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Nickelodeon has not been doing well lately. In fact they've been doing downright awful. Their recent shows like Sanjay and Craig, Breadwinners, and Rabbids Invasion have been duds. Shows filled with unlikable characters and stupid nonsense they call "humor". Then there's Legend of Korra and TMNT, that just never really appealed to me personally. Others like SpongeBob and Fairly Odd Parents have been running for more than a decade, and it seems like the former king of kid's programming have fallen flat on their faces. But every once in a while they do produce something epic, something that shows the world that Nick can produce quality. Their last cartoon to do this was 2011's Tuff Puppy and now they've done that again with Harvey Beaks.
The show is created by C.H. Greenblatt, the creator of Cartoon Network's Chowder (My 2nd favorite cartoon ever) and while it does have some of the weirdness that Chowder perfected, the two shows are completely different otherwise. Harvey Beaks' focus is much more on childhood innocence and adventure, resulting in a sweet and heart felt show with surprisingly beautiful animation.
The show is about a bird named Harvey Beaks, and his friends Fee and Foo. Harvey is a tame boy, while brother and sister Fee and Foo are mischievous. This leads to a lot of situations where Harvey is often trying to fit in with Fee and Foo, but it sometimes doesn't work out all the way. Despite the strange designs of the characters, the trio behave a lot like normal kids. They can be gross, they can be weird, they can be emotional, and they're very likable characters. They're also good role models, when one character is sad, the others try to help out that character. They always try to do the right thing. The humor is actually funny in the show. The disgusting humor and cartoons like Breadwinners Will likely be dated after the show gets canceled, but Harvey Beaks' humor is mostly based off of the character's situations like the humor in Foster's Home and Ruby Gloom. It's not trying to be hip to fit in with the kids of this generation. The stories in the show are usually just about Harvey and his friends having fun, with some sort of conflict. For example; in one episode, Fee and Foo are separated by magnetic electricity, and at first they like playing around with it. But soon they miss being able to spend time being together. It's delightful to see them bond like that. That episode in particular really use the power of animation to it's benefit. By the way, the animation and the show is absolutely gorgeous. The backgrounds look completely hand-painted, and the woodland characters in the show match the forest setting perfectly. It's something you must see in order to truly understand what I'm saying.
Harvey Beaks is an excellent show, and a true breath of fresh air for an otherwise dull and unoriginal television network. The show will be completely relevant 10 years from now as it will be in 2015. Think there's nothing good on Nickelodeon? Think again!
Just before the credits of the season one finale, a depiction of Chowder, from the Creator's previous series, can be seen at the party.
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2019-04-19T09:48:10Z
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https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3219170/?ref_=m_nm_knf_act_t39
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Inevitably, a very small percentage of datastore requests will result in errors. We are constantly working to minimize the occurrence of errors, but your application needs to be able to handle them when they do occur in order to present the best experience to users.
This article will explain why errors occur, and what you can do when they do, in order to minimize disruption to your users.
There are two major reasons that datastore errors occur.
The first type of timeout occurs when you attempt to write to a single entity group too quickly. Writes to a single entity group are serialized by the App Engine datastore, and thus there's a limit on how quickly you can update one entity group. In general, this works out to somewhere between 1 and 5 updates per second; a good guideline is that you should consider rearchitecting if you expect an entity group to have to sustain more than one update per second for an extended period. Recall that an entity group is a set of entities with the same ancestor—thus, an entity with no children is its own entity group, and this limitation applies to writes to individual entities, too. For details on how to avoid datastore contention, see Avoiding datastore contention. Timeout errors that occur during a transaction will be raised as a appengine.ext.db.TransactionFailedError instead of a Timeout.
The most common way this limitation gets encountered is when you update an entity with every request—for example, counting the number of views to a page on your site. There are several approaches you can employ to avoid this: The most common is sharded counters. Another approach is to make the updates in memcache, flushing it to the datastore periodically. This risks losing some updates, but greatly improves the efficiency of updates.
With the introduction of the Task Queue, another option is to create a task queue item to do the update later; this allows you to make it past high traffic periods without degrading the user experience. In exceptional circumstances, the task queue can also return a transient error, which you also need to handle.
The tablet containing some of your data is being moved between Bigtable tablet servers for load-balancing at the time you try to access it.
The tablet containing some of your data is being split. This happens when the tablet becomes excessively large—over about 300MB—or when it receives more traffic than a single tablet server can handle. As a result of this, you will see slightly elevated timeout rates when your application is writing large amounts of data to the datastore.
The tablet is being merged with other tablets. This happens when a lot of data is deleted from your app's datastore.
App behavior can affect tablet availability. For example, inserting large amounts of data will cause tablet splits, which causes brief bursts of unavailability. Likewise, deleting large amounts of data will result in brief periods of unavailability as tablets are merged.
Datastore errors due to the above reasons are highly clustered: when a tablet is being moved, split, or merged, it's generally unavailable for anywhere from a few hundred milliseconds to a second or two, and during that period, all reads and writes for that data will fail. During that time, your requests may return immediately with a timeout error. (Because the tablet is currently not loaded, Bigtable returns an error immediately, which the datastore treats the same as a regular timeout.) As a result, the exponential backoff strategy we covered above is advisable—retrying repeatedly as fast as you can will simply waste CPU time. In future, we may provide a way to distinguish regular timeouts from tablet unavailability.
Another related cause of timeouts is known as "hot tablets." Each tablet is hosted on only one Bigtable tablet server at a time, which means that one server is responsible for handling every read and write for the row range covered by that tablet. Too high a rate of updates to the same tablet can cause timeouts as the tablet server struggles to keep up with the requests for that tablet. Bigtable is fairly smart about splitting hot tablets to spread the load, but if all the updates are for a single row, or are consecutive, this isn't enough to relieve the load.
The most common example of this occurs when an app rapidly inserts a large number of entities of the same kind with sequential IDs. In this case, most inserts hit the same range of the same tablet, and the single tablet server is overwhelmed with writes. Most apps never have to worry about this: it only becomes a problem at write rates of several hundred queries per second and above. If this does affect your app, the easiest solution is to use more evenly distributed IDs instead of the auto-allocated ones. For example, you can use Python's uuid module to generate a uuid for each entity as its key name.
The Bigtable behaviors we described above all relate to a single tablet, but many datastore operations involve several tablets at once. For example, when you write a new or updated entity to the datastore, in addition to the entity itself being written, the indexes—both built-in and custom—have to be updated, which also requires separate Bigtable writes. When you execute a query, the datastore scans the index—one read—and then fetches the matching entities from the Entities table, which requires a read for each entity being returned, each of which could be on a separate tablet. All of these operations are performed in parallel, so the operation returns quickly, but tablet unavailability for any of them could cause the operation as a whole to time out.
The 1 in 3,000 figure we originally mentioned, then, is an average: Simpler operations are less likely to cause a timeout than more involved ones, because they touch fewer tablets in Bigtable. Further, a tablet move can cause a whole cluster of correlated timeouts—most of which can be avoided by being smart about backing off and trying again.
Finally, as with any service, occasional issues and downtime will occur; these can also cause elevated rates of errors in your app. When issues occur with the datastore, they'll be reported on our status site.
Determining the cause of errors in your app is generally fairly straightforward. If timeouts happen more frequently when updating a particular entity or group of entities, you're likely running into contention issues. If your timeouts are more randomly distributed, it's likely to be only the "background noise" of low level timeouts.
Internally, all datastore operations are automatically retried if they time out, but if the timeouts persist, the error will be returned to your code in the form of a google.appengine.ext.db.Timeout exception in Python, or a com.google.appengine.api.datastore.DatastoreTimeoutException in Java. For more details about server-side retries, see the Life of a Datastore Write article.
Ignore the exception. This is the default, and results in a 500 Internal Server Error being returned to the user.
# Display a generic 500 error page.
A further option is to examine your use of the datastore: Can you move some of your work out of the datastore? Memcache is one good candidate for this: by caching your data, you can reduce the number of datastore operations you make, and thus the number of opportunities for a datastore timeout to occur. You can also use the Task Queue to do the write at a later time, which has the added benefit that the Task Queue automatically retries failures.
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2019-04-23T02:51:31Z
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https://cloud.google.com/appengine/articles/handling_datastore_errors?hl=ru
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The Detroit Pistons have been measurably better this season. They are in contention for the playoffs and had seemingly found an identity with players like point guard Reggie Jackson and big man Andre Drummond. But even with those two, there was no assurances that this team would make it far. And going into the trade deadline, the Pistons were a team that could have been a buyer or a seller. They had some pieces that people were interested in with backup point guard Brandon Jennings and even forward Marcus Morris. But they also had players that they desired that were on the trade market. The onus was on head of basketball operations/head coach Stan Van Gundy to make it happen. Would he help his team get better or would he continue to stay the course with what he had while potentially dumping Jennings for something that would not help this team. Well, the trade deadline has come and gone and the Pistons appeared to be more buyers than sellers. And with that, they now are looking just like a team that Van Gundy coached in his past. The Detroit Pistons are now resembling a team that Van Gundy took to the NBA Finals once before, the 2008-2009 Orlando Magic.
The first move in this makeover that Van Gundy started was to move Brandon Jennings and Ersan Ilyasova to the Orlando Magic for the services of Tobias Harris. The Pistons gave up a good backup point guard and a stretch forward in Ilyasova, but the move also gave the Pistons something they did not have. Harris was not doing as well in the system that Scott Skiles had in Orlando. But in Van Gundy’s system, he will be likely matched up with forward Marcus Morris in the frontcourt. Both of these guys can handle the basketball, shoot the three and make plays at the rim. But what Harris does better than Morris is make plays. His playmaking skills fit great on this team. What made the Orlando Magic so tough that season was the play of forward Hedo Turkoglu, who was handling the ball and making plays while shooting at an excellent clip from the three-point line. Harris is essentially filling that role on this team and with he and Marcus Morris, they both are the new Rashard Lewis and Turkoglu for Van Gundy. And with Harris handling the ball more, the Pistons just freed up point guard Reggie Jackson even more. But that was not the only move the Pistons made that allowed them to remake themselves.
The next move the Pistons made just made them even more versatile. The Pistons traded away seldom-used big man Joel Anthony to the Houston Rockets along with a top-eight protected first round pick. In return, the Pistons received versatile forward Donatas Montiejunas and guard Marcus Thornton. For a piece that was rarely used, the Pistons received two players that can definitely help Detroit. With Montiejunas, the Pistons get a big man with size that can shoot the three as well. Combine him with forward Anthony Tolliver coming off the bench, you now have two forwards with size and shooting ability that can stretch the floor coming off the bench. But the bonus in this trade has to be guard Marcus Thornton. The veteran guard can get hot at any time. And when he does, he can carry your team for stretches at a time. And he, along with Montiejunas, can spread the floor. Imagine these guys paired with Harris and Jackson at the helm making plays. That could be dangerous.
All these new pieces going along with the old pieces makes this team a dangerous threat because of the style they will be able to play. They now have pieces that can spread the floor and let Drummond have the entire paint to himself, just like Dwight Howard did when they went to the NBA Finals. Drummond will essentially be the new Dwight Howard (in a good way) for Van Gundy. And if someone is to help off their man to help their big against Drummond, then the Pistons can make them pay with the collection of shooters they have now. And also, the pick-and-roll offense is now even more dangerous because not only can they use Jackson and Drummond together, but they now can use Drummond with Harris like that. The onus will now be on the team’s stars to make it happen. But with what they have now, the Pistons are now armed to make a run in the Eastern Conference. And Van Gundy now has a team he thinks can make it happen. Not bad for a guy that inherited a team that was in such disarray when he got there in 2014.
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2019-04-21T04:35:20Z
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https://theeverydaymanssportsblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/
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Mostly about a beautiful little place on the Kona Coast of Hawaii!
Accept no imitations...and no, it's NOT for sale!
They call it “Kona” for a reason: it’s Hawaiian for leeward and why this part of the Big Island enjoys some of the best conditions for snorkeling, diving and boating and other outdoor activities.
Which means there is not a whole lot of variation in the climate from month to month. Come in May, look for a temperature range from the high 60s at night to the mid 80s during the day. July through October, the daytime highs average in the upper 80s.
Of course, the nice thing about a stay at Kona Isle D21, is, if you get a little warm at sea level, you can always take a cooling dip in the pool, or even hop in your car and drive up in elevation. Heck, you’ll need a parka for a trip up Mauna Kea.
If you’re not a big fan of crowds, September is a great month to visit. And since Hawaii is the biggest of all the Hawaiian Islands, there is no shortage of real estate public and private to lose yourself in.
Though things quiet down a touch in September (before “busy season” that brings the nutty triathletes of October and showbirds and whale watchers through March), there are still plenty of organized activities.
Check out the GoHawaii.com website for a complete list that ranges from Aloha Friday’s on the Porch in Puna to John Keawe at the Kings Shops of Waikoloa.
We see there’s bit of an opening for five days beginning September 14. After that, it’s a long wait until June before our happy little home away from home is available again.
So, what's the weather REALLY like on the Big Island?
Going Twice . . .
Going once . . .
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2019-04-18T11:15:45Z
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https://inmotion.typepad.com/konacondo/2014/09/index.html
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Mary Meeker, venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caulfied Byers and former Wall Street analyst, delivered her 110-slide “Internet Trends 2012” presentation at the D10 Conference. I have already seen slides from the preso show up in business presentations from some of our largest partners.
A big chunk of her presentation profiles dozens of different services or behaviors that have been disrupted by technology and behavior change. From Photography (e.g. Instagram, Hipstamatic) to Magazines (e.g. Flipboard) to Calling a Cab (e.g. Uber) – they are all in the process of being challenged by new ways of satisfying core needs. The jury may still be out on many certainly in terms of which technology startup will actually earn the leadership role, but the cumulative effect of her list is powerful. It is a reminder that market-making changes are happening across many, many sectors. Just this morning The Washington Post featured an example of “re-imagining real estate” with the site Popularise which allows community members to vote for the retail tenant in local storefronts.
The criticisms of Facebook for not monetizing their platform accessed by mobile devices were overwrought. Recent decisions from Facebook like this weeks’ unbundling of premium advertising (advertisers can now buy mobile separately) point to the inevitable future – that ad revenue per user on mobile will grow and likely eclipse ad review from the desktop. Ms. Meeker points to examples in the Japanese marketplace like the mobile game maker, CyberAgent, where that is already the case.
While all of the other high-profile IPOs have led to lower values, LinkedIn has grown 137% to its recent $100 share price. I am sure there are all sorts of VC-insightful explanations that I am not qualified to offer. I do think there is strength to the LinkedIn platform in the B2B space that many brands are getting wise to. Just look at your LinkedIn home page now. It serves as a business-relevant hub as good as any business magazine or portal out there.
LinkedIn’s role in professional development extends beyond recruiting and career management. It is quickly becoming a professional content network delivering value to the jobs we hold today and those we aspire to tomorrow.
Kind of makes you ask yourself, what’s my LinkedIn strategy?
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2019-04-24T10:23:06Z
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https://johnbell.typepad.com/weblog/2012/06/does-mary-meeker-consider-linkedin-a-star.html
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Ha… you’re only ignorant if you want to be. Looks like I have some more reading to do.
In a paper published by the A.P.A.
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2019-04-26T09:47:22Z
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https://iknowrobert.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/decline-of-the-empire/
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The research focus Economathematics (Wirtschaftsmathematik) is distinguished by fundamental research in the areas Mathematical Optimization, Financial Mathematics, Stochastic Control, and Statistics as well as by interdisciplinary research projects.
The interdisciplinary research comprises cooperations with other research focuses of the department of Mathematics, with various divisions of the Fraunhofer ITWM, with research groups of other departments of the university, as well as with industrial customers. The focus on interdisciplinary research has been emphasized by the participation of all groups of the research focus Economathematics in the interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (CM)² of the university.
In the medium term, it is planned that the fields of research where the Kaiserslautern groups are leading (Location Planning, Multicriteria Optimization, Online Optimization, Nonparametric Time Series Analysis, Statistics of Spatial Structures, Portfolio Optimization, Numerical Methods in Financial Mathematics, Stochastic Control) are complemented by further areas (Robust Approaches to Optimization and Financial Mathematics, Continuous Optimization, Insurance Mathematics).
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2019-04-25T01:55:31Z
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Satellite images show the Sierra Nevada snowpack in March and February of 2018.
But on Monday, when officials finally lugged their gauges into the High Sierra for their periodic made-for-TV measurement, they confirmed their suspicions: The biggest storm of the winter had done little to alter the state’s swing toward renewed drought.
California’s all-important snowpack measured 39 percent of average for the date at Phillips Station in El Dorado County, the state’s traditional survey spot south of Lake Tahoe, while snowpack statewide measured 37 percent of average.
California’s winter has been disappointingly dry. Some parts of the state have seen less than a fifth of average precipitation since October, the usual start of the wet season. The Bay Area has received a little more than half its average.
While last winter delivered record-breaking storms that ended a historic, five-year drought, nearly 50 percent of the state has slipped back into at least moderate drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Yosemite is a winter wonderland after storm hits at the start of March 2018.
California’s snowpack is vital for these drier areas. Reservoirs capture the runoff, and the state’s sprawling network of aqueducts carries it to the cities and farms that lack enough water of their own. As much as a third of the state’s water supply comes from the snow in the Sierra Nevada and lower Cascades.
Last week’s storms provided a welcome boost to the snowpack. As much as 8 feet of snow fell in the mountains in some spots, with avalanches reported at Mammoth Mountain and Squaw Valley, where guests were injured and a snowboarder temporarily buried. The Internet brimmed with photos of cars rolling into giant snowbanks.
At Phillips Station, just north of the Sierra-at-Tahoe resort, state surveyors found Monday that the snow level more than tripled over the course of a week, from 13 inches to 41.1 inches. The water content of the snow, which is what really matters to drought-worried officials, rose from 7 to 39 percent of average for the date.
Statewide, the water content of the snow rose from 22 percent of average to 37 percent. Last year at this time, it was a whopping 180 percent of average.
California water officials collect snow measurements from hundreds of electronic sensors spread across the state’s higher elevations every day. But once a month during winter, they conduct a manual survey for the news media.
For the state to approach average conditions this year, about six more storms would need to hit, according to meteorologists. Most of California’s rain and snow falls before mid-April.
“Historic odds of getting anywhere near normal are close to zero now,” said Jan Null, forecaster and founder of Golden Gate Weather Services.
Another wet front may hit the California coast late Wednesday, bringing on-and-off flurries to parts of the Sierra on Thursday and Friday, said the National Weather Service. A second system is forecast for Sunday.
“It’s not going to be anything like what we experienced last weekend,” said Edan Weishahn, a weather service meteorologist based in Reno.
Still, California’s reservoirs remain at average levels for this time of year because of last winter’s bounty, state water officials said. The supply is enough for most communities to weather the year, even if there aren’t any more big storms.
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2019-04-26T05:44:50Z
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Even-after-storm-California-officials-find-12729418.php
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My name is Antonio Vargas. I am Portuguese, born and raised in the Azores Islands in Portugal, from where i left to live in Lisbon, age 19.
I am an IT Consultant, and although i am Certified in a variety of vendors, such as Cisco, VMWare, Symantec, HP and Microsoft, my main focus and my day to day work is around the Microsoft Unified Communications portfolio.
At the moment i work as a Solutions Architect, focused on Microsoft Exchange on premises, Office 365, and when i have some spare time, some Microsoft Lync projects. I live in London, United Kingdom, and work for customers based both on the EMEA region and the United States.
I have 15+ years of experience in IT, and almost 30 Microsoft exams completed with success during my career. In July 2013 i got my biggest professional achievement, and since then i am proud to be a part of the restrict Elite group Microsoft Certified Masters (or more recently named Microsoft Certified Solutions Master).
I just completed my first contribution, as a technical writer, to a Microsoft Lync Cookbook, and I plan to embrace other similar projects soon.
On my free time (when i have some) i love to travel, watch some good TV series and Movies, and play some PlayStation (please don’t tell anyone @Microsoft 🙂 ).
I am always available for new challenges.
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2019-04-26T01:50:50Z
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https://mymicrosoftexchange.wordpress.com/about/
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14 | January | 2015 | Andrea Works . . .
Here’s a new Tuesday Tribute for y’all: Insomnia. How it can be a muse and a curse, rolled into one.
It’s common that people with problematic insomnia stress about the insomnia itself. Because my insomnia is typically sporadic and directly tied to psychological background noise, it’s less of a worry that “I’ll never sleep a full night again!” or “I could never survive the next few months/years like this!” Because I am a general worrier, I can see how that kind of insomnia about insomnia would be terrifying. For now, it’s a muse and I’m using it. Writing can flow with more guts and insight when in that 5 a.m. wired state, watching the slow glow of the pre-dawn sky, keyboard tap tap tapping away.
This is why I find myself up at 4 a.m. on a night that I really needed sleep, itching to ruminate and write and pay bills and get stuff “done”. Marking off the checklist for the next few days. Googling for things that stressed me out enough to wake me up. Writing a blog post, this one right here, posting it before too much editing will get in the way of the flow.
I’m shocked to see that my last iteration of the Tuesday Tribute series was a whole two months ago. For that, I apologize. I’m personally both flummoxed and OK with how fast those two months have gone. Time in general speeds up as we age, most often it seems when we are trying to get things done or figure out our whole tangled lives or something profound in that regard.
And yes, I’ve been figuring out that tangled stuff for quite some time now, with the snowball finally rolling over me about two months ago, taking me along in its wake. Of course, it was a snowball of my own creation. I am the the one who makes snow. I am that thing that makes it possible to ski in New Mexico in November. I accept this, philosophically and metaphorically.
I like quietness. In my head, typically. I used to think I liked it in my heart, too. Not too many complications, not too many things external to me to rely on or need to worry about. It’s part of why I don’t have kids – I would probably make a good parent but dear GAWD the pressure and stress and all that would drive me to either really screw them up or just put myself into an early health decline from all the freakouts in my own head. If nothing else, I think to not screw up a child in my care I’d have to meditate about 2 hours a day. I wonder how many parents attempt to modulate their own stress directly in that manner – with mindfulness and calm – rather than just suffer and slog through it, sleepless and stressed.
The quietness in the heart? That’s something I question lately. Perhaps that’s a midlife crisis sort of thing – the slowly awakening realization, sometimes over years, that you just might want to crank up the volume knobs on one’s own experience – not just the good and the not-so-good but rather the extremes of AMAZING and (potentially) DEVASTATING. Or, perhaps the midlife crisis so enmeshed in our culture is not so much a volume adjustment as it is a swap out of the walkman constantly strapped to your head for a window-shattering car stereo you can ride off with into the sunset. Or some B.S. analogy like that. I apologize. Usually my analogies are way better.
So here’s my real Tuesday Tribute, posted on a Wednesday but thought up the night before: my own insomniac muse. May she continue to spur little writing jaunts, bursts of productivity, and displays of heart-on-sleeve that seem to only result in long-term good in my life. Cheers to the muse.
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2019-04-26T16:01:43Z
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https://andreaworks.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/
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This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/783,904, filed Jan. 16, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,865,741, issued Feb. 2, 1999, which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/508,928, filed Jul. 28, 1995, now abandoned.
Because of the inadequacies of prior art devices there is a need for a system which prevents EKG electrode leads from being entangled; provides quick removal of some of the electrodes while leaving the remaining electrodes in position when it is necessary to administer aid to a patient having a heart attack; provides accurate repeatable placement of electrodes at substantially the same anatomical location; accurately and repeatedly obtains signals from body electrodes by efficient and effective electrical transmission; may be attached by unskilled persons; and may be available in various sizes to accommodate to fit the patient.
The present invention, in one aspect involves a disposable non-conducting flexible sheet having a predetermined dimensional array. The flexible sheet serves as a template for aligning connectors, either of the electrode type or electrodeless type, on the chest of a patient for transmitting (receiving or sending) electrical impulses.
FIG. 1 illustrates the template 10 of the present invention for placement on the chest of a patient. The template is formed of a flexible non-conducting sheet 11 which, in this non-limiting example, incorporates multiple conductor strips 12 for connection to a standard electrocardiographic receiving unit. The non-conducting sheet 11 includes conductor strips 12 which form end sensors or receptors 22 which are positioned on the sheet and spaced relative to each other, whereby the receptors 22 are positioned in a specific size configuration appropriate for electrocardial recordings. Each strip 12 includes a receptor 22 at a first end portion adapted for electrical connection with the skin for receiving and transmitting electrical impulses generated by the body. A second end of each strip 12 at the terminal connector end 23 engages a common electrical connection or cable junction (not shown) for connection with the electrocardiograph device (not shown).
Generally, the size of the vest is determined by the distance between V4 to V6. That is, the distance between the midclavicular line and the midaxillary line on the patient. For a small or device the distance between V4 and V6 can range from about 2.5 to 4.5 inches, for the medium vest the distance can range from about 4.0 to 6.0 inches, and for the large device the distance can range from about 6.0 to 8.0 inches.
the distance between V1 and V2 is approximately 1.50 to 2.50 inches and the distance between V2 and V4 is approximately 2.50 to 4.50 inches, with V3 located substantially midway between V2 and V4, and V5 being substantially equidistant between V4 and V6.
2. The device of claim 1, wherein the distance between V4 and V5 and between V5 and V6 is about 1.75 inches.
5. The device of claim 1, wherein V1 is located approximately 1.50 to 2.50 inches in radius on about a 270 degree radial from the center of V2.
7. The device of claim 1, wherein V4 is located on about a 125 degree radial from the center of V2.
8. A device according to claim 1, wherein the distance between V2 and V4 ranges between 2 and 4.5 inches.
9. A device according to claim 1, wherein a vertical distance between V2 and V4 is approximately 2.5 to 3.5 inches.
10. A positioning device of claim 1, wherein said substrate is disposable.
11. The device of claim 1, wherein V5 and V6 can be positioned at three different locations on the substrate.
12. The device of claim 1, wherein said substrate is selected from nonconductive flexible natural or synthetic material.
13. The device of claim 12, wherein said substrate is selected from cellulosic materials, polyesters, polyolefins, polyvinyl chloride or nylon.
14. The device of claim 13, wherein said cellulosic material is cotton or paper.
15. The device of claim 13, wherein said polyester is polyethylene terphthalate.
positioning the receptor positions V1 -V6 such that the distance between V1 and V2 is approximately 1.50 to 2.50 inches, and the distance between V2 and V4 is approximately 2.50 to 4.50 inches, with V3 located substantially midway between V2 and V4, and V5 substantially equidistant between V4 and V6.
17. A process according to claim 16, further comprising the step of positioning receptor positions V5 and V6 based on a distance between a midclavicular line and a midaxillary line on the chest of the patient.
18. A process according to claim 16, further comprising the step of positioning receptor positions V1 and V2 to be approximately on either side of the sternum at the fourth intercostal space and positioning array V3 to be approximately midway between V2 and V4.
19. A process according to claim 16, wherein the distance between V4 and V5 and between V5 and V6 for a small size is about 1.75 inches, for a medium size is about 2.5 inches, and for a large size is about 3.5 inches.
20. A process according to claim 16, wherein V1 is located approximately between 1.50-2.50 inches in radius on about a 270 degree radial from the center of V2.
21. A process according to claim 16, wherein V3 is located on about a 125 degree radial from the center of V2.
22. A process according to claim 16, wherein V4 is located on about a 125 degree radial from the center of V2.
23. A process according to claim 16, further comprising the step of providing a disposable substrate.
24. The process of claim 16, wherein V5 and V6 can be positioned at three different locations on the substrate.
a substrate with a fixed array V1 -V6 of receptor positions positioned in a specific size configuration appropriate for electrocardiographic recording, with the receptor positions V1, V2, V3 and V4 positioned at substantially the same locations on each said size, and receptor positions V5 and V6 positioned differently on each said size dependent upon the size of the patient.
26. The devices of claim 25, wherein in each said device the distance between V1 and V2 is approximately 1.50 and 2.50 inches and the distance between V2 and V4 is approximately 2.50 and 4.50 inches, with V3 located substantially midway between V2 and V4, and V5 is substantially equidistant between V4 and V6.
27. A device according to claim 26, wherein a vertical distance between V2 and V4 is approximately 2.0 to 3.5 inches.
28. The devices of claim 25, wherein three sizes of said devices are provided, with the distance between V4 and V5 and between V5 and V6 for a small size being about 1.75 inches, for a medium size being about 2.5 inches, and for a large size being about 3.5 inches.
29. The devices of claim 25, wherein in each said device V1 is located approximately between 1.50 and 2.50 inches in radius on about a 270 degree radial from the center of V2.
30. The devices of claim 25, wherein in each said device V3 is located on about a 125 degree radial from the center of V2.
31. The devices of claim 25, wherein in each said device V4 is located on about a 125 degree radial from the center of V2.
32. The device of claim 25, wherein said substrate is disposable.
V1 is located approximately between 1.50 and 2.50 inches in radius on about a 270 degree radial from the center of V2.
34. The device of claim 33, wherein said substrate is disposable.
35. The device of claim 33, wherein said substrate is selected from nonconductive flexible natural or synthetic material.
