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On many occasions over the last few years I've had friends tell me I should be writing a blog, a book, something to document the "you wouldn't believe this if it wasn't true" events that were shaping my life. Why would anyone read it, I would think. Granted, there were plenty of moments that make for great humor now (what was it Annabelle Gurwitch said in the movie "Fired!" - Pain + Time = Humor ? - well, you get the idea). And yes, it seemed almost weekly that another bizzarro episode would occur. Some really painful stuff, but no different - if not loads better - than a lot of other people who may not have a tribe of stellar friends and family keeping them sound, and occasionally pointing out the tragic/hysterical irony in said situations. Now life is smoothing out, feels simple, normal really, and I'm experiencing almost a sense of paralysis - a sort of homeostasis - by not existing in a footing of fight-or-flight. So, the irony that I am being pressured by my business peers to start a blog NOW doesn't escape me. Again, who would read it, especially now that I'm so BORING? Oh, but then this really isn't ALL about me, is it? My friend Dave Brethauer filled me in a bit on the world of blogs, and when it comes to a blog tied in with business, he said I should make a sort of stew of the whole thing - the work, the art, what I'm defrosting for dinner. Hmmmm......not so sure about all of this, but here goes. So, ciao to illness, death, hospitals, veterinarians, floods, broken hearts and loan agents for awhile. I'm coming out of the dark, breakin' out my Mini-Me, and bringing on the simple life that has been here all along......that of good, clean, fun.
2019-04-19T09:19:56Z
https://danisoul.typepad.com/about.html
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Because not to express what is urgent in me would be painful; to hold in the beauty and ruin that the world gives one is too hard a burden. I take the easy way: out. Also, because I believe that saying it will change things. For me, and for others. And when I say others, I mean Others.
2019-04-20T14:23:06Z
https://bonelesscats.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/from-the-brilliant-james-allen-hall-author-of-now-youre-the-enemy-why-i-write/
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Many regard Enoch as a man to whom God gave special power to live a life more holy than we can live. But the character of the man who was so holy that he was translated to heaven without seeing death is a representation of the character to be attained by those who will be translated when Christ comes in the clouds of heaven. Enoch's life was no more exemplary than may be the life of every one who maintains a close connection with God. It was through constant conflict and simple faith that Enoch walked with God. He realized that God is "a very present help in trouble." [Psalm 46:1] When in perplexity, he prayed to God to keep him, and teach him His will. What shall I do to honor Thee, my God? was his prayer. His will was submerged in God's will. His feet were always directed in the path of obedience to God's commandments. Constantly his meditations were upon the goodness, the perfection, the loveliness, of the divine character. His conversation was upon heavenly things; he trained his mind to run in this channel. As he looked to Jesus, he became changed into the glorious image of his Lord, and his countenance was lighted up with the glory that shines from the face of Christ. Enoch lived an active, zealous life of self-denial. He walked with men as one among them, but not as one of them; as one whose purposes and works and hopes were based, not only on time, but on eternity. He did not give the worldly-wise any reason to question his profession or his faith. By earnest words and by decided actions he showed that he was separate from the world. After periods of retirement he would mingle with the ungodly, exhorting them to abhor the evil and choose the good. As a faithful worker for God, he sought to save them. He warned the world. He preached faith in Christ, the Saviour of the world, the sinner's only hope. We are living in an evil age. The perils of the last days multiply around us. Because iniquity abounds, the love of many waxes cold. Enoch's example is before us. Like him we must walk with God, bringing our will into submission to His will. We must train our minds to love purity, and to think upon heavenly things. Let us remember, too, that our responsibility is proportionate to our entrusted talents. If we abide in the True Vine,--if we bear the fruits of righteousness,--we shall go about doing good. In seeking to save the souls for whom Christ has died, in conquering difficulties, and in keeping ourselves unspotted from the world, we may reveal the genuineness of our religion. The faithful Christian does not seek the easiest place, the lightest burdens. He is found where the work is hardest, where his help is most needed. Very many who claim to be Christians act as if they were in this world merely to please themselves. They forget that Jesus, their pattern, pleased not Himself. They forget that the self-denial and the self-sacrifice that characterized His life must characterize their lives, else in the day of God they will be found wanting, and will hear from His lips the irrevocable sentence, "Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth!" [Matthew 25:30] Fearful sentence! Let every professing Christian, by zealous activity in the Master's cause, seek to avert this fearful doom.
2019-04-22T12:08:31Z
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The acid-meltdown visualization that can be witnessed through the cover art on this album tells, however briefly, the tale behind “K.O”, the debut album by Skrap. So what we have here is the positioning of Anja Lauvdal and Heida Johannesdottir inside of a room with musical instruments and the possibility for electronic mayhem. They did not fail to deliver a warp 8 fly through anything and everything between distant piano melodies and ill bringing, distorted bass-amps drones. Lauvdal and Johannesdottir’s go through broken electronic poems, like the opening “Knekt”, only to transform into a dense battlefield of glitches and bass explosions. With each track being pretty short (between 40 seconds and few minutes), one might imagine this rapid shift through styles might prove to be a mistake, yet K.O works really well as one long track, examining itself endlessly with inner electronic conversations between the two artists. If this is what their conversation sounds like, I want them to keep talking to me some more.
2019-04-25T00:25:05Z
https://cinyf.wordpress.com/reviews/skrap-k-o/
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Here is a recent update on the Asian Longhorned Beetle in Bethel Ohio. Although there is a delay in the report from the USDA that would give home owners options to pursue, perhaps including treatment of healthy trees, there is no delay on the USDA’s removal of infested and host trees. And what is a host tree? It is simply a tree that the Asian Longhorned Beetle can feed on. And from the chart in a previous post, one can see that there are a lot of trees that it chooses. That means that almost all trees in the greater Bethel area are tagets for removal, even if they are currently healthy. Here is a great video showing how tree injection works for Emerald Ash Borer, and also Asian Longhorned Beetle. Although the US Department of Agriculture has not approved the protection of trees in Bethel, Ohio, it has approved this method in other parts of the country such as Wooster, MA. Widely-planted ornamental shrub. No US cord. Host in Chinese literature; Heavy feeding damage and exit hole observed in China. oviposition sites and 2 exit holes observed in cage study in China. Uncommon shrub. No US record; reported not to be a host in Chinese literature but damage observed. 1 Host status based on US records of infestation, field studies with North American trees planted in China and Chinese literature. Host range tests in laboratory and greenhouse settings not considered except as noted. See Hu et al. (2009) for a review of hosts with particular emphasis on the status of poplars in China. 2 Host genera listed alphabetically within catagories. 3 Host abundance based on program records , general oversvations of infested areas in NY and IL, and on Nowack, D.J., 1994. “Urban Forest Structure: the State of Chicago’s Urban Forest.” pp 3-18 In: E.G. McPherson et al., Chicago’s Urban Forest Ecosystem: Results of the Chicago Forest Climate Project. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-186, USDA Forest Service, Northeast Forest Experiment Sta., Radnor, PA. 4 Included in surveys and chemical treatments by USDA Cooperative ALB Eradication Program in IL, NY and NJ. This is a question that our salespeople and technicians get asked quite often. The quick answer is Yes, but only if tree injection is used. As can be read in other posts such as Our process to protect valuable ash trees the method that we use keeps the formulation within the system of the tree. The formulation is injected into the tree trunk via small plugs, which act as one-way valves, and it stays in the tree. The formulation that we use for Asian Longhorned Beetle is imidacloprid. Other systems such as soil drenching, put pesticides into the environment. In a letter to the USDA, concerned citizens in Pesticide Action Network North America, Toxics Action Network and The SafeLawns Foundation, stated the following. c) Potential impacts to humans. Imidacloprid has been linked in animal studies to reproductive, mutagenic and neurotoxic effects. Although the article is specifically about the Asian Longhorned Beetle, the same process and pesticide is used by some companies for Emerald Ash Borer. Therefore it is important to ask any company that may treat your trees for Asian Longhorned Beetle, what is the method they use. The area that is quarantined for Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB), is east of Cincinnati. Even though the ALB can fly, the biggest threat to the Greater Cincinnati area comes through the transporting of firewood. Governor Kasich issued an Executive Order making it illegal to move any logs, firewood, stumps, roots or branches out of this area.
2019-04-18T16:30:03Z
https://asianlonghornedbeetle.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/
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Coding…algorithm…design…build…create. These are terms we hear when we learn about robots, software and programming. Using the WeDo Lego kit and a hands-on approach, youth will become engineers and work in teams in STEM combining the LEGO brick, software to build, program, and create a WeDo character.
2019-04-19T05:11:59Z
https://scotland.ces.ncsu.edu/2018/08/s-t-e-m-saturday-wedo-lego/
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At the request of an acquaintance on another site, I’ve just finished reading this article, and I must admit that it’s one of the better attempts to justify morality on naturalism. However, he has a couple of holes in his argument that I’d like to address briefly. This post will assume some prior knowledge that many who interact with me on CrossExamined.org will have. To the rest of you, I apologize! Thibodeau’s article can be found here. Please remember that Thibodeau is a trained philosopher. I don’t even play one on TV. I’m just a simple guy with a slightly-above-average intelligence (so I’m told) that is trying to reason through this stuff. Yet, it seems to me that good philosophy should have great explanatory power and correspond to what we perceive reality to be. I don’t see this in his article. 4. Killing babies is horrendous. 5. Even if God does not exist, killing babies is horrendous. 6. So, even if God does not exist, objective moral values do exist. This, to my mind, is so compelling as to be decisive. I do not see what the existence of God adds to the universe such that, if he did not exist, the killing of an innocent child would not be horrendous.
2019-04-18T12:28:25Z
https://ke4vtw.wordpress.com/page/2/
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The recent media attention to the Pregnancy Pause made me think seriously about having quit my job and what this means for my resume. While most women feel the decision is detrimental to their careers and earnings potential, I am realizing that being a stay-at-home mom is providing me with skills to pursue other occupations if and when I return to the paid workforce. For example, maintaining my kids’ activities and daily schedules certainly qualifies me as a personal assistant. The varying meal requests and coordination of adult food versus what’s acceptable to my kids surely is affording me practice should I ever work in a restaurant. One career for which I am getting ample experience is that of shepherd. Going anywhere with my children – even places of their choosing – requires the herculean effort that I imagine is required for herding cattle. Just as I get my daughter’s shoes on my son decides he is going to run in the opposite direction away from the door. So I leave my daughter to go get him and she has unsurprisingly made a dash for the den and the television remote controls. Her shoes may or may not be on her feet. And, of course, both kids are laughing the entire time while I have perspired enough to need another shower, if I managed to get one in the first place. More often than not, once we are finally in the car, I realize I have forgotten something for myself – shoes, a jacket, water. Yet, the satisfaction of having two kids strapped into their seats is a victory and nothing else matters, for now. Surely such flexibility, determination and accomplishment are assets that any employer would seek out.
2019-04-22T18:00:33Z
https://mindovermommysite.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/resume-builder/
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An idea I’m swiping/adapting from MizT: Have the kids fill out and decorate index cards on the first day of school with their birthdates. Then, each month have a calendar with those cards posted. You are currently browsing the Take It To The Limit blog archives for the day Wednesday, August 4th, 2010.
2019-04-19T14:48:50Z
https://tothemathlimit.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/
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Posted by Richard Foote in Oracle Index Seminar. You need to book early to ensure your place and to ensure the seminars go ahead. Last year, a seminar in Prague was nearly cancelled due to lack of numbers only for 20 people to enroll in the last couple of weeks. Hopefully, I’ll get to meet some of you at these events, assuming of course the Australian airports aren’t flooded, a distinct possibility considering the amount of rain that has been falling lately in this continent !!
2019-04-19T19:18:47Z
https://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2011/01/
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Stupid thoughts always flood my brain. Does it look handmade? Does it look like an amateur made it? Does anyone recognize the pattern? Do I look like an old lady? AM I MORE APPROACHABLE NOW?! I wear things I’ve sewn all the time but it’s different. I guess I just have more confidence in my sewing skills because I’ve been doing that for so long. And you know what else is strange? Taking outfit photos. Nova was onto something when she did hers in pieces. In case you don’t recognize it I’m wearing my Akoya cardigan. I have pictures of me in my Beatnik sweater but those have to be retaken. I love that sweater! I always feel better about my hand knits when people don’t ask about them, because that must mean it either looks embarrassingly awful and they don’t want to bring it up (which I’m reasonably sure isn’t the case) or it doesn’t look handmade at all. I’m all about inner satisfaction, I guess! Agreed! But sometimes it’s flattering when they ask and I’m wearing the most epic cabled sweater that is way beyond my skillset. Let’s see: looks handmade? No. Recognize the pattern? No. Looks amateurish? No. Looks old-ladyish? No? Makes you more approachable? Yes (I’d approach you to ask where you got your sweater!). Adorable? YES! I’m such a show off that I love when my stuff is recognized as hand made. The terrible stuff I made in high school definitely looked hand made, but I still wore it and bragged about it. Hand made clothing is impressive! Not a lot of people can even make poorly made clothing let alone a rad cardigan. Thanks Andi! Oi, just got flashbacks to when I would give my friends handmade gifts in middle school and they all were so gracious… Maybe that’s why none of them turned into crafters! It looks so cute! Love the outfit as a whole. In my experience, 90% of people who do not know you would never guess that you made that. The other 10% is split – people who know you knit, but it still doesn’t occur to them that you knit A SWEATER, and the people who know you knit and are awesome at it, so therefore might ask you about your sweater if they don’t have something more juicy to talk about, like wine or gossip or television. Oh, I guess you could say there’s also the .5% of people who are like us and compliment each other heavily on every knit we’ve seen online! You’re right, it’s just hard to see that sometimes! And huh. It is a bit strange how online compliments are easily taken but in real life it’s like, “SHE MUST NOT MEAN IT AND IT’S REALLY A BACKHANDED INSULT!!!” (with me atleast). I truly love love love that cardigan and wish I had your mad knitting and sewing skills. I cant sew to save my life. It doesn’t look handmade to me, in the way that the sweater I knit (my first) screams of handmade-ness as it rests sadly on the chair in my bedroom (I can’t imagine wearing it out of the house, honestly; I’m proud of finishing my first sweater, but no need to lie to myself – it is not pretty!). But rather, your sweater looks handmade in the sense that it boasts gorgeous detail and looks like it was bought off the rack at a cute, hip clothing boutique! I’d wear that piece all the time, proudly! You did a beautiful job with the sweater. It is so gorgeous. If you ever get tired of it let me know, I would wear it all the time. Your knitting is awesome. I took up knitting back in June and just can’t tell you how much I love knitting. If I could ever knit as good as you, I would be one happy person! Your mother must be so proud of you. i think it looks badass. definitely not handmade looking at all. 😀 love your style chica.
2019-04-20T02:41:15Z
https://izznit.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/wearing-my-own-handknits/
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THIS WEEK’S OTHER FEATURED BOOKS, “DOCTOR KINNEY’S HOUSEKEEPER,” BY SARA DAHMEN AND “JUST UNDER THE SKY,” BY R.K. GOLD, CAN BE FOUND BY SCROLLING DOWN BELOW THIS POST, OR BY CLICKING THE AUTHOR’S NAME ON OUR “AUTHOR” AGE. SUMMARY: Middle-aged Hector has moved, with his beautiful wife, away from a lackluster playwriting career in New York City, to a picturesque Appalachian town, determined to give up the creative life. But his creativity won’t be denied, and he “gives birth” — somewhat like any artist gives birth to their work — to a decidedly dramatic little character who won’t go away, and is determined that Hector will face the demons he’s been living with. Though Hec knows he’s hallucinating, he nevertheless finds it impossible to disengage his playwriting mind to end the homunculus’ existence, which leads to his eventual crisis of sanity. THE BACK STORY: I first wrote a very short short story that later became the opening sequence of a novella. Then later I expanded the novella into the novel. The whole process took several years, but I was working on other stories during the same period. WHY THIS TITLE? Homunculus means “little man,” and is used in several contexts by psychologists as well as historians. WHY WOULD SOMEONE WANT TO READ IT? This is a novel for people who seek out literary fiction that surprises, challenges, and rewards the reader by exploring some psychological territory that hasn’t been visited before. If I spend the time to read a book, I want my feathers to be ruffled by it; I write for readers like me. “…a beautifully crafted and deeply weird book…” — Byron Ballard, Rapid River Magazine. “[Stubblefield] has captured the subtlety of madness…as if it were as natural as writing love or anger. [He] spins an excellently paced tale…brilliantly described…wonderfully subtle…Homunculus is a great book, and I suggest you get close to it…” — James Crane, Electric City. “Stubblefield delivers crisp dialogue and penetrating character studies…Homunculus is a psychologically probing tale, and its portrait of neurotic impulses made flesh is one readers won’t soon forget.” — Carl Hays, Booklist Magazine. SAMPLE CHAPTER: https://www.amazon.com/Homuculus-Jerry-Stubblefield/dp/0930773918 or my website jerrystubblefield.com,. LOCAL OUTLETS: Malaprops Book Store, Books & Beans (in Little Switzerland on the Parkway). WHERE ELSE TO BUY IT: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, a bazillion online outlets, and direct from Black Heron Press through its website. PRICE: $23.95 (hardback only) discounted on Amazon etc. CONTACT THE AUTHOR: I love to hear from readers and will respond. My email is jstubblefield49@gmail.com. I have a Facebook page for this.
2019-04-19T16:33:58Z
https://snowflakesarise.wordpress.com/2016/10/11/homunculus/
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March 27, 2007 started like any other day in our house. I gathered up my kids – back then I only had two, what did I do with my time?!?! – and headed to the library for story time and a huge stack of books destined to be lost under couch cushions and bunk beds. My day was all planned out – library time, home for lunch, do a little math and reading with Ross, make an early dinner, then head to church for a women’s meeting on time management. We had a great time listening to stories, doing some finger plays, visiting with some moms and their kids from church and picking out a pile of books to borrow. I got into the van and checked my cellphone, saw two voice mail messages and clicked “call”. Sometimes the simplest little things like voice mail and phone calls can change your life forever and you have no idea it’s even coming, the blessing or the tragedy. Both messages were from licensing workers from social services. Now before you get the wrong idea about me, they weren’t calling because of my kids, they were calling because we were foster parents and on that day, we were being invited to become parents again. The first voice mail was about a newborn girl being released from the hospital that afternoon. And the second message was about a little two year old girl ready to be placed the next day. My hands shook with excitement and anxiousness as I dialed the number to the social services office and talked to the worker about the details of each little girl. My plans for the day went right out the window and I spent the next three hours rushing from home to Target to the hospital, hurrying to prepare for the arrival of the girls. I could hardly wait to meet them and hug them and give them the love they desperately needed. At 4 pm, I walked out of the hospital carrying baby Amber and a new diaper bag stuffed to the gills with every little freebie the nurses could find for her. I was home just long enough to change her into something cute, grab the stroller and head to church. I wasn’t about to miss the women’s meeting – going from two to four children in 24 hours was definitely going to require some time management! Michael met me in the parking lot and there I introduced him to this precious little bundle with a headful of dark brown hair. And he fell in love. You can imagine the surprise of the moms that night – “Weren’t you just at the library this afternoon? I didn’t know you would have a baby by tonight!” Well neither did I! Such is life as a foster parent. The next day was another flurry of preparation for the arrival of Trisha while also trying to adjust to life with a newborn again. For the next fourteen months, we loved these girls like our own. We said goodbye when Trisha was placed with her aunt. But with Amber, we prayed goodbye would never come. We waited and hoped and pleaded with God, trying to be patient and have open hands, wanting Him to be glorified above all else, but having hearts full of love for her that we knew would break in two if she were to leave us. And on May 16, 2008 we got another life changing phone call – she was ours, not just for now, but forever. We had a huge party to celebrate her officially coming into our family, but to us, she had always been ours, always been loved. Now we just had a document that made it legal and binding and real to the rest of the world. Have you ever pictured God like that, an eager adoptive parent waiting in joyful anticipation for the day you would be his? Can you see him reaching out to you over and over again, slowly drawing you closer to him, loving you even before you really belonged to him? And the celebration in heaven when you finally became his child, finally accepted his gift of salvation and allowed him to be Father God in your life – wow, I bet God throws a terrific party when his children come to him. Sometimes I feel like God is stuck with me, wishing I would straighten up and finally get this Christian living thing right. I imagine him thinking, “Oh no not her again, is she still doing that?!?!” But just like adoptive parents here in earthly relationships, God is eager to bring us into his family. He doesn’t do it begrudgingly! He can’t wait to be your Daddy. Adopted children hardly ever come in perfect packages. Most of them are available for adoption because of the brokenness of their parents, which most times leads to brokenness in themselves. Adoptive parents take on all the hurt and neglect and junk heaped on a child prior to their adoption and they love that child through it. In the same way, God comes into broken down, messed up, rejected hearts full of hurt and distrust and bad behaviors that stem from all those things. He doesn’t send us away, doesn’t deem us unworthy and amazingly, He isn’t disgusted by our filth. Why? Because when he looks at us, he sees the righteousness of Christ – his perfection, his sacrifice on our behalf – and it’s enough to bring us straight to Abba Father, to Daddy God where we can lay our battered and broken hearts at his feet. As always, comments make my day! I would love to hear your adoption stories, or any other adventures you’ve had.
2019-04-19T20:47:54Z
https://lifelivedloud.wordpress.com/tag/adoption-2/
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That's a really cool way to use icesat2. I'm excited about all the stuff they are going to do with that satellite. The action is systemically baffling if not considering a slow but gradual thinning of sea ice. The same CAA North of Canada Polar Vortex circulation dominating 2018 is now getting back its strength, cold, in fact coldest upper air in years, yet driving warm air North of Greenland during spring autumn and winter virtually non stop is also the key factor causing this sea ice to stall in refreezing, there is of course warm sst's and pervasive clouds. Keep an eye on Leslie and Walaka, let alone Kong Rey and all the big 'uns going past Japan. I don't think this story is over. The interlocking cogs of the hemispheric (or global, if you prefer) circulatory system are crazy and getting crazier. I'm not a close enough observer to say if temps are warmer than usual around the Arctic, but it seems to me they are. Lotta push going on there. Likely by warm air sublimation, something that happens near very high mountains, but Siberian Islands are not high at all, note of interest this snow free event should be wondrous for North Siberian residents, the quiet people. But it is likely a very rare event, if not unique for New Siberian Islands which apparently has a population of 2. and now the 30 day anomaly is going off! Again the opposite of the vortex influencing North America weather is clearer skies over the North Pacific. PIOMAS data including Sept 2018 was published yesterday, so have updated the Ice Cube video.
2019-04-20T11:05:06Z
https://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2018/09/2018-arctic-sea-ice-minimum.html
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In us the work of faith fulfill. Save us, a present Savior Thou! Future and past subsisting now. Pardon and holiness, and Heaven.
