your own corner of bliss on the periphery, dance to your own beat and forget the wolfpack.
A Star is Born, Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut, is agonisingly close to greatness, giving his wildly divergent cast room to play and bloom, while giving the film an impressive visual scope and momentum. Gaga delivers a hell of a turn — we know she’s got the voice and charisma, but it’s the quiet moments, anger and vulnerability that sell her as an actor — and Cooper is just beautiful, his character refreshingly gentle even as he slides into despair, and the two are genuinely affecting together. The song score does everything asked of it and the film sells every emotional beat... except one, which is where the film almost lost me; it seemed to arrive a few scenes too early to feel truly organic or earned. It feels petulant to hold this one thing against the film, but it gets everything else so right: the magic they bring out of each other, the rush of seeing your art performed and your voice validated, the struggle to stay authentic, the pain of watching a loved one crumble... while never descending to cheap melodrama or artificial conflict, crafting a moving love story that doubles as a plea to stay authentic in a hyper-commercialised world.
A Quiet Place was the shock horror box office bonanza of 2018 and, in hindsight, it's easy to see why. John Krasinski delivers Spielbergian sci-fi/horror in his third feature as director and, while it can be a little broad at times, he and his team have crafted a lean, tense experience, which admirably takes time to develop family dynamics and a backdrop of grief to fashion their parental anxiety narrative around, lending some weight to the otherwise wafer-thin story and questionable decisions (a pregnancy? In this world? Really?!). The cast are terrific, but Millicent Simmonds steals the show as their thoughtful, alienated daughter. Rad, unsettling creature design, too.
Roma, Alfonso Cuaron’s lovely neo-realist memoryscape and tribute to both his childhood housekeeper and the overlooked underclass of Mexico is, like the director's Children of Men, a very, very good film with a three or four all-time great scenes. Cuaron’s own cinematography is beautiful, the performances are pitch-perfect, it’s loaded with period detail and builds to two of the most astonishing scenes in modern cinema history. It’s an incredibly easy film to sink into, but it is lengthy, and seems to wander about from time to time -- it's not always clear why we're spending so much time in a particular place; now and again it feels like Cuaron is lost in a fond remembrance rather than moving the story forward -- and one feels distant, like an observer, at all times (especially given Cuaron’s affection for single long takes), which is interesting given how personal and affectionate it is... but overall, this is a truly beautiful work.
Foxtrot is a searing indictment of war, toxic masculinity and generational sins (and the price that ultimately must be paid), as well as of a culture that conscripts its young adults. Returning to the homefront after his stunning 2009 debut Lebanon, writer/director Samuel Maoz places us in his characters’ heads with enough show-offy visual flourishes and camera angles to make Brian De Palma jealous, but still manages to pack an emotional punch — and there’s a handful of stand-alone set-pieces in here that say more on the subject than entire films.
THE TOP 20
The Top 10
...WHICH LEAVES US WITH MY #1 RELEASE OF 2018...
1. PHANTOM THREAD
Sometimes, an artist's greatest gift can be to deliver the right work at the right moment. In a landscape where so much film, TV, music and art is so politically overbearing, so intent on shouting at us in a manner uncomfortably similar to Facebook rants, Paul Thomas Anderson conjures a bewitching, engrossing and devilishly funny film that looks and feels like a 1950s romantic drama, weaving one of the most fascinating screen relationships I've seen in an age, one of the very best satires of the concessions, compromises and control measures we navigate to make relationships work... and, beneath it all, slowly and mercilessly dismantling the image of the exacting, egotistical Great Male Creator, brick by brick.
The performances in this film are extraordinary across the board, with Daniel Day Lewis giving his most delicate, subtle and funny performance in years, Vicky Krieps is just a flat-out revelation, her performance working on an alarming amount of levels, and, with each withering glance and weapons-grade line of dialogue, Lesley Manville is a giant-slaying gift. (Speaking of weapons, comedienne Julia Davis is also brilliantly deployed in her brief role.)