36. The device of claim 35, wherein said substrate is selected from cellulosic materials, polyesters, polyolefins, polyvinyl chloride or nylon.
37. The device of claim 36, wherein said cellulosic material is cotton or paper.
38. The device of claim 36, wherein said polyester is polyethylene terphthalate.
40. A process of claim 39, further comprising the step of providing a disposable substrate.
positioning receptor positions V5 and V6 differently on each size substrate dependent upon the size of the patient.
42. A process according to claim 41, further comprising the step of positioning receptor positions V1 -V6 on each size substrate, such that the distance between V1 and V2 is 2.00 inches±0.56 inches and the distance between V2 and V4 is 3.5 inches±1.00 inch, with V3 located substantially midway between V2 and V4, and V5 is substantially equidistant between V4 and V6.
43. A process according to claim 41, wherein the receptor positions V5 and V6 are positioned at fixed locations based on a measured distance between a midclavicular line and a midaxillary line on the chest of the patient, with the fixed locations varying for each size substrate.
44. A process according to claim 41, further comprising the step of, on each size substrate, positioning receptor positions V1 and V2 to be approximately on either side of the sternum at the fourth intercostal space and positioning V3 to be approximately midway between V2 and V4.
45. A process according to claim 41, wherein three electro-dermal sensor positioning devices are formed, with the distance between V4 and V6 and between V5 and V6 for a small size device being about 1.75 inches, for a medium size device being about 2.5 inches, and for a large size device being about 3.5 inches.
48. A process of claim 41, further comprising the steps of providing a plurality of disposable substrates.
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Financing your closing costs may lower your refinanced mortgage's savings.
4 What Are the Costs to Buy Down Points for a Mortgage Loan?
Interest rates on Freddie Mac-backed 30-year fixed-rate mortgages for 2012 have ranged between 3.38 percent and 3.95 percent. With interest rates below 4 percent in 2012, it may be a good time to consider refinancing your higher-interest rate mortgage. One roadblock to refinancing a mortgage to one with a lower interest rate, though, may be its upfront borrower closing costs. Fortunately for many homebuyers, some mortgage refinancing plans actually feature very low or even no closing costs options.
Before refinancing any mortgage, carefully consider the interest rate you currently pay, your new interest rate and any closing costs. Homeowners refinancing into mortgage loans with interest rates at least one-half to a full point less than their current loans may benefit most. Mortgage refinancing has a catch, however, and that's the closing costs associated with it. The federal government, though, is sponsoring various home refinancing programs in which any allowable closing costs can also be financed.
The federal government's Making Home Affordable program offers its improved Home Affordable Refinance Program, or HARP. Homeowners with Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac-owned mortgages may qualify for HARP refinancing with low or no upfront closing costs. The FHA, VA and US Department of Agriculture also offer "streamline" refinance programs with little or no closing costs paid upfront. The downside to mortgage refinance programs with no upfront closing costs is that any allowable closing costs are usually financed into those loans.
HARP guidelines allow borrowers to refinance their mortgages no matter how much their homes' values have declined. In other words, if you owe more on your mortgage than your home is worth you could be a likely candidate for HARP or other federally backed mortgage refinance programs. Additionally, HARP, FHA, VA and USDA mortgage refinancing programs have waived home appraisals and most other mortgage underwriting requirements. HARP mortgage refinancing is only being offered through Dec. 31, 2013, though.
Participating HARP mortgage refinance lenders are qualifying borrowers with credit scores of 620 or so. If you refinance your mortgage through HARP using your current lender, you may not have to prove your income will support your payment, either. To qualify for HARP you can't have more than one 30-day late payment in the last six months. To qualify for HARP refinancing, your mortgage loan also must have been sold to Fannie or Freddie before June 1, 2009.
When to refinance your mortgage and include closing costs depends on what you'll save in terms of new monthly mortgage payments. If you're going to roll closing costs into your refinanced mortgage loan, you could diminish any refinancing savings. Lender participation in HARP and other government-backed mortgage refinance programs is voluntary. However, you can refinance your mortgage with any lender willing to do so. Mortgage refinancing program interest rates differ among lenders, so shop carefully before deciding on one.
Money Crashers: When Should I Refinance My Mortgage Loan?
Fox Business: What You Need to Know About HARP 2.0 Refinancing.
AARP: Does a New Mortgage Make Sense?
Guerra, Tony. "Mortgage Refinance Plans With Low Closing Costs." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/mortgage-refinance-plans-low-closing-costs-54495.html. Accessed 24 April 2019.
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Azerbajdžanska rěc abo Azeri, 30 mil.
Mongolšćina (Chalcha) z 6 mil. luźi,kótaraž jo oficielna rěc Mongolskej.
Tunguzske rěcy su "małe" rěcy. Historiski nejwažnjejša rěc jo była Mandžuska rěc.
R. A. Miller: Languages and history. Japanese, Korean and Altaic. Inst. for Comparative Research in Human Culture, 1996 ISBN 974-8299-69-4.
Barbara E. Riley: Aspects of the Genetic Relationship of the Korean and Japanese Languages. Ph. D. Thesis, University of Hawaii, 2003.
Martine Irma Robbeets: Is Japanese Related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic? Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005 ISBN 3-447-05247-3.
S. A. Starostin, A. Dybo, O. Mudrak: Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages. Brill Academic Publishers, June 2003 ISBN 90-04-13153-1.
Charles Haguenauer: Nouvelles recherches comparées sur le japonais et les langues altaïques.. L’Asiathèque, Paris 1987.
G. Ramstedt: Einführung in die altaische Sprachwissenschaft. 3 Bände. Helsinki 1952-1957.
Slědna změna boka: 31. januara 2018 w 19:58 góź.
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The progress report will be read by members of the Thesis Supervision Committee (TSC), and the committee's evaluation of the report will be discussed with the student concerned. The resulting progress report will also be reviewed by the PG coordinator of the home department, and necessary action may be taken to address issues of concern.
Students who fail to submit a duly completed and approved report form by the stipulated deadline may not be allowed to register for their program of study for the following year.
Should a particular student's progress is found to be unsatisfactory or very unsatisfactory, a warning letter will be issued to the student specifying the expectations and the courses of action for performance improvement. The warning letter should also stipulate the possible consequences, such as reduction or suspension of Postgraduate Studentships, if the improvement is not satisfactory. A copy of the warning letter will be forwarded to Academic Record and Registration, Academic Registry for record purpose.
The first part of the report form is to be completed by the student who should enclose a brief self-assessment summary report at the time the report form is submitted to the thesis supervisor. The second part is an assessment of the work done by the student as well as the progress made since the previous report by the thesis supervisor and TSC.
In April/May each year, the annual progress reporting system will be open for access via myPortal and the student Administrative Service platform.
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https://pg.ust.hk/faculty-and-staff/academic-requirements/rpg-annual-progress-report
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"Thanks for helping make our 20th anniversary so special. The Hilltop Inn is a perfect mix of 'down-home' hospitality and the utmost luxury. The view is incredible, the food is delicious, and you two couldn't be more accommodating! Thanks again for your part in this special weekend! Hope to visit again real soon!"
An elegant Bed and Breakfast experience in the Texas Hill Country. Quiet, private getaway with the amenities of home.
The Hilltop Inn amenities include: breakfast served on the oak shaded, valley-view patio or privately in your suite; patio hot tub; 33 acres of lush grounds for hiking with a selection of sitting areas for taking coffee or enjoying a quiet moment; and located 12 miles from Bandera restaurants and nightlife.
The pleasure of our guests is of utmost importance, therefore we restrict smoking and pets. Small children may not feel comfortable or happy in these adult surroundings, responsible older children are welcome.
Wedding reception site and cedar cathedral also available.
the fabulous sunsets. And the food!!!!"
We'd love for you to visit.
Suite amenities include: King-sized bed; piano; modern entertainment system; fireplace; modest wet-bar (refrigerator, coffee pot, microwave); local control of AC and heat; full-length picture windows of valley view covering one wall; tiled bath with an old-fashioned, luxurious claw-foot tub; games and living area with a queen sized sofa sleeper.
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http://hilltopnnn.homestead.com/
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Ham is cooked. Potatoes are done. Loaded up the car and got to K's around 10am.
Brunch! While the kids were seated at the table, we put out their easter baskets in the living room. Alani was first one done, and she discovered the baskets and was screaming for Kyle to come see!
I was all set to go home and do laundry after brunch and was planning on coming back at 4pm. K told me I was staying and spending time with the kidlets. Ha! The kidlets went next door to play and were gone. I ended up folding laundry with G.
BBQ & Egg hunt at the Sato's. Besides Alani & Kyle, there were Matt (6), Michaela (4) and Trevor (3), plus baby Jessica (8 months?) and the wee 15 day old lad (whose name I can't remember!!!). Dean & Lauren are expecting their first (a girl!!! Grandma Jean can't wait!) in July.
We grew up with the Sato boys - Jean would pile her three and K, G & me in her car every Sunday for church. T'was very nice to catch up with everybody.
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https://debmats.livejournal.com/266967.html
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It’s safe to say that Camp Mulla, aka 2-5 flow has taken Nairobi by storm.
With a still growing fanbase in Kenya and a compilation of some of the sickest singles and remixes, Camp Mulla are giving other musicians a run for their money. Even though independent since 2009, the group has been natured under Sub-Sahara records and Ulopa Ngoma, which gives them an even bigger head start. Some say its the theme of real upcoming artists, we just think its moving fast. The fact that artists are young and professional proves their brilliance and potential to expand. Their title on its own screams incredibility, talent and downright swag.
It’s not hard to say whether they’ll survive in this colossal industry we call music – when they step on the scene, competition disarrays. They are the competition. From the lyrically gifted Taio Tripper to the intense vocals of Miss Karun, Camp Mulla is paving the way for the rest of Nairobi’s young stars. They’re an inspiration and an icon to the many striving young musicians all over Kenya.
But what is it that makes their mode so authentic, sensational and without question, superb?
Contrasting from others, their compositions are fresh and bring a whole new meaning and denotation to the word hip-hop. Their lyrics have significance and immeasurable sentiment; practically drawing you in like a magnet and before you know it you’re hooked faster than you can say “2-5 flow”. As cliché as it may be, they’ve taken the best of rap, and combined it with RnB to create magic.
No one can argue that they were born for this Industry; the group even goes on to say they are “Born and Raised” and Indeed, they are ‘’Born and Paid’’.
‘Word out on the street is I’m heavy on the beat’ True dat!!!!!!!! yall are the illest thing on my laptop right now…. sure will be for a long time!!!!!!! keep doing your thing!!!!!!!
i think you guys are just too goOd man ! & trust me, i believe in you guys !
one word, RAW!!!! yall got talent, u guys are a pretty BIG DEAL. yall bring the heat….enuff said.
keep doing what you doing,you got fans everywhere!!!!
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https://campmulla.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/camp-mulla-review/
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Our undergraduate English programs include traditional and cutting-edge components designed to ensure that our students leave Carleton with solid grounding in a range of literary periods, genres, and national/global traditions. All of our courses promote critical reading and thinking, and four core courses are also designated “writing attentive” to deliver consistent, sequenced training in academic research and writing. We offer a variety of “hands-on” courses in fiction, poetry, and writing, and for Honours students in their fourth year, seminar classes of 15 to 18 students are offered on a wide range of subjects. The Department also offers four more specialized degree options: a B.A. Honours English with Concentration in Creative Writing, a Co-op option, a Specialization in Global Literatures within the Bachelor of Global and International Studies (B.G.In.S.) Honours, and a Stream in Global Literatures within the General Bachelor of Global and International Studies (B.G.In.S.) General.
For more information on our undergraduate English program, including the B.G.In.S. program, please click on one of the many helpful tabs available to the left such as Program Requirements, FAQs, and Departmental Awards. The information they provide will help you to organize your class schedule and plan your workload. To receive additional information while selecting your courses, please contact the Undergraduate Administrator in 1812 Dunton Tower.
To arrange an appointment with the Undergraduate Supervisor, who provides advice on course selection, contact Professor Andrew Wallace.
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https://carleton.ca/english/undergraduate-program/
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Uncanny X-Men definitely needs some help, and in December, it’ll be getting it in the form of writer Kieron Gillen, newly-exclusive to Marvel and now co-writer the merry mutants with Matt Fraction. Gillen, who is already working on his own X-title due out soon, Generation Hope, should hopefully infuse some … well … “strength” to an Uncanny script that has been at best laughable, at worst unbearable in the hands of Fraction. I’m not sure how much faith I have in this—my first reaction is to believe that nothing in the world could help this title so long as Fraction is involved; on the flipside, it has been so unbelievably terrible, that surely there’s no other way to go but up?
Unfortunately, there’s still one thing left to fear: Greg Land’s covers.
For goodness’ sake, Marvel—cut the cord already!
This entry was posted on 09/13/2010 by ravenhaired. It was filed under Comic books and was tagged with Greg Land, Kieron Gillen, Marvel, Matt Fraction, X-Men.
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2019-04-25T04:22:21Z
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https://coverstosleepunder.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/readers-rejoice-kieron-gillen-joins-matt-fraction-on-uncanny-x-men/
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What a beautiful view from the plane, Thank You LORD!
A dear friend offered me her flyer miles to go visit her. I hadn’t seen her in 23 years, but I had overwhelming anxiety about leaving home for numerous reasons. I kept questioning should I take the trip or not. I knew I would not have any comfort until I had a clear answer from the Lord regarding His will. I started praying, asking the Lord for an answer. The answer came in a dream. In the dream I went to the doctor for my anxiety. The doctor said “take P l a y n”. He said the letters. I wondered what is P l a y n ? I had heard of Prozac for anxiety but never had I heard of P l a y n? When I woke up I continued to think about the dream and questioned, what is PLAYN? As I sounded it out, I realized it sounded out “take Plane”. Wow, the Lord had given me the answer and I felt great comfort. My daughter came over later that day and I told her about my dream. She said the night before a preacher was talking about praying over all your medications. She said she believed P.L.A.Y.N. had another meaning as an acronym, so we held hands and began to pray.
Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
What a great study site this linked to, A true Treasure ~The Holy Spirit works in amazing ways.
The Lord is so amazing! I had so much anxiety and worry and sure enough praying was all I needed to find comfort for my anxiety and His clear answer!
Prayer should be our first response rather than our last resort.
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2019-04-20T19:05:03Z
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https://lordjesussaves.wordpress.com/tag/anxiety/
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wired
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Some animal names I get. The punk rocker frog's got a Ramones thing going on. The bobbit worm brings to mind a certain ... incident. But this here frogfish? I dunno. I guess in kind of a Rorschach test way it's a bit amphibian. What I do know is that it's a deceptively vicious hunter that strikes in just 1/6,000th of a second. Check out this week's episode of Absurd Creatures to learn more!
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2019-04-24T02:30:59Z
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https://www.wired.com/2016/05/absurd-creatures-vicious-fish-strike-like-wouldnt-believe/
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On the other hand, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve grabbed a scrap piece of metal to do a quick demo for a student, explaining all the while that my solder might not flow because the metal isn’t clean or the joint isn’t aligned or whatever, only to have the little dear solder perfectly.
The rules are there to help us achieve success, to set up the most likely scenario for the solder to flow. The rules keep the frustration levels down and the success rate high, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be broken.
Recently, I ran into a dilemma and I have to be honest, this is one of those “cheats” that I didn’t expect to work, but work it did, and it was a life-saver.
I had a large, springy flower shape made from fine silver bezel wire. It took quite a while to form to the exact shape of the enamel it was meant to cradle. T-pins held the shape together, but I needed them to be perfectly aligned and the bezel wire was just too light and springy. A smaller shape made from thicker wire would have had the tension necessary to hold the 2 ends together for soldering, but this didn’t. What to do?
I reached into my drawer of doo dads (a technical term), pulled out a 2″ x 4″ x 1/8″ piece of scrap steel and slapped that puppy down onto my flower shape. Voila! Instant tension.
But, what about the “large supports are a heat sink” rule? What about the “you must bring the whole piece up to temperature at the same time” rule?
As you can see from my setup in the accompanying photo, I placed the steel back from the soldering point and it created no problem at all. Since the wire was so light and thin (28 gauge), I didn’t need to heat the whole thing. I was able to just heat the portion visible in the photo.
I still follow the rules for the best success at soldering, but it’s liberating to know that sometimes success lies in breaking them.
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2019-04-25T14:10:00Z
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https://volcanoarts.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/metalsmith-breaking-the-rules/
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People are always surprised to learn I’ve only been cooking for the last couple years since it’s become a huge part of my life–when I’m not cooking, I’m meal planning, when I’m not meal planning I’m grocery shopping and when I’m not grocery shopping I’m looking up at the latest food trends. It wasn’t until I hit grad school, where money was extremely limited that I was forced to cook for myself, learn how to be a hostess, cater to dietary restrictions (e.g. gluten free) and how to meal plan and prep. While some may look at those times as a struggle, I found cooking to be a source of entertainment and as we all know it’s a great way to bring people together.
Due to my competitive nature and eagerness to have fun in all I do, I made it a game to see how little I could spend on groceries while still eating ‘well.’ This is where more plant based foods came into the picture, with me realizing I could get more bang for my buck while eating adequate sources of protein, I quickly switched over to more plant based proteins. For example, at H Mart, I just bought 12 slices of tofu for $4.99, you can’t beat that price! That tofu will last me a good couple weeks and will allow me to make a variety of dishes I’ve been wanting, such as Tofu and Mushroom Miso Soup.
Not all my meals have been plant based. I vividly remember when skinless boneless chicken breasts were well over $2/lb. Therefore, I opted for buying 4 whole chickens, teaching myself how to cut, debone and trim the fat off chickens. That was a sight to see!
I’m never been one for eating tons of pasta or bread, but I’ve always made sure my plates were filled with large chunks of meat and protein. Adopting a more plant based diet took some time to adapt, but my taste buds adjusted well and I feel a lot healthier.
It’s been almost two years since graduating, but I’m proud to say I’ve maintained a lot of the same culinary practices. I only buy meat if there’s discount sale at Kroger and always stock up on dry legumes–such as lentils and black beans. Whenever I am dining out, I’m not afraid to try the steak or the seafood option as I know it’d be harder for me to prepare at home. I’m grateful my budget constraints made me think out of the box and I feel more liberated than ever to be able to make different types of food. What culinary changes have you made over the years? Perhaps it was due to food restrictions or budget like me, but I look forward to hearing about it!
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moonfruit
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Click View Larger Map on the Google Map above for directions.
Whichever way you approach Spaxton from The Village Hall is approximately equidistant from Four Forks crossroads and Peartwater Road. We are very close to the School and you will spot the Post Office & Village Shop signs from the road. The shop is on one side of the Village Hall car park and the Hall is on the other. If you need to, ask someone! They will know!
Bridgwater is approximately 5 miles away, and Taunton is about 11 miles.
Spaxton Village Hall is easy to find. It is located on the High Street in the centre of the Village.
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http://spaxton-village-hall.moonfruit.com/find-us/4593079059
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yahoo
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STUTTGART, Germany AND AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Growth in members, rental time and rentals, business customers and the addition of new vehicle models: car2go continued its successful course in 2018. The market leader in free-floating carsharing increased its number of members by 21 percent to 3.6 million worldwide compared to the previous year. In North America, the number of members increased by over 20 percent to 1.2 million users.
car2go, the market leader in free-floating carshare, increased its number of members by 21 percent to 3.6 million worldwide in 2018 when compared to the previous year. In North America, the number of members increased by over 20 percent to 1.2 million users.
car2go cities in North America with the most members are Vancouver (192,000), Calgary (134,000) Seattle (127,000), and New York (122,000). New York was car2go's fastest growing North American city in 2018, enjoying nearly 41 percent year-over-year growth. Chicago, car2go's newest North American location, surpassed 10,000 members just three months after its launch in July.
Berlin (282,000), Chongqing in China (273,000) and Madrid (237,000) remain the car2go cities with the most members.
car2go also recorded strong growth in its locations with purely electric fleets: Amsterdam, Madrid and Stuttgart, growing membership by 18 percent to 430,000 people.
"2018 was a very successful year for car2go," said Olivier Reppert, CEO of car2go Group. "We significantly increased our customer base, expanded the number of business customers and launched a promising new location with Chicago. Much more is happening in 2019, and with the launch of car2go in Paris next week, we will add another purely electric car2go city to our growing portfolio."
Last year alone, members rented one of the 14,000 car2go vehicles more than 25 million times. Especially in the cities of Berlin (plus 401,000), Milan (plus 303,000) and Turin (plus 174,000), the number of rentals increased significantly. car2go members completed more than 12 percent of all journeys with electric vehicles, causing zero local emissions. On top of that, the average rental time increased by more than 10 percent compared to the previous year.
Strong growth among business customers underlines that carsharing gains more importance not only in the private sector but also in the world of businesses. The number of business customers at car2go increased by 37 percent in the 2018 financial year: more than 58,000 companies are already offering car2go as a mobility solution for their employees.
Research has proven that free-float carshare like car2go effectively reduces road congestion while improving urban air quality. The University of California Berkeley study found that each car2go vehicle removed as many as 11 personal cars from the road, and has a tangible, positive impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as overall vehicle miles/kilometers traveled.
car2go was the first and still only carshare service actively supporting the goals of Vision Zero and the Road to Zero Coalition. car2go recently launched free road safety courses to all U.S. members as part of our ongoing commitment to Vision Zero.
car2go N.A., LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler North America Corporation, offers an innovative mobility solution in rapidly growing urban areas via a carsharing network of affordable, eco-friendly Mercedes-Benz and smart vehicles. A flexible and "on demand" mode of transportation, car2go complements existing public transportation by bridging the gaps between the "first and last mile" of a member's commute. car2go members use a free, downloadable app on their smartphone to find, reserve, take and end trips in car2go vehicles.
Fast Company named car2go one of the most innovative transportation companies of 2018. TIME Magazine ranked the car2go app #5 on its "Top 10 Apps of 2017" list. Today, car2go's global operation is the largest, fastest growing carsharing program in the world with more than 3.6 million registered members and a fleet of nearly 14,000 vehicles in 25 locations in North America, Europe and Asia. Further information on car2go is available at car2go.com and car2go.com/NA/en/press/.
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2019-04-26T12:36:45Z
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-members-more-rentals-car2go-140000806.html
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I am one of those people who has a hard time focusing when someone is talking to me.
Let me explain a little bit of what happens inside of me when I’m engaged in a dialogue with someone.
That’s unbelievable is a great go to. It seems to work every time. I have said “that’s unbelievable” so many times in my life when talking to people where I ceased to keep listening.
And yet, what’s truly unbelievable, is my lack of listening skill. My inability to be able to focus on the things that people are saying to me. The true meaningfulness behind what they are saying. Not projecting myself onto the things they are saying, but rather working within myself to find a way to increase my communication with these people.
I am also guilty of heading into a conversation with an agenda. Like, there’s something I have to say to this person and no matter how the conversation goes, I must say this one thing. It’s the ultimate trap that impedes true listening.
I was told recently by someone much wiser than I am that he feels that too often people don’t listen to the entire story of what happened. They hear one part and that’s where they draw their feelings from. That’s where they pass their judgment. He asked me why we don’t listen to the whole story.
And when my oldest son told this to me and posed that question, I got stuck.
They just celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary.
50 years of listening. 50 years of hearing the entire story. 50 years of understanding.
When someone is talking to you, look at them. Don’t look around them.
Consider the things being said to you as if it’s the most important thing that person can share.
Don’t go into a conversation with an agenda.
Allow for the entire story to be told.
I will work on these things.
I will listen to myself.
And If I am successful at this, well, that could actually be something that’s truly unbelievable.
Such is the lesson of Listening.
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Petworth just got a bit hotter with this fantastic new listing! Just listed is this gorgeous 4BD/3.5BA end rowhome that looks like it could be featured in a Restoration Hardware catalog. Three levels of beautiful interior living space, complemented by an enormous fenced yard, front porch, AND garage! The light-filled home has thoughtful updates and features combined with vintage details for a charming yet elegant look and feel. Large, light filled rooms, tall ceilings, windows on three sides, hardwood floors, subway tile, stainless steel appliances, new roof and dual-zone a/c, and lots more! Walk to the Metro, shops, and restaurants, too!
Check out the photos on this YouTube video.
For more information or a private showing of the home, please call me at 703-963-0142.
The Cost of Home Appliance Replacement.
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I will admit that I have never gone to Paris, however, with recent events, I have decided to pay homage to the City of Lights and the solidarity we have seen expressed in the past few days from Parisians and people from around the globe. Warning: This is not a travel blog, rather a disgruntled individual’s account of the aftermath of the attacks on Paris.
Throughout this blog post I emphasize greatly for citizens to heed the following warning: xenophobic reactions towards the refugees will only benefit ISIS and help entrench their rationale of the western “imperialist” nations attempting to suppress their religion and Muslims alike. Therefore, not accepting refugees only aides ISIS in their quest for global dominance. The refugees whom do survive the perilous journey are afraid of the uncertainty of their condition as well as feeling overwhelming gratitude and happiness to have left the war behind them. Furthermore, imagine leaving your house, family members, and friends behind, or being separated from them, not knowing where they are and whether they are safe, ask yourself how would you feel? The biggest cop out is to blame refugees for the problems of today and it grinds my gears having to read how negatively people have reacted to them in the United States and Europe. When will we learn that blaming entire groups of people for the actions of one group (and/or individual) is detrimental to all of us? This kind of rationale has been used by dictators to exclude and isolate minorities, fuel resentment, and in the worst case scenario to justify genocide. Hence, instead of excluding people we should be working twice as hard to integrate them in all aspects of the political, economic, social, and cultural spheres, while respecting their universal rights.
Lastly, what I have noticed is that world leaders have failed to recognize how effective of a narrative terrorist groups such as ISIS have. When appealing to youth they provide them with the assurance of “belonging” and “bonding” with fellow members, apart from classifying them in career areas they would potentially excel in. In the words of Dr.Scott Atran, ISIS’s key strategy is “finding, creating, and managing chaos.” He goes on to argue that the “Management of Savagery” is their political-military guide as Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” and Carl von Clausewitz’s “On War” are to western nations, with the exception of the ‘you’re either with us or against us’ approach; there was leeway and flexibility allowed for the creation of alliances and no themes of global dominance and striking terror in all nations against all peoples whom do not follow our ideals. I have digressed from the topic at hand; ISIS’s strategy promotes the creation of chaos, instability, baiting the western nations to commit to a full-scale war, and harnesses the power and vulnerability of the youth population. In their manifesto youth are key. Here we have an organization promoting peace, security, glory, and self-sacrifice – the ability to have an impact and influence policy in a glorious manner, and all they have to do is join the organization, where they will be welcomed and given employment as well as partnered with a spouse. What a fantastical narrative! And we wonder why so many youth are radicalized and travel to fight for ISIS. What is the narrative to counter ISIS? Unfortunately, it does not exist. Therefore, in order to prevent more youth being radicalized, what is needed to provide for them is the opposing narrative; a reason to fight against ISIS and promote the universal freedoms bestowed upon us as well as emphasizing the need for integration and solidarity with ALL peoples from ALL corners of the Earth. Give youth something to look forward to, something worth valuing and fighting for and then will we see the young demographics rising up against ISIS and refusing to be martyrs for their cause.
Lastly, since Paris has been in the media for the past few days, I would like to also note that the day before there was a deadly terrorist attack in Beirut killing more than 45 individuals, as well as the Russian plane that was brought down by a bomb killing everyone on the plane, more than 220 people. Let’s not forget that many nations have been struck by terrorism and we should stand in defiance with all of these nations and show them our support, rather than valuing one nation over another. Let’s stand up in solidarity with all of these nations and their peoples.
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2019-04-20T05:21:56Z
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GLOW is loosely based on the actual GLOW (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling) TV show which was a cheesy but charming women's wrestling show which ran for four seasons in the late 80s.
This is a really funny, heartwarming and sometimes exciting show. It is a very good combination of characters and wrestling. As a lifelong pro wrestling fan, the show successfully shows wrestling for being fun without making fun of it. I could have appreciated more insight into how hard it is to be a wrestler especially taking bumps which take a toll on the body. That being said, it does a very good job showing the people and getting us behind them. They are flawed people but likable and ultimately, you root for their success.
The performances are uniformly excellent. Alison Brie is a capable lead who keeps the movie centered. Marc Maron, as the frustrated but deep down decent cokehead director does a fabulous job. Betty Gilpin as the slightly arrogant former soap opera star is brilliant especially since she has a lot of emotional scenes. I loved the wrestler cameos which I will keep a secret.
To conclude, the show is a wonderful love letter to wrestling fans. It would have been convenient to mock wrestling as stupid and dumb but the show avoids that pitfall. For new fans, it would serve as a good conduit into the crazy world of wrestling and for wrestling fans, it shows a simpler era where we were not smarks who picked apart every booking decision. Highly recommended!
Britt Baron was a fan of Kate Nash's (Rhonda) music while growing up. She commented on her Twitter page "Now I get to sit on her shoulders and choke her out. Dreams I didn't even know I had coming true". Baron and Nash have become close friends during filming.
