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Review for Wrecked by Cole Jaimes
Sounds like the perfect day to Aidan Callahan. As second-born son to Chicago’s most influential business owner, Aidan’s life has always been about responsibility. Tradition. Toeing the goddamn line. Just do as you’re told, Aidan. Don’t make waves.
Well, screw that. Riding waves is way more fun than making them.
Hawaii is paradise on earth. Smoking hot women. Tiny bikinis. As far as Aidan’s concerned, wild horses couldn’t drag him kicking and screaming back to the windy city. Or at least that’s what he thought.
When his brother crashes his Mercedes, killing himself on impact, Aidan finds himself next in line to the Callahan fortune and all the ties that come with it.
And this time there’s no getting out of it.
A warm bed.
A steady job.
A brother who loves her.
For Essie Floyd, life’s been one hard kick in the teeth after another. With her parents both dead, her brother is her only living relative. That is until Vaughn’s truck is written off, his life snatched away by the careless actions of a rich playboy in a flashy sports car.
Now, the only thing that will bring Essie peace is revenge. She must take what was taken from her. Only when the name Callahan has been wiped from the face of the earth forever will she be able to start living again.
Of course, the new head of the Callahan Corporation isn’t what she expected. Aidan’s sexy and sad, and just as damaged as she is. Will she be able to distance herself enough to accomplish her goal?
After all, ruining a man’s really hard when you find yourself falling for him…
Cole Jaimes' "Wrecked" is the combination book for the two tales in the Heart's Revenge series, "Heart's Revenge" and "Hearts on Fire." Great chemistry! I really loved the backstories for the two main characters. I felt like it was similar to Vivian Winslow's Dahlia Trilogy in some ways. I wished it was longer - I could read about them forever! The sex scenes are amazing! The storyline is very powerful. You really feel for both Aidan and Essie. I can't wait to see what Cole Jaimes will write next.
4.5 out of 5 stars
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Passion for hunting was imparted to me by elder brother Vasily. Even as a kid, he often took me with him to the sea, to the mountains for kekliks, or to the sands for hares. Hares there live in the desert sands and at the foot of the rocky mountains. I remember both my first keklik, and the first hare, and the first kashkaldak (coot), I will devote to this bird a separate article. Unlike the middle belt hunters, Caspian hunters respect kashkaldak.
The village in which I was born and raised is in Azerbaijan, south of Baku, on the Caspian Sea, formerly it was called Duvanna, then renamed Gobustan, meaning “land of ravines and gorges” in translation. Nearby in the mountains is the Gobustan Reserve, which is known for its rock art, which has been preserved here since the Mesolithic period. Continue reading
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The retina ready UI kit comes in PSD format and has been created as a designer-friendly template for those that that are stepping into iOS design for the first time or for exploring the flat design phenomenon.
This UI Kit was of great help to me while developing design for numerous applications. This kit is also irreplaceable for adaptation of iPhone-design for Android.
So here’s some freebie for you. It’s 2 screens app to create challenges and bet your friends. It’s alternative redesign concept of the already existing app.
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Some minutes ago we have found on dribbble a fantastic UI kit for mobile applications. The free PSD file contains a lot of elements: buttons, lists, navigation menus, calendars, switches, et cetera.
Flatastic Mobile UI Kit is a large user interface kit containing hundreds of mobile ui elements, which will help you design mobile user interface in Photoshop with ease. There are sets of icons, and actions have been included in the kit. The package inclu
8). Time Zone App UI
This is a concept app design with a minimal approach. Vector shapes, smart objects and layer styles makes everything easy to scale and edit. You can build upon or use it like this for mobile apps, widgets, web…whatever you want!
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today we are giving away a small free mobile application UI kit as a start. You can see the free Mobile Application UI Kit screenshot below
Nagham is a music app designed for IOS 7 contains 4 PSD files with some icons, You can use it for inspiration or helping you to pick up some resources.
12). IOS7 UI Kit
A pretty much comprehensive PSD of iOS 7 UI elements, including system screens, navigation controls, lists and lots of others.
Our free downloadable freebie for today is a portfolio app ui that is meant to act as a social network for creatives & designers. In this app, every designer have an account that he would register for it just like any other social network website.
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Myself and the lovely Michelle from http://lovelymichelle-y.blogspot.co.uk/ meetup IS FAST APPROACHING!
This post is just really aimed at those who haven't heard anything about #bloggerschirstmasskate
so that none of you miss out!
Here are the details;
the meetup will be at Cribbs Causeway Winter Wonderland Ice Skating Rink!
Date: 23rd November 2013
Time: 5.30pm - 7.00pm
Where: Cribbs Causeway, Bristol
We plan on meeting at 5.30, having a hot chocolate or something similar in the waiting area before skating at 6.00. We thought it would be fun to do something different and would be a good laugh!
*UPDATE - ICE SKATING IS FREE! CRIBBS CAUSEWAY ARE KINDLY GIVING COMPLIMENTARY ICE SKATING TICKETS TO EVERY BLOGGER*
The meetup is open to ANY BLOGGER! Beauty, fashion, lifestyle - everyone one of you!
You can get there by train and bus (here is the link to buses to cribbs http://www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/bristol_bath/journey_planning/timetables/index.php?going_to=Cribbs+Causeway%2c+Bus+Station&operator=3&page=1&redirect=no )
There will be goodybag given out to everyone. We have already received some of the products and they look AMAZING.
We do have an amount of 'spaces' available as this was just way more practical for me and Michelle.
There are 20 places for bloggers excluding me and Michelle. We ideally need to know if you're coming ASAP!!
We really hope lots of you are interested and can help us make this fun but casual event a great success!
If you wish to come please leave your email address at the bottom of this post or on Michelle's and we will let you all know more details nearer the time!
The hashtag for the event is going to be #bloggerschristmasskate so feel free to tweet any questions to me (@lucy_a_bigail), Michelle (@lovelybblogger) or on the hashtag.
Hope lots of you are interested and can make it - we would LOVE to see you there!
So there you go. Please make sure you leave your email in the comment section of this post or the other post on the meetup if you wish to come!!
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When you ask a child "what do you want to be when you grow up?" You're going to get answers like an astronaut, princess or train driver. Children don't think how realistic their answers are. The world is full of possibilities, and we can do and be whatever we want.
At some point, this gets pushed to one side as we're 'programmed'. I've heard many analogies about how we have an operating system, like a smartphone or laptop. And you know what? I think it's true. We come into the world shrink-wrapped and 'clean' in a neat white box (yes, I'm an Apple fan) but then get plugged in and receive regular 'updates' from parents, teachers etc. We end up learning to fear. We end up asking "But what if it goes wrong?"
Many people try to stay the same - in the same town, the same job, marry your high-school sweetheart, and assume they're able to minimise uncertainty by applying routine.
There is a comfort in the known, the predictable and manageable. It enables us to run on autopilot - to run familiar operating systems, to return to the previous analogy. But life is fluid and uncertain and things, people, places change from one day to another. We cannot take anything for granted.
But very often what's on the other side of the scary door is nothing to be feared - we would benefit from asking “What’s the worst that can happen?” more often. Regardless of the outcome, you'll be fine, you'll pick yourself up and dust yourself off or just, just maybe you'll grow more than you could have imagined.
Start small. Noone starts training for a marathon by running 42.195 kilometres on their first day. Once a week, do one thing that frightens you. Smile and say hi to your barista, go to that club or class you keep thinking about, phone a friend or relative you've lost touch with. There… was it that bad? As you progress and realise that the sky doesn't fall on your head, you'll get braver and stronger and not let the fear of the unknown define you.
Probably the biggest reason we fear to push our boundaries is we've been conditioned (read 'programmed') to fear failure. Think of a time a teacher put you on the spot in front of your classmates or you fluffed that last-minute pass that led to your team losing. We've probably all got a memory of when we found ourselves on the spot, intense embarrassment burning our cheeks and urging the ground to swallow us.
But take a look - you're still here right? Did you survive? Yes, you did.
But if something doesn’t work out, what if you reframe it not as a failure but ask: What can I learn from this? What am I grateful for? Once you realise the experience has made you wiser and stronger, the negative association of fear is gone.
It's also worth remembering the old adage that life's a journey, not a destination. That once you've 'solved' one problem, you'll have just created a whole new set of problems. By embracing change and growth, you'll find that problems don't go away but that they (hopefully) become 'better problems'. Or as Mark Manson in 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' puts it:
"Happiness is not a solvable equation. Dissatisfaction and unease are inherent parts of human nature and necessary components to creating consistent happiness."
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Wonderful waterfront estate located in Lakeside S/D in Morgan City. Sitting on the canal, just a couple of minutes boat road to Lake Palourde, this spacious home boasts 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths, formal living and dining rooms, a sunken den and so much more. The master suite has full bathroom and also has a separate room with make-up vanity, 180 degree mirrored closests and a large whirlpool tub. Just steps outside you have your own private boat ramp and enough parking for your boat, a motorhome and 3 vehicles. And if that isn't enough, the home has a separate 2 story guest house with full kitchen, bath, bedrooms and loft. This home has so many amenities, it is a MUST SEE!
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When you look up the fare estimates for Uber in Jancourt, Victoria, Australia - it looks fairly familiar.
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If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. ~Doug Larson
It was a week of new experiences for Cameron Jackson. His swimming lessons every Monday evening have increased his stamina with each session.
Ms. Laura has been working with him to incorporate more leg movement to strengthen his muscles since the hip surgery. The Mary Free Bed therapy pool is virtually empty when their instruction takes place, so it's a targeted 45-minutes.
Cam and Ms. Amanda continued their daily walks, increasing their distance to almost two miles. Their summer routine has consisted of morning Vizzle work (shout out to Ms. Kathy @ school!), reading practice and then their mid-morning trek for exercise. Ms. Amanda always finds a way to wrap some fun activity into the day as well.
The weekend arrived and so did some rainy weather. As we made our way to Holland State Park, we had no idea what awaited us. Even though the skies were cloudy, we continued on, ready to teach Cam how to fish at the channel.
Chris and Jane both enjoy fishing and they hadn't had an opportunity to take their son. Our family found a parking spot and the sunshine prevailed as we made our way to find the best spot.
Shortly after we arrived, Mr. Steve appeared indicating his girls would be along soon. We switched locations and settled in at a bench alcove adjacent to the boardwalk.
All of a sudden, the fishing line bent over and Chris worked to haul in the catch. We weren't sure how big the fish would be and Cam's dad almost toppled over his son bringing the sheepshead fish in for a photo shoot. The swimmer wasn't the type you would keep or even eat, but it was a big one and hilarious to see Cam's excitement watching one be captured and then released.
Ms. Amanda, her boyfriend, Nick and his sister, Brooke, parents Mary and Dan and dog Gizmo all showed up at the boardwalk as well. And they arrived with a huge early birthday present from Ms. Amanda and Nick's entire family. Cam couldn't believe it! The beautifully wrapped present was adorned with his favorite chocolate coins, and a card from everyone.
Luckily, Mary captured the moment of Cam opening the awesome gift on video.
The day was filled with the bright sunshine of a perfect Michigan summer afternoon, the warmth of meeting new friends you feel like you've known for a long time, the goodness of seeing your close friends/neighbors in a different location, and a whopper of a fish story to share over and over again.
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So we haven’t been traveling every day for the past month, but it feels like we’ve been on the go since before Christmas. I guess we’ve been trying to take advantage of the fact that it’s late into my second trimester and apparently I’m not supposed to travel after Week 32 per doctor’s orders. So we’ve been busy visiting friends and family and far-off places. Here’s the summary of what we have done since just before Christmas:
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- a short trip over to Clearwater to see Keith’s family and another best friend from college get married on New Year’s Eve
- a lovely tour of New Orleans since we didn’t get to see much of it during the ELCA National Youth Gathering last summer
- a drive to Memphis by way of terrible interstates and Highway 61 and
- a relaxing seminary BKC reunion in Orlando
All in all, we have only been home alone eight days in the past month!
How does a pregnant lady handle so much fun? Very, very slowly with lots of bathroom breaks. Seriously. I’m usually a fast walker – Keith keeps up but doesn’t like it. Now, I’m walking at Keith’s preferred pace and he has to remember to slow down because he’s so used to walking with me. Also, I get tired after a few hours of walking; tired to the point where I absolutely have to lay down and take a nap. And Keith has been amazing at letting me rest, especially in New Orleans where we could have been doing things 24/7. New Orleans is a magical place, even in January with cold temperatures, foggy nights, and rainy days. Keith and I want to return every year to further explore its environs, but probably not in January. We’ll see if that actually happens once Baby Boy is born. It’s a nice dream that hopefully can happen (perhaps with the support of grandparents watching our boy). | <urn:uuid:9db2c644-0785-422a-9176-5ad0d8907a6c> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.growingakid.com/2013/02/ | 2019-07-22T21:11:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528220.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722201122-20190722223122-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.961324 | 453 |
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Local artist returns to the river
Riverina local Angela French will premiere her contemporary performance work ‘Return to the River’’ at The Tin Shed Theatre in Cootamundra on the 15th of March. The performance is an exploration of the impact of artificial and natural environments on the psyche, and the powerful forces of connection to place.
Produced by Murmuration, a professional performance company based in Western Sydney, and presented by The Arts Centre Cootamundra, Angela’s work aims to encourage audience members to consider the effect contrasting environments, scale and space have on the mind and spirit.
Angela expresses that this is “a contemporary arts experience, not just a dance show”. Angela brings together elements of theatre, dance, music, visual art, projection, set and costume design to share her story and experiences of travelling the globe..
‘Return to the River’ was first conceived in Angela’s 32nd floor apartment in Dubai as she grappled with the effect the artificial environment was having on her wellbeing. Having grown up in Narrandera, Angela’s playground was the banks of the Murrumbidgee river, a far cry from the artificially engineered landscape of Dubai.
As part of the production’s season Angela will host an Arts & Education Workshop designed to enhance the local communities creative skills. “Contemporary performance making is more than learning the correct step and latest dance moves,” says Angela. “My workshop will encourage creative play, story telling, improvisation and exploration of each participants individual responses’. Angela hopes to encourage participants to consider combining artforms whilst building on their skills and talents.
Dance and performance have been a driving force in Angela’s life since age 11 when she left Narrandera to attend a prestigious performing arts college in Sydney. Now a professionally trained classical ballet dancer, experienced choreographer, solo contemporary performer, international artist and a new mum, Angela brings to the stage years of experience and a genuine love for performing.
The work gives insight into Angela’s life long love of the Murrumbidgee River and how her experiences abroad led to a deep longing for home and a return to the region.
PERFORMANCE DETAILS: Return to the River … a longing for home.
Venue: The Tin Shed Theatre, The Arts Centre Cootamundra, 18-20 Wallendoon Street.
Date: Friday 15 March at 7:00pm, Saturday 16 March at 3:00pm and 7:00pm
Tickets: Standard $25, Concession $17. Group discounts available.
Recommend Age 12+ The work contains abstract content and is presented in a durational performance style. Parental guidance is advised.
Arts & Education Workshop: Saturday 16 March from 12:30pm to 2:00pm. $30 covers workshop and performance.
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Jay Prakash Gupta,the Minister for Information and Communication,was Tuesday found guilty of possessing property beyond his source of income and was awarded a one-and-half-year jail term along with Rs 8.5 million fine by the Supreme Court.
A two-member Bench comprising of Justice Sushila Karki and Tarkaraj Bhatta said Gupta could not furnish proof of his income source and declared him guilty of corruption. Gupta automatically ceased to be a minister after being declared guilty for corruption as per the interim constitution of Nepal.
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261117 Balance-continued from last week
Beginning around the fourth decade, we start to lose a small percentage of the ability to keep our equilibrium . Losing your balance leads to falls and possible fractures, or other injuries if not prevented.
Prevention begins with daily practice. Standing on one foot or with heel to toe for multiple seconds at a time (60-120) will help stave off this decline in balance. Leaning toward the floor on one leg with arms to the side or rear will change the center of gravity and will change the feel of the exercise. In each instance it is important to have the ability to catch yourself on something solid to prevent a dangerous fall from happening in the event you do lose your balance while doing these.
• Assume the same position with your feet as the basic example above.
• Move your arms to the sides in a random fashion, still maintaining your balance.
• Tip your head back and continue to move your arms.
• Now close your eyes and continue the arm movements.
• Maintain the feet in the same pattern, side to side or heel to toe.
• Reach down to the front, side and the rear with one arm then the other.
• See how far you can reach down before losing your balance.
• Remember to keep your feet together and don’t sway as you reach, just reach, keep your balance and then reach in another direction.
• Keep the feet in the same position as the rest of the examples.
• Tip your head back and now close your eyes.
• Move your arms in a random fashion, one arm at a time.
More advanced example:
• Feet are still in the side-by-side or heel to toe position.
• Head tipped back and eyes closed.
• Lift one leg off the floor and maintain your balance for 10-15 seconds, gradually build up your ability to remain in one position without moving about to stay upright.
Another advanced example:
• Set up is the same as the more advanced example with the simple change now of adding the reaches as mentioned in the intermediate example.
• Or you can move your head from side to side in a rapid manner while maintaining your balance.
Have fun practicing these few sample exercises, they will keep your life more balanced!
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This is part 2 of a 3-part series about telling better stories in Spanish:
Although technically part of the past, the recent feels philosophically different. Consider the question we’re most likely to get asked on a Monday morning in any of the Spanish-speaking regions of the planet: ¿Qué tal el finde? (How was the weekend?)
We have two options:
- Using the preterite. This is a way of talking about our weekend with a sense of finality: the weekend is over, it’s part of the past, this is what happened.
- Using the present perfect. This lets our conversation partner know that we still consider the weekend a recent event: it may be over, but in our mind it still feels relevant and current, it’s like we’re still living there.
Let’s explore a realistic example ( ):
Ha sido un fin de semana increíble. No hemos parado de ver sitios, hacer cosas y conocer gente. El viernes fuimos a Granada, visitamos la Alhambra y salimos de fiesta hasta las mil. Al día siguiente pasamos por un montón de pueblitos alrededor de Sierra Nevada y acampamos cerca de un embalse. El domingo nos hicimos amigos de un grupo de catalanes y nos fuimos con ellos a explorar la zona. La vuelta en tren ha sido dura porque no hemos dormido casi nada, pero el viaje ha merecido la pena.
It was an amazing weekend. We didn’t stop checking out places, doing things, and meeting people. On Friday we went to Granada, we visited the Alhambra, and we partied until dawn. The next day we passed by a bunch of small villages around Sierra Nevada and we set up camp next to a dam. On Sunday we befriended a group of Catalonians who were also camped there and we went with them to explore the area. The trip back home was challenging because we barely slept, but the trip was worth it.
Is the trip over? In a way, yes. But it’s not over as in game over; we got off the train, we’re back home, but the trip still feels more like a recent experience than a distant memory.
The present perfect is an optional tense. Many Spanish speakers never use it—they simply replace it with the preterite. This means that you absolutely have to master the preterite, and that the present perfect is extra credit (Don’t you wish it was the other way around?). Even if you master the present perfect, it’s a law of Spanish nature that all present perfect experiences will eventually become preterite experiences. For example, here is the same story, a year later:
La vuelta en tren fue dura porque no dormimos casi nada, pero el viaje mereció la pena.
If you think about it, it’s quite charming: we’re making past experiences seem current, simply by changing the verb tense. To wield this power successfully, you must remember one thing: never use the present perfect with a past time reference. If you do, you’ll be tearing at the fabric of Spanish Spacetime and risk being swallowed up by a black hole:
—¿Qué tal el finde?
“How was the weekend?”
—¡Genial! El sábado me he comprado un acelerador de partículas nuevecito.💥💥
“It was awesome! On Saturday I have bought a brand new particle accelerator.”
We could have avoided this catastrophe:
- By sticking to the preterite (¡Genial! El sábado me compré…. As we did in and ), or by
- Or, by omitting the explicit reference to the past (¡Genial! Me he comprado….).
By explicit reference to the past I mean things like ayer, la semana pasada, el domingo, hace dos días, etc. Although, there are a few important exceptions:
Esta mañana me he ido a cortar el pelo.
This morning I went to get a haircut.
He ido a casa de mis padres hace una hora.
I went to my parent’s house an hour ago.
When we use time markers like esta mañana, esta tarde, esta noche or hace un minuto, hace dos horas, hace un rato, we’re technically talking about parts of the current day, so instead of considering them as references to the past, we can think of them as part the present. Sneaky, I know. A Spanish lawyer was probably involved in that one.
What to watch out for: Literal Translation Syndrome
Shouldn’t the translation for Ha sido un fin de semana increíble be It has been an incredible weekend?
Technically, yes. But as we saw before, the Spanish present perfect conveys shades of meaning that the English present perfect doesn’t bother with. Instead of translating word for word, you should always try to find a way to translate native-sounding Spanish with native-sounding English, and vice versa.
So, here are two simple rules to know when we can use the present perfect in Spanish:
- 1) When we would also use it in English:
Have you seen The Empire Strikes Back?”
¿Has visto «El Imperio Contraataca»?
- 2) When we wouldn’t use it in English, but the past event still feels relevant or recent in your mind and we’re not making an explicit reference to the past:
Ayer vi a tu madre y hoy he visto a tu padre.
Yesterday I saw your mom and today I saw your dad.
Until you develop your Spanish spider-sense, and become comfortable thinking only in Spanish, these can be useful training wheels to make the intermediate stage less awkward.
Okay, enough theory. Time for some hard-core finger-on-keyboard Spanish action:
Spanish Workout: Write your own hundred-word dialogue about something that happened today and that still feels relevant (that is, most verbs should be in the present perfect)
If you can’t think of anything, feel free to translate this one (You should end up with a total of 11 present perfects. Also, I’ve added a couple of [literal expressions] to make it a bit easier to translate into native-sounding Spanish):
Emma: “What’s up, Lucas? How was your day?”
Lucas: “[The truth is that I haven’t stopped]. This morning there was an accident in the subway and I’ve had to run to get to work on time. [Then I’ve spent the day busy], from meeting to meeting, and I wasn’t able to eat anything until 4pm. How about you?”
Emma: “[Me, very well]. I did a bit of cleaning, I took the dog out for a walk and I’ve decided that starting tomorrow, I’m going to go running every day.”
Lucas: ¿And why didn’t you go running today?
Emma: Today [the thing is that] I was super busy, but tomorrow I’m running for sure.