One of the most unpredictable screen stories of recent years, and 21st century cinema thus far, Paul Thomas Anderson's film is hypnotic, exquisite (Anderson shot the film himself, which, considering how luscious the film looks, is mind-boggling to me), beautifully layered, shockingly fun, even poignant at times and, much like the director's very different Punch-Drunk Love, bizarrely yet genuinely romantic -- accessing the truth of relationships in a way most conventional screen romances never dare, or even seem to understand. Even in a filmography stacked with modern masterpieces, this particular one seems to emerge damn near from nowhere, surprising even for a director many regard as the best of his generation.
And that's that! Thank you all for reading this gigantic wrap-up (even those of you who just skipped to the end -- don't worry, I feel you) and joining me to put a pin in 2018!
Here at Cinema Viscera, we're gearing up for a big year (for a start, we're shooting our second movie!!!) and we can't wait to let you in on all the cool stuff we've been cooking up.
(And personally, I'm counting down the days to the release of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which might be as well be The Matrix's algorithmic creation of a film very much For Me.)
Thank you all for reading, and, as always...
Vive le cinéma!
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Good practices and lessons learned: This publication is part of ongoing efforts facilitated by the UNISDR secretariat to build a global partnership for mainstreaming gender issues into the disaster risk reduction process. Such efforts have become urgent because disaster risk reduction has long remained a largely male dominated affair, yet it is clear th…
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Friday, 30 December 2011
I am thankful for 2011, for the chance to reevaluate and nourish myself, I am excited and hopeful for what 2012 has to offer, a new year, a new start. The world is always changing and reinventing itself...do you feel it? Are you open to it?
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Thursday, 29 December 2011
My guys have always worshiped the heat provided by our space heaters, they quickly discovered the beautiful warmth of the wood stove. I have a steamer on top of the stove that I fill with water to add humidity to our dry winter air. Yesterday Mick commented on the lack of static electricity this year, seems the steamer and the limited use of the forced air oil furnace is the reason, much to the relief of my dogs, nothing worse then coming for a cuddle and getting a static electricity shock from your owner.
Sunday, 25 December 2011
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
|Get that big red dude outta here!!!!!!!!|
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
|Tidus and Santa|
|Dexter's Visit with Santa|
|Charlie looking like a Christmas Angel|
|Molly under the Christmas tree|
|Quito poses with festive winter friends|
|Poppy, Quito's sister and just as reluctant|
|The dapper Finn|
|East Coast Elves Jessie & Raven|
|Jazz and Guinness|
|Kodie smiles for the camera|
Sunday, 11 December 2011
|Mick poses with Mersey and Beamish|
|"Put the camera down and hurry up before we lose them"|
|"Follow ME! said the wood-sprite"|
|The Lighthouse looked gorgeous this morning|
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
If you check in on my blog occasionally you may have seen my postings about the addition of rabbits to help supplement the dogs diet. Really pleased with the results, its wonderful to know that I am supplementing my dogs with well raised fresh meats.
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While the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is certainly an important and potentially transformative body of legislation, in my opinion it does address the underlying problem with the cost of health care in this country.
First, let me pose a question – does your company provide free coffee? Most companies do in fact provide some form of free coffee in the workplace, but is it free? Of course not, you pay for that coffee in the form of lower compensation. Sure, coffee doesn’t cost a lot – not nearly what health care costs but the issue is not one of degrees, it is the underlying concept that we, as a society, believe that if we do not pay for something directly, it is free.
In 2009, the U.S. spent $7,538 per capita on health care, 33% more than the next high spender Norway and 46% more than our neighbor Canada. Around the same time, The Commonwealth Fund reported that the U.S. ranked last in health care quality and safety when compared against six other industrialized nations – Britian, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand.
So why are we paying almost twice as much and getting not even half as much when it comes to quality health care?
Let’s go back to the free coffee shall we. Free coffee is like health care in this country – it’s perceived “free”. Sure we all know that we pay a lot in health care premiums but those costs are taken from our paychecks in most instances pre-tax so we never “see the money” to begin with. Furthermore, a majority of workers in this country do not have an appreciation for the amount their employer contributes towards their health care premiums. Most are only exposed to the total cost of health insurance premiums if they have the misfortune of having to participate in COBRA.