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70%52°47°Breezy with a high of 49 °F (9.4 °C) and a 35% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 15 to 17 mph (24.1 to 27.4 kph).Night - Showers with a 80% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 9 to 35 mph (14.5 to 56.3 kph). The overnight low will be 46 °F (7.8 °C).
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Today - Breezy with a high of 49 °F (9.4 °C) and a 35% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 15 to 17 mph (24.1 to 27.4 kph).
Tonight - Showers with a 80% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 9 to 35 mph (14.5 to 56.3 kph). The overnight low will be 46 °F (7.8 °C).
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Mark your calendars for the City of South Padre Island’s 40th birthday celebration from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm on Wednesday, April 10th in front of City Hall with entertainment being provided by our local star, Leslie Blasing.
Have You Seen the Spring Break Reports from the City of South Padre Island?
Our local newspaper is doing a great job lately. Here is an article about Spring Break. If you don’t subscribe, you can at http://www.portisabelsouthpadre.com IT’S SPRING BREAK: Island abuzz with Breakers, national attention » Port Isabel-South Padre Press.
Do You Think There Are Less Spring Breakers in South Padre This Year?
“Stay, Shop and Dine the Island” on South Padre Island!
Want a Great Idea for Improving Your Home and Property Value?
Where Do You Think This Will be During Spring Break?
Are you going to paint your home soon?
Did You Remember the Time Changes Tonight?
Don’t forget to Spring Forward one hour tonight! Set your clocks when you go to bed tonight or first thing in the morning if you don’t want to be early for church!
Did You Know That You Have to Restrict Your Water Consumption NOW?
How much return can you get when you remodel?
Why Would a Texas Windstorm Engineer Drop His Certification?
Did you know that we have a Library Reading Room in South Padre Island?
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I was born to be a traveler. And like most other travelers — I love to meet people who follow their traveler hearts.
Monika Frycova uses travels as an art form. To get between places she travels around on a car, which is in fact one of the weirdest car I have ever seen — an old red-coloured Trabant.
Monika Frycova is a Czech audiovisual artist, performer and a writer that used to study in Iceland and still spends a lot of time there. In Perpetuum Mobile, the artist exhibit photos and videos from her journeys around the world, accompanied by composition. To understand the artist statement more deeply, let´s quote to her words in the exhibition catalogue.
“In this evolution of weaving my personal stories and using improvisation as a creative tool, I haven´t followed any version or model. My investigation focuses on different items — human experiences, the most.” Monika Frycova, Perpetuum Mobile exhibition catalogue, Kling & Bang, 2011.
The artist´s journey on the Trabant started in a small village in Czech Republic in 2005. The car, which looks more or less like a sculpture, hasn´t been that easy to travel around in. As a matter of fact, Monika gets arrested all the time for just driving it. Today, she and her Trabant have travelled all the way from Berlin to Iceland, where it is now placed temporarily on Hverfisgata 42, in front of Kling & Bang gallery.
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When I first moved to my current house, I didn’t quite understand the impressed exclamations of friends and acquaintances alike when they found out I lived in a black-and-white. For me, the house was charming and quaint, but I never really realized the historical significance of the structure itself until much later, and how a lot of people wanted to live in one but can’t. I also didn’t realize how lucky I am in my neighborhood. Singapore is such a big modern city, filled with impressive buidings and tall condominiums, not to mention the vast public housing estates that I have come to realize that living in an actual house, with a yard and an actual neighborhood much like the ones I grew up in has become a rarity here. So I thought I’d record what’s around the neighborhood and post it here, for, er, posterity’s sake.
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2019-04-26T06:12:40Z
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In years gone by I had traditionally written about something from Scotland in honour of Burns Night which falls on 25 January. This year I thought I’d do things a little differently. As Australia Day falls on 26 January, how about something Antipodean instead?
If we’re doing Australian, it just has to be lamingtons. This is not a cake that I see very often, even in a city like London with a decent Aussie population, but I do remember seeing them on Neighbours when I was young and being introduced to the concept of the “lamington drive”. This involved making and then selling lots of these little cakes, and it was pretty much the way of raising money for a good cause. From what I knew, they were pieces of sponge, dipped in chocolate icing and coated in coconut.
They were apparently named either for Lord Lamington, who served as Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901, or after his wife, the surprisingly named Lady Lamington. You can understand why they used his title when looking for a cake name, as his full name (Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie) didn’t really trip of the tongue.
So I set about making a batch of lamingtons. First question: is there some single authentic recipe for making them? It would seem not. There are various different recipes for the sponge (such as genoise, Victoria or pound cake) and chocolate glaze ideas range from a smooth proper ganache to something sweeter and more obviously icing-like. I ignored suggestions to use pink icing on the basis I never saw the Robinson household or anyone else in Ramsay Street making them that way.
I settled on genoise, but then had to decide if I would try to make a deep cake and cut it into pieces, or would I try to include some jam element? Again, I don’t remember seeing jam on Neighbours but I think the right tangy, fruity jam is a good complement to sweet chocolate icing. I decided to make one large thin sheet of cake, which I would cut in two and sandwich the pieces together with apricot jam. That decision was based on what I had in the cupboard, but I think anything that has some sharpness to it would work well, such as raspberry or blackcurrant jam. Something more muted like strawberry would just add more sweetness but no contrast, but if that’s what you like, then go for it.
Many of the recipes that I did see suggested not using cake which was very fresh – you want the cake to be ever so slightly stale (whatever that means) and apparently this was best done but wrapping the cake in cling film and letting it sit in the fridge overnight. I’m not sure whether this really made a difference, or just ensured that the cake really was properly cooled, but it did cut neatly and cleanly into pieces. Given you will be glazing these guys and rolling them in coconut, neat slicing is not really that important as icing can cover a multitude of sins, but I was happy that the pieces didn’t just start falling apart. I took this as a good sign for when I was going to ice them.
For the glaze, I quickly discounted the idea of a ganache. While I have not been to Australia (yet), it is fair to assume it is a warm place for most of the time, and so it would be rather daft to make a cake with an icing that would melt easily in warm weather. So the icing I came up with is made from a warm mixture of milk, butter, dark chocolate and cocoa powder to which you add the icing sugar, then keep the lot warm over a pan of hot water. This keeps the icing smooth and makes it easier to coat the cakes, but then it will set fairly quickly after you’ve rolled the cakes in coconut. While most recipes use just cocoa powder, I also added some dark chocolate to the icing which seemed to help get a good colour and flavour.
The actual glazing process was quite fun – not something I would want to attempt in a hurry, and the first couple of lamingtons took a bit of time to get right. I found it easiest to gently drop one into the icing, then used a spoon to pour glaze over the cake. Once it is coated, you just slip a fork underneath, then allow the extra icing to drizzle off the cake. Then comes the fun part – you need to quickly transfer the cake onto the desiccated coconut, which you have on a large plate right next to you. Then you have to use your hands to form a coconut mountain around the cake, and press it a bit so the coconut sticks to the glaze. Then you need to flip the lamington over, so that all sizes are covered, and then move it to a wire rack. And all the while, the glaze is a bit soft, so you will probably have to fix the shape a bit with your fingers so it looks presentable. After you have done a few of them, you’ll defiantely develop a “lamington technique”.
And speaking of coconut…I was not sure if I should use plain or sweetened coconut for this recipe, so I bought both types. As this is a traditional recipe, I thought it might be made with the sweeter stuff, but to be sure, I tested them both before using them, and this taste test told me that the sweetened coconut was not right. Yes, it was softer and seemed more tender, but it had a rather peculiar aftertaste that I did not like at all – and then I checked the ingredients, it turned out it was just 65% coconut. All that apparent “tenderness” was coming from propylene glycol. I’m not a Luddite, and looked into what this was – it’s safe for food (which I would hope, since it was in that coconut!) but the impact on the flavour meant it was going nowhere near my lamingtons, but straight in the bin. Back to good old-fashioned unsweetened desiccated coconut we went! If you want to try something a bit different, you could toast the coconut, but that’s as far as I would go. You could use chopped nuts if you’re not a coconut fan, but then I think you’re veering away from what a true lamington is.
Finally, I should say that my recipe basically recommends you have a whole packet of coconut on a plate for dipping, but you won’t use all of it. I just think that you’ll struggle to get a good finish if you try to use less, so don’t be puzzled if you have lots left over after your icing escapades.
And how were they? I was all prepared for them to be a bit naff, but I must confess I really liked them. The cake, the set-but-soft icing, the coconut and the jam come together into a really lovely cake. They also looked great piled up high on a plate, so I will definitely be making these again. And not just for 26 January!
1. Start wit the sponge. Preheat the oven to 180˚C (350˚F). Line a 20 x 30cm tray with greaseproof paper.
2. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over a low heat. Put to one side to cool. In a bowl, combine the flour and baking powder and mix well. Set aside.
3. Put the eggs, sugar and vanilla into a large bowl. Beat with an electric whisk until pale, thick and fluffy (around 3-4 minutes). Gently fold in the flour mixture using a spatula. Finally add the melted butter and gently fold it into the mixture. Pour the batter into the prepared tin and gently level off the mixture as best you can.
4. Bake the cake for 15-20 minutes until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Remove from the oven and cover with a tea towel. Allow to cool completely, then cover with film and refrigerate overnight.
5. The next day, time to prepare the sponge. Cut the cooled cake sheet in half. Spread one piece with jam, then place the other piece on tip. Leave to rest for an hour so that the jam holds the two layers together.
6. Cut the cake into pieces – trim the edges with a sharp knife to get good, clean edges. Now cut into 4 equal strips, and cut each strip into 4 pieces. They should end up roughly cube shaped.
7. Make the icing. Put the milk, butter, chocolate, cocoa powder, vanilla and salt into a medium saucepan, and heat gently until the butter and chocolate have melted. It will become very thick. Add the icing sugar, and beat vigorously until smooth.
8. Transfer the icing to a bowl, and balance it above a pan of warm water (this will keep the icing warm, and it should set more quickly when coating the lamingtons). Now check the icing consistency – you will need to add more milk to get it to a smooth but thick icing which pours easily – you don’t need much though, I only added a further 3 teaspoons of milk.
9. Tip the coconut onto a large plate.
10. Time to decorate. Drop a piece of the sponge into the icing, then use a spoon to coat it with the glaze. When done, put a fork underneath, lift it up and allow excess icing to drop off. Wipe the base of the cake on the edge of the bowl, then transfer it into the coconut. Coat it in the coconut, then transfer to a wire rack and leave to set (allow 30 minutes).
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2019-04-24T22:53:15Z
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https://londoneats.wordpress.com/tag/lamingtons/
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to explain how the information carried in IS-IS is used.
the encapsulated packets to their destination.
in common by Layer-2 technologies.
o Type: TLV Type, set to MT-PORT-CAP TLV 143.
including the length of the sub-TLVs carried in this TLV.
o R: Reserved 4 bits, MUST be sent as zero and ignored on receipt.
implies that it is being used to carry base topology information.
o Type: TLV Type, set to 147 (MAC-RI).
by 5 + 6*n bytes.
nicknames of the originating IS.
MUST be set to zero on transmission and be ignored on receipt.
o RESV: (4 bits) MUST be sent as zero and ignored on receipt.
hop information as derived from the advertising IS.
The authors would like to thank Peter Ashwood-Smith, Donald E.
Mike Shand, and Russ White for their useful comments.
provide any additional security for IS-IS.
(type 147). They are listed in the IS-IS TLV codepoint registry.
Shortest Path Bridging, Draft IEEE P802.1aq/D1.5", 2008.
Virtualization", Work in Progress, October 2010.
Perlman, R., Eastlake 3rd, D., Dutt, D., Gai, S., and A.
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We crafted the Future of Work Consortium to help people across the world think more deeply and accurately about the future. The combination of Future Proofed Cases, Thought Pieces plus the portal and webinars have together created a fertile ground for conversation and reflection across the 200 people who are engaged.
As we near the end of 2010, I’m reflecting on what the insights from this year can tell us about the next two decades of work.
For me this year has seen ever more confirmation that a joined- up world (over five billion in the coming decade) will have magic properties as it brings opportunities to people born in those regions who, even a decade ago, would have very little hope. The programs to give computers to Rwanda’s children, to digitalize the world’s books and knowledge, and to innovate around the cost of mobile phones and connections all bode well for the future.
I’m particularly interested in how this magic of a joined-up world will impact on one of the world’s most pressing problem – climate change.
When we asked the executives in our consortium to talk about energy conservation and issues of carbon reduction, most saw it as a crucial factor for 2025. However, they also acknowledged that right now there is insufficient action taking place at the corporate level, in part because it is difficult to know what path to take.
However, what is interesting is that in the magic of a joined-up world, the most crucial developments in carbon reduction are more likely to come from the bottom-up, rather than top-down institutional or governmental edicts. Change will come as a result of individual team members taking action about their carbon usage, and as individual business units monitor and take action. In the past, these individual pilots and small discrete experiments often languished, unknown beyond their immediate circle. However, now with the magic of a joined-up world, processes like Open Innovation and the impact of hyper-connectivity will be that it is possible for these pilots and experiments to be shared, and for communities across the world to take a closer look at the outcomes and rapidly disseminate their findings.
We discovered pilots in many companies designed to reduce one of the major creators of carbon – the commute to work and overseas travel. For example, at BT, many thousands of people are now working from home, and the business is also creating town ‘hubs’ in which local workers can meet without making the long commute into a major city. Technological connectivity is also becoming part of daily work. We heard from the executives at Cisco, how rapid developments in video conferencing are enabling them to build full wall videos to connect one team with another. We also saw how webinar developments are making the connectivity between virtual teams ever more efficient. It's clear that these new ways of working will over time reduce the carbon footprint of those that adopt them.
What is so exciting about the future is that we don’t have to wait for moribund governments or bureaucratic corporations to make the first move. When it comes to issues as large, complex and global as carbon use, it will be the connectivity between thousands of pilots and experiments that will make the greatest impact.
So as we look to the future, it’s the magic of a joined-up world that can give us hope. See you again in 2011!
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When Monet’s impressionn Sunrise, a sensuous if sleepy painting of Le Havre’s harbor, debuted in 1874, it enraged critics. They abhorred the loose brush strokes and unpolished lines and denounced the painting’s unprecedented style as “impressionism”—a pejorative, because the blurry image rendered merely an impression and not reality. Eventually, the vitriol subsided and the painting is now considered a herald of modernism in art. But even today, Impression Sunrisestartles viewers. Its orange sun, bright as a beacon, seems to throb as it casts an uncanny shimmer on the water. This ordinary scene appears mysteriously infused with faint yet discernible motion.Like most artists, Monet used color to evoke atmosphere and emotion in his work. But he used a subtler, although equally powerful, technique to give his paintings depth and, as in this pulsating sun, the illusion of motion. By manipulating luminance (i.e., perceived brightness), artists can create a variety of optical illusions such as twinkling stars, waving grass, or the shadowy descent of a staircase. And although we may respond with feeling to a painting’s lush greens or brilliant blues, color plays no role in our abilities to discern movement or three dimensional shapes—both on canvas and in the world around us.
In Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43), the yellow and gray are close to equiluminant with the off-white background. Therefore, the squares can seem to move or jitter.
Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43. Oil on Canvas, 50x50". (73.1943) Given anonymously. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo credit: Digital Image (c) The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA.
Most museum goers probably don’t know about value, rods, or cones. It’s easy to confuse luminance with the amount of light (i.e., the number of photons) an object or color reflects. However, what we perceive as bright often contains the same number of photons as what we consider dim. Even though each color in a given spectrum reflects an equal number of photons, the yellow and green portions, for example, appear much brighter than the blue and red. This is because our photoreceptors (the cells of our retinas, such as rods and cones, that respond to light) are more sensitive to the wavelengths of yellow and green light than to those of blue and red light. The yellow and green portions are therefore more luminant (but not actually brighter) than the blue and red portions.
When levels of luminance differ across an area or within an object, the brain interprets these differences as signifying three-dimensionality. That is why a simple drawing of a circle, if shaded properly, appears to rise from the page: because shading is the application of luminance gradation. But if the circle is drawn using color gradation (and luminance remains constant), the drawing will lack a sense of depth. In other words, the part of our brain that detects and analyzes luminance contrast, and subsequently alerts us to three-dimensionality, is impervious to color.
Neurobiology and its theories explain what they eye sees as normal and likes however often it is the opposite that makes a good photo. Something that surprises us and breaks the rules can create an emotion. We need to try to create balance to keep the mind happy and also nuances to attract attention.
Neat solutions for example 3 people in a frame creating a triangle.
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Google Search Console was formerly known as Google Webmaster Central and then Google Webmaster Tools until taking the current name in 2015.
If you are a diligent blogger striving hard to make a place in web blogging, naturally you will want to achieve SEO on WordPress.com. If your blog has achieved Search Engine Optimization (SEO), it means that sophisticated search engines like Google, Yahoo!, MSN will link your blog to a keyword when someone searches it on internet and will display it among the top 10 results. For e.g. your latest blog is on patriotism. Now if your blog has achieved SEO, it will be displayed among the top 10 results whenever anyone makes a search for the word ‘patriotism’. And thus your blog will be visited by users more frequently.
Frequently updating your account and by publishing new and interesting content promoting your blog in a way that it reaches your target audience. People looking for information on a particular topic which your blog covers.
There are a number of ways and methods to increase your site’s SERP ranking. But unfortunately, there exist a lot of commonly-believed myths about SEO on WordPress.com which have nothing to do with reality. Let’s take a look at some of these myths and the true facts which negate these myths.
To achieve SEO, I require a plugin.
Matt Cutts, who is the head of Google’s webspam team, claims that WordPress.com is self sufficient in SEO and the users of WordPress.com only need to take care of 10-20 percent of the mechanics of SEO. The themes on WordPress.com have been composed in a way that they automatically link with search engines. Their design and composition makes it easy for search engines like Googlebot and several other search engines, to link the content and make it appear in front of a user. So no, you don’t require a plugin to achieve SEO on WordPress.com.
Increased use of tags and categories in my blog post means a better chance for it to link with Google.
Adding irrelevant tags and categories that have nothing to do with the content of your post, won’t result in an increased visibility for your site on Google. Matt Cutts says, that Google doesn’t blindly rely on categories and tags. It knows the context of your post from its content. Also, if a post is bombarded with TOO MANY categories and tags, it will result in its exclusion from Reader Topics pages. While adding categories and tags for your post, choose wisely and only add those tags that have the highest significance to a post. On a similar note, be more specific while adding tags. For e.g. add “nanotechnology” as a tag instead of “science”.
If I am making a post about say, green tea, I should refer to the keyword and related terminologies again and again, as much as I can. This will get my post a lot of green tea-related traffic. Also, I should create multiple identical sites about green tea to get maximum traffic.
It is good practice to inculcate correct keywords in your post and titles, period. Howbeit, overdoing it by stuffing keywords will not do any good for your SERP ranking. Also, copied material is not appreciated by Google and having multiple identical sites will be detrimental for your search ranking. Make your content appealing for human eyes, and not only to get maximum linkage with search engines.
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2019-04-24T01:57:20Z
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https://blogbyjai.wordpress.com/tag/seo/
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Shop BlackBerry Z10 Accessories. Personalize your cell phone with BlackBerry Z10 covers, protector cases and skins. BlackBerry Z10 accessories include BlackBerry Z10 belt clip cases, holsters and carrying solutions. BlackBerry Z10 accessories also include BlackBerry Z10 car chargers, travel chargers, USB chargers,and batteries. Go hands-free with wired headsets for BlackBerry Z10. Don’t forget an all-important screen protector for BlackBerry Z10 – keeps your phone looking as new as the day you got it.
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This will repair any crack or scratch on top and bottom glasses on the back.
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2019-04-24T17:47:08Z
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https://gyvergear.wordpress.com/2013/03/
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This project of the Center for Lao Studies in San Francisco is the first of its kind with the aim to document the untold stories of Lao refugees in the US through audio and video media and create an on-line archive of interviews, videos, and historical documents. Currently, there are almost no existing oral history projects and little academic research that focus on the ethnic Lao refugees in the US. By creating a Lao Oral History archive, CLS aims to raise awareness within the Lao-American community and the greater population of the history, culture, and contemporary realities of Lao refugees in the US as well as the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Secret War in Laos in the 1960s and 70s. This project will disseminate the voices of underrepresented population, whose stories of immigration reflect unique moments in both Lao and American history, thereby building bridges between the past and present and between disparate cultures. The project started in 2009 and some first results are now available online through their homepage http://www.laostudies.org/loha .
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2019-04-22T00:04:35Z
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https://southeastasianlibrarygroup.wordpress.com/tag/oral-history/
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On the “Sample Chapters” tab, simply click on “download sample chapters in PDF format” link to download and view it.
This chapter explains how to create a drawing application and graphical games using the Tkinter Canvas.
The final example “Creating an overhead scrolling game” uses several images as sprites, which you will need in order to run the program.
Alternatively, you can download the files directly here.
Just ensure that when you run your scroller.py script, the following files are in the same directory.
You can also download the full code files for the book by selecting the “Support” tab and selecting “Download Files“. You will need to register your email address and you should receive a direct link to the file.
Any questions or comments, then feel free to let me know.
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2019-04-24T10:43:05Z
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https://pihw.wordpress.com/my-book/sample-chapter/
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New Fiction from Ginny Yttrup: "Invisible"
Cannot WAIT to read this one! Looks like it will hit home!
Ellyn DeMoss -- chef, café owner, and lover of butter -- is hiding behind her extra weight. But what is she hiding? While Ellyn sees the good in others, she has only condemnation for herself. So when a handsome widower claims he’s attracted to Ellyn, she’s certain there’s something wrong with him.
Sabina Jackson -- tall, slender, and exotic -- left her husband, young adult daughters, and a thriving counseling practice to spend a year in Northern California where she says she’s come to heal. But it seems to Ellyn that Sabina’s doing more hiding than healing. What’s she hiding from? Is it God?
Twila Boaz has come out of hiding and is working to gain back the pounds she lost when her only goal was to disappear. When her eating disorder is triggered again, though she longs to hide, she instead follows God and fights for her own survival. But will she succeed?
As these women’s lives intertwine, their eyes open to the glory within each of them as they begin to recognize themselves as being created in God’s image.
To find out more about Ginny Yttrup, check out her website.
It is my mission with this blog to introduce others to Christian fiction and all the things that reading a story can teach us about faith, hope, peace, love, and our Lord. Afterall, Jesus Himself often used stories to give powerful lessons. I also will be including some of my craft projects here as well.
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2019-04-26T09:40:35Z
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https://creativetree.typepad.com/treeswingreading/2013/04/new-fiction-from-ginny-yttrup-invisible.html
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Yeah, you can order the two books from the website and send payment to my paypal for the buttons.
Did you receive my payment? xD I sent it a couple days ago.
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2019-04-24T14:57:19Z
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https://schumers.livejournal.com/1338.html?thread=4922
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It seems as if I didn’t get to keep up with this blog as I thought I would! My second year would have really been one to write about too!
So here I go making another attempt at sharing, documenting, and just plain talk about what it is I do.
I just finished attending the Rigor, Relevance and Relationships Conference in Cy-Fair ISD this week. I attended last year and was pretty impressed with the conference. This year it was inspirational as was expected. I also got many ideas to put into practice this coming year.
The opening session began with Dave Carroll. Until this week, I unfortunately had not heard of him. Apparently, he had a bad experience with United Airlines and turned his experience into a social media wave. His message on social media and how it can affect a business or organization was a good one. His book United Breaks Guitars was written after his You Tube video went viral.
The midday keynote speaker Adam Saenz was inspiring and powerful to say the least. He was a young man always in trouble and he stood by us today telling his story of how he managed to get through high school, college, masters program and 2 doctoral degrees. What would have been a statistic, he turned his life around and learned that all the bad in his life was not his fault. His journey began with the inspiration by two encouraging notes given to him by two different teachers his last week as a senior in high school . He had the power to change and he did. He later went on to write the book The Power of a Teacher.
Eric Cupp was another inspiring presenter. He spoke on Capturing Moments and The Blessing. His basic message was forming those relationships with students and emphasizing how important it is to show you care. Capturing Moments lend itself to paying attention to the moments in your life. They are happening everyday and throughout your day. It’s just a matter of you capturing them. I left his presentation feeling uplifting to go out and conquer.
I got to also sit in on a session from Kathy Seigel from Florida. She presented on Instructional Leadership. She was quite motivating and made the role of the instructional leader seem simple. Well, the steps needed to take to be more successful as an instructional leader seemed simple. However, it will take work and motivation. She also had some quick little movement activities to use during any staff development to keep your audience involved. Another inspiring presentation nonetheless.
One last presenter from San Antonio was Jo Mascorro. She spoke on student behavior and gave us strategies on how to change it. She had to be the most fun to listen to as she was hilarious and spoke lots of truth! Very straight forward and entertaining. Lots of good information and “a ha” moments! Loved it!
I got to visit with a few other presenters, however these are the ones that left an impression on me. I really enjoyed my week with the RRR conference. Can’t wait to put some of what I learned into what I do.
Thanks again Cy-Fair ISD for hosting a great conference!
My upcoming post topic I am currently working on: starting the year on a positive step! I will be sharing some of the ideas I will be doing for my staff at the start of the year and the vision I have for the new year. More to come! Going on my third year here and I am really pumped and ready for the the year’s challenge! I don’t know what is different from last year only that I have another year under my belt. It feels good! Well, in the meantime, I will be having some downtime and rest with my family. 🙂 That is one lesson I learned early on….make time for family.
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2019-04-20T00:50:55Z
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https://theprincipaldiaries.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/another-attempt/
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I then needed to attach them to the headband and concluded that red yarn (representing Ariel’s red hair) would be great as a wrap-around. When I was done, I was pretty pleased. I sewed the ears on and…hmm, not sure I was getting the look I was going for. I put them on. Yikes!
They looked huge on my head and they looked more ‘Maleficent’ than ‘Ariel’. And it wasn’t even a good Maleficent so I couldn’t claim that’s what I was going for. My son came in my room to ask me for something and I asked him what he thought they were. “An elf thing? Some kind of Christmas thing?” Ok, fail. Obviously red, green and purple screamed Christmas and not mermaid. I told him what it was supposed to be and was he all, oh, ok, if you say so. I set the ears aside to think about what I was going to do with them.
A few days later, my hubby was in the room and I put them on and asked him what he thought they were. “Shrimp? But why make a headband with shrimp on it?” Faaaiiiillll! He, in turn, asked me what it was supposed to be. So I told him. And that’s when he fell on the floor laughing hysterically. He was laughing so hard he couldn’t breathe. I didn’t know if I should be utterly offended or amused but his hysterical laughter so was contagious, I couldn’t help myself and I started laughing too. I laughed so hard, my sides started hurting. I was better off than him though, since he was on the floor gasping.
After he came to, he said the workmanship was not in question but that there might be an issue with the design. He started suggesting maybe simple shells. Duh! The simple stuff was my backup plan. I was going for grandiose and spectacular. That set him off again. No doubt our kids thought we were crazy.
My daughter was downstairs and I explained why we were laughing. I showed her my ‘ears’ and asked her the same question. She said they looked like ears of some sort. Yes! Finally someone recognized what they were. But the tails stumped her and she asked why they were sticking up. Because it seemed like a good idea at the time. That’s why!
But since this creation didn’t work out, I guess it’s back to the drawing board. At least we got a good laugh out of it so it wasn’t a complete waste of time. 🙂 Hey, maybe I can turn them into something else and then I could claim they were supposed to look that way!
Maybe snake eyes? Like from the snake from Jungle book?
I like them! They’re cute, which is all that matters!
Thanks Tony 🙂 I’m not sure I have the courage to wear them yet.
Now I need to think of a way to turn it into that!
I can see what you were trying to accomplish. You’re on to something!
Broccoli! Hahaha! That will send my hubby back on the floor!
I’m going to find a way to make them wearable if it kills me!
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2019-04-21T14:28:45Z
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https://yochet.wordpress.com/2017/12/09/hilarious-crochet-fail/
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I am a christian woman- wife, mom and business woman. I married my best friend 16 years ago and we are blessed with some adorable children. You’ll read a lot about them as they are an interesting bunch, I’ll introduce them gradually- gradual doesn’t happen in our home!
Musings on my business will appear frequently too as The PP takes up a chunk of my life- and I love it. I feel blessed to do what I do, more so as God is involved in every nook and corner of my life.
I named my blog Pawpaw and Mango. Don’t ask me why. I could never climb a pawpaw tree as it was too long and smooth with no branches. The Mango tree had too many cobwebs and the bits fell off easily and stuck to my hair- I then had to endure the afro pick being used to comb it out. Ever had your natural afro hair combed out while still plaited? You get the picture! I did LOVE climbing our guava tree though and would do it once I see a guava tree growing in London LOL! Thanks for reading, ENJOY!
interesting read… you sound like an old friend. Quick, witty, intelligent, i haven’t see your pic but am sure to tell you are beautiful. I’m not wasting time here i know!