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Plant suggestions for a mosquito repellant Landscape in Austin. Native or adapted, low water and deer resistant.
You’re not in Kansas anymore baby-doll, this terrain isn’t for the weak or the weary. It’s hot as hell, the only rain we get is all on the same day and the ground parts that aren’t rock are clay and/or builders dirt (aka, Red Death. There is a reason we don’t have basements here, the dirt is only an inch deep.
As bad as the dirt is already, there’s nothing worse for Central Texas gardeners from an ecological or labor intensive standpoint, than to introduce plants that just don’t belong here. YES, we have no banana’s! This is not the tropics. I’m glad “your neighbor has them”, but they do not belong here, they spread voraciously in all the wrong ways, freeze to the ground in winter and rarely fruit. And, you planted them why?
With all the amazing native and adapted, non-invasive plant, shrub and tree choices, it is frankly negligent to introduce plants that do not belong in our ECO system. (look up Ligustrum, Chinese Tallow, Kudzu, Nandina Domestica or Heavenly Bamboo) So aside from choosing the local Flora, here are some really great tips for a successful Central Texas Garden, (zone 8) or whatever planting zone you’re in,
- Install local plants, and buy locally from nurseries who make the effort to have them on supply and only use contractors/designers who know native or adapted, water wise plants. Why not use the plants that thrive in your area, they’ve obviously already approved of your soil conditions.
- Mulch your beds deeply each fall and top dress them each spring after you compost, or buy mixed material and maintain a depth of 4 to 6 inches. Do not compost in the fall as we’re not encouraging growth. It’s sleepy time 😉
- Plant in mass for stability and impact. The Texas sun is hot and having a plant every 5 feet keeps them on a hot island, alone. Mass planting helps with soil erosion and loss of nitrogen and moisture.
- DO NOT OVER PLANT, less is more…”which is it lady?” Both, plant in mass but don’t over do it. Properly space your plants such that there is room to walk between most of them but not enough room to add a bench, and not so close they become a blob.
- It is what it is. You’re not in Cali, or Louisiana, or New Hampshire, or my original hood, “Chicago”; it is Texas, two blocks from the sun and harder than the Rock of Gibraltar. Amend your soil by adding quality compost, raised bed soils or dark, rich top soil as often as you can afford it until you see a difference in the texture of your working soil. This can take years so be patient and only bite off a little at a time so beds are manageable.
- Be Organic in every way. This isn’t a fad, it is thousands of years old and the same techniques are used today. They are cheaper, safer and more effective over all and you’re not killing your soil or yourself while you do it. Now, that’s not to say you can drink them, just that you won’t burn your dogs paws or babies feet when they walk in liquid seaweed.
- Choose plants that excite you and entice you into the garden!!! Here are a few off the top of my head…
oh yeah, and these…
If you’re not excited about the Texas flora now, you’ll probably want to move 😉
In the mean time, you can contact me at email@example.com for a landscape consultation or design and see why I think Texas native and adapted, low water, low maintenance plants are” what’s up” in a modern Hill Country landscape. You can find inspiration everywhere if you just look!
Lisa’s Landscape and Design
“Saving the Planet One Yard at a Time”
Texas sun, is not like other sun. Yes, I know it is the same one…but I have traveled all over the country and lived here for 35 years and I’m telling you, Texas has a special kind of sun conditions for people and plants. Much like the desert heat, we get intensely long days with hot temperatures, but in Austin specifically, we don’t cool at night and our poor plants are subjected to extremes from drought, to gully washers, to windy to stiflingly humid. If this isn’t bad enough we’re planting them in rocks, clay or both. Seeing as we’re asking so much of our plants and trees already, the least we could do is to plant them in the correct light.
If you only have a mostly shady spot that just happens to get full sun in a section of your yard from 2:00 -5:00 like the lower left corner of this drawing (above) then that tells you, you cannot use a full shade plant because that sucker is gonna cook like an egg on a sidewalk in the blazing, late day, Texas heat. Shade plants are delicate and they are not going to survive an afternoon heat blast. However, there are plants that will take a beating in those conditions and it may require some homework to know who they are. Off the top of my head a few plants that will tolerate such punishment are Rock Rose Pavonia, Turks Cap and Mexican Honey Suckle. After you create your sun chart you can begin to find the right plants by Googling “sun plants for Central Texas”, or call a landscape professional like me for a landscape consultation or design ;). In the mean time, here are some plants that tolerate, or thrive in shade to sun in Central Texas.
if you’re in, or around the Austin area and would love to just have someone provide you with a custom plant list or custom designbased on your light and design preferences, give me a call or text at 512-733-7777, or email me at firstname.lastname@example.org to set up your Landscape Consultation.
Lisa’s Landscape & Design
“Saving the Planet One Yard at a Time”
Cotoneaster, ( pronounced, “ca-tony-aster” ) is one of the most underused, awesome shrubs plants in Central Texas in my opinion.
I love this funky shrub because it just goes wherever the hell it wants to. And while you can find this jewel from carpet/mounding to upright like this guy, they can be difficult to find so check your local nurseries. They are super for hardiness zones 4 -8, hardy in our freezes, evergreen, flowering, with winter berries and great looks all year, what more do you want?
Well, if you are an organized type, this may not be the plant for you. Ranging in size from 2 x 3’ (shorter varieties), to 4 to 5’ x 7 to 8’, you can train it to your hearts desire, (doesn’t like to be a box) or just let it do its thang. There really seems to be no rhyme or reason why the stems go where they go and to me, that’s what makes it so awesome in the landscape.
I have trained them up trellis and I have let them blob out into sidewalks. One of the most attractive qualities of this plant is its “I’ll just go this way” personality.
The Cotoneaster is great evergreen texture and interest when you’re trying to hide utilities and don’t want to trim. Below, I have trimmed along the sidewalk a few times in the last 2.5 years and that was mostly to make it grow taller at first, it seems to have taken the hint and grows upright mostly now.
This cool dude, is part shade to sun and perfect for Xeriscape gardens, fast growing, and makes a great evergreen backdrop for perennial color.
if you’re looking for other great plants in the Central Texas or surrounding area, call or text me for a Design/Landscape Consultation at 512-733-7777, or email me at email@example.com!
In the legendary words of Ms. Ella Fitzgerald, summer should be for chillin. This time of year in Central Texas it is hot as a frying pan. I don’t know about you, but I am not a huge fan. Therefor, I’m not going out there much to garden and do yard work. I think there are general rules about the garden for me. I want to work in it when it’s cooler, not too hot, not too cold, just right. Call me a garden princess (or silver/auburn locks;) if you will, but it is possible for the most part with a few basic instructions .
As you can see from above, I like lots of color and texture. This may not be your bag. Keeping large beds for you to grow weeds in is not a good use of your time. Therefore, you need to keep them full of plants or they will be filled by Mother Nature with weeds. You’re better off leaving grass if you don’t plan on weeding your beds occasionally as needed. As needed, for someone in the middle of a subdivision, will not be the same as someone who lives adjacent to a Greenbelt, so keep them in mind when planning. I usually spend about 10 or 15 minutes each week to hand pull the weeds and that seems to work well for me.
The best defense against weeds in beds (aside from plant coverage) is deep mulch. I’m talking 4-6 inches of natural shredded mulch. Avoid colors like red and black. The best defense against weeds in your lawn is to mow, mow, mow! Allowing weeds to go to seed (above) and establish over the winter months if going to be a gift that keep on giving. Mow every 7 to 10 days max for weed control.
Above, less is more when your grass is doing well. I say, If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Shade has a super challenging plant profile so if you don’t have to water the grass a lot, leave the grass, it’s less maintenance. Below, the sun was so brutal, the compromise of drought resistant plants and herbs along with an intentional spot of grass makes more sense. it becomes a work of art and a place you look forward to maintaining.
If you have a lot of sun or shade hours, make sure you choose the right plants for the light conditions. A plant that is never happy will always be maintenance. It is also really important to choose the correct plants and trees that are native or adapted to your environment. If a plant needs too much work, get rid of it. If you have oversized shrubs you have to constantly trim, get rid of them or turn them into trees or a work of art.
Composting your lawn and beds will also make your maintenance a lot less in the summer. Compost only works if you’re organic, so bone up on some organic fertilizers and general care and you will reap the rewards for generations to come. Chemical fertilizers and weed control kill your soil and the beneficial fungi that connects your plants for the greater good (Google Mycorrhizal Fungi). Creating a symbiotic relationship throughout your entire property allows each plant to benefit from one another. That can only happen with an organic protocol and here are some of my faves.
Compost your beds each spring 1 to 2 inches and compost your entire lawn and trees 1/4 to 1/2 inch. Use the compost to fill in ruts and bald spots as well.
If you have big mama shrubs that cannot be “reclaimed”, it may be a good idea to start over. When I’m designing I will always salvage as much of the existing landscape as I possibly can. Try to find the names of the oversized shrubs you have, and see if you can “rebuild them”.
Below, these shrubs are eating up the house and have been too poorly trimmed for any structural “comeback”, so I removed most of them and started over…
Below, Now, the house is the star of this show and when these plants mature, they will proportionate in size to the scale of the home without unnecessary maintenance.
Many times you may just need to do some weeding out and choose the strongest and most interesting plants that have the most potential, then you may need to change the way you maintain them. For example, some big shrubs can be turned into trees and no longer require as much maintenance.
Obviously, the topiary on the left is the most maintenance and the one on the right is the least. Choose wisely.
One of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen people make is to install river rock in place of lawn to reduce maintained. RIVER ROCK IS NO WATER, NOT, NO MAINTENANCE, I recommend a 4mil painters plastic beneath rock-work for weed control as long as it’s not on a slope. Landcape fabric burns off after about 2 summers in rock. Either way, prepare to pull weeds. The bottom right is a neighbor who thought he could place rock and poison it with Round Up every six months. No Bueno. Weeding each week takes a few minutes, waiting months causes this.
Finally, conserving water is awesome, but don’t be so stingy you lose your lawn and shrubs. Erosion and weeds will become an issue and you’re better off watering every 10 days deeply than not at all. Beds along your foundation are beneficial because the moisture keeps the foundation from expansion in the heat.
Moral to the story is to keep it manageable by weeding once a week for 10 minutes, or come home from Austin traffic and kick the crap out of some weed beds before you go in the house. Keep the lawn if you don’t want to pull weeds, mow often and be organic about it. If you want to reduce your lawn (and I hope you do), you’ll reduce your water by using evergreen, low water, low maintenance plants that belong here. Then water enough to keep it alive so you don’t have to replace it. Don’t bite off more than you can chew, add small beds at a time and make sure you can care for them. Once you have success, add more, and so on. Or don’t…
It’s really that simple…
Lisa’s Landscape and Design
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You’re cruising down the Brisbane river, prosecco in hand, taking in the twinkling lights of high-rise towers. The next morning, you’re spreading creamy avocado over crunchy sourdough toast at a hipster café; come afternoon, the glassy azure waters of tranquil Nobby beach calls to you for a refreshing late-day swim. While this may sound like it would cost an arm and a leg, we’re here to tell you, not to worry because it doesn’t have to!
Contemporary Brisbane hotels, lively hostels and serviced apartments put you in walking distance of the famous restaurants at Eagle Street Pier (don’t miss the famous sand crab lasagna at Il Centro), and memorable day attractions like the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary are less than 20 minutes away by car from most hotels in the Central Business District. With sophisticated, decked pools, modern interiors and even a gym or sauna thrown-in, you’ll have a hard time believing what’s on offer under the ‘budget’ category in this capital. | <urn:uuid:e418714e-7887-497c-ab7c-3298e14daa77> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://magazine.trivago.sg/brisbane-hotels-budget-friendly/ | 2019-07-22T20:55:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528220.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722201122-20190722223122-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.905589 | 232 |
Gala - Resurrection
Norfolk, Virginia — United States
April 09, 2016
April 10, 2016
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Virginia Arts Festival stages a reunion of some of the greatest companies it has presented over the years. Alongside American Ballet Theatre, Birmingham Royal Ballet, and Tokyo Ballet among others, the Mark Morris Dance Group performs Resurrection (2002) with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. | <urn:uuid:610170ee-1b41-4fab-a77c-fda7f6a1a41a> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://markmorrisdancegroup.org/event/2016-04-09-10-norfolk-va/ | 2019-07-22T21:23:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528220.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722201122-20190722223122-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.856491 | 86 |
How to Get A Good Night’s Sleep, When Mold Won’t Leave You Alone
Have you tried EVERYTHING to tackle your mold illness-induced insomnia to no avail? Are you falling asleep, but not staying asleep, and waking every hour or two, so much so, that you awake unrested and irritated? Do you feel chronically tired, fatigued, and sleep deprived even when you do rest? You are not alone. I get emails from readers seeking advice and tips for getting to sleep, staying asleep, and combatting mycotoxin-induced fatigue almost every week. This is because sleep issues are at the top of the “most problematic and debilitating” symptom list for many people suffering from mold toxicity. And, while sudden-onset insomnia in an otherwise healthy individual should, in my opinion, be a clue for doctors to look for mold and mold exposure as the potential cause, or to at least rule it out, unfortunately, since insomnia is a symptom and side effect of almost every illness and drug, quite a long period of sleepless nights usually accumulates before mold is finally discovered.
I know too well how the whole sleep or lack thereof quandary can send even the most level-headed person into a downward spiral. My own experience of insomnia from mold toxicity put me over-the-edge and into a dark place of feeling anxious, overwhelmed and incredibly hopeless. I thought I was tough and could handle whatever the illness threw at me. Then I stopped sleeping. I was toast, because let’s face it, when you’re only sleeping 4 or less hours per night, your body is NOT recovering. It doesn’t even have the time to do all of its sleep-induced upkeep, like muscle and tissue growth and repair, immune system boosting and fortification, growth hormone release, appetite balance and regulation, brain energy and function enhancement, memory consolidation and retention, among many others. Without sleep, you stay sick and pretty much walk around with gauze over your eyeballs and in literal brain fog. Not getting sufficient sleep also causes your body to shut down to an even greater degree than it already is from the mold-toxin overload, which is obviously incredibly unhelpful when you are trying desperately to heal. (Note: During sleep is the only time the glymphatic system removes toxins from the brain via cerebral spinal fluid.)
So, to address this huge problem and to answer some of your questions in a longer format than I can in an email response, I thought I would write another post on sleep and insomnia in particular. (To read my previous post about sleep click HERE. That post establishes why mold in your environment can cause sleep problems.) This post will be focused on getting a good night’s sleep no matter where you are in the recovery process. Now, I realize that if you are living without sleep right now, this may seem impossible, but I assure you that there is always something that can be done and a remedy that can be tried no matter what. Some things will work for you and some things won’t. No one solution will be instant–sleep is one of those things that when you find what works, you may have to titrate up until you hit the perfect “dose” to get you sleeping through the night. You just have to keep plugging away and trying different things until you find what clicks for you. It may even be a combination of many things that creates the perfect solution. For example, I found insomnia relief from sleeping on the floor. Sounds crazy, but I will explain more in a moment. So, please don’t lose hope. A solution could be only one step away and could make an enormous difference in your mental, emotional, and physical health. | <urn:uuid:445a61dd-c198-4608-8980-9014f5b3d325> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://moldfreeliving.com/category/health-products/ | 2019-07-22T21:03:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528220.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722201122-20190722223122-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.95206 | 771 |
Wedding day coordination is one of the most important parts to make your Big Day a success. Our wedding planning services include wedding day coordination. Because of this, you can be sure that your planning and coordination will go hand in hand for a perfect day.
Why are wedding coordinators important?
Wedding coordinators are a crucial part of your wedding because they take your stress away. With a wedding coordinator, you can forget last minute panicking because they make sure every detail of your day is perfect. You can simply relax and enjoy your wedding with your loved ones.
What do wedding coordinators do?
There are many parts to a wedding coordinator’s role. However, to summarise, wedding coordinators take care of every detail on your big day, from set-up to when your last guest is ready to go home. Here is a list:
- They will set your wedding up. They’ll make sure your decorations are in the right place, and the same for the seats. When the time comes for the cocktail reception or banquet, they’ll set this up too.
- They will ensure that your vendors are ready. They’ll call vendors such as your photographer, DJ and caterers to make sure they’re on their way.
- They will be the go-to person to answer questions which your guests may have.
- Your coordinator will inform your photographer of when important moments are about to happen. For example, they will tell the photographer when the cake will be cut, or first dance is about to happen so they can capture the most important moments.
- Finally, they can ensure that your guests are looked after and are behaving well at your reception. Sometimes guests can get carried away if they’ve had a few to drink, so having someone control them can be very helpful.
The role of a wedding coordinator is limitless as every wedding is different, but these are the main points. Wedding coordinators are trained to adapt to all kinds of wedding, and they are ready for anything.
How much does a wedding coordinator cost?
This depends on how many wedding coordinators you need. We suggest 1 coordinator per 25 guests to make sure there are enough coordinators for your day to be smooth. Certain coordinators will look after certain groups of guests, such as the bridesmaids and groomsmen, the couple, and the vendors. The price also depends on the location of your wedding if your coordinator doesn’t work for the venue.
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Download and Install Stock ROM on Elephone A4 [Official Firmware]: How many of you have ever tried to root your device? Have you ever encountered a problem where you have somehow bricked your phone? If yes was the answer to both, then this post would be very helpful for you. If you have tried rooting, you would have an idea about all the benefits of rooting. After gaining root access to the device, you will get an abundance of options to tinker with the settings, make changes to the interface, get rid of the bloatware, upgrade the firmware, and much more. While rooting is encouraged and the fact that more and more people are rooting their device comes as a good news, but there are times when rooting might lead to your device getting bricked. The only solution to such a problem is to revert back to the stock ROM. Today, in this post, we will show you how you can easily download the stock ROM and switch back to it on your Elephone A4.
Elephone A4 is an amazing device with a really good list of specifications and features. It comes with a 5.85-inch IPS display screen with a resolution of 1512x720p, a MediaTek MT6739WW chipset, ARM Cortex-A53 1.5GHz Quad-Core processor, PowerVR GE8100 GPU, 3 GB RAM, 16 GB ROM storage capacity, and a 3000mAh Li-Polymer battery. It comes with Android 8.1 Oreo out of the box, and its other features include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v4.2, GPS, A-GPS, and more.
This post is especially for all the Elephone A4 users who are looking for methods using which they can download and install stock ROM on your device. Today, in this post, we will give you not only an elaborate guide to help you install the stock ROM, but we will also be giving you all the important information you must know regarding stock ROMs.
The official Stock Firmware / Flash File of Elephone A4 is now available for download. You just need to ask for the permission to download the file. We are sharing a step by step guide to install the Elephone A4 Official Firmware. Don’t try to skip any step because every step has it’s own importance in this guide if you don’t follow the guide correctly you may end up bricking your device. We have collected more information about Elephone A4 Stock ROM down if you want you can read it from down.
The installation process is quite easy just you have to download the required things from the download section. For installing this stock ROM you have to take the help of SP Flash tool software. If you already knew the process of installing then you don’t need to take the help of installation part or if you don’t know the process then you can take the help of the installation part.
Install Official Stock ROM On Elephone A4 (Back to stock, Unbrick, Unroot and Fix Bootloop)
There are loads of benefits of having the stock ROM of an Android device. You can Fix Bootloop and Black screen issue by flashing back the stock firmware. If you are facing some software related issues, then you can flash the stock ROM to fix that. You can Unbrick and unroot your device by flashing back the stock firmware which will give you your device’s warranty back.
Elephone A4 Stock ROM Details:
- Download Format: Zip Verison
- Firmware Type: Official
- Tool Supported: SP Flash Tool
- Gapps File: Included
- Device Supported: Elephone A4
What Is Stock ROM and What are its benefits?
Stock ROM’s are the ones that come pre-installed on phones or tablets. These are the versions of Android developed by the OEM’s for making their phones look unique. They also come pre-installed with certain apps.
The reason for the usage of Custom ROM’s over Stock ROM’s are:
1) Security: These ROM’s are developed by big companies and hence there are fewer chances of malware/ virus affecting the phone.
2) Warranty: Installing a Custom ROM needs root access and this voids warranty of your smartphone in most cases. A lot of OEM’s do not allow the root access or customization.
3) Pre-installed apps and features: A lot of these ROM’s come with pre-installed apps which are sometimes useful. These apps vary between different manufacturers and even for models. Some OEM’s also give their customers premium features like Launchers, wallpapers, home screen, etc.
The Advantages Of Elephone A4 ’s Stock Firmware
- Flash Stock To Unbrick your Elephone A4
- Flash Stock ROM to Fix the bootloop problem.
- Upgrade and Downgrade Elephone A4
- Unroot or Fix Bugs on your phone.
- To fix the lag or stutter on Elephone A4
- Revert back to stock to gain your warranty.
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- Make sure battery percentage is more than 60%
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Key WestBook - 1999
Tormented by nightmarish flashbacks, and stalked by a shadowy menace that pushes her to the edge of sanity, a woman--convinced that the events that killed her husband and caused her to lose her unborn child were not accidental--returns to Key West to find the truth.
Publisher: New York : Kensington Books, c1999.
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Can you really have too much of a good thing?
Ah, masturbation. One of life’s greatest cost-free pleasures.
Getting turned on, touching yourself and having an orgasm is a really good time – and I mean good for the body, mind, and soul. It’s amazing if you’re alone, and fabulous if you’re in a relationship. It can be a wonderful thing for your sex life, and honestly, everyone should give it a go at least once in their lives.
But is there such a thing as ‘too much’ masturbating? I know I often can’t wait until I hear my roommate snoozing soundly in the room across the hall so I can shut the door and have some ‘me time’ without disturbing anyone. Sometimes I spend all day looking forward to it, sometimes I do it every single day; but does this mean I’m…addicted? And, is that even…a bad thing??
There are so many questions about masturbation which don’t get answered because no-one talks about it. But that’s all about to change…
Why we masturbate
Touching ourselves feels so damn good because during masturbation, the brain releases high amounts of dopamine, a neurotransmitter which triggers the pleasure center of the brain. So, it’s no wonder so many people enjoy a ménage à moi once in a while.
The largest sexual health survey of its kind – the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior – found that more than 84 percent of women reported masturbating at some point in their lives, and more than 94 percent of men did the same. Among both men and women, how often we have some solo play time increases as we get older.