While consumer-directed health plans are on the rise, a majority of insurance coverage is still co-pay based requiring the participant to pay a nominal fee each time they seek care, regardless of the cost of that care. If you had to pay $0.50 for each cup of coffee at the office, how much coffee would you drink then? Perhaps the same amount but perhaps not – you have been exposed directly to the cost of the coffee and now you’re an engaged consumer. The same thing must happen in health care – consumers must engage to provide us with any hope of controlling health care costs in the future.
For now I leave you with this thought – how much does it cost to go to the doctor? Ask yourself this question, ask your friends and co-workers. The most common answer provided is the amount of their co-pay. But do you really know how much health care costs? Try asking your doctor how much your visit really costs, you may be surprised at the answer – if you get one at all that is.
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Hey, Afro frenzies welcome back! Ideally we would all love for our wash days to go over like a dream. The reality of it is that it doesn’t always. Sometimes you don’t have time for perfection but, it doesn’t mean you should give up.
Just last weekend me and my guy were in a wedding. The ceremony went beautifully. It was a joyous occasion with great food and happy people.
But I have a secret something no one knows except for the people who helped me get ready. My flexi rod set was not dry. I mean like really damp😫.
let me paint you a picture. I mean it was the morning of and bae’s hair wasn’t retwisted. Girlfriend my hair well, my hair wasn’t even started. I had a few hours to make it all happen.
You know what they say fake it until you make it! And we faked the funk hard. The pieces that were the most defined were the curls in the front so we left those curls out twisted the back up and put a beautiful pin it.
As for baes hair he looked amazing too. But what you couldn’t tell is that the last few back rows weren’t done. The key to faking a great retwist is to cover what isn’t retwisted.
I don’t recommend waiting long to retwist the rest of your locks. But in a pinch do you boo boo 👏🏾. I don’t always agree with the motto “what they don’t know wont hurt them” but in this case whole heartedly.
Go to the interview, family fish fry, wedding, or what have you. Walk in with all the confidence in the world, because guess what nobody knows your secret.
I use to let my hair dictate my day. If my twist out wasn’t dry I was pissed. I mean I would stress like nobodies business. If this would have happened a few years ago I would have flipped.
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All transit cargo destined for Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan will be transported either on Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) for clearance at the Inland Container Depot (ICD) at Naivasha or Metre Gauge Railway to Tororo/Kampala from 1st June 2020.
In a statement Friday, Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development James Macharia says all transit cargo railed to ICD Naivasha will then be collected by trucks to the partner states via Busia or Malaba.
He further, said the fuel products will be transported by pipeline to Kisumu and thereafter by lake Victoria to Port Bell or Jinja.
The CS also directed that all the transit cargo/containers transported on SGR will be armed only at ICD at Naivasha to be tracked through the Regional Electronic Cargo Tracking System; and all exports (both full and empty exports) not railed on metre gauge railway will be delivered to ICD for railage to the Port of Mombasa.
“The Heads of State, Their Excellencies President Paul Kagame of the Republic of Rwanda; President Uhuru Kenyatta of the Republic of Kenya; President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of the Republic of Uganda and President Salvar Maryardit Kiir of the Republic of South Sudan during their Consultative Meeting of the East African Community held by Video Conference on 12th May 2020 considered the current status of the outbreak of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the region and directed the Ministers responsible for Health, Transport, and EAC Affairs to adopt a Digital Surveillance and Tracking System for drivers and also as the Focal Persons to immediately work on a Regional mechanism for monitoring of truck drivers to reduce the impact of the Pandemic.” He said.
“Following the directive by the Heads of State, the Partner States Ministers in charge of Transport, in recognition of the need to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic within the Region, have considered appropriate cross border transportation modalities to reduce human traffic movement without impacting negatively on transportation of cargo across the borders.” He added.
The Nairobi–Naivasha SGR Project is part of the proposed Mombasa–Nairobi–Malaba /Kampala Standard Gauge Railway Project and therefore, the Mombasa – Naivasha SGR, which has overall length of 600 kilometre up to the Inland Container Depot at Naivasha will reduce the road distance to three Partner States of Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan by 600 kilometres, and will subsequently reduce interactions along the corridor and thus facilitate the containment of the Covid-19.