2019-04-23T22:57:38Z
http://cantiques.karaokes.free.fr/select.php?video=6614
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Wow! Disney princesses AND books! I love! Thank you so so much to one of my favorite bloggers and a creator of this tag, Mandy @ Book Princess Reviews, for tagging me! I’m so sorry this took forever for me to do! Thank you marvelous creators, Mandy (I already tagged you) and Zuky! I love this question. But it’s so hard. Honestly, the first book that came to mind is Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon. Yes, I just did a book review for it and declared my love for the story there. I just can’t believe that marvelously written story is her FIRST novel! Another hard one! This one made me think, but I’m settling on Beth from Pushing the Limits. She seems to unforgiving and cruel in the beginning, but as the story (and series) goes on, we really get to see her inside and know her story. She is actually super loyal and protective, and is really there for her friends when they need her. I’m not going to lie, I actually love Aurora and Sleeping Beauty. I know that’s unfeminist of me, but I love how good her heart is, and Prince Phillip is my second favorite Disney prince. And I always thought she was gorgeous. But anyway, this book would have to be the beloved The Hobbit. Gasps everywhere. I tried reading this at camp a couple years ago and actually fell asleep reading it. And I’ve never fallen asleep reading a book besides this one time. Like I had my glasses on and my flashlight on my shoulder, and I was out. Fantasy has never been my genre of choice, and too much description always makes me bored, so I guess The Hobbit just wasn’t going to work for me. Unbreak My Heart. This setting was actually so interesting. Clementine and her family were sailing around for summer vacation, so the entire story took place on a boat (and the occasional docks). For some reason this took me a really long time to come up with but I finally did it! Stealing Mandy’s, but it’s just so true! Vivian from The Replacement Crush is the ultimate bookworm. She runs her own book blog (which gave me the inspiration to start mine), has a cute romance book club, and owns a book store. Well her mom does but shhh. I just love how free she is with her love of books, especially since it’s so rare for books to feature bookworms for some reason. It’s going to have to be Offside by Shay Savage for the second reason. I wasn’t expecting to hate this book, but I definitely wasn’t expecting to love it so much. It seemed like a very cliche love story that I turned to just for some fluff and enjoyment, but it was so much better than that. There was a total redemption arc, which I love, as well as a really well-written love story. The love story was so great because it was long, so we saw past the puppy dog phase. They faced many ups and many downs together, but overall stayed strong and I loved that. Annexed by Sharon Dogar. This is based on the story of Anne Frank and the other family she was hidden with, the specifically Peter. While there are no actual records from Peter’s point of view, Sharon Dogar used Anne Frank’s diary to create a persona for Peter and a point of view for him. I actually read this before I read the original diary (which is kind of sacrilege) and really absorbed it. Just like the diary, the book attempts to put you in the head of a teenager hiding for their life, and does such a marvelous job. They create a friendship between Anne and Peter which was just beautiful, and I really just love the narrative format it is told in. Will I ever not mention a heroine from the Starbound trilogy for this question? I’ve decided on Lilac from These Broken Stars as the fiercest heroine because not only does she save Tarver’s life on the ship, but she saves it multiple times as they try to survive on the planet alone, as well as completely adapt to a new environment, and secretly plot against her father who she grew up loving. And does it all in a beautiful dress and heels. She is honestly my role model and I think she’s underrated. I’m ashamed to say I have’t yet read the Six of Crows duology, which I’ve heard would be perfect for this question (it’s on my list though!). Out of the books I have read, I’m going to have to choose Making Faces by Amy Harmon. While this book is not one of my favorites, it does a very good job of discussing physical injuries and deformities, as well as chronic illnesses. And it’s a little bit of a ragtag group that is formed, and overall written very beautifully. Easily Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. A wonderful 870 pages that never got slow or boring. (I’m pretty sure this book is the longest in the series, correct me if I’m wrong). Bittersweet by Sarah Ockler. This not only takes place in small town up north during the winter, but the main characters are figure skaters and hockey players. There are beautifully winter moments with snow ins and skating on a frozen lake and drinking hot chocolate and baking cookies, and gives you a very nice holiday feel, all cozy and warm. Amy and Roger from Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson go on an ~epic~ journey cross-country, both physical and emotional. Honestly, they’re road trip goals. And anyone else who wants to do this marvelous tag! Sleeping Beauty is my favorite!! I’m always sad when people disparage her for not doing anything in her film. Yes, it’s true she’s only in it for like 18 minutes or something, but we know from those few minutes that she’s kind. I think that’s important! Not every princess needs to fight to be strong. And I think the criticisms overlook that the fairies are a big part of the film. Arguably they are kind of funny and maybe not the type of woman you’d want your daughter to aspire to grow up to be. However, I think it’s important that the film focuses on females–female protagonists and female villain–and that the females get to be all sorts of different things! Even funny. Wow I agree so much! I’m all for fierce women but you can be strong just by being kind. And there are so many women in the movie as you just pointed out, really Prince Phillip is the only man with a prominent role. Thank YOU for creating it!!! I love the Replacement Crush it’s one of my favorite books. Gives me swoons every time! I’ve heard nothing but amazing things about Katie Mcgarry! I really need to pick up one of her books soon! And These Broken Stars has been on my TBR for longest time!! I plan on getting to it soon! I love love love Katie McGarry her stories are amaZing. And These Broken Stars is one of my favorite books of all time so please pick it up soon! Thank you for the tag!! I actually ended up doing this one as well already! But I love being tagged in book tags so thank you! I love your answers but I’m so shocked about the Hobbit! I adored that book! No problem!! I tried the Hobbit a while ago so it’s possible that if I read it now I’ll enjoy it but all I remember is actually falling asleep during it.
2019-04-19T19:17:08Z
https://fireandrainbooks.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/disney-princess-tag/
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← Mens Fashion : Shorts! I would definitely wear those hoeels – there would be no getting stuck in the covent garden cobbles with those, they look really comfy! Oh my word Marko!! I love this so much!! The dress is so ladylike and exactly what a girl needs for a dinner date in Paris! The accessories are amazing too and really make this my perfect outfit!! I LOVE the bag, cute and stylish! Would go with so many things in my wardroble and the statement clasp is lush! I love the dress. The colour is stunning and perfect for Spring time in Paris! It’s also a steal at £30 so I’m definately going to be putting one of those in my shopping basket. This could also look totes cute with a delicate bright belt and some cute flat sandals for park action in the summer!! I absolutely love the dress and the earrings. You captured the Parisian style, yet I’m sure your friend will stand out in this amazing outfit…Marko, you rock and at last a dress I can buy without having to sell a kidney !!!! I love love the shoes and jacket I would live in both, they will go with any thing and both super stylish. Loving the blue dress. It’s beautifully elegant but not over the top. I probably wouldn’t wear it with the matching belt, perhaps a different colour belt to jazz it up. Maybe a deep turquoise colour? The clutch is very glam too! The earrings. Cos they are red which makes them hot, just like you! I’m not entirely sure about the dres.. The only reason being, that all the detail seems a bit too much and distracting from the amazoboulos colour. Accessories definitely give it the glam-factor, my favourite being the bag and earrings… I wonder, has MSalonen considered Les Néréides (which has a lovely shop on Long Acre)? Mostest beautifulst jewellery, delicate and full of colours and imagination. I feel a new spring trend. Just back from Paris and I would definitely have to say the clutch… tres chic Marko!
2019-04-22T06:28:11Z
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GE free activists in New Caledonia have been very successful in stopping the importation of GM seeds into New Caledonia and they are looking to find places where they can access knowledge and seed for seed saving. As the Pacific is being hit by climate disasters regularly it has been found that the indigenous small farmers are being hit hard. Aid donors are giving them hybrid, often GMO seeds to plant for the next season. When they are given these seeds they expect that these will be able to be saved and replanted, not realising that they are for one season only. Local farmers have no concept of hybrid one- season seed growth and do not have the money to buy the seeds annually. Unfortunately there is no regulation in these countries relating to the importation of GM seeds and they often follow the US and FSANZ approval recommendation for GM foods. The conference decided that to combat this we would like to set up a support package that provides heirloom, open pollinate seeds to the islands in such disasters, as well as information on the differences between the various seeds. The islanders are mostly subsistence farmers who grow with the seasons and without chemicals. If you or your organisation can help with know-how for seed saving and are willing to be be part of a New Zealand aid and response package for New Caledonia please contact Claire Bleakley on claire@gefree.org.nz to discuss. Thank you! Why cigarette butts are a huge problem- and why we must do something about it.
2019-04-19T19:10:30Z
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We have a customer service team that works hard to be accessible, friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. We pride ourselves in offering customer service that goes the extra mile every time! Remember, your success is our goal. How does our group price the products? Your group decides your own prices. We feel it is important that every group has the ability to decide their own profit margin and also be sure the prices fit for the community where they sell. In addition, to assist your group in deciding your prices, we have a price guide with our suggested retail prices. This gives your group a good idea for pricing. The products you are selling are the Premier Wreath of the Holiday Season. Remember this is a Classic Fund-Raiser with the highly valued and needed products. How simple is the pricing strategy? We strive to keep the program as simple as possible. One of the ways we do this is by keeping the pricing simple. We give you one total price per item to simplify the process. One of the great things about our program is the 100% guarantee for quality, forest fresh products delivery. We stand behind our Products and want to be sure your customers are happy with them as well. If you ever have any problems with any product just call our office and speak to one of our helpful customer service team members. If possible, we will ship replacement products or we can credit the group. All you have to do is call within 10 days of receiving your shipment. Each item is conveniently packaged in an easy to handle plastic bag. No worrying about purchasing bags for the products or the task of bagging every item before passing them out. All products are boxed in sturdy cardboard cases designed to handle the shipping process. How do we get marketing materials? Your original sales materials (fliers, sales records, products flier, etc.) are free! All you have to do is sign up for the program. Sign up on the web and all the forms will be on welcome page to get you planning for success immediately. Call our office to sign up or fill out the Program Sign Up form and fax or mail it to our office. What is special about Alpine Fir? Our Alpine Fir grows at or above the 5000ft high altitude in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. This means you are getting a hearty, exceptionally beautiful, fragrant product that can last for many weeks with a little TLC. Are we obligated to order once we sign up? No, you are not obligated to place a final order with us if you sign up. If for some reason your group chooses not to use the program, just call our office and let us know .There will be a charge for the sample wreath if you requested one. Is there a set time frame for the program? Yes, for the bulk program the sales start on or before September 16th. The Final Order deadline is October 16th. The Mail-A-Gift Programs run till December 10th. There is no deliveries on Saturday or Sunday. Delivery starts the week before Thanksgiving. Can you guarantee a specific delivery date? Unfortunately, the way our shipping system works, we cannot guarantee a specific delivery date. Our goal is to deliver to you before 7th of December. You can call us and we will walk you through signing up over the telephone or you can fill out the Letter Of Intent Form and either mail or fax it to our office. This form must be returned to office to assure your groups place in program! When do we receive our sales materials? We have all the materials you need for a successful program. Fill out the information request form and the welcome page will provide all you need. This simplifies and speeds up the process. Do you need materials mailed? E-mail Dan@ewreath.com to have them mailed to you. The products sell themselves! They are wonderful products and every body LOVES them! How do we submit our Bulk Final Order? The Final Order form and instructions are on the download page. You can fill out your Final Order form and either mail or fax it to us. Final bulk orders are case only. You can not place the Final Order over the telephone, as there are agreements on the Final Order that need to be acknowledged and signed. What should I do when placing my Final Order? Some things not to forget before placing your Final Order; make sure your CASE totals are correct and that you use standard numbers, make sure you signed the Final Order form, and make sure all your required contact and shipping information is correct on the Final Order form. Send one check or money order for 50% of final order. This will be required to process the order. Please e-mail Marcia@ewreath.com that you have made final order and how, frequently we get in blank faxs oops! This is a back up to for that issue! Does the Bulk Final Order have to be on the Final Order form? Yes, there is Final Order form made specifically for each year and you must use the Final Order form we provide for you. The reasons are the Final Order form is a contract and second, the information must be consistent for accounting purposes. How do I submit the Mail-A-Gift Items and addresses? You can enter the information on the mail-a-gift form(spread sheet)from the downloads page. Please e-mail spread sheet to Marcia@ewreath.com. The total payment for Mail-A-Gift is now due please mail or call in the single payment at this time. How do I know if you have received my Mail-A-Gift or Final Order Form? Once your order is entered into our system, Call the office to confirm or by Fax. If your group has signed up with us and we have not received a Final Order from you, we will call you in time to place your Final Order. Please e-mail or call if you are concerned glitches are possible in any system. Can we pay our bill once we receive our Final Order Confirmation? The Final Order Confirmation is to let you know that we have received your Final Order and give you a chance to double-check it. After you check order, then we request you mail or call in your payment of 50% down to get order processed. If you are doing the Mail-A-Gift 100% of payment is due on that part of program. The 50% is only for the bulk orders. When do we pay remaining amount for our products? Your customers make checks payable to your group; you send one check from your organization as payment. We mail a final invoice to your group shortly after we receive your 50% payment to start processing. Terms for payment are upon receipt of invoice. We accept payment by, either a check or money order from your organization (have your customers write their checks out to your group) or Visa / Master Card. Please call the office for credit card service. Final Payment must be received before we can ship your wreaths. This of course will be after you have sold all your products and collected all your money. We apologize for the changes but in an effort to keep cost down, we feel this will increase our productivity and efficiency. We have had groups over optimistically ordering in the past. (Ordering before collecting funds) This causes us to over manufacture products, and creates waste which cost all of us.
2019-04-22T06:29:45Z
https://ewreath.wordpress.com/faq/
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The Jimmy J. Carnes Media Center is a gift from The University of Florida Track & Field Alumni Association and its Sponsor (s) to The University of Florida Track & Field Department under the head coach leadership of Michael “Mouse” Holloway of The University of Florida Athletic Department. The Jimmy j. Carnes Media Center is dedicated to the memory of University of Florida and Olympic Track & Field Coach James Jerome “Jimmy” Carnes. Humanitarian & University of Florida Track & Field Coaching Legend. Jimmy Carnes was born in Eatonton, Georgia. He attended Mercer University in Macon, Georgia from 1952 to 1956, where he played for the Mercer Bears basketball team and was a javelin thrower and high jumper for the Bears track and field team. Carnes graduated from Mercer in 1956, and accepted his first job as a physical education teacher and assistant coach for the football, basketball and track teams at Druid Hills High School in DeKalb County, Georgia. In his second year at Druid Hills, he was named head coach of the track team. From 1957 to 1962, Carnes' Druid Hills track teams were a perfect 52–0 in dual meets and captured six Georgia high school state championships, and he was recognized as the Georgia coach of the year six times. In 1962, Carnes became the head cross country and track and field coach at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. His Furman track and field teams were 16–3 in dual meets, and won both the Southern Conference indoor and outdoor track and field championships in his two seasons there. After the 1964 track season, Carnes accepted the head coaching position at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. From 1965 to 1976, Carnes' Florida Gators track and field teams finished in the top three in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) fifteen times, won two SEC indoor track championships, and compiled a 93–3 overall record in dual meets. Among his many Gators track and field athletes were sixty-five SEC individual champions, four NCAA individual champions and twenty-four All-Americans. In 1965, Carnes founded the Florida Track Club in Gainesville, an amateur track and field organization that helped to train high school athletes, college-level transfer students, future Olympians and other post-graduate competitors. Over the following decade, the Florida Track club became a magnet for serious track and field athletes training for international competitions, including Jack Bacheler, Jeff Galloway, Marty Liquori and Frank Shorter. Carnes recruited fifty-five graduate student-athletes for the Florida Track Club by offering several of them assistant coaching positions and helping many of them obtain graduate assistantships within the university to help them continue their graduate studies. Carnes served as the assistant coach of the U.S. men's track and field team for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He was named the head coach of the U.S. men's track and field team that was forced to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow as a result of the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. In 1973, Carnes and Liquori co-founded Athletic Attic, one of the nation's first sports equipment chain stores, with an emphasis on running shoes for training and competition. At the peak of the running craze, Athletic Attic had over 165 stores in the United States, Canada, Japan and New Zealand with over $40 million in annual revenue. Carnes resigned as the Gators track coach in September 1976 to focus on his Athletic Attic business interests and his Olympic coaching. As chairman of the Governor's Council on Sports and Physical Fitness, Carnes was the founder of the Sunshine State Games, Florida's annual Olympic-style multi-sport festival. The first games were held in 1980, and have been held every year since then. Carnes became the chairman of the track division of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) in 1977, and helped heal a decades-long institutional rift between the AAU and the NCAA. From 1980 to 1984, he served as the first president of the The Athletics Congress/USA (now known as USA Track & Field), after it was spun off from the AAU. He was also involved in the formation of TACTRUST, the first step toward open track competition, and worked to guide the sport from amateur to open competition rules. Carnes served a total of twenty-one years as a member of the board of directors of the International Special Olympics. Carnes was inducted as a member of the Florida Sports Hall of Fame in 1980, the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1984, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1998, and the USA Track & Field Hall of Fame in 2008. He was also inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as an "honorary letter winner" in 1983. The Gainesville Sports Commission has sponsored an annual championship called the Jimmy Carnes Indoor Track and Field Meet since 2008. Carnes was married to Nanette Carnes, and they were the parents of three sons and a daughter. He died in Gainesville in 2011, after a three-and-a-half-year battle with cancer; he was 76 years old. Carnes was survived by his wife and their children…..Coach Jimmy Carnes has touched the lives of many throughout his life, till this day. He is truly a great Humanitarian. What is The Jimmy J.Carnes Media Center and the purpose ? What is the solution and cost? c. Install a high gain antennae on roof of press box to support information flow from field events so they can be displayed on scoreboards at the event. The fans will love you! This wireless commutation can also be used at clerks area for instant changes in heat lineups. d. Scoreboards for each field event along with either netbooks or tablets to run them and send each jump and throw back to data manager in press box. Along with that have a display for the announcer (with live field events and running events) so that he watch and alert the crowd to exceptional performances. e. Enhanced communication - Install a Clear or CoachCom system. Put a headset on timer, clerk, starter or starters aid and head coach. The flow of the meet will be more efficient. Increasing efficiency will lead to smoother meets that fans will enjoy. These are the needed equipment that the UF Track & Field Department needs to function better. The following are equipment in which the UFTFAA (University of Florida Track & Field Alumni Association) shall donate as an ACCEPTABLE GIFT to the UF Track & Field Department . It shall be obtain through our donations and fundraising drives.
2019-04-19T10:20:03Z
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2019-04-23T19:53:38Z
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What is the origin of the quote "People will always elect the government they deserve"? Do I have that quote right? It's something like that. Best Answer: The statement is often quoted as "In a democracy, people get the government they deserve," and often attributed to Alexis de Toqueville ... but it's hard to verify where he said it, and even whether he really did. Lettres et Opuscules Inédits vol. 1, letter 53, written on 15 August 1811 and published in 1851. Everybody likes to quote de Toqueville, & not that many ever heard of de Maistre. I suspect de Maistre is the real origin. Of course, it's possible de Toqueville said it, in quoting or paraphrasing de Maistre. But I doubt that de Toqueville said it, simply because it doesn't sound like him. The tone of the remark is sarcastic or cynical, and de Toqueville's writings weren't like that. It wasn't his style. The quote goes way back in History .. Its a Bible short as in the Book of Judges ... The people got the leaders they deserved .. from then on people changed the way it was quoted .. i think this is it: "People can change the people in government" which means " old saying that people get the government they deserve and therefore, it is the duty of the people, especially in a democracy, to elect right type of people to administer their country and if they elect casually, they shall not get right people." People (U.S. Citizens especially) have the power to change the government, and if everybody complains about how bad a president is doing or the gov't is doing, it's their own faults for putting them in there in the first place. There have never been any large scale democracies in the history of the world, so we really don't know. Socrates said it. Cicero re-iterated it ages later. Do people in a democracy always get the government they deserve? The elected government has changed its logo from a rose? Do we deserve the leaders we elect? Is electing Democrats to control government spending, like marrying Angelina Jolie for her brains? Should a elected Government serve those who elect them?
2019-04-20T18:19:37Z
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Day 16: I did not anticipate being home for the candy making process this evening but my plans fell through and, therefore, I got a chance to participate as photographer, Penny helper and blogger for today’s pumpkin activity. We found this candy covered pretzel idea on Pinterest as that is where a lot of valuable information is stored these days for all things clever and crafty. It was a great way to get the whole family together and get our hands dirty. Chris and Penny started off the evening sorting out the green M&Ms from other colors and then went outside to play for a little while. When it was finally time to get started, Chris melted the orange candy disks and I made a real effort to get out of the way. As the oldest child of seven, I have a tendency to be a little bossy so since this was his show I stepped out of the way. I returned to the scene when I found Chris’ hands were too dirty to assist Penny with her messy hands. There is no way she could get messier and she had a great time. In the end we even let her lick her hands. She was so excited and replied that it was a “good lick-y day” as she managed to a do a technique I like to call the “lick and squish”.
2019-04-23T18:48:04Z
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Nothing like some sunlight after many dreary days! I send you many more sunrays from Holland, as we have plenty of them at the moment… have a warm Sunday! still lost in the rain of grief-your kindness is a welcome shelter of brighter days. thank you friend.
2019-04-26T16:39:53Z
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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: We are trying to cover all the action in all the different parts. We've been focusing a lot in the last half hour or so on northern Iraq. Want to check in now with what is going on in and around Basra. For that we go to Richard Gaisford, a British pool reporter. He is embedded with UK forces in that area. RICHARD GAISFORD, BRITISH POOL REPORTER: Well, militarily, it's been fairly quiet, and I'm just getting reports of Iraqi troops firing mortars on a British position at a bridge at the west of the city. Now, that is also a bridge where people have been queuing over to come and get humanitarian aid, aid like this here. Take a look at this. This is an American daily ration pack specifically designed for the dietary needs of the people of Basra, we're told. And inside there's rice meals. There's snacks, a fruit pastry. There's peanut butter. There's strawberry jelly. There's various other snack foods in there that we're told will give them enough nutrition and enough of the calories and carbohydrates they need for just one day. But as we're hearing this morning, it is difficult for them to come out of the city. There's mortar fire coming over the bridge, and possibly mostly being aimed at the British troops, but obviously, that's (UNINTELLIGIBLE) to people who have to come out and get it. Something else they're also starting today is distributing little radios like this. It comes with a note in Arabic, describing exactly how to use it. It's a wind-up radio. It's a self-generating radio. It doesn't need a battery. And there's going to be just one radio station broadcasting, we're told, very soon around Basra, and that is going to be from the friendly forces, the coalition forces, describing to people exactly how they can get their humanitarian aid and how they can stay safe and what to do when the British and American forces do decide to come into the city. They're trying to get the message across that they're there for good, that they're going to connect various water supplies, electrical supplies, drainage and the like. And this is one powerful tool, we're told, in getting that message across. COOPER: Richard, are the radios simply for information about humanitarian relief? Because so much, from our understanding of what coalition forces want to have happen in Basra, is they are very much hoping there will be some sort of civilian uprising against the Ba'ath officials, the Ba'ath militia, those so-called Fedayeen fighters. Will these radios be used to send messages about uprising to the people in Basra? GAISFORD: Well, of course, we're told their uprising has already started two days ago, and it's -- the effect of which we're not sure because there are no independent witnesses actually inside the city at the moment. All we have is the Iraqi state television or Al Jazeera television to broadcast pictures out. So as to what's exactly going on, I don't know. But I think, yes, probably these radios will also be used for propaganda purposes, as well as the humanitarian aid that -- getting people to the right place and also direction into refugee camps if they feel that they're not safe in the city. COOPER: Richard, about -- I think it was about 48 hours ago or so, when there were these early reports of a possible uprising inside Basra, coalition troops, British troops in the area were firing artillery, I believe maybe mortars, into the city, trying to knock out mortar positions or artillery positions inside the city that it was believed were being used against civilians there. Are there -- do there continue to be artillery firing by British troops, mortar firing by British troops into the city? GAISFORD: Yes, it's not mortar fire, it's heavy artillery, and it's being fired from the position I'm at now. And since those reports of mortars being fired upon British troops and possibly on people trying to get out of the city to get food parcels, we've heard more heavy artillery going into Basra this morning. It comes courtesy of the British Royal Horse Artillery. They have some extremely heavy guns here that can fire right onto the exact location. They get that location by using a specific radar sensor that can tell them to the exact grid reference where the mortar rounds are being fired from. And they can target that and try immediately to take it out, with a second, within seconds or a minute of the rounds actually being fired. COOPER: Richard, I'm not sure, from your position, if you -- I know you're embedded, so I'm not sure how -- how free you are to move, how much you've been able to see. We are hearing reports in other parts of the country about the difficulty coalition forces are having in identifying civilians and -- versus possible combatants, whether it's these Fedayeen, these Ba'ath militia. With people coming out of the city to receive these humanitarian aid packages, are soldiers -- are British troops having a difficult time distinguishing -- or how are they trying to deal with figuring out who is a civilian who needs aid and who may be a fighter? GAISFORD: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) they set up a corridor of British troops on the exits to the city that people are using. And what they're doing is vetting people going back into the city to make sure that they're not carrying weapons, that they're not carrying other ammunition, resupplies, that they aren't soldiers. Now, obviously, that's a fairly imprecise way of doing it, but it's the only way they feel they can do it at the moment. And certainly, it does seem to be having some effect. There are large numbers, apparently, of young Iraqi men who have not been allowed back into Basra, we're told. Exactly for what reason, I don't know, but it must be that perhaps it was thought they were of fighting age and appeared to be the sort of men who would go back and join either the Fedayeen or join the army. Inside the city, intelligence reports tell us that the Fedayeen are putting pressure on people, pressure on conscripts to get out there and fight. But as to exactly what is going on in the city, we are just relying purely on these military intelligence reports. They must have people on the ground for us to get those reports, but as to whom they are and exactly what they're seeing, it's very difficult to get. COOPER: Richard, can you give us a sense of where you are, not in terms of location, but what is behind you? We see some -- some -- looks like tanks or armored personnel carriers, something -- can you sort of pan around and give us a sense of what's around you? GAISFORD: Sure. I'll just ask my cameraman to come and give you an idea because I know we don't have the best quality call sign this morning. But right behind me here, you have armored personnel carriers which are used by the medics. They will go in with tanks into Basra, if they go in, and they will be there as a front-line response to any British casualties. Remember, we have the Desert Rats, the 7th Armored Brigade, pretty much circling Basra at the moment, ready to go in. And then you've got -- behind them, you've got supply trucks. And (UNINTELLIGIBLE) just into the distance a bit further, you may see some turrets sticking up. I'm not sure if we can see that. We don't want to move the camera too quickly because that's what causes the picture to break up. But they are Scimitar, small Scimitar armored vehicles. They have a 30-millimeter cannon on the front. Their main purpose is reconnaissance. They will go straight into the city. They will be almost the first people in. They will find out what's going on. They have a certain amount of armor. They're not the strongest armored vehicle, by any means. We leave that to the British Challenger 2 tank, which is pretty much indestructible to most Iraqi munitions. But the tanks -- the small tanks you see there are Scimitar, and they will be used by reconnaissance troops who whiz in as quickly as they can. They have very high-powered Jaguar car engines actually in those. They have almost a sports car performance for an all-track, all-surface vehicle. And they can get in as quickly as possible and also respond with fire if fired upon. COOPER: All right, Richard, I know you got to go soon. I just want to ask you one more question. I think it was some 24, 48 hours ago or so, British forces there seized what was described as a senior Ba'ath Party official near Basra. Wonder if you know if they're getting any information out of that official and how much of a -- and do British forces tell you that they have a good handle on what is happening inside the city, or is it still very sketchy to the intelligence forces you're with? GAISFORD: Well, unfortunately, because I'm an embedded journalist, I've almost signed up to the Official Secrets Act, in a way. And certain information that we've been privileged to I can't broadcast. But yes, they do appear to have a good handle on intelligence in the city. They do seem to be getting good news out of the city and finding out what's going on. And they're discussing that at the moment, sitting down, planning what their next move is. And we fully expect -- we fully expect that at some point in the very near future that there will be a move on Basra. It's just how and where and the exact details of what they're going to achieve and what they want to achieve when they go in. Certainly, in terms of the Ba'ath Party leader, nothing, I'm afraid, has come from that. I don't know quite who's interrogating him, but he's certainly not babbling here at this particular base. And no information's forthcoming. But we do know that there was a very successful destruction of the Ba'ath Party headquarters, and that certainly had a big effect, we're told, on Ba'ath Party operations within the city itself. COOPER: All right, Richard, I appreciate it. We know there's a lot you cannot say that you know. We appreciate you telling us what you can. Richard Gaisford, a British pool reporter with British forces near Basra. Thanks very much, Richard -- Carol. COSTELLO: Let's talk about the drama at the United Nations right now. The Iraqi ambassador to the U.N. went on a tirade against the United States yesterday during a Security Council debate over the war in Iraq. Mohammed Aldouri's comments prompted the U.S. ambassador to get up and walk out. MOHAMMED ALDOURI, IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO U.N. (through translator): The warning I would like to make to the members of the august council, is that the United States and the UK were hoodwinked when they were told that the Iraqi people will receive them with flowers and hugs and ululations, and children and their mothers will come and rejoice at the coming of the U.S. forces. What happened is that the Iraqi army up until now has not confronted the United States forces. The Iraq people, the women, the students, the peasants are now facing the American and UK forces in Iraq today.