It’s also one of the best and most effective ways to learn about your own body and what turns you on the most. Director of the female sexual medicine program at Stanford Health Care, Leah Millheiser, says masturbation is extremely helpful in learning your personal buttons.
“If you can’t tell or don’t know where your erogenous zones are – they could be clitoral, vaginal, or anal – then you can’t voice that and explain it to your partner.”
Learning about your body through experimentation and self-exploration can also lead to bigger and better orgasms with a partner, as well as boost bedroom confidence. In fact, a 2013 study found most women find masturbating to be sexually empowering.
As well as just feeling really good and being the key to finding out what gets us off, masturbation has a bunch of positive health benefits as well – from being a natural stress reliever to releasing pain-reducing endorphins as well as prolactin, which helps with sleep. And for all the women who suffer from terrible menstrual cramps, trying some solo play time could be a good remedy for period pain relief.
“Masturbating causes contractions of the uterus, which seems counterintuitive, but it’s an analgesic in a sense, It releases chemicals that act as pain relievers,” explains Millheiser.
You should also view masturbation as a sort of workout for your vagina, making it easier to reach climax if you have trouble having an orgasm, because after all, practice makes perfect, right?
How often should you do it?
So if masturbating has so many different benefits, how often should one let their fingers wander? The good news is, there is no hard-and-fast (pun unintended) number which is ‘normal’, required or expected.
“There’s no downside to masturbation,” Millheiser says.
“In general, there are women who masturbate daily and ones who masturbate once a month. For some, zero times is normal. It doesn’t mean anything, or that you’re more or less sexual.”
So basically, it’s an individual issue, and no amount is right or wrong… Or is it?
How much is too much?
… However, there are a couple of signs masturbating might be a problem for you, or you might be doing it excessively.
Generally, if any activity interferes with your ability to function normally in your everyday life, that thing can become problematic. Masturbation is no different. Sex and marriage therapist, Kat Van Kirk, explains that if, for example, you’re always skipping out on work to touch yourself in the bathroom to the point of being reprimanded by your boss for being late, or if you’re avoiding sex with a partner because you’d prefer to masturbate, there might be cause for concern.
“Some people use masturbation as a way to check out of reality and live more in their head, where they can focus on fantasies,” she explains.
“It can also be unhealthy if you find that you do it to the point of causing yourself physical harm, such as rawness and extreme genital irritation from too much friction.”
If your pink bits are getting red raw or even – *gasp* – bleeding from repeated masturbation, and you can’t seem to stop, or if you find yourself going multiple times in a row out of compulsion rather than pleasure, this could be an indication of an addiction, and it’s best to see a doctor or therapist to figure out the cause behind it.
Dr Van Kirk also warns against masturbating the same way every time. Just like sex, it’s important to mix things up – be it by varying the pressure, speed, alternating between using and not using toys (FYI if you’re in the market for a vibrator, here’s how to find the right one for you), or changing up positions – to avoid hitting a plateau that could interfere with your sex life.
“It can condition you to only become aroused or orgasm in one specific way, which can lead to difficulties when having partnered sex,” explains Dr Van Kirk.
How to do it well
As long as your private-time activities aren’t interfering with your daily life, you should be golden to rub yourself any and every which way you wish.
The National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior recorded that 52 percent of women use a vibrator, which can be one amazing and easy way to embrace masturbation head on. They come in all shapes, sizes and countless different functions, and so you can choose the toy which is perfect for you based on what you like. It’s worth noting that using a vibe once a day may potentially lead to temporary numbness, though Millheiser says this is unlikely.
“Despite rumors that vibrators can cause nerve damage, most don’t use it long enough to bring on any issues,” she says.
And the survey backs her up. Seventy-one percent of vibrator-using women have never experienced any negative side-effects as a result of regular use.
Apart from using a vibrator to get yourself off, mutual masturbation with a partner is another great way to involve your significant other in your self-exploration, and it can have a positive impact on your sex life by allowing you to each demonstrate exactly where and how you like to be touched.
As for positioning, it’s important to try different options to find your fave foolproof angles. Some women like to lie on their stomachs because the pressure of their body weight intensifies the sensitivity of their touch, while others swear by solo time in the shower, with warm – or cold – water adding an extra layer of sensation.
Really, there’s a thousand different styles and frequencies when it comes to masturbating, and none of them are wrong. Whatever feels right for you is probably right for you. Though for what it’s worth, you seriously can’t go wrong with a little bit of lube, and some imagination.
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LONDON (Reuters) – Santander UK said on Friday it would build a new technology hub in the English town of Milton Keynes, representing an investment of 150 million pounds ($196.82 million).
The proposed new site is expected to house over 5,000 staff, and replace the bank’s existing offices in the area. A planning application will be submitted for the development in 2019, Santander UK said, and subject to approval the hub is expected to open in 2022.
Nathan Bostock, Chief Executive of Santander UK, which is owned by Spain’s Banco Santander, said the announcement reflected the lender’s long-term commitment to the area.
“We want a workplace which truly reflects our culture and our vision for the future, which is based on innovation and harnessing new technology to make banking simpler and more personal for our customers,” he said in a statement.
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We were recently invited to a special sneak peek of the new merchandise lines Disney will be introducing this season. The winter holidays are some of the most popular times to schedule a Walt Disney World vacation, with many families returning nearly every year for special time together. That puts pressure on Disney to keep the merchandise fresh and interesting. I think you’ll agree they’ve done a great job with these new items.
Among the new merchandise are new Dooney and Bourke bags, new ornaments, stockings with your favorite characters and attractions on them, and more. Keep an eye out for the character themed purses that will match the decorative mickey ear ornaments and the character focused shoe ornaments. They’re very cute, especially that Baymax one.
We are also glad they’re updating the Hanukkah series.
Plus we get some great Christmas treats from Disney Springs. Both the Ganachary and Amorette’s Pattiserie will have special holiday offerings.
Look for the holiday merchandise to start hitting shelves in late October with the food a little later in November.
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"Realistic and romantic... Kennedy's forte is in making relationships genuine and heartfelt as she exposes vulnerabilities with tenderness and good humor." --Booklist STARRED review
It's going to take all of his rodeo skills to wrangle this big-city gal's heart
Desperate to find an outlet for the passion he used to put into competing, he takes on the challenge of teaching his roping skills to five troubled ten-year-olds in a last-chance home for foster kids, and finds it's their feisty supervisor who takes the most energy to wrangle.
When social worker Sierra Dunn seeks an activity for the rebellious kids at Phoenix House, she soon learns she's not in Denver anymore. Sierra is eager to get back home to her inner-city work, and the plan doesn't include forming an attachment in Wyoming-especially not to a ruggedly handsome and surprisingly gentle local rodeo hero.
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Toyota revealed that the latest version of its Ponam boat range will be a 28V sports cruiser and it will be powered by the same engine that powers the Land Cruiser.
Specifically, it will be the same 4-cylinder 3.0-liter turbo diesel engine that is fitted in the Land Cruiser Prado SUV as well as the Hilux pickup truck. However, for the Ponam-28V, the motor has been tuned to adapt it for marine use and thus, it displays an output of 256 horsepower (191 kW). While Toyota declined to reveal the actual top speed, the light weight means that it could go through the water at possibly high knots.
Since the control system is based on the same system used by cars, it makes the Ponam-28V easy to navigate in calm waters or even in coastal areas where it is originally designed to be in. Fitted to it is a virtual anchor to make sure that the boat is maintained on a fixed point.
In terms of dimensions, the Ponam-28V has a total length of 30 ft. (9.14 m) with overall width at 10 ft. (3.1 m). These figures mean that this boat could allow for 12 people to be accommodated inside. Inside, there is a table with each side having two small sofas as well as a large single chair. Meanwhile just in front of the helm station is a double bed. For a boat of this size, one will likely see that its aft deck is rather large and comes with fold-out furniture.
Overall weight is at 8,025 lbs. (3,640 kg.). This is due to the company utilizing the Hybrid Hull construction. The V-shaped hull of the Ponam-28V is composed of a combination of carbon fibers, aluminum, and fiber-reinforced plastic. Thus, the result is that the hull is seven times stronger compared to a version that is purely composed of fiber-reinforced plastic. In addition, this composition also ensured that the hull would weigh 10% lighter when compared to a hull having the same size but made entirely of aluminum.
Similar to the other models in the Ponam range, the Ponam-28V will be manufactured by Yanmar. While sale of this version is limited to Japan, though those interested can still buy this boat there and simply have it delivered wherever.
Starting price of the Ponam-28V is estimated at 19.2 million yen, which is around $183,000. According to Toyota, the company hopes to sell around 24 units of the Ponam-28V through its network composed of 50 dealers.
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Saudi oil chief says OPEC’s in ‘Produce as much as you can’ mode
Saudi Arabia gave the strongest indication yet that it’s trying to stop oil prices from rising further, saying that OPEC and allies are in a “produce as much as you can mode” to assure customers that they can meet demand and remove any uncertainties about looming shortages.
The kingdom has already boosted oil production to 10.7 million barrels a day, near an all-time high, and it can increase it even more to help plug any supply shortfalls due to U.S. sanctions against Iran’s energy industry, Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih told a conference in Riyadh. U.S. President Donald Trump is counting on Saudi cooperation to soften potential price increases from the sanctions that take effect next month.
“We will meet any demand that materializes,” Al-Falih said at the country’s signature investment conference, which is being overshadowed by an international outcry over the killing of Saudi government critic Jamal Khashoggi.
Brent crude, the global benchmark, has dropped almost 10 percent from a four-year high of $86.29 a barrel on Oct. 3 as Saudi Arabia and Russia promised extra supplies and U.S. stockpiles climbed.
The Riyadh conference is aimed to generate investments in the country as part of a broad economic transformation plan to wean it off reliance on oil.
Al-Falih said plans to diversify the economy will continue, but oil and gas expansion will also remain a priority. In addition to its crude investments, Saudi Arabia intends to partner in liquefied natural gas projects abroad and start trading LNG in the future. Global gas consumption is growing, he said, and oil demand will reach 120 million barrels a day in 30 years, from 100 million currently.
In an effort to maintain stable supplies to the crude market, Al-Falih said he hopes the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its non-OPEC oil partners will sign an “open-ended” agreement in December. The group, sometimes known as OPEC+, agreed in late 2016 to cut production to eliminate a supply glut and has since intervened to coordinate output and balance the market.
The Saudi oil chief lauded the achievements of the group, saying that it has stabilized the market and helped the energy industry to recover.
“Significant investment flows” have returned to the oil and gas industry that will bring on new supplies to help replace losses in areas such as the North Sea and in some OPEC countries, he said. Even still, the outlook for next year is “very unpredictable” in terms of both supply and demand, Al-Falih said.
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Apartments Cockburn Apartments
Cockburn Street, Old Town, Edinburgh, EH1 1BS, United Kingdom –
Excellent location – rated 9.9/10! (score from 86 reviews)
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Classic ground floor apartment situated on Cockburn Street in the heart of the Medieval Old Town off the Royal Mile. Make the most of your Romantic, shopping, theatre or other stay in Edinburgh … experience the style, quality, comfort and facilities at Cockburn Apartments.
At Cockburn Apartments we aim to provide the very best in guest experience. We are always on hand to help you with anything you need and give advice on great places to visit and things to do while staying with us.
Cockburn street contains a series of charming specialist shops and great restaurants with Edinburgh Castle, National Gallery, St Giles Cathedral and the National Museum of Scotland all within 5 minutes walk of the apartment.
Languages spoken: English, Italian
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Brass Rubbing Center0 miles
City Art Center0 miles
The Real Mary King's Close0.1 miles
Edinburgh Waverley Train Station0.1 miles
St. Giles Cathedral0.1 miles
Museum of Childhood0.2 miles
National Library of Scotland0.2 miles
Gladstone's Land0.2 miles
Gladstones Land0.2 miles
The Edinburgh Sheriff Court0.2 miles
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Stockbridge Market Market1.2 miles
La Locanda Italian Bistro Restaurant0 miles
The Devils Advocate Whiskey Bar Cafe/Bar0 miles
Number One Restaurant0 miles
The Ivy on the Square Restaurant0.1 miles
Sainsbury's Supermarket0.2 miles
Marks and Spencer Supermarket0.2 miles
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Arthur's Seat Mountain2.4 miles
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Edinburgh Airport6.8 miles
Dundee Airport35.3 miles
Glasgow Airport48.4 miles
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Royal Mile0.2 miles
National Museum of Scotland0.3 miles
Camera Obscura and World of Illusions0.3 miles
Edinburgh Castle0.5 miles
Edinburgh Playhouse0.5 miles
University of Edinburgh0.5 miles
Arthur's Seat1.1 miles
Murrayfield Stadium2.1 miles
Royal Yacht Britannia2.2 miles
Edinburgh Zoo3.2 miles
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3:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Guests are required to show a photo ID and credit card at check-in
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7:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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The minimum age for check-in is 18
Cockburn Apartments accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.
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Please note that check-in and key collection take place at: La Locanda Italian Bistro, 61 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh EH1 1 BS.
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With trade talks between the US and China breaking down once again last Friday, the Trump administration announced an increase in tariffs on a range of Chinese imports.
For many in the tech sector, this was just the news they hadn't been waiting for. With the last round of tariffs - a 10 percent levy on a variety of technology, among other things - offering a taste of what might be to come, the channel was hoping the threat of a 25 percent tariff had been all but forgotten.
But "as quick as a tweet", as one MSP put it, the tariff hike came into effect last Friday, sending ripples through the tech sector and American economy as a whole.
For some in the channel, the new tariffs raise anxieties about cost and supply. For others, the impact is "nominal". But for all, the question of what's next is at the forefront of their minds.
With last Friday's news coming as somewhat of a surprise, all eyes are fixed on the tension between the two power nations to see how things unfold.
An obviously concern for MSPs is supply. With modems, networking equipment and semiconductors on the list of imports that will now be subject to the 25 percent tariff increase, MSPs may find that they will have to slow down projects as they wait longer for components to arrive.
"After the last round of tariffs, suddenly we saw a supply problem for electronics. It's causing some downward parts problems, which are causing us delays. By that I mean that we can't sell the parts to our customers because we can't procure them from the distributors, who can't get the parts that go into them in China," Karl Bickmore, CEO of Arizona-based MSP Snap Tech IT, told CPI.
For 10 months, China has been paying Tariffs to the USA of 25% on 50 Billion Dollars of High Tech, and 10% on 200 Billion Dollars of other goods. These payments are partially responsible for our great economic results. The 10% will go up to 25% on Friday. 325 Billions Dollars....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 5 May 2019
The procurement issue will be exacerbated by the latest round of tariffs, he said. Customer migrations and hardware upgrades are expected to be affected, with back orders increasing and manufacturers struggling to have stock available in the usual time frame.
"Suddenly, all these computer systems we need to order were back ordered for months, when usually with a back order - which is rare anyway - it's not for so long. And I think all the manufacturers are feeling now that they can't make stuff fast enough because they can't get their supplies of electronics components, which are commonly manufactured in the Chinese market," Bickmore pointed out.
This will particularly impact MSPs working with customers on Windows 10 migrations, the CEO said. As the channel knows only too well, extended support for Windows 7 ends in January 2020, and as the upgrade generally also involves a hardware refresh, for an MSP's many clients still on Windows 7, the timing of the tariffs is somewhat unfortunate.
"A lot of MSPs are directly looking to do a lot of Windows 10 migrations this year. Those clients that keep putting it off, they're all going to need to do it this year, and we've been seeing problems all year with getting deliveries on computer systems, which our manufacturers are telling us is because of parts in China. I think [the latest tariff increases] are going to make this a lot worse," Bickmore said.
MSPs looking to procure the necessary hardware for the upgrades may start to struggle as the supply chain becomes more exposed to the impact of the tariffs, Bickmore noted, adding that "a lot of what we have planned is becoming a real problem because we can't get the supplies we need."
This is compounded by customers who have left their Windows upgrades to the last minute, according to Chris Bradley, VP of managed services at Memphis, TN-based ProTech Systems Group.
He notes that the shortages on workstations are likely to stem from the high numbers of clients waiting until the last minute to do their Windows 10 upgrades, as opposed to as a direct result of the tariff increases. As such, he "fully expects" to see some supply chain issues in Q4.
Where the tariffs do come into play is cost, Bradley said, meaning customers who wait until Q4 to do their Windows 10 migrations are set to face further annoyances.
"The impact of the tariffs is that the costs are going to go up, so customers are going to like it even less. But it's not like they're going to have a choice," he noted. "The tariffs are going to make it cost more for those that have waited until Q4, making it more painful for them to make that upgrade. And unfortunately for us, in order to maintain the margins we need to, we're going to have to pass the cost along just like our vendors pass it to us."
It's not only clients seeking Windows 10 upgrades that will find themselves exposed to the cost impact of the new tariffs. Vendors are going to have to pay the tariffs on any necessary components they bring into the country from China, and they are going to want to pass those costs on to their partners, who obviously in turn will have to pass those costs on to their customers if they are to maintain stability in their business model.
Elsewhere, the stock market reaction to the tariffs is cause for concern for any business, especially MSPs, who are often the first outsourced element to be cut when budgets are being reconsidered.
As Bickmore points out, "any time there are issues, particularly ones that spook the stock market, it seems like there's almost always a confidence issue that causes people to slow on their IT spending as well".
This means that not only do MSPs face the risk of existing customers slowing down their IT spend owing to lack of confidence, but new business is also affected as decision makers become more cautious about embarking on new projects.
"We are definitely witnessing that. It's very slow right now,' Bickmore said.
While the tariffs are set to expose MSPs to these complications, there are workarounds to be found.
Tim Burke, CEO and president at California-based Quest Technology Management, notes that distributors can offer a workaround for MSPs as they are much more likely to already have product "on shore" before Friday's announcement.
"But with some vendors everything is built to order and their supply chain is directly back to China, which means I place an order here and the tariffs will immediately apply to whatever I place. That's versus going to distribution or to local providers who may buy things from China but already have them in stock. And as a plus, in order to gain my business, they might say, 'hey, I've got something that doesn't have the tariff applied'. So that's a potential alternative," Burke said.
He also notes that after the implementation of the first round of tariffs in June 2018, the firm placed some "significant orders ahead of time" in order to manage cost structure and ensure major upcoming projects wouldn't be impacted by the tariffs or threat of future tariffs.
Another potential workaround for MSPs is a shift into software from hardware, Burke noted. This could minimize supply chain issues in particular and offer an alternative source of revenue for those players who are able to diversify in this way.
According to Mike Ritsema, president and partner at Grand Rapids, MI-based i3 Business Solutions, this holds true.
"We're expecting nominal impact because the majority of our sales and profits come from services," the MSP said. "As for hardware, we basically pass through those costs with a price mark-up."
For those MSPs that are more exposed to issues affecting hardware, the good news is that, ultimately, any of the issues that do arise from the tariffs will hit all those exposed in more or less equal measure. Further, as Ritsema noted, for MSPs, a large chunk of their business is not built around hardware, which is currently where key concerns lie.
"We're not going to have our lunch eaten by our competitors, that's true," Bickmore pointed out. "And it's not like this is the business that drives most of my profitability, but it's just about having a bad customer moment and really putting our customers at risk. It's very hard for us to protect our customers if we can't make the Windows 10 migrations, so it's particularly bad timing as well."
The hope is, of course, that the tariffs will be temporary and merely "a lot of bluster that's going to settle down", Bickmore said.
"Hopefully things will get settled and everybody's going to be happy and we're going to get to swing back to more business as usual, and just have a few months' delay," he added.
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"The Walt Disney Company mourns the loss of Cameron Boyce who was a friend to so many of us, and filled with so much talent, heart and life, and far too young to die," Iger wrote in a tweet.
"It is with a profoundly heavy heart that we report that this morning we lost Cameron," a spokesperson for the Boyce family told CBS News. "He passed away in his sleep due to a seizure which was a result of an ongoing medical condition for which he was being treated.
A Disney Channel statement said Boyce will be "dearly missed."
"From a young age, Cameron Boyce dreamed of sharing his extraordinary artistic talents with the world," a Disney Channel spokesperson said. "As a young man, he was fueled by a strong desire to make a difference in peoples' lives through his humanitarian work. He was an incredibly talented performer, a remarkably caring and thoughtful person and, above all else, he was a loving and dedicated son, brother, grandson and friend."
Boyce played Carlos, the son of 101 Dalmatians villain Cruella de Vil, on Disney's Descendants, which began as a 2015 TV movie and was followed by a short-form series and a movie sequel. He also starred on the Disney Channel's show Jessie and in feature films, including Grown-Ups and Grown-Ups 2. Grown-Ups star Adam Sandler remembered his young co-star in a touching online tribute.
"Too young. Too sweet. Too funny," Sandler wrote in part. "Thank you, Cameron, for all you gave to us. So much more was on the way. All our hearts are broken."
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Set in the rural outskirts of Castlewellan in Northern Ireland this accommodation offers all modern facilities with open plan living and dining.
This fully accessible house has approximately a 1/4 acre of garden, it has a level tarmac driveway with ample car-parking space, there are ramps to the front and side entrances and has widened internal doorways throughout. It sleeps up to eight people in four bedrooms. The fully equipped kitchen has low level cupboards, sink and induction hob, with clear space underneath. There is also a paved patio area with garden furniture and BBQ.
The first bedroom (shown in picture 5) has twin beds, one of which is an electric profile bed. It also has a ceiling hoist to the ensuite bathroom and an electronic push button for opening the bedroom door. The second and third bedrooms have zip and link twin beds which can also be superking beds and the fourth bedroom has a standard king bed. Bedrooms 3 and 4 also benefit from an interlinking ensuite wet-room.
Both ensuites are level access wet-rooms and the ensuite bathroom is equipped with ceiling hoist as pictured.
Other facilities include, Wireless Internet Access and Mobile Phone for emergency use.
Set in the rural outskirts of Castlewellan, Co Down this accommodation offers all modern facilities with open plan living and dining. Everywhere is fully wheelchair accessible. There are ramps to front and side entrances and all doors have 926mm (36) clear opening. The fully equipped kitchen has low level sink and induction hob, with clear space under, making it accessible for wheelchair users.Bedrooms 3 and 4 have interlinking ensuite wet-room. All bedrooms have wall-mounted Televisions and spacious storage facilities. All bathrooms/ensuites are level access wet-rooms. The fully accessible bathroom is equipped with bath, level access shower, raised toilet with drop-down support arm and grab rail, all of which can be accessed by the ceiling hoist if required. Light switches at 1100mm and electric sockets at 900mm. The house is accessed by a level, tarmac driveway with ample car-parking space and there are ramps to the front and side entrances.