“Since Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) as the lead agency on port matters has provided requisite office accommodation to the Kenya Revenue Authority, Uganda Revenue Authority, Rwanda Revenue Authority and the South Sudan Revenue Authority, deployment of the staff to the Inland Container Depot (ICD) at Naivasha is expected to be finalised to ensure smooth clearance of the cargo.” Noted the CS. | <urn:uuid:6c90cb4f-e4ed-466f-adae-9867b7317856> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,937 |
When I Was Puerto Rican Essay Topics
1. What gives an individual their personality?
2. Do you feel as though Esmeralda depicts her folks in a thoughtful light? How did your assessments of them change all through the book?
3. Through the span of the book, Esmeralda creates solid conclusions about what ladies ought to and ought not be. Do you trust Esmeralda is a women’s activist? Why or why not?
4. What job does nourishment play in When I Was Puerto Rican? Esmeralda takes incredible consideration to educate the peruser regarding what she and her family are eating. For what reason do you accept she settles on this decision?
5. I don’t get it’s meaning to be taught? What are the basic contrasts between gaining from a book and gaining as a matter of fact? It is safe to say that one is better than the other? Why or why not?
6. What is Esmeralda’s perspective on religion in this book? Does her perspective change? Examine how it develops or continues as before.
7. Examine Esmeralda’s depiction of her family by thinking about her as the creator, not as a character. Is it true that she was reasonable? What should a memoirist mind his own business or herself when expounding on others?
8. For what reason does Esmeralda reprimand herself for things that are not her obligation? For example, accepting that she was nibbled by the termites since she defied her mom.
9. Talk about and differentiate at least two characters’ perspectives on movement in When I Was Puerto Rican with the present migration banter in America.
10. Could individuals genuinely change what their identity is? Talk about why or why not, giving specific consideration to the snags that may prevent an individual who needs to change and utilizing models from the journal.
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By William H. Beezley
A significant other to Mexican historical past and Culture gains forty essays contributed through overseas students that contain ethnic, gender, environmental, and cultural reports to bare a richer portrait of the Mexican adventure, from the earliest peoples to the present.
Features the most recent scholarship on Mexican background and tradition by way of an array of overseas scholars
Essays are separated into sections at the 4 significant chronological eras
Discusses contemporary historic interpretations with serious historiographical resources, and is enriched by means of cultural research, ethnic and gender experiences, and visible evidence
The first quantity to include a dialogue of well known song in political analysis
This ebook is the receipient of the 2013 Michael C. Meyer targeted popularity Award from the Rocky Mountain convention on Latin American Studies.
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His basic organization identified the indigenous era, the colonial period, and the independent nation, and he successful made these parts a narrative of evolution that combined the indigenous heritage with Spanish traditions to create the new independent culture and people—the mestizo. This approach unified Mexico’s antithetical past (O’Gorman, 1969). Sierra’s interpretation stood in the early twentieth century, in part because the revolution disrupted historical undertakings as much as it did everyday life.
A recent example appeared on the Public Broadcasting Service in the summer, 2010. In “The General,” director Natalia Almada examined the presidential career of Plutarco Elías Calles. As his great, great grand daughter, she inherited audio recordings, preserved by his daughter, Almada. She brings them to life in the documentary and uses them with visual images to evaluate his legacy in Mexico today. The environmental chapters demonstrate Mexico’s physical, biological, and ecological diversity, and these are discussed in Chris Boyer’s examination of regionalism, David Yetman’s evocation of the Cactus Metaphor, James Garza’s discussion of nineteenth century natural disasters, and Emily Wakild’s review of twentieth-century environmental studies.
Levin, David. , 1959). Lomnitz, Claudio. “Times of Crisis: Historicity, Sacrifice, and the Spectacle of Debacle in Mexico City,” Public Culture 15, no. 1 (2003): 127–147. O’Gorman, Edmundo. “Introduction,” to Justo Sierra, The Political Evolution of the Mexican People (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969). Pani, Erika. ” In the Companion to Mexican History and Culture, edited by William H. Beezley (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwells, 2011). Portelli, Alessandro. The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991).