2019-04-20T02:41:23Z
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2019-04-21T12:48:35Z
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You are currently browsing the category archive for the ‘Pruning 101’ category. Hmmm…well this grouping of grasses is certainly not attractive. Bad pruning and even poorer maintenance are the problems. I understand that it’s easy to use a hedge trimmer to whack the grasses. But that’s lazy maintenance. And results in ugly “tabletop-like” grasses. If the landscapers are going to use trimmers like that, they should at least trim them down shorter so they don’t look so terrible. The bad pruning can also lead to the grass’s death. In the above photo, half the grass didn’t survive the whack job – you can see it’s all brown down below. That grass is not coming back to life. The other problem is that the grasses need to be thinned so that new growth has the space it needs. But of course, dividing the clumps takes time, and no one wants to pay for that. So the grasses suffer. And my eyes suffer, too! One thing I’ve learned in my plant care business is that a lot of people are scared to prune their houseplants. I know, I know, it’s more fun to watch new leaves unfurl than it is to pinch back new growth, or to prune off branches or stems. It’s fun to see if a vine will wrap itself around the kitchen cabinets. Each leaf seems to be prettier than the one before, so how are you supposed to cut any of them off? Also, some plants are hard to prune. I get that, too. Remember when Tina and I had to prune back the cactus at KOBtv? Brutal! All that aside, if you’re one of those people who is too chicken to prune, you need to get over it. Sorry, it’s true. For the majority of houseplants (excluding the big ones), a good pruning is like a manicure: A manicure isn’t absolutely necessary for your nails, but if you want really healthy nails, a manicure promotes that. Plants are the same way – a little grooming goes a long way. Each time you cut a portion of your plant back, you’re promoting a healthier, fuller plant. The plant won’t die if you don’t prune it, but it won’t be as healthy as it could be. I’m working on a post about pruning – the how-tos, when-tos and which plants need tos – in the coming weeks. There’s one simple rule I can share with you right now: Think small. When pruning a houseplant, which is fairly small to begin with, the goal is not to hack the plant to pieces. The goal is to prune little by little. Remove a remove scraggly spot here, pinch back new growth there. If a vine gets too long, cut it back. Where you make the cut, depending on what type of plant you’re pruning, you should get at least two new shoots, which is how your houseplant will get bushier. Could you cut back even more of the vines? Sure. But my point is that pruning shouldn’t be an overwhelming task. It should be part of your regular maintenance routine. Another reason to prune little by little is so you can develop confidence and experience. By removing only one vine, you can watch where the cut was made, and see new leaves emerge in the weeks following. You’ll see that the plant’s fine, and that the cuttings are doing well, too. The cuttings – one awesome advantage to cutting back a plant is that you can root the cuttings and begin new plants. For free! Boring. But look what a little green can do – voilà! Muuuuuuuch snazzier now. The roots will start growing quickly and in just a few weeks, I can use these cuttings to start new plants. I’ve found that pruning becomes a whole lot less intimidating if you know you can get new plants from the effort.
2019-04-21T21:11:23Z
https://goodtogrow.wordpress.com/category/pruning-101/
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OK, first of all, I’d like to apologize for my extended absence. I’ve been moving. YES, MOVING! In this housing market I actually sold and bought a house. Well, buying wasn’t the problem. Selling is the trick. But it’s done. Let’s not talk about it. Let’s celebrate! As you can probably tell from my Pho Hot, Pho Hien Noodle Soup Co and To Chau posts, I’m a pho pho-natic. I’ve never had pho I don’t like. And I heard the bread at My Tho makes the experience that much more pho-ing fantastic! OK, enough pho puns. I’m done. Onto the review!
2019-04-19T05:05:28Z
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They weren’t born rich. They didn’t get rich either. Quite the opposite in fact. But they are major American philanthropists. They’re Herbert and Dorothy Vogel. I hadn’t heard of the Vogels until a couple of weeks ago when I was scanning the shelves of my local video shop for something to watch (why do we still call them video shops?!) and a title caught my eye: “Herb and Dorothy. The incredible true story of a postal worker and a librarian who built a world-class art collection”. it had to fit into their rent-controlled one bedroom apartment in Manhattan! While the artists represented in the collection now reads as a who’s who of major Minimalist, Conceptual and post-1960s artists, the Vogels bought the works when no one else was interested, which meant they were able to buy them for virtually nothing. They bought passionately and compulsively for almost 30 years and by the early 90s their apartment was busting at the seams with works of art estimated to be worth millions of dollars. In 1992, after being courted by some major art museums and made many lucrative offers for their collection, the Vogels gifted it to the National Gallery of Art in Washington. But what motivated them to do this? Why did they gift it? They may have been asset rich but in real terms they had no money! They explain it as being because they’d both been government workers and they liked the idea of giving it to the American people. Gorgeous! Clearly it was all about the art and giving others the opportunity to gain as much from it as they had: learning from it and getting a huge amount of pleasure out of experiencing it. It’s such a human story and it’s so inspirational! It is these gifts and those of the Rockefellers, Guggenheims, Besens, D’Offays and Duffields to name but a few, that give so much to the public in terms of their capacity to create opportunities to learn and give enrichment and pleasure. Long may they continue! The Vogel’s story makes it feel possible that it could be any one of us that can give a gift which makes all the difference. I wonder if I have it in me to “do a Vogel“?! $56m in support of TV and film production. In terms of the new $10m funding, this will be used to support artists to produce new works, undertake fellowships and give additional presentations of their work to audiences around Australia. Grants of up to $80,000 will be made available for new work and up to $50,000 to support presentations. For a government with stretched resources to find an additional ten million dollars to support this kind of work is testament to the community value of the Arts in this country. The shift in funding focus away from arts organisations towards individual artists appears to be a response to Aus Co’s 2010 Artist careers research. The research identified that for artists to create inspiring new work they need time, space and financial support. It also responds positively to the New Models New Money paper, launched in early 2010 by the Queensland Government and the Centre for Social Impact, which highlighted the value of the arts in Australia and the importance of the individual artist to the growth and health of the sector. For funders with an interest in supporting artists the New Models New Money full discussion paper is well worth a read. This provides a good segue to an interesting recent development in philanthropic funding of the Arts in Australia…. the new Sidney Myer Fund Arts and Humanities funding model. Full details aren’t due to be announced until later in the year, but what the Fund has revealed is that from 1 July 2011 it will give about 15 artists from around the country $80,000 per year for two years, seemingly with very few ties and binds. For a funder that has for so long supported Arts orgs via commonly used grant-making protocols, this is a huge change in direction. It’s great to see a big philanthropic taking risks and changing direction. I’m sure many artists, arts organisations and grantmakers will be watching with great interest. Going back to Government funding of the arts in general, though, this time looking to the longer term. I mentioned in my last blog ( Arts Funding: England vs Australia ) that in April this year Harold Mitchell was tasked with leading a major review of private sector support for the Arts in Australia. The review will report on current Government arrangements for encouraging private sector support for the arts, consider potential new models for encouraging private sector support and develop policy options in the context of the long awaited National Cultural Policy. It doesn’t sound too dissimilar to the type of stuff happening in the UK that I talked about last time, where government is trying to leverage greater private support to try to take financial pressure off itself. There’s been a broadly positive reception of their actions, and no doubt the same will be true here too. The review is scheduled to be reported on in late October 2011. It looks like there are some interesting times ahead! more than 200 arts organisations lost their funding. of the 1,330 organisations that applied for funding for 2012 – 15, 638 organisations were not funded of which 206 had been regularly funded by ACE. 110 new organisations were funded. Overall, ACE passed on government cuts of 15% to the sector. For more information click here. As the press reported, it was a day of mixed fortunes – obviously there were some very disappointed organisations out there but, equally, there were some very happy ones. It seems that ACE was aiming to strike some kind of balance of support to make sure that the sector, despite an overall reduction in funding, wasn’t forced to go into a shut down period, but instead is able to grow and progress. In the face of the cuts, the UK Government has been quick to point out how much it values arts and culture and keen to highlight that it’s doing it’s best to provide adequate support to the sector whilst dealing with the challenges of addressing a massive budget deficit. Recognising the limitations of their own funding, part of this support has come in the form of them working to mobilise philanthropy; encouraging it to step in to plug the gap that Government cuts have created. Arts & Business (the UK version of the Australian Business Arts Foundation which forges partnerships between the two sectors) will take a key role in connecting philanthropists with arts orgs, to try to leverage funding. A&B’s been quick of the blocks in fact and has already launched a new “challenge fund” , the Big Arts Give – a pilot fund with an initial pot of £500,000 which A&B hopes can stimulate £3m of new funding for the arts. The Art Fund also announced plans to increase by over 50% its funding for museums and galleries to buy and show art – an impressive increase in commitment from £4.5m to £7m per year – as well as news of a National Art Pass scheme which will give special access to art all over the UK. long-term thinking is critical, for example via the creation of endowments, development of legacy programs, fostering life-long giving, and strengthening fundraising capacity across the sector. It’s not about quick-fix fundraising and that’s a significant step forward. In reading about UK government funding cuts to the arts in England, I started to wonder what the score was in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, whose governments have devolved responsibility for arts and culture portfolios (the governments being the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly). I think people outside of the UK often forget about this important nuance in the UK’s power structure. Interestingly it doesn’t appear that they will be passing on big budget cuts to the arts in their countries. But I’ve digressed down a slippery slope here…. essentially, I’m going to end up questioning whether this is an indication that the arts and culture are more valued in these countries than they are in England when it’s not a level playing field to analyse (only some portfolios are devolved to the Scottish, Welsh and Irish governments leaving the rest, and their funding, the responsibility of the UK Treasury). Possibly something for another day. Just throwing it out there. It makes me wonder and worry about what this might mean for government support for the arts in Oz. Will there be big cuts? Will they be made with a recognition of the potential damage that they could cause to the sector here? Will government take steps similar to those taken in the UK to mitigate the impact of spending cuts? Perhaps. Business Spectator featured a story on 19 April 2011 which revealed that federal government has set up a review of the arts sector that will look at ways to encourage more private sector giving. It will examine the extent of individual and business philanthropy and sponsorship within the arts and cultural sectors and will look at the effectiveness of current tax incentives that aim to encourage private investment in arts projects. Leading communications businessman and arts philanthropist Harold Mitchell will chair the review, which is due to report to government by the end of October 2011. I was never a great cook, or, more accurately, I was never a confident cook. After undercooking, overcooking, and many years of not enough salt and butter, I realised that I just needed to relax in the kitchen and go with my gut instinct (too early for bad puns?). I realised I needed to settle in with the froth and bubble, and respond to what my tastebuds, rather than the instructions in the recipe book, were telling me. I guess it’s been the same for philanthropy. There are so many rules about how to give and how to give well, and many of them conflicting. And it’s so easy to be paralysed by indecision. After four years working in philanthropy, I’m realising more and more that it’s the gut instinct that matters. We can imbibe all the best practice, all the case studies and all the evaluation outcomes we want in order to inform our practice, but what’s really important is the human stuff. How we feel about it. What our heads and our hearts are saying. My background is in the arts. I completed an undergraduate degree in Music at the University of Melbourne, then went on to do a Masters of Management (Arts and Cultural Management). I worked for a number of years in arts management, and then moved into philanthropy. I’ve been a Program Manager at The Myer Foundation and Sidney Myer Fund for just over four years, and still love the daily challenges, the inspirational projects, and most of all, the people. I look after the Arts and Humanities program of the Sidney Myer Fund, the Sustainability and the Environment program of The Myer Foundation, and the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards. I also manage the Communications Portfolio for the organisations, and Chair the Arts Affinity Group of Philanthropy Australia. Through my musings on this blog, I hope to share some of the heart moments and some of the head moments in my life as a philanthrocrat – from “in the shell”. It’s a great opportunity to air some of my ponderings, question my own practice, and to start the conversations with those interested in the sector. While I’m currently enjoying adding loads of butter and salt to my scrambled eggs, it’s likely that a few of you will remind me to watch my cholesterol and blood pressure. And knowing my cooking history, I might just revert to the recipe book for the next Sunday brekky. And that, for me, is what this is about – the conversation, the dialogue, and the push and pull of the complex issues we face in philanthropy. Or maybe just a chat about how to scramble eggs.
2019-04-26T17:03:15Z
https://3eggphilanthropy.wordpress.com/tag/arts/
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Who wrote Shakespeare’s Plays? Did he or didnt he? That is the Question! So who or what inspired Shakespeare to write?
2019-04-23T08:32:01Z
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Classes were short today so we could work with our homerooms on registration for next year. After a quiz, we went to the front entrance to measure the period of a 5 m long pendulum so students could see how well their model so far fits the result before tomorrow’s board meeting. I’m hoping the period of this pendulum will push students to try linearizing their data. We did some mistakes whiteboarding with energy bar charts. One of my AVID students commented that it reminds her of AVID tutorials, which is spot on. I also had a group tell the class “If you need a hint, you should read the problem”, and I took the opportunity to point out that is always good advice. Students graphed their data and we started talking about the results of the phase change lab. Last tri, when I let students have one group member put the data into Desmos, I found that the rest of the group would typically ignore the graph, so I had every student graph by hand today. while students paid more attention to the shape of their graph, it was pretty laborious so I want to keep thinking about how to approach the graph for this lab.
2019-04-20T18:20:41Z
https://stoeckel180.wordpress.com/2018/01/17/day-80-big-pendulum-mistakes-game-phase-change/
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The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara is a fascinating and revealing documentary centred around the life and times of former US Defence Secretary Robert McNamara. The film is the distillation of around 20 hours of interview tapes that tell the story very much as McNamara sees it. It's not clear whether this approach was written into the contract - "do it this way or you have no documentary film" or if the filmmaker intended it to be structured this way. Whatever, The Fog of War won an Oscar for Best Documentary. That's recommendation enough (in the case of most films). After the recent spate of documentary films that have ranged from fly on the wall (Etre Et Avoir, Spellbound), to confrontational political diatribe exposures (Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling For Columbine), to mountaineering docu-thriller (Touching the Void), to fast food obesity busting health expose (Super Size Me) and everything else in between, The Fog of War at first seems almost to be a little too convential in style and format with its talking head interview scenario interspersed with file and film footage of the monumental events of the 20th century that the film deals with.(Note that there is another recent well-praised 'talking head' documentary in the form of Blindspot: Hitler's Secretary). All reservations are soon lost however as the film quickly draws the viewer into its web of intrigue and information. McNamara is a fascinating subject and filmmaker Errol Morris has chosen his subject well. What you come away with is the opinions of one man, ostensibly, but the film is much more than that. This is also a man of 85 who has been there, done and bought the t-shirt. At times jaded, exasperated and emotional, McNamara tells it like it was (and is). What is quite astounding is to find a former politician who appears to be very truthful and honest about what he believes happened during his spell in the corridors of power during the monumental Sixties. A spell that was overshadowed by tumultuous, seismic political shifts, dangerous standoffs and social unrest. McNamara, seen by the public at the time as being one of the chief architects of the Vietnam War, was despised by anti-war protesters. We have distinct sections that deal with the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The film also touches on the assassination of President Kennedy and McNamara's early years, his war years and his meteoric rise to success with the Ford motor company that was shortlived as he jumped ship to the White House. This fascinating and insightful documentary couldn't be more timely. McNamara is now very much of the opinion that the US should not make unilateral decisions globally and now believes such actions to be gross folly. If, say, someone were thinking of moving into the realm of politics, they could do a lot worse research than watch The Fog of War. McNamara throws up some interesting and profound philosophical questions about the nature of warfare and the mass killing of humanity. The questions are difficult to answer, perhaps even impossible. One is left with the sense that there are no easy solutions to any of these problems. Certainly, McNamara believes that there is evil in the world and that it can never be fully extinguished. He surmises that the best we can hope for is that it is suppressed and not allowed to grow. He also believes that mankind avoided global nuclear war in the Sixties by blind luck and that it is almost inevitable that at some point in the future, nuclear weapons will be used in aggression, leading to the destruction of whole countries as a result. A terrifying and sobering thought that we can only hope is wrong. The film is divided into 11 lessons that are taken from McNamara's comments and in a way summarise his beliefs and opinions. One is left with the impression that this is a man of deep knowledge, understanding and wisdom and, those who might consider McNamara to be an architect of war and guilty of Vietnam should at the very least watch the film to gain further insight into the man and perhaps even form a different opinion to the one they originally held. McNamara acknowledges that he may be guilty of war crimes, in the light of the Japanese firebombings during 1945 in which he took part. The Fog of War is a documentary feature that will stand the test of time. It is a poignant portrait of a powerful man reflecting on an ambiguous and troubled life where tough decisions had to be made. For the political establishment, it is a historic document that exposes the difficulties and pressure of high-level diplomacy, decisions to go to war and the perils of nuclear brinkmanship. If nothing else, there is enough anecdote and memoir here even for those with just a passing interest in the 20th century history.
2019-04-24T02:19:19Z
https://nervecentre.typepad.com/nervecentre/2005/05/the_fog_of_war.html
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The Fog 16mm screening with Death Waltz Recording Co. Click the above image to buy tickets. We are super excited to be teaming up with our friends at Death Waltz Recording Company to help celebrate the launch of their latest soundtrack release, none other than John Carpenter’s classic, THE FOG, featuring specially commissioned art by none other than Dinos Chapman, the release and screening will be unmissable. We’ll be screening a print of the film in the Nave on Essex Rd, N1, DW and CB have been working on this screening for over 6 months, so expect something special. Don’t snooze as this will sell out, get the tickets while you can. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 16mm, Death Waltz Recording Co., Dinos Chapman, The Fog, The Nave N1. Bookmark the permalink. Gone already? That’s not fair! Do another screening dammit. Evidently there’s more demand so why don’t you screen it more than once? Can I stand up and watch it if I come along on the 7th of June? I really want to see it and I missed the opportunity to get tickets.
2019-04-19T10:49:37Z
https://cigaretteburnscinema.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/the-fog-16mm-screening-with-death-waltz-recording-co/
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This weekend Billy brought down his new 86 so i could give him a hand installing his new TRD spoiler. This also gave me a great reason to try out my new lens. As you can see, the spoiler definitely adds much needed shape to the rear of the car. I really love using this lens. Hopefully not too long and we should have some photos of this dropped and fitted with some nice wheels. Sneak peek of our tassie roadtrip. Quick update on whats been happening around the workshop….. Drift Battle Magazine – Primal FC3S Feature.
2019-04-21T12:09:27Z
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Honor Series Challenge – Living It! Ah, only a true Irish Football fan could enjoy such a wonderful site. ND Football team walking to the stadium before the Pitt game, 11-3-12.
2019-04-20T11:21:24Z
https://scottmillerblog.wordpress.com/2012/11/
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A RARE, high-performance Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Speciale is among the entries in Coys’ True Greats auction sale to be held on December 1. The Giulia SS, which was the 1964 Earls Court Motor Show and Motor magazine road test car in March 1965, is estimated at £85,000 to £100,000. The Giulietta Sprint Speciale (Tipo 750 SS/101.20) and Giulia Sprint Speciale (Tipo 101.21), were manufactured from 1959 to 1966. The first prototype of the Giulietta SS was presented in 1957 at the Turin Motor Show. After two more prototypes were presented in car shows, the official presentation of the production version was on 24 June 1959 on the Monza race track. The first 101 cars produced had “low nose” and 750 SS designation. While there were some all-aluminium cars produced, the majority had steel bodies with aluminium doors, engine bonnet and boot lid. This example is one of the 25 right-hand-drive Giulia SS’s built to Ruddspeed specification – a performance package that made it a particularly nimble car to drive. A copy of the ‘Motor’ magazine road test report is on file and according to the test figures the car achieved a best one-way quarter-mile figure of 113.4mph with acceleration faster than a Porsche 356SC. It was also chosen to appear in a Classic & Sportscar feature in the August 2004 issue of the magazine, a copy of which is in the history file. In later life, the car was used in various competition events such as the Rally des Alpes and Scottish Malts Rally; a FIVA identity card accompanies the car. There is an interesting letter on file from the car’s owner at that time – a well-known works race and rally driver Nick Brittan – ‘A few notes regarding my car’ – describing its history, specification and performance. The car was also owned by another well-known motorsport personality, Eric Verdon-Roe, managing director of Haymarket Publishing with responsibility for such titles as Classic & Sportscar and Autosport. More recently the car has been owned for over 10 years by a well-known vintage motorist and has sat in his garage alongside his Alvis Speed 20. This car is complete with its FIVA Carte d’Identite ready to do international historic rallies, and a copy of the Motor ( March 1965 ) road test report plus magazine articles, maintenance notes, sundry invoices, numerous old MoT certificates, current MoT and V5C.
2019-04-22T23:00:09Z
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New YouTube Guitar Videos | Dan Herron's Say "Cheese" Austin! ~ by danherron on January 17, 2008. This site is pretty, tight. I am a huge fan of music. My big bro Bob had a huge influence on me growing up. Truely inspired. Your dad rocks too. This was a real treat hearing you and your play.