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2019-04-18T16:57:03Z
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https://pawpawandmango.wordpress.com/about/
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Love Life Live for Fashion is our motto! Live for Fashion (LFF) Boutique is an online boutique for all fashionistas who love the freedom that fashion brings. Inspired by our East London surroundings we aim to bring you coveted statement customised vintage pieces and own branded womenswear that will light up your wardrobe. LFF Boutique is also home to LFF Nails our hand painted custom nails which means you can be fierce from outfit to fingertip.
Founded in early 2012 by Natalie Wright LFF Boutique is all about individuality and creative expression. The LFF girl wants clothing with an LFF twist and is always making a statement with what she wears wherever she goes. From customised studded pieces to bold graphic prints her wardrobe is full of vintage treasures, independent labels and custom finds.
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2019-04-21T20:45:00Z
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https://lffboutique.wordpress.com/about/
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That's RAY STEVENS from "SANTA CLAUS IS WATCHING YOU"!
After the tie-breaking drawing, Melissa Aughe of Speedway, IN, earns her 11TH WIN and grabs a CD copy of the demented song of her choice.
Melissa holds steady at #3 on the MSB Top Ten Winner list (see link below).
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2019-04-23T10:32:38Z
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http://whimsicalwill.tripod.com/answer302.html
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Let’s kick this little series off with a firecracker, eh? Ten Grand – formerly The Vida Blue – were a band out of Iowa whose second LP, This Is the Way To Rule, remains one of my favourite punk discs of the decade that was. Released through Southern in 2003, it’s a curt collection of barely controlled turbulence, its songs given awkward titles but nevertheless cutting through any ambivalence with real force. The swagger-grind opening of R E S P E C T Me is instantly grabbing, a stranglehold of looping riff and bubbling bass; I Will Seriously Pay You to Shut Up charges its way through its allotted two minutes with eyes closed and head down, butting obstacles aside with no regard for the shattered limbs left in its wake – its, and the album’s, key lines: “Goddam it baby this is soul, what’s wrong with you… GODDAM IT BABY THIS IS SOUL.” That the four players were all fantastically able comes through clearly – this isn’t some practise space throw-down without any considered structural forethought. Plus, it’s sequenced brilliantly, the closing Now You Got What I Got a towering, twisting masterpiece of cacophonous craft. Goddam, I could probably listen to this record ’til the cows not only came home but keeled over extinct, it’s that sort of skewed genius. Frontman Matt Davis died in August 2003, not long after touring this record in the UK, leading to all Ten Grand activity coming to a standstill. This, then, is their definitive statement; and one wonders if it’d ever have been bettered, such is its remarkable potency several years later.
The Jessie J album is every bit as predictable as you already know it to be. It’s shallow, without a great amount of charm, and its protagonist never convinces as a solo artist in her own right (after co-writing hits for others). There are slivers of potential, between slabs of the mundane. But, due to her topping the BBC Sound of 2011 list and picking up the Brits Critics’ Choice award, I’ve been a little kinder than perhaps I should have been. Happens. Here’s the party line, I’m toeing it.
If you’re interested, here is my review.
emotive and, most importantly of all, highly memorable.
inevitable, ties binding them to any scene tossed and forgotten.
scrambling up trunks in time-lapse photography.
carry them for no little time.
Below is Threads, from the Texan band’s eponymous debut. Its follow-up isn’t really in the same vein – but it carries elements across, so fans of the first record are sure to ‘get’ the second.
“I’ve never been one for Golden Eras of art – especially when it comes to pop music, a form ever-morphing beside technological innovation and fluctuations in the human condition. To say that a select few years encapsulated everything that’s ever been great about a continuing movement is, typically, madness, as what the near-or-far future holds, nobody can say.
I thought I’d do this. It’s a nice way of adding old(er) CDs to my iTunes.
By no means are these albums super obscure. Or terribly hard to come by. They’re simply great albums that I have enjoyed – that I continue to enjoy – immensely, and over the next… I dunno, few weeks or something… I’ll try to write a few words on each. It’s a series. Probably with sounds and visuals. Which you, reader, can click and link to and all that world-wide-web jazz. Amazing internet scenes.
Nothing on a major label though (I think – maybe some subsidiaries?). And nothing that really did pick up a head of steam and is deemed properly influential/important today in the world of the music monthlies (okay, so a couple probably are, albeit belatedly). And I might add to this. Warned. Might as well just let it run and run.
You are currently browsing the From Sinking blog archives for February, 2011.
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https://fromsinking.wordpress.com/2011/02/
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Whilst employing a sustainability officer in times of austerity may, to some, seem an extravagance, Frome Town Council have found that the benefits – socially, economically and environmentally are manifold and this work has contributed to the success and national profile of the council. However, there are other ways to embed sustainability whether you have a dedicated officer or not.
With fuel poverty creating 3000 excess deaths a year and 40,000 people dying prematurely due to air pollution; acting to cut emissions, insulate homes and switch to clean energy has a direct benefit on wellbeing. The need to switch away from fossil fuels is also vital if we are to have any chance of limiting global emissions and reduce the impacts of climate change. The increase in extreme weather events and local impacts such as flooding highlight the importance of this work. With cuts to services the health and economic impacts around isolation are also increasing. Finally, with the UK using the equivalent of three planet’s worth of resources and the average drill being used for only 3 minutes in its lifetime there are significant issues around resources and waste.
Embed sustainability: ensure that environmental as well as social and economic impacts are considered and outlined in every project through your project initiation document. Borrow and adapt our environmental policy and ensure this is part of the staff handbook. Put sustainability at the heart of the neighbourhood plan – you could use the One Planet Living framework. Working with MSc students to support this work through summer placements for example, is a great way to further develop projects and provide useful sustainability experience.
Ride the waves: make the most of public interest in specific areas. For example, plastic is key issue at the moment and has meant engaging with the community and enabling projects to set up has been quick and easy.
Energy: Frome Town Council is working with Climate Works to replicate our ‘Clean and Healthy’ plan. This outlines how much insulation, roofs of solar, wind turbines, hydro schemes etc would be needed in your area to shift away from fossil fuels and become energy resilient. We are also exploring opportunities with Triodos Bank around providing finance to support businesses and communities to insulate and switch to LED lighting. This could be potentially replicated elsewhere. It’s also worth linking with local energy experts such as CSE in Bristol who may be able to provide free advice to households and help train fuel poverty volunteers. External funding can be secured to support these kinds of activities.
Transport: Working with local campaign groups such as Bus Users can be an effective tool to help secure local bus services and boost numbers. Providing an integrated transport leaflet to all households is an effective way to increase usage and awareness. If you can find parking spaces Car Club operators such as Co-Wheels or E-car club may be able to set up in your area for free to enable the community to share vehicles and access hybrid and electric vehicles. Engaging schools through an active travel challenge can significantly reduce car use, in Frome this went from 70% to 30% in some areas. Developing a transport strategy for your area which embeds active and fossil-fuel free travel is also key – feel free to adapt ours.
Waste: setting up a community fridge is relatively simple and there is currently funding available from the Community Fridge Network. The Frome fridge saves around 24 tonnes of food each year. There is an open source toolkit available here and here. There is also a detailed case study on how we set up the Library of Things. Plastic is a key issue for the public at the moment, switching away from single use plastic is an easy first step and Surfers Against Sewage have some free resources to help become a ‘plastic free town’.
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2019-04-18T17:04:06Z
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https://madedifferently.wordpress.com/notes/infusing-sustainability-throughout/
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Questions about use of force come up so often, which is why I find myself talking about it so much. Last night, we were drilling some knife disarms in the Kali class and I made a short point about stabbing someone after a disarm. I see a lot of students immediately following up with a deadly force maneuver using the weapon as soon as they acquire it. The response to my cautionary comment was a common one: this guy just threatened me with a weapon and I am going to stab him. I’ll grant you that your attacker does not give one hoot in Hell about your rights when he pulls a weapon on you. I’ll grant you that the art often includes a very aggressive follow-up that would be appropriate for war. Nevertheless, I must ask some serious questions that must be framed within the proper context: outside of a war zone or hostile territory. I ask them because I want you to think about them from the vantage point of those whose duty it is to enforce the law of the land.
What would a reasonable person do?
What does your local law say about self-defense? Better yet, how is it interpreted—have you spoken with an attorney? What force are you authorized to use after you have disarmed an assailant and/or gained the advantage?
What is the thought process for any follow-up? Have you considered your options with the acquisition of an assailant’s edged weapon: stab him, slash him, throw down the weapon, run, strike him, hold him at knifepoint and call the authorities, etc.
If you choose to use force after a disarm, shouldn’t you be able to articulate why? Are the powers that be going to be interested in those kinds of details?
When might it be appropriate to stab him, i.e. use deadly force?
a friend of mine was recently riding Marta to the airport obviously unarmed and with his luggage. at one of the stops he heard a woman scream and some guy (purse snatcher) gets on his train. majority of people unass the AO except for the purse snatcher, bystander, my friend and a lil ole lady.
my friend watches these two guys slice and dice until the next stop. maybe 5mins?
question for the masses…what do you do? assist or do nothing?
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2019-04-20T03:09:32Z
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https://combathard.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/questions-regarding-use-of-force/
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My featured artist today is the American realist-style genre, portrait and landscape painter Elizabeth Nourse, who was hailed by her fellow artists as “the first woman painter of America”. She was an artist in an era when female painters were put down as simply “Sunday Painters” whose art was a mere hobby and would never lead to anything. It was just something for them to do whilst they waited to marry a rich gentleman or if marriage did not come a-calling, then they could always teach.
If Elizabeth was to teach or marry and dedicate herself to bringing up a family then the chance of producing a large and varied body of work was very unlikely. With this prevalent jaundiced male attitude of a woman’s place being in the home with her children, one soon realises a female artist had to go it alone and be very determined to overcome the prejudices of male exhibition jurists and male art critics, both of whom they had to curry favour with. Also, later, when she was living in Paris, as a woman she did not have the friendship-bonding/support of the café culture that aspiring male artists had, but thankfully, she was helped by strong family support, especially her elder sister Louise, together with a large network of female friends, including Anna Seaton Schmidt.
Elizabeth Nourse was born to Caleb Nourse and Elizabeth Lebreton Rogers Nourse, both descendants of pioneer New England families who were married in Cincinnati in 1833. Elizabeth came into this world on October 26th, 1859 at Mount Healthy, Ohio. Mount Healthy was a small village north of Cincinnati, originally called Mount Pleasant, but in 1850 was so named as during a cholera epidemic in 1849 the citizens of the village survived while those in the surrounding territory did not, in fact, four per cent of Cincinnati’s population died of the disease. She and her twin sister Adelaide were the youngest of ten children, four sons, and six daughters, and they were brought up in a Catholic family. Cincinnati’s location on the Ohio River was a great trade hub for North to South and East to West trade and this brought in a large number of European immigrants. At the time Elizabeth was born, Cincinnati had become the sixth biggest city in America. Elizabeth’s father, Caleb Nourse, prospered with the boom and became a banker. However, with the onset of the Civil War in 1861, the movement of goods on the Ohio River was badly disrupted and the four-year war brought a disastrous financial decline to Cincinnati and Caleb’s bank failed.
Elizabeth and her twin, Adelaide, at the age of fifteen, went to classes at the McMicken School of Design in Cincinnati, which was open to all qualified residents, tuition-free, while her next eldest sister Louise became a teacher. The McMicken School of Design had been founded by Cincinnati resident, and real estate millionaire, Charles McMicken. In the 1850’s he donated one million dollars to the city of Cincinnati to form a university. Originally known as McMicken University, a month after the college’s founding, the university’s board of directors changed the institution’s name to the University of Cincinnati and this institution absorbed the McMicken School of Drawing and Design.
The head of the Drawing and Design School was an American painter, Thomas Satterwhite Noble. and the McMicken School of Design later became the present-day Art Academy of Cincinnati.
Elizabeth embarked on the full curriculum and took drawing and painting courses for five years whilst also training in sculpture. Elizabeth’s twin sister Adelaide just studied wood carving and china painting in the classes which had been started by Benn Pitman, a widower whom she later married in 1882 when she was twenty-three and he was sixty. It should be remembered that except for a few months’ studies in New York and later in Paris at the Académie Julian her artistic style was formed at the McMicken School of Design in Cincinnati. Elizabeth’s early interest was the lives of poor rural workers of the Midwest, especially the hardships endured by women at work who struggled to raise a family.
Once she had completed her course at the School of Design in 1880, she was offered a position at the School as a teacher but she declined the offer, as she wanted to continue with her own art and be recognised as a painter and not a teacher! This was certainly a gamble as she had to help financially support her sisters and teaching would have given her a secure income. However, after her graduation in 1880, she returned to the School to study for two years in the first life class offered to women only.
Both of Elizabeth’s parents died in 1880 and with her twin sister Adelaide married and living in her own home, Elizabeth, accompanied by sister, Louise decided to move to New York where, having received funding from one of her patrons, she enrolled on courses at the Art Students League in New York City and studied briefly under William Sartain, an American painter who had spent a number of years in Paris. She also met the famed Impressionist painters William Merritt Chase and Julian Alden Weir. She left New York the following year and returned to Cincinnati where she earned money as a home decorator and portrait painter and by selling her pen and ink sketches of local buildings and submitting illustrations to various magazines. Nourse was able to spend a couple of summers during the following years making watercolour paintings in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee.
In August 1887, with the money she had made from her various jobs, Elizabeth, aged twenty-eight, and her elder sister, Louise aged thirty-four, left the shores of America for Europe and the art capital of the world, Paris. She and Louise rented a studio apartment on Paris’ Left Bank. Louise played a very important role in her sister’s life acting as her companion, housekeeper, and later, secretary, and business manager. Having settled in the French capital, Elizabeth enrolled at the renowned Académie Julian and studied under master painters Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. However, she only remained at the Académie for three months for they advised her that as her artistic ability was of such a high standard she needed no more tuition. After leaving the Académie she set up her own studio and began on a painting, which she wanted to submit to the Salon jurists.
In 1888 her painting, La mère (The Mother) was completed and it was accepted at that year’s Salon. Not only was it accepted by the Salon jury, but they also had it placed “on the line”, meaning that it was hung at eye-level, which was quite a prominent position for an unknown artist. The work of art came with no anecdotal details, which would identify the depiction. Elizabeth Nourse did not want this to be a depiction of a specific person with a background story. This work did not relate it to a specific relationship. She wanted this to be about every mother’s feeling, that of fondness and love for their precious baby. As good as the work was and despite it being highly praised by the critics it did not sell. In fact, it did not sell for seven years despite it being exhibited in five different exhibitions. It was finally bought in 1894 whilst being exhibited in a Washington DC exhibition. One interesting fact about the painting and that of most of her early works was that she signed it “E. Nourse”. Elizabeth felt it would be received more favourably by the Salon jury and the art critics if they did not know she was a woman!! By 1891 her reputation as an artist had risen considerably and she felt it time to sign her paintings with her full name.
In the summer of 1888, Elizabeth Nourse took the opportunity to leave the city of Paris and explore the French countryside. She explored the Fontainebleau Forest area and the small commune of Barbizon, a place made famous in the mid-1800’s by its artist colony. She fell in love with the rural landscape of the country.
The setting for this en plein air painting was the windswept dunes of Etaples. The cold blustery weather at the time of the painting probably was the cause of the model’s pink cheeks and why the small boy clutches the girl’s hand and tries to gain some shelter from the wind by staying within the folds of the girl’s skirt. The girl stands, head aloft, holding some fishing gear as she looks out towards the stormy ocean.
Although based in Paris Elizabeth and Louise travelled extensively, spending time in Russia and Italy. The two sisters spent eighteen months in Rome during 1889 and 1890 and it was during her Italian sojourn that Elizabeth received an invitation from Paris to join the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts (New Salon), one of two important Salons at the time, which was organized by the modern French artists, such as Rodin and Puvis de Chavannes. It was a rebellious act in reaction to the conservative standards of the established artists who made up the jury of the Old Salon. Elizabeth was the second American woman elected a member of this auspicious art society. Her acceptance was a risk as if this New Salon did not get the acceptance by the art world, which it desired then she may never become a Salon painter.
Whilst in Italy Louise and Elizabeth travelled to Assisi where they spent six weeks and during this time Elizabeth completed a couple of religious paintings, one of which was her 1890 work entitled The Church of St. Francis of Assisi.
When their time in Italy came to an end Elizabeth and Louise headed back to Paris via Austria. It was a tiring journey over the mountains, part of which was by ox cart. They passed through the Austrian mountain village of Borst, which must have impressed them as they rested there for six weeks and during this time Elizabeth produced her painting, Peasant Women of Borst. This work is now housed in the Cincinnati Museum of Art. The two sisters finally arrived back in Paris during the winter of 1891.
Whether it was the restless nature of the women or just their love of travel but by the summer of 1892 they were all packed and off once again on their travels. This time their destination was Holland. Although this was a painting trip it was also a chance to catch up with some friends and fellow expatriates from Cincinnati, the Wachman sisters, who had a studio in Volendam. The Dutch village of Volendam in the late 19th, and the early 20th century had developed as an artist colony. Elizabeth and Henriette Wachman had been fellow students at McMicken School of Design. Resulting from her stay in Volendam was her painting entitled In the Church at Volendam……………….
A great deal of information for this blog came from a very good and thoroughly researched article: Elizabeth Nourse: Cincinnati’s Most Famous Woman Artist by Mary Alice Heekin Burke.
Author jonathan5485Posted on March 2, 2019 March 6, 2019 Categories American artists, Art, Art Blog, Art History, Female artistsTags Academy Julian, American artists, Anna Seaton Schmidt, Art, Art Blog, Art History, Charles McMicken, Elizabeth Nourse, Louise Nourse, Thomas Satterwhite Noble4 Comments on Elizabeth Nourse. Part 1.
……….when I arrived at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Seville I was pleasantly surprised to see that there was a special exhibition on marking the 400th anniversary of Seville’s great painter Bartolomé Estaban Murillo. It had opened in November 2018 and was still running. The city of Seville had been celebrating the 400th anniversary of his birth for the last twelve months and this exhibition, which ends in April, was the culmination of the celebrations.
Murillo came from a very large family, the youngest of fourteen children. His father was both a barber and a surgeon. His parents died when he was young and he went to live with a distant relative and artist, Juan del Castillo who started Murillo’s artistic education. He stayed with Castillo until 1639 when his mentor had to move to Cadiz. Now Murillo, aged twenty-two, had to fend for himself and scraped a living by selling some of his paintings. In 1643 he travelled to Madrid where he met Velazquez who was also from Seville and had now become a master of his craft. He took pity on Murillo and let him lodge in his house. Murillo stayed in Madrid for two years before returning to Seville. In 1648, at the age of thirty-one, Murillo married a wealthy lady of rank, Doña Beatriz de Cabrera y Sotomayor. Murillo died in 1682 aged 64. He lived a humble and pious life and was a brave man. On his death he left a son and daughter, his wife having died before him.
The Seville exhibition was a collection of fifty-five paintings by Murillo from museum collections around the world. The exhibition was divided into nine sections each providing a glimpse of the world through Murillo’s eyes. The sections were designated as Holy Childhood, A family of Nazareth, Glory on Earth, The Immaculate Conception, Compassion, Penitence, Storyteller, Genre painting and Portraiture. It was a journey through his religious works to the social realism of 17th century Seville, which has been described as a city of paupers and saints, of rascals and wealthy noblemen and merchants who, through their wealth, were able to have Murillo paint their portraits.
In the first section, there was the Prado-owned painting entitled The Good Shepherd, which Murillo completed in 1665. The scene has a rural setting along with classical allusions in the form of archaeological ruins which we can see in the left background. Jesus is portrayed as the boy who exudes an air of determination as he holds his shepherd’s crook in one hand whilst his left-hand lies across the back of the animal. There is a certain gentleness about the scene and the sheep, seen with the boy, represents the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God), which is talked about in the scriptures. The depiction of the lamb as being obedient and submissive is all part of the divine plan.
One of Murillo’s paintings in the Family of Nazareth section was The Holy Family with Infant Saint John, which Murillo completed around 1670 and was loaned to the Seville gallery by Budapest Museum of Fine Arts. This was a pendant painting forming a pair with his work The Flight into Egypt, which was also on show. In the depiction, we see Saint Joseph, in the background, with his carpentry tools. In the foreground, we see the Christ Child and the young Saint John busily tying two sticks together to form a cross. Mary watches over the children as she busies herself sewing. A sense of depth has been added to the composition by the inclusion of a background of mountains and clouds.
In the third section, Glory on Earth we have the Murillo painting The Holy Family (The Heavenly and Earthly Trinities) which was loaned to the museum for this exhibition by London’s National Gallery. This work of art encapsulates the religious theory that Jesus is both God and man and thus belongs to both the Heavenly Trilogy of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit as well as belonging to the Earthly Trinity – the family from Nazareth as seen in the painting with Jesus’ closeness to his mother, the Virgin Mary and his father, her husband Saint Joseph.
Murillo completed many paintings featuring the Virgin Mary and many were on show at the exhibition. The Annunciation by Murillo, which he completed around 1660 and had been loaned out by the Prado, was a great example of this focus on the Mother of God.
The Dulwich Gallery-owned work by Murillo entitled The Virgin and the Rosary was also on view. In this work we see the Virgin seated on a throne of clouds floating in the celestial sphere and unlike other versions of this work by the Seville painter, clouds and angels have now been added to become her throne and footstool.
Despite Mayer’s opinion, many art scholars still question his attribution. August Mayer never did publish another work on the Spanish master. As a Jew, he was forced to leave his offices in Munich by the Nazis. He then fled to Paris in 1936 but was later arrested and was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 where he died.
I am not a great lover of religious art, probably not due to the quality of the work but more to do with the subject matter. I was therefore very pleased that after seven rooms of religious painting the final two rooms were devoted to Murillo’s genre paintings and his portraiture.
I especially liked Murillo’s painting A Peasant Boy Leaning on a Sill, which he completed around 1675. When London’s National Gallery acquired this work in 1826, it was the first Spanish painting to enter the museum’s collection. The National Gallery of London loaned this to the Museo de Bellas Artes for the Murillo exhibition. This striking depiction of a cheerful boy is related to Murillo’s depictions of street urchins in his larger canvases. We see the boy at a window, the implication being that there is a lot going on that we are not aware of and so we have to be satisfied with what we have before us. So what else is going on? What has been excluded from the depiction? What is the boy looking at? Some would have us believe that this work had a companion piece painted by Murillo, which was to be hung to the right of this one which would allow us to see what the boy was looking at.
“…No.50. Murillo. A Laughing Boy – delicately treated in every part – one of those performances so rare to be met with, & in his best style of perfection.
The two paintings were sold at the auction to separate buyers.
The most bizarre painting at the exhibition, and one I particularly like, is Four Figures on a Step, which is owned by the Kimbell Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. At first sight, I thought somebody had defaced the painting by adding a pair of thick black spectacles to the woman on the right.
Before us, we have four very different characters. In the central background, we have a young woman. Her face is somewhat distorted into a smile, even a knowing wink, as she raises her scarf over her head. What is the significance of the gesture? Art historians have hypothesised that it is a coquettish gesture whilst others say that that is reading too much into her manner stating that the depiction is a simple scene with a family scrutinising the goings-on in the street outside. However, the scene to many historians is to associate it with one of procurement. Procurement? They would have us believe that the older women with the thick dark glasses, resembles the character of a Celestina, an aged prostitute, madam, and procuress, of Spanish literature. The old procuress, Celestina, comes from the 1499 book La Celestina, which is considered to be one of the greatest works of all Spanish literature, a timeless story of love, morality, and tragedy by Fernando de Rojas. The Celestina is often represented as a crone wearing enormous glasses and a headscarf hence the belief that Murillo’s painting includes a procuress! So, if she is procuring, is she offering the man the pleasures of the young woman? More conservative historians point to the fact that on the contrary to the Celestina idea, the mature woman also resembles the bespectacled characters in Dutch and Flemish genre paintings, which Murillo would have seen.
The possible “procuress” is seen cradling the head of a young boy whose bottom is exposed by his torn breeches. In less liberal times Murillo’s depiction of the bare bottom had offended the public and had been over-painted for reasons of regaining a modicum of modesty but the painting now, after restoration, is seen as Murillo intended.
So the question I leave you with is this depiction simply a portrayal of the colourful characters to be found in the streets of Seville, or does the painting carry a reproachful, message, urging the viewers to avoid enticements of worldly decadences?
In the final room of the exhibition, we have Murillo’s portraiture. Murillo’s earliest dated portrait is a newly discovered canvas, which depicts Juan Arias de Saavedra y Ramírez de Arellano an aristocrat from Seville and one of Murillo’s patrons. The subject of the painting was a knight in the Order of Santiago as indicated by both the red cross on his left shoulder and the pendant with a scallop shell. The portrait is shown as being in a stone frame, which includes the sitter’s coat of arms. Murillo often used this stone-frame device in his bust-length portraiture. Also in the painting are two putti each holding a tablet. The one held by the putti on the left records the age of the sitter as twenty-nine while the one on the right has the date on which the portrait was painted – 1650. Below the portrait, there is a lengthy Latin inscription which is about Saavedra. Saavedra, it states, was a senior minister of the Holy Inquisition and is described in the inscription as a “profound connoisseur of the liberal arts, and of painting in particular”. The inscription also includes a passage by Murillo, which offers convincing proof of the connection between the artist and the nobleman with Murillo admitting his gratitude and sincere regard for Saavedra.
My last offering for this blog is another work of portraiture by Murillo, which was loaned to the Seville museum by the National Gallery of Ireland. The sitter is Josua van Belle. He was born in Rotterdam and became a Dutch shipping merchant who lived for a period in Cadiz and Seville, where this portrait was painted in 1670. Van Belle was a celebrated art collector and amongst his collection of paintings, was Johannes Vermeer’s Woman Writing a Letter, with her Maid, which also resides in the National Gallery of Ireland. This portrait is looked upon as one of Murillo’s finest.
The Museo de Bellas Artes’ exhibition was excellent, full of beautiful masterpieces by Murillo and you have until the last day of March to visit this Sevilla exhibition.
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So far I have not done many posts on dining, and the few I have done have mainly been general in nature so I was thinking that it is probably about time to offer some blogs with more specific dining options. We often times we take guests to some of our favorite dining locations when in Cusco, both local and touristic, so this will be the first of two blogs that will concentrate on dining in Cusco, this first one will be on local dining options and and will offer specific places to go to, for trying some of our favorite meals.
There are a wide variety of options for dining here in the Cusco Region, you can choose from gourmet, fusion, local and even several chain restaurants like Mc Donalds. With a few exceptions we generally prefer to dine at local establishments, as this is where you get a true feel for local life and these places tend to offer some of the best values as well.
When dining local here in Cusco there is one thing that should be considered, and something that often times stops tourists from trying these truly authentic eateries, that is how the food is prepared and handled, choosing the wrong location could easily result in the loss of a few days vacation due to stomach issues. To help out my readers I have assembled this list of local dining options, these are some of our favorite local places for a variety of typical Peruvian cuisines, and we not only visit them often, but we also have taken many of our guests to them and to this date, no one has gotten sick, so check them out if you are interested in sampling some local dining while visiting Cusco.
To make these locations as easy to find as possible I have included the address if available, street name and a photo of the store front.
This is what would be called a menu restaurant, what this mean here is that the restaurant has a menu of the day that is set, and currently at Gustos Y Sabores you can get an appetizer, a soup, a main dish and a drink for S/9.00 Soles (about $3.00 USD). With this menu of the day the appetizer, soup and drink are normally set and they generally have 3 to 4 choices for a main course, which usually include a beef, chicken and fish option. Generally the best time to arrive is between about 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm, if you arrive much later you will find that the main coarse selections may be limited.
This is one of our favorite chifa restaurants, I know why come to Peru to have Chinese food? Well chifa is a Peruvian version of Chinese food and is considered to be Peruvian cuisine. According to some reading I have don the term chifa likely comes from a Chinese word “chiha” which if I remember correctly means something like “eat” or “good”, as this is what the early restaurant owners would call out to passers by, the locals interpreted it as chifa and associated it with this type of cuisine.
Fried Pork, how can you go wrong here? Chicharron is another typical local food and is common everywhere, especially at the Sunday Markets, and our choice for the best chicharroneria in Cusco is “Chicharroneria Delicias. A plate of chicharron here will cost you S/12.00 Soles (about $3.50 USD) and comes with fried potatoes, mote (a type of corn) and some thinly sliced onions with some mint leaves added, a real treat for true pork lovers.
If you are looking for something light, or maybe just a sandwich then this might be a good place to stop in, it is a little more touristy, but someplace that I would still consider a local establishment. De fruta Madre offers a wide variety of fruit smoothies, empinadas (bread pockets filled with meats or cheese), sandwiches (I would recommend the Butifara), and other light options.
My next two locations can both be found in the San Pedro market which is a place many tourists visit, but not many will actually eat here, and unless you have a guide with you (or the information below), eating here can be a gamble. No need to worry about my choices though, we have eaten at both on many occasions, both alone and with guests, and to date, no one has suffered any ill effects.