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HLA-Northrop uses the research-based Responsive Classroom approach to provide an immersive learning experience for our scholars. Responsive Classrooms improve teaching effectiveness while building a positive school climate. They engage every element in a scholar’s environment and nurture focused learning.
OUR CLASSROOMS and schools are bright, engaging, and with clearly defined and organized work spaces that focus learning.
OUR CLASSROOMS are divided into groups instead of traditional rows to allow for more collaboration and increase communication with a scholar’s team.
OUR CLASSROOMS frequently have two teachers working with scholars to engage them at different levels of learning, while keeping the entire class on track.
Responsive Classrooms incorporate:
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WildStar's F2P landing this Tuesday with new bells and whistles
WildStar's free to play launch is almost upon us, which means it's almost time for Carbine and NCSoft to bring the game back to relevance.
Based off the news posts and the official WildStar Twitter, Carbine Studios are hyped to bring the game to a wider audience -- especially with the new content and tweaks coming with the conversion to free to play. Prettier graphics and a more streamlined endgame? Yes, please.
Those of you that subscribed to WildStar previously have some extra benefits over new F2P players, and anyone who bought the game gets some goodies of their own to enjoy as well.
The game will also have a premium membership, as is the standard these days, called Signature. Signature will give a fair amount of benefits, even more than actually owning the game. Make sure you read up on the Signature system in the free to play FAQ to know what to expect come Tuesday.
WildStar's been a bit under the radar since a couple months after its full launch last year, but the free to play announcement and upcoming launch have some good buzz among the MMO community. Is it finally time for the game to take its place among some of the most populated MMORPGs today? Shifting to free to play gave massive population boosts RIFT, TERA, TES:O, and a whole slew of other games. Will it do the same for WildStar? | <urn:uuid:cce8e2dc-1bb4-4807-af5d-930c62a5333f> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,380 |
The corpse of deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was found hanging in a tree outside of his mausoleum in Loxahatchee, Florida this morning. Authorities investigating the incident say that two night watchmen on duty last night failed to make two of their 30-minute rounds to inspect the grounds and that’s when Epstein killed himself. Again.
“What’s clear is that we have a suicide on our hands here,” Loxachatchee Police Chief Jason Whitfield confirmed. “Mr. Epstein knew that he’d be locked up in that casket indefinitely and he simply couldn’t take it anymore.” | <urn:uuid:3238eb5e-a53c-48e5-af33-6299a9faf29d> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 576 |
London: Victor Gollancz, 1933.
First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with lean to binding, wear to spine ends, worming to cloth and textblock edge. Former owner name to front free endpaper, pages toned, sporadic foxing lightly through but heavier at the preliminary and terminal pages. Orwell's first published book. Item #140942348 | <urn:uuid:4597de4b-ae04-47d7-95c0-4816b4b964c9> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 403 |
Progressive activist Kianah Davis-Lee agreed to briefly submit to the patriarchy Friday night to dance to R. Kelly's Ignition-Remix. The Plantain spoke to the twenty-three year old gender theory major who acknowledged that her enjoyment of the song is problematic, but justified it as being her one feminist exception and noting that the song is so perfect you pretty much can't not dance to it when it comes on.
Kianah's act of internalized subjugation occurred late Friday at Gramp's where she and a contingent of other activists went to decompress over drinks after an all-day training on coping with micro-misogyny in the workplace. Throughout the 8-hour training, the activists learned about the many instances of institutionalized misogyny the patriarchy has placed on society, and how the continued subordination of women manifests itself throughout our culture.
R. Kelly's continued popularity, despite his constantly objectifying women in his music and also his peeing on a 15-year-old girl that one time was cited as an example of cultural misogyny during the workshop, and was on Kianah's mind when she heard the opening line come on: "Now usually I don't do this but uh...Go head on and break em off wit a lil' previews of the remix..."
"When I heard those lines I was offended and looked at my sisters from the training with horror. I thought of all of the womyn that R. Kelly has probably made to feel inferior throughout his career, including poor Aaliyah, and how his music has done real harm to our community. But then the verse started, and its like the only song I know every word to, and its such a fun song to sing, so I decided to just go for it":
No I'm not tryin' to be rude, But hey pretty girl I'm feelin' you
The way you do the things you do
Remind me of my Lexus coup
That's why im all up in your grill
Tryna get you to a hotel
You must be a football coach
The way you got me playin' the field...