2019-04-26T04:44:16Z
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When I first spotted this week’s topic “media ecology” in the course outline, I couldn’t imagine what this is really about, yet this topic still interested me to go through the readings to explore more about it. The wiki site of “media ecology” briefly gave me some fundamental information of what it is. According to the site, there are basically two versions of media ecology’s definitions within North America and European content. For the North America content, the website of Media Ecology Association clearly indicates that media ecology indicates the era of change in the 20th century from civilization to post-civilization. It is the study of our complex media system nowadays as media environments (Media Ecology Association). It also tries to make our media environment more explicit with the idea that technology and techniques, modes of information and codes of communication interact more with our human affairs such as feeling, thought, value, and behaviour (Media Ecology Association). Another reading by Milissa Deitz also support this concept. She says that the recent Wikileaks incident has indicates the shift of the way of how the public get involved in the contemporary media. The old styled media, with standardised frameworks which always isolate the truth and events, will be eliminating whereas the new media ecology, which is more transparent and with more human’s collaboration on studying culture, politics and society, will rise (Deitz, 2010). For the Europe content, the French philosopher Felix Guarttari has proposed the concept of “three ecologies”, which are, three interconnected networks existing at the scales of mind, society and environment (Anon, 2008). What he thought was that, the media systems was a complex dynamic ecosophical syste with understanding of connectivity, balanced systems, network topography and complexity theory (Anon, 2008). He thought thinking “transversally” is needed to comprehend the interactions between ecosystems, the mecanosphere and the social and individual Universes of reference (Anon, 2008). Also, Guarittari stated that the social ecology will transfer the media era to post-media age, in which everyone of us could be capable to get involved in the media to direct the media’s resingularization (Anon, 2008). Posted on March 15, 2011, in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
2019-04-19T13:30:28Z
https://horaceplus.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/arts-3091-week-3-posting-media-ecologiesother-ecologies/
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Well done to Cdt Sgt Chloe Walsham for gaining a £500 bursary award from the THE RAF CADET DEVELOPMENT TRUST. The bursary will help Chloe on her journey towards her career aspiration, as it would help fund the many textbooks and resources she needs to study her course, which would then enhance her learning and assist her in achieving the most out of her HND in Mechanical Engineering. She would then be able to progress onto obtaining her degree. Categories: Manningtree Air Cadets, News | Permalink.
2019-04-25T20:06:28Z
https://1334atc.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/500-bursary-awarded/
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Its been ages since I posted last. mainly been caught up in note taking, book reading, beer drinking and the start of the football season. Recently I have been looking at Graphic design in the postmodern era and technologies influence on design. I feel that I can do some good work on this topic so hopefully it will come out well. Been reading lots of books recently mainly about the influence on technology and I have found out some crazy little facts! now onto after the jump some great work I have found. this illustration is how I feel after an idea doesn’t come across the way I want. im sure we have all been there, when nothing works and we get stressed. The piece is found here and is designed by Dani Jones, and once again proves why she is one of my favorite illustrators. A team of eight people committed to walking in circles for art, including a documentary filmmaker and a photographer. Given the ethereal nature of the piece, it’s not surprising how important documentation is to the process. After all, ice is one of the most potent artistic materials of our modern age. The team lived in a yurt in the center of the lake, building a fire on the lake bed every night (it would re-freeze every morning). Though the artwork melted away in May, the experience is chronicled on The Anthropologist, a site for promoting new work by anthropology. WOW remind anyone of art attack?
2019-04-26T04:00:24Z
https://kieranshalloo.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/quick-update/
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That’s a tricky thing sometimes. We all have unique lives – different families, different work situations, different homes, different adversities, different likes and dislikes, different personalities, different everything. Because of the need to adapt strategies to fit our individual circumstances, learning how to manage our lives can be challenging. I don’t think it is a secret that I have a deep belief in God and I am very active in my church. All leadership in the LDS Church is volunteer (this doesn’t include staff such as secretaries, media personnel, etc. who are employed by the Church and work a 9-5 job). That means that we, as members of each congregation, we are also the leaders and teachers to one another and are asked to serve in different areas to help the church run. For a couple of years I was in charge of teaching the 8-year-old children, another period I was asked to lead and teach young women ages 12-18, the most daunting task was probably when I was asked to be the music leader/teacher for children 3-11. That one definitely didn’t come naturally for me but I did it and learned a lot. I have had many responsibilities over the years in our church, starting at the age of 12. We believe that part of our growth and development as people centers on these volunteer experiences in our church. They help us learn how to work with different people in a variety of situations, planning things or administering programs or teaching. These experiences help us become who we are, learn leadership and planning skills, teach us about the scriptures and church doctrine, as well as give us many opportunities to serve one another. For the last year and a half I have been serving in the leadership of what is called the Relief Society. The Relief Society is a women’s organization in the LDS Church, founded over 150 years ago to administer to the poor and needy. It still serves that purpose, but has expanded to encompass the teaching and enriching of women as well as serving others. Although it is true that all women of our church as also part of the Relief Society, you don’t have to be a member of our church to be a part of what the Relief Society does. One of the things that Relief Society works to do is to provide women with activities, learning opportunities and service experiences. That is what I am in charge of right now in our neighborhood and area of our church. I have a group of lovely, hard-working volunteer women who, as a group, help me plan ways to give women a chance to socialize together, learn uplifting things and serve others. I know that many of you have similar involvement in your congregations and places of worship as well and can find many similarities to how these kinds of things work in the LDS Church. I tell you all of this simply to give you a frame of reference for what I am going to share with you this week. I want to invite you all to participate in my experience with our neighborhood Relief Society this year. You don’t have to be a member of our church to do so – I invite you as my friend. I think that what we are focusing on is beneficial to any woman’s life – no matter your religious beliefs, economic background, place of residence or cultural heritage. Yes, some of the things that I will share will be religious in nature because that is why we’re developing the “Every Needful Thing” program in the first place. But I firmly believe that there will be much information that is applicable to anyone – which is why I still would like to share it with you…religious or not. “I’m so stressed out!” “I can’t do it all!” “I don’t know how to organize my life!” Do these phrases sound familiar? I think that every one of us has felt those emotions and said those statements at some point in our lives – very possibly right now! I believe that we can choose joy and happiness despite our circumstances but let’s face it, real life can be crazy and busy and overwhelming, too. We have found that so many women in our neighborhood feel this way that we wanted to try and address this issue during 2010. Our goal is to provide opportunities to help women learn how to manage their lives a little better – to have more confidence in their ability to sort through what is truly important; to be a little more efficient, a little more simplified, a little more at peace. This year we are going to work on establishing homes that are more focused on the things that matter most. No matter the family situation or religious views, we all can apply this principle to our lives. We are using the phrase “Every Needful Thing” as the center of our efforts as we work to figure out what is truly needful in each of our lives. Now the interesting thing about this idea is that although we will be providing classes and workshops, tips and handouts to help teach strategies and principles of life management, each person will have the opportunity to decide for themselves “what is needful” in their own lives. Because we all have unique lives, we all have different things that are important – so it is up to each of us to gather the information, sift through it, and choose what we want to incorporate into our families or individual lives. As I share this journey with you this year you will receive many things. First, if we are trying to teach how to manage our lives then we need some sort of place to manage the information, right? So, tomorrow I will give you instructions and downloads for completing the “Every Needful Thing” notebook that each woman in our neighborhood has the opportunity to create this month. It will have a place for all of the things that we will be using and learning about this year and will be a continual resource for each of us to refer back to. Each day this week I will share a little more, both in information as well as downloads, regarding the foundation of the “Every Needful Thing” program. I invite you to participate in any way that you see is “needful” in your life. Perhaps you don’t want to create a notebook but you want to use some of the tips that we will share as the year goes on. Maybe you don’t want to print out the downloadable quote from today but you still want to concentrate on determining what is truly needful in your life. Whatever way you want to participate – you are welcome to do so. Think of this as a FREE online workshop – it will have many of the kinds of things that I usually offer in my Big Picture Scrapbooking classes but we will do it together here on my blog. We’ll share our journey of determining “Every Needful Thing” together – something that I think all of us are striving to do better at. Thanks for experiencing this with me. Please feel free to comment and ask questions as often as you can so that we can share our thoughts and experiences together. I look forward to what you have to share. How interesting. I’m looking forward to this. My word for this year is Intentional so you can see how your Every Needful Thing works in with this. Very interesting! I am curious to see what you are going to do. Thank you for the invitation. Thanks Kolette! This is wonderful and I am totally looking forward to it. Who doesn’t appreciate a way to improve their life? I can’t wait to follow along. Sounds very interesting and something I really need right now. Thank you so much for sharing. Thank you Kolette, this is an answer to a prayer. I can’t wait to get involved in this project. This is an answer to a very specific prayer for me. Thank you and thank our heavenly father for being so generous to His children, especially in the little things. I have started teaching a weekly ladies’ class at my church. I’ve been asked to do this kind of thing before and have relied heavily on DVDs and devotional-type books This time I am using material from all over. I have a book called “The ME I want to be” that is about “Flourishing” in the Spirit and that each of us is unique and designed by God for a specific life. I want this class to be practical – for all of the reasons you mentioned. This post is exactly what I have been searching for. I don’t think that it is by accident that I found your blog a couple of weeks ago. (I am familiar with you from BPS “Choosing Joy” and I took a class from you and your husband at Creative Escape) I want something we can hold and build on to help each of us find how we “flourish” in God’s plan for each of us as individuals. Thanks for sharing. I am look forward with eager anticipation. on January 11, 2010 at 10:01 pm Kirstin L. Kolette – I can’t wait to join you on this journey. I have been struggling with how to balance my family, work and my church calling. I look forward to the focus for this year! on January 11, 2010 at 10:41 pm Jaymi V. I love your blog a lot. I have never commented before, but I have read it for months and months. Your posts have inspired me many times (especially the ones about PPD – I had a baby girl, my 4th baby, in November, and remembering, and experiencing some of the things you wrote, I went back and read your blog posts about it, I cried a whole lot, and then got up and felt inspired!) I love love loved this post and just had to comment and say I am definitely going to do this, and am grateful that you are doing such a cool follow along, amazing project! I know 2010 is going to be a great year! Yeah! I am so excited about this! I appreciate the fact that you’re sharing this with us. I love the quote & the font & the artwork. Very nice. this is wonderful – one of my favorite scriptures! I am so excited to see your ideas! I am so loving this! It will go wonderfully with my visiting teaching! THank you SO much! Thank you for including us in this project! I’m excited to learn more! Perfect timing for me personally. I am so thankful for this opportunity and will follow with hope and gratitude. You are amazing! I check your blog each week for the download and am amazed at this new project! Thank you! I am so excited to follow this through out the year. Kolette, I think the thing that struck me most was your reference to your neighborhood rather than to your ward! I know you have lived in places where your ward was not your neighborhood, so you probably understand why this is such an intriguing idea to me. How would it be to have a neighborhood filled with women working toward the same goals? I will think a lot about that today–and I hope you are enjoying and appreciating the opportunity to serve your neighbors. I love your theme and am interested to see how it develops! I am looking forward to this project. BUT every time I look at this post, all I can think about it how CUTE your yellow sandals are in the picture. ADORABLE! Gotta love shoes by Born! I believe that those sandals go with everything. Favorites for sure! Thanks so much for sharing this…This is one of my favorite scriptures and I have been wanting to find a way to display it in my home…yet fit my style (simple, clean, beautiful) You are awesome…This is so perfect!! However, I think the actual reference is D&C 109:8. At least that’s what I find in my quad. I think your ideas will be really useful to women everywhere. I can’t wait to see what you’re going to do next. Thank you, thank you, Connie! I don’t know how I did that…no wait…sure I do…it’s easy to switch numbers around and make typos even though I check and double check. At least this one didn’t cost me thousands of dollars like it used to when I was having products manufactured! Ahhh….the joys of the internet and instant fixing of mistakes!
2019-04-20T15:08:59Z
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A wear-resistant flash tank pressure let down nozzle for use in passing an ore slurry into an ore slurry flash tank to release steam from the slurry and reduce the pressure of the slurry. The nozzle has an expansion cone flaring toward the discharge end of the nozzle. The cross-sectional area of a choke section of the nozzle and the exit diameter of the expansion cone are selected to establish a relationship between pressure upstream of the nozzle and pressure in the flash tank so that underflashing, overflashing, and shock waves inside the flash tank are minimized. This invention relates to the release of pressure from oxidized ore slurry in an autoclave circuit. In particular, the invention relates to the design of a nozzle system through which ore slurry passes into slurry flash tanks. Autoclave circuits are used to recover gold from refractory sulfidic ores. Ore leaving an autoclave is typically passed to a series of flash tanks where pressure is let down and steam is flashed off to cool the slurry, and reduce it to atmospheric pressure for further processing. Steam from each flash tank is recycled and contacted with autoclave feed slurry in a complementary splash condenser, operated at substantially the same pressure as the flash tank, for preheating the autoclave ore feed slurry. In one particular system the pressure from the autoclave slurry discharge is let down in two stages. In the first stage, pressure is let down from about 420 psig to about 120 psig. In the second stage, pressure is let down from about 120 psig to atmospheric. This second pressure drop corresponds to a much greater volume expansion than in the first stage. Heretofore this second pressure drop from about 120 psig to atmospheric has been accomplished by use of a nozzle system comprising a straight tubular choke extending from outside the flash tank to inside the flash tank. The choke was surrounded by a ceramic lined blast tube extending further into to flash tank, as shown in FIG. 4. As the volume of the slurry expands rapidly upon passage through the choke, the blast tube was violently impacted with steam entrained with ore slurry. Catastrophic failure of the blast tube, resulting in ore slurry damaging and even breaching the low pressure flash tank, has occurred. The typical life of such nozzle systems, and in particular of the blast tubes, has been relatively short, for example, six weeks, depending on operating parameters, ore characteristics, and many other factors. Rebuilding and/or replacing such nozzle assemblies is expensive in terms of capital costs and in terms of process downtime. Among the several objects of the invention, therefore, are the provision of an extended life nozzle system for a low pressure slurry flash tank; the provision of an improved apparatus for preheating gold ore slurry prior to pressure oxidation and for reducing the pressure of pressure oxidized gold ore slurry after pressure oxidation; and the provision of an improved process for reducing the pressure of pressure oxidized gold slurry. Briefly, therefore, the invention is directed to a wear-resistant flash tank pressure let down nozzle for use in passing an ore slurry into an ore slurry flash tank to release steam from the slurry and reduce the pressure of the slurry. The nozzle has an inlet end, a discharge end, and a tubular passageway extending therebetween for passage of the slurry from a location outside the flash tank in fluid flow communication with the inlet end. The slurry passageway has a choke comprising a zone of the passageway in which its cross sectional area is smallest, the passageway flaring with respect to the axis thereof toward the discharge end to define an expansion cone. The cross-sectional area of the choke and the exit diameter of the expansion cone being selected to establish a relationship between pressure upstream of the nozzle and pressure in the flash tank so that shock waves inside the flash tank are weaker than shock waves inside a reference flash tank having identical dimensions and configuration and operating under identical conditions except having a reference pressure let down nozzle consisting of a straight choke. The invention is also directed to an ore slurry flash tank apparatus for receiving and holding pressure oxidized ore slurry for reducing the pressure of pressure oxidized gold ore slurry. The apparatus has a vessel having a bottom, a top, and side walls, and a wear-resistant flash tank pressure let down nozzle. The nozzle has an inlet end, a discharge end, and a tubular passageway extending therebetween for passage of the slurry from a location outside the flash tank in fluid flow communication with the inlet end. The slurry passageway has a choke comprising a zone of the passageway in which its cross sectional area is smallest, the passageway flaring with respect to the axis thereof toward the discharge end to define an expansion cone. The cross-sectional area of the choke and the exit diameter of the expansion cone are selected to establish a relationship between pressure upstream of the nozzle and pressure in the flash tank so that shock waves inside the flash tank are weaker than shock waves inside a reference flash tank having identical dimensions and configuration and operating under identical conditions except having a reference pressure let down nozzle consisting of a straight choke. In another aspect, the invention is directed to an apparatus for preheating gold ore slurry prior to pressure oxidation and for reducing the pressure of pressure oxidized gold ore slurry after pressure oxidation. There is a flash tank for receiving a volume of pressure oxidized gold ore slurry, the flash tank comprising a vessel having a bottom, a top, and side walls, and a nozzle on the top of the vessel for passing ore slurry into the vessel. The nozzle has an inlet end, a discharge end, and a tubular passageway extending therebetween for passage of the slurry from a location outside the flash tank in fluid flow communication with the inlet end. The slurry passageway has a choke comprising a zone of the passageway in which its cross sectional area is smallest, the passageway flaring with respect to the axis thereof toward the discharge end to define an expansion cone. The cross-sectional area of the choke and the exit diameter of the expansion cone are selected to establish a relationship between pressure upstream of the nozzle and pressure in the flash tank so that shock waves inside the flash tank are weaker than shock waves inside a reference flash tank having identical dimensions and configuration and operating under identical conditions except having a reference pressure let down nozzle consisting of a straight choke. There is a steam outlet for passing steam out of the flash tank, and a splash condenser for contacting ore slurry with steam prior to pressure oxidation of the ore slurry in order to preheat the ore slurry, the splash condenser having a steam inlet. There is also conduit for transferring steam from the steam outlet of the flash tank to the splash condenser. The invention is further directed to a process for reducing the pressure of pressure oxidized ore slurry from above about 100 psig to about atmospheric. Slurry is passed through a nozzle into a flash tank, the nozzle disposed on the top of the flash tank and comprising a receiving end and a discharge end, and a slurry passageway extending through the nozzle from the receiving end to the discharge end for passage of the slurry into the flash tank from a location outside the flash tank. The slurry passageway flares outwardly at an angle of about 15° toward the discharge end to gradually reduce the pressure of the slurry and to direct the slurry such that it impacts a volume of slurry in the bottom of the flash tank. The invention is also directed to an ore slurry flash tank apparatus for receiving and holding pressure oxidized ore slurry for reducing the pressure of pressure oxidized gold ore slurry. There is a vessel having a bottom, a top, and side walls, and a nozzle on the top of the vessel for passing ore slurry into the vessel. The nozzle has an inlet end, a discharge end, and a tubular passageway extending therebetween for passage of the slurry from a location outside the flash tank in fluid flow communication with the inlet end. The slurry passageway comprises a choke comprising a zone of the passageway in which its cross sectional area is smallest, the passageway flaring with respect to the axis thereof toward the discharge end to define an expansion cone. The nozzle has a choke diameter of between about 31/2 and about 41/2 inches, an expansion cone exit diameter of between about 7 and about 71/2 inches, and an expansion cone length of between about 53/4 inches and about 61/4 inches, to establish a relationship between pressure upstream of the nozzle and pressure in the flash tank so that shock waves inside the flash tank are weaker than shock waves inside a reference flash tank operating under identical conditions except having a reference pressure let down nozzle comprising a straight choke. In another aspect, the invention is directed to an ore slurry flash tank apparatus for receiving and holding pressure oxidized ore slurry for reducing the pressure of pressure oxidized gold ore slurry from between about 100 psig and about 140 psig to about atmospheric. There is a vessel having a bottom, a top, and side walls, and a nozzle on the top of the vessel for passing ore slurry into the vessel. The nozzle has a tubular passageway extending therebetween for passage of the slurry from a location outside the flash tank in fluid flow communication with the inlet end, the slurry passageway comprising a choke comprising a zone of the passageway in which its cross sectional area is smallest. The passageway flares with respect to the axis thereof toward the discharge end to define an expansion cone. The nozzle has a choke diameter of between about 3.8 and about 4.1 inches corresponding to the smallest cross-section in the slurry passageway, the straight section having a length of between about 91/2 and about 101/2 inches, an expansion cone exit diameter of between about 7.1 and about 7.4 inches, an expansion cone length of between about 6 inches and about 6.2 inches, and an expansion cone length of between about 14° and about 16°, to establish a relationship between pressure upstream of the nozzle and pressure in the flash tank so that shock waves inside the flash tank are weaker than shock waves inside a reference flash tank operating under identical conditions except having a reference pressure let down nozzle comprising a straight choke. Other objects and features of the invention will be in part apparent and in part pointed out hereinafter. FIG. 12 is a graph depicting kinetic power due to steam expansion. FIG. 1 illustrates a preferred gold recovery process in which the invention is used. This process is described generally in Thomas et al. U.S. Pat. No. 5,071,477 and Thomas et al. U.S. Pat. No. 5,489,326, the entire disclosures of which are expressly incorporated by reference. According to such a process, ore is crushed and wet milled, and the ground ore slurry screened for trash or tramp material. The ground ore is thickened by removal of excess water in a solid-liquid separation operation. The ore slurry is then subjected to pressure oxidation in the presence of sulfuric acid using oxygen gas at elevated pressure. It is sometimes necessary to add sulfuric acid to facilitate oxidation, so the addition of sulfuric acid to the thickened ore slurry is indicated as an optional step. Pressure oxidation is typically conducted in a horizontal multi-compartmented autoclave, the compartments of which are preferably of substantially equal volume. Energy from the exothermic pressure oxidation is recovered by heat exchange between the oxidized slurry and acidulated feed to the autoclave. As indicated in FIG. 1, this heat exchange is preferably effected by letting down the pressure of the oxidized slurry in flash tanks in which the nozzles of the current invention are used, and using the steam which is flashed from the oxidized slurry to heat the autoclave feed, preferably by direct contact in splash condensers positioned ahead of the autoclave. After it is partially cooled by flashing of steam, the oxidized slurry is further cooled and then passed directly to a neutralization operation. Here lime and/or other base is added to increase the pH to allow for subsequent cyanide leaching. Gold is recovered from the neutralized oxidized slurry by, for example, carbon-in-leach cyanidation in a continuous countercurrent system. Referring to FIG. 2, ground ore slurry is directed to a trash screen 1; ore slurry passing through the screen is directed to a mechanical thickening device 2, typically a vertical tank of large diameter which provides a net vertical flow low enough to permit sedimentation of the solid particles. Overflow from the thickener is recycled to the grinding circuit. Thickened ore slurry underflow from the thickener is directed to another trash screen (not shown) and by a transfer pump 3 to a series of stirred acidulation tanks 5, 6 and 7, through which the slurry passes continuously. Although three stages are shown, in the preferred embodiment there are four stages. A fresh sulfuric acid stream (optional) 4 is added to the acidulation tanks in order to release carbon dioxide from the carbonate contained in the slurry, and thereby reduce the equivalent carbon dioxide levels in the ore. To promote removal of CO2, compressed air may be sparged into the acidulation tanks. Residue slurry leaving the acidulation tanks is fed by a transfer pump 8 to the first of a series of brick lined splash condensers 9 and 10, in which the treated feed slurry for the pressure oxidation step is preheated by contact with steam flashed from the oxidized slurry leaving the pressure oxidation. The successive splash condensers are each, preferably, internally baffled to promote contact between steam and liquid, and are respectively operated at progressively higher pressure and temperature. A 2-stage centrifugal pump 12 is interposed to increase the pressure of the slurry between condensers. Pressure oxidation is carried out in an autoclave 15, where the slurry is passed through a plurality of compartments to provide a retention time of the order of 50-80 minutes, where it is contacted in the presence of sulfuric acid with oxygen gas at a temperature of between about 185° and about 225° C., an oxygen partial pressure of at least about 25 psig