- Open-plan living and dining
- Spacious kitchen with oak dining table to seat 8
- High and low level kitchen cupboards
- High and Low level sinks - low level sink being fully accessible for wheelchair user
- Induction Hob - wheelchair accessible
- Dish washer
- Fan Oven
- Utility room with sink, washing machine and tumble dryer
- Outdoor Clothes Line
- Drying Room
- Iron and Ironing Board
- Under-Floor, Oil-Fired Central Heating throughout
- Wood Burning Stove
- 4 large double rooms
- Wet Rooms
- Fully equipped accessible bathroom
- Ceiling Hoist running from bedroom to ensuite bathroom
- Emergency/Assistance Pull Cord
- 50 inch Television in Living Area
- DVD Player
- Wall-mounted televisions in bedrooms
- Wireless Internet Access
- Mobile Phone for emergency use
- Bed Linen and Towels provided
- Hair Dryer
- Cot available
- High Chair Available
- Paved patio area with garden furniture
Couples and families of all age groups will find plenty to do.
Please call us in advance if you require mobility equipment during your stay.
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Marco Silva is under no illusions as to how tough Watford's trip to Manchester City will be this evening.
The Hornets head to the Etihad Stadium on the back of desperately disappointing defeat to Swansea City and will have their work cut out if they want to take anything from the game.
Whilst City did have one day less to recover than Watford, after a tough 0-0 draw at Crystal Palace, and could be without talisman Kevin De Bruyne - who is facing a late fitness test - the Hornets are as big as 20/1 to win with some bookmakers.
City were at their fluent best at Vicarage Road earlier in the season, winning 6-0, although Silva says his team will have learned from that, playing them at the end of a busy period is far from ideal.
"It's normal that we learn from games, what we don't do well and where we can improve, things we do well we continue to improve as well," he said. [It's the] fourth game in a row with no time to recover, it's tough for us all."
On City's phenomenal season, which has seen them remain unbeaten in the league, winning 19 of their 21 games, Silva added: "They are having a fantastic season. Pep is doing an amazing job, proving to everyone he can play his way and win his way.
"It's easy for everyone to say he is doing fantastic but it's important to remember what people said about him last season. They haven't won anything yet but they are doing really well.
"For us it's just one game to worry about and [try to] be at our best level. It was a fantastic afternoon for them they came here to win, it was just after they won 5-0 in the Champions League and they did very well, they deserved to win.
"They are the best team to play at Vicarage Road this season but its a new game now, they are having a fantastic season I expect a really tough game for us, we need to play at our best level."
Silva was previewing the trip ahead of Crystal Palace's draw with the Citizens and after Newcastle's attempt at parking the bus against City. Even before Palace's fine effort against the champions elect, Silva did not feel the Toon Army's approach - which saw them lose 1-0 - was the only way to go about containing City.
"I don't know if it's the only way [parking the bus]," he said.
"What I can tell you; maybe 18, 19 clubs try to stop them in a different way, nobody can do that.What I saw [is] they had a lot of chances to score more goals [against Newcastle].
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Now for the first time, the CO2 emissions of 50,000 power plants worldwide, the globe’s most concentrated source of greenhouse gases, have been compiled into a massive new data base, called CARMA—Carbon Monitoring for Action.
The on-line database, compiled by the Center for Global Development (CGD), an independent policy and research organization that focuses on how the actions of the rich world shape the lives of poor people in developing countries, lays out exactly where the CO2 emitters are and how much of the greenhouse gas they are casting into the atmosphere. It also shows which companies own the plants.
A research team, led by David Wheeler, a senior fellow at CGD, constructed the enormous database to help speed the shift to less carbon-intensive power generation – with the objective of minimizing global warming which is and will hurt poor people in developing countries first and worst. The CARMA data is arrayed on a user-friendly website: www.CARMA.org.
The database and its website rank individual power plants, plotting their location by latitude and longitude. The data for total power-related emissions can be displayed by cities, states or provinces, and countries. For the U.S., emissions data are also available for Congressional districts, counties and metro areas, making it possible for the first time to compare total power-related emissions by locality.
Rankings of the 4,000 electric power companies in the world show which are the biggest carbon polluters, globally, nationally, and at sub-national levels. Company-level data include emissions and power generation for 2000 and 2007, as well as estimates of future emissions and power generation from planned expansions. Data will be updated regularly as facility ownership changes and new plants come online.
Power generation accounts for about one-quarter of total emissions of CO2, the main culprit in global warming. But, until now, people concerned about climate change lacked information about the emissions of particular power plants and the identities of the companies that own them.
“CARMA makes information about power-related CO2 emissions transparent to people throughout the world,” says Dr. Wheeler, an expert in the use of public information disclosure to reduce pollution. “Information leads to action. We know that this works for other forms of pollution and we believe it can work for greenhouse gas emissions, too.”
“We expect that institutional and private investors, insurers, lenders, environmental and consumer groups and individual activists will use the CARMA data to encourage power companies to burn less coal and oil and to shift to renewable power sources, such as wind and solar,” Dr. Wheeler says. Earlier research by Wheeler and his co-authors showed that highly-polluting plants in China and Indonesia responded to pressure from neighboring communities and lenders by reducing pollution significantly after public disclosure of their emissions.
On a per capita basis, Australians are some of the largest CO2 emitters in the world, producing more than 11 tons of power sector CO2 emissions per person every year. Americans aren’t far behind at more than 9 tons per person. Populous developing nations have far lower per capita emissions. For example, the average Chinese citizen produces 2 tons of CO2 emissions from power generation annually, and Indians emit about half of one ton per person.
A recent study by William Cline, a joint senior fellow at CGD and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, predicts that agricultural productivity in developing countries will decline sharply by 2080, as crops in areas closer to the equator suffer from the effects of increased heat and drought. Averting such a disaster would require rapid emission reductions in the first half of this century. CARMA is intended to help speed the necessary emission reductions.
CARMA data come from government reports and often from the plants themselves. Where directly reported emissions data are lacking, the CARMA team has estimated emissions, with 90 percent or greater confidence, using a statistical model based on the type and age of plant, the type of fuel, and the amount of power generated.
The resulting information is displayed using a five-color rating system and differently sized circles based on the amount of power produced. CARMA highlights low-carbon power producers and flags dangerous emitters. Rankings range from nearly zero emissions, Green, to extremely dirty, Red.
“CARMA is unique, one of a kind—a world standard,” says CGD president Nancy Birdsall. “Never before has this kind of detailed information been made available on a global scale. Not only is it likely to catalyze action to cut emissions now, it also strengthens the knowledge base for monitoring any future international market-based agreement, whether a carbon tax or cap-and-trade. Let us hope it speeds the way to an agreement – which matters immensely for the well-being of hundreds of millions of people in developing countries.”
The U.S. Dirty Dozen
Globally, power generation emits nearly 10 billion tons of CO2 per year. The U.S., with over 8,000 power plants out of the more than 50,000 worldwide, accounts for about 25 percent of that total or 2.8 billion tons. CARMA shows that the U.S.’s biggest CO2 emitter is Southern Co. with annual emissions of 172 million tons, followed by American Electric Power Company Inc., Duke Energy Corp., and AES Corp.
Annually, the 12 biggest CO2 polluting power plants in the United States are:The Scherer plant in Juliet, GA — 25.3 million tons
The state with the greatest CO2 emissions from electricity generation is Texas (290 million tons), followed by Florida (157 million tons), Indiana (137 million tons), Pennsylvania (136 million tons), Ohio (133 million tons), Illinois (113 million tons), Kentucky (98 million tons), Georgia (92 million tons), Michigan (91 million tons) and Alabama (91 million tons).
The District of Columbia has the lowest power-related emissions (113,000 tons), followed by Vermont (437,000 tons), Idaho (1 million tons), Rhode Island (2.6 million tons); South Dakota (4.7 million tons); and Alaska (6 million tons).
At the county level, Walker County in Alabama, where power plants produce over 28 million tons of CO2 each year, heads the list of CO2 emitters. Grundy County in Illinois, with two large nuclear plants, and Taylor County in Texas, which relies almost exclusively on renewable resources, have nearly zero CO2 emissions.
Browsing CARMA offers some surprising contrasts that show how different approaches to power generation can make huge differences in emissions. For example: The CO2 output from power plants in California, with some 36 million people, is nearly the same as that of North Carolina, which has only one-quarter of California’s population. North Carolina gets about half its power from coal; California relies on a mix of natural gas, hydro, nuclear power, and renewable energy.
Residents of Austin, Texas, including faculty and students of the University of Texas at Austin, have the highest-emitting power facility of any university town in the country, emitting some 400,000 tons a year.
The International Burden
Although no single country comes close to the 2.8 billion tons of CO2 produced annually by the U.S. power sector, other countries collectively account for three-quarters of the power-related CO2 burden. China comes second after the U.S. with 2.7 billion tons; followed by Russia – 661 million tons; India – 583 million tons; Japan – 400 million tons; Germany – 356 million tons; Australia – 226 million tons; South Africa – 222 million tons; the United Kingdom – 212 million tons; and South Korea – 185 million tons.
CARMA shows low power sector CO2 emissions from Hungary, Algeria, Kuwait, Singapore, Belarus, Portugal, Chile, Denmark, and Brazil.
“High U.S. emissions are partly the result of high living standards but they also reflect differences in energy policy. Europeans, with comparable living standards, emit less than half the power sector CO2 of the average American”, says Dr. Birdsall.
One surprise in the data is that the biggest emitters of CO2 in the world in absolute terms are located not in the rich world but in rapidly emerging economies with massive coal-fired plants.
Indeed, new research by Dr. Wheeler shows that even without CO2 emissions from the high income countries, rapidly rising emissions in developing countries would put them on track to produce their own climate crisis in just 20 years.
Company Country Tons of CO21 HUANENG POWER INTERNATIONAL China 292,000,000
Carbon emissions impose a huge cost on society by threatening the basic elements of life —access to water, food production, health and the environment. Economists have estimated these “social costs” at anywhere from $8 per ton to as high as $100 per ton of CO2.
Investors are expected to respond quickly to the CARMA data. Many are already concerned about the possible impact of future regulations on power company profits—whether or not they are worried about climate change. For such investors, CARMA provides an easy way to check the potential carbon liabilities of firms in which they invest. CARMA includes links to stock market information for many publicly traded companies.
Investors who believe that society will eventually insist that CO2 polluters pay part of the costs can easily calculate power firms’ potential liability by multiplying the number of tons of CO2 emitted annually by a per-ton charge they think likely and subtracting the result from the company’s profits.
“Even if you assume a fairly low charge of about $20 per ton of CO2, power producers that rely heavily on fossil fuels will have to shift rapidly toward renewable energy if they are to remain profitable,” Dr. Wheeler says.
By comparison, power companies that rely heavily on low-carbon technologies—hydropower, nuclear, wind, and solar—face fewer potential climate-related liabilities. CARMA makes it easy to find these companies: large power producers with low-carbon emissions intensity earn a large Green circle, while large power producers that emit a lot of CO2 get a large Red circle.
CARMA’s maps and geographical interface will be useful for states, cities, and counties that have pledged to reduce their carbon footprint. For example, CARMA will assist the nearly 700 US mayors who have signed the Mayors Climate Protection Agreement.
Jacob Scherr, Senior Attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, says that the data will be helpful to states and cities that want to cut emissions from local power plants as part of their climate change strategies. “Across the U.S., in the absence of federal action, many states and cities are eager to take action,” he says. “This data will help state and local leaders to measure their progress.”
Table 1. Top-100 Highest CO2-Emitting Power Plants in the United States
Table 2. Power Sector CO2 Emissions by State
Table 3. Top-25 CO2-Free Power Plants in the United States
Table 4. Top-100 Highest CO2-Emitting Power Sectors by U.S. County
Table 5. Top-25 CO2-Free Power Sectors by U.S. County Map. Power Plants in the Continental United States
Table 6. Top-25 Highest CO2-Emitting Power Plants Worldwide
Table 7. Top-50 Countries with Highest CO2-Emitting Power Sectors
Table 1. Top-100 Highest CO2-Emitting Power Plants in the United StatesPlant City State Tons of CO2
Table 4. Top-100 Highest CO2-Emitting Power Sectors by U.S. CountyCounty State Tons of CO2
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Fasteners -- Torque/clamp force testing
This standard was last reviewed and confirmed in 2018. Therefore this version remains current.
ISO 16047:2005 specifies the conditions for carrying out torque/clamp force tests on threaded fasteners and related parts. It is applicable, basically, to bolts, screws, studs and nuts made of carbon steel and alloy steel, whose mechanical properties are specified in ISO 898-1, ISO 898-2 or ISO 898-6, having ISO metric threads with thread sizes M3 to M39. It is also applicable to the combination of other externally and internally threaded fasteners with a triangular ISO thread according to ISO 68. It is not applicable to set screws and similar threaded fasteners that are not under tensile stresses, nor to screws which form their own mating thread or threaded fasteners having additional self-locking features.
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IzumoBASE, INC. announced that it had completed Cisco Interoperability Verification Testing (IVT) of Cisco UCS and IzumoFS had been certified as Cisco compatible.
With the certification, IzumoBASE announced a reference architecture of IzumoFS-Cisco UCS storage solution. This verified architecture enables users to easily integrate their servers, networks, and storages, by taking advantage of IzumoFS’s simple storage management and Cisco UCS Manager’s flexible server resource management.
Overview of the solution, detailed contents and results of IVT, the reference architecture, and collaboration with Cisco UCS Director are described more in detail in the following product pages and a white paper.
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IzumoFS-Cisco UCS storage solution is suitable for following use cases:
IzumoBASE accelerates business partnership with Cisco as a member of Cisco Solutions Partner Program. We focus not only on disseminating our Cisco Compatible solution, but also on developing collaboration between IzumoFS and Cisco UCS Director to realize more integrated systems. The collaboration with Cisco UCS Director was demonstrated at Cisco Live 2017 in Las Vegas on June 25 - 29, 2017, and it received positive responses from attendees.
Please refer to the following report on the details of our exhibition at Cisco Live 2017.
Comment from Hiroyuki Ishida, DataCenter/Virtualization Operations, Regional Manager of Cisco Systems G.K.
Cisco UCS solution provides excellent features such as system administration and system orchestration by Cisco UCS Manager. We believe the solution is a perfect match for IzumoFS – which consist of pure P2P architecture without any of "special node" such as gateways or connectors – and Cisco UCS would dramatically streamline operation and management of IT infrastructure. To be more specific, by combining Service Profile of Cisco UCS Manager and Node Replacement feature of IzumoFS, a user can accomplish hardware replacement with minimum overhead. In the process of IVT, IzumoFS has shown great compatibility with Cisco UCS, not only functionally or performant, but especially in the aspect of simplifying administrator’s daily operations. We expect IzumoFS would become the key product that makes SDS prevail to the wide range of users in the world.
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We are the support partner of IzumoFS and a Gold Certified Partner of Cisco. We are pleased to see IzumoFS has been certified as Cisco UCS Compatible. IzumoFS is a notable SDS product with outstanding features such as inline deduplication and secret sharing scheme. We are going to provide a one-stop support service for both IzumoFS and Cisco UCS covering the whole country by our wide support network.
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People called for jury service in NSW are reaping the benefits of a new $4.2 million online jury management system bringing the jury process into the 21st Century.
“The new service replaces a 20 year old system that was cumbersome, paper-bound, laborious and error-prone,” Attorney General Brad Hazzard said.
“It has been designed to speed up the jury processing times at courts by providing airport style electronic check-ins, on-the-spot excusals and eliminating the need for jurors to carry paper summons.
“Jurors now have their own personal online profile where they can update their contact and banking details, apply to be excused or opt in for text and email notifications including court attendance reminders. “We’re making it easier for people to plan ahead so that if you have booked a holiday or have medical treatment scheduled, you can nominate two periods of up to two weeks where you cannot sit on a jury.
“The NSW Government is putting dollars where it counts for the 200,000 people involved in the jury process every year who are asked to engage in this important civic duty,” Mr Hazzard said.
The new system has cut jury registration processing times at the state’s busiest court, the Downing Centre, from 3.5 hours down to 30 minutes.
This system creates rolls of randomly selected jurors, issues notices and summonses, manages their selection and empanelment and processes payment for serving jurors.
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Das alte Kunsthaus in Luzern © M. Annoni/Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Das alte Kunsthaus in Luzern in den 1930er Jahren © Armin Meili/Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Arturo Toscani, 1938 © Jean Schneider/Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Lucerne (1939) © Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Sergei Rachmaninoff and Arturo Toscanini (1939) © Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Wilhelm Furtwängler © Jean Schneider/Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
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Bruno Walter (1949) © Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Ernest Ansermet (1950) © Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
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Igor Markevitch © Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Ernest Ansermet in rehearsal (1961) © Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Wilhelm Furtwängler in rehearsal (1955) © Gerold Zust/Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Anfahrt zum Konzertabend (1958) © Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Daniel Barenboim, 1966 © Paul Weber/Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Otto Klemperer (1968) © Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Ferras Christian und Lorin Maazel (1960) © Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Antal Dorati (1969) © Archive LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Bernard Haitink in rehearsal with the Swiss Festival Orchestra (1966) © J. Koch/Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Herbert von Karajan (1963) © Paul Weber/Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Sergiu Celibidache conducts the Swiss Festival Orchestra (1974) © Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Leonard Bernstein conducts the Vienna Philharmonic (1988) © ArchivesLUCERNE FESTIVAL
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Maurizio Pollini (1981) © Archives LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Master Class with Mieczysław Horszowski © Stephan Wicki
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Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic (1997) © Priska Ketterer
KKL Luzern © Luzern Tourismus AG
Claudio Abbado and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA (2003) © Priska Ketterer
Pierre Boulez and students of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY (2010) © Georg Anderhub
Claudio Abbado © Fred Toulet/Archive LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Riccardo Chailly and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA (2016) © Peter Fischli
Bernard Haitink conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (2011) © Peter Fischli
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (2010) © Peter Fischli
The Easter Festival at the Weinmarkt in Lucerne (from 1453 into the 16th century) is regarded as one of the outstanding contributions to the early history of German-language drama. In the 19th century the General Music Society of Switzerland (later: Swiss Union of Musicians) presents music festivals in Lucerne. From 1866 to 1872 Richard Wagner lives in nearby Tribschen, where he completes Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and composes parts of the Ring. A decade before, while in exile in Zurich, he envisaged a festival on the shores of Lake Lucerne – an idea that is also later taken up by his son Siegfried around 1930. Richard Strauss and Max Reinhardt similarly consider Lucerne as a potential festival city before they found the Salzburg Festival. Even before music festival is founded, guest orchestras perform regularly in Lucerne under such leading conductors as Arthur Nikisch, Arturo Toscanini, and Wilhelm Furtwängler. Along with this tradition, Mayor Jakob Zimmerli – the leading force behind establishing a music festival, which will also give an impetus to the tourist industry – can also base this plan on a reliable infrastructure: the Kursaal in the Grand Casino Lucerne, the Saal of the Hotel Union, and the Kunst- und Kongresshaus, newly opened in 1933. Initial plans for a music festival are developed in 1936-37, inspired by the Swiss conductor Ernest Ansermet and in collaboration with Walter Schulthess, the director of the Zurich Concert Society AG. The Lucerne Kursaal Orchestra is foreseen as the ensemble, to be expanded with musicians from the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, which Ansermet founded in 1918. Richard Strauss is asked to be the conductor but declines in 1938. In 1937 a “run-through” takes place in the Kursaal with the radio orchestras of Zurich and Lausanne led by Robert F. Denzler.
On 25 August 1938, Arturo Toscanini conducts a gala concert in Tribschen, for which an ad hoc orchestra comprising the finest musicians of the era is organized, the so-called “elite orchestra.” This performance arouses international attention and is regarded as the official beginning of the Internationale Musikfestwochen Lucerne (IMF), later known as LUCERNE FESTIVAL – though the festival’s events, which also include chamber music and lieder recitals, had really already begun with a performance by Ernest Ansermet and Alfred Cortot on 18 July 1938. Additional orchestral concerts are conducted by Fritz Busch, Bruno Walter, and Willem Mengelberg. Lucerne thus responds to the ominous political situation, because artists like Toscanini, Busch, and Walter no longer wish to or are unable to perform in Bayreuth or in Salzburg on account of their political opinions or their origin. The success of this first festival inspires the desire to continue.
In 1939 the IMF presents a splendid program: from July until September, Arturo Toscanini rents an apartment in the neighboring Kastanienbaum and conducts six concerts, stepping in for Bruno Walter for two of these. After rehearsals, the latter must cancel because of a family tragedy but returns to Lucerne in 1949 and 1950. Toscanini’s performance of the Verdi Requiem in the Jesuitenkirche is regarded as the highpoint of this second summer. Such soloists as Vladimir Horowitz, Pablo Casals, and Sergei Rachmaninoff, who from 1932 until 1939 resides at the Villa Senar in Hertenstein, give the event additional glamour. Immediately after the end of the festival, the Second World War breaks out.
Because of the Second World War, the Internationale Musikfestwochen (IMF) does not take place in 1940. This is the only interruption in the history of the Festival. The Kunst- und Kongresshaus is taken over by the military.
Performing at the first two Summer Festivals during the war is Milan’s La Scala Orchestra, which is led by Victor de Sabata, Antonio Guarneri, and Tullio Serafin and by the Swiss Robert F. Denzler and Othmar Schoeck.
In reaction to the engagement of a guest orchestra from a Fascist country over the previous years, the Swiss Music Association and its Chairman Rudolf Leuzinger establish the Swiss Festival Orchestra. Until its dissolution in 1993, it is an artistic core of the Festival. Following the Opening Concert with Denzler are performances under Paul Kletzki, Ernest Ansermet, Hans Münch, and Carl Schuricht. Walter Strebi (Chairman of the IMF from 1953 to 1965) founds a series of master courses conducted at the Lucerne Conservatory, for which such teachers as Edwin Fischer and Carl Flesch, later also Enrico Mainardi, Georg Kulenkampff, and Wolfgang Schneiderhan, are enlisted. In 1945 Ernest Ansermet leads the first course in conducting – a tradition that such figures as Herbert von Karajan (1955), Rafael Kubelík (1982), Pierre Boulez (2003–2012), and Bernard Haitink (since 2011) will continue.