Another menu of the day type restaurant, a bit more local than Gustos Y Sabores, but maybe a slightly better value, you will find that Mama Naty tends to serve truck driver size portions, so unless you are really hungry, my recommendation would be to split a plate between 2 people, odds are good that you will still get full even sharing.
This is not actually an establishment, or even a stall. Elvira serves her picarones up from a small cart that is located in the middle of an isle. Now you are probably wondering what picarones are, well the short answer would be they are little fried rings of heaven, but the more correct description is that picarones are like doughnuts, but are made from pumpkin and sweet potato and served with a home made syrup poured over them. Warning! Doughnuts may never be the same after trying picarones.
This restaurant is one of the nicest and most expensive of my local dining choices, and actually qualifies as a tourist restaurant in my opinion, but the fact that tourists almost never go here though (unless they are with us) makes it easy to consider Kanka, a local establishment. Kanka serves a wide variety of typical dishes, but done to a gourmet level, and the average price on the menu is only about S/25.00 Soles (about $7.15 USD). One of the big pluses for tourists is that if you are interested in trying the typical Andean dish of cuy (guinea pig), this is the perfect place as their Kanka Special (Especial de Kanka) has ¼ of a cuy, a piece of Lechon, baked pasta, and a stuffed hot pepper, all for S/40.00 Soles (about $11.50 USD), and considering a cuy meal close to the main plaza will run you from S/60.00 to over S/100.00 Soles, the Kanka Special is a bargain.
One final option before I close this out, is a very typical street food called anticuchos, Anticuchos are basically like shish kabob, without the vegetables and so it is really just meat on a stick. While I do not know the name of the lady, you will find the best anticuchos in Cusco on the corner by Qorikancha in the evenings, I believe she sets up around 6pm. Anticuchos are a very typical Peruvian street food and sellers can often times be found around major bus stops in the evenings. Choices usually include beef, chicken, hot dogs, or sausages, but for a real authentic choice, try the beef heart (corizon), and don’t forget to add a little of the green hot sauce.
Well that wraps up this post and I hope you find it useful if interested in doing some local dining while in Cusco, and if you like this post and are planning a visit, follow my page as I will be following this blog up with a blog on more touristy dining options in Cusco.
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Glad you guys enjoyed them.
We have had some guests that are vegetarian and they have mentioned a place on the NW side of Plaza San Fransisco allong Calle Tordo, but I dont remember the name. While there are a variety of peruvian dishes that are vegetarian, vegetarian restauraunts fall more under tourist dining than local. I do plan on listing one in my next post which will be on more tourist dining locations, but this may not be ready untill next month as we are currently busy and will also be taking a short vacation at the end of April.
I hope that you enjoy which ever ones you decided to try.
There’s a street vendor across the street from our house, just by the UNSAAC, nicknamed “tia veneno”. There’s never less than 20 students in front of her stand but I wouldn’t recommend it to foreigners, might not end well!
A few places you might try are restaurante Camino Real (on Camino Real, of course), Sr. Panda (greasy chicken wings, right by paradero Amauta) and my buddy’s no-name S/.6 “Menu” restaurant on the little callejon directly across from the main entrance to Colegio Sta. Ana.
Thanks we will have to check these out.
Printed this blog out and went to two local spots mentioned here. Wife and I were very satisfied with the food and the price. Truly what locals ate!.
Always nice to get feedback, which places did you eat at James?
We are “Overlanders” coming from Seattle.
We enjoyed your recommendations for the chicharroneria and San Pedro Market picarones with Elvira (such a sweet lady). Thank for Posting! Have you had the fried dough along southern side if Plaza de San Francisco?….SOOO GOOD.
A question about cabañas, we’re looking for a place to spend Thanksgiving where we have our own kitchen with an oven. Do you know of any nice spots around the Cuzco area (we have our own car).
Glad you liked the post, and yes I have had the doughnuts on plaza San Francisco, good but they are not typical and they just recently started making those there.
Beginning to plan a trip to Cusco with my friends and cant wait to visit these spots!
Glad you liked it Tim, and the list is still current.
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A 100-person floating water park will be set up at Minnedosa Beach, with an opening date targeted for late June 2019, see Itineraries.
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Veli (V): Hello, My name is Veli Vahap Saltık. I was born in Ankara in 1965. I have been working in the modelling space since 1975. It is more than a hobby for me – It’s a way of expressing myself. I started airbrushing about 25 years. It was not hard for me to learn the process because if you love the job, it becomes one of the most amazing things in your life.
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Yesterday was an icky, stormy day. I did what I had to do out of the house early, in order to get back before the worst of the storm hit – which it did by lunchtime. I was glad to be in for the day.
Got some updates done on the websites. There are changes happening in the master calendar, and I have to make sure the sites reflect that.
Did some sorting and purging of material that came out of my office. A lot of it isn’t going back. Some has to be put aside to be filed next week. I’m now consolidating all my files on the ongoing series projects in one project bin, and the fragments and ideas I’m playing with in another bin. That will make it easier to keep track. Like Twyla Tharp, I’m big on project bins. That would probably be a good blog post.
Found the requested radio play and gave it a read-through. There’s only one word to which they might object as not family-friendly enough, and I’ll offer them an alternative. I’m also going to give them an option to split the play they have into two segments, if they wish. I’m going to look at the two short horror plays; if they’re not too gruesome, I’ll write up a third, and have that as a short option. Plus, I’ve been toying with a comic ghost story that might be fun. So there are options.
I’m thrilled that my radio plays are getting such warm receptions.
Re-read an old multi-media piece that was commissioned, but then the company went out of business before it went live. It’s a lot of fun. It could make a good long radio play or a stage play.
This morning, I was out the door early to do the big grocery shopping for the weekend. I’m looking forward to having company. Books and food and wine and conversation.
Pitched for a gig that’s a stretch, but I think I’d be a good fit. If I don’t try, I won’t have the chance, right? All they can do is say no.
Have a little bit more house cleaning to do and a couple of loads of laundry. And then . . .I start the cooking!
And, somehow, I will also manage to write, in and around all of this. Because, the writing comes first.
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I know you all have been on the edge of your seats, anxious to see what the elves are up to today. Sorry, no mischief this time. Perhaps tomorrow morning. Rest easy, they’re just hanging out on bedroom doors today.
A little photoshop took place this morning. No their stockings do not say Crash and Bang on them. Duh 🙂 Though, they easily could.
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That’s funny. Kids can be so funny . . . sometimes.
Plotting his next hijinx, I imagine.
I see a mess in their near future. Hopefully, not too big.
Bigger messes = better blogging.
I’m thinking a heist is in the works.
It sure appears that way. Turns out they ate the boys gingerbread house they built last night!
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First, let me preface the rest of this post by saying two things: One, JJ Hickson can go out in the next ten games and play lights out at the PF slot therefore voiding this entire post. If that happens, I’ll happily eat my forthcoming words. Two, I am operating under the assumption that a team that has JJ Hickson guarding Centers is never going to be a good defensive squad, and therefore never an elite squad. If you disagree with that line of thinking and in fact think Hickson will be able to effectively guard centers in the future, then ignore the rest of this post.
Last night, JJ Hickson was forced to move back to the PF slot. He didn’t fare well. He had one of his poorer rebounding games in quite some time and only shot 3-10 from the field. This was to be expected by anyone who had paid attention. All of Hickson’s improvement over the last couple of months has come with him playing nearly all of his time at center. But simply playing at center does not change the match-ups one gets. No, as much as we liked to hate him, Antawn Jamison was very necessary to Hickson’s success on the offensive end.
For whatever reason, Hickson seems to be more comfortable being guarded by opposing centers instead of power forwards. Because Antawn Jamison plays on the peremiter so much, it was in the opposing team’s best interest to play their center on Hickson, giving him the match-up he so favored. Not only that, but Jamison’s spreading the floor gave Hickson more room to operate in the paint. Thus, one can conclude that Hickson is best suited playing next to a power forward that can stretch the floor. That is if you are only considering the offensive end of the spectrum.
Hickson + Jamison has been a disaster on defense. This is the conundrum I speak of. Hickson, to be an effective offensive player and maximize his offensive potential needs to be paired with a player like Antawn Jamison. However, at the very same time on defense, he needs to be paired with a guy who is long enough and strong enough to guard centers, allowing Hickson to guard the PF spot. Look around the league and find that guy for me. You won’t see many, if any.
So, let’s imagine Hickson with a stretch four who, at one time, was a fairly decent defender. Rashard “steroid” Lewis fits that bill. Would Hickson and Lewis be a good enough front court to compete and eventually contend (I am speaking of the Rashard of a few years ago, not the one today)? I say no. The reason is stated in the first paragraph. Lewis is not nearly strong enough to guard centers, which forces Hickson to do it. I simply do not believe a player of Hickson’s size is going to be able to do that effectively enough for a team to become a contending team.
If we look at this year’s list of contenders, there is one thing that they all have in common (sans Miami); elite interior defense. From the length of the Lakers’ front court to the defensive stoppers in Boston and Orlando of KG and Dwight Howard, interior defense is a necessity for teams that want to contend. The Thunder only recently started being considered contenders after trading for Kendrick Perkins, a guy who is thought of by many as one of the best defensive big men in the league. The only team that escapes that formula is Miami. Cleveland can escape that formula too if they manage to land two of the three best players in the world one day. But, because we can’t count on that, we have to think about building well-rounded teams like the rest of the contenders this year. It is my humble opinion that interior defense is the single most important factor separating contenders from the rest of the league.
So what does that mean for Hickson? It means a couple of things. First of all, we can go on a scavenger hunt searching the globe for a guy who is strong enough and long enough to guard centers and block shots on one end, and then able to genuinely stretch the floor on the other. Honestly, only one guy comes to mind in recent years that was able to do that and that guy is Rasheed Wallace. There simply are not many of those types of players around. Also, the problem with this option is it would require us to basically scrap all the big men that currently make up this roster. None of them fit what I just described. That won’t be easy to do.
The other option is that Hickson learns to play the four. I have always believed he was going to have to do that, but there is no denying his best success has come at center. But at what cost? The cost has been interior defense. Tell me, has this team been better with Hickson at center than it was with Andy at center? The answer is no. Defense matters. A lot. At some point or another, Hickson either develops a reliable jump shot, learns to dribble the with some control, or he simply can’t be part of the future of this team..at least not as a starter anyway.
I’m glad you’re thinking further ahead than just lets make JJ effective. If we’re not showcasing him for a trade then we need to be developing him for the future.
Part of the problem here is the offense as currently constructed. It requires the forwards to fill the wings and shade to the corners to be effective. So either the offense needs to adjust to two interior players, or only forwards that can shoot from 20 ft should be considered in discussions about the future.
I’m glad JJ works diligently on his shot, but if he turns into a poor imitation of jamison or nowitski, then the cavs have failed.
Agree. Not saying Hickson has to become a 3-point specialist to be able to play the 4 in this system. But, in order to play the 4 effectively, he has to be able to knock down a 17 footer with some consistency. He also has to improve his handles dramitcally.
Even though it will likely hurt the team, i’d say leave hickson at 4. What I’d like for him is to develop some sort of identity offensively; right now he is neither a low post scorer nor a good jumpshooter. I think he could work as a Paul Millsap-Big Baby type power forward (Not a big arsenal of post moves but a nice touch around the rim and the occasional jumpshot) and just as good as a player; you’d have to take into account the way the Cavs run their offense though.
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Infrastructure Planning and Facilities provides detour routes for traffic on Michigan State University's main campus primarily due to construction projects. As projects progress and detour dates may change, visit the interactive construction detour map to view current closure information or view upcoming closures using the filter by start/end date feature.
Consider riding a bicycle on campus to quickly navigate construction zones and find convenient parking spots. Stop by the MSU Bikes Service Center to lease or buy a bicycle or to get a bike repaired. View a map of campus bike paths (PDF).
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Acumen Aviation contributed an article in Winter 2015 issue of Jet Trader magazine. Titled “State of the Regions: Asia & Middle East The future of regional jets.
The article was jointly written by Ameya Gore AVP - Asset Management and Amit Kumar Tyagi Chief Technical Officer Acumen Aviation discussing a bright future for regional jets in Asia and India to meet growing demand for connectivity.
Acumen Aviation © 20 February All Rights Reserved.
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We will provide an update of the various initiatives and programs. Then we will have a break-out on the various topics of the Equity in Architecture Survey and discuss how that can shape the content for the Symposium.
Lunch is BYO this time. Please RSVP if you are able to make it!
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The Reva and David Logan Center, with eleven stories and 184,000 square feet of mixed-use space, features a wide range of facilities and resources to support the work of UChicago faculty, students, visiting artists and scholars, arts organizations, and community partners. Individuals and groups may request a space, though the Logan Center’s core users have priority in certain spaces and extra permission may be needed.
Space use fees include basic Security and Custodial staffing and event furniture (when available), and are applicable to events occuring during regular building hours of operation (Mon–Sat, 8am–11pm; Sun, 11am–9pm). Security and Custodial staffing fees are applicable to all events occuring outside of regular building hours of operation.
In-house lighting, audio and projection systems are included in space use fees, although additional staff may be required, as determined based on event requirements.
To reserve or request space, or for more information about rates, capacity, and technical specifications, please contact loganops@uchicago.edu. Please refer to the Logan Center Event Info and Production Requirements Form for information we will need to fully assist you.
While we hope to respond to all space reservation requests within 24 hours, please plan ahead, as it may occasionally take 24–72 hours to respond to your request.
If the Logan Center does not have a space that suits your needs, please explore additional options at the Reynolds Club, International House, and other on-campus venues. You may also contact our offices directly for assistance in finding alternative spaces on campus.
The largest performance space in the Logan Center, the 474-seat hall hosts a wide range of events, from concerts and screenings to theater performances and scholarly symposia.
The acoustically isolated Screening Room supports screenings in eight formats, including 16mm, 35mm, digtal, and 3-D.
Seating up to 110, the Performance Penthouse is an intimate space with incredible views, used for the Logan Center Cabaret Series, classes, lectures, readings, concerts, and more.
Located on the 8th floor, the Terrace Seminar Room accommodates seminars and events up to 45 capacity, offering outstanding views.
Located at the south end of the lower level, Gidwitz Lobby extends from the lower level up to the first level, providing space for receptions, art installations, informal concerts, and other events.
The open air Central Courtyard provides 5,200 square feet suitable for receptions, performances, outdoor film presentations, and more.
An intimate space with incredible views, the DelGiornio Deck and Mezzanine is used for the Logan Center Cabaret Series, classes, lectures, readings, concerts, and more.
The DelGiorno Terrace is an ideal location for receptions and informal gatherings of up to 110 people.
Logan's ensemble rehearsal rooms accommodate up to 21, and provide audio recording and AV playback capabilities.
Logan's seminar classrooms accommodate up to 28, and are equipped with A/V systems with HD projectors.
Logan hosts 20 practice rooms, equipped with upright and grand pianos. Advanced reservations are not required.
Logan's Film and Video Production Lab features configurable media presentation equipment and a separate control booth with audio mixer.
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Peace Corps celebrates Dads! We would like to wish all of the Dad's in our lives a wonderful and happy Father's Day!
Last week we traveled to Belmopan and shared a wonderful Thanksgiving meal with our Peace Corps family. We celebrated with fellow Peace Corps Volunteers and Staff. We had all of the Thanksgiving fixins’ including turkey, stuffing, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin pie. Volunteers were split up into districts, with each district responsible for preparing certain dishes. The dinner was a success, and the food was delicious. We had so much food left over, that we were able to donate the left-overs to a children’s home in Belmopan. It was a great way to spend our last Thanksgiving in Belize with the people we have grown to know and love.
At the beginning of November schools and churches around Belize celebrate the Harvest. Children and adults gather together and celebrate the harvest of crops. The celebration originated in England to remind people of all of the good things that God gives and the importance of sharing with those who are less fortunate. Families bring food from home, and the church is decorated with various fruits, vegetables, and crops from around the area. After the service many of the food items are for sale, while the majority of the food is given to those in need.
This year we took part in the Forest Home Methodist School and Church Harvest Celebration. Each class came forward and presented their offering and gave thanks. Everyone was dressed up and the church was decorated with flowers, plants, oranges, grapefruit, corn, gooseberries, squash, and much more. The church collected lots of food to give to those in the surrounding area. It was so nice to see the community come together, and we enjoyed being part of the celebration.
The Harvest Celebration really got us in the spirit for Thanksgiving and reminded us of all that we have to be thankful for. Thank you to all of those who love us and support us. We are thinking of you on this Thanksgiving Day. We love you and miss you.
We will spend Thanksgiving with our fellow Peace Corps Volunteers in Belmopan. We hope that everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving.
PG Laundry is down on Main Street, right across the street from St. Joseph’s Anglican Church. This Laundromat offers wash, dry, and fold services, and charges by the pound. We do not have a wash machine, and PG Laundry is convenient and affordable.
After some time in the Cayo District with John’s mom, we headed south to spend a few days at home in Toledo, just in time for St. George’s Caye Day. Celebrated on September 10th, St. George’s Caye Day is the first big event of the September Celebrations. It celebrates the victory of the Baymen against the Spanish on September 10, 1978, at St. George’s Caye, 15 km from Belize City. The day included an official ceremony and parade, bicycle decorating competition, beauty queens, BBQ, music, and good times. After the celebrating, we gave John’s mom the grand tour of Punta Gorda and the surrounding villages. Penny really enjoyed seeing our sites, meeting our friends and neighbors, learning about our projects, and celebrating.
Last week John’s mom, Penny, came to visit. We started off her trip with a couple of days in the Cayo District. This included a tour around the area, some great restaurants, the San Ignacio Market, the largest outdoor market in Belize, Cayo Twist, the best soy ice cream in Belize, and a trip to the Maya Ruins of Caracol.
Our trip to Caracol took us through the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve. In early 2000, Mountain Pine Ridge suffered an infestation of the Southern Pine Bark Beetle, causing great destruction. Luckily the forest was not destroyed, and the area continues to recover through reforestation programs and natural regeneration. Our tour made a stop at the Rio Frio Cave, one of the many caves riddled across the Mountain Pine Forest Reserve. After the Rio Frio Cave, it was back on the long bumpy road to Caracol.
Caracol is one of the most magnificent and extensive sites in Belize. Deep within the Chiquibul National Park, it was discovered in 1937, and given the name Caracol, Spanish for “snail,” for the many snail shells found in the area. The name the ancient Maya gave to the city was Oxwitza, which means “three hill water.” We toured around Caracol, learning about the various structures, temples, stela, altars, plazas, the ancient ceiba trees, sacred to the Maya. These trees are enormous. The site is pretty impressive with the largest structure, Caana, or “sky place,” towering 43 meters high. The view from Caana was amazing.
After our hike through the jungle and a quick bite to eat, we headed back to San Ignacio, with a trip to Rio on the Pools. This was a great place to cool off and go for a quick swim, but it was soon time to head back, as it began to rain quite heavily.
Although we got some pretty heavy rain, our trip to Caracol and the rest of the Cayo District was great.
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My grandfather had a clock.
So we have another pastoral.
and takes you far away.
You’re invited to submit ekphrastic poems for our special thematic edition.
You are encouraged to write to a series of ekphrastic poetry prompts over at our sister site, Red Wolf Prompts.
Please do include in your submission the painting or photograph that inspired your poem. The photograph may be your own or belong to someone. If it belongs to someone, be sure to give credit. You may send in as many poems as you wish.
Read submissions guidelines here. Please note that the reading period will be in Jan-Feb 2019 so do be patient to wait to see if your poems are selected for the issue to be released in March 2019.
Submissions open from September 2018 to February 2019. The issue will be released in Spring 2019.
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The story of one woman’s journey to find out the truth surrounding her adoption decades earlier. Amidst the tragedy of the past, she finds connections to her complicated history and a gentle reminder about the transcendent power of forgiveness and time.
Lenora Winslow absolutely despises holiday cheer. Logan Darling thrives in the festive season. When the two meet by chance on Christmas Eve, will love be in the air or will it be a case of the winter blues?
Except for Clarissa, it isn’t only meddling friends pushing her towards the dashing detective Peter, but fate itself.
Bookstore owner Danny Archer has always led a quiet unassuming life but when the mysterious Josephine enters his shop, it’s love at first sight.With Christmas right around the corner, their whirlwind romance seems like a dream come true.
But will the secret that Josephine’s harboring leave them heartbroken for the Holidays or will love find a way?
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Submissions open for Moonlight Tuber’s first e-anthology.
A Handsome Laundrette, a Box of Lovers and Two Dozen Happy Seacows.
Have you been writing stories for years in abject squalor, perhaps in a small room above a dirty store full of hamburgers and no buns, never ever any buns?
Have your stories been stolen by an angry buzzard and returned with great holes in them that were not there before, probably?
Have you been waiting and waiting and waiting for an anthology of stories which explore the magical, bewildering, even muddled world of un-realism???
A Handsome Laundrette, a Box of Lovers and Two Dozen Happy Seacows is looking for stories of an experimental, odd, or surreal nature, WITH WHICH TO FILL ITS OWN ANTHOLOGOUS BELLY!
You too can be part of its digestive majesty.
AHLABOLATDFHS, to its friends, is open to submissions throughout the month of July (AND SUDDENLY, also August!), that preposterous month (now months, plural! How things change!) fast approaching.
Publication: Via the magic of Internet PDF.
AHLABOLATDFHS is open to writers of all varied nations, but is particularly interested in publishing Australian writers and funny dogs.
To Arms, My Jolly Breathren!
on ya, ben – think I’ve got just the thing for you.
What’s the ‘F’ for in the acronym?
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Yes, a nurse is what I said I wanted to be for many of my developmental years. In third grade, I checked out a lot of biographical books from my school library. Two of them were on the lives of Clara Barton (the pioneer nurse who also founded the American Red Cross), (1821-1912) and Florence Nightingale, (a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing, (1820-1910).
Yet, throughout my youth, my parents stressed the importance of marrying and raising a family–“that’s what women are meant to do,” they said. I’m not sure how so many parents of our baby boomer generation got caught up in such nonsense, especially since these parents were the same people who had to adapt traditional male and female roles during the Great Depression and World War II. Or, perhaps, it was because they had so many struggles during these times that they couldn’t see the opportunities and possibilities.
Susan Dimock (1847-1875) is a 19th Century achiever who on August 20, 1872, became the resident physician at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston. Susan’s family came over on the Mayflower with the infamous Massachusetts’ Fuller’s and Lathrop’s and she is my cousin through these families intermarriages. Her parents were Henry Dimock (a newspaper journalist) and Mary Malvina Owens of Washington, NC.
Sunday finds me safely through with last week’s Herculean labors. You know I had a hundred formalities to go through with, and with no German to speak of. Looking back upon it, I do not see how I managed it; however it is all plain sailing now, and I have nothing to do except listen to lectures, study hard, and learn German, etc. Oh, it is so nice to get here, at a word, what I have been begging for in Boston for three years. I have every medical advantage that I can desire. I told the professor of anatomy, for instance, that I wanted a great deal of dissecting; and he immediately bowed, and said so kindly, “You shall have it; I only desire you shall tell me what you prefer.” And so it is with everything. . . in every respect I have equal advantages with the young men; and then I find also the warmth and protection and feeling of interest which a young man finds in a university.
It was July 1872, when Dr. Dimock returned from medical school in Europe. She attended there because Europe was less hostile to women becoming doctors. She remained three years at the New England Hospital. There, she handled day-to-day patient management and care while also performing surgeries. But her best contribution in the field of medicine was to start a program to improve patient care through improved training of their nurse caregivers. As student nurses, they worked in the wards and attended medical lectures and studied anatomy. In between her studies and teachings Susan liked to travel. Unfortunately, she died at age 28 on board the steamship “Schiller” that struck the Scilly Rocks in fog and sunk near the coast of Cornwall, England.
Pioneering activists and professionals in medicine, women’s healthcare and women’s professional education, including Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, surgeon Susan Dimock, and America’s first trained nurse, Linda Richards.
In 1996, the marble marker at her Boston grave was replaced with a more durable granite duplicate, and the original moved to her home town of Washington, NC, where it was erected as a cenotaph.
Well into the nineteenth century, nursing was considered undesirable and menial work, suitable only for women whose circumstances left them no better options for supporting themselves. It took Florence Nightingale many years to convince her family to allow her to study nursing. She trained in Germany before returning to London to take up her profession. Britain’s involvement in the Crimean War (1854-1856) gave her the chance to demonstrate the benefits of having nurses in military hospitals, but first she had to overcome doctors’ opposition to the presence of women in the wards. Once she did, she quickly earned the respect and gratitude of the soldiers and in time their families. After the war, contributions from a grateful public enabled Nightingale to start the first nurses training school at a London hospital.
Meanwhile, in Washington, North Carolina, a young Susan Dimock was borrowing anatomy books from the family doctor and accompanying him on his calls. The Civil War disrupted her education — the local academy she was attending closed — and her family life. Her father died, and most of the family property was lost. In 1864 17-year-old Susan and her widowed mother joined relatives in Sterling, Massachusetts. A year later, Susan took a job teaching school in Hopkinton. She spent her evenings poring over medical books recommended by Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, the founder and head physician at the New England Hospital for Women and Children.
Zakrewska had helped to establish the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, the first institution in the world devoted to the care of women and children. Female doctors and surgeons directed the hospital and tended all the patients. In 1862 “Dr. Zak,” as she was known, moved to Boston and founded the New England Hospital for Women and Children.
In 1865 Susan Dimock finally persuaded her mother to allow her to study medicine. In January of 1866, a few months shy of her 19th birthday, she arrived at the New England Hospital as a medical student. Although Harvard, like almost every other American medical school, refused to admit women, it did allow women “under certain restrictions” to follow doctors on their rounds. This increased Susan Dimock’s determination to obtain a medical degree. She decided to go to Europe, where medical schools were more welcoming of women students than those in the U.S. In 1868,with help from her mother, Dr. Zak, and several Boston philanthropists, she began studying medicine at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.
In between her studies, she traveled. She visited Florence Nightingale in London and observed her nursing education program. She spent time at Kaiserswerth, Germany, where Nightingale had been trained. She returned to Boston in the summer of 1872 eager to put her knowledge and newly acquired medical degree to use.
She accepted a three-year appointment at the New England Hospital for Women and Children, where she set out to reorganize the training program for nurses. Hospitals traditionally viewed student nurses as a source of cheap labor. They took no classes but learned on the job, by following instructions they received on the ward. After the Civil War, doctors began exercising more oversight of nurses’ training. All but a handful of American doctors were men, and they had no expectation (or wish) that nurses would make independent judgments or carry out tasks on their own.
Thanks to Florence Nightingale, however, Susan Dimock saw things differently. “No man, not even a doctor,” Nightingale once observed, “ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this – devoted and obedient. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It will not do for a nurse.” Nightingale believed that the nurse had a special role as a health care provider and hospital administrator, and that her education should prepare her for that role. Dimock agreed with Nightingale — up to a point. She understood and was eager to lower the obstacles nurses faced to gaining knowledge, credentials, and respect; but as a doctor herself, she also understood the value of the nurse’s traditional role. Florence Nightingale saw nurses in training as students, not workers; Susan Dimock believed they could be both.
After Susan Dimock’s sudden death at sea in 1875, friends and admirers endowed a “free bed” for indigent patients in her name at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. Today the hospital is home to the Dimock Community Health Center in Roxbury, MA.
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Andrew Bellatti was a reliver for the Stone Crabs half of the 2013 season. Bellatti appeared in 22 games for the Stone Crabs where he compiled a 6-3 record with a 2.95 ERA, 2 saves and 52 strikeouts in 55 innings.
Bellatti was drafted by the Rays in the twelfth round of the 2009 Draft out of Steele Canyon (CA) High School.
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Industrial area Extension road, Ronfort Foundation Int., Takoradi P. O. Box 574 Tema.
Mile 4, Independence Avenue, P.M.B. 52, Kanda.
Badentoy Crescent, Portlethen, Aberdeen AB12 4YD, UK.
Ist floor, Total House, Liberia Road, Accra. P. O. Box CT2517, Cantonments.
Heritage Tower, 13th Floor West Ridge Accra Ghana.
House No.12, 1st McCarthy Road, Accra House No.B6/3 Link Road, Laterbiokoshie Blacksmith Junction, P.O.Box 10828, Accra- North.
Wesley House Liberia Road P.O.Box 6274 Accra North.
Mile 4 Independence Avenue, P.M.B. 57, Kanda, Accra.
No.14 Publishing Road P.O.Box CO 614 Tema.
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KITABNATION is brainchild of Sahadevision aspiring to promote good books and writers globally.
KITABNATION aims to encourage club members to purchase at least a book a month and discuss it in the social media.
Every month we shall invite writers/publishers on HimaliSworharu-Online Media to speak on their books.
We will promote and discuss about book on Facebook, Twitter and will encourage members to write a blog about book they have read.
To join the club you must be to attuned to the reading culture and able to buy at least a book every month costing could cost $5-$10.
Buying a book is completely voluntary and optional as we force you to read and react to the vanishing world of books.
You one can join and leave the club without a notification.
Hence if ready join the club please look at following links and respond.