Shortly before toot-tooting and beep-beeping with his sisters, Kianah had begun to feel like her participation in the infectious singalong was, in some ways, if you really thought about it, a powerful act of reappropriation in feminist defiance of R. Kelly's misogynistic ways.
So baby give me that toot toot Let me give you that beep beep
Runnin' her hands through my 'fro
Bouncin' on 24's
While they saying on the radio...
"Taking back this song is sort of the most effective thing I can do as a feminist," thought Kianah as she rolled her body, getting every man in there wishing.
It's the remix to ignition Hot and fresh out the kitchen
Mama rollin' that body
Got every man in here wishin'
Sippin' on coke and rum
I'm like so what I'm drunk
It's the freakin' weekend baby
I'm about to have me some fun
By the end of the song the rationalizations within Kianah's head had ceased, giving way to only jubilation and a sense of youthful exuberance that she had not felt since Middle School, when she and her friends would dance to that song, unaware of the never-ending list of structural ailments holding back the women and people of color of our society.
"Fuck, that is such a great song!" she laughed aloud to the group of women she met at the equality training earlier that day, all of whom readily agreed, except Erin, who instinctively started going on about how the song was problematic, but eventually conceded that it is a pretty great piece of music and that she had fun dancing to it.
As the women cheersed to their new friendship and the power they felt, the DJ started to spin a dance remix to Chris Brown's "Run It."
The ladies all looked at each other uncomfortably for a moment, unsure what they should do, but eventually decided to use the opportunity as a chance to get another drink.
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I know I don't have the right to tell people what to do (co-dependant) but all I know is that THERAPY has saved our butts ! We struggling humans just don't know how to handle all of this crap. For us, a CSA Profesional has guided us thru the nasty muck. Left to our own devices (rather poor) we would be more-sick than ever before. I like to compare to 'if we have an absess tooth & jaw, we have to go to a Professional'. This big stuff just cannot be done on our own. People have died from all this crap - I prefer getting help. We refuse to let the abuser take over our lives! These 'after affects' just need that input & assistance,
Don't give up. I M Opinion.
Everyone DESERVES Recovery, IF they WANT it.
Anything worth it, takes mucho Time & Willingness. | <urn:uuid:14269300-4bc2-4ee6-8623-0778c8a282e2> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 759 |
For those of you out there who are fans of HTC and were hoping that there would be future tablets coming to the market here in the U.S. for you to buy, HTC has announced some bad news for you. According to the online communications manager for HTC, Jeff Gordon, the company will be pulling out of the tablet market in the U.S. which means no more HTC tablets here.
Jeff Gordon went on to state that it was a 'great learning experience' for the company who pretty much got their asses handed to them in the U.S. tablet market. It wasn't that their tablets were terribly bad, mind you they weren't great either, they just couldn't really compete here with other companies such as Amazon with their Kindle Fire line-up or Samsung's devices. However all is not lost as Jeff goes on to say that they could very well re-enter the market here in the U.S. at any time should they see an opportunity arise. Until then though, good luck to HTC tablets elsewhere.
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- Fabric:Uniform Cloth It’s inbetween. not thin not thick.
- Makes a Fun Dress up to Wear to Movie Premiers and Costume Parties
- Adult size measurement: XS: Length 49″ Bust 37″ Height 57-61″ Weight:85-100lbs S: Length 53″ Bust 41″ Height 59-64″ Weight:100-115lbs M: Length 57″ Bust 45″ Height 65-69″ Weight:120-160lbs L: Length 61″ Bust 49″ Height 69-73″ Weight:150-180lbs XL: Length 65″ Bust 53″ Height 73-77″ Weight:170-190lbs XXL: Length 67.
- Kids size measurement: S: Length 37.
5. Gaming Keyboard and Mouse Combo
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- Finer-resolution Mouse】: 4 adjustable DPI (800, 1200, 2400, 3200).