Two key future figures make their debuts at IMF. Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts the Swiss Festival Orchestra for the first time but cancels his participation the following year on account of anti-German protests in Zurich and Winterthur. After his “denazification” in 1947, the conductor, who now resides on Lake Geneva, plays a central role in the IMF until his death in 1954. In addition, a serenade concert by the Collegium Musicum Zurich is performed for the first time at the Löwendenkmal under the direction of Paul Sacher, who leads this popular evening event every summer until 1996.
Two extra concerts by Arturo Toscanini with the Scala Orchestra in July, which is still before the beginning of the festival, turn out to be the maestro’s final appearances in Lucerne. The violinist Yehudi Menuhin debuts in Lucerne. The Swiss Festival Orchestra makes its first recording under studio conditions (Brahms’s Fourth Symphony under Kletzki), which is also the first record produced by a Swiss ensemble for the international market.
The restrictions on travel that had been in place during the Second World War and in the immediate postwar years are removed, which leads to increasing internationalization of the IMF. Two important debuts conducting the Swiss Festival Orchestra: Rafael Kubelík, who has fled Czechoslovakia, leads the Opening Concert, while Herbert von Karajan also makes his first appearance – Lucerne is the first foreign city to invite the “denazified” musician. Both conductors go on to shape the IMF in the following decades.
Das Lied von der Erde (under Kletzki) is the first work by Gustav Mahler to be heard as part of the Musikfestwochen. (Bruno Walter had had to cancel a scheduled performance of the Resurrection Symphony in 1939.)
Dinu Lipatti’s final appearance at the Internationale Musikfestwochen Lucerne (IMF): a few months before his death, he joins Herbert von Karajan and the Swiss Festival Orchestra to play Mozart’s K. 467 Piano Concerto, the live recording of which acquires legendary status.
The Vienna Symphony (under Karajan) becomes the first foreign ensemble to perform at the IMF after the Second World War. Igor Markevitch, André Cluytens, and Leopold Stokowski make their debuts in Lucerne (all of them conducing the Swiss Festival Orchestra).
Ferenc Fricsay fills in for the ailing Wilhelm Furtwängler. Until his death in 1963, the Hungarian maestro regularly makes a striking mark as a guest artist at the IMF.
The Lucerne-based attorney and member of the governing council Walter Strebi, a supporter and proactive force behind the Festival since its founding, becomes Chairman of the Organizational Committee (until 1965). He is immediately confronted with financial problems: while the press demands a stronger commitment to modern music, the audience is notably absent from bolder programs (even Karajan’s performance of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex). The young Guido Cantelli meanwhile takes them by storm.
Long-simmering conflicts with the Swiss Festival Orchestra finally break out in public. The ensemble, which has played nearly every symphony concert since 1943, insists on dominating artistic matters; the IMF organizers in turn, because they hold chief responsibility for the Festival, demand the right to participate in creating the programs. Since no resolution is in sight, they summarily replace the “house orchestra” with the London Philharmonia Orchestra (with Cluytens, Edwin Fischer, Fricsay, Furtwängler, Karajan, and Kubelík). Following the Summer Festival, the collaboration with the newly formed Swiss Festival Orchestra will be relaunched.
After Furtwängler’s death, Karajan becomes the new “figurehead” for the IMF: along with two concerts with the Swiss Festival Orchestra, he also offers a conducting course. The final concert is conducted by Otto Klemperer.
Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Rudolf Baumgartner found the Festival Strings Lucerne and devote one of their first three concerts to contemporary music, launching of the “Musica Nova” series, which will continue for decades. Along with the Swiss Festival Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra is again engaged as a guest orchestra with great success. This is the beginning of the unique parade of top international orchestras, which to this day remains a hallmark of the Festival’s high quality.
First performance by the Vienna Philharmonic (with three concerts under Cluytens, Kubelík, and Dimitri Mitropoulos and an evening of chamber music), which has remained loyal to the IMF ever since.
For this IMF anniversary year, the Berlin Philharmonic makes its first guest appearances (under Karajan, Klemperer, and Fritz Reiner). Through regular concerts, which become annual starting in the late 1960s and are under the direction of their music director Karajan (who now no longer performs with the Swiss Festival Orchestra), the Berlin Philharmonic becomes an audience magnet. Debut of Lorin Maazel. Arthur Rubinstein gives his first piano recital in Lucerne.
For the 20th anniversary of the Lucerne Festival Choir, Sir Thomas Beecham conducts a performance of Messiah with a “mammoth gathering of forces.” Glenn Gould’s only appearance.
To mark the 100th anniversary of Gustav Mahler’s birth, Otto Klemperer and the Philharmonia Orchestra perform Das Lied von der Erde. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings Kindertotenlieder under George Szell. The NHK Symphony Orchestra from Tokyo comes to Lucerne for the first time.
Ferenc Fricsay conducts the world premiere of Zoltán Kodály’s Symphony in C, written for the Swiss Festival Orchestra, which continues to commission contemporary composers regularly in the following years.
As a memorial to the pianist Clara Haskil, a regular guest at the Internationale Musikfestwochen, the “Concours Clara Haskil” Piano Competition is offered for the first time – but without a winner being chosen. Additional competitions take place as part of the IMF in 1965 (winner: Christoph Eschenbach), 1967 (winner: Dinorah Varsi), and 1969 (no winner).
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under William Steinberg become the first American ensemble to perform at the IMF. In the middle of the Cold War, a recital by the extraordinary Russian pianist Sviatoslav causes a sensation. The “Young Artists” series, which focuses on emerging talent, begins in spectacular fashion with Jacqueline du Pré and Peter Serkin.
Walter Strebi becomes the first Honorary Chairman of the IMF, and the law professor Alois Troller is appointed his successor as Chairman (until 1971). Toller seeks to move away from the ossified programming conception which ultimately leads to a restructuring and professionalization of the IMF. The first appearance by the Bavaria Radio Symphony Orchestra (under Rafael Kubelík) makes the start of a close association that continues to this day.
The establishment of the Foundation “Friends of the Internationale Musikfestwochen Lucerne” enables those running the IMF to ensure substantial financial and moral support by interested private persons and business circles. Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, and Bernard Haitink all make their debuts – three emerging star conductors who will remain closely associated with the Festival as influential figures for decades.
The Cleveland Orchestra (under George Szell and Karajan) becomes the second U.S.-American ensemble to appear at the IMF.
To mark the IMF’s 30th anniversary, the program offerings are expanded to a total of 32 events, half of which are symphony concerts. The first appearance by the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein is especially sensational. On Alois Troller’s initiative, planning is begun for a new organization of the IMF in 1970: in order to professionalize the hitherto volunteer leadership, Rudolf Baumgartner is named artistic director to the Chairman, with Othmar Fries, the Director of Lucerne Traffic, as his administrative director. Opposition to the proposal comes mainly from the program commission hitherto in charge, but Toller is able to implement the desired innovations.
One year after the bloody suppression of the “Prague Spring,” the Czech Philharmonic becomes the first orchestra from the Eastern bloc to perform in Lucerne, giving three concerts. The Czech exile Rafael Kubelík invites the musicians to a garden party and awards them a “medal commemorating freedom,” which is however swiftly confiscated by the accompanying functionaries. Walter Schulthess, who as an adviser has significantly influenced the IMF since it was founded, retires from the Organization Committee.
Founding of the “Stiftung Internationale Musikfestwochen” and beginning of the Rudolf Baumgartner era. Since the new Artistic Director also heads the Conservatory and the Festival Strings Lucerne, an even closer association between these Lucerne music institutions is forged. He also establishes significant points of emphasis: one innovation is to have a thematic focus on which to base the Festival programming each year; modern music is moreover increasingly part of the picture, as in the Beethoven year 1970 by juxtaposing his nine symphonies with works from the 20th century. The Festival themes are initially oriented to composers or geographical perspectives, such as “Music by Swiss Composers” (1973) and “Spain as a Musical Country” (1976), Igor Stravinsky (1972) and Maurice Ravel (1975). The “Musica Nova” concerts are expanded into the “Perspectives” series, each of which focuses on a composer, so for example Mauricio Kagel, Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Klaus Huber, György Ligeti, and Witold Lutosławski during the first several years. Following two last-minute cancellations in previous years, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli gives his first (and only) recital.
Mayor Hans Rudolf Meyer becomes Chairman of the IMF (until 1978). First piano recitals by Vladimir Ashkenazy and Radu Lupu (who steps in for Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli). The violinist Yehudi Menuhin and the Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar perform the “East and West” concert.
To mark Igor Stravinsky’s 90th birthday, each of the 11 symphony concerts includes at least one of his works. First appearance by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from Amsterdam. Last performance for the time being (Handel’s Messiah) in the Jesuitenkirche, which will remain closed for concerts until 1981 owing to renovations.
The “Concours Clara Haskil” is moved to the pianist’s former place of residence in Vevey. At the same time the IMF strengthens its commitment to young performers and expands the “Young Artists” series into a platform for launching their careers – with appearances by the 13-year-old Anne-Sophie Mutter, Maria João Pires, Christian Tetzlaff, Thomas Zehetmair, Frank Peter Zimmermann, and the Hagen Quartet.
The theme “Music of the Second Viennese School” is enthusiastically greeted by the press, but the gamble proves to be too big: in view of the low demand from the audience, the artistic direction must rethink its efforts and accentuate “moderate” modern music in order to prevent a financial debacle. Sergiu Celibidache conducts the Swiss Festival Orchestra for the first time – and requires eight rehearsals for Schoenberg’s Op. 31 Orchestra Variations!
First appearances by Pierre Boulez, conducting the New York Philharmonic in two concerts
Debut recital by Maurizio Pollini.
In order to gain new audience members, the IMF for the first time offers a “Concert for the Elderly and the Disabled” as well as an open-air event for young people.
Double anniversary: the 800th birthday of the City of Lucerne and the 40th anniversary of the IMF coincide. Othmar Fries becomes full administrative director of the IMF (until 1988).
Werner Bühlmann replaces Hans Rudolf Meyer as Chairman of the IMF (until 1988). First guest performances by the Boston Symphony Orchestra (under Seiji Ozawa) and – the first time an ensemble from East Germany has been invited – the Staatskapelle Dresden (under Herbert Blomstedt).
Following the dismissal of Rudolf Baumgartner, Ulrich Meyer-Schoellkopf, who is also the Director of the Stadttheater (until 1982) and Music Director of the General Music Society of Lucerne Orchestra (now known as the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra), is named the new Artistic Director (until 1991). He succeeds in consolidating the financial situation and in advancing the Internationale Musikfestwochen through a “policy of small steps.” In order to strengthen the IMF’s international network, he establishes an advisory board which includes Vladimir Ashkenazy, Rafael Kubelík, and Paul Sacher. The already established focus of each Festival year on a specific theme is continued.
Vladimir Ashkenazy for the first time encourages the construction of a new concert hall. Over the following years, from private sources and benefit appearances by Ashkenazy and Kubelík, funds are acquired to hold a competition for ideas and to conduct preliminary planning, which is approved by Lucerne’s electorate in 1989.
Queen Elizabeth II takes over patronage of the IMF, which is dedicate to the theme of “England.” Kubelík revives the master classes, which have since become rigidified, with a new course in performance for conductors.
The outstanding “Perspectives” series “The Composer and His World” is devoted to the work of Pierre Boulez.
Because of his quarrel with the Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan conducts the Vienna Philharmonic; one year later he is again on the podium of “his” Berliners. Rafael Kubelík provides a splendid finale to the Festival theme of “Music from Czechoslovakia” with a complete performance of Smetana’s Má Vlast with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. It will be his final Lucerne appearance.
The programing celebrates the 300th birthdays of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Handel, and Domenico Scarlatti. Claudio Abbado conducts the European Community Youth Orchestra in Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony – thus inaugurating what in future will be an increasing involvement with including youth orchestras.
To mark Othmar Schoeck’s 100th birthday, the IMF again champions his work, including a concert performance and recording of his opera Massimila Doni.
To mark its 50th anniversary, the IMF takes a look back over its own history: Ashkenazy and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande repeat the program of the first Festival concert under Ernest Ansermet in 1938. The Chamber Orchestra of Europe meanwhile makes its Lucerne Debut under Abbado with a concert of works that, a half century before, Arturo Toscanini had selected for his legendary gala concert in Tribschen. Final Lucerne appearances by Karajan and Leonard Bernstein. Additionally, a significant innovation takes place: in reference to the medieval tradition of the Easter and Passion plays, an Easter Festival takes place for the first time.
Georges Bucher becomes Chairman of the IMF (until 1998) and urges construction of a new concert hall. Together with Meyer-Schoellkopf, who after Othmar Fries’ retirement as Administrative Director takes on overall management of the entire Festival, he takes the first steps towards a sponsorship model. Shortly before the breakup of the Soviet Union, the thematic focus is on “Russia”; among the programs are first performances at the IMF of several of Dmitri Shostakovich’s symphonies. James Levine performs a Karajan memorial concert with the Berlin Philharmonic.
First appearances by Christoph von Dohnányi, Michael Gielen, András Schiff, and Günter Wand.
The second edition of the Easter Festival, which has been thoroughly planned, is canceled because the main orchestra expected to perform, the New York Philharmonic, abandons the trip on account of the First Gulf War. The summer honors two anniversaries: the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death and “700 years of the Swiss Confederation.”
Matthias Bamert takes over direction of the Internationale Musikfestwochen (until 1998). He is committed to partnerships with large businesses and establishes the Easter Festival as a second annual festival, which places special emphasis on sacred music and on concerts in Lucerne’s churches. He also carries out more experiments, expands the traditional theme into a “leitmotiv,” and opens the Festival up to a broad range of the public, for example through the Late Night series, midday concerts, and the “Festival within the Festival,” with a focus that changes each year, such as street or amateur music.
Exactly 50 years after its founding, the era of the Swiss Festival Orchestra comes to an end with three concerts; the Lucerne Festival Choir, on the other hand, continues until 2000. The position of composer-in-residence, who is more prominently involved in the summer programming and commissioned to write a composition, replaces the composer portrait series introduced by Baumgartner. Alfred Schnittke becomes the first and is succeeded by such figures as Klaus Huber, Luciano Berio, Beat Furrer, Michael Jarrell, Wolfgang Rihm, and Heinz Holliger. Marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Sergei Rachmaninoff, his entire keyboard works are performed on a single day. First appearance by Mariss Jansons (conducting the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra).
The citizens of the City of Lucerne give assent in a plebiscite to reconstruction of the KKL. An initial attempt to form a new ensemble associated with the Festival fails (already operating under the name of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra). The concerts by this orchestra, which comprises former members of renowned youth orchestras and is led by Kurt Sanderling, Yehudi Menuhin, and Gennady Rozhdestvensky, generate little response from the public.
Final concert in the old Kunsthaus with Giuseppe Sinopoli and the Vienna Philharmonic. Debuts of Simon Rattle (conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra) and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who from this point on appears each year at the Easter Festival with his Concentus Musicus.
The Kunsthaus is torn down, but the KKL Lucerne is not yet finished. Under leadership of the architect Max Schmid, the former factory hall of the von Moos Steel company is transformed into an acoustically outstanding concert hall which can be reached by a special train from Lucerne’s main train station – a “Festival dealing with adversity,” with a very special atmosphere.
Just in time to mark the 60th birthday of the IMF, Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic open the new concert hall on 19 August. The completion of the entire KKL complex takes until 2000. Other festivals visit as guest artists with their own productions, such as the Bayreuth Festival with parts of Götterdämmerung (under James Levine) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (under Daniel Barenboim) and the Salzburg Festival with Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise (under Kent Nagano). The KKL opens up new possibilities: the Piano Festival is the third Festival to be founded. Taking place annually in late November, it is devoted entirely to keyboard music.
Jürg R. Reinshagen becomes Chairman of the Board of Directors of the IMF (until 2009), the violinist and cultural manager Michael Haefliger follows Bamert as Executive and Artistic Director of the Festival. Haefliger continues to focus on themes in the summer and implements numerous new ideas: he expands the Festival’s commitment in the realm of contemporary music and gradually expands its projects in the field of education (initially as the “Children’s Corner,” later as LUCERNE FESTIVAL YOUNG). He moreover enhances the Festival’s international presence, for example by establishing the Circles of Friends abroad in such counties as the United States and Japan. Especially significant are the two new “pillars” he founds in 2003, which will shape the Festival: the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, which he founds together with Claudio Abbado, and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, which he develops with Pierre Boulez.
The KKL Lucerne is now completely ready for business: as part of the summer Opening Concert on 17 August the new Goll organ in the grand concert hall is consecrated. To celebrate his 75th birthday, Pierre Boulez is in residence with the London Symphony Orchestra. Two awards that alternate annually are introduced to promote young talent: the “Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes” (starting in 2001) and the “Credit Suisse Young Artist Award,” which is given jointly by the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Society of Friends of Music, and the Credit Suisse Foundation. The first winner of this award is Quirine Viersen. Other winners in the years following include Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Sol Gabetta, Martin Helmchen, Antoine Tamestit, and Vilde Frang.
The name of the Internationale Musikfestwochen Lucerne is changed to LUCERNE FESTIVAL. “Creation” is the theme of this summer, which is heralded by the poetic fire spectacle “the KKL in flames.” Other highlights are the Swiss premiere of Luigi Nono’s Prometeo (with the Ensemble Modern under Ingo Metzmacher) and the Lucerne premiere of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony (with Franz Welser-Möst and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra). Sol Gabetta receives the first-ever “Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes.” Despite the terrorist attack of September 11, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra carries on with its Lucerne residency.
First appearance by Christian Thielemann, who is a guest artist with the Munich Philharmonic at the Easter Festival. Pierre Boulez and Olga Neuwirth make their marks on the summer programming as composers-in-residence.
Beginning of a new era: the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, founded by Claudio Abbado and Executive and Artistic Director Michael Haefliger, is introduced with a “concert de gala.” It comprises internationally acclaimed soloists, chamber musicians, music professors, and members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and links back to Arturo Toscanini’s legendary “elite orchestra” with which the history of the Festival began in 1938. With a performance of the Resurrection Symphony Abbado and his “orchestra of friends” launch their celebrated Mahler cycle; their concerts earn major media attention and are broadcast around the world. Additionally, Pierre Boulez conducts a LUCERNE FESTIVAL PREVIEW ACADEMY.
Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio ensembles begin their annual residency at the Easter Festival. The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY becomes firmly anchored in the Festival as a training institution for the music of the 20th and 21st centuries that is internationally unique. Harrison Birtwistle is the first winner of the Roche Commissions, a biennially awarded commission of major contemporary composers. The Piano Festival is for the first time expanded to include Piano Off-Stage, which features performances by international jazz pianists in selected bars and restaurants.
The most devastating flood since 1910 forces the leaders of the Festival to cancel no fewer than seven concerts during the Summer Festival, which is shaped by such figures as composer-in-residence Helmut Lachenmann. Abbado and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA undertake their first tour to Rome. In the following years they will go on tour to such venues as Suntory Hall in Tokyo (2006), Carnegie Hall in New York (2007; Boulez and David Robertson in place of Abbado), and the Musikverein in Vienna (2008), as well as to the London Proms, Paris, Madrid, Hamburg, Baden-Baden, Ferrara, Moscow, and Beijing.
Matthias Pintscher is introduced for the first time: together with HK Gruber, he makes a mark on the programming as composer-in-residence. Michael Gielen conducts the first complete performance in Lucerne of Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder.
The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY gives a performance of Stockhausen’s Gruppen, in which, along with Boulez, Peter Eötvös, and Jean Deroyer, three young graduates of the master class in conducting also participate: Pablo Heras-Casado, Kevin John Edusei, and Lin Liao. A new project inspired by Boulez is launched: the construction of a “salle modulable,” a flexible hall for music theater.
In January, outside the time frame of the three Festivals, memorial concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic, Seiji Ozawa, and Anne-Sophie Mutter take place marking the 100th birthday of Herbert von Karajan. In the summer Bernard Haitink begins his regular Lucerne collaborations with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with a major Beethoven cycle (until 2009), which is followed by performance series of the complete concertos and symphonies of Brahms (2011-12) and of Schumann (2014).
Dr. Hubert Achermann becomes Chairman of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL Foundation. In counterpoint to the Festival theme of “Nature,” in which the two composers-in-residence, Kaija Saariaho and Jörg Widmann, immerse themselves, the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY focuses on works with live electronics, including Boulez’s Répons.
The summer theme is “Eros” and includes several semi-staged opera performances: Claudio Abbado conducts the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA in Beethoven’s Fidelio, and Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra perform Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (with videos by Bill Viola). With numerous world premieres, the Swiss Tonkünstlerfest is integrated into the Summer Festival for the first time.
In response to the catastrophic earthquake in Japan of 11 March, Executive and Artistic Director Michael Haefliger launches the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ARK NOVA project. This is a mobile concert hall developed by Anish Kapoor and Arata Isozaki which is intended to contribute to the cultural rebuilding of the affected regions. Bernard Haitink begins his master class for young conductors during the Easter Festival. The multipart series “Pollini Perspectives” begins in the summer; it juxtaposes selected Beethoven sonatas with new works by Lachenmann, Manzoni, Sciarrino, and Stockhausen. The slogan “A Festival for Lucerne” underscores the Festival’s increased efforts to open up to a broader spectrum of the public, for example with programs in Inseli Park, a light show, and dance nights. The offerings for children and young listeners are also expanded and refocused under the moniker “Young.” The Piano Festival is dedicated to Franz Liszt’s 200th birthday.
Claudio Abbado introduces the Orchestra Mozart at Easter, the orchestra he has most recently founded. Nikolaus Harnoncourt makes his final guest visit. Following the Summer Festival, Pierre Boulez, the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, and the Ensemble intercontemporain take Boulez’s Pli selon pli on tour to Turin, Milan, Amsterdam, Paris, Munich, and London (with the soloist Barbara Hannigan) – these are also Boulez’s last performances conducting the Academy. Abbado and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA give a benefit concert for the earthquake-damaged Teatro Communale Ferrara.