and a total pressure of between about 215 and about 480 psig. The final acidity of the slurry leaving the last compartment of the autoclave is between 5 and 25 grams sulfuric acid per liter of solution, and the final emf of the slurry is between about 480 and about 530 mv. Noncondensables and steam generated during the pressure oxidation operation are optionally vented through a scrubber. Oxidized slurry leaving the autoclave is passed to a series of flash tanks 17 and 18, through control valves 17a and 18a, respectively, and through nozzle assemblies 41 and 42. In the first flash tank the pressure of the slurry is let down from about 420 psig to about 120 psig. In the second flash tank the pressure of the slurry is let down from about 120 psig to about atmospheric. Steam from each flash tank is recycled and contacted with autoclave feed slurry in a complementary splash condenser, operated at substantially the same pressure as the flash tank, for preheating the feed slurry. Thus, in the series as illustrated in the drawing, the first flash tank 17 is coupled to the last splash condenser 10, and the second flash tank 18 is coupled with the first condenser 9. The flash tanks are vessels of generally cylindrical shape having a dished bottom, a dished top, and parallel side walls. As shown in FIG. 6, the preferred flash tank has a slurry inlet 49, a steam outlet 48, a slurry outlet 51, a manhole 52 to permit inspection of the tank interior, a drain 53, and a blank outlet 54. In the first flash tank, where the slurry pressure is let down from about 420 psig to about 120 psig, there is a volume expansion of the steam of from about 3 to about 3.5 times its volume at 420 psig. In the second flash tank, where the slurry pressure is let down from about 120 psig to about atmospheric, there is a volume expansion of the steam of from about 8.5 to about 9.5 times its volume at 120 psig, or on the order of 30 times its volume at 420 psig. With regard to the second flash tank, or low pressure flash tank, it is preferred that the total tank volume be between about 1.6 and about 1.9 times the volume of slurry it is to hold at any given time. In the preferred embodiment where the volume of slurry in the tank is generally maintained between about 9000 and about 10,000 gallons (U.S.), and the volume of the tank is about 16,500 gallons, this helps ensure a slurry depth adequate to receive and dissipate the energy of slurry as it enters the vessel and impacts the slurry surface. Referring to FIG. 3, hot oxidized slurry from the flash tank 18 is transferred to an intermediate agitated storage tank 23. In order to condition the slurry for gold recovery operations, the temperature of the hot oxidized slurry is reduced to about 25 to 40° C. by passing the slurry, by means of pump 24, through a series of shell and tube coolers 25. The temperature of the slurry is reduced by exchanging heat from the slurry to a cooling water stream. Cooling water is obtained from a recirculating system in which the water is recycled through a crossflow, induced draft cooling tower 26 by pump 27. Cooled oxidized slurry which is discharged from the coolers 25 is fed continuously through a series of rubber or epoxy lined agitated neutralization tanks 28, 29 and 30, where it is neutralized with a slurry of lime and/or other base to raise its pH to the neighborhood of 10 to 12. Compressed air 34 is optionally sparged into the slurry in the neutralization tanks to convert ferrous iron to ferric iron, as the former consumes cyanide in the subsequent carbon-in-leach operation. The neutralized slurry is then directed to a carbon-in-leach operation by transfer pump 31 where the gold in the oxidized slurry is recovered by, for example, conventional carbon-in-leach (C-I-L) cyanidation. Turning now to FIGS. 4 and 5 there is shown a prior art nozzle assembly employed at location 42 of FIG. 2 from the second (low pressure) flash tank. The assembly consists of a straight choke 60 surrounded by a ceramic lined titanium blast tube 61. An impact zone is shown at 62 in FIG. 5 where the blast tube is impacted with steam entrained with ore slurry as it rapidly expands upon entering the flash tank. FIGS. 6 and 7 show the nozzle of the invention, consisting of first and second opposite ends 44 and 45, respectively, and a steam/slurry passageway 46 extending through the nozzle from the first end 44 to the second end 45. The nozzle is constructed from a material having high hardness. One preferred material is a sintered alpha phase silicon carbide available from Carborundum (Amherst, N.Y.) under the trade designation Hexoloy SA. Slurry and steam pass into the nozzle at the first end 44 and out of the nozzle at the second end 45 thereof to a location inside the flash tank. As shown in FIG. 7, the steam passageway flares outwardly from a location generally halfway through the passageway, axially inwardly of the second end toward the second end. FIG. 6 is a schematic representation--the actual nozzle configuration is more accurately portrayed in FIG. 7. In one preferred embodiment, the slurry flow rate through the nozzle is between about 100 tons per hour and about 500 tons per hour of ore slurry comprising between about 30% and about 70% solids by weight. Important nozzle dimensions for the prediction and control of flashing behavior include the straight section or choke diameter, the expansion cone exit diameter, and either the expansion cone length or the expansion half-angle. By careful selection of these dimensions, it has been discovered that a relationship can be established between pressure upstream of the nozzle and pressure downstream of the nozzle, so that the development of shock waves just inside the nozzle exit, which resulted in excessive noise and vibration with prior designs, and internal wear can be minimized. In particular, the nozzle is designed so that the pressure at the discharge end is about the same as the pressure in the tank. The shock waves, noise and vibration are substantially reduced in comparison to a system operating under identical conditions (i.e., a "reference" flash tank), with the only difference being use of a straight choke flash tank nozzle (i.e., a "reference" nozzle). The shock waves inside the flash tank using the nozzle of the invention are weaker than shock waves inside a flash tank using a straight choke, but otherwise identical. Also, recondensation which occurred as a result of overflashing, which recondensation was deleterious to vapor-liquid separation within the flash tank, thereby causing excessive liquid and solids entrainment in the recycled steam to the preheat towers, can also be minimized. The choke diameter fixes the slurry mass rate of flow entering the flash tank at a given absolute pressure (or, alternatively, fixes the upstream pressure at a given mass rate of flow) according to the equation: ##EQU1## where m is the mass rate of flow, At is the choke cross-sectional area, and the remainder of the equation is a unique function of absolute pressure within the choke. A derivation of this formula is presented below in Appendix A. In one preferred embodiment where the pressure is to be let down from between about 14° psia and about 100 psia to about atmospheric, and where the mass flow rate is from about 1500 to about 3000 tons/day solids (50% pulp density), by use of the analysis of the invention, the choke diameter is from about 2.8 inches to about 4.6 inches. The expansion cone exit diameter largely fixes the absolute exit pressure of the flashing slurry upon entering the flash tank. It is important for this exit pressure to match closely the pressure within the flash tank, for they are generally not equivalent otherwise. In the preferred embodiment where the pressure is to be let down from between about 140 psia and about 100 psia to about atmospheric, and where the mass flow rate is from about 1500 to about 3000 tons/day solids (50% pulp density), by use of the analysis of the invention, the expansion cone exit diameter is from about 7.7 inches to about 11.5 inches. The expansion half-angle is between about 22° and about 30° where the choke diameter and expansion cone exit diameter are as described in this preferred embodiment. As alluded to above, if the exit pressure is too high (i.e., the nozzle does not reduce the pressure far enough), underflashing occurs, in which case a significant amount of flashing must occur beyond the nozzle. This results in a recirculating flow pattern which causes external wear to the nozzle casing. If the exit pressure is too low (i.e., the nozzle reduces the pressure too far), overflashing occurs, in which case a shock wave develops just inside the nozzle exit resulting in excessive noise and vibration, and possibly internal wear. Also, the recondensation which must occur as a result of the overflashing may be deleterious to vapor-liquid separation within the flash tank, thereby causing excessive liquid and solids entrainment in the recycled steam to the preheat towers. The expansion cone length fixes the expansion half-angle for any given set of choke and exit diameters. It is important that the expansion cone be between ten and twenty centimeters (about four and eight inches) long. Shorter than 10 cm, and vapor-liquid equilibrium cannot be assumed during flashing. Longer than about 20 cm, and friction losses may become significant, thereby invalidating the assumption of isentropic flow. Either of these two situations limits the predictability of flashing, and are therefore to be avoided. Hence, the optimum length of the expansion cone is taken to be about 15 cm (6 in). In the case of the low-pressure flash tanks at Barrick Goldstrike, given the necessary choke and exit diameters, this results in an expansion half-angle of about 15°. This angle also has a very slight effect on exit pressure. However, once it is fixed, then the exit diameter may be chosen with confidence from the mathematical model of slurry flashing. The graph of FIG. 11 illustrates predicted absolute pressure versus length within the existing low-pressure flash system at Barrick Goldstrike at the design solids flow rate. This graph shows how the target downstream pressure may be obtained within a certain expansion cone length, given a certain expansion half-angle. This graph depicts the optimum design for the low-pressure flash nozzle, with 8.4 bar (120 psi) absolute entrance pressure, and 0.8 bar (12 psi) absolute exit pressure. Kinetic power due to steam expansion developed within the optimum design at the pressures shown in FIG. 11 is depicted in FIG. 12. Note that the kinetic power developed is only about half of a megawatt. This is approximately 8 times less than the original choke/blast-tube apparatus (which self-destructed). In one preferred embodiment of the invention shown in FIG. 7 the straight section or choke diameter is between about 31/2 and about 41/2 inches, preferably between about 3.8 and 4.1 inches. The expansion cone exit diameter is between about 7 and about 71/2 inches, preferably between about 7.1 and 7.4 inches. The expansion cone length is between about 53/4 inches and about 61/4 inches, preferably between about 6 and 6.2 inches. The expansion half-angle is between about 12° and about 18°, preferably between about 14° and about 16°. The straight section has a length of between about 8 inches and about 12 inches, more preferably between about 91/2 inches and about 101/2 inches. A nozzle as described above and shown in FIG. 7 was made from Hexoloy SA available from Carborundum. The nozzle had an inner diameter of 4 inches in the first upper segment, and upper segment length of 10 inches, a lower segment length of 6.1 inches, the lower segment flaring at an angle of 15° from an inner diameter of 4 inches to an inner diameter of 7.25 inches. This nozzle was installed in a low pressure flash tank for reducing slurry pressure from about 120 psig to about atmospheric pressure. The nozzle was installed without a blast tube. After 30 weeks, even without a blast tube, no significant wear was visible on the nozzle nor on the flash tank vessel walls. As various changes could be made in the above embodiments without departing from the scope of the invention, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. 1. Homogeneous flow--vapor, liquid, and solid phases are flowing at the same velocity at any point within the system. 2. Vapor-liquid equilibrium--flashing occurs via a known thermodynamic path. 3. Isentropic flow--the slurry loses no energy to friction. 4. Adiabatic flow--the slurry gains no heat, and does no work. 5. Solid-fluid thermal equilibrium--all phases at a uniform temperature at any point within the system. Homogeneous flow theory provides the simplest technique for analyzing multiphase flows, and can be fairly accurate so long as the phases are intimately mixed, which is the case in flashing slurries. The assumption of vapor-liquid equilibrium is more troublesome. It is known that rapid acceleration and pressure changes render equilibrium theory inaccurate for describing the discharge of flashing steam-water mixtures through orifices, making it necessary to consider the rates of bubble nucleation and growth in the superheated liquid. However, controlled expansion through nozzles as short as 10 cm can be predicted with surprising accuracy. In flashing flow through nozzles, pressure drops are generally very large, and thus friction becomes an insignificant source of entropy. Furthermore, in the absence of heat sources or turbines, the adiabatic assumption can be safely made. Finally, the rate of heat transfer from finely ground solids can be safely assumed high enough to ensure thermal equilibrium between the solid and fluid phases. The basic equations for steady one-dimensional homogeneous equilibrium flow in a duct are: ##EQU2## where m is the slurry mass rate of flow, ρ and v are the slurry density and specific volume, u is velocity, A and P are the duct cross-sectional area and perimeter, τw is the average wall shear stress, dq/dz and dw/dz are the rate of heat input and work output per unit length of duct, respectively, z is the vertical coordinate, and θ is the angle of inclination of the duct to the vertical. Either ρ or 1/v may be used to express slurry density. For our purposes, v is more convenient. The choking condition is thus: ##EQU22## where M is the Mach number. Hence, the critical slurry mass rate of flow is determined by: ##EQU23## where the subscript t denotes conditions in the "throat" or narrowest section of the choke. Finally, combining equations (16) and (19) results in the final expression for steam quality gradient: ##EQU24## Equations (24) and (27) are the working equations of the model. With a given choke or nozzle profile and the steam tables, these two equations may be integrated numerically to determine the critical slurry mass rate of flow, and the corresponding fluid properties, anywhere in the nozzle. the cross-sectional area of the choke and the exit diameter of the expansion cone being selected to establish a relationship between pressure upstream of the nozzle and pressure in the flash tank so that shock waves inside the flash tank are weaker than shock waves inside a reference flash tank having identical dimensions and configuration and operating under identical conditions except having a reference pressure let down nozzle consisting of a straight choke. 2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the cross-sectional area of the choke and the exit diameter of the expansion cone are selected to establish a relationship between pressure upstream of the nozzle and pressure in the flash tank so that under a flowrate of up to about 500 tons per hour of ore slurry comprising between about 30% and about 70% solids by weight, shock waves inside the flash tank are weaker than shock waves inside a reference flash tank having identical dimensions and configuration and operating under identical conditions except having a reference pressure let down nozzle consisting of a straight choke. 3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the expansion cone has a half angle of between about 20° and about 32° and the choke cross-sectional area is determined by a function relating mass flow rate of slurry through the nozzle and pressure within the nozzle. 4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the choke has a diameter between about 2.8 inches and about 4.6 inches, the expansion cone exit diameter is between about 7.7 inches and about 11.5 inches, and the expansion cone length is between about 4 and about 8 inches. 5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein the expansion cone has a half angle of between about 20° and about 32°. 6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the nozzle has a choke diameter of between about 31/2 and about 41/2 inches, an expansion cone exit diameter of between about 7 and about 71/2 inches, and an expansion cone length of between about 53/4 inches and about 61/4 inches. 7. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein the expansion cone has a half angle of between about 14° and about 16°. the depth of said ore slurry is sufficient to provide a liquid seal for said cooled slurry outlet. 10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the choke has a diameter between about 2.8 inches and about 4.6 inches, the expansion cone exit diameter is between about 7.7 inches and about 11.5 inches, and the expansion cone length is between about 4 and about 8 inches. 11. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the expansion cone has a half angle of between about 20° and about 32°. 12. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the nozzle has a choke diameter of between about 31/2 and about 41/2 inches, an expansion cone exit diameter of between about 7 and about 71/2 inches, and an expansion cone length of between about 53/4 inches and about 61/4 inches. 13. The apparatus of claim 12 wherein the expansion cone has a half angle of between about 14° and about 16°. conduit for transferring steam from the steam outlet of the flash tank to the splash condenser. 15. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the choke has a diameter between about 2.8 inches and about 4.6 inches, the expansion cone exit diameter is between about 7.7 inches and about 11.5 inches, and the expansion cone length is between about 4 and about 8 inches. 16. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the expansion cone has a half angle of between about 20° and about 32°. 17. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the nozzle has a choke diameter of between about 31/2 and about 41/2 inches, an expansion cone exit diameter of between about 7 and about 71/2 inches, and an expansion cone length of between about 53/4 inches and about 61/4 inches. 18. The apparatus of claim 17 wherein the expansion cone has a half angle of between about 14° and about 16°. 19. A process for reducing the pressure of pressure oxidized ore slurry from above about 100 psig to about atmospheric, the process comprising passing up to about 500 tons per hour ore slurry comprising between about 30% and about 70% solids by weight through a nozzle into a flash tank, the nozzle disposed on the top of the flash tank and comprising a receiving end and a discharge end, and a slurry passageway extending through the nozzle from the receiving end to the discharge end for passage of the slurry into the flash tank from a location outside the flash tank, the passageway flaring with respect to the axis thereof toward said discharge end to define an expansion cone, and the cross-sectional area of the choke and the exit diameter of the expansion cone being selected to establish a relationship between pressure upstream of the nozzle and pressure in the flash tank so that shock waves inside the flash tank are weaker than shock waves inside a reference flash tank having identical dimensions and configuration and operating under identical conditions except having a reference pressure let down nozzle consisting of a straight choke. the nozzle having a choke diameter of between about 3.8 and about 4.1 inches corresponding to the smallest cross-section in the slurry passageway, the straight section having a length of between about 91/2 and about 101/2 inches, an expansion cone exit diameter of between about 7.1 and about 7.4 inches, an expansion cone length of between about 6 inches and about 6.2 inches, and an expansion cone half angle of between about 14° and about 16°, to establish a relationship between pressure upstream of the nozzle and pressure in the flash tank so that under a flowrate of up to about 500 tons per hour of ore slurry comprising between about 30% and about 70% solids by weight, shock waves inside the flash tank are weaker than shock waves inside a reference flash tank operating under identical conditions except having a reference pressure let down nozzle comprising a straight choke.
2019-04-23T06:27:05Z
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It’s that time of year again when we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ and Saviour … Hallelujah … Amen. If I lived in Israel I’d open up a cheese shop and call it Cheeses of Nazareth ! History boffins reckon that our present indulgence of Christmas, all that feasting, drinking and over doing it was started by that great Victorian writer Charles Dickens. Well he had a lot to do with it apparently. Prince Albert German husband of Queen Victoria who was mad as a box of frogs introduced the Christmas Tree and there you have it. Bring on the Morecombe and Wise 1972 Christmas Special and lets all see if we can fart the National Anthem together ? After 2000 years and we’ve still not sorted the world out I reckon Jesus has probably given up on us all and him and God have probably gone off playing golf or something. How else can we explain Donald Trump and Brexit ? You’ll be pleased to know my midlife health check revealed I’m “practically perfect” the words of the nurse not mine own. I had my cholesterol level, body mass index, pulse and blood pressure checked and I’m all tickety boo, good for another year at least. I promised my Big Issue Seller friend I’d buy a copy of The Big Issue off him before Christmas and so I did. For the price of £3.00 I got a Big Issue and him to pose for a nice Christmas photo next to this Christmas market stall outside Wilko’s. It’s not a bad issue either with a nice little interview with Jody Comer who dazzled us with her acting brilliance as a pyscopathic hit woman in Killing Eve this year. If you’ve not seen it then do make sure you check it out and be ready for Series 2 next year. This entry was posted in Chesterfield, Street Photography and tagged Chesterfield, Street Photography. Bookmark the permalink.
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When Kyler Murray announced on Thursday he would participate in the NFL Scouting Combine, for many it made clear the two-sport star wants to play football. After all, the combine comes a few weeks into Major League Baseball Spring Training. Murray won't just show up in Indianapolis for the combine either, he will train for the premiere scouting event for weeks. Murray had a tough interview during Super Bowl week. He seemed unsure if he wanted to play baseball or football, where he's already been a first-round pick by the Oakland Athletics. That no longer seems to be a question. The 2018 Heisman Trophy winner, Murray put up video game numbers in college playing one season at the University of Oklahoma. There are questions about his size, but by going to Indy and getting all his measurements taken in front of an army of NFL scouts, those questions will be answered. Some NFL teams might stay away from Murray because he's short and slight for the QB position, but not all of them. Especially when one of the leading draft experts in the country compared him to a former No. 1 overall pick. "I think he's the most explosive quarterback we've seen in the draft since Michael Vick," ESPN's Todd McShay said about Murray. Vick? That's a mic drop. No player came into the NFL with more excitement than Vick did coming out of Virginia Tech. His NFL career never fully delivered on that promise for a variety of reasons, but as a draft prospect, the comp carries significant weight. What we know about Murray: speed, vision and a big arm. Vick had all three, but honestly, was probably less refined as a passer coming out of college. Vick also had prototypical NFL size, which Murray doesn't. Murray is small, and that's not going away. McShay has made the Vick comp before, last year with Lamar Jackson. Murray is probably a tad slower and less quick than Jackson, but is a much more accurate passer at this stage of his career. Jackson never completed even 60 percent of his passes in college. Vick never got above 58 percent. Murray completed 69 percent of his passes last year at Oklahoma. The comparison to Vick makes sense, as the athleticism of both players is obvious upon first glance. But the more accurate comparison for Murray may soon prove to be Baker Mayfield, last year's No. 1 overall pick that completed 70 percent of his passes at Oklahoma. It's still impossible to know where Murray gets drafted, but barring something crazy between now and late April, it's becoming near impossible to think he slides out of the first round. And the hype train is just getting going.
2019-04-19T22:53:30Z
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2019-04-18T19:42:54Z
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I spent Wednesday evening and most of this afternoon working on my refashion project. As usual, something I thought would be so easy turned out to much harder than I thought it would be! I had to cut the bodice which was shirred with elastic away from the skirt and lining. The skirt was gathered where it had been attached. The skirt was lined with a thin gauze type fabric which was not gathered. I used iron on interfacing on the lining top edge to make it stiff and thick enough to sew on. After I cut everything apart, I had to regather the skirt part and match it to the ungathered lining. I then sewed the lining and skirt together with a 1/2 inch seam allowance. I decided I didn’t like results so I serged the top edges of the two fabrics together and was very pleased how it turned out. It looked so much neater. I then had to rip out the seam I sewed. Ripping stitches out of gauze is not fun! Tomorrow I am going to sew the elastic casing. Perhaps I will be able to wear the skirt when we go out tomorrow night. Oh dear — I don’t have a top to go with it. I will have to add another thing to my list of things to sew. I bought a sundress two years ago. I have never liked it. I always thought it made me look fatter than I am. I decided to take the sundress apart and try to create a new skirt from it. I spent most of the afternoon picking it apart and threading my serger. It is ready to for me to try and sew it together. The lining is a very, very, lightweight gauze type of fabric. I hope it works out! Watch my blog to see how I do! It’s been a LONG time since I posted. We cleaned the screens on the air conditioner this morning and I need a rest before I go for a bicycle ride. What better than to do with my rest time than finally post! I’ve been working on a pants Burda pattern 6982 since June. I’ve been struggling with these pants because I have/had so many new things to learn. I learned how to insert a fly zipper. I watched several tutorials on YouTube over and over again. I diligently followed the demonstrators instructions. I must have put the zipper in 5 times and ripped it out. I just didn’t like the results. I finally went back and followed the pattern instructions and that worked out very well for me. Just don’t look in the inside of the pants! Unfortunately due to all the ripping I managed to ruin the fabric at the lower fly part of the fly. The “fix” I made doesn’t show too badly. I also learned out to construct slant pockets. Burda pattern instructions are not the greatest and I did have some trouble with these. In the end they turned out okay. Just don’t look in the inside of the pants! The pants have a pleated waistband. I sewed it on and ripped it off too many times to count. I finally called my friend who sews and asked her to come over and help me. Apparently, I was doing it correctly but ripped it out thinkingI had done it wrong. She set me straight and I have to rip it out one more time and sew it back on. Too bad I didn’t trust myself the first time I did it! I feel fortunate that before I sewed these pants I decided they would be a trial pair. I was hoping I “might” be able to wear them outside the house. They aren’t finished yet, so who knows. I have the waistband and hemming left. My friend told me to put the pants aside and work on other things for a while. So that is what I am doing! Frustration does take its toll! My friend also told me to quit picking these hard patterns. The trouble is that I seem to gravitate toward that type of pattern. Anyway, we agreed that I should make some really easy things to get my sewing confidence and mojo back. She said to pick out a very simple pants pattern and make those. She said she would more than happy to help me. How can I have such a great friend. I am so lucky! → Reconstruct a sundress I have into a skirt. I have never liked how the dress looked on me so I don’t have anything to lose. → Design and sew machine covers for my sewing and serger machines. I have the fabric I will use in my stash. I picked out some really nice embroidery designs to put on the covers. This project, hopefully, will teach me how to use the embroidery features on the sewing machine. → Make baby bibs for my grandson. I did buy some really cute fabric. My friend suggested that I make a sample first because I picked out a complicated pattern. How can a bib pattern be complicated . . .of course, it is because I picked it out! → Make some cute overalls and shirts for my grandson. Can you believe it? Those patterns are very simple! → Make some knit clothing for me. Knits are supposed to be easy, but I will have to learn how to alter, cut, and sew knits. I finally organized my entire sewing room. I took inventory of all the fabric I have so I will know what I have when I want to make things. Most of fabric I have is from the two estate sales I went to. I sold some of the fabrics for what I paid for the ALL the fabric at the estate sales. I guess you could say I have been “reimbursed” and I still have yards and yards of fabric! I do have a lot of fabric that I purchased at fabric stores, too. Some it is from 30 years ago when I sewed for my kids! I am going to try to use what fabric I have on hand before I buy anymore. That’s what sewists called fabric fasting! I maintain a Pinterest Board reflecting my sewing interests. Please feel free to stop by and visit my "pins" anytime.