Finally, Remember as the popular saying goes you don’t become poor after buying books and illiterate after reading books.
Currently Yuyutsu Sharma is in the USA and traveling in the different cities with his works.The interview was broadcasted on KONK Radio (KONK Broadcasting Network – community radio and newspaper for Key West and the Florida Keys http://www.konknet.com) during his recent Florida tour.
I am sharing his interview for all poetry lovers!
I think, she heard about Himali Sworharu from twitter or from her colleague.
Recently, We spoke on the phone and she expressed her curiosity about Himali Sworharu. She said she wanted to do a profile.
Ok. Sounds good to me!
We meet on a café and talked about Himali Sworharu.
Who don’t like to talk about their product? Especially a creative and passionate project!
I thank Smriti for her curiosity and brining my story to the online audience.
Smriti also took a Photo.
This week, The New York Times published some news, articles and Co-Ed about Nepal and Nepali, but following three articles attracted my attention.
On May 13 Nicholas Hirshon writes an insight story of Nepali salons workers on the title of “For Nepalese Salon Workers, a Cultural Hurdle to Overcome.” In this article, Mr. Hirshon writes about Nepali immigrants’ struggle, psychological feelings regarding their jobs and the success of some hard worker Nepali (Especially on the nail salon business).
Nick also spoke about the article on HimaliSworharu’s “Open Mic” program. Here is the link to listen the conversation. Basically, we spoke about background of the article.
The article is more about trekking safety. If you are interested about Nepal, environment, mountain and trekking you should read this article.
The New York Times often publish political, nature and cultural news of Nepal. However, I feel so proud and happy to read arts related article this week.
This article was published on The International Herald Tribune. I would recommend you to read this article if you love Nepali arts, crafts and if you want to know how young creative minds are rising in the artistic field.
Here is the New York Times internet link.
Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) — Twenty-one-year-old Ramila Syangden weeps uncontrollably as she clutches her 10-month-old baby. She sits and watches as the pyre where her husband’s body will be cremated is set alight in the open Nepalese air.
I watched Hindi film “Patang-The Kite” by Prashant Bhargava,featuring with Seema Biswas and Nawazuddin Siddiqui at The Tribeca Cinemas. After watching “Patang-The Kite,” I found some beautiful similarities with Nepali film “ Highway,” by Deepak Rauniyar.
Interestingly, Both films had World Premiere on Berlin International Film Festival.
Surprisingly, both directors use improvise settings and some non-actors to tell the stories.
And finally I would say both films are not just a general films, for me both films are “organic” of its own.
Would you like to read the reviews?
If you are in New York, find the nearest theatre to enjoy “Patang-The Kite,” releasing on June 15th.
And if you are in Nepal, You know… what’s going to happen on June 15th?
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Can machines learn to think like children? An interdisciplinary team of cognitive scientists, neuroscientists and computer scientists at IU Bloomington has received the campus’s inaugural Emerging Areas of Research funding award to explore that question.
Called “Learning: Brains, Machines and Children,” the first Emerging Areas of Research initiative is led by Linda Smith, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of psychological and brain sciences in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences. The research team will receive up to $3 million for the four-year project.
The Emerging Areas of Research program was proposed in the Bicentennial Strategic Plan for IU Bloomington as part of a suite of initiatives designed to invest in research innovation and excellence on campus.
"The Emerging Areas of Research funding program ensures that our campus is constantly thinking about the next frontier in knowledge and hiring new faculty to ensure we can reach that frontier," IU Bloomington Provost and Executive Vice President Lauren Robel said. "The stellar team led by Professor Smith epitomizes the strengths that allow us to build toward that future."
Representing expertise in developmental psychology, human learning, neuroscience and artificial intelligence, the inaugural Emerging Areas of Research team will pursue a comprehensive and unified theory of learning rooted in research about how infants and children learn to classify faces, objects, letters, numbers, etc.
"We are thrilled that IU Bloomington's first Emerging Areas of Research initiative represents such a profound area of focus and such an impressive group of researchers," said Rick Van Kooten, the vice provost for research at IU Bloomington, whose office oversees the Emerging Areas of Research program. "The proposal leverages exemplary areas of research on our campus, and the combination is certain to yield exciting results."
The significance of the research initiative lies in its convergence of the study of learning in human children and the study of machine learning. Child learning and artificial intelligence may seem to have nothing to do with one another, but that is a "fundamental misunderstanding," according to Smith.
"From its beginnings, computer science has always had overlapping questions with cognitive psychology and neuroscience," she said. "There's an emerging consensus that big breakthroughs will emerge through reunifying these sciences. Right now, we are at a tipping point for really big advances that will have major impacts on all aspects of human life."
For example, because the research project emphasizes visual learning, findings from the project may impact imaging and pattern recognition in fields from medicine to the military.
Smith is internationally known for her pioneering research and theoretical work on the development of human cognition, particularly among infants and toddlers. "Human infants and children are the best learning devices on Earth," she said. The IU Bloomington Emerging Areas of Research team is unique, Smith added, because it is "bringing a specifically developmental perspective to the question" of learning.
Other IU Bloomington members of the team are Robert Goldstone, Karin James, Michael Jones, David Landy, Franco Pestilli, Olaf Sporns and Chen Yu, all of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences, and David Crandall, Sriraam Natarajan, Michael Ryoo and Martha White, all of the IU School of Informatics and Computing.
"The College is delighted to be able to contribute such an impressive range of scientific expertise, represented by the talented team from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences," said Larry Singell, executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. "This initiative speaks to our strengths, both in the range of knowledge available in the College and in the collaborative spirit that the liberal arts can apply to a single question."
The Emerging Areas of Research program, launched in 2016, aims to support areas of research and creative strength on the IU Bloomington campus that will enhance the quality, impact and reputation of the campus's research enterprise. Over the next five years, the campus anticipates funding up to six Emerging Areas of Research initiatives, each with up to a $3 million cash investment and up to three new faculty hires per initiative. The "Learning: Brains, Machines, and Children" team plans to add three new faculty with expertise in the connections between computational cognition, computational neuroscience and machine learning.
"This initiative is the perfect blend of traditional science with computing," said Raj Acharya, dean of the IU School of Informatics and Computing. "Our faculty are excited to play an important role in this work using the power of computing and machine learning to help us understand the process by which infants and children learn during their earliest stages."
The inaugural award aligns with priorities outlined in the university’s Bicentennial Strategic Plan, including celebrating a vibrant community of scholars and catalyzing research.
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The last few weeks I have been working on an application for one specific customer. The application is sold as is and will not need any new features after release, nor will it be used for another customer. This combined with the pressure of a very tight deadline is not a very good motivation to write clean code, but nevertheless I always think carefully about my design, and this was a chance I never had before. Writing a real-life application from scratch.
While the code I was writing was not perfect, and there was a lot of similar code I had to tackle to prevent a lot of duplication my team lead felt he had to intervene because the class was getting too big for him. With a total length of 700 lines the class was indeed getting a bit too big and cleaning it up was certainly on my list of things to do, but I never had the chance to do it the way I felt like it should.
Instead of a lot of similar (nearly duplicated) code in one class, we now had a bunch of similar (nearly duplicated) classes.
My well designed class ended up with a lot of getters and setters making it a data object.
When the refactoring was done he asked my opinion of the result. When I confronted him with my disgust of this class that become a data object, and that it breaks the entire idea of object oriented programming he simply replied that it was not. I was literally shocked that a person with 30 years of experience in software development (of which 20 years with Java) just said that a data object is not a problem in object oriented programming.
Two of the main ideas of object-oriented programming is that of abstraction and encapsulation. The object itself contains all the data it needs to perform its responsibilities and it has a clear API that does not expose the inner details. So why does a data object break with these two concepts?
A data object does not provide any abstraction as the API exposes all the internal elements with all the getters.
A data object does not provide any encapsulation as the object depends on others to provide it with the correct data through its setters.
A different way to look at objects, one that is often used for unit testing, is by defining the objects through its responsibilities. A data object can never have any responsibilities as it can not ensure the correctness of its data as it can be modified by anyone at anytime. The object can never make any mistakes, simply because he is not the source of the wrong data.
Next to the moral objections, data objects make debugging your code a lot harder as well. If the application crashes for some reason and the stacktrace shows that the object is in an inconsistent state it will be hard to find out why this is so. Finding out why the value changed can not be answered without finding out which other object changed the value.
In my opinion data object should be avoided, and the tendency to use must be a sign to rethink the design of the software. However, I have seen many data objects and I know that in some cases there is no other choice but to have a data object. One of the easiest and most straight-forward examples is a data object that is used in a user interface. The object requires a lot of getters such that the data can be shown, and it needs setters to allows the users to change it. While I am typing I realize that even this can be avoided if we re-design the user interface such that the object itself will show the details on the screen and handle any changes made.
Perhaps a much better one is an object that stores general system information, information that should be available to each component of the software. But even this should not be a complete data object as the data should probably not be directly modifiable. While the need for data object may sound obvious and may even look required in many cases, it often can be solved in a different way that prevents or at least minimizes this need.
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ROCK has become something of a dirty word in British popular music over the past few years.
The fall in popularity of mid-90s bands such as Feeder and Placebo has left rock fans in the UK with a clear choice – slap on some eye makeup and mosh to the likes of My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy, or follow the herd and bop along to Arctic Monkeys, Razorlight and co.
Gone are the days when pure, heavy rock was cool. The days between punk and britpop, the days of Black Sabbath, Whitesnake and all those guys who knew that if you haven’t got a headache by the end of a gig, you’re just not rocking hard enough.
So hats off to Farnborough’s Kenelis, who are single-handedly bringing back the kind of blisteringly ear-quaking music that has been out in the cold for so long.
The band’s debut album, ‘Remember How It Felt’, released on their own independent label, is a startling piece of work from a group who have built up a solid reputation locally over the past four years, and are now ready to expand their horizons beyond the fringes of the M25.
Before they even play a note, the band have hit upon a familiarly winning line-up – four almost invisible guys behind a feisty, beautiful lead singer who just happens to be a girl. But there is so much more to Mel Sanson than her looks.
She delivers the group’s powerful songs in a rasping voice that switches effortlessly between husky and seductive to an all-out scream that makes you fear for the future of her precious vocal chords.
But of course no rock chick is complete without her band, and Andy Seabrook-Harris, James Chilton, Andy Henry and Sam Franklin have created a complex, layered sound that combines all kinds of influences and yet is unmistakably Kenelis.
Seabrook-Harris’ lead guitar hooks are a particular standout. After a few spins, you’ll swear you’ve heard this record a thousand times, such is its immediacy and high-quality production on show throughout.
What sets this record apart from the work of many other local bands is its texture and subtleties. On ‘Give Her The Gun’, for example, there are more ideas than your average band manages in an entire album.
Sanson’s lyrics throughout the album are extremely evokative, painting pictures of broken relationships with simple lines such as ‘I want to be why you smile’ (‘Drained’) and creating scenes of conflict and angst: ‘I’m not here to make you sad/ Are you sure?’ (Nobody Sees Me But You).
Kenelis are a breath of fresh air for the future of rock music, and a band to keep a close eye on as 2009 continues.
Kenelis’ album launch takes place at the West End Centre on Queens Road, Aldershot on Friday January 23. Tickets £6 from the Box Office: 01252 330040.
Remember How It Felt is released on January 26 on itunes and all major download sites.
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The first time I visited Porth Oer, aka Whistling Sands, I was sceptical about the whistling. It's nothing to do with the wind, which might be your first thought on hearing the name. It's the actual sand that does the whistling.
This time I tried taking a video so that I could record the squeaking/whistling sound.
Apologies for the quality, it's just taken with my Canon PowerShot which isn't a video camera, it just has a video option.
While I was taking videos, I also recorded the surf crashing onto the beach. You can hear the wind too. If you look carefully near the end, you will see the small black shape of a surfer heading for the beach.
That's so cool! It sounds a bit like a puppy softly yipping, but I'm not sure Yipping Sounds is any more appealing than Squeaking Sands.
It's a pity there was so much wind, but you can definitely hear the squeaky sound. I need to make a trip to our nearest beach and do a recording there to demonstrate the sound made by normal, non-squeaking sand so people can make a proper comparison.
How odd. I will have to listen next time I go to a sandy beach to see whether sand elsewhere whistles too!
I did record walking over wet sand at the same beach (something like shhhhh-shhhhh), but I think a trip to Barmouth is called for so I can demonstrate normal sand and its non-squeakiness.
Get a group together on a calm day, and you could try for a tune or two.
It's one of those things sounds unbelievable until you try it for yourself.
Very excellent--thank you for recording!
I ought to thank you. It was your videos that gave me the idea of doing it.
Hee! Squeaky Beach. I like it. Interesting that the phenomenon occurs elsewhere too.
I don't know whether footwear makes a difference. (Another thing to test?) I was wondering if they'd first noticed the phenomenon when they dragged things across the beach, for example boats, ropes or fishing nets. You have to walk in an unnatural way to make it squeak when you walk across it.
Squeaking may be more accurate then Whispering - & not as funny as Yipping - it still sounds more romantic!
I did wonder whether it might whistle more convincingly if you dragged something like a rope or fishing net across it. You have to walk in an unnatural way to make it squeak when you walk across it.
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Mark Zuckerberg is a success story like no one else’s! The founder of the most popular social networking site, Facebook, Zuckerberg is a self made billionaire with his assets estimated to be around 4 billion dollars! He had created Facebook from his Harvard dorm with a few other friends in 2004 and in a span of seven years, the number of registered users have grown remarkably to an astonishing 500 million users as of 2011!
Have a dream – Mark Zuckerberg’s journey to success began as a dream and a burning desire. This is what most successful entrepreneurs do – take some time off from their day to day activities and problems and sit back and dream about their future. As a Business School student you must give yourself time to dream and visualize a future that you want and only then will you feel the desire to achieve it.
Think long term – If there is one lesson that every entrepreneur must learn from Mark Zuckerberg, it should be – holding on to a long term idea for achieving success. Of course, not all such planning turns out to be successful, but thinking about the next 5 to 10 years will at least inspire the enterprise towards gaining a momentum and sticking to their visions. Business Schools should teach students on Long Term Vision.
Stick to things that you know and are certain of – Do not wander into unknown territories and always try to remain within your abilities. That is exactly what Zuckerberg and his friends did, they all stayed within their limits and skills and eventually achieved tremendous success. This often happens for freshers who move out of Business Schools avoid it.
Finally, believe in yourself – Self belief is an essential requirement for every person who wants to be successful. Zuckerberg had plenty of it and therefore he did all the initial work himself and did not just hand over the responsibility to someone else. Yes Do It Yourself to Excel, nobody else can do it better than you.
In conclusion, what really is extraordinary about Mark Zuckerberg is he surely deserves his present position as the youngest billionaire in the world because he had the courage to dream and the desire to chase that dream. He did not shy away from taking risks and stuck to his passion and that is how and why he emerged so successful.
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Ruth 4:18-22, 18Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez fathered Hezron, 19Hezron fathered Ram, Ram fathered Amminadab, 20 Amminadab fathered Nahshon, Nahshon fathered Salmon, 21Salmon fathered Boaz, Boaz fathered Obed, 22Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.
An interesting conclusion to these four short chapters. There’s so much that could have been written to conclude this book, but the author decided to show the reader that Ruth was the great grandmother of King David. Perhaps it was a way of sharing with us the source of some of David’s character traits. He may not have known his great grandmother personally, but he would have heard this story. And what we know of Ruth in these four chapters I’m sure there were many more stories David knew that we are not privy to. David from his earliest years knew he was a part of this godly legacy. He would have been told his role in living out a legacy that stretched over generations.
Here I am again thinking about godly legacies again. I am teaching a course on leadership at Kiev Theological Seminary in Kiev, Ukraine this week. Several times I have reminded my students of their godly heritage. Some of these students had grandparents and great grandparents that were taken in the middle of the night by the KGB because of their religious beliefs. They are standing on the shoulders of millions who gave their lives for the sake of the Name. It is a reoccurring theme in the Bible. In today’s passage I realize that I am a link in the generations that are on either side of me. I remember my grandmother Hungerford’s strong faith in God. She was the only one of my grandparents who followed after Him. What will my grandchildren remember about me? Will they remember my faith in God and how it worked it’s way out in my life? Will I live out enough stories that my children can tell to their grandchildren if I’m not around? I am struck by the reality that I am not living this Christian life for me only, but for the generations that follow as well.
Father God help me to start living stories that my children can share with their grandchildren. Don’t let me live this Christian life just for me, but for the generations to come. Thank You for my children and grandchildren. Thank You that they are following strong after You. I pray these things in Jesus Name, Amen.
Israel sounds a bit like a grade school classroom when the teacher steps out in the hallway. Whispering leads to talking, talking leads to shouting, shouting becomes a game of tag or a pencil-throwing contest, and everyone does as they see fit. It reminds me of an earlier verse in Judges—Judges 2:10—in which “another generation grew up, who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel.” A generation of parents failed to tell their children what God had done (like He’d instructed them to do, by the way). Their neglect resulted in no knowledge of Him, and the chaos and sin of everyone making their own way.
I can relate (a little too well). How quickly I forget, and how easily I stray. When I quit honoring God as king—when I stop obeying Him as Lord and pursuing Him as Life itself—then soon I’m exactly like the Israelites. Forgetfulness leads to apathy, apathy leads to doubt, doubt leads to rebellion, and I do only as I see fit.
God, let me not forget. Let me remember who You are, and what You’ve done, so that I’ll remain humbly obedient, following after You. Let me only do, not as I see fit, but as You instruct. And thank You for the forgiveness and mercy when I don’t. Amen.
Micah hired his own personal priest in his home where he housed the idols that he created. Prior to the Danites migrating north to find new territory, they sent five spies to scout out the area and on the way, they stopped at Micah’s home. The men later stole Micah’s idols and carried them north and continued to use the idols even after the they settled in their conquered land.
Throughout this entire incident, no one puts God first and gives him the worship that He deserves. The men took Micah’s idols by force, perhaps because they felt the idols would give them some special powers to aid them in victory when they attacked Laish. After Micah’s idols and his priest were stolen, Micah’s world was shattered. He felt he had nothing left. His idols meant everything to him. He thought that his idols were pleasing to God. The sad truth however, was that the idols took the place of God in his life and when they were gone, Micah was left empty.
My first thoughts after reading these passages of scripture were thoughts of disbelief. How could Micah say to the men that stole his priest and his idols that they were only thing that he had left? I thought that this was so sad that Micah was totally dependant on these things that he created and I thought it was absurd and preposterous to think that he could not be happy and joyful apart from them. After careful thought however, I started to wonder about the things that I hold onto in this world and I started to wonder if these things were the source of my joy, too.
God desires me to die to myself and to trust in Him totally and completely. He wants me to love Him with every fiber of my being and to express this love in selfless service to others instead of selfish gain for myself. How often do I make things about me instead of Him? Do I go to church every week to worship Him and adore Him each week or do I sometimes show up simply because it makes me feel better after a hard week? Do I hold onto material possessions too tightly and not give generously because I am fearful of losing my job and fearful of not being able to support my family? How often do I make excuses and not give enough of my time to people when they need encouragement, prayer or help because my own time is so valuable to me? What exactly is taking the place of God in my life?
Lord, I desire to worship you full time! I know that any time or energy I spend on anything apart from you, would just result in emptiness and despair. You alone are worthy of my praise. You alone give the joy that the world cannot explain. Trying to find peace or joy apart from you is not possible and I know this to be truth.
I praise you for who you are. You are the only one that could take this empty shell and use it for your glory. I pray Lord that you give me the wisdom to weed out the empty things that I cling to and foolishly believe that these things bring joy. You are the only one that could fill the tons of emptiness that resides in those areas of my life that I have filled with the things of this world. I want to love you with all of my heart, all of my mind, all of my soul, and all of my strength and I want to love you completely and unselfishly. Take this existence and use me!
I love you so much, Lord. Thank you for your spoken Word on my heart. Thank you for your unfailing love for me. Thank you for making my dreams pleasant. Form me into your image and use me however it pleases you most. I do not want to waste this time that you have blessed me with.
Delilah’s persistent pleading had finally broken down Samson and he told her the secret of his great strength. She in turn, called the Philistines in to capture Samson, because of a promised eleven hundred shekels of silver from the rulers.
Every time I’ve ever heard or read this story, I have always thought, “How stupid could he be? Didn’t he learn from past experience that Delilah couldn’t keep a secret?” Even his first wife was able to get the answer to the riddle out of him in Judges 14.
But, as I’ve been contemplating this story again the past week, I saw a tendency in myself that mimicked Samson. A very humbling realization.
Have I not learned from past experience that when I make it a priority to spend time with God, that I am better prepared for my day and whatever obstacles I may confront, and sadly the opposite when I do not.
As Samson thought: “I’ll go out as before and shake myself free.”’ But he did not know that the LORD had left him” (Judges 16:20b), so I sometimes do. This is where relying on my own human strength and wisdom gets me into trouble. By doing so, I tell a very respectful God, “No thanks, don’t need your help today. Thanks anyway.” In the process I limit myself, and what I could really accomplish, if only I was using His power instead of my own.
I am so sorry for the times that I neglect You and turn down the strength and wisdom You so graciously give through Your Word. I know that I can’t do this journey through life on my own. The devil’s schemes are so sly and enticing and I need You to help me. Please help me learn from past experience that when I try to do it on my own, I fail more often than not. I want to make it such a priority to start each and every day with You, that I feel utterly incomplete without doing so. I love You and am so thankful for Your abounding love and mercy towards me.
Some days I get it right. Some days I want to get it right, and I don’t. And then there are days I want to just start over. I can wake up with every intention to be good, and every desire to be good, and sometimes all it takes to throw me off course is too much chocolate–or not enough, an ill-timed phone call, a child’s bad attitude, a snarky email or not enough sleep. And there I am: just like Israel, doing evil by means of frustration or bad attitude or angry thoughts.
Father, I want so badly to not disappoint you. And yet before I know it, I slip up. Thank you that my salvation isn’t dependent on me! Help me to understand your great grace and to generously show kindness and mercy to others in my life. Thank you for Jesus and all he did for me on the cross. Amen.
More judges, same cycles, same God. Again, Israel realizes its sinfulness and humbles itself before God. They could not just cry out with empty words, they had to take action, and move away from the sin they had accepted as part of their lifestyle. They put away the gods and they humbly opened themselves to taking whatever God’s punishment brought to them. They accepted the responsibility for their guilt.
God responded as any parent would. I appreciate this glimpse into the agony that we put God through as we walk apart from Him. Our sin hurts Him. Not just because it cost Jesus Christ His life, but because He loves us and He knows the consequences we will walk through until we decide to put away that way of living and humble ourselves to Him.
And then what does He have in store for us? Not necessarily an easy life, there will still be battles ahead. But now, He walks with us and we walk in communion with Him. Just as Israel did. They still had a great battle ahead, needed to find a strong human leader to direct them, but now they walked in God’s blessing.
God heard their cry for forgiveness and redemption. Jephthah came onto the scene, somewhat unwillingly. I couldn’t help but think of the Adventures in Odyssey OT Action News story that summarizes this story well, and in a way even a child could understand. I also thought about Hebrews 11 . . . as it recounts the lives of faith, it includes the name “Jephthah” on the list. Hm, really? I think I could have that much faith. God worked through his weakness, and annihilated 20 cities! Reminding me once again, that it is not about my strength, but about His.
Of course, there is the controversy about his reference to the burnt offering. While we cannot know for sure what ended up happening, there are two possible outcomes. He might have actually offered his daughter as a burnt offering. Some reference his apparent Canaanite ways as evidence for this scenario. The second possibility, which I find more plausible, involves him dedicating her to service for the Lord. So, she would not marry (hence the request for time to mourn her inability to marry, which wouldn’t make as much sense if she would be dying soon anyway). Another of those quandaries we probably won’t have a definite answer to in this lifetime, and in eternity I don’t think we will give it much more than a second thought.
I must, absolutely must, pass on my faith to my children. I must talk about it and live it out daily. It does not guarantee their salvation or a close walk with God, but if I keep silent they will most certainly walk as the Israelites did, ignorant of God’s working, His law, and love for them.
God loves me unashamedly. He wants me to come to Him. He wants to clothe me in His righteousness and watch me walk in His protection. I need to rest in that love more often.
I need to accept the consequences of my actions and put away sinful habits, not look to Him for an undeserved back door out of problems of my own making.
Pride has no place in any victories I see in my life. God works through my weakness. Sometimes when things go well I have a temptation to pat myself on the back and think, “I did it!” Nothing could be further from the truth. He did it, as I finally gave Him the rightful place in my life.
Chapter 8 was intriguing to me on so many levels. The leadership skills Gideon demonstrated as he met multiple roadblocks were such an example of determination, vision, persistence and passion. Nothing would deter him from fullfilling his mission. I plan to study and blog about these leadership lessons elsewhere.
By the end of the chapter, Israel acknowledged his leadership and attempted to democratically vote him into kingship. Gideon answers with a selfless, godly response… “The LORD will rule over you.” Like his predecessors (Moses, Joshua, various Judges) he understood that Israel was God’s nation and their success was based on their obedience to God’s rule not man’s.
But within what appears to be minutes, Gideon makes a questionable decision…the creation of the ephod which ended up becoming an idol. In the NIV it wasn’t clear to me whether this was actually Gideon’s intent or simply a leader’s mis-judgment that ended up becoming a stumbling block. So I checked out some commentaries which only led me to varying interpretations: Gideon wanted the title of priesthood so he made himself an ephod; he simply wanted a memorial to himself but because it was manmade it actually was an idol; he knew he shouldn’t become king but he did want to be remembered so he honored himself; he purely wanted a memorial to God; and so on.
I’ve concluded that I don’t really know Gideon’s intent for creating the ephod (and would welcome other’s input). But I do know that there are some valuable leadership lessons here.
It’s one thing to say God is in control it’s another to live it. I can easily verbalize the God-talk that is expected of me as a leader in ministry, “God is in charge. He’s sovereign. I’m just His instrument. He’s really the One in control.” But when it comes down to the daily moment by moment decisions and choices I make, do I let His sovereignty be sovereign? Or do I feed my pride by making sure I have mini-memorials of me so that I can reserve some of the credit for myself? Only to discover that those memorials have become snares to others.
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That Was Then, This is Now: Reading about Morgan Stanley's role in screwing retail investors in the Facebook IPO, and JP Morgan's hedge fund safely nestled in a too big too fail mega-bank (with an implicit US government guarantee), I am reminded that Wall Street wasn't always an amoral, scumbucket octopus. Back in the mid-70's, New York City was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Dark days, to be sure. Then, Walt Wriston, the visionary CEO of Citibank (now Citigroup), stepped in, and quite literally, helped save the city. Talk about a juxtaposition. Today's Citigroup not only had to be rescued by TARP, but its CEO was recently rebuffed by angry investors over his excessive pay package. All of which leads me to conclude that if the circumstances of a major municipality going bust were to repeat itself in America today, couldn't Wall Street be "trusted" to find a way to profit from the bust vs. acting socially responsible? How times have changed.
Losing My (Institutional) Religion: A few weeks back, I saw an intuitive, yet troubling, chart on how Americans are losing faith in our greatest instituitions (e.g., Congress, Banks, Schools, the Presidency, the Supreme Court). Then, I read Apple's legal response today to the Department of Justice's E-Book Case. The specific way that Apple frames it (it's worth a read), put a bow around how fucked up so many of our intitutional processes are. This point was lain especially clear in a conversation I had with a friend of mine in the real estate industry. Regardless of whether you consider yourself pro-businesss, anti-business, liberal or conservative, his point was illuminating. He told the story of how everyone in his industry is worried about the capricious way that the government has gone about changing the rules for banks about lending, from reserve requirements to constraints on where they can make loans. His point was less that the government shouldn't be coming up with policies for these things, and more that the government bodies typically step in with broadstroke policies that are completey disconnected from the outcomes they want to encourage or discourage. As a result, we end up with policies that by virtue of their superficiality, just institute random risk, which is obviously not a good thing if you want business investing in growth. To me, this speaks to a false dichotomy that we find ourselves in with respect to the role of government. Today, it feels like a choice between: A) laissez faire policy/enforcement (which led to an SEC completely asleep at the wheel, culminating in the 2008 economic crisis); and B) broadstroke governance, which results in policy that's akin to the "successful" surgery where the patient dies. It's why the health care reform sucked so bad for the very people it was supposed to help most, at a time when they needed it most. The net effect of this false dichotomy is that it only serves to perpetuate the gridlock in Washington.
Go Native (Mobile): It's the nature of technological waves, that the first stage of a new wave always looks derivative of the old wave. But, the new wave doesn't lead to lasting, transformational change until 'native' applications are born that could only exist within the new medium. The silent film gave rise to the talkie, and while it took a while for the new medium took find its footing, our concept of what a motion picture could be was never the same again. The first TV shows were basically redux versions of their radio show parentage, but ultimately the medium became something entirely unique. So, too, the PC and then, the Web, completely transformed what came before it. Now, we are sitting at the precipice of 1 billion post-pc devices, on our way to 10 billion devices globally. Respected VC and Blogger Fred Wilson suggests that this confluence is due to give rise to legions of Mobile Native Services. In other words, apps and services that are not simply 'children of the Web,' but rather, new DNA entirely, powered my untethered mobility, GPS-locative attributes, perpetual connectivity, unparalleled scale, social fabrics, big data graphs and application platforms that are part hardware, software, service and tool. Metaphorically speaking, we are at the moment in the 1950's when everyone thought that TV was simply 'radio with pictures.' But very soon, that will change, and what rises on the other side is destined to be the Golden Age.