At the Easter Festival Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic present John Adams’s new oratorio, The Gospel of the Other Mary (in the staging by Peter Sellars), which is a Festival co-commission. In the summer LUCERNE FESTIVAL celebrates its 75th anniversary with a focus on the theme of “Revolution.” Among the highlights are the first complete performance of Wagner’s Ring cycle in Lucerne (with Jonathan Nott and the Bamberg Symphony) and the “Anniversary Day,” a day-long music spectacle that takes place in all of the KKL Lucerne’s concert halls and which is attended by over 7,500 music lovers. At his final performance, Abbado conducts Schubert’s Unfinished and Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony. Lorin Maazel, who conducts the Festival finale with the Vienna Philharmonic, makes his final guest appearance. In September and October the inflatable concert hall LUCERNE FESTIVAL ARK NOVA is constructed for the first time in Matsushima, Japan; over the next two years, the ARK NOVA tours to Sendai and Fukushima.
Following the death of Abbado, who is honored at the Easter Festival with a memorial concert by “his” LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, Andris Nelsons takes on directorship of the summer programs. Two newly founded projects are introduced to the public: the Festival’s own creative laboratory Young Performance, which develops new formats for young listeners (wining the “Young Ears Award” for its very first production, titled HEROÏCA); and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI, the international network of former Academy participants.
To mark the 90th birthday of its founder and director, the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY joins with the Ensemble intercontemporain to organize a “Day for Pierre Boulez” featuring works by the honoree as well as “birthday gifts” from such colleagues as Heinz Holliger, György Kurtág, and Wolfgang Rihm. Composer-in-residence Tod Machover presents his Symphony for Lucerne, a musical portrait of the city created in close collaboration with the inhabitants of Lucerne. At the end of the Summer Festival, the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA and Andris Nelsons embark on a major European tour that includes two performances at the new Paris Philharmonie. The Piano Festival introduces a new event: over several concerts, the first-ever “Day of the Keyboard” gives the spotlight to the KKL’s Goll organ.
Riccardo Chailly commences his tenure as Music Director of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA with Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. After Boulez dies in January, Wolfgang Rihm succeeds him as Artistic Director of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, supported by Matthias Pintscher as Principal Conductor. With the theme of “PrimaDonna,” the Summer Festival explores the roles of women in music life, bringing female composers, soloists, and conductors into focus. No fewer than six female conductors appear at the first-ever “Special Event Day,” which is a day-long music marathon in the KKL Lucerne. Bernard Haitink and Daniel Barenboim celebrate the 50th anniversary of their Lucerne stage debuts, and Anne-Sophie Mutter and Maurizio Pollini mark 40 years of association with the Festival.
Two years after his Festival debut, Teodor Currentzis returns to the Easter Festival as artist-in-residence, and Mariss Jansons conducts the Swiss premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s Requiem-Strophen – the inauguration of a new series in Lucerne, the räsonanz Donor Concerts. Riccardo Chailly and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA undertake their first tour together, which includes stops in Japan, Korea, and China. With a focus on the theme of “Identity,” the Summer Festival explores the controversial issues of globalization, migration, and contemporary isolationism through initiatives such as projects involving refugees. John Eliot Gardiner pays tribute to the 450th birthday of Claudio Monteverdi with performances of his three surviving operas. The Vienna Philharmonic celebrates the 60th anniversary of its Lucerne debut. The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra becomes the first Chinese ensemble to perform at the Festival. The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY presents Friedrich Cerha’s monumental orchestral cycle Spiegel in the Swiss premiere of the complete work and also performs it abroad on tour. And the Day of the Keyboard at the Piano Festival looks ahead to the upcoming 100th anniversary of the death of Claude Debussy
The Easter Festival turns 30, the Piano Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary, and the Summer Festival revolves around the theme of “Childhood,” featuring works composed especially for children or in which composers recall their childhood – including, naturally, special performance formats aimed at young and very young listeners. The Berlin Philharmonic celebrates the 60th anniversary of its Lucerne debut, appearing for the very first time with Kirill Petrenko on the podium. Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra join with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY to perform Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gruppen as part of the major retrospective titled “Kosmos Stockhausen.” “Artiste étoiles” Sol Gabetta and Dan Tanson are an integral part of the programming, as is composer-in-residence Fritz Hauser. | <urn:uuid:1148f7fd-e3e0-48bb-bd75-d7e92c6045f2> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/about-us/history | 2019-07-22T21:02:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528220.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722201122-20190722223122-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.90299 | 9,377 |
World Village Festival's exhibitors have been published on the festival's website and on the festival magazine.
Over 390 different civil society organizations, commercial actors, educational establishments and members of authority will gather to Kaisaniemi park and Railway Square to talk about their work. The exhibitors offer a great opportunity to festival goers to find their own way to act for a more sustainable world. 200 of all the exhibitors are civil society organizations.
Festival goers have a possibility to explore the selection of 59 food vendors, who offers tastes from 30 different food cultures.
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Topless FEMEN Protester Burns Crucified Barbie Doll to Protest Pink Dollhouse Opening in Berlin
Ukraine-based "sextremist" group FEMEN hit Berlin on May 16, burning a crucified Barbie doll to protest the opening of a Barbie Dreamhouse exhibition. Standing in front of a 25,000-square foot pink mansion built by Mattel, Barbie's manufacturer, a topless FEMEN activist in a ruffled skirt shouted slogans against sexism, commercialization, and idol worship before being removed by security. In photographs replicated by news media across the world, the protester's bared body spoke the loudest; "life in plastic is not fantastic" was written across her chest.
The Berlin action is only FEMEN's latest stop in its ongoing world tour: on May 12, topless protesters interrupted a far-right rally in Paris by displaying an anti-Nazi banner; on April 24, they poured water over Belgian archbishop André-Jozef Léonard; on April 8, they rushed Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel while shouting; "fuck the dictator." FEMEN's launch last month of "topless jihad," the group's movement against Islam, attracted the world's attention. Google searches for "FEMEN" are now nearly twice as much than those for "feminism." Under so much media scrutiny these days, FEMEN has an extraordinary opportunity to define the dialogue surrounding international women's rights. Unfortunately, it's an opportunity that — so far — they've failed to take advantage of.
Only five years old, FEMEN has distinguished itself not by method (naked protest has been used since before the Lady Godiva legend was first told) or principle (its opposition to violent, oppressive patriarchies is shared by feminist groups everywhere) but by media savvy. Though FEMEN totals less than two hundred topless protesters, it maximizes its coverage by encouraging media outlets to film their protests, training members to work in front of cameras, and tipping off journalists to planned protests. Inna Shevchenko, one of the group's leaders, told French reporters, "we know what the media need — sex, scandals and fighting — and that's what we give them. To be in the newspapers is to exist at all." And she's right. The newspapers are getting what they want ... but what do women around the world need? Intelligence, honesty, clarity. Is that what FEMEN gives them? No.
In its bid to attract reporters, FEMEN's lost sight of its own professed politics. Shevchenko has written, "female nudity which is free from the patriarchal system becomes the symbol of women's liberation ... We are naked because we are feminists." But the female nudity they display is increasingly mired in the very patriarchal system they condemn. On International Workers Day, FEMEN's website posted a picture of three heavily made-up models dressed in the group's traditional Ukrainian flower wreaths, leather thigh-high boots, and white panties. "PEACE, LABOR, MAY" was written over the stomach of the woman in the center. Slogans only emphasize the hypocrisy of images like these; you can't damn the patriarchy while covered in its trappings.
Anna Hutsol, FEMEN's founder and director, has said, "no one paid attention to us before we demonstrated topless." So their very young, very attractive representatives are doing just that — and everyone is paying attention (even Putin, after being confronted by FEMEN protesters with "go fuck yourself" written across their backs, announced, "I liked it"). But with so little content so far other than "sex, scandals and fighting," FEMEN has only reinforced international misogyny. More than 16,000 people follow the FEMEN main social networking page, which describes the group this way: "Got tits? We'll teach you the rest!" Okay, FEMEN, the world is listening. We've seen the tits. Now teach us the rest. | <urn:uuid:85b55d94-a8da-42bf-87fe-6536752e2938> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.mic.com/articles/43109/topless-femen-protester-burns-crucified-barbie-doll-to-protest-pink-dollhouse-opening-in-berlin | 2019-07-22T20:18:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528220.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722201122-20190722223122-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.958473 | 828 |
What are muscle “knots” actually made of?
July 14, 2015 MVP Blog comments
A: Surprisingly, no one knows definitively what muscle knots are made of — and some researchers question whether they even exist at all.
Many experts believe that the knots, often referred to as myofascial trigger points, are “specific areas of contraction within the muscle fiber,” said Rob Grieve, a senior lecturer in physiotherapy at the University of the West of England in Bristol, England, who has studied the phenomenon.
(NYTimes.com, by Gretchen Reynolds)
The knots seem to develop when a muscle tenses repeatedly and “are normally not caused by a specific, traumatic event,” he said, “but by muscle overuse or faulty biomechanics.” (This is also known as slouching.)
It is thought that these small bits of hyper-tensed muscle cause discomfort and pain by “blocking some of the normal blood flow to the affected tissue,” said Jan Dommerholt, a physical therapist in Bethesda, Md., who studies and treats muscle knots.
But writing in the March issue of Rheumatology, scientists from Australia and the United States pointed out that muscle knots rarely show up on scans, leaving researchers with “no scientific basis” for believing that knotted muscle fibers make us sore. Instead, the researchers contend, the soreness is likely neural, involving the brain and irritated nerve endings.
Regardless of the possible cause, most therapists feel that the best treatment for purported muscle knots is to pummel them. Vigorously massage the sore spot with hands, Dr. Grieve said, or use a small, hard ball (such as those used for lacrosse) or a foam roller.
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Procrastinating is Bad. Close the Gap
With the tax deadline getting closer, the opportunity to procrastinate is getting away from us. While we are forced to get our tax documents together, why not take this opportunity to tackle some other commonly procrastinated financial decisions? As financial advisors who focus on financial planning, we see this as the achilles heel of a lot of folks. They know what to do, but for some reason they are not doing it.
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Southern Nevada's three largest cities, Las Vegas, Henderson and North Las Vegas, are located in Clark County. While within close proximity to one another, each city is fully independent. Nevada has no state personal income tax which can save you thousands of dollars.
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Sinemia, the global technology company, announced on Monday (Sept. 17) that it has launched a movie ticket subscription in the U.S. in which subscribers can access any movie in any format at any theater and at any showtime.
In a press release, Sinemia said the service, which is already available in the U.K., Canada, Turkey and Australia, is now live in the U.S.
“As a tech startup with a passion for movies, our goal is to create a more elevated movie-going experience via offline and online integration. We offer prime memberships, including movie tickets and discounts [at] restaurants and cafes, that increase movie-going frequency in a sustainable way,” said Rifat Oguz, founder of Sinemia, in the press release. “Already, we are successfully operating in five countries around the world, and plan to open in four additional markets in the near future.
“Leveraging unique technologies, we have put forth the most innovative, high-value and least restrictive movie ticket subscription service to date,” he continued. “While we do not offer ‘more’ tickets per month, Sinemia does offer higher-quality tickets and a superior customer experience. We are happy to serve a proven movie ticket subscription model that creates a bigger value for customers and financially sustainable business for all partners in the movie-going ecosystem.”
Sinemia said members get as many as three monthly movie tickets for less than the cost of one, and won’t face restrictions like other movie ticket subscription services. Subscribers also benefit from advanced ticket options and seat reservations, as well as a couples’ subscription plan dubbed Sinemia for Two. Memberships start at $9.99 per month with various gifting options available, the company noted.
In August, rival MoviePass announced that as of Aug. 15, subscribers would be able to see three movies per month for $9.95, and could purchase additional tickets through the MoviePass app for a $2 – $5 discount. The newest version of the plan also ended “peak pricing,” where desirable showtimes cost a few dollars more. Those who paid for a full-year subscription still have the option to see unlimited films per month.
The ever-shifting terms of service — not to mention rising concerns that the firm is rapidly running out of money — have taken a harsh toll on MoviePass in recent weeks and months. Its parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, has seen falling stock rates, and its cash burn rate has been deemed alarming by most who have watched the situation unfold. As July came to a close, the firm endured a multiple-hour outage that was originally blamed on a technical glitch — when, more accurately, it had simply run out of funds and needed to take a $5 million emergency loan at a high interest rate to pay back key partners and get back up and running. | <urn:uuid:8a98c048-66d8-4c70-87e1-539f8b267de6> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.pymnts.com/subscriptions/2018/sinemia-movie-ticket-service-moviepass-retail/ | 2019-07-22T21:08:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528220.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722201122-20190722223122-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.962189 | 616 |
Will Young had to re-record 'Leave Right Now' because he "sounded gay"
23 March 2018, 10:57 | Updated: 23 March 2018, 11:01
Will Young has opened up about his struggles with homophobia in the music industry.
The singer revealed that he was made to re-record his classic 2003 hit 'Leave Right Now', because he "sounded gay".
The lead single from his second album Friday's Child, it was a number one hit at the time, with songwriter Eg White winning the Ivor Novello Award for 'Best Song Musically and Lyrically'.
Speaking to the Telegraph, Will explained: “I didn’t know at the time, but when I was recording ‘Leave Right Now’, someone at the record company said I ‘sounded gay’ and kept making me re-record the track.
“There’s a real flavour to homophobia and bigotry. It’s really shaming. People don’t understand the power of language.”
Will's comments come soon after he claimed that a London bus driver shouted homophobic abuse at him.
The Pop Idol winner tweeted about the alleged incident on Friday, January 5, claiming that a TFL bus driver use homophobic slurs.
“Quite how someone complains and actually GETS footage I am unsure,” he said at the time.
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As Australia prepares for an R18+ rating for video games, new research suggests parents are taking more responsibility for the games their children play.
The Digital Australia 2012 report by Bond University says 83 per cent of parents with children under 18 years of age now play video games, up from 70 per cent in 2008.
Of parents who play games, 88 per cent play them with their children, while 90 per cent use them to help educate their children, up from 75 per cent in 2008.
Report author Dr Jeff Brand says "parents are increasingly playing games with their kids". "It's a way to affirm our relationships and have fun with each other."
Most parents are positive about the impact of games on their children's lives, saying they help kids learn about technology, maths, science and language as well as planning and life skills.
Four out of five parents say an adult makes the purchase when buying a game for their children and 90 per cent are influenced by the classification system, but most say they are not familiar with the parental controls now commonly built-into game playing devices.
Over 1200 households and 3500 people across Australia were surveyed for the research, which was conducted on behalf of the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (iGEA). It is the fourth report in the Bond University series of studies, with the first conducted in 2005.
The research has found that video games are now ubiquitous in Australian households, with 92 per cent of Australians living in a household with at least one device for playing games, up from 76 per cent in 2005.
Whether the household contains children is no longer a significant factor in whether its occupants play video games or own a gaming device. The percentage of Australians who live in a household with children and a gaming device is only marginally higher than those without children.
63 per cent of gaming households play on a dedicated gaming console, 62 per cent play on PC, 43 per cent play on a mobile phone, 13 per cent on a gaming handheld and 13 per cent play games on a tablet computer.
The average age of Australian gamers continues to rise. In 2005 the average age of a video game player was 24, now it is 32 years old. 75 per cent of gamers are aged 18 or over.
95 per cent of children aged between six and 15 years now play games.
Gaming is also a past-time that people do not seem to lose interest in over time. The average Australian gamer has now been playing for 12 years, while 20 per cent of gamers have been playing for over 20 years.
The proportion of female game players also continues to rise. 47 per cent of game players are now female, up from 38 per cent in 2005.
Puzzles games were nominated by the most Australians as their favourite games, followed by strategy titles and shooters.
Nearly one in five Australians play games on a social network while one in 10 play massively multi-player games.
The reason people nominate for playing games differs according to their chosen device. Most console and PC players say they play games to have fun or relax, while mobile and tablet users overwhelmingly say it is to pass time.
Over 90 per cent of gamers say that video games relieve boredom, offer excitement and are mentally stimulating. The vast major of gamers also say that games help reduce stress, create culture and are social.
As expected, non-gamers are more negative about the impact of games on other people's lives. The report suggests stereotypes about games still linger, with non-gamers particularly concerned about violence.
But there is little evidence games cause people to be anti-social. Most gamers only play between 30 minutes and an hour at a time. Gaming is something we enjoy often, though. 57 per cent of gamers play either every day or every other day.
"Games are a very important part of our media diet," says Dr Brand.
The typical game playing experience is alone, although 70 per cent of gamers enjoy them with others. Dr Brand says the increase in single player gaming is probably due to the prevalence of mobile phone gaming, and y drop again as more mobile games add multi-player features.
Most gamers still prefer to purchase new games from a local retail store, but over 20 per cent of gamers say they now prefer to download games from an online outlet. Dr Brand says he expects this to rise as the quality of broadband connections improves.
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PHILIP Hammond accused the Tory leadership rivals of “throwing away” the party’s hard-won reputation for balancing the books.
Both candidates in the race for No10 have pledged to spend tens of billions more on giveaways, from tax cuts to more on schools and defence.
In a withering broadside, Mr Hammond accused the duo of “a bidding war”, and even suggested they were misleading the Tories’ 160,000 members.
The Chancellor told the BBC: “We have to live within our means and people have to be honest about the consequences of either spending more money or of cutting taxes.
“My concern is that this Government has built up a reputation for fiscal responsibility.
“The British people have worked incredibly hard over a decade now to rebuild our public finances and I think it’s very important that we don’t throw that all away.”
He added: “If we’re not careful, all we end up doing is borrowing more and spending more on interest instead of on our schools and our hospitals and our police.”
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Mr Hammond’s double-barrelled attack was being seen as his admission he expected to be fired from the Treasury by both men.
Brexit minister Kwasi Kwarteng, who is backing Johnson, said: “I’d be very surprised if he were going to be the Chancellor to make these decisions.”
But Hammond’s stance was backed by ex-party chairman Lord Patten, who said: “Their tax and spending pledges are making Labour look like fiscal moderates.”
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Below are some stills, raw artwork, as well as reference images for the mermaid sequence.
Dan Auerbach - Shine On Me
A collaboration with artist Steven Martens.
For this video, we combined digitally drawn artwork with CG elements to create a fun, psychedelic video in alignment with the upbeat tune.
This is The Black Keys frontman, Dan Auerbach's first release off his solo album, Waiting On A Song.
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Beautifully shot and choreographed, this video captures man and nature in free spirit. CG effects compliment the artfully framed shots, creating a dynamic work of art.
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Fearless, the bold single from Alisha Zalkin's sophomore album, On This Road, was written as a tribute to her friend that was diagnosed with cancer.
The concept features real people from all walks of life - transgender, disabled, young, senior and famous to name a few. But while different, they share a common belief in that overcoming obstacles, fighting for love, and living to the fullest is what life is about.
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The music video for Trapdoor Social's "Like You Never" features Merritt and Skylar in a dark world that comes to life as the sun rises. Energy waves engulfs them, but together they combine forces and explode into a supernova of embers. This world is on fire!
Going back to their roots of environmentalism, Trapdoor Social's concept for the video is reference to solar energy and the movement of a clean renewable source of power across the globe.
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Meet Frank Catalfumo, a 91 year-old shoemaker and shoe repairer from New York City. He still works in the shop where he’s been for 50 years. Listen to his stories about “the good old days” and life in Brooklyn before The War.
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This isn't a book review blog, but every December I like to share my favorites of the books that I've read this year. I read a lot of great books from all different genres, but I guess I'm still a YA fantasy nut at heart. All five of these are speculative fiction, and four of the five are YA.
And without any further ado...
1. The Crown of Embers by Rae Carson
I find that I often get really invested into a series at the second book. It happened with Catching Fire and The Queen of Attolia (see below), and also with Rae Carson's debut trilogy. I enjoyed The Girl of Fire and Thorns (the first book in the series) when I read it last year, but I loooved The Crown of Embers. Rae Carson does strong female characters incredibly well. Too often, "strong female character" is taken simply to mean "good at beating people up" or "stubborn." But Carson's Elisa learns strength in the ways that matter -- in compassion, self confidence, independence, confidence, and integrity. Elisa in The Crown of Embers is a stronger, surer one than in TGoFaT, but we still see her grow as a woman and a queen. And Hector (swoon)! Who knew he'd be so dreamy without the mustache? The Bitter Kingdom is on my bookshelf, and I'm very much looking forward to it.
Last week, I mentioned using 99 Designs for Poison Dance’s cover. I love the book cover I ended up with, but I'm hesitant to use the service again. A few people asked me to elaborate.
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I’m in the interesting position of being a first time author in both traditional and self publishing in the same year. My novel Midnight Thief comes out with Disney-Hyperion in July 2014, and I’ve recently self published Poison Dance, a prequel novella. (Is it a prequel if it was written after the novel but published before?)
Since there's so much discussion of traditional vs. indie these days, I thought it be interesting to do a step-by-step comparison of the process for both books. Obviously, there are differences – Midnight Thief is a 370 page novel and Poison Dance is a 54 page novella for one thing. Also, Poison Dance was published partly to help market Midnight Thief. But still, it’s an interesting case study.
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- I live in Christchurch, New Zealand. A city that, over the past few years, has been struck by several large earthquakes. As a result our city doesn’t have that many buildings left standing. Most of our churches are gone. Masses are celebrated in halls or parish centers. Whole parishes themselves don’t exist and our city is now going through a rebuilding process.
According to our diocese’s newsletter, which comes out quarterly, last year just over 24 couples in our diocese went through the marriage preparation program. I may be coming to the wrong conclusions from this but I think it shows a few things. Vocations to marriage are suffering. Sure, people are getting married – there were definitely more than 24 couples who got married in our diocese last year – but not in the Catholic sense. Perhaps people were getting married in the Catholic Church because of the pretty buildings. Now that the pretty buildings don’t exist, they don’t bother. A beach, vineyard or garden will suffice. Therefore, marriage preparation – a requirement to get married by a priest in a Catholic church, isn’t necessary. Either that or the priests are simply not doing the program with couples.
Pretty much everyone will be in some form of romantic relationship in their lifetime, and a good proportion of the population will be parents, yet our preparation is limited. Increasingly, the younger generation doesn’t have the good luck to have been brought up with parents who literally have it “together” so they miss out on being witness to it. The only other real education in relationships is the media, perhaps health class in school, and teenage dating, all of which prepare for a potential life of promiscuity more than a happy marriage.