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6. Redragon K552 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard RGB LED Rainbow Backlit Wired Keyboard with Red Switches for Windows Gaming PC (87 Keys, Black)
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- RAINBOW BACKLIGHT＋MECHANICAL FEELING HALF KEYBOARD】 The keyboard adopts 39-key portable design, full key without conflict, ABS Two color keycap.
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- ERGONOMIC DESIGN】 Increase and widen the integrated palm rest, so that the wrist can be supported.
- USB WIRED GAMING MOUSE] The anti-skid texture design on both sides of the game mouse reduces sweating and is more wear-resistant.
- KEYBOARD AND MOUSE COMPATIBILITY] No driver required, plug and play, fully compatible: Win10 / 8/7 / Vista / ME / Mac / Linux / IBM.
10. Redragon S101 Wired Gaming Keyboard and Mouse Combo RGB Backlit Gaming Keyboard with Multimedia Keys Wrist Rest and Red Backlit Gaming Mouse 3200 DPI for Windows PC Gamers (Black)
- PC GAMING KEYBOARD AND GAMING MOUSE COMBO: Includes Redragon RGB Backlit Computer Gaming Keyboard and RGB Backlit Gaming Mouse.
- RGB BACKLIT GAMING KEYBOARD; 7 different RGB Lighting modes & effects, 4 backlight brightness levels, adjustable breathing speed.
- MULTI MEDIA & ANTI GHOSTING; The Gaming Keyboard has 25 conflict free (n-Key Rollover) 10 Dedicated Multimedia keys plus 12 additional FN+ Multimedia keys (Total 114 keys).
- WIRED GAMING MOUSE; Ergonomic Redragon RED Backlit Gaming Mouse up to 3200 DPI (user adjustable 800/1600/2400/3200 DPI), 30G acceleration and Weight Tuning set.
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In March I had a week of travel around French Polynesia’s Society Islands. I didn’t get into island or ship life, certainly not the way Capt. Cook or Marlon Brando did. More perplexing, I came up short on photo ops. Too many possibilities looked like calendar shots. That said, here are mine. | <urn:uuid:e17762e2-47bc-45ad-aef6-9442063f4706> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 292 |
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Pedro Figueiredo (born 13 June 1991) is a Portuguese professional golfer. In June 2018 won the KPMG Trophy on the Challenge Tour.
Figueiredo played on the Challenge Tour from 2013 to 2016 with little success. In 2017 he played on the Pro Golf Tour. Although he did not win any tournaments, he had a consistent season with three runners-up finishes and 10 other top-10 finishes to end the season 4th in the Order of Merit and earn a place on the 2018 Challenge Tour.
In June 2018, Figueiredo won the KPMG Trophy in Belgium, beating Anton Karlsson and Stuart Manley in a playoff, with a birdie at the first extra hole. Two weeks later he finished in third place in the SSE Scottish Hydro Challenge. He ended the season in 15th place in the Order of Merit, the last place to earn a card on the 2019 European Tour. He holed a 12-foot birdie at the final hole of the Challenge Tour Grand Final to finish 600 euros ahead of Tom Murray.
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Dr. Dre’s seminal 1992 album, The Chronic, turns 20 next month. Though a sensation upon its release, the raw-but-melodic work’s legend has only grown in the ensuing decades, and today seemingly every MC-producer duo fancies itself the next Dre and Snoop Dogg. It has become the most influential rap work ever made, and perhaps even the greatest.
But it almost never happened. Despite the success Dre had experienced with N.W.A, he was entangled in contractual problems with his former crewmate Eazy-E’s label. For that reason, as well as Death Row’s dodgy reputation, The Chronic had a hard time finding release. It took the shepherding of renegade upstart Interscope Records, the financing of convicted drug kingpin Michael Harris and the steady hand of Suge Knight, an intimidating former defensive end, to give it life.
Our story begins with the 1991 inception of Death Row Records. Dre was then working closely with veteran record producer Dick Griffey, the founder of Solar Records, a successful R&B and soul imprint. (Griffey died in 2010.) Alonzo Williams, who kicks things off below, helmed electro-rap group World Class Wreckin’ Cru, which gave Dr. Dre his start.
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