2019-04-26T02:17:00Z
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“Smash His Camera” is nominated, the documentary on paparazzo Ron Galella. It’s a fascinating, compelling look inside the mind, motivation and technique of the man widely considered to be the original American paparazzo. I interviewed Ron at his home last fall around the time “Smash His Camera” was released. For a clip check out my reel on http://www.johnbathke.com and search last year’s blog archive for more on the film and my impressions of Ron. The Galella doc has some tough competition from “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.” The documentary drew worldwide critical praise and though it had a successful theatrical release it was dissed by the Oscars. The filmmakers, Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, deserve this Emmy nomination. I remember seeing this film for the first time at its Tribeca Film Festival debut, with Rivers and the filmmakers present. I had interviewed Rivers for ON THE SCENE shortly after filming was finished. I’m really interested to see if either film wins. And I emailed my friend Roger Ross Williams with congratulations today. His “Music By Prudence” short documentary, which earned him a Best Director Oscar last year, was nominated for it’s television release by HBO for best music and sound. I interviewed Roger for a live audience at a screening along with Prudence Mabhena, the film’s subject. There seem to be a lot of documentaries being filmed these days, but the ones that illuminate, that truly shine a light on the many facets of a personality or issue remain very few, indeed. These are three films that did that and more. Matt Damon Can Run. And Run. And Run And.. That’s what a woman sitting ahead of me in the theater said as we were leaving “The Adjustment Bureau.” She’s right. By the end of the film you wonder if Matt Damon walks anywhere. He runs down sidewalks, he runs on streets, he runs between cars, he runs through doors, he runs from people, he runs after people, he runs up stairways. Boy, does he run the stairs. He may hold the record for most stairs ever run on film. Someone is always chasing him and he’s always chasing someone. And sometimes Emily Blunt runs with him. Up stairs. Down sidewalks. Through the street. To the Statue of Liberty. Sometimes they run holding hands. If that’s not enough Damon’s character runs for office. He runs for U.S. Senate. Twice. Damon has the “leading man” run. Purposeful in execution if not in plot. Damon runs in a suit. He runs in a hat. He looks back to see who’s chasing him as he runs. Sometimes you think he’s done running. But then he starts running again. I suppose he could walk, but more men buy tickets if the leading man runs a lot. That makes it an action movie. If he’s running to catch up to a woman the studio likes that because more women buy tickets. It’s a love story, then. And I didn’t know even the marketing masters of Hollywood could cram this many genres into one film… science fiction, action, political drama, thriller, a love story. I get running as a metaphor. Damon is running from his past, running for office to heal his childhood heartbreak, running after a woman in a race for happiness. I GET it. We all GET it. Bad storytelling is beating the audience to death with metaphor. And we don’t need gratuitous action if the script is good. Everywhere you look there’s a star on this weekend’s ON THE SCENE. In person, and in photographs. The show features my interviews with singer Darlene Love and celebrity and movie poster photographer, Timothy White. We taped the interview with Love just a few days after she got word she’s being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame…her dream come true. “It’s like winning the Oscar, the Tony, the Grammy, all together, that’s what I feel about getting into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame,” she told me as tears welled up in her eyes and her voice cracked with emotion. Her life story is what compels me most and it’s a story for all of us who didn’t peak at age 23, who have faced roadblock after roadblock and pushed our way around them, and who keep setting goals…and celebrating hard earned successes. So if you’re local tune in January 22nd and 23rd at any of these times: 6:30 AM, 9:30 AM, 11:30 AM and 1:30 PM either day…the show must really have star power to get that much air time! I don’t spend a lot of time in the past. Sometimes I think “reminisce” is another word for “can’t get on with life.” Show me the person who’s always talking about the “old days” and I’ll show you someone who’s stuck there. But I also know there’s a place for taking stock of what’s happened in life, how we dealt with it and pinpointing what we learned from it. And here it is New Year’s Day, 2011, and I’m feeling strongly about the year just ended. I interviewed some memorable talents for ON THE SCENE who left an impression on me. In 2010, the show became more in depth, the interviews more revealing than ever. To get there, I demanded more of myself, extended myself, and dived into creative risks that I know I wouldn’t have just a couple years ago. Now that’s progress. Maybe it’s natural I would do those things because the artists I interviewed who impressed me most are those who went outside their comfort zone and moved their careers into new directions. For starters, David Bryan. For almost 30 years, now, the keyboardist in Bon Jovi. But in 2010 he became a triple-Tony Award winner for “Memphis,” the musical which he wrote and co-produced. I interviewed him at his New Jersey beach house on a sweltering July afternoon. It was shortly after the Tony awards and he was reliving the winning moments. We also talked about how life altering it was for him to step outside Bon Jovi and helm a project in his own right and how it’s forever changed his career. Oscar winners Geoffrey Fletcher, who won the Academy Award for writing the screenplay for “Precious,” and Roger Ross Williams who received his Oscar for directing the documentary, “Music By Prudence,” both saw their long efforts pay off in 2010. When I interviewed Geoffrey he described how just a year before “Precious,” hit the screen, agents would hang-up on him. Suddenly, they were calling him. I interviewed Roger (and the subject of his film, Prudence Mabhena) on stage for an audience q and a after a screening of his film. After a long career producing and directing television news and entertainment programs, he headed to Zimbabwe and shot this documentary for theatrical release. Look where it led. And there was refreshingly honest singer Duncan Sheik, who went broke after scoring a big hit with “Barely Breathing,” then came back strong writing songs for “Spring Awakening” (another rocker turned Broadway success story). Joy Behar was the year’s lightning rod. God, the hate mail. And that was before the interview even aired. That’s only a few. Read the blog archives for more on these interviews and many others if you’re interested, and there are interview photos in the gallery of http://www.johnbathke.com. Now let’s see what we can make happen in 2011. All of us. Happy New Year. I finally saw “The Social Network.” Hands down one of the best movies of the year and I think it’ll be duking it out with “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” when it comes to Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Actor. The screenwriting for “The Social Network” is extraordinary. But Michael Douglas has the edge for Best Actor because the Academy loves it when a character evolves in the storyline…it’s the mark of an Oscar worthy performance…and his Gordon Gekko is changeable and emotionally all over the map…moreso than what people expected, I think. Jesse Eisenberg is riveting playing Facebook inventor Mark Zuckerberg. He deserves an Oscar nomination for such a complicated performance, maybe he should even win…but in the end the character is status quo and that favors Douglas. What do you think? Am I wrong? I’ve only singled out two actors, who else should be in the running? Every filmmaker could learn a lesson from Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.” And that is, make every character count. I saw the movie Saturday and the attention to character is extraordinary. Yes, the plot twists and turns are as slippery as Gordon “Greed Is Good” Gekko, and the timeliness of portraying Wall Street sharks during an economic meltdown is impeccably relevant. But what strikes me most is that this is a film with one vivid character after another. Even the smallest part is memorable…Sylvia Miles as an eccentric realtor, Eli Wallach as the frail but feisty Wall Street veteran battling onward. No part is a novelty or a filler, a throw away cameo to a star like we’ve seen in these big budget sequels a million times, now. Susan Sarandon (who I interviewed earlier this year), Josh Brolin and the great Frank Langella have spun their screen time into gold in this picture, playing supporting parts that under Stone’s direction, are as memorable as the leads. There’s no question in my mind that Michael Douglas will get an Oscar nomination. The Academy looks for characters that undergo a transformation within the film when doling out noms, which Douglas does so believably as Gekko. Shia LaBeouf impressed me and I went in skeptical…even Douglas said when the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival that he had to get over initial doubts that LaBeouf had the chops for the role. He does. What a difference the movie-going experience is when you can latch-on to each moment and feel the relationships between the characters and see what they’re thinking, and not simply watch the plot unfold. You are currently browsing the archives for the Oscar Winners category.
2019-04-22T02:08:42Z
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Despite what you've seen of the terrible destruction wrought by Superstorm Sandy in the media last year (including that now-iconic photo of a drowned roller coaster), the Jersey Shore hasn't gone anywhere. But the perception that it was wiped away, according to a new poll, was strong enough to keep people away from the coastline this summer. The poll, conducted by Monmouth University-Asbury Park Press, found that nearly 40 percent of Jersey residents spent less time at the shore than usual. Of those, half said they stayed away at least in part because they expected most businesses wouldn't be open. "They made it sound on the news like the entire area was just wiped out and washed away," Dennis Behsman, a former Jersey Shore regular, told the Associated Press. But when he finally went to check it out for himself, he said things weren't nearly as bad as he'd been led to believe. While many heavily damaged communities have made major strides, others are having a harder time. Destroyed buildings still need to be torn down, and many homes still standing need extensive renovations that are keeping their owners living elsewhere. Many need to be elevated to comply with new federal flood insurance regulations. Still, the blow to its reputation could end up one of the trickiest things to repair.
2019-04-25T10:03:12Z
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AMES, Iowa – Conservation Chat is back in production with the first new episode, an interview with Iowa’s Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, now available from the Conservation Chat podcast site or from iTunes. According to Jacqueline Comito, host of the Conservation Chat series, the break in production enabled the team to evaluate listener feedback, challenge themselves to expand concepts, and build fresh energy for producing more top-notch sessions. The Conservation Chat podcast library consists of 39 episodes, with more than 7,500 downloads to date. Participants in the chats range from research scientists to working farmers to conservation specialists. “It’s purely coincidental, but the first Conservation Chat was nearly four years ago with Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey, so it seems appropriate to reboot the series with the chat with current Secretary Naig,” said Comito. New podcasts planned for early 2019 include conversations with Matt Helmers, director of the Iowa Nutrient Research Center and Jamie Benning, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach water quality program manager. The March edition is planned to include Adam Janke, ISU Extension and Outreach wildlife specialist, Brian Hickman, private lands coordinator at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and Kelsey Fleming, farm bill wildlife biologist for Pheasants Forever in Iowa. Learn more about Iowa Learning Farms and Conservation Learning Group outreach and education programs on the web. Find the podcast at Conservation Chat at http://conservationchat.libsyn.com/ or on iTunes. Iowa Learning Farms is a hands-on education and outreach program for farmers throughout Iowa. Conservation Learning Group is a think tank based at Iowa State University and dedicated to addressing conservation and environmental challenges.
2019-04-23T05:57:13Z
https://www.extension.iastate.edu/news/conservation-chat-podcast-returns-new-guests-and-fresh-format
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Happy birthday to my dad. He has been gone for many years and would be 105 if he were alive, but this is still the anniversary of his birth, so my thoughts are for him as soon as I realize the date. The warm glow from hiking that railroad bed yesterday and loving the desert views has both of us still in its grip. We’re not sure why…there was nothing spectacular about it, just a great day we both really enjoyed. I’ve even tried analyzing it and can’t come up with anything in particular. Today we’re just puttering again. I decided to make a batch of oatmeal cookies and then remembered how difficult it is to cream sugar and butter together without a mixer. In my poor days I did it all the time but that was then and I’m spoiled now. So I worked a long time at getting the sugar all incorporated into the butter. The rest of it went together pretty fast. It is one of our favorite recipes and I add all sorts of stuff to the cookies. Al had mentioned that his favorites are oatmeal cookies with raisins so I separated out a goodly chunk of dough for him and put in raisins. Since I was a child, I’ve always considered raisins an abomination in cookies. Why ruin my favorite sweets with something nutritious?? But Al has been more than generous with his wifi, his gas, his water jugs, and his driving skills and the least I can do is pay him back with his favorite cookies. After lunch we decided we really should do something with the rest of our day, so we drove to the Patton Museum at Chiriaco Summit on I-10, a good hour’s drive away. They have added quite a bit since the last time we were there but I couldn’t find what I was looking for. I was hoping for a map showing where he operated in the desert. There are plenty of maps showing his dozen or so camps but nothing indicating other operations he had going on during the year and a few months that the camps existed. While I was waiting for Larry to finish looking at all the guy stuff that doesn’t interest me, I asked the young man at the counter if there were any books on his other operations. The look in his eye said it all. With a grin he pulled out two well-worn volumes and suggested I copy down the ISBN and publisher’s info to see if I could obtain copies for myself. Together we tried to find anything specific on the fortifications we had found but they were not in the book. From my description, though, and from pictures of similar areas, there is no doubt that the “rock outcroppings” we found near the campground are indeed the work of the Desert Training Camp. So we crossed the track where others have done so before us and wandered around till we finally reached a powerline road. The powerline road eventually crosses the paved county road we were looking for and goes to Desert Center, which isn’t there either. This is scary…ghost towns in my lifetime. I am writing this on the morning of the 6th at the laundromat in Blythe. We gave the cookies to Al and Linda, listened to their adventures yesterday, and said our goodbyes. We dumped a few hundred pounds of gray water and black water at the dump station, then drove to town and Larry dropped me here. He went to fill up with fresh water and as soon as we are finished, we will leave California for Phoenix. We have friends and family to see there and new adventures await.
2019-04-23T03:01:07Z
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Had one daughter: Donna Crothers (born 1949). [on working with director Stanley Kubrick in The Shining (1980)] That movie was all right to make, but you know, Stanley likes to do a lot of takes. It gets kind of boring, but when you take a job, you do it.
2019-04-21T05:54:34Z
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On the way to Mt. Popa and Table Mountain, a popular tourist site southeast of Bagan, Burma, our guide parked alongside the road and led us into a small village. It’s one of the many memories of our recent trip to Myanmar that I’ll never forget. Back in 2011, I enjoyed Walking a Village outside of Varanasi, India on the way to Sarnath to visit Buddhist sites. After that experience, I vowed that I would continue to use this method of “slow travel” during future trips. I was not disappointed. As we entered the village, we were enthusiastically greeted by small children. Some were shy, but most warmed up to me after I crouched to their level. As we walked among the thatch-roof huts, we introduced ourselves to a family sow and her brood who scurried away to hide underneath a nearby yam patch. I was impressed with the use of solar panels in the village. One panel could power a small 6-inch TV. One home owner proudly showed how he could charge batteries to power a radio or a smart phone. He showed us his living space. I noticed that his motorcycle was kept inside, under the thatched roof. A group of villagers were busy harvesting peanuts. They smiled as we passed by. We didn’t meet many older children because they were in school. So we stopped on by to take a look at the classrooms before we returned to our vehicle. Should you go to Burma? The answer is a resounding YES! I can still feel the memories of Myanmar coursing through my body and my jet-lagged brain. “This is Burma,” wrote Rudyard Kipling over a century ago. “It is quite unlike any place you know about.” His words are true even today. Everywhere you’ll encounter men wearing skirt-like longyi; children and women with thanakha (traditional make-up) on their cheeks; and grannies smoking cheroots, chewing betel nuts and spitting red juice. There are no Starbucks, McDonalds, or Kentucky Fried Chickens—yet. The October/early November “shoulder season” is a great time of year to go there. Although it rained during our first two days in Yangon, the wet season is generally over; the countryside is lush and fresh; and the tourist season is just beginning. I was fortunate to be in Burma during a rare press conference held by Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, held a week prior to President Obama’s recent visit. She warned the U.S. not to be “too optimistic,” and that promised reforms have slowed during the past two years. The government’s emphasis, she explained, has been on economic advances rather than human rights. Suu Kyi opened the press conference in Yangon with Obama last week by addressing reports of tension between the U.S. and those working for democratic reforms in Myanmar: “We may view things differently from time to time but that will in no way affect our relationship,” the Associated Press reported. Burma is clearly counting on the support of the west. It’s a heady time for the people of Burma. In 2010, Myanmar held its first free elections in two decades. Even though the country’s progress on the road to democracy is two steps forward and one step back, there’s a cautious optimism in the air. The 2015 elections are coming up next fall. I could sense the spark of hope and excitement. Just maybe they will change the constitution so that “The Lady” can run. And just maybe the generals will delete the clause they added that allows them to have 25% of the parliamentary seats no matter what the vote tally shows. Everyone I queried says they would vote for The Lady. Of course. She has given up her life, her freedom, and her family—all for the people—quite a sacrifice. Restrictions have definitely relaxed since my last visit to Burma in 2006. During a two-day cruise up the Irrawaddy River to Mandalay, I was surprised that the Paukan cruise line could show the film, “The Lady” (see movie trailer) released in 2012. Even so, the film is still not allowed in Burmese theaters. We had the opportunity to see much of Burma through “independent travel,” which allowed us more free time to digest what we had seen and learned before rushing home or on to another country. Many of the tourists we met were heading from Yangon, the largest city, to Bagan with its 3200 pagodas, and then to Mandalay, the ancient capital of the kings. By expanding the itinerary of a typical trip and seeing only one country, we could take the time to go deeper into the interior. Swaths of the country, off-limits for years, can now be visited. I fell in love with the fertile farms of Shan state, the mountain villages of Pindaya, and the fishing villages of Inle Lake. We saw people getting around in trishaws or horse-and-cart and farming with little or no mechanization. It wasn’t all easy travel. Beyond Yangon, Burma is still a third-world country. In the interior, I had to let go of internet, phone and e-mail. However, I’m very glad I went there. And I urge you to go as well! We are asked this question when our friends find out that we are off to yet another adventure on Saturday. This first business park will employ 70,000 workers when running at full tilt. It will provide food, consumer products and construction materials for the domestic market and will export shoes, clothing and car parts. Two other such parks are planned. When I visited Burma back in 2006 (see previous blog entry: Burma, my next favorite Place) the big question was: Should you go to Burma? Aun Lang Suu Kyi, Burmese Peace Prize Laureate and opposition leader, had asked tourists not to come because the money would only prop up the dictatorship. The income from the hotels would go straight into the government’s coffers. Even so, most of the people I talked with welcomed tourism anyway. They wanted to sell whatever goods they could in their meager stalls. Now, they are beaming. Because tourism is booming. Investors are dreaming about investing in Myanmar. The country sits right between the massive markets of China and India to the north and Thailand to the south. It abounds in arable land, water and natural resources: oil, natural gas and precious stones such as jade, rubies and sapphires. From 2010 to 2013, foreign direct investment tripled. But the picture isn’t all rosy. There needs to be massive investment in education to create a well-trained work force. The average Burmese spends just four years in school! We’ll be there for almost three weeks. And most of that time, I’ll be off the grid. I’ll post stories and pictures after I return. After book presentations and during conversations with friends upon returning from a trip, this question invariably comes up: What was your favorite place? My count of countries visited now totals over one hundred. So how can I possibly choose just one? One year after returning from my travels, I realized that I had been struggling with this “favorite place” question because I had been approaching it all wrong. There is a simple and obvious answer for a traveler afflicted by wanderlust: my favorite place is always the place where (a) I haven’t been or (b) my visit there was too short. So this year, my next favorite place is Burma (Myanmar). Back in 2006, I traveled there by bus from Phuket, Thailand on a one-day visa run. All I experienced after a long, bumpy ride was crossing a river in a panga, walking a block to the border station to have my passport stamped, and returning to the bus. Our yacht, Pacific Bliss, was docked in Phuket, undergoing repairs before crossing the Indian Ocean, so the following month when the once-a-month visa renewal was due I decided to fly to Yangon for a three-day weekend. That trip gave me a taste of Burma I’ll never forget. But it was just an appetizer. Now I’m preparing for the main course. This autumn, Gunter and I are looking forward to a three-week Burmese adventure, to be conducted in our typical “slow travel” style. We’ve selected a standard 10-day country tour and added a special Paukan cruise down the mighty Irrawaddy River and three days at a seaside resort to write and relax before crossing the International Date Line again during the long flight home. We’ll begin our tour at the Inya Lake Hotel where I stayed in 2006 and repeat my visit to the Shwedagon Pagoda. We’ll travel on to view the ancient temples of Bagan. And we’ll see Mandalay and the famous Pindaya Caves. For a report on my 2006 visit to Burma, click here.
2019-04-24T20:46:31Z
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Princess Alice of Battenberg, christened Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie (born 25 February 1885 at Windsor Castle – 5 December 1969 at Buckingham Palace), later Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark, was considered the most beautiful princess in Europe. She was born completely deaf, yet learned to read lips at a young age and could speak several languages. Alice grew up in Germany, and was the great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. In a time when royalty had little to do with the commoners, she was an unconventional royal who placed the importance of people over privilege and wealth. She was devoted to helping others, and in the turmoil of her own personal life never lost sight of her devotion to God and her commitment to helping those less fortunate. At the age of 17 she fell in love with Prince Andrew of Greece, and they were married in 1903. They had four daughters and one son; their daughters went on to marry German princes, and their son Prince Philip married Elizabeth II, Queen of England; Alice is therefore the grandmother of the Princes Charles, Andrew, Edward and Princess Anne. She and her family lived in Greece until political turmoil caused the royals to flee in exile in 1917, when they settled in a suburb of Paris. Alice began working with charities helping Greek refugees, while her husband left her and the children for a life of debauchery and gambling in Monte Carlo. She found strength in her Greek Orthodox faith, yet relied on the charity of wealthy relatives in that period of her life when she had no home to call her own, and no husband to help raise her children. Understandably through the stress of circumstances, she had a nervous breakdown in 1930; dubiously diagnosed with schizophrenia, she was committed suddenly and against her will to a mental institution in Switzerland, without even the chance to say goodbye to her children (Prince Philip, 9 at the time, returned from a picnic to find his mother gone). She continually defended her sanity and tried to leave the asylum. Finally in 1932 she was released, but in the interim her four daughters had married (she had thus been unable to attend their weddings), and Philip had been sent to England to live with his Mountbatten uncles and his grandmother, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven. After the war ended, Alice went on to take the example of her aunt, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (who had been formulating plans for the foundation of a religious order in 1908 when Alice met her in Russia at a family wedding), and founded a religious order, the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, becoming a nun (though she still enjoyed smoking and playing cards) and establishing a convent and orphanage in a poverty-stricken part of Athens. Her habit consisted of a drab gray robe, white wimple, cord and rosary beads. In 1967, following another Greek political coup, she travelled to England, where she lived with her son Prince Philip and her daughter-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace until her death in 1969. Her final request was to be buried near her sainted aunt in Jerusalem; she was instead initially buried in the royal crypt at Windsor Castle, but in 1988 she was at last interred near her aunt in the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. In October of 1994 her two surviving children, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Princess George of Hanover, went to the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem to see their mother honoured as one of the “Righteous Among the Nations” for having hidden Jews in her house in Athens during the Second World War. Prince Philip said of his mother’s actions, “I suspect that it never occurred to her that her action was in any way special. She was a person with a deep religious faith, and she would have considered it to be a perfectly natural human reaction to fellow beings in distress.” In 2010 the Princess was posthumously named a Hero of the Holocaust by the British Government. Posted in Essay, History, Military History and tagged Athens, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Deaf Princess, Germany, Greece, Greek Orthodox, Hero of the Holocaust, Jews, Nicholas Cage, Paris, Penelope Cruz, Prince Charles, Prince Philip, Princess Alice of Battenberg, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Victoria, Righteous Among the Nations, Second World War, Switzerland, the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, Windsor Castle, world war 2. Bookmark the permalink.
2019-04-21T04:55:22Z
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eating while traveling | Keep It Up, David! I’m back from a week in Michigan for Christmas, and spent lots of great quality time with family. I was determined to stay focused on my health and fitness all week, and made lots of wonderful choices, and some not-so-wonderful ones, too. I’ll get into all of that, but first… SANTA! I spent Christmas on a fantastic vacation in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. My whole family met up there, and we stayed at an all-inclusive resort. And, like many all-inclusive resorts, this one had a lot of buffets. Ten Hours in Reykjavik, Iceland! It’s been a minute since I’ve posted on here, and that’s because I just spent a week in Europe! I went to visit my friend Katherine in Sweden, but on my way there, I had a long layover in Iceland. And even though my stay was short, I made the most of it. Look! Raw fish, and lots of it! Eating Well With My Sister in Chicago. No, Scratch That… Eating GREAT! Want to eat healthy while visiting Chicago? Stay with my sister Laura. Seriously. I’ll give you her number if you want. (No I won’t.) I stayed a few days with her after the Hancock race, and she made making good choices while traveling super easy. And her dog Conrad is a cutie! I’m back in California after a wonderful week celebrating Christmas in Michigan. Usually I’m good about eating well while traveling, but this time I ate too much. I also exercised like a maniac (more on that in my next post), so I’m not wallowing in guilt or regret. I enjoyed good food with friends and family, and I’m already back on track with my healthy habits.
2019-04-18T21:27:15Z
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Yet another incident in my bizarre relationship with my father. The man just keeps shocking me. He called me up this morning and left a message that sounded full of purpose, so I called him back when I got up a couple hours later. He is running the Walt Disney World Marathon in January. That’s not a surprise, he’s been talking about it for quite a while and he’s very excited. Now he has decided that he wants me to run the 1/2 marathon, and he’ll pay for it. He will fly me down to Florida, pay for the hotel, and pay the registration fee. We didn’t discuss whether or not he’ll feed me, but I feel like I can work something out. This is unusual. I knew this whole me running thing would make him happy, but I never thought it would allow me to travel. I admit I’m intrigued. Then he went on about my training and my knees. Apparently I have my father’s knees. This is fine, he’s been running marathons for 20 years and never had knee trouble, that’s a good thing. I keep telling him that, yes, my knees do hurt sometimes. This information generally gets ignored because it’s not what he wants to hear. He keeps describing my knees as “Big Knees” Just like his. Always “Big knees.” It’s unnerving when someone points out that a part of you is unnaturally large when you never noticed before. I’m not entirely convinced that my knees are that big. I have to think about this for a week before he’ll let me make my decision, which is actually perfect because by then I should be able to gauge what’s going on with my ankle after my unfortunate plummet down the stairs. Thank god my knees are enormous, maybe they can compensate for my ankle.
2019-04-21T06:44:28Z
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Hollywood Boulevard & Vine Street erupts with volcanic fireworks like fireflies; over & over, again & again,ooo, ahh, ooh. They bring the western & eastern worlds closer. The rockets red glare, the blue dragonflies, the flying glow-worms bring us together again. Gaze high, higher now, higher … there! Juvenile shooting stars from Orion’s belt jet-race for first place. Kids, what can you do? Even angels with countless flight time on their wings are mad-hopping like grasshoppers in a late spring rain. This has been going on since your arrival. This is the way I have been feeling for years, many lifetimes, ever since I first fell into your eyes then reemerged a man more compassionate. I have been blessed by Fortuna to have walked the landscape of your beautiful face. You have performed many miracles, I’m one of them. Some fools have all the luck. Speak with the animals for me. Tell them I’m still here. I’m doing well, I’m hanging in, hanging on … & I’m coming home first chance I get. I live for that moment. May take a while but I’ll be there. Heaven is lucky to have you. Heaven knows it.