Is it any wonder that as a twenty something, my peers see no priority in marriage? I recently ran into a classmate who, when explaining she was married with children, went on to justify why she had married young rather than just living with her partner. The fact that she had probably been questioned negatively about this multiple times struck a chord with me, as I also have experienced prejudice being a young wife and mother. We are not the norm. I expect my children to have many classmates that come from families where their parents are divorced or unmarried. They may have half siblings or step siblings. After all, I grew up with this myself.
Marriage is apparently the hardest vocation, yet a priest gets at least seven years in the seminary before being ordained. People spend on average between 120 and 200 hours planning a wedding. How much time do they spend on actually preparing for the lifelong commitment marriage entails? What about simply cohabitating? How much time is spent preparing for that to last? Apart from living and sharing a life with someone in a relationship that you want to make work, there are finances, household chores, leisure time, sex, emotional baggage, and past histories to negotiate. And that is before children are even thought of…
Do we wonder perhaps why vocations to religious life are in need when vocations to marriage are also trivialized or not well prepared for?
Perhaps it is taken for granted that marriage is something that we know about. But in my opinion and experience our younger generation aren’t being well formed. In work I have done teaching Theology of the Body for Teens, young people often hear for the first time the church’s teachings about the sacrament of marriage and that the church even has a teaching on contraception (who knew?). They expect divorce and see no real importance in marriage, let alone understand the beauty of Catholic marriage.
A study by sociologists at the University of Queensland found that premarital cohabitation, as well as premarital childbearing, significantly increases the odds of marital breakup. While cohabitation increases the odds of divorce by 41% for men and 31% for women, out-of-wedlock childbearing increases those same odds by 63% for men and 2.3% times for women. On the other hand, the birth of a first child within marriage had just the reverse effects: reducing the odds of marriage breakdown by 85%.
Perhaps in our rush to achieve the modern ideal of being rich, traveling the world and owning all the best fashions and gadgets all while having a good time, we have our priorities slightly out of whack? While we get an education and work experience and all that in preparation for our career, preparation for our lifelong relationships with our spouses and children is more important.
Something we are not taught in modern popular culture is self sacrifice. Our culture constantly advertises that everything is about “me, me, me”. Relationships involve giving of ourselves. Strong marriages require us to put the other first. If each of us in the spousal relationship put the other first then we look after each others needs (Ephesians 5:21-33), something that is especially important in times of illness, pregnancy, childbirth and hard times. This is something the world we live in doesn’t prepare us for in any way. In the words of St. Francis de Sales, marriage is a “perpetual exercise of mortification”. Who wants that in this day and age? Yet in my experience the richness and fruits of marriage and love where you offer yourself in whole to another person is immeasurable. After all, marriage is about love, a love beyond just a “feeling” involving giving and receiving. Marriage is against the counterfeit of lust and using in our culture, and it is totally worth it.
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These people mean the best. They’re sad and want to make us feel better, but this hope for a greater purpose is not just a platitude – it blames the victim for their circumstance, hiding the agency behind an unknowable greater being.
If “happens for a reason” referred to determinism or the predictable causality of a system, given a certain set of inputs and rules of behavior, then I’d be willing to accept the statement.
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If there truly is purpose behind all actions, then unjust suffering isn’t unjust after all, but retribution or sacrifice demanded by a universe that to all appearances acts in arbitrarily cruel ways. We are told we simply can’t understand the mind of god and that he knows what is best for us and those we love. To accept a purpose in the suffering of innocents is to suppose this suffering to be necessary for some greater unseen good. The suffering of Jesus, we are told, was necessary to absolve mankind from original sin. If we still suffer, then it must be something we did.
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To say Ryan died for a reason is to say his death was a necessity, and I’m not willing to accept this.
There is an insidious cruelty in this belief. We are asked to submit to the will of an unseen agent whose actions seem arbitrary or vindictive but are simply (we are told) inscrutable. Left to wonder, blame falls upon ourselves. Was I penitent enough? Did I make the right sacrifices? Did he my friend die because he worked on the Sabbath? The doubt eats away at the survivor, leaving them hungry for answers and vulnerable to the predations of those who would exploit this weakness.
Ryan was a devout Christian, and would no doubt disagree vehemently with me on this point, as he did the night I said goodbye. And how I wish he was here to make that case. But his death was a confluence of random events, from a bit of errant DNA to an inattentive X-Ray technician. There’s no need to claim his death was necessary – because it wasn’t.
However, just as I’m unwilling to believe in the necessity of death, I’m also not willing to believe in the necessity of life. Each day is chance and none of us is guaranteed any number of days. If you woke up this morning then count yourself lucky – damned lucky. But there’s no reason your luck won’t run out tomorrow, so enjoy today with abandon.
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Keynote speaker Wes Searcy, president of Next Worldwide, urged messengers to pursue authenticity and accountability in their leadership roles and to become "World Christians." What does it mean to be a "world Christian"? Searcy challenged messengers to focus on their ministries and what God is doing in Iowa, but also to keep their eyes toward all "ethne" at the same time. Searcy asked messengers, "Are you ready to surrender to God whatever he asks of you?"
BCI Executive Director Tim Lubinus announced that BCI churches increased weekly attendance 50 percent over the last five years and that BCI churches baptized more than 1,000 people over the last year. Lubinus stated that Cooperative Program giving has been strong, with a 400 percent increase over the last five years, from $99,000 in 2013 to $401,000 in the year ending Sept. 30, 2018.
Lubinus also reported on staff changes this year to increase BCI impact in supporting pastors, developing pastor peer learning groups, communication systems, communication support for churches and BCI organizational support. Kari Minter joined the BCI staff this year as planter spouse care advocate to encourage and support church planter's wives.
Lubinus informed messengers about a new initiative in overseas ministry through the Daniel Project. The goal of the Daniel Project is to recruit, train, and send near-culture Christians to engage in evangelism and church planting in difficult areas, predominantly in Central Asia. The new initiative invites Iowa pastors and church leaders on a one-week vision trip and to support the ministry as a church partner with monthly giving.
Chase Abner, lead church planting catalyst told the messengers, "I always say that church planting in Iowa is necessary, exciting and possible, but we need local churches to see that the next generation of planting leaders are sitting in their pews today."
Abner also noted that BCI churches have started 18 new churches together over the past five years but that there is still much work to be done. Abner challenged local churches to "raise up the next generation of church planting leaders."
The Executive Board approved a grant at the September board meeting to use a significant portion of BCI reserves for new projects in developing new leaders as church planters in the state. The projects would support and encourage pastors and help better mobilize and support cross-cultural missionaries sent from BCI affiliated churches.
BCI pastor and church support staff members Ed Gregory and Chris McRae shared about the many programs and initiatives for supporting existing churches. Gregory and McRae stated that along with church planting team leader Chase Abner they try to make sure that every church affiliated with the BCI has regular, meaningful connection with the state office. Additional facilitators with specialized skills and gifting have volunteered to assist with supporting existing churches and church leaders.
Another initiative to support pastors was the addition of a bi-vocational pastors retreat. Shannon Smith, with the Bi-Vocational and Small Church Leadership Network, led a group of pastors and their wives to examine some of the issues unique to pastoring in rural Iowa while holding down a full-time job outside of the church. Gregory and McRae mentioned that they are planning to host a similar retreat for this group uniquely challenged group again next fall.
Breakout sessions offered during the Annual Meeting included the following:
-- International Mission Board representatives Jeremy P. and Scott P. gave an overview of the work of the IMB and the Baptist Global Response.
-- North American Mission Board representative Bob Burton shared information about the new NAMB church planting pipeline, a development resource for the local church to discover and develop church planting teams.
-- Lifeway Christian Resources representative Greg Jackson introduced the new Daily Discipleship Guides as a tool for the local church.
-- BCI Planter Spouse Care Advocate Kari Minter shared with pastors' wives about staying focused on their own spiritual health as they walk through ministry with their husbands.
-- John Mark Yeats from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary called on attendees to stretch their minds in personal study and exercising their minds to love God. Yeats offered practical strategies for broadening and deepening a believer's reading, ministry and personal discipleship.
-- Hispanic Church Planting Catalyst Israel Becerra hosted a meeting of Hispanic pastors, church planters and lay leaders.
Officers elected at the annual meeting were President Jim Parker, pastor of Sojourn Church, Council Bluffs; First Vice President Todd Stiles, pastor of First Family Church, Ankeny; Second Vice President Michael Felkins, pastor of Grand Avenue Baptist Church, Ames; and Secretary Jerome Risting, Temple Baptist Church, Mason City. All officers ran unopposed this year and were elected by unanimous vote.
Regional representative Executive Board members elected at the annual meeting were Tom Nesbitt, Central Region; Ken Livingston, Northeast Region; John Tank, Northwest Region; Ricky Rohrig, Southwest Region; and Bob Allen, Southeast Region.
Messengers approved a budget of $1,625,962 for 2019 marking an increase of 3.79 percent from 2018. The budget includes $700,000, an increase of 8.57 percent from 2018, in anticipated Cooperative Program receipts from BCI churches, $730,000 from the North American Mission Board (plus providing one full-time lead church planting catalyst position) and $75,400 from LifeWay Christian Resources.
The BCI will continue to forward 50 percent of Cooperative Program receipts to SBC missions and ministries. The budget does not include any shared ministry expenses with the SBC.
The budget allocates $100,000 to the Iowa Ministry Fund consisting of 10 percent of BCI Cooperative Program receipts and 50 percent of the Iowa Missions Offering with the balance from reserves and foundation investments. The Iowa Ministry Fund normally distributes $10,000 to a selected ministry organization in each of 10 ministry categories to support organizations and ministries that offer God's mercy, love and truth to those who are among the most vulnerable across the state.
The BCI is 113 like-minded churches with more than 13,000 members who have organized together for greater ministry impact, focusing in the areas of church planting, church development and community transformation. The BCI pools resources for extending ministry into new areas and population segments within Iowa and around the world, provides mutual support, and develops the next generation of Baptist leaders.
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Fabulous Crochet Circular Jacket Free Pattern Ideas 2019
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The Last Poets Digital Biography
The true godfathers of hip hop. The Last Poets’ politically charged poetry has inspired everyone from Marvin Gaye to Public Enemy.
The Last Poets are heralded as the true godfathers of hip hop alongside Gil Scott-Heron. Their brand of politically charged poetry has inspired some of the biggest names in music including Marvin Gaye, Funkadelic, Curtis Mayfield and Quincy Jones, all the way through to hip hop giants such as Dead Prez, Common, Public Enemy and Kanye West. The three core members of The Last Poets – David Nelson, Gylan Kain and Abiodun Oyewole – came together in 1968. Several members rotated over the years, including founding member Felipe Luciano, Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, Umar Bin Hassan, Suliaman El-Hadi, and percussionist Nilaja Obabi. The group recorded groundbreaking albums such as The Last Poets in 1970, This Is Madness in 1971, and Chastisment in 1972. The latter fully introduced The Last Poets’ mix of jazz and poetry, doing away with the minimalist percussion of earlier albums. The Last Poets enjoyed a huge resurgence in popularity from the early 1990s onwards, appearing alongside the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest on the 1994 Lollapolooza tour and collaborated with Common on the Kanye West produced track The Corner which was nominated at the Grammy Awards in 2006 for Best Rap Performance. The huge impact made by The Last Poets’ words and music is still strongly felt until today.
The Last Poets is the name for several groups of poets and musicians who arose from the late 1960s African-American civil rights movement's black nationalist movement. The name is taken from a poem by the South African revolutionary poet Keorapetse Kgositsile, who believed he was in the last era of poetry before guns would take over. The original users of that name were the trio of Felipe Luciano, Gylan Kain, and David Nelson.
However, it is the versions of the group led by Jalaluddin Masur Nuriddin and/or Umar Bin Hassan that have penetrated mass culture to a legendary degree. The Last Poets have been cited as one of the earliest influences on hip-hop music. Critic Jason Ankeny wrote: "With their politically charged raps, taut rhythms, and dedication to raising African-American consciousness, the Last Poets almost single-handedly laid the groundwork for the emergence of hip-hop." The British music magazine NME stated, "Serious spokesmen like Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, and later Gary Byrd, paved the way for the many socially committed Black [emcees] a decade later."
With their politically charged raps, taut rhythms, and dedication to raising African-American consciousness, the Last Poets almost single-handedly laid the groundwork for the emergence of hip-hop. The group arose out of the prison experiences of Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, a U.S. Army paratrooper who chose jail as an alternative to fighting in Vietnam; while incarcerated, he converted to Islam, learned to "spiel" (an early form of rapping), and befriended fellow inmates Omar Ben Hassan and Abiodun Oyewole.
The Last Poets Upon the trio's release from prison, they returned to the impoverished ghettos of Harlem, where they joined the East Wind poetry workshop and began performing their fusion of spiels and musical backing on neighborhood street corners. On May 16, 1969 -- Malcolm X's birthday -- they officially formed the Last Poets, adopting the name from the work of South African Little Willie Copaseely, who declared the era to be the last age of poets before the complete takeover of guns. After a performance on a local television program, the group was signed by jazz producer Alan Douglas, who helmed their eye-opening eponymous debut LP in 1970. A collection condemning both white oppression ("White Man's Got a God Complex") and black stasis ("Niggas Are Scared of Revolution"), The Last Poets reached the U.S. Top Ten album charts, but before the group could mount a tour, Oyewole was sentenced to 14 years in prison after being found guilty of robbery and was replaced by percussionist Nilaja.
This Is Madness After the 1971 follow-up This Is Madness (which landed them on President Richard Nixon's Counter-Intelligence Programming lists), Hassan joined a Southern-based religious sect; Jalal recruited former jazz drummer Suliaman El Hadi for 1972's Chastisement, which incorporated jazz-funk structures to create a sound the group dubbed "jazzoetry." Following the 1973 Jalal solo concept album Hustler's Convention (recorded under the alias Lightnin' Rod), the Last Poets issued 1974's At Last, a foray into free-form jazz; after its release, Nilaja exited, and with the exception of 1977's Delights of the Garden, the group kept a conspicuously low profile for the remainder of the decade.
Oh My People By the 1980s, however, the proliferation of rap -- and the form's acknowledged debt to the Last Poets -- made their early records sought-after collectors' items; finally, in 1984 the group resurfaced with the LP Oh, My People, followed in 1988 by Freedom Express. Another layoff ensued, during which time Hassan issued a solo LP, 1993's Be Bop or Be Dead, and Jalal mentored the British acid jazz unit Galliano. In 1995, two splinter groups simultaneously reclaimed the Last Poets name; while Jalal and El Hadi teamed for the single "Scatterrap," Hassan and Oyewole issued the LP Holy Terror.
More recently, the Last Poets found fame again refreshed through a collaboration where the trio (Umar Bin Hassan) was featured with hip-hop artist Common on the Kanye West-produced song "The Corner," as well as (Abiodun Oyewole) with the Wu-Tang Clan-affiliated political hip-hop group Black Market Militia on the song "The Final Call," stretching overseas to the UK on songs "Organic Liquorice (Natural Woman)", "Voodoocore", and "A Name" with Shaka Amazulu the 7th. The group is also featured on the Nas album Untitled, on the songs "You Can't Stop Us Now" and "Project Roach." Individual members of the group also collaborated with DST on a remake of "Mean Machine", Public Enemy on a remake of "White Man's God A God Complex" and with Bristol-based British post-punk band the Pop Group.
In 2010, Abiodun Oyowele was among the artists featured on the Welfare Poets' produced Cruel And Unusual Punishment, a CD compilation that was made in protest of the death penalty, which also featured some several current positive hip hop artists.
In 2004 Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, aka Lightning Rod (The Hustlers Convention 1973) a.k.a Alafia Pudim, collaborated with the UK-based poet Mark T. Watson (a.k.a Malik Al Nasir) writing the foreword to Watson's debut poetry collection, Ordinary Guy, published in December 2004 by the Liverpool-based publisher Fore-Word Press. Jalal's foreword was written in rhyme, and was recorded for a collaborative album "Rhythms of the Diaspora (Vol. 1 & 2 - Unreleased) by Malik Al Nasir's band, Malik & the O.G's featuring Gil Scott-Heron, percussionist Larry McDonald, drummers Rod Youngs and Swiss Chris, New York dub poet Ras Tesfa, and a host of young rappers from New York and Washington, D.C. Produced by Malik Al Nasir, and Swiss Chris, the albums Rhythms of the Diaspora; Vol. 1 & 2 are the first of their kind to unite these pioneers of poetry and hip hop with each other.
In 2011 The Last Poets Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan performed at The Jazz Cafe in London a tribute concert to the Late Gil Scott-Heron and all the (former Last Poets)
In 2014 Last Poet Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin came to London and also performed at The Jazz Cafe with Jazz Warriors the 1st ever live performance in 40 years of the now iconic "Hustlers Convention". The event was produced by Fore-Word Press and featured Liverpool poet Malik Al Nasir with his band Malik & the O.G's featuring Cleveland Watkiss, Orphy Robinson and Tony Remy. The event was filmed as part of a documentary on the "Hustlers Convention" by Manchester film maker Mike Todd and Riverhorse Communications. The Executive Producer is Public Enemy's Chuck D. As part of the event Charly Records re-issued a special limited edition of the Vinyl version of Hustlers Convention to celebrate their 40th anniversary. The event was MC'd by Poet Lemn Sissay and the DJ was Shiftless Shuffle's Perry Louis
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Very soon, a book named Famous Fathers will appear on bookshelves. It's by the astonishing Pia Ehrhardt.
This is very exciting.
I have been a fan of Ehrhardt's subdued, gorgeous fiction for some time, followed her writing as it went from web to print journals, and figured someone would be savvy enough to offer her a book contract sooner or later.
Famous Fathers more than lives up to the promise of the short, remarkable pieces of prose you can find with a quick search for Ehrhardt's name in a search engine. There are passages I read and then reread, and as I reread, it occurred to me that I wanted to talk to Ehrhardt about writing, and specifically about her mastery of the present tense. Fiction in the present tense is a tricky thing. It's, often, just a trick an author uses without considering the implication. Ehrhardt has it down.
Famous Fathers is full of stories that confront difficult emotional terrain. It seemed to me that the present tense was a way of avoiding sentimentality. The narrators are not (tense-wise) far from the stories they tell. They can't idealize there own roles. They don't have time to create intricate justifications for their actions. We don't have them on the couch, figuring out how to lay the blame at their parents. The trauma of a story like "A Man" has not sunk in - it's all right there on the surface.
I try not to take sides in my stories, and the present tense helps me flatten out the perspective and play with just-the-facts pacing, while I'm loading the decks, layering trouble, and trying to make sense of why people hurt each other, why parents leave kids, and spouses cheat, and fathers exploit daughters. Even though the delivery sounds sudden, there's a world-weariness to the narrators who're telling the stories. I want to draw characters who are fierce and surpriseable, open to possibility, even when they're bruised. I've always thought of "A Man" as a past tense story. I feel the presence of the person who's off camera and wanting to talk about Lillian and Doss. It's her story as much as it's Lillian's story.
When a story suggests itself to you, and the first draft is being written, these implications of tense may not occur to you. But more drafts come (I assume), and you can spend time thinking about this. Did any of the pieces in Famous Fathers change during rewrites? Or did they come this way? Did you feel your instincts were right from the outset?
Most of the stories in this collection started in the present tense, I think, because I felt an urgency to get them written. I'd published young, and then taken a twenty-year detour away from writing. Along the way, I forgot how to tell the truth, so by the time I went to graduate school in 2000, I had a lot to talk about. I was loaded for bear, and I sure didn't want to lose the reader's attention. While drafting, I switched tenses to deepen the psychology in the stories. The story "Famous Fathers" was originally written in the present tense, first person, and then I switched the whole thing over to third person, past tense to give Katie more gravity, so she could smarten up some, and so I could see her from a distance. Teenagers don't have much access to their psyches, but they do have dreams and worries for days, (I'm the mother of a seventeen-year-old) and I needed a better look at what she was doing and why. My characters might not sound like they've spent much time on the couch, but I have!
Do you think, then, what you are trying to do is craft stories that have a sped-up internal clock? Are you pushing everyone ahead because the characters, like you, are also loaded for bear and not ready to look behind, or even down at their feet?
What occurs to me about this approach is that the powerful emotional moments in the stories then become speed-bumps to the characters, and something much more substantial to the reader. How, then, do you indicate to the reader that the little thing that felt like a bump to the character was, in fact, a wall that they smashed into?
Can you give me an example?
In "How It Floods," there is the moment when the narrator is sexually propositioned by her father. It occurs nearly wordlessly (at least if we are to trust the narrator's retelling). On the page, the impact of the moment is minimized by the retelling - though it occurs in past tense - because the frame remains present tense. It appears, is broken off by white space, and moved past.
In "How It Floods," the father's encroachments, the boundary-crossings, come to bear on the woman's adult relationships with men, and they're related in the past tense. She's been mentored and objectified by her father, and now she's resisting being a receptacle for men. In the scene where he comes into her room, I tried to keep the telling of the story as quiet and as contained as I could, so that the scene didn't shout INCEST! BAD MAN! But that it did wound. The past leans into the present, and the present leans against the past. This story and "Driveway" rock between the two. Section breaks give the reader a pause. Or, hopefully, pause.
There are a few ways the scene is contained, too. The present tense frame of the rest of the story literally contains the past tense memory. And then there is the language. Not only do words contain meanings, but the kind of language you use also acts to contain (heck, bottle) the emotion through understatement.
Then you slip into present tense again - the narrators slips away from the difficult emotional terrain of the memory, and speeds on ahead.
Quiet is a nice way of describing many of your sentences. They feel intimate and whispered. Can you talk about how you go about creating that feeling with language?
Yes, the present contains the past, which is still, sadly, at work. So true. As far as bottling, hmm . . . I imagine bottling as keeping something at bay, or on the shelf. In this story, the past presses on the present. She speeds away from the difficult terrain, yes, but she's on a slick road with worn down treads on her tires.
I need the quiet - the space to think - and I follow the whispers. I grew up in a boisterous Italian family where troubling events and small events alike were turned into melodrama. Melodrama usurps the truth by drawing attention to itself. I was a kid and reserved, so it was difficult for me to get a word in edgewise, but I had a lot to say about what I saw and heard. I was thinking this morning that present tense makes me feel like I'm telling a secret as much as I'm relating a story. And I'm asking the reader to be complicit, which gives me the responsibility of not loading up on one character, or on one side of the argument. I try to make my sentences clear, and uncoy, and unshockable, even though they're sometimes describing troubling events. I picture a reader who's always two steps ahead, and I write to keep him/her off balance, and engaged, head leaned in. Who can resist something that's whispered?