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Rom 8:39: neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom 8:28: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
2 Cor 12:9: But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
Phil 4:19: And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
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In the English law of tort, professional negligence is a subset of the general rules on negligence to cover the situation in which the defendant has represented him or herself as having more than average skills and abilities. The usual rules rely on establishing that a duty of care is owed by the defendant to the claimant, and that the defendant is in breach of that duty. The standard test of breach is whether the defendant has matched the abilities of a reasonable person. But, by virtue of the services they offer and supply, professional people hold themselves out as having more than average abilities. This specialised set of rules determines the standards against which to measure the legal quality of the services actually delivered by those who claim to be among the best in their fields of expertise.
In principle, the tortious liability runs in parallel to liability in contract. Subject to the rules of privity of contract, one who has entered into a contract can sue or be sued on the contract which will set out the terms of the service to be provided by the professional person, and if there is no express term to this effect, there will be an implied term that the service will be performed with reasonable care and skill, per s 49(1) Consumer Rights Act 2015. The standard of care required to satisfy this contractual obligation is the same as in negligence, but the circumstances in which each liability may arise differ in that contracts are voluntarily created between the parties, while the duty of care is imposed by operation of law. However, suppose that a solicitor contracts with a medical expert to prepare a report for the purposes of personal injury litigation. The beneficiary of this work will be the client but there is no direct contractual relationship between the expert and the client. It may therefore be argued that since the parties have decided to arrange their relationships to avoid direct contractual obligations, the client should not be permitted to sue in tort, bypassing the privity rule and any exclusion clauses in the contract.
In Henderson v Merrett Syndicates Ltd 2 AC 145 the potential effectiveness of this argument was acknowledged in a case where there was a formalised structure of agent and sub-agent, but the general scope of this potential limitation remains unclear. However, it is clear that if there is concurrent liability in contract and tort, the quantum of damages is limited to the actual loss suffered and does not increase because there are two causes of action.
In Thake v Maurice 2 All ER 513 a railway guard and his wife had five children living in a three-bedroomed council house and were unwilling to have further children. Thake consulted the surgeon who made it clear that a vasectomy was final and that Thake after the operation would become permanently sterile. Although the vasectomy was properly performed, the effect of this operation was naturally reversed and, not unexpectedly, Mrs. Thake conceived and a daughter was born. It was held that, applying the objective standard, the surgeon had contracted not merely to perform a vasectomy but had contracted to make Mr. Thake irreversibly sterile. The judge relied on the consent forms which stated that the vasectomy would be final. The claim was brought in contract and in tort. Peter Pain J. found that there was no reason why public policy prevented the recovery of expenses arising from the birth of a healthy child. He awarded damages in respect of the expenses of the birth and the mother's loss of wages but refused damages for the pain and distress of labour holding that these were off set by the joy occasioned by the birth. He did, however, award damages in an agreed sum for the child's upkeep to its seventeenth birthday. The Court of Appeal held that damages should be awarded for pain and suffering "per the majority" in tort rather than contract. The joy of having the child could be set off against the time, trouble and care in the upbringing of the child but not against prenatal pain and distress. For the latter, damages should be awarded. The case is also interesting because there was an alternative interpretation of the consent form. After sterilisation, some couples want to change their minds because their children have died or because they are seeing better days. Instead of the surgeon giving a guarantee of irreversible sterility which depended on the way in which human tissue healed, the warning of finality could be aimed at telling both husband and wife that they could not change their mind later and complain if the spouse had become permanently sterile.
Even though the general objective standard of care cannot come down, it can be raised where the individual defendant has expressly or impliedly represented skills and abilities in excess of the ordinary person. It is an unfortunate fact of life that some professionals prove to be negligent because even those with the most experience can make a mistake. The consequences to their clients can be disastrous. Thus, professionals providing services in a wide range of situations, from surveyors and estate agents to doctors, solicitors, accountants, financial services providers, Information Technology professionals, patent agents, etc., will be judged by the standards of those claiming to have that same set of skills and abilities. This is the basis of the Bolam Test for medical negligence derived from Bolam v Friern Hospital (1957) 1 WLR 583. This test is not significantly different from the test used in any other professional negligence litigation, but it causes greater difficulty for the courts than would a claim against, say, a lawyer or an accountant, because of the technical issues involved. In addition, Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd (1964) AC 465 created the rule of "reasonable reliance" by the claimant on the skills of the defendant.
"Where a person is so placed that others could reasonably rely upon his judgment or his skill or upon his ability to make careful inquiry, and a person takes it upon himself to give information or advice to, or allows his information or advice to be passed on to, another person who, as he knows or should know, will place reliance upon it, then a duty of care will arise."
"What can be deduced from the Hedley Byrne case, therefore, is that the necessary relationship between the maker of a statement or giver of advice (the adviser) and the recipient who acts in reliance on it (the advisee) may typically be held to exist where (1) the advice is required for a purpose, whether particularly specified or generally described, which is made known, either actually or inferentially, to the adviser at the time when the advice is given, (2) the adviser knows, either actually or inferentially, that his advice will be communicated to the advisee, either specifically or as a member of an ascertainable class, in order that it should be used by the advisee for that purpose, (3) it is known, either actually or inferentially, that the advice so communicated is likely to be acted on by the advisee for that purpose without independent inquiry and (4) it is so acted on by the advisee to his detriment."
Following Caparo, the Court of Appeal in James McNaughton Papers Group Ltd. v Hicks Anderson & Co. (1991) 1 AER 134 adopted a more restricted approach, focusing in the adviser's actual and constructive knowledge of the purpose for which the statement was made. Thus, the duty was to be limited to transactions or types of transactions where the adviser knew or ought to have known that the advisee would rely on the statement in connection with that transaction without obtaining independent advice. It also had to be shown that the advisee did in fact reasonably rely on the statement without using his own judgment or obtaining independent advice. In Henderson v Merrett Syndicates Ltd. the Lords reasserted the underlying principle that liability under Hedley Byrne was a voluntary assumption of responsibility for performing the given task by a person rendering professional or quasi-professional services irrespective of whether there was a contractual relationship between the pages.
"When the evidence shows that a lacuna in professional practice exists by which risks of grave danger are knowingly taken, then, however small the risk, the court must anxiously examine that lacuna—particularly if the risk can be easily and inexpensively avoided. If the court finds, on an analysis of the reasons given for not taking those precautions that, in the light of current professional knowledge, there is no proper basis for the lacuna, and that it is definitely not reasonable that those risks should have been taken, its function is to state that fact and where necessary to state that it constitutes negligence. In such a case the practice will no doubt thereafter be altered to the benefit of patients."
Similarly, in Edward Wong Finance Co. Ltd. v Johnson Stokes & Master (1984) 1 AC 296, solicitors had completed a mortgage transaction in "Hong Kong style" rather than in the English style. The fact that this style was almost universally adopted in Hong Kong did not make it reasonable or responsible because it did not guard against the risk of fraud. Thus, the solicitors were liable for negligence because they should have taken precautions against an obvious risk. But, the Lords in Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority (1997) 4 AER 771 held that it will very seldom be right for a judge to reach the conclusion that views genuinely held by a competent medical expert are unreasonable.
As to solicitors, Ross v. Caunters 3 AER 580, holds that lawyers can owe a duty of care both to their clients and to third parties who suffer loss or damage. In that case, the solicitors failed to prevent a beneficiary from attesting the will. They admitted negligence but denied that they were liable to the claimant, contending (i) that a solicitor was liable only to his client and then only in contract and not in tort and could not, therefore, be liable in tort to a third party, (ii) that for reasons of policy, a solicitor ought not to be liable in negligence to anyone except his client, and (iii) that in any event, the Plaintiff had no cause of action in negligence because the damage suffered was purely financial. Applying the principles in Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd and Donoghue v Stevenson AC 562, a solicitor who is instructed by a client to carry out a transaction that will confer a benefit on a third party owes a duty of care towards the third party in carrying out that transaction, in that the third party is a person within his direct contemplation as someone who is likely to be so closely and directly affected by his acts or omissions that he can reasonably foresee that the third party is likely to be injured by those acts or omissions. This was confirmed in White v Jones 1 AER 691 which applied Caparo Industries plc v Dickman 1 AER 568 holding that there is a close and direct relationship characterised by the law as proximity or neighbourhood; and the situation is one where it is fair, just and reasonable that the law should impose the duty of the given scope upon the one party for the benefit of the other. But in Carr-Glynn v Frearsons 2 AER 614 the solicitor admitted uncertainty as to whether the will as drawn would be effective. The testatrix undertook to seek out the information needed to clarify the issue. She died more than three years later without verifying the will. White v Jones was distinguished because the testatrix had assumed the duty of care, but the court was critical of the failure of the solicitors to send a letter of reminder. The case law also indicates the necessity for firms of solicitors to keep detailed attendance notes.
"In the ordinary course of adversarial litigation a solicitor does not owe a duty of care to his client's adversary. The theory underlying such litigation is that justice is best done if each party, separately and independently advised, attempts within the limits of the law and propriety and good practice to achieve the best result for himself that he reasonably can without regard to the interests of the other party. The duty of the solicitor, within the same limits, is to assist his client in that endeavour, although the wise solicitor may often advise that the best result will involve an element of compromise or give and take or horse trading. Ordinarily, however, in contested civil litigation a solicitor's proper concern is to do what is best for his client without regard to the interests of his opponent."
Further, and perhaps most strikingly, it has been held that a solicitor advising a client about a proposed dealing with his property in his lifetime owes no duty of care to a prospective beneficiary under the client's then will who may be prejudicially affected. In Clarke v Bruce Lance & Co. (1988) 1 WLR 881, it was recognised that solicitors may sometimes give advice which directly prejudices the interests of others who have a relationship with the client. But, so long as this advice is consistent with the duty owed to the client, there will be no liability to that third party. Exceptionally, solicitors have been held to have assumed a responsibility towards the claimant, i.e. in situations analogous to a holding a fund on behalf of both sides of a dispute pending its resolution.
In Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd the rule was established that irrespective of contract, if someone who possesses a special skill undertakes to apply that skill for the assistance of another person who relies upon that skill, a duty of care will arise. The fact that the barrister did not enter into a contract with his solicitor or client ceased to be a ground of justification for the immunity. Nevertheless, in a unanimous decision, Lord Reid said in Rondel v Worsley (1969) 1 AC 191 at 227 that the ancient immunity should be continued on considerations of "public policy [which are] not immutable." (see Roxburgh: 1968). In Saif Ali v Sydney Smith Mitchell & Co. (1980) AC 198 the scope of the immunity was considered. Lord Wilberforce said at 213 that "...barristers . . . have a special status, just as a trial has a special character: some immunity is necessary in the public interest, even if, in some rare cases, an individual may suffer loss." (see Hill: 1986) When s51 Supreme Court Act 1981 (substituted by s4 Courts and Legal Services Act 1990) introduced the power to make wasted costs orders against legal practitioners, Ridehalgh v Horsefield (1994) Ch 205 ruled that orders could be made against barristers personally. As to criminal trials, prosecuting counsel owes no duty of care to a defendant: Elguzouli-Daf v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (1995) QB 335. If a defendant is convicted after a full and fair trial, the remedy is to appeal. An attempt to challenge the convictions by suing the defence advocate would be an abuse of process: Hunter v Chief Constable of the West Midlands Police (1982) AC 529. If any challenge is to be made following an unsuccessful appeal, the only legitimate avenue would be the Criminal Cases Review Commission even though the body is under-resourced. But the question remained as to whether a civil action might be maintained if the appeal was successful (see Cane: 1996).
In Arthur J.S Hall and Co. v Simons (2000) 3 AER 673, the Lords re-evaluated the public policy issues. The critical factor was the duty of a barrister to the court under ss27(2A) and 28(2A) Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (inserted by s42 Access to Justice Act 1999). The question was whether the immunity is needed to ensure that barristers will respect their duty to the court. In 1967, the answer was that assertions of negligence would tend to erode this duty and accorded a special status to barristers. Nowadays a comparison with other professionals demonstrated that barristers' immunity against being sued in negligence was anomalous. Allowing civil action was unlikely to produce a flood of claims and, even if some claims did emerge, a claimant alleging that poor advocacy resulted in an unfavourable outcome would face the very great difficulty of showing that a better standard of advocacy would have resulted in a more favourable outcome. Unmeritorious and vexatious claims against barristers are simply struck out. Thus, it was no longer in the public interest that the immunity in favour of barristers should remain in either civil or criminal cases. This did not imply that Rondel v Worsley was wrongly decided. But in today's world, that decision no longer correctly reflected public policy. The basis of the immunity of barristers has gone. And exactly the same reasoning is applied to solicitor advocates.
"It seems to me that the following propositions are supported by authority binding on this court: (1) an expert witness who gives evidence at trial is immune from suit in respect of anything which he says in court and that immunity will extend to the contents of the report which he adopts as, or incorporates in, his evidence; (2) where an expert witness gives evidence at a trial the immunity which he would enjoy in respect of that evidence is not to be circumnavigated by a suit based on the report itself and (3) the immunity does not extend to protect an expert who has been retained to advise as to the merits of a party’s claim in litigation from a suit by the party by whom he has been retained in respect of that advice, notwithstanding that it was in contemplation at the time when the advice was given that the expert would be a witness at the trial if that litigation were to proceed."
"In drawing the line in any particular case it may be necessary to study precisely what was being done and how closely it was linked with the proceedings in court.... The reason for admitting to the benefit of the immunity things said or done without the walls of the court is to prevent any collateral attack on the witness and circumvent the immunity he or she may enjoy within the court."
This confirms the general principle that a witness does not owe a duty of care to anyone in respect of the evidence given to the court. The only duty is to tell the truth. In Part 35.3 Civil Procedure Rules, the expert’s duty is to help the court and this duty "overrides" any obligation there might be to the client or the person who instructs and/or pays him or her.
However, the position in respect of expert witnesses was altered by the decision of the Supreme Court in 2011 in Jones v Kaney, which overruled Stanton v Callaghan. As before, an expert will be liable to his client for advice which is tendered to and relied upon by the client under normal principles. However, as a result of the decision, an expert who provides a report which is adduced in evidence before a court no longer enjoys immunity from suit for claims for negligence or breach of contract (although immunity in defamation remains).
Hill, Jonathan. (1986). "Litigation and Negligence: A Comparative Study". 6 Oxford J.L.S. 183.
Roxburgh. (1969). "Rondel v. Worsley: Immunity of the Bar". 84 Law Quarterly Review 513.
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Last week, I visited my classmate’s art house and studio in Soi Ruam Ruedi2, Bangkok. It was my first time at his place. However, we didn’t talk much as he have to take care of others guesses. It was a nice and modern place in a big city. First floor is a space for exhibition with some printing workshop room, I guess. This exhibition set up for the Valentine occasion called AMOUR.
Overall, the show has many artists present variety of artworks styles: even though, there is a concept theme, but they are still diversified of their own ways. Anyway, each artworks are nice and have touch their quality lines. If you live near by, you should visit the exhibition. It is worthy.
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Previous PostJasmine’s Place – Issue No 15 is out!Next PostWhat is the story of Solomon and the two prostitutes?
Don’t you just love magazines?
Recently I have gotten into the online magazine craze. This is the latest edition from one of my new favorite Webzines. It’s full of great tips and inspiring stories. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
Do you have a favorite Webzine that you enjoy reading? If so list it in the comments. I would love to check them out.
Thanks for your inspiring contribution to the issue, Kelly and for sharing it too. God bless you!
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I always find it interesting that the euthanasia debate pops up in the media quite regularly, but that we don’t ever seem to get anywhere with passing a law about it. Perhaps the day will come when that changes, but until then, it means that individuals and their families (and often the medical staff) are left in a legal limbo, where euthanasia or assisted suicide happens everyday, but behind closed doors, and without a broader conversation.
So as you probably know, both David Bowie and Alan Rickman died last week, and the news hit me harder than I expected. Perhaps it’s because in both cases, the news came to everyone, except those very close to them, as a shock. Perhaps it’s because several friends’ parents or parents-in-law have died recently. All I know is that after I’d put our Offpsring to bed, on the evening after I’d heard about Bowie’s death, I was clearing up the plates and setting the dishwasher going, and I found myself holding back tears. And then I realised why.
My elders are dying, and I’m not ready.
No Place for People Like You.
Recently, changes to our migration act here in Australia meant that any non-Australian citizen who served a prison sentence for more than 12 months would be at risk of deportation at the end of their prison sentence. No doubt this was an attempt to rid our otherwise unsullied paradise of unsavoury foreign types who go around committing crimes and generally bringing down the tone of the place.
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... and, frankly, I really wonder why we bothered.
I find out about these fun and interesting things to do, but the reality of marshalling the rest of the troops and getting them out of the house at a given time is just a nightmare.
This morning started out beautiful and sunny. I walked the dog and fed the cat, then asked Daughter-One to get up. I went back into the kitchen to find the cat had regurgitated what looked like the remains of a large mouse all over the kitchen floor.
After cleaning that up, I again called out to Daughter-One to get up, and went on the computer to check bus times. I then yelled at Daughter-One to get up, before packing some water and the camera.
Three yelling attempts later, Daughter-one finally emerged and I told them we had ten minutes before catching the bus down the road to Newmarket where the new motorway viaduct was being opened for people to walk across, for the price of a gold coin donation.
The Husband wanted to know why we couldn't walk down but I pointed out it was 2 kms down there, a 1.5 km walk along the motorway, then 2kms back and, while I often walk that as a matter of course through the day, it would probably be a bit of a drag. Besides, there was a bus leaving from the end of the street right to the motorway entrance.
But he has an aversion to public transport (I blame several years commuting in London) so he said we should take the car AND the dog. But I didn't know if dogs were allowed so I said it wasn't a good idea.
By now so much time had passed since I got up, the clouds had started to gather. We drove down and parked quite a way from where we needed to go, and saw a couple walking past with their dog. "Look, look" said The Husband, "they took their dog. I told you we should have brought the dog. And we should have walked down too. Why didn't we walk down?"
Then Daughter-Two said she needed to go to the toilet, but I groaned and luckily she thought better of it.
Then we got to the start of the motorway and I asked The Husband to fish in his pockets for a few dollars for the "gold coin donation", which he did. We stuck on our little stickers to show we had paid, but The Husband then realised that it was "a donation" and not a charge. "Look, look" he said" those people haven't got stickers. They didn't pay. Or them. Or them. We didn't have to pay. Why did you make me pay?"
I felt like saying "Look, look, those people have got smiles on their faces and are having a nice, relaxing day out? Why can't we have one of those. Huh? huh?"
And then it started to pour down.
And, really, the views from the viaduct of the rooftops of Newmarket do not in any way compare to, say, the rooftops of Paris.
However, I did get a chance to have a nice chat with Daughter-One as we trudged along under an umbrella.
She told me the world was quite possibly coming to an end and, anyway, since I was so old the chances of me dying increased incrementally every year.
Nothing like happy family time is there?
One thing that does bring a smile to Daughter-One's face is seeing a new printed photobook full of digital scrapbook layouts of when she was little.
Paper, frame, ribbon and epoxy from "Late Summer" mini-kit . Alpha is Battered Alphabet No.02, gorgeous blended in floral accent is from new Painted Accents by Katie Pertiet., notepaper also by Katie, Loopdaloop flowers and Travel word transfers by Anna Aspnes.
My friend Melanie (aka Britgirl) is a prolific and very talented digital scrapbooker from England (you may have seen her layouts in UK scrapbooking magazines). She is also a great blogger (find her here) who very virtuously always remembers to do a "Ten on a Tuesday" post.
I wanted to copy this idea, since there are often random things that pop into my head, but fear that commiting to coming up with ten vaguely interesting things every week was possibly too much for me. Not to mention that Tuesday is usually one of the busiest days of the week, designing-wise.
So, somewhat pathetically, I instead will attempt to commit to "Five on a Friday".
1. It was the last day at school for Daughter Two's friend Henry, who lives across the road and is in Daughter-Two's class. The family is moving to Tasmania. (insert querying look, raised eyebrows and sympathetic/envious looks here depending on your opinion of Tassie). They had a little party for him at the end of school - which meant I had to fit the baking of gluten-free muffins into my day. He is such a cheerful, friendly fellow (very similar in temperament to Daughter-Two). All the class wanted to hug him at the end, and he had boys hanging off his legs saying "oh I love you Henry, I will miss you soooo much" as he struggled out the classroom door.
3. Why do couriers (ie UPS type delivery people) ALWAYS go to the basement door instead of the front door? I can't understand it - it is so obviously a basement door. If I am lucky enough to hear the knock, I now go to the front door and yell out "HELL-o, HELL-o, can you leave the basement door and come to the front door PLEASE" in somewhat sarcastic tones, then I feel mean. I think I will have to make a sign for the basement door and get it laminated.
4. I find the story of the Cat-in-the-Bin-Woman strangely fascinating and a morality tale for the age of the Information Superhighway. Stick a cat in a wheelie bin on impulse on your way home in Coventry, England, and the next thing you know you are on the national news in New Zealand, the newspapers in Australia and are the subject of YouTube spoofs. I can only presume the poor woman had a moment of madness, and is learning the hard way that this is the price you risk paying these days. I find it hard to be sympathetic though. (Especially since the cat in question looks exactly like our cat, leading The Husband to suggest he was an International Cat of Mystery - a transgender one too as I pointed out).
There is a morbidly fascinating, if somewhat random, series shown on television here which speculates what the world would look like if all the people suddenly dematerialised.
I don't have to turn on the TV to see what life after people looks like, I just have to push through the long grass at the top of the volcano and jump a fence.
The volcano seems to attract unusual residents. Last year an amazing old house went up for sale. It was untouched since the 1930s and lived in by a reclusive old historian who covered the walls with a family tree traced back to Shakespeare. And a few weeks ago I noticed another "For Sale" sign at the end of a potholed driveway leading up the side of the volcano. I realised it must lead to the property just along the volcano edge from us, which is completely surrounded by trees and impossible to see.
The Husband and I went along to the open home, discovering an abandoned and derelict cottage. The agent said it was gifted to a trust belonging to a local catholic society, but nothing had been done to it for years. But I had my suspicions, and a quick google search told me it instead belonged to a rather mysterious society which has as its headquarters a grand old house further down the side of the volcano. Apparently this cottage and others in the area were purchased as a "buffer" for the HQ.
"Probably a buffer from negative thoughts and influences" I joked to The Husband, before another quick google search told me I was right! Apparently the followers believe that the world events can be influenced and people saved by the power of positive thought and meditation.
And here's the main house. I couldn't get photos of the bathroom and bedroom, where the roof was nearly fallen in and grass and interesting fungi were growing from the floor. And I leave you to imagine the smell ..
I've been feeling a bit decayed myself this week. The flu had a sting in its tail in the form of a throat infection, which meant I had to stay in bed one day and leave The Husband to take Daughter-Two to school and pick her up. The second time in four years he's done the morning school run. I got the impression he didn't so much want a medal, as one of those Stalinist era statues they used to erect in Soviet cities. But it was much appreciated, as there was no way I could have struggled out in the rain feeling like I did without making myself even sicker.
Fortunately I had finished some new products earlier in the week, so losing a day was not such a disaster.
New at Designer Digitals this week are a digital scrapbooking template set, a set of distressed layered papers and a new collection of worn photo overlays that give the look of faded, yellowed photos. These are lots of fun to play you - you simply drag your photo on and clip for instant aged effects. (They can be used to create worn edged photos without the color cast effects as well if you wish).
If you haven't had the flu, I advise you to step back from the computer screen. Daughter-Two and I have spent all week coughing and spluttering and shivering. She has remained her usual cheerful self, very bouncy and chirpy despite throwing up and having a most impressive hacking cough. Particularly galling since, at the start of the winter, she and I were the only ones in the household who sensibly went off and had flu jabs.
By Anke, using several kits - incuding "A Million Miles"
And the very special digital scrapbooking layout below (by Fiona from Scotland who is a master at blending) was created for the "Three Kits Three Ways" feature on the Designer Digitals Blog. This is a regular feature in which scrappers are challenged to use three kits from the store. It's always so much fun to see how different all the layouts come out. To see the other layouts and which kits were picked - check out the Designer Digitals blog.
Digital scrapbooking Scotland, Digital scrapbooking New Zealand.
Every week at Designer Digitals, I choose a layout from the digital scrapbooking gallery to be the "Saturday Scraplift" inspiration page. It is always great fun to see the different interpretations of the layout that result.
This week's inspiration page is by Australian scrapbooker Carol, who is working on the most incredible album for her husband, scrapping his childhood photos.
To check out her wonderful layout, you can visit the Saturday Scraplift on the Designer Digitals blog.
As you can see, I have finished Daughter-One's "three year old" album and am now working on the photos from when she was two. She'll be a baby again before you know it, at this rate.
Looking for layered templates or digital scrapbooking papers?
From now until 6AM Friday EST (USA Eastern Standard time) all paperpacks and all layered templates are reduced by 30% in a special Thrifty Thursday sale at Designer Digitals.
If you have never used digital scrapbooking templates, now is a great time to give them a go. All my templates come with instructions, and they are so quick and easy to use they can transform your scrapping (especially those "hard to scrap" outings and events pages). You just drag and drop on your photos and papers, then add whatever extra elements or journaling you wish.
Most of my templates come in sets of two, and can be used singly, to create a double page spread or to create two co-ordinating pages. You can also swap them around and flip them for even more versatility.
In the meantime, here are just a few team layouts from the past few weeks.
I have worked through builders sawing and hammering and knocking through walls, but the one thing I could not work through was the painter painting my office - which is why I found myself out on the street last week.
So I jumped on a bus that was going to Panmure, simply because I have been to the big Spotlight craft store on the edge of the shopping centre there and spotted what looked like an interesting street heading off in the distance. Plus I wanted to take photos of the retro sign in the centre of the roundabout at the top of the street.
I am sure it only survived long enough to be cool again because there was no investment in this place for years.
That's Mount Wellington behind it, one of roughly 50 volcanoes around the city. And that big white building is the Church of Scientology (just the top floor though). Can't quite imagine Tom Cruise or John Travolta gracing such a place ... perhaps the LA branch is a little more glam?
Just a little more upmarket then.
Apart from the sign, there is little to recommend Panmure as a venue for retail therapy. In fact, it was tat central. Just shop after shop full of Chinese-made tat.
There was the "$2 shop", the "$2 and more" shop, the "Just $2 shop" ... and the dead pig shop.
Daughter-One is very fortunate in that she does not have to start school till 9.30 at the earliest, which means that she is still lazing in bed when I leave to walk with Daughter-Two to school.
Often Daughter-One will then get up and have a bath, so she can laze in hot water instead of a warm bed.
Luckily she wasn't doing that one day earlier this week, when I arrived back from school and was just putting my key in the door when I heard a huge crash.
The plumber, who was on the roof replacing a rusty pipe which leads up from the laundry, had stepped back with his full weight onto a PVC roof panel, falling straight through that and then feet first through the glass skylight above the bath.
As Daughter-one said, if she hadn't died through shattered glass, she would have died of embarrassment had she been in the bath at the time.
And the plumber was left standing there, brushing shards of glass of himself with a few cuts but otherwise miraculously unhurt.
Ironic that the bathroom was the only room in the place to escape the building work.
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Mind and Life International Symposium for Contemplative Studies. October 30 – November 2, 2014. Boston, MA.
I’ve come all the way from Vienna to attend this event. And just reading the 120-page program and about all the different topics covered in this symposium blows my mind! No wonder, this year’s edition of the ISCS features more than 100 concurrent sessions and 200 posters, next to a number of keynote addresses and master lectures.
Even if you’re unable to attend, you can get a glimpse on what’s going on by following the tweets about #iscs2014 hashtag on Twitter. And here’s a couple of short clips by some of the keynote speakers. Oh, and you can watch ten keynotes and lectures of the first ISCS (Denver, 2012) here.
Free Online Event: Awake in the World. October 19-24, 2014, Shambhala Mountain Center.
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So as you all probably know by now, over the weekend there was this piece published in the Boston Globe, once again decrying the apparently poor tone of people calling for psychological science to clean up its act. Like everyone else, I’m going to suggest reading James Heather as a companion piece first.
I’m also going to take this chance to finish a thought I started thinking back when Roger Giner-Sorolla published his piece on Scientific Criticism. Eiko-Fried’s post on the tone-police police is also relevant, as is Simine Vazire’s article in Slate, and Alison Ledgerwood’s in the APS Observer.