2019-04-23T04:03:27Z
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imaginable exit. In this context, what do the humanities look like? produce both modern theory and cultural studies as academic fields. Simon During came to Hopkins in 2002 from the University of Melbourne. This entry was posted on September 29, 2009 at 3:38 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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2017 books I need to get my hands on part 2: contemporary! Back in January I spent a week sharing the 2017 novels from the first half of the year that I couldn’t wait to read (non-fiction, sci-fi/fantasy, contemporary, historical, and mystery/suspense). This week I’ll be sharing the novels from September-December that have me all starry-eyed, beginning with historical fiction, mystery/suspense, and sci-fi/fantasy. Today we’re ending the week with contemporary! I loved Everything I Never Told You to the point where I will read anything Celeste writes. An artist and single mother moves into an affluent Cleveland suburb and initially, things seem to be going well. Then friends of her landlord begin the adoption process – they’ll be bringing home a Chinese-American baby – and the ensuing custody battle (as well as secrets regarding Mia’s past) tears apart the once-quiet community. Okay, hear me out. I’m mostly curious about this one: it sounds EXACTLY like the plot of Hello, Sunshine with its celebrity chef/author/tv host’s fall from grace. Only, in this case, Lizzie finds work as a personal chef wealthy family who adores the latest, trendiest fad diets. There’s also the daughter with a wildly popular website – that comes with a huge secret. I have a copy of this one and cannot wait to dive in! Flora is madly in love with Elijah – enough so that she’s willing to leave behind her elite prep school and follow him to a hippie Quaker academy where he’ll be teaching. Unfortunately for Flora, when she shows up, she realized Elijah made other plans. This one is an epistolary novel and sounds really fantastic. I have yet to read one of Katie’s novels, but I know they have a huge following! Her upcoming book is about an unlikely pair: Gabby is an introvert who would much rather be home than at a party. Ryan is the school’s star hockey player, yet the two are practically best friends. With graduation rapidly approaching, they reminisce by making a top ten list of the best moments of their friendship – and possibly the start of something more. A Middle Grade debut about a girl who finds herself under the care of a family in witness protection. The family is on the run from some of the most notorious criminals and, hey, they won’t be looking for a family with two children. Also, Nicki’s street-savvy ways just might come in handy! For the first time in years, the entire Birch clan will be together under one roof at Weyfield Hall for Christmas. Unfortunately, Olivia, a doctor returning from providing aid to an epidemic overseas, has just been told she’ll need to be quarantined…and so will the rest of the family. For one week they’ll be locked inside together, cut off from the rest of the world (and decent wifi) – and no one expects the surprise guest who drops by. Second Chance Season was one of my favorite books I’ve read this year, so it’s no wonder the third in Liora’s Grand Valley series ranks HIGH on my TBR! Second Chance Season introduced the pair featured in this novel: Braden, a no-nonsense game warden with a faithful pup, and Amber, a beauty with her own hunting show. Amber’s show has been dropping in the ratings and a reboot is necessary. The producers plan an archery elk hunt and, stubbornly, Braden just isn’t having it. This just might be one of my most anticipated releases of the year!! Small town Georgia, where everyone knows your business whether you want them to or not. As an elite party planner, Margot mingles with high society, until one event goes spectacularly wrong and she’s practically exiled. In dire need of a fresh start, Margot begrudgingly accepts a job planning an event for the McCready Family Funeral Home and Bait Shop – how’s that for one-stop shopping? I’m super intrigued by the love interest: an elementary school principal! 2017 books I need to get my hands on part 2: sci-fi/fantasy! weekly wrap-up 9/10: birthday week! Seven Days of Us is on my TBR. I love stories about families, and this looks like a good one! Just added Sweet Tea and Sympathy to my TBR. It looks super cute!
2019-04-19T16:50:09Z
https://theprettygoodgatsby.wordpress.com/2017/09/08/2017-books-i-need-to-get-my-hands-on-part-2-contemporary/
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Recently I had a very strange dream. When God showed me what it meant, I knew I had to share it’s meaning with you. God showed me the dream meant a few things. For one thing, my mother uses the things I love & am passionate about to hurt me. She wants to destroy my identity. If she destroys who I am, she can make me into what she wants me to be. Chances are, your narcissistic mother does exactly the same thing. Does she viciously criticize or trivialize those people or things you love the most? If she can make you turn against those things, she has destroyed a part of you. Don’t let her do that! God gave everyone passions for a reason. They are your purpose in life. Your narcissistic mother has no right to steal them from you! Another aspect of the dream showed me the answer to a question I’ve had for many years. During her worst narcissistic rages, my mother’s eyes would turn black. It used to terrify me, because I never know what was coming next, but I knew it wasn’t going to be good. (The night my mother threw me into a wall, her eyes turned black just before she did it.) Several other adult children of narcissistic parents have told me they experienced the same thing. Anyway, the dream showed me that the reason this happens is because she has reached the point where she can no longer conceal her hatred for me. That is why the following narcissistic rages are so vicious. Thankfully I haven’t seen her eyes turn black in years, but I now know if they change color, it’s time to leave, & leave quickly! Lastly, the dream gave me a valuable reminder. When dealing with your narcissistic mother, always remain calm, & share no signs of your emotions with her. Sharing any signs of emotions will trigger a reaction from her. Anger or hurt feeds a narcissist- she will continue to do whatever it is that is angering or hurting you until she destroys you completely if she can. Joy isn’t good either, because she will destroy that happiness you feel. (She may say things like, “What do you have to be so happy about anyway?”) She wants you to be as miserable, hurting, angry & empty inside as she feels, & will stop at nothing to make that happen. I hope what this dream taught me helps you as much as it helped me. You really hit on something when you said, show no emotions. I had learned this lesson very well by the age of 10, which is when I realized that my mother enjoyed when I was unhappy. For this reason, I vowed to never let her see me cry. I also learned, a few years later, not to let my mother know when I was happy about anything, no matter how small, because she would surely make sure that I was unhappy. And when my mother was in one of her rages, I learned not to show any emotions, one way or the other–not to even flinch. It’s really amazing to me how children of narcissist’s stories are different, but they all have the same common threads running through them. Yes it is amazing. It’s like these narcissistic parents all read from the same rulebook. They all know the goal is to hurt their child & may get to the end result a bit differently, but they get there. It’s probably good in a way you learned that lesson so early with your mother about showing no emotions. I was in my teens before I caught on, & still slipped up often. Wish I would’ve learned it sooner!
2019-04-19T04:23:41Z
https://cynthiabaileyrug.wordpress.com/2015/05/23/valuable-lessons-about-dealing-with-a-narcissistic-mother/?shared=email&msg=fail
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Here are just a few quotes from a GREAT article by Monte Wolverton in the latest issue of Plain Truth Magazine. “If we look at historical reality rather than pious verbiage, it’s obvious that America never really “belonged to God.” …There was nothing distinctively Christlike about the way America was “discovered,” conquered or governed in the early years. Do yourself and the world a favor, and read the entire article. The Myth of a Christian Nation. Order The DVD From LIFEWALK! CLICK HERE! I expected to enjoy “Blue Like Jazz.” Yet, I must admit, after all the promotion and high hopes, I had some fear [just a teeny tiny bit] the movie might not be something I would be able to “brag” about. After seeing the film, all fears have been laid to rest. I thought it was a great movie. My wife and I both really enjoyed it [and not just because our names are in the closing credits]. Good writing. Good production values. Good performances all the way around. AND a great message! One I can actually get behind. If you’ve read “Blue Like Jazz,” and listened to some old Steve Taylor records, you’ll have some idea of the creative power behind the movie. It addresses the hypocrisy of religion, while remaining very pro-faith. It’s real, raw, and avoids the clichés and pitfalls that seem inherent with most movies dealing with faith. I will be seeing this movie again and again. We traveled a couple of hours just to see it. It was more than worth it. Do yourself a favor: See “Blue Like Jazz.” It’s not just a movie. The background of its making, and the execution make it a piece of cinematic history. Never. Never in a million years would I have imagined being anything resembling a gay-rights activist. Never a God-worshiping, Jesus-loving gay-rights activist. Yet, here I am. If we’ve learned anything from history, it’s that religious fundamentalists have rather consistently opposed the heart of God. From the crucifixion, to the stoning of the saints. From the crusades, to the Salem witch-hunts, to slavery and racism, to the oppression of women, to the opposition of marriage equality and gay rights. The organized church has repeatedly been on the wrong side of history and the wrong side of truth. There is a civil war in this country. I don’t use those words lightly. We were once split between slave owners, and those who sought equality for all. We are again split in fight for equality. And once more, sadly, it is brother against brother, and sister against sister. Often with both sides praying to God for victory. Despite the rhetoric, this has nothing to do with “free speech,” anymore than having separate drinking fountains was a matter of free speech. This is a matter of equality in a multi-culture, multi-religion nation. To paraphrase Senator Jamie Raskin, “People put their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution. They don’t put their hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.” I fear the horrors that await if those who believe this is a “Christian” nation have their way. So, here I am. Taking my stand for marriage equality, and LGBT equality in general. I’m one of those who, as a former fundamentalist, knows the issue from multiple viewpoints. I know the faulty arguments and misuse of scripture because I used to preach and teach them. Some friends have been lost. Some bridges burned. Accusations of deceiving and being deceived. Mel White has said “Becoming an activist is simply a matter of putting love into action.” For me, that’s easier said than done. But being silent is not an option. I’m surprised at where life has taken me; at where the journey has led. But it is what it is. By the grace of God and the strength of Christ, I will continue to speak out against this religiously induced injustice. I will make my small contribution. Standing with my LGBT brothers and sisters, Here I am.
2019-04-23T22:25:22Z
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This entry was posted on 0, 25 de julho de 2009 at 21:07 and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
2019-04-21T10:07:44Z
https://muito.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/paz-amor-e-musica/
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I hope you are all having a fantastic time, wherever you are, whatever you are doing. It was boiling hot today and not my cup of tea, but to all those who enjoy this kinda weather, bring on the bar-b-q and celebrate summer as really, we never know how long this will last, lol. This is to show what my table looked like when I was done and over with this project.Phew! Double click on the video to watch this in HD and do not forget to subscribe. In the video , I start off by wiping an embossing buddy(small white pouch) on the card to make it less static.Because the embossing powder usually would want to stick to areas you do not want them on your card, so you need to make sure this doesn't happen, and using the embossing buddy works brilliant for me. Then I have used the big and juicy embossing ink, the clear one to stamp my lovely butterfly stamp from Inkadinkado 'mindscapes' onto the card( the other big butterfly I showed first is from the set 'Gem stone insects' by Inkadinkado again)- Then I have embossed with sparkled embossing powder by whisper. I have also used Martha stewart lace punch and the bookmark is made from craft lollipop sticks.Anyway hope you will enjoy this tutorial.
2019-04-18T22:57:57Z
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I think I was walked home by about 10 people tonight. Which was quite the experience. Especially saying goodbye because many of them were Brazillian which meant the whole kiss on each cheek thing and whatnot. Plus I met a guy who was really cute and very sweet and we exchanged emails... and that was cool. I love swing night at S.O.B.s (Irving Plaza).
2019-04-24T20:34:07Z
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Cappeliez, Sarah. 2017. “Wine nerds and pleasure-seekers: Understanding wine taste formation and practice.” Paper presented at American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Palais des congrès, Montréal, August 2017. Cappeliez, Sarah. 2016. “How well does terroir travel? Illuminating mechanisms of translation using a comparative case study of wine.” Paper presented at XIV World Congress of Rural Sociology, Ryerson University, Toronto, August 2016. Cappeliez, Sarah. 2016. “’A form of cultural accomplishment’”: Developing a taste for wine in a New World context.” Paper presented at Scarborough Fare: Global Foodways and Local Foods in a Transnational City – ASFS/AFHVS/CAFS Annual Meeting, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, June 2016. Cappeliez, Sarah. 2015. ““Doing terroir”: The socio-natural construction of value and quality in wine.” Paper presented at 50th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Sociological Association, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, June 2015. Cappeliez. Sarah. 2014. “Diffusing Terroir: A Comparative Study of the Role of Terroir in Food and Wine in France and Canada.” Dissertation Workshop: Foodies, Gourmets and Transnational Food Flows. ASA Sociology of Consumers and Consumption Mini-Conference “From Farm to Table”. August 15, 2014. Berkeley, California, USA. Cappeliez, Sarah. 2014. “Constructing the Place of the Female Foodie Self.” Media Studies: The Gendering of Food Media. Canadian Sociological Association Annual Meeting. May 27, 2014. St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Cappeliez, Sarah and Josée Johnston. 2013. Co-organizer of four panels on consumption studies. Canadian Sociological Association Annual Meeting. June 4, 2013. Victoria, British Columbia. Cappeliez, Sarah. 2012. “Doing terroir”: A comparative case study.” Graduate student workshop at Global Consumption: Politics, Culture, and Practice (pre-ASA consumption section conference). August 16, 2012. Denver, Colorado, USA. Cappeliez, Sarah. 2012. “From connoisseur to tentative: Exploring everyday cosmopolitan eating practices.” Global Gateways & Local Connections: Cities, Agriculture and the Future of Food Systems (Association for the Study of Food and Society conference). June 22, 2012. New York University, New York, USA. Cappeliez, Sarah. 2012. “Museum of the selves: Exploring identity through food blogs.” Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS). May 26, 2012. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Waterloo, Ontario. Cappeliez, Sarah and Alexandra Rodney. 2012. “How Does Reflexivity Play a Role in Quantitative Research?” Cross Discipline Graduate Student Association Annual Conference. April 14, 2012. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. Cappeliez, Sarah. 2012. “From connoisseur to tentative: Exploring everyday cosmopolitan eating practices.” PhD Workshop: Intercultural comparisons of eating habits and food preferences. February 16-17, 2012. Institut Paul Bocuse, Écully, France. Cappeliez, Sarah. 2011.“Maximizing, pragmatic and tentative cosmopolitans: How everyday cosmopolitanism is expressed and valued differently.” Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS). May 28-30, 2011. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Fredericton, New Brunswick. Cappeliez, Sarah. 2004. “À la carte! Contemporary food discourse and practices of the body”. Joint Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS). June 10-13, 2004. Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, USA. “Local eating” (workshop). Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day. April 28, 2011. University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada. “Bon, propre et juste” (“Good, Clean, Fair”) (debate). 2007. Réveillons la démocratie!. December 6, 2007. Centre Municipal Culture Loisirs de Gap, Gap, France. “Le “bon produit”, c’est aussi une question d’éducation!” (workshop). 2007. Forum Alimentation et Culture de l’Institut Européen d’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation, 3e edition. November 30-December 1, 2007. Centre international de Congrès de Tours Val de Loire – Vinci, Tours, France. “L’éducation au goût en France” (workshop). 2007. Université d’Été Slow Food France. August 25-26, 2007. Espace Marie de Bourgogne, Beaune, France.
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https://sarahcappeliez.wordpress.com/conferences/
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Aircraft 79-1713 departed the runway surface after a hard landing in bad weather. Aircraft suffered damage to flaps, engines, and gear. Right main gear can be seen bent; nearly collapsed. Aircraft was disconnected from the tow vehicle without chocks or brakes being set. The aircraft rolled back until it struck a KC-10 maintenance tail stand. Severe damage to elevators, #2 engine, air refueling boom, tail cone, and empanage areas.
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The parents of Amanda Bynes have been granted a temporary conservatorship over their daughter’s affairs as she receives treatment in a psychiatric hospital. The “Hairspray” star was placed on a 72-day involuntary psychiatric hold on October 10 following days of bizarre behavior. On Tuesday, her treatment at Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, Calif., was extended by another 30 days because doctors deemed her unfit for release. Bynes’ parents Lynn and Rick filed legal documents to resume control over the star’s affairs. According to papers obtained by TMZ.com, they say she is a “substantial risk” to herself and others and is spending “alarming amounts” of money. The judge granted their request. In the documents, they state Bynes’ only income is from a rental property, but her current net worth stands at $5.7 million. Lynn and Rick were first granted a conservatorship in August last year after Bynes was placed on a psychiatric hold for the first time. Their control over her affairs ended in June. It is not known when the new conservatorship will expire.
2019-04-22T15:21:59Z
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I included an excerpt of Chapter One at the end of my latest eBook, Amish Awakening: Rebekah and Braeden’s Book, and I’m psyched to share Chapter Two with you today. This is told from the point of view of Xavier, the hero of the story. Happy reading! Here’s a picture of the ocean and rocks in Monterey, where The Mermaid’s Curse is set. I close my eyes and sit back on the smooth-topped boulder by the ocean’s edge. The rocks here at Point Joe are my favorite spot of Monterey’s 17-mile drive; they’re the perfect place to come when I’m feeling moody. Every so often, a particularly vicious wave crashes against the rocks like a train wreck, splashing me from head to toe with salt spray. I don’t worry about it, though. I have always felt a deep and passionate affinity toward the sea, and I don’t mind the clammy feeling of my damp trousers or the way the tangy breeze whips pieces of my hair across my forehead. My favorite moments are ones like these, when I’m alone and listening to the symphony of nature. The ocean has all the elements of a great musical masterpiece: gentle, rolling melodies when the water is calm, and the jarring, cacophonous roar of the high tide on nights like tonight, embellished by the raucous caws of the sea gulls. I can see why Debussy, one of my favorite composers, wrote La Mer, an entire piece of music, about it. But now, there’s another sound, something different. Somewhere from the depths of the ocean comes a soft, sweet tune, like a siren’s song. I force my eyes open and shake my head back and forth. Of course, this is only my imagination. It has been a long day, and I’ve only just escaped the dinner party with my father, mother, and all their friends. The mysterious strains of the siren’s song are most likely the fanciful product of the wine, whisky, and brandy that were flowing plentifully during our seven-course meal. Yet, still, there is something odd tonight, something more than the pull of the full moon, more than the general vacation feeling that I’ve had ever since my family and I came to our summer house here in Monterey. I watch the water, the waves glittering like living things under the white light of the moon, the sea foam hissing over the rocks. A particularly turbulent wave rumbles in; in its wake, I hear the song again and just barely discern a faint glimmer of aquamarine beneath the water’s surface. The stunning light grows and the melody amplifies, rising to a fantastic crescendo that sends shivers up my spine. Then, the surface of the water breaks and the head of a beautiful woman emerges in a halo of silver and blue light. I blink hard, rubbing my bleary eyes with the back of my hand. I’ve been able to make it twenty-one years without spectacles, but perhaps my vision is going. Or, more likely, it’s the alcohol I consumed earlier, playing tricks on me. But all my blinking, squinting, and eye rubbing do me no good. This really is a woman, with fine, high cheekbones and cornsilk hair that shines as brightly as the moon itself. Her white skin glistens with water droplets, and seems almost incandescent. My mouth drops open in disbelief as she glances over at me. She continues her song completely uninhibited, gliding toward me so fluidly that I wonder how she could possibly be kicking her legs under the water. Perhaps she’s not. She could be a mermaid. Of course, I’ve heard tales of mermaids, luring sailors to their deaths with their lovely forms and dulcet songs. I’ve even heard that many sailors, practically delirious after months at sea, have mistaken manatees for mermaids—an error that I can’t fathom. This magnificent female is certainly no sea cow. She continues her song until she has reached my side. Then, with a soft grunt of exertion, she hoists herself up onto the rock beside me. She smells of salt and sand, and her waist-length hair feels like seaweed as it brushes my arm. I open my mouth to speak, but no words emerge. She is a mermaid, wearing some kind of crude brassiere fashioned of a mosaic of colorful seashells. Her long tail glimmers gold, silver, and blue in the moonlight. “Hello,” she says, as calmly as if she were a friend of the family, coming over for a mid-afternoon luncheon and perhaps a round of golf. She smiles, her teeth as white and shiny as a strand of pearls. “Hello,” I croak, clearing my throat. Suddenly, my whole mouth has gone dry. The mermaid and I stare at each other for what seems like eternity, and her dazzling aquamarine eyes search my face. “That song—your voice—it’s so beautiful,” I stammer.
2019-04-26T16:59:38Z
https://kristinaludwig.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/new-unpublished-excerpt-from-the-mermaids-curse/
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I definitely approve of a country where they enthusiastically celebrate Shrove Tuesday with buns containing cardamom, almond paste and unreasonable amounts of whipped cream, but have very little idea what Lent actually is, let alone any willingness to give up good things. Chelm stories should not mention the Holocaust. Really. I know there's an actual town called Chelm, but it's not the same as the mythical place where the inhabitants got an extra share of foolishness or wisdom and nobody knows which. And it's deeply creepy to say that 8000 inhabitants were murdered or deported by the Nazis as your introduction to a jolly little story about trying to trade moonlight. There was a really good and satisfying snowfall this week. I'm a little jealous of Swedish kids who get weather like this reliably for at least a couple of weeks every winter, and get taken on sledging outings during play-time. OK, they don't get a day off school every time a few flakes of snow fall, but still. Lots of friends and Jewish community folk are really upset about the prospect of my leaving Sweden, even though I haven't committed to anything like that yet. This is making my social interactions a little embarrassing, as people don't know whether to encourage me in job-hunting or hope that everything goes wrong so that I have to stay here. If I actually end up leaving it's going to be unbearable. I am really enjoying playing with programming for Dreamwidth. It's satisfying, and it makes me regret spending 20 years not coding at all ever. I [...] have very little idea what Lent actually is, let alone any willingness to give up good things. Yet I can imagine you might, too, if you remove chametz from your home before Passover and refrain from consuming any for the duration of the holy day. It seems like a similar thing to me. Hm, I don't think Passover is strictly analogous. I don't feel proud of myself for resisting the temptation to eat bread and pasta during that week, it's not a self-denial thing at all. I do keep two solemn calendar periods where I refrain from alcohol and partying, plus a couple of full (no food or drink for 25 hours) fasts, which are probably more similar. Actually I'm not at all bothered by religious Christians who use Lent as a period of reflection about incidents in Jesus' life, and who abstain from meat or alcohol or whatever as part of that devotional practice. What I find strange is people who are not religious at all, but insist on giving something up "for Lent" in order to set themselves a test and prove their willpower. But I'm really only joking about what a good thing it is that Swedes don't keep Lent, I just like the idea of having a Shrove Tuesday indulgence with lots of rich ingredients, and then not giving anything up afterwards!
2019-04-22T16:43:53Z
https://livredor.livejournal.com/277487.html
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When we sit back and wonder, it’s not the big things we look at. The small, seemingly inconsequential things are the ones that leave a big impact on us, our minds. We cherish that one compliment that made our day, that small act of kindness, that one word of care. The small things almost always build up our large lives. Despite this, we tend to focus only on large things, we want to go to exotic vacation with our dear ones, want to become super rich and drive in fancy cars. Lets shift our focus for once on the smaller things – appreciate the drive with your friend on a bus / two wheeler, the honest opinion of a loved one, the small thoughtful act of someone of choosing your favorite ice cream flavor, the stupid yet wonderful effort of a person trying to make you laugh by doing crazy stuff when you are down, etc. Let’s open our hearts to numerous such small acts of love which we receive on a daily basis, let’s strive to put a smile on someone’s face by doing something small. Go give your colleague a compliment on his new shirt, give a helping hand to the old lady, call a friend and talk non sense.