Final thoughts on the present tense? And can you tell us what's next for you?
Eli Horowitz of McSweeney's was introducing my story "Driveway" at Symphony Space, and he said something interesting: that I had an appreciation for "the triumph of the unseen decision." I like the idea that some of my stories don't wrap up at the end, that they might continue in the reader's mind after they've stopped on the page, because the characters are still futzing with/trying to fix their lives. There's more work to be done. Present tense feels like a story unfolding, of not yet being over, which makes sense for me because I have trouble saying goodbye.
Next, I need to finish my first novel Speeding In The Driveway, but I've gotten sidetracked by a short story I didn't mean to start that's set in New Orleans post Katrina. I haven't been able to write much about the city and aftermath of the flooding, but I think I'm ready. We'll see.
So, um, goodbye?
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Today's Limited Supply Challenge over at SCS was to stretch ourselves and do something we don't usually do. I have never decorated a gift bag before, nor have I used buttons on my cards... nor have I sewn! I do sew... just not on cards! Well... today I made a matching card and gift bag that I needed for a good friend. I used my 5/8" square punch to punch all these little squares of various Provo Craft Designer paper. I mounted them on a chocolate background. I used my Nesties to cut out the heart and also the label 2 on the card. I sponged Creamy Caramel around both sentiment panels. The bag is stamped with a Great Impressions Stamp in Chocolate Chip, the sentiment on the card I made up and printed on the computer. I could not for the life of me get a good photo of the set so I'm uploading them separately, but you can get the idea I'm sure! I did another first on the bag... I tore a piece of fabric from my quilt stash and tied it into a bow on the handle, along with some raffia. | <urn:uuid:b287c1d0-6a87-4359-8036-0a6009b6f0ea> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.th-ink-ingofyou.com/2009/02/gift-bag-and-matching-card.html | 2019-07-24T03:11:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195530250.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724020454-20190724042454-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.963756 | 234 |
Sometimes you need a cocktail in a pinch. I am of the mindset that as long as you have citrus and gin, you're good to go. However in this mixologist-crazed day and age, frilly cocktails & hand carved ice has spoiled us. It is possible to create something interesting at home, so I encourage you to improvise a bit. You never know; what you've got hidden in the back of your fridge behind the year old mustard might turn your "gin & juice" into a speciality cocktail. For instance, a jar of pepper jelly, a few limes and your favorite gin. Tasty.
BOOZE: Greenhook Ginsmith, possibly my favorite gin.
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Revit is an Autodesk computer-aided design (CAD) software tool used for building information modeling (BIM) by design-build construction teams. Revit is used in the digital design of buildings and their structural components, and integrates with other Autodesk software tools for purposes of virtual design and construction (VDC) management throughout a building’s construction lifecycle.
Drones scans of construction projects can be used in Revit to generate point clouds of the existing conditions of a building or site, which can then be imported into Revit for further analysis and manipulation. Here’s an example:
Site Scan point cloud brought into Revit
Revit is part of the Autodesk Architecture, Engineering, & Construction (AEC) Collection of software tools, which also includes popular tools such as AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Infraworks, and Navisworks. All of these tools feed into an integrated system of construction management software known as Building Information Modeling, or BIM.
Earthworks is the process of engineering involving excavation (cut) and movement (fill) of soils and rock for the purpose of grading a site. Drone software platforms enhance traditional earthwork processes by making it easier to collect, analyze, and share topography and volumetric data.
Navisworks is an Autodesk software tool used to manage, combine, and review various 3D model files.
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Founder effects and sex ratio in the gynodioecious Thymus vulgaris L.
- D. MANICACCI, D. COUVET, E. BELHASSEN, P. H. GOUYON, A. ATLAN
- Molecular Ecology SCI(E) SCOPUS
- Wiley in 1996
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Abstract Thymus vulgaris is a gynodioecious species (in which females and hermaphrodites coexist) with a highly variable frequency of females among natural populations (5–95%) and a high average female frequency (60%). Sex determination involves both cytoplasmic genes responsible for male sterility, i.e. the female phenotype, and specific nuclear factors responsible for the restoration of male fertility, and thus a hermaphrodite phenotype. In this study, molecular markers of the mitochondrial genome have been used to quantify the cytoplasmic diversity in 11 clumps of individuals observed in four recently founded populations. The very low diversity within patches in conjunction with the strong diversity among patches strongly suggests that clumps of individuals are the result of single matrilinear families. In clumps that contain mainly females, all the analysed females showed the same cytoplasmic pattern. This pattern differed from that shown by neighbouring hermaphrodites, indicating that the determination of sex is locally cytoplasmic. A comparison of genetic diversity before and after fire in one population showed that disturbances may cause a reduction in genetic diversity and a concurrent induction of local cytoplasmic determination of sex. Such cytoplasmic determination of sex in colonizing populations, together with the greater seed set of females, may largely improve the colonizing ability of the species.
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Things have been very Very VERY crazy for me lately. I only managed to do that last post because I managed to catch a breather. But now I have been getting ready for Live Oak (a music festival we volunteer at every year), then go to Live Oak (in which I will be gone 6 days) and I had to take care of my grandma while my aunt was out of town. Plus Jurassic World came out last Friday. So between all that I won’t be all that active. But a recent program on the National Geographic channel warranted some discussion so i quickly pounded this out.
What the hell happened? Well, i don’t know. I’ll try to finish Australia when i can. But right now i want to talk about the commercial fossil trade once again. I once tried to defend the commercialists. But after a certain incident i have seen the error on my ways. Thee nothing redeemable about them. They are destroying the ancient heritage of everyone in a gross, twisted mockery of a noble scientific profession all in the name of making a buck. Commercialists need to be stopped if the fossil record is to survive at all.
Last week was the first (and probably only, until i either land a job or get funding) time i was able to attend SVP, the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. It was fun, it was informative, it was exhausting! I saw some great talks, some great posters, and some not so great examples of either. Saw all the familiar faces, met some new ones, and got loads of advice and swag. It was a fantastic experience. It has left me a bit drained but not just physically. The conference has brought up a couple issues that no doubt stick in the Society’s craw. | <urn:uuid:6bb967f9-8fbc-46d1-b155-f72872115d8c> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://accpaleo.wordpress.com/tag/private/ | 2019-07-24T03:38:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195530250.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724020454-20190724042454-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.96837 | 371 |
|An Introduction to the Australian Principals Federation:
The APF is a Federal organisation dedicated to advancing the industrial interests of members, with State branches in Victoria and Western Australia. Membership is open to Principal Class Employees in the Government school sector of the two constituent states. We exist to protect and support members in employment related matters, and much of our activity is in industrial representation, advocacy, advice and support in dealing with issues such as complaints, conflict resolution, discipline, remuneration, superannuation, contract renewal, workcover, conflict of interest and performance matters to name a few. We provide support for our members working in difficult situations and strive to improve their conditions of employment.
Background and History of the VPF and APF
For many years in Victoria there had been associations representing the industrial interests of Principals. The Victorian High School Principals Association more than forty years ago submitted a salary claim for Principals to the then Victorian Teachers Tribunal. The combined professional associations ultimately decided to form a separate organisation to pursue the industrial interests of Principal Class Employees in 1988 which was called the Victorian Principals Federation (VPF).
The VPF operated as an organisation with its members being organisations and not individuals for a decade. In response to changes to Commonwealth and State legislation and the management of industrial relations, and the administrative transformation of government schools in Victoria at that time, a group of Victorian Principal Class Officers in February 1998 resolved to establish an Association of Principals to be known also as the Victorian Principals Federation. It was established for the purpose of seeking registration as an organisation under the Federal Workplace Relations Act. It adopted objects directed to securing improved terms and conditions of employment and to representing its members individually and collectively in negotiations with the employer and before the relevant industrial tribunal.
The application for registration by the VPF was granted by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) in November 1999 but overturned by the Full Bench of the Commission following an appeal lodged by the Australian Education Union (AEU). Influential Western Australian Principals, similar to their Victorian counterparts, frustrated at being excluded from industrial forums by the employer and dissatisfied with the AEU’s performance in representing Principal Class Officers’ industrial interests, sought to join the VPF in a fresh application for registration.
This came to be following a change of name to the Australian Principals Federation and the extension of membership to Western Australian Principal Class Officers. A fresh application for federal registration was lodged by the APF in December 2003. Registration was granted by Vice President Ross in January 2006, a decision upheld by the Full Bench of the AIRC in September 2006. However, in yet another twist, following a further appeal lodged by the AEU to the High Court which was remitted to the Federal Court, the Full Bench of that court in a majority decision quashed the registration on highly technical and contentious grounds concerning APF rules in July 2008.
The last word in this sequence of events however was to be made by the Australian Commonwealth Government. It legislated in the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009, an Act that became law on 1 July 2009, to render irrelevant the perceived defect in our rules by validating our registration status and that of every other registered organisation in the country because of the Government’s fear of the wider ramifications of the Federal Court’s decision quashing our registration in 2008. The Commonwealth legislation not only validated our registration but deemed us to have always been validly registered.
A series of legal challenges by the AEU to the application of the Commonwealth’s legislation in the Federal Court and High Court were finally dismissed by the High Court in May 2012.
The Australian Principals Federation has thus been registered continuously since 30 January 2006 providing it with all the legal powers of registration to support and represent its members. | <urn:uuid:7505f7cd-35d0-4005-9b45-a99663604358> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://apf.net.au/about-us/ | 2019-07-24T02:44:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195530250.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724020454-20190724042454-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.966755 | 781 |
Our guest this week on Art of the Song is Dean Gitter. Reading the liner notes for Dean’s latest project is a veritable who’s who in American Folk Music. In those tiny pages we found enough information to keep researching the journey of folk music for months to come. After a career that included managing legends like Odetta, Dean left the folk scene to stretch his wings in other entrepreneurial endeavors. Now, with the release of his album Carl Sandburg’s American Songbag 2.0 Dean has returned to his roots, and we are the better for it. In an age of free streaming, faceless downloads and anonymous spins of like sounding tunes, Dean Gitter and the Ute Mountain Gang breathe new life into timeless songs that create the fabric of the Folk music legacy. | <urn:uuid:488b5880-3126-4c8f-aac9-a380106d858d> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://artofthesong.org/dean-gitter/ | 2019-07-24T02:35:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195530250.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724020454-20190724042454-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.955316 | 163 |
Tracing your colonial ancestors isn't as difficult as it may seem. There are many societies and family historians who specialize in colonial family history research, and so there are a lot of resources online to help you with search strategies. Not sure where to begin looking for your early American ancestor or looking to break through a brick wall? Check out these 8 tips for tracing your colonial ancestors.
PERSI is an amazing, underutilized resource for genealogists and it is exclusive to Findmypast. PERSI contains over 2.7 million journal articles from thousands of historical, genealogical and ethnic publications from over 8,000 history and genealogy societies from all over the world. PERSI is filled with articles and resources for colonial and early American genealogy research. PERSI is also a great resource to research Native American history and genealogy.
One of our newest record sets, Registers of Licences to Pass Beyond the Seas is an invaluable record set for those of you looking for your early American or colonial ancestors. When searching this record set, be sure to browse the images, they're amazing. In this record collection you may be able to find:
- First name(s)
- Last name
- Birth year
- Residence town and county
- Departure year
- Departure date
- Departure port
- Ship name
- Regional destination
- Archive reference
- Year range
Common destinations include Maryland, Virginia, Barbados, St Christopher's, Austria, Holland, and Scotland.
3. Church records
Churches are great at record-keeping, so if you're searching for your colonial ancestor, try searching early colonial church records to find more about your ancestors. Church records are invaluable in family history research because they kept records earlier on than the government or states.
4. Study your history
If you know the history of the time period you're looking for your ancestor in, then it'll be easier for you to piece together the clues surrounding his or her life. It's even more important to have an understanding of the local history where your ancestor lived. You may not have the information on your ancestor's location, but once you find out, it will make your search easier.
5. Study church and reformation history
A large part of colonial and early American family history research is church records. It is important to have an understanding of the history of various churches in the colonial era because there were a lot of changes between churches and many churches separated and formed their own congregations, etc. that helped shape our country today. It's important to have a general understanding of America's religious history so that it can help inform your research, especially having an understanding of your ancestor's or family's religious background or denomination.
6. Census Records
The census records prior to 1850 can be a little daunting and limited with the information they reveal, but they do list the head of household and often the number of others living in the household as well. Use the early census records as a starting point to help you establish your timelines to help you piece together your ancestor's history.
Although there aren't a wide variety or a large number of articles to search, Findmypast does have US newspaper articles dating back to 1753 for you to search. If you're looking for your early American ancestor it is worth looking into the US newspaper collection, the towns were small and the news reported can reveal a lot about your ancestor.
New York Occasional Reverberator October 5, 1753
8. Contact your local history and genealogy societies
There are many societies that can help you uncover more about your family history. They can potentially help you uncover records you didn't know existed, or lead you in the direction of another organization that can provide assistance. Remember, you're not alone in your genealogy research, there are many others on a similar journey so they're happy to help. | <urn:uuid:004a676a-db8a-4c2e-8395-3d79dfa8026e> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://blog.findmypast.com/8-tips-for-tracing-your-colonial-ancestors-2103041533.html | 2019-07-24T03:10:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195530250.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724020454-20190724042454-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.954088 | 805 |
Firefighters are considered heroes all around the world. People look at them a little bit differently compared to police, doctors or soldiers. In this article we are going to describe, what it’s like to be one of them.
Firefighters are rescuers specially trained in firefighting. Their responsibility is to extinguish dangerous fires which threaten civilians, property or nature and rescuing civilians from different dangerous situations. Fire department is one of the three main emergency services.
Expression ”firefighter” has been used in english speaking countries since the beginning of the 20th century. It replaced ”fireman” since more and more women started to do this job. Another reason was, that word ”fireman” described a person who started the fire, which is the exact opposite what firefighters do.
In many countries there are two types of firefighters: professional who earn salary, and amateur who are theoretically unpaid. In the United States firefighters learn the skills under the NFPA (National Fire Protection Association). The basic skills of firefighting are: prevention, self-preservation, rescue, preservation of property, basic first aid and fire control.
This job is considered as one of the toughest and most dangerous . The most common reason of fatalities for firefighters are: cardiovascular diseases, heat stress, structural collapses of buildings and cancer.
Firefighters have very similar ranking system as for example military or police. It may differ around the world, but every fire department has fire fighters with specific powers of enforcement and control. | <urn:uuid:6d138b8e-ce13-462f-be49-35ac20c2ac25> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://blog.kickresume.com/2015/07/01/what-its-like-to-be-firefighter/ | 2019-07-24T02:38:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195530250.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724020454-20190724042454-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.955677 | 309 |
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DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed in this post are just that, my opinions. I do not work for a vendor or a partner and therefore do not speak authoritatively. However, I do have fairly broad experience and knowledge of Hitachi storage.
NOTE: Ive put this together quickly as Im going to be busy for the next fews and my wife is also about to give birth (couple day overdue already). So apologies if it doesn't read as smotthly as Harry Potter.
Firstly, a paragraph for the benefit of those who don't already know - Dynamic Provisioning, as implemented by Hitachi (HDP on the HDS USP-V, ThP on the HP XP24000) is based around a basic allocation unit of 42MB. HDS refer to this as a Page . Essentially any time a host writes to a previously unallocated area of a LUN, the array will allocate a new 42MB page to that LUN. So, as data is written to an HDP LUN it will be grown in units of 42MB. OK.
Now, unless its changed, this 42MB is taken from contiguous stripes from a single LDEV in a single Array Group. This basically means that each of these 42MB pages is allocated from a single Array Group (8 disks). Subsequent pages allocated to the LUN will probably be allocated from another Array Group in the Pool..... So over time your LUN should have its blocks nicely balanced across all spindles in the Pool. A form of wide striping.
DISCLAIMER: Actually I should point out that I don't work for Hitachi, HDS, HP or Sun. So Im not an authority on this topic or the USP/XP (see my previous post for where Im coming from). Despite this it should be an interesting pos. Also microcode changes happen all the time and the guys at the factory don't mail me about them, so tweaks to the algorithm will at some point, if they have not already, render some of the above information out of date.
However, for the purpose of this discussion, all we really need to know form the above paragraph is that space is allocated in units of 42MB called pages. To date this has not changed.
So.......... the USP-V/XP 24000 is pretty flexible and supports the following hardware RAID levels -
- RAID10 2+2
- RAID10 4+4
- RAID5 3+1
- RAID5 7+1
- RAID6 6+2
In addition to the above, we must also consider the ill-named but quite impressive Concatenated Array Group (it is actually a stripe). These allow you to join 2 or 4 RAID5 7+1 Array Groups to get wider back-end striping.
So if we include these then we have an additional two RAID levels to consider -
- RAID5 14+2
- RAID5 28+4
As we can see, the USP-V gives us all three of the popular RAID levels (1, 5 and 6) as well as scope for customisation of each, giving a total of 7 possible RAID configurations.
Now then, track size for OPEN-V volumes on the USP-V is 256K. However, the USP-V RAID controllers write two rows per spindle per stripe. In other words, when writing a full stripe the USP-V will write two tracks per physical spindle before moving on to the next spindle in the RAID set (need diagram). So you could say the effective chunk size per spindle is 512K. With this in mind we can calculate the stripe size for all of our above RAID configurations using the following calculation -
x = a * 512
Where x the stripe size and a is the number of data spindles in the RAID set.
Based on the above calculation, the respective stripe sizes of each of the above RAID configurations is as follows -
- RAID10 2+2 = 1024K
- RAID104+4 = 2048K
- RAID5 3+1 = 1536K
- RAID5 7+1 = 3584K
- RAID5 6+2 = 3072K
- RAID5 14+2 = 7168K
- RAID5 28+4 = 14336K
42MB = 43008K
Still with me? Fairly boring I know. However.......
Now for the slightly more interesting part (I stress the slightly). You will find that every one of the stripe sizes listed above divides perfectly into 42MB. If you dig further, you will also find that 42MB is the lowest number that all of the above stripe sizes divide perfectly into, without generating a remainder. I'll spare you the spreadsheet because its too wide to fit comfortably on this screen, but feel free to check it out for yourself.
Then if we factor in other things such as cache slot and segment size as well as pre-fetch (based on tracks (256K) and multiples thereof) they all also divide perfectly in to 42MB.
Also with the USP-V being track centric/cache slot centric (both 256K), it tends to internally map and manage things, such as external storage, in multiples of this track/slot size. Again, divides perfectly.
Interestingly, you can also divide 42 by 2,3,4,6 and 7. These numbers equate to the number of data spindles in all basic supported RAID configurations (not including previously mentioned concats). To be honest, knowing a little about how clever, efficient and thorough the developers in Japan are I expect that the 42MB Page size maps to a lot more internally. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the number of screws used to build each internal disk chassis was divisible by 42..... ;-)
Further to this internal mapping... Let's not forget that because HDP is borrows a lots from the Hitachi implementation of Copy-On-Write technology (COW) I will refer to the operation of allocating a new 42MB page to a LUN as a Borrow-On-Write, or BOW, operation.
Each time a BOW operation occurs there is overhead along the lines of the below -
- Search the free page table for the next available free page (if there is now logic on top of this to more evenly spread the load then the overhead will be more)
- Update the Dynamic Mapping Table (DMT) and the free page table
- Map the page into the DP-VOLs allocated page table
- Make the blocks available for access
(some of the terms used above are probably my own and not official)
May be there's more to the BOW operation, may be there's less? But it won't be too far from that mentioned above.
So...... with the above in mind, the smaller the page size, the more often these BOW operations will be required when growing a volume. Each time incurring a small overhead, so the less frequently they happen the better. Of course these operations only occur when a new page is demanded.
Also, albeit probably hardly worth mentioning, the DMT (that's an official HDS term and not my own) is another layer that must be traversed in order to map LBAs in a LUN back to to blocks within a Pool for normal read and write requests that dont require allocation of a new page.
Anyway, if page size was smaller, the DMT would of necessity be larger due to there being more pages per Pool. As a result it would take longer to search and update. And when you think that each pool can have millions of pages, the DMT could get quite large. Take the following as an illustration -
A USP-V, in all its glory, can have over 140 internal Array Groups and each Array Group can be comprised of 8 x 300GB spindles. Each 300GB Array Group formatted to RAID5 (7+1) yields around 1.8358TB usable Base 2. This gives each Array Group 45,832 x 42MB pages. Multiply this by the possibility of, lets say, 140 Array Groups gives you 6,416,480 x 42MBpages that all need to be represented in the DMT. And that's not to mention External Storage which can also be Pooled for HDP. So a smaller Page size would significantly increase the size and efficiency of the DMT.
For those of you still reading, thanks, and I'll leave the theory there for now. In theory the ingredients are fine, but the proof is in the pudding -
At the end of the day, from experience in the field and from knowing a little of how well aligned it is to the internal structures and workings of the array, I think the 42MB page works very well.
And even after all is said and done, I trust that the Hitachi guys in Japan know far more than me about how their kit works, and for that I'm sure they also know far more about their own kit than their competitors know about it too.
Now on a side, there are people out there, their names tend to be "Barry ", who like to point their fingers and laugh at Hitachi's supposedly large and chunky 42MB page. One of these Barry's, when questioned on the extent/page size chosen by his own company's Dynamic Provisioning offering was shamefully quiet. I say shamefully considering his previous deafening criticisms of others choices as well as a promise to tell us once his engineers had decided. If I remember right, the most we ever got from him was some spiel about it being aligned with the internal workings of
the Symm their array. Makes one wonder if he has something to hide or some backtracking to do?
It appears that may be the reason why Hitachi chose such a large page size (and size is a matter of perspective) was because of how flexible the USP-V is and how many different configuration options there are, all of which need to be considered and mapped to.!?
It works and it works pretty well, thats all I can say for it.
PS. Im open to anybody shedding any further light on the topic at hand, feel free to comment. | <urn:uuid:a6173428-0117-483c-8301-d44d891b92c9> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://blogs.rupturedmonkey.com/thin-provisioning-the-mystical-42mb-allocation-unit/ | 2019-07-24T02:57:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195530250.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724020454-20190724042454-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.944638 | 2,126 |
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