Because yes, this debate has been around for a while. How much – or how vigorously – are we “allowed” to criticize other people’s work on social media? How sensitive should we be when others criticise our own research? How fair are conclusions like “In the past, Researcher X has used shoddy methods and their results haven’t replicated; now they’ve published a new paper and I’m not even going to bother”? These are important questions, and I’ve written about a couple of aspects of these debates before.
But this time, it was a different aspect that struck me: The idea of separating the Person from the Work (or the Scientist from the Science, if you want to be confusing).
This separation is basically obvious to everyone (though where we draw the line is debated), and comes up a lot in the tone discussions. However, most of the discussion has – I think? – been about the negatives. If you’re critical of someone’s work, you still shouldn’t make inferences about their intentions. If your work receives a harsh review, that doesn’t mean you are a terrible person.
But… if I shouldn’t take criticism too personally, how should I take praise? If I should remember the role of luck when my paper gets rejected, what should I think about my hard work and degree of talent when it gets accepted?
I’m sure I’m not the first to make this comment, but I think it’s worth remembering. Maybe one of the reasons it’s so hard to separate the science from the scientist is because we implicitly know there’s a downside to perfect detachment.
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I am not sure why I chose this title for my latest design other than I liked the sound of it. Shown below is another modern Revit designed home complete with Infinity edge pool out back.
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The Italian countryside, the heavily wooded hills and marshy lowlands were largely devoid of bird song. An eerie quiet pervaded the landscape. In the marshes, the few ducks were well hidden and the open water was mostly populated by herons, egrets and flamingos. I understand from the media that Italians’ passion for hunting has overwhelmed the ecosystem and left it depleted of its natural bird life. I did see a family of wild pigs snorting their way through the undergrowth. Again, I read that wild pigs had been devastated by hunting and the population has been rebuilt using a strain from Hungary which is smaller and which breeds more rapidly.
I shared a bird hide made of dry reeds with a photographer smoking a cigar. He caught some fabulous shots of circling raptors and a kingfisher which alighted close to us. I concentrated on the flamingos and egrets. These were some distance away. I stated drawing, spotting through the telescope and copying awkwardly onto the pad. As juvenile flamingos came closer, I worked more loosely using brief glimpses through binoculars and drawing more from memory. There is a tension between seeking anatomical accuracy for an unfamiliar species versus failing to capture movement through slavish copying.
I found once again that I have no standard technique for drawing in the field. Here, in great frustration, I have switched between drawing in pen, and painting a rapid shape which is then overlaid with conte crayon.
I was tickled by the joke that new leader of the Labour Party resembles Alec Guinness as the heroic Jedi Master who comes in from the wilderness to guide the resistance against the evil Empire. It is easy to cast George Osbourne as Darth Vadar. I am not sure who is Yoda though.
Jeremy Corbyn as Jedi Master coming in from the wilderness: pencil and charcoal and photo-shopped with glow filter.
In real life we need a strong and credible Labour Party holding the government to account and building alternative policies. Corbyn has the overwhelming support of the Labour Party but not the Members of Parliament. As ordinary voters, in or out of the Party, we need to tell all of them, leadership and backbenchers we absolutely expect them to bury their emotional differences and work together to hone credible policies that challenge the failed economic orthodoxy and support social justice.
The idea would be each of us to say who we are and, if we want, our political affiliation, and also the issues topmost in our mind, but keep the same message and hash tag. This is not a matter for Labour supporters and members only: all of us need a strong opposition functioning in parliament and now is the time for all of us to shape Labour into the party that reflects our concerns.
If anyone knows how to start a twitter campaign on these lines, now would be a good time to start.
My field kit had become slimmed down to fountain pen and water. Over this year, walking through the local fields, and, shown here, on holiday in Italy, I have expanded it once again.
Tuscany: view from the marsh to the hills. Layers of watercolour and conte crayon.
I now use watercolour and conte crayon in varying order, lastly using a black brush pen to accentuate shadows.
Tuscany: view from the marsh to the hills. Watercolour background over conte crayon resist showing seed heads in foreground, with strong shadows drawn in black brushpen.
One objective is to create contrasts between opaque and transparent layers. Another is to play with the crayon as a resist – the watercolour falls off it or collects in fractal shapes on its surface making interesting textures. Conversely, grinding the crayon into wet colour builds deep interesting opaque patterns, sometimes lifting the paper to leave white highlights with adjacent ridges that catch subsequent strokes of deeper pigment.
Water, reeds, hill terraces and distant wooded uplands composed in layers and drawn in layers of conte crayon and watercolour.
Sometimes this works, often not.
View through the telescope: egret and distant flamingos with water, sand, woods and hills in horizontal stripes.
In doing this, I have noticed that my compositions are often built of flat layers; rectangles of fore, mid and background like a sponge sandwich cake seen from the side.
Some sketches are little more than jottings – quick notes on colour or line or shape.
I hung back behind my family along the path between overhanging trees and the stone foundations of Etruscan temples, and looked back across the valley to the medieval fortress of Populonia, with the sea behind. This sketch comprised some fairly random swipes with conte crayon with lines and shadow drawn on top with a black ink brush pen.
Here I had wandered along a raised bank out into a marsh in the hope of seeing some wildlife. I had to step over a dead fox which smelt pretty wild and some way further on penned this note on the diagonal barring made by the leaves of the reeds.
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I wonder if, when Jennie Butchart first began designing her garden in 1906, she imagined how many people would come to visit in the future. Her work was the start of what would become the famous Butchart Gardens, 22 hectares of floral beauty visited by one million people every year.
Jennie’s first project was the Japanese Garden, complete with a red torii gate and traditional stone lanterns. Arched bridges span a series of ornamental lakes, and Japanese maples provide shade for beds of delicate Himalayan blue poppies.
The Sunken Garden was designed to fill the abandoned quarry which had once provided limestone to the family’s cement factory. A switchback path leads down into the garden, continuing on between raised beds of seasonal blooms, flowering trees and neatly manicured lawns.
At the furthest end of the Sunken Garden, the Ross Fountain performs a dazzling display of dancing water, at times reaching a height of 21 metres.
In contrast to the order of the Sunken Garden, the Rose Garden is almost riotous in its abundance. Fragrant blooms in every colour fill archways and spill out onto the paths. Arbors draped with climbing roses and oversized hanging baskets beckon visitors, who stop time and again to take more photos.
The Italian Garden and Star Pond are more formal in style, with trimmed hedges, waterlily ponds and ornamental fountains. Fuschias, clustered like ballerinas waiting in the wings, dangle from more hanging baskets.
Shaded seats with beautiful views are provided here for those enjoying a treat from the Gelataria.
In any season, the gardens are busy with people who’ve come to marvel at the beauty created by Jennie Butchart.
I think she’d be pleased to know how much joy her vision still brings, more than 100 years after she planted her first roses.
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The Gravitational Noise Potential of a Vanquished Bakery.
It is my perception (only) that sound art is often predetermined by the lateral and predominant horizontality of most sound recording equipment ( a longitudinal pressure wave of audible or inaudible sound caused by the movement of energy travelling through any medium)This is understandably the result of the positioning of the human audio receptors. The little dog reminded me to check out the relative hearing capacity of humans to dogs – we range from 20 to 20,000 Hz – dogs from 40 to 60,000 Hz. So the dog probably heard the rats farting in the building next door!
It was good to see that the ‘Bakery’ experiment addressed this horizontal ‘norm’, with the fuzzy mike adjacent to a high level vent outlet of a neighboring property, and the use of time lapse de-synchronising. I think the floor space, ceiling and other ‘unusual’ spaces specific to the interior and exterior of the building could offer sound/noise opportunities. Extractor fans could be deployed as sound transmitters and ‘movers’ as well. Some kind of sound ‘plotting’ mechanism as well- perhaps.
Sound and its affiliates – space, light and gravity.
Feedback and pick up from random sources within a given space.
Infiltration pick up from random, unknown sources from outside the given space. Digitalized sound as a navigational aid. Analogue sound as a navigational aid. Interactive sound potentials and oscillations between combinations of the above conditions, both random and structured sound installations.
Given dimensional, volumetric architectural space, articulated by sound and light modulations. Materiality, space and gravity articulated by controlled and natural light conditions. Sound as ‘object’. Light as ‘object’. Space as ‘object’.
Memory and identity in negotiated sound spaces (Phonography and untreated field recording). Sound intervention modulated by prevailing material and physical constituents.
“An image is a stop between uncertainties”. Djuna Barnes – ‘Nightwood’ 1936.
Haven’t yet had time to digest your detailed post event review, so what follows is the result of ‘scanning’.
I have been thinking about art in an age of digital manipulation (with apologies to Walter Benjamin) and the images you present gave me even more pause for thought regarding what now constitutes an image.
I’m suggesting this must be dependent on context and constituency. The images of the bakery on screen are not the bakery (stating the obvious sometimes helps me articulate further) any more than any third dimensional event would be, as such images are residues, suffused with ambiguities which often confer a separate and very different charisma to different observers. In the case of bakery images this is certainly the case. They capture the tactility and dynamic of the venue, it’s lachrymose ambience and are evocative of the event as I experienced it. I think it would be very interesting to include surveillance cameras, perhaps even connected to light, movement sensors which would activate each other.
As ever problems arise when we (artists) resort words to express the phenomenological truths of real space, time and memory. I think the problem deepens when the impulse is directed towards the analytical and away from the intuitive, the natural sensuous and subjective. These impulses might then dictate the purpose and nature of technical requirements.
vg, i can understand this one better, & agree with what Nigel is saying . . .
& goes to the heart of what I’m still struggling with – how to represent this space. Do we just use it for inspiration to re-create an imaginary, fictitious environment, where we cut up, amplify hidden sounds, or even go further & electronically manipulate & make ‘music’, repetitive beats. Or do we stick with a straighter documentary illusion of a truth (as per my bus tours).
We are somewhere in the middle of all this. & for me analysing it, discussing it, will hopefully hopefully help me come to some decisions. But doing it is key, a direct intuitive response to space.
I remember ( not very well) something that Alfred North Whitehead proposed, about taking a room over 24hours, then reducing all information gathered to a synthesised or much reduced version, to see what would be left. What objects, sounds, smells etc. would remain as an essence of the whole. Your project brought this to mind, so I will try to find the reference. The only book I have left (somewhere) is Adventures of Ideas, but I don’t think it was in that.
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The funeral is tomorrow. I’ve been lucky in life and am unfamiliar with death and funerals. I’ve only been to three funerals and have only had two people close to me die; Oscar and Evie. When my mother’s parents dies I was too young to understand and didn't go to the funerals. The first funeral I remember was my great grandfathers on my mom’s side, I still didn’t understand and barely knew the man. I was bored and wanted to run on the grass and play, but I had to keep quiet and sit still. When my Dad’s mother died, he didn’t even tell me until quite some time after the funeral and didn’t attend the funeral himself.
The second funeral I went to was when I was in college for my friend Linda's mother. I barely knew her mother but was there to support Linda. I was one of her best friends. Sadly after her mother died, Linda changed. She became toxic, turned on friends and blamed us for her mother’s death. I guess we stressed her mother out to point of causing a vicious cancer.
The last funeral I went to was for Oscar. Tom was in London for Evie’s funeral, it was a bad month. I thought I would be strong. I didn’t think I would cry. But when they started to take Oscar away and I knew I would never se or talk to him again; when Kim started to let out a low painful sob and clinched my arm as she held on to me to remain standing, I began to sob uncontrollably.
There are two things you can never be prepared for. The loss of a loved one and a funeral.
I've been to way too many funerals.
Early in my life because AIDS had taken so many of my close friends away.
Now because what remaining friends and family members I have are growing older.
It never gets any easier Monkey.
*hugs* to you and Tom.
i don't have anything profound to say even though i do have some experience with funerals (mostly friends when i was in high school).
i think it's better to go with the emotions that you feel. if you feel the urge to cry, go with it. if you feel pain and sorrow, express it. i'm not saying this because i think you'll have any problem with any of that, but maybe sometimes you just need someone to tell you that it's ok to grieve.
i wish there was something else i could do for you, but as just some guy you know from your online blogger, i realize there's a limit to what i can offer. hopefully it makes it a little better knowing that there's someone who cares for you who's thinking of you and tom during this sad time.
I was bored and wanted to run on the grass and play, but I had to keep quiet and sit still.
Reminds me of my 5-year-old nephew at Grandma's funeral last month. During the showing, he grabbed the digital camera out of his mother's purse, took it up to the casket, and snapped a picture. How nice to live in a world where you don't understand death.
Hugs. To you, to Tom, to his family.
There's no advice anyone needs to give, and no way to prepare. Be there to be there for Tom, and hold him when he needs to be held. Be there to say goodbye to Al.
I think you are strong. Allowing yourself those emotions and their expression is indication of that. Energy can only be transformed; it can't be destroyed.
I have to say I've always enjoyed funerals -- not in a happy way, but in a sad wistful way. They're like graduations -- the end of this life, the beginning of another. A time to remember all the good they brought into your life. A time to acknowledge the workings of the universe.
I'm writing this down because I know I would cry if I tried to say it.
Thank you so much for all you did for my father. You listened to him, and I mean actually listened and heard him. Not something most people would take the time to do. You genuinely cared about him. He felt very comfortable with you and knew I was in good hands.I know in his old world Italian way he loved you like a son. Thank you for your love and care during this time.The hugs,the slightest touch when you sensed I was upset, were needed and noticed.You have always been here when I need you. I love you very much!
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© Adra Williams/Otim Williams An all-day breakfast sandwich on Texas Toast with two eggs, cheddar, hot sauce, and thick cut bacon.
Substantial bar bites just joined the lineup at Jake’s Tavern, Shaw’s new neighborhood spot at 1606 Seventh Street NW.
The long-delayed watering hole finally arrived at the end of January, initially serving 12 beers on tap with cheap domestic cans, six cocktails, and wines by the glass or bottle. Now there are build-your-own burgers on Lyon Bakery brioche buns, beer-battered pickles, and mozzarella tots to absorb the alcohol.
Kristen Ciuba and her husband Todd Ciuba, a co-owner of 5-year-old Black Whiskey nearby, drew inspiration from coastal Maryland — where they live — to round out the menu. Think Old Bay wings and a Jake’s Orange Crush cocktail. Thick Texas Toast slices house a breakfast sandwich (served all day), a griddled chicken breast, and a grilled cheese.
Lighter orders include mugs of soup from D.C.’s Prescription Chicken and a hummus trio with veggies. Tap lines are filled out by local players like Solace Hazy IPA and Port City Optimal Wit ($6-$8) and cocktails ($10) include a Pimm’s Cup and tall mezcal-filled paloma featuring mezcal.
A build-your-own beef burger with eggs and onions.
Nacho-style Sidewinder fries with chorizo and pickled jalapenos.
Jake’s, which sits next-door to Dacha Beer Garden, will soon grow with the opening of its back patio and an upstairs bar area that will function as a private events and overflow space.
Unlike Black Whiskey on 14th Street NW — which has packed DJ nights and pool tables — Jake’s aims to cater to a broad demographic.
“Here my mother-in-law can sit down with sandwich and glass of wine,” Todd Ciuba told Eater.
The menu is expected to be filled out with good from more local vendors down the road, including pulled pork from Sloppy Mama’s, jerky from Jerkface, and frozen dumplings from Nomad Dumplings.
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قالوپ (شیرکت) (اینگیلیسجه: Gallup (company) ) اؤزل شیرکت و یا خوصوصی شیرکت. شیرکت George Gallup طرفیندن قۇرولموشدور. باش مرکزی واشینقتن، دی.سی. شهرینده یئرلشیر.
↑ ۱٫۰ ۱٫۱ ۱٫۲ ۱٫۳ Pace, Eric (July 28, 1984). "George H. Gallup Is Dead at 82; Pioneer in Public Opinion Polling". The New York Times. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
↑ ۲٫۰ ۲٫۱ ۲٫۲ ۲٫۳ Provenzo Jr., Eugene F. (October 29, 2008). Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education. SAGE Publications. p. 359. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
↑ ۳٫۰ ۳٫۱ ۳٫۲ ۳٫۳ ۳٫۴ ۳٫۵ Spiro, Leah Nathans (July 21, 2003). "Media; Gallup, the Pollster, Wants to Be Known for Its Consulting". The New York Times. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
↑ Keri, Jonah (15 February 1999). "Northridge Capital saves Gallup's East End deal". Washington Business Journal. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
↑ ""Every once in a while, you have to bet everything or you won't keep developing." Jim Clifton, President and CEO, Gallup". Omaha World-Herald. April 9, 2017. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
↑ "Gallup moving into Edgewood Dec. 22". Lincoln Journal Star (Lee Enterprises). December 14, 2011. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
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اینگیلیسجه ویکیپدیاسینین ایشلدنلری طرفیندن یارانمیش«Gallup (company)»، مقالهسیندن گؤتورولوبدور.( ۲۰ دسامبر ۲۰۱۸ تاریخینده یوْخلانیلیبدیر).
قارداش پروژهلرده قالوپ (شیرکت) گؤره داها آرتیق بیلگیلر تاپابیلرسینیز.
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The main website, floridafuntimes.com, is being hosted by Network Solutions. I have posted a short note on my website, that it is now for sale. I am accepting bids at floridafuntimes@outlook.com.
My focus has changed to writing about the African Grey parrot that is now sharing my life and most of my time. He is worth it. Before the dot com website sale is made, I will update you on my new blog address. If you would like to follow my parrot adventures, please make a note to look us up!
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They’re a duo from Denmark. They play (ready for this?!) synth/organ driven garage rock/pop/dance/crazy-awesomeness. So much fun. If you like synths and organs and garage rock, which you damn well should, listen to this. Listen. Like. Dance.
Nice little write-up for these guys… i actually rep for them… if you want some new music from this label – i’ve got a bunch of other great bands i’m working with..
shoot me an email and i’ll send you some stuff.
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The 1920s and 30s saw an extraordinary increase in the popularity and production of landscape paintings in Ireland. Paul Henry and Jack B. Yeats, who are currently being exhibited side by side in Limerick’s Hunt Museum, were two of the major protagonists of that era. In contrast, European painting at that time was in the throes of Modernism, producing aesthetic innovation after innovation, that was largely self-analytical and retreating into its own flatness. Such concerns seemed secondary for many Irish artists, which would suggest that motivations were being shaped by different factors. These artists did engage in self-reflexive processes, but did so with the aim of exploring identity politics, with landscape painting becoming an important vehicle. The case is usually made that the prevailing subjects and sensibilities in Irish painting emerged as a result of post-independence Ireland’s distrust of Modernism, as well as the conservative social values asserted by the church and state. However, the precedence placed on landscape as a subject can also be perceived as the result of the newly-formed, post-colonial position of Irish artists. In this way, painting the landscape can be understood as an act of repossession, a reclaiming of territory and culture.
In both amateur and professional ranks, it is probably safe to assume that landscape painting is the most popular, widely practiced, exhibited and collected form of visual art in Ireland. As a society, we seem to have inherited robust value systems pertaining to the genre. John Shinnors, Mary Lohan, Donald Teskey, Hughie O’Donoughe and many others continue to depict romantic and craggy environs that evoke emotive attachments to place. They remain some of Ireland’s most celebrated artists of the last few decades and this makes sense, because our cultural associations with landscape are a fundamental part of our national identity. This supports the idea that the distinctive conditions (political, social, topographical, etc.) of any place can encourage painterly approaches and methodologies that are particular to it. The influences that the dynamics of an environment have on the production or reception of art are always evident, but tend to be coded in the culture of landscape painting. Likewise, landscape painting can illuminate those very conditions that shape it. Many key Irish painters who engage with the genre today make works and exhibitions that reflect facets of contemporary Irish society and environment. A survey of some of these artists’ activities can illustrate the physical, social and psychological realities of our modern world.
To set the scene for this imaginary walkthrough of recent Irish painting which makes reference to landscape themes, I am suggesting that the reader visualises these activities and related materials as being archived together in a single building. I’m proposing the site of a recent project of mine as the location for housing this fictional archive. Last summer I had the privilege of participating in ‘Welcome to the Neighbourhood’– a two-week residency at Askeaton Contemporary Arts in County Limerick. The project I developed during the residency was a departure from my usual format of exhibiting canvases in a gallery context. In Askeaton, I intervened with the existing painted fabric of my workspace – a vacant commercial premises in the town – to create some propositional paintings. One of these works was a thin white stripe with embedded black tacks, painted on the edge of the facade along the gable end of the building. This gesture was intended to imitate the edge of a canvas and to recompose or re-imagine the face of the site in the context of a painted object or townscape. While not a requirement of the residency, the intention was to make some sort of re-presentation of Askeaton through the medium of painting, while making visible the existing surface quality of the building and town.
Ramon Kassam, ACA Welcome to the neighbourhood project, 2016.
The first of four rooms in this setting for an imaginary archive focuses on artworks that reference the built environment. In our towns and cities, almost everything is painted, artificially shaped or has some form of pigment running through it. This is most explicit in our streetscapes, buildings, road signs, street markings, even in the cars we drive, the clothes we wear and so on. The surface qualities of these spaces, and their existing and changing aesthetic and formal languages, can highlight anything from the economic to the social status of a given site. Mairead O’hEocha’s paintings focus on arbitrary but inviting sections of these worlds, depicting civic and residential buildings and ad hoc monuments in the public realm, picking apart the visual elements that form our perception of those spaces. Even when her paintings are not directly referencing the built environment, they are always still construction sites in themselves. She rebuilds in oil and re-imagines her optical deconstructions in versed gesture and lyrical use of colour and substance.
In similar territory, Kathy Tynan paints the residue of the built environment through a lively shorthand style. Her depictions of residential areas often feature brooding skies, as if capturing fleeting weather patterns might convey certain atmospheres of urban living. Colin Martin works across a range of media including moving image, and his paintings are imbued with an almost cinematic quality. His exterior landscapes depict undisclosed locations that appear to be socially or politically charged, while his domestic scenes convey the visual language of modern living and interior design.
Meanwhile, Eithne Jordan has developed quite a catalogue of painted scenes that survey an extensive range of Irish buildings and streetscapes, so much so that studying her oeuvre would familiarise any visitor to Ireland with the country’s architectural texture, even before their arrival. A series of gouache paintings presented in Jordan’s recent exhibition, ‘When Walking’, at the Butler Gallery (24 June – 30 July) depict the vernacular public and residential architecture of Callan, County Kilkenny, and the surrounding area. Her depictions of domestic buildings channel our associations with such spaces beyond a description of their architectural form and texture. They are painted portraits of individual properties that mirror the visual language of the Irish property website daft.ie. These small, near-tablet-sized paintings echo a new and common form of contemporary online navigation through landscape; one that many of us seeking living space have experienced.
In the next imaginary room, we stay in Kilkenny but turn our attention to the natural world. Bernadette Kiely’s paintings record areas around the river Nore in Thomastown to stunning effect. The sum of their material and ocular arrangements mimics natural ecosystems. Her paintings of the recent flooding events around Thomastown and surrounding areas cannot help but call to mind imminent global concerns around climate change. They trigger associations with the increasingly familiar RTÉ news footage from around the country documenting areas that are being severely affected by changing weather patterns.
If there is a frustrating aspect to encountering natural beauty in the landscape, it might be in our limited capacity to process it. Standing before it, we desperately try to soak everything up and commit it to memory. We take photos to store memories of these spaces and to share online. The technology available never quite seems to fully record these experiences, but through the perpetually-increasing capacities of virtual reality, it is getting better. In the early 2000s, Irish-based Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein made a series of large, hyper-realistic, panoramic-format paintings, which reflect his desire to retain his experiences of scenery around Tipperary and Waterford. The images he created might be some of the most intricately-detailed painted recordings ever made of the Irish countryside.
Now in the third room of our overview, we recognise that of course not all landscape paintings reference real-world places. There is a large contingent of contemporary Irish painters making images of ambiguous, unfamiliar and strange worlds. In this loose subset of landscape painting, artists get to more freely set the terms of the natural and narrative laws of the universes they create. For example, Micheal Beirne’s detailed paintings are intricately entangled. All the elements in his paintings, the terrain and its inhabitants, are familiar to us, but only in isolation. Coming together, they depict wild and bizarre scenes. Similarly, Gillian Lawler’s images feel even less familiar; the space between us and them feels vast, either in time, distance or both. These sci-fi-like paintings of chequered architecture and topography present the conditions and contextual settings for some unfolding drama or melancholy. In a similar vein, Sean Guinan’s work retreats even further from the recognisable. It is hard to establish at times whether they are even spaces at all. The laws of physics in the worlds he creates can change from painting to painting. With a great flair for form and colour, Guinan creates dense, impenetrable impasto terrains, or at other times, crisp minimal vistas and territories full of vitality and confusion in equal measure. In spite of many of these artists moving away from the physical appearance of our world, their landscapes often seem to more acutely portray its psychological realities.
The final room in our imaginary archive highlights the ways in which Irish artists are addressing the tense and polarising political conditions of our times through landscape painting. Joy Gerrard’s paintings of protests from her 2016 exhibition ‘Shot Crowd’ at the RHA, feel stark and uncomfortably familiar. Huge monochromatic crowds move through cityscapes and seem just about ordered, but project the same threat of unpredictability and breakdown as the flowing ink used to depict them. In these works, technique, form and content converge to form hyper-mediated images that feel as if they exist on a knife-edge and are about to erupt.
Closer to home, the recent mobilisation of political resistance in Irish society has found its voice in mural paintings. Though not always considered part of the painting canon, murals, specifically those associated with the Troubles in Northern Ireland, are perhaps the most internationally-famous examples of Irish painting alongside our illuminated manuscripts. A work that activated discussion on the politics of public space was Irish street artist Maser’s ‘Repeal the 8th’ mural, painted on the wall of Project Arts Centre. The mural was ordered to be removed soon after its completion by Dublin City Council on the grounds of apparent planning violation. When news of what seemed like political censorship of the mural broke, its distribution as an image accelerated online. As a result, it has become one of the defining images of the movement.
As a painting subject, landscape still very much has precedence within contemporary visual art in Ireland. The painters discussed in this text represent just a fraction of those making significant contributions to this ongoing discourse and ever-expanding archive . Collectively, these artistic inquiries offer insights into our current moment, through engagements with pivotal spaces and timely events, in Ireland and beyond.
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2019-04-24T20:08:54Z
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Your embossed leaves are so pretty and I love the lanterns! Lovely take on the sketch and inspiration photo, Cath! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Fusion!
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1. Use a high quality camera: This may sound like a “duh!” suggestion, but many cameras that take good pictures in good light tend to produce grainy images when the light is poor.
2. Use a tripod: You may have to wait for the right time—for instance, you may want to wait for the exact moment that the sun is setting to shoot a picture. You may find it hard to hold a camera for a long duration, so a tripod will usually improve your shoot.
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4. Mind your ISO: No, not the certification. ISO here refers to the sensor sensitivity and increasing this makes the sensor collect light faster. As a rule of thumb, if you double ISO, you double shutter speed.
5. Use a shutter release cable: This goes well with tripods because it prevents shaky images. It can also help you keep the shutter open for longer—just take some time to release the cable. Be warned that keeping the shutter open for too long may increase noise.
6. Remember Bruce and the spider: Shooting in poor light—especially during a sunset—is tough because you can’t always replicate available conditions—one day it is cloudy and another day is sunny, so your mileage will vary. Keep at it and you will master this dark (pun intended) art!
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Schayer was a popular coin and stamp dealer who thrived at Boston, Massachusetts and later in life moved to Chicago, Illinois.
John Charles Schayer "King of Alligators" (1837-1907), was born at Boston, Massachusetts, son of German immigrant parents, John Schayer, a Boot, Shoe, and leather tradesman, and Mary A. Schayer.
On October 30, 1866, he married Ellen C. Ward (1841-1904) in the Catholic Church. They lived at 45 Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts They had six children : Mary J. Schayer, John J. Schayer, Helen Agnes Schayer, Charles W. Schayer, Clara F. Schayer, George F. Schayer.
He operated a basement store, 68 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts. The shop had coin cabinets filled with U. S. and foreign coins, and paper money.
He sold Lorin Gilbert Parmelee (1827-1905) 3,000 U. S. half cents.
Schayer advertisement in the Boston Globe, Sunday, July 27, 1884, page 15. This ad ran for weeks.
Ebenezer Locke Mason, Jr., purchased from him 200 proof sets 1859-1884.
In 1884, he sold a dozen $50 gold slugs, and $9,000 in early U.S. gold.
Graphic illustrated postal card : Schayer Brothers, Alligator Skin House, Courtesy DigitalCommonwealth.org, Reference Code EP001.01.023.07.06.034.
There are several items of correspondence between Schayer and the Chapman Brothers in the Lupia Numismatic Library.
Courtesy Lupia Numismatic Library. For Sale.
He used to run ads in Numisma, and Mason's Coin Collector's Herald.
Courtesy Lupia Numismatic Library. Two of this edition in stock. For Sale.
On February 25, 1885 the Schayer Brothers firm went into insolvency.
They moved to Chicago about 1896.
Schayer arrested for mail fraud reusing old stamps for mailings. Chicago Tribune, Tuesday, May 12, 1896, page 10.
He died December 29, 1907, at Chicago, Illinois.
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