2019-04-25T07:48:56Z
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Drug Situation: Due to California's diverse culture and unique geography, there are many issues that affect the drug situation in California. Drugs such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana are smuggled into the state from Mexico; however, methamphetamine and marijuana are also produced or cultivated in large quantities within the state. San Diego remains a principal transshipment zone for a variety of drugs - particularly cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamine - smuggled from Mexico. Most drug traffickers/organizations that are encountered by investigators continue to be polydrug traffickers rather than specializing in one type of drug. Methamphetamine and marijuana continue to be the drugs of choice in the San Diego and Imperial County area. Traffickers are looking for alternate routes to smuggle narcotics into the country since a great emphasis is still being placed on screening people and vehicles upon entering the U.S. from Mexico at San Ysidro, CA. There is an increase in narcotics trafficking in the East County of San Diego, as well as in Imperial County. Law enforcement agencies in the Imperial Valley reported a steady increase in drug seizures compared with last quarter. With security more relaxed since Sept. 11, 2001, drug traffickers appear to be returning to business as usual. Calexico's West Port of Entry, located in downtown Calexico, experienced the greatest number of drug seizures of the three border crossing points in Imperial County. This increase coincides with greater air smuggling activity observed along the Southwest Border. Cocaine: Mexican trafficking organizations dominate the wholesale cocaine trade, smuggling from Mexico into the United States. Cocaine is readily available throughout the state with Los Angeles being the nation's largest cocaine transshipment and distribution center. Typically, traffickers transport the cocaine to Los Angeles in vehicles with hidden compartments and then offload the cocaine into stash houses. The cocaine is then distributed in the Los Angeles metropolitan area or shipped to other communities throughout the country. The majority of the cocaine destined for the US continues to enter the country via land conveyance through the Ports of Entry along the California/Mexico border. In addition, substantial cocaine seizures by US Customs (BICE) at the Ports of Entry serve as evidence that cocaine traffickers continue to have confidence in the "shotgun" approach. Narcotic Task Force Team 1 has noticed an increase in the sale of powdered cocaine in the San Diego coastal communities ranging from Mission Beach to Del Mar. The organization responsible for providing the cocaine in these areas is from Veracruz, Mexico. Heroin: : California-based law enforcement agencies primarily seize Mexico black tar heroin. However, Southeast Asian, Southwest Asian, and Colombian heroin seizures periodically occur throughout the State. Mexican black tar heroin traffickers traditionally smuggle five pounds or less of Mexican black tar heroin across the border but law enforcement officials occasionally seize larger shipments. The increased availability of high-purity heroin that can be snorted allows a new, younger user population to use heroin without a syringe and needle. Drug treatment specialists stated that these new heroin users ingest large quantities of heroin that quickly move them to addiction. Law enforcement officials normally encounter ethnic West African and Southeast Asian nationals in the distribution and transportation of Asian heroin. California does not have any noticeable heroin abuse within its Asian communities. Black tar heroin remains the predominant type of heroin encountered in San Diego and Imperial Counties. Heroin seized in San Diego and Imperial Counties continues to be almost primarily Mexican black tar heroin. Mexican brown powder heroin is encountered on a less frequent basis. Heroin seems to be readily available in all quantities, and the purity is relatively high (40 to 80 percent). The heroin trade in San Diego and Imperial Counties continues to be dominated by close-knit Mexican families and organizations. Imperial County confidential sources report that Colombian heroin is now available on the streets. Methamphetamine: Methamphetamine is the primary drug threat in California. Mexican organizations dominate the production of high-quality meth, while a secondary trafficking group, comprised predominantly of Caucasians, operates small, unsophisticated laboratories. Clandestine laboratory seizures can be found in any location: high-density residential neighborhoods, sparsely populated rural areas, and remote desert locations. Over the past year, Mexican national meth traffickers have moved their laboratories to Northern California locations and Mexico to avoid increased law enforcement pressure. Methamphetamine is the most commonly abused drug in San Diego and Imperial Counties. The increase in number of Mexico-based labs has created an increase in the availability of methamphetamine in both San Diego and Imperial Counties. In fact, the increase in frequency of methamphetamine seizures at the US/Mexico border, and the decrease in the size of the clandestine labs being seized in San Diego County, seems to indicate that methamphetamine is being manufactured primarily in Mexico. Media reports in Mexico concerning explosions at methamphetamine labs in Tijuana and Ensenada, Mexico are quite common. All San Diego enforcement groups have noted that the purity levels of methamphetamine range from as low as ten percent to as high as 100 percent. The White and Hispanic communities are the predominant groups involved in the trafficking of this drug. The average methamphetamine user is willing to pay the higher price for high-quality "ice", instead of purchasing the lower purity methamphetamine. Club Drugs: MDMA (Ecstasy) is the most popular "club drug" with teens and young adults in the state. Israeli organizations have maintained their dominance of the wholesale importation and distribution of MDMA, while a few other criminal organizations are involved in the street level distribution of the drug. Users may take Ecstasy in combination with marijuana, alcohol, GHB, and methamphetamine to lengthen the effects of MDMA, and to counteract the undesirable effects of other drugs. LSD, Ketamine and GHB are also encountered in the rave scene. The use of both heroin and "club drugs" has increased among youth in San Diego County. In addition, investigators are also encountering GHB/Ecstasy more frequently at clubs, and among close knit groups such as the military and the homosexual community. Ongoing investigations in San Diego indicate that the availability of Ecstasy is increasing in San Diego County from small to large quantities. There is an increase in the manufacturing of Gamma Hydroxibutyrate (GHB), due to the relative ease of obtaining the necessary precursors (GBL and sodium hydroxide) and the availability of internet "recipes." Prescription Drugs: Vicodin, Ritalin, Rohypnol, Ketamine, and Valium are commonly diverted pharmaceutical narcotics. Many of these narcotics are used by teens and young adults frequenting the club scene. Rohypnol is available without a prescription at pharmacies throughout Mexico. The Los Angeles area, specifically Compton, California, is the primary source of PCP found in the United States. Consequently, PCP remains readily available. Diverted pharmaceutical drugs are readily available in the San Diego area. Hydrocodone products including Vicodin, VicodinES, Lortab, and Vicoprofen remain the diverted pharmaceutical drugs of choice for retail diversion in San Diego. Illicit mail order distribution operations in San Diego County continue to be a popular method to distribute pharmaceuticals. Marijuana: Marijuana is the most widely available and abused illicit drug in California. Large quantities of low-grade marijuana are smuggled into the state from Mexico. Highly potent Canadian marijuana, known as "BC bud" is also transported into the state. Potent domestic marijuana is also cultivated in sophisticated indoor, hydroponic gardens throughout the state. Statewide, cultivation has increased since California's voters passed Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, removing state legal sanctions for marijuana used to alleviate specific medical conditions with a doctor's recommendation. Cannabis "clubs" or "cooperatives" have established themselves as illegal distributors under the guise of "caregivers." Marijuana, both domestic and imported, is widely available in the San Diego area of responsibility, and continues to be the most prevalent drug smuggled into San Diego and Imperial Counties from Mexico. During this quarter, Mexican federal police elements seized multi-ton quantities of the drug in Baja California, Mexico. Enforcement Group 2 reports that marijuana, alcohol and methamphetamine are used interchangeably by chemically dependent individuals. Crack: African-Americans in San Diego's inner city neighborhoods are the populace most frequently involved in the distribution of crack cocaine. However, the cocaine obtained to make the "crack" is acquired from Mexican nationals. The San Diego Mobile Enforcement Team ended its deployment in Oceanside, CA, which targeted CRIPS and BLOODS street gang members. These individuals were distributing crack cocaine and methamphetamine in the Oceanside beach area, but resided in Los Angeles, CA. This deployment resulted in a total purchase/seizure of 548 grams of crack cocaine, 254 grams of cocaine hydrochloride, 1,100 grams of methamphetamine, 106 grams of marijuana, 29 grams of PCP, one Jennings J-22 semi-automatic handgun and $37,174 in US currency. A total of 35 individuals were arrested. Other Drugs: Vicodin, Ritalin, Rohypnol, Ketamine, and Valium are commonly diverted pharmaceutical narcotics. Many of these narcotics are used by teens and young adults frequenting the club scene. Rohypnol is available without a prescription at pharmacies throughout Mexico. The Los Angeles area, specifically Compton, California, is the primary source for the majority of PCP found in the United States. Consequently, PCP remains readily available. DEA Mobile Enforcement Teams: This cooperative program with state and local law enforcement counterparts was conceived in 1995 in response to the overwhelming problem of drug-related violent crime in towns and cities across the nation. There have been 381 deployments completed resulting in 15,731 arrests of violent drug criminals as of March 2003. There are three DEA Division offices in California: Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. Combined, these three divisions have completed 58 Mobile Enforcement Team (MET) deployments throughout the State of California since the inception of the program. 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Yavapai College was established in 1965 by means of a countywide election. In the four years that followed, a board was appointed, a bond was passed, college personnel were hired, and curricula were established. The first classes were held in fall of 1969. In February 1970, the college district dedicated its first buildings in Prescott on a 100-acre (0.40 km2) site that was once part of Fort Whipple, the military base constructed in 1864 to provide security and protection for the territorial capital. Yavapai College offers on-campus housing at the Prescott Campus in the two residence halls: Marapai and Kachina. There is a food court available, as well as Common Grounds café. Yavapai College operates year-round 24-hour police services. On October 3, 2012, the Yavapai College District Governing Board approved a motion to support reinvestment in on-campus housing, allotting $5.2 million for the proposed renovation project. The president is Dr. Lisa Rhine. In 2010-11, Yavapai College offered 99 certificate, degree, and transfer options to students in 73 different programs of study. In addition to traditional curriculum, the college offers many learning options to fit the lifestyles/circumstances of its students. Alternative learning options include: credit for prior learning, internships/service learning, non-credit courses, college for kids, high school partnerships (dual enrollment), internet courses, open entry/open exit courses, telecourses, senior programs (OLLI, Elderhostel/Edventures), and high school equivalency program (GED testing). Yavapai College currently sponsors four intercollegiate teams - two men (soccer, baseball) and two women (volleyball, softball) - and competes in Division 1 of the National Junior College Athletics Association (NJCAA). The college belongs to the Arizona Community College Athletics Conference (ACCAC), a league of fifteen community colleges throughout the State of Arizona. Men and women's basketball programs were sponsored until 2011, when they were eliminated due to Arizona state budget cuts. The college athletic teams have distinguished themselves athletically with national championships in soccer (7), baseball (4), softball (2) and cross country (2). Kole Calhoun, Right Fielder for Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of Major League Baseball. Curt Schilling, retired from MLB in March 2009; he last pitched for the Boston Red Sox. He was named co-MVP along with Randy Johnson in the 2001 World Series while pitching for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Alan Gordon, an American forward who currently plays for the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Roger Espinoza, a Honduran midfielder who currently plays for Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer. Avery John, a Trinidadian defender. Mike Randolph, a defender who is currently unattached. Kyle Blanks, major league first baseman and outfielder for the San Francisco Giants organization. Irving Garcia, a midfielder who currently plays for Portland Timbers 2 of the United Soccer League. Justin Meram, a striker who currently plays for the Orlando City SC of Major League Soccer. Eric Prindle, a Mixed Martial Arts fighter who competed for Bellator Fighting Championships. Billy Hatcher, a former major league outfielder who was a member of the Cincinnati Reds 1990 World Series victory. He is currently the Reds third base coach. Ken Giles, pitcher for the Houston Astros. ^ Hughes, Tom; Diane Mazmanian & Scott Rhyner, Yavapai College Fact Book 2014-2015. Retrieved on March 15, 2016. ^ Hughes, Tom; Diane Mazmanian & Sandra Thurman-Jackson, Yavapai College Fact Book 2006. Retrieved on July 16, 2006. ^ "YC District Governing Board October Meeting Report". Yavapai College. Retrieved 4 October 2012. ^ Hughes, Tom; Diane Mazmanian & Sandra Thurman-Jackson, Yavapai College Fact Book 2008. Retrieved on February 13, 2009. ^ "Yavapai College basketball programs being cut". USA Today. 26 February 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2012. This page was last edited on 19 April 2019, at 19:01 (UTC).
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The elite line of troops, dedicated to protecting the Emperor. The most feared troops in the entire Empire, who grace our screen in Return of the Jedi for but a few moments, simply marching and standing....Nobody messes with these guys! Then we got the prequels...and again we only make a brief appearance in the last movie. Yoda easily dispatches a pair of guards in Revenge of the Sith as he confronts Emperor Palpatine. Adorned in their blood red robes, and armed with lethal "force pikes", the Imperial Guard live to protect the Emperor at all costs. Hand-picked from an elite group of stormtroopers who have stood out in combat, they receive the best training and equipment in the Empire. Only the most promising soldiers who fall within the required size, strength, intelligence, and loyalty ranges are chosen for this duty. They are trained in the use of a wide range of weapons and unarmed combat styles, and conditioned to obey the Emperor's will and protect him with their very lives. The Royal Guard report only to Palpatine, and a handful are always with him. They are fighters, assassins and protectors, according to the Emperor's wishes. You know the drill...click on the picture, and it gets bigger! So Hallowe'en rolls around, and I needed a costume, well, an eBay deal and a sewing Mother-in-law later, viola, I had myself a hum dinger of a Royal Guard costume...All I needed was a weapon...how to make the force pike? Other bits for my costume...I had a bugger of a time finding red gloves, and still haven't, so I spray painted a pair of rubber gloves, they looked great at the beginning of the night, at the end however...the paint had cracked and peeled, and was flaking everywhere. That's why in the pictures you can't see my hands, or the end of the pike. I will get a proper picture of the pike soon, and put it up. After painting the gloves a nice poppy red, I was seriously considering doing the mask, but time would not allow it. Here it is, as promised, a picture, that of my home made Force Pike, that I detailed above. The pommel of the pike; the screw in part of a sink drain. The grip of the pike; the bike grip, and backflow prefentor. The tip of the pike; part of a light fixture, and a bit of tubing.
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An original art house music video from BlackMoon Society. Running down the path towards Surrealism they take a left turn to the unknown. Testing these new untamed waters where they need not to worry about genre, narrative, subtext or the viewer been able to make sense of the beautiful images flashing through their retina’s. It’s just that beautiful images for you to read into, interpret and make your own story up of what was trying to be conveyed. On a quiet remote island in the Indonesian waters of the south pacific there is a group of young ravenous man hunting for a wild beast this is just some fun they had along the way. Day of slaying waves it was time for a bintang and some live tunes. It’s nice to score some fun waves down here in the middle of the day while the rest of the camp is sleeping thinking it’s still on shore. Just to potentially get an autograph and a picture with the fun loving giant.
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ARCUS (βιός, τόξον), the bow used for shooting arrows, is one of the most ancient of all weapons, but is characteristic of Asia rather than of Europe. Thus in the description given by Herodotus (VII.61‑80) of the various nations composing the army of Xerxes, we observe that nearly all the troops without exception used the bow. The Scythians and Parthians were the most celebrated archers in the East, and among the Greeks the Cretans, who frequently served as a separate corps in the Greek armies, and subsequently also among the auxiliary troops of the Romans (comp. Xen. Anab. I.2 §9; Liv. XLII.35). The form of the Scythian and Parthian bow differed from that of the Greeks. The former was in the shape of a half-moon, and is shown in the upper of the two figures here exhibited, which is taken from one of Sir W. Hamilton's fictile vases (comp. Amm. Marc. XXII.8). The Greek bow, on the other hand, the usual form of which is shown in the lower of the preceding figures, has a double curvature, consisting of two circular portions united in the middle (πῆχυς). According to the description in Homer (Il. IV.105‑126), the bow was made of two pieces of horn, hence frequently called κέρας and cornu. The bow-string (νευρά) was twisted, and was frequently made of thongs of leather (νεῦρα βόεια). It was always fastened to one end of the bow, and at the other end there hung a ring or hook (κορώνη), usually made of metal (χρυσέη), to which the string was attached, when the bow was to be used. In the same passage of Homer we have a description of a man preparing to shoot, and this account is illustrated by the following outline of a statue belonging to the group of the Aeginetan marbles. The bow, placed in the hands of this statue, was probably of bronze, and has been lost. When not used, the bow was put into a case (τοξοθήκη, γωρυτός, Corytus), which was made of leather, and sometimes ornamented (φαεινός, Hom. Od. XXI.54). The bow-case is very conspicuous in the sculptured bas-reliefs of Persepolis. It frequently held the arrows as well as the bow, and on this account is often confounded with the Pharetra or quiver. Though its use was comparatively rare among the Greeks and Romans, we find it exhibited in a bas-relief in the Museo Pio-Clementino (vol. IV tav. 43), which is copied in the annexed cut.
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And we finally exited IBESR (nicknamed “the black hole” by frustrated adopting families). We entered IBESR December 13th, 2013. More than 3 years later, we are OUT. IBESR is typically the longest/most unpredictable portion of the Haitian adoption process (I hope I am not jinxing our file by writing this). I know that everyone’s next question is when can we bring him home. Our answer remains the same: we don’t know. We are praying for a 2017 homecoming. I am headed to Haiti March 9th to visit my boo – this progress could not have come at a better time. I had some seriously soul crushing moments last week where I thought the weight was going to break me (I am typically not dramatic, but it was a dark week). We are so thankful to be moving forward-thanks for continued prayers! Thrilled to read good news. Think of of you all so often. Continuing to pray!!! So HAPPY for you guys!! I know that is such a relief. I pray that you move quickly through the next phases. We are currently waiting for our decree and hoping for a 2017 homecoming as well.
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I ran into jewelry designer Elma Blint at the vendors market at Madison Square Park a few days ago and we spoke of the relative merits of the the nearby Shake Shack (the burgers, she proclaimed, “excellent”) She then delightedly shared the news that her 6-foot-2 thirteen year-old son, is one of the top three students in New York State. It made me smile, because it is, of course impressive and her pride infectious, but also it reminded me of the passage of time. I first met a very pregnant Elma when I happened across her chic, Upper West Side jewelry boutique, Amle Arte when I was on the prowl for an Essence shoot. We discovered that we knew a few people in common, that we were Brooklyn neighbors and we vowed to stay in touch. I remember her boundless energy during the last days of pregnancy as she nurtured the nascent shop as well as the boy within, Tyler. Elma eventually moved her business to the then-burgeoning, acronymic shopping district, NoLita and focused on developing her Elma Blint line of jewelry. She has since brought another son, Kyle, into the world and moved her base of operations to Fort Greene, where she also participates in the much ballyhooed weekend market, Brooklyn Flea. Most offerings are available in both 14k gold as well as budget-friendly sterling silver. She’s discovered that many of her customers, have, as does she, a small wrist. Her specialty bangles are engineered to accommodate the diminutive size even when one’s hands are large. Her “ID” bracelets can be customized (GQ mag snapped some up) and her bar ring gives the illusion of a multiple ring without forcing the fingers into confinement. Her streamlined designs make for the perfect modern touch to any look. The beautiful designer at her seasonal market stall at Madison Square Park. Some of Elma’s favorites from the current collection include the perfect-fit organic bangles, bar ring and her nod to our home borough, Brooklyn. This entry was posted on Monday, October 19th, 2009 at 4:38 pm and is filed under Brooklyn, Design and Jewelry. Tagged: Brooklyn Flea, Elma Blint, Madison Square Park. You can feed this entry. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, ED (24 January 1884 – 27 May 1951) was an Australian general of the First and Second World Wars, and the only Australian to attain the rank of field marshal. Blamey joined the Australian Army as a regular soldier in 1906, and attended the Staff College at Quetta. During the First World War he participated in the landing at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915, and served as a staff officer in the Gallipoli Campaign, where he was mentioned in despatches for a daring raid behind enemy lines. He later served on the Western Front, where he distinguished himself in the planning for the Battle of Pozières. He rose to the rank of brigadier general, and served as chief of staff of the Australian Corps under Lieutenant General Sir John Monash, who credited him as a factor in the Corps' success in the Battle of Hamel, the Battle of Amiens and the Battle of the Hindenburg Line. After the war Blamey was Deputy Chief of the General Staff, and was involved in the creation of the Royal Australian Air Force. He resigned from the regular Army in 1925 to become Chief Commissioner of the Victoria Police, but remained in the Militia, rising to command the 3rd Division in 1931. As chief commissioner, Blamey set about dealing with the grievances that had led to the 1923 Victorian Police strike, and implemented innovations such as police dogs and equipping vehicles with radios. His tenure as chief commissioner was marred by a scandal in which his police badge was found in a brothel, and a later attempt to cover up the shooting of a police officer led to his forced resignation in 1936. He later made weekly broadcasts on international affairs on Melbourne radio station 3UZ. Appointed chairman of the Commonwealth Government's Manpower Committee and controller general of recruiting in 1938, he headed a successful recruiting campaign which doubled the size of the part-time volunteer Militia. During the Second World War Blamey commanded the Second Australian Imperial Force and the I Corps in the Middle East. In the latter role he commanded Australian and Commonwealth troops in the disastrous Battle of Greece. In the former role, he attempted to protect Australian interests against British commanders who sought to disperse his forces on all manner of missions. He was appointed deputy commander-in-chief of Middle East Command, and was promoted to general in 1941. In 1942, he returned to Australia as commander-in-chief of the Australian Military Forces and commander of Allied Land Forces in the South West Pacific Area under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. On the orders of MacArthur and Prime Minister John Curtin, he assumed personal command of New Guinea Force during the Kokoda Track campaign, and relieved Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell and Major General Arthur Allen under controversial circumstances. Blamey also planned and carried out the significant and victorious Salamaua–Lae Campaign. Nonetheless, during the final campaigns of the war he faced vociferous criticism of the Army's performance. He signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on behalf of Australia at Japan's ceremonial surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945, and later personally accepted the Japanese surrender at Morotai on 9 September. He was promoted to field marshal in June 1950. The seventh of ten children, Blamey was born on 24 January 1884 in Lake Albert, near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. He was the son of Richard Blamey, a farmer who had emigrated from Cornwall at the age of 16 in 1862, and his Australian-born wife, Margaret (née Murray). After farming failures in Queensland and on the Murrumbidgee River near Wagga Wagga, his father Richard moved to a small 20-acre (8.1 ha) property in Lake Albert, where he supplemented his farm income working as a drover and shearing overseer. Blamey acquired the bush skills associated with his father's enterprises and became a sound horseman. He attended Wagga Wagga Superior Public School (now Wagga Wagga Public School), where he played Australian football, and was a keen member of the Army Cadet unit. He transferred to Wagga Wagga Grammar when he was 13, and was head cadet of its unit for two years. Blamey began his working life in 1899 as a trainee school teacher at Lake Albert School. He transferred to South Wagga Public School in 1901, and in 1903 moved to Western Australia, where he taught for three years at Fremantle Boys School. He coached the rifle shooting team of its cadet unit there to a win in the Western Australian Cup. He was raised in the Methodist faith and remained involved with his church. By early 1906 he was a lay preacher, and church leaders in Western Australia offered him an appointment as an associate minister in Carnarvon, Western Australia. With the creation of the Cadet Instructional Staff of the Australian Military Forces, Blamey saw a new opportunity. He sat the exam and came third in Australia, but failed to secure an appointment as there were no vacancies in Western Australia. After correspondence with the military authorities he persuaded the Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Major Julius Bruche, that he should be given the option of taking up an appointment for one of the vacancies in another state. He was appointed to a position in Victoria with the rank of lieutenant, commencing duty in November 1906 with responsibility for school cadets in Victoria, and was confirmed in his rank and appointment the following 29 June. In Melbourne, Blamey met Minnie Millard, the daughter of a Toorak stockbroker who was involved in the Methodist Church there. They were married at her home on 8 September 1909. His first child was born on 29 June 1910, and named Charles Middleton after a friend of Blamey's who had died in a shooting accident; but the boy was always called Dolf by his family. A second child, a boy named Thomas, was born four years later. Blamey was promoted to captain on 1 December 1910, and became brigade major of the 12th Brigade Area. He then set his sights on attending staff college. There were two British staff colleges, at Camberley in England and Quetta in India, and from 1908 one position was set aside for the Australian Army at each every year. No Australian officers managed to pass the demanding entrance examinations, but this requirement was waived to allow them to attend. In 1911, Blamey became the first Australian officer to pass the entrance examination. He commenced his studies at Quetta in 1912, and performed very well, completing the course in December 1913. The usual practice was for Australian staff college graduates to follow their training with a posting to a British Army or British Indian Army headquarters. He was initially attached to the 4th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps at Rawalpindi, and then the staff of the Kohat Brigade on the North-West Frontier. Finally, he was assigned to the General Staff at Army Headquarters at Shimal. In May 1914, he was sent to Britain for more training, while his family returned home to Australia. He visited Turkey (including the Dardanelles), Belgium, and the battlefields of the Franco-Prussian War en route. In England he spent a brief time on attachment to the 4th Dragoon Guards at Tidworth before taking up duties on the staff of the Wessex Division, at that time entering its annual camp. On 1 July 1914, he was promoted to major. Following the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Blamey was transferred to the War Office, where he worked in the Intelligence Branch preparing daily summaries for the King and the Secretary of State for War, Lord Kitchener. Fully trained staff officers were rare and valuable in the Australian Army, and while still in Britain, Blamey was appointed to the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) as general staff officer, Grade 3 (Intelligence), on the staff of Major General William Bridges's 1st Division. As such, he reported to the 1st Division's GSO1, Lieutenant Colonel Brudenell White. In November 1914 he sailed for Egypt with Colonel Harry Chauvel, to join the Australian contingent there. His appointment as GSO 3 was confirmed with effect from 10 December. Along with Bridges, White, and other members of 1st Division headquarters, Blamey left the battleship HMS Prince of Wales in a trawler and landed on the beach at Anzac Cove at 07:20 on 25 April 1915. He was sent to evaluate the need for reinforcements by Colonel James McCay's 2nd Brigade on the 400 Plateau. He confirmed that they were needed, and the reinforcements were sent. On the night of 13 May 1915, Blamey, in his capacity as 1st Division intelligence officer, led a patrol consisting of himself, Sergeant J. H. Will and Bombardier A. A. Orchard, behind the Turkish lines in an effort to locate the Olive Grove guns that had been harassing the beach. Near Pine Ridge, an enemy party of eight Turks approached; when one of them went to bayonet Orchard, Blamey shot the Turk with his revolver. In the action that followed, six Turks were killed. He withdrew his patrol back to the Australian lines without locating the guns. For this action, he was mentioned in despatches. Blamey was always interested in technical innovation, and was receptive to unorthodox ideas. He was instrumental in the adoption of the periscope rifle at Gallipoli, a device which he saw during an inspection of the front line. He arranged for the inventor, Lance Corporal W. C. B. Beech, to be seconded to division headquarters to develop the idea. Within a few days, the design was perfected and periscope rifles began to be used throughout the Australian trenches. On 21 July 1915 Blamey was given a staff appointment as a general staff officer, Grade 2 (GSO2), with the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel. and with effect from 2 August joined the staff of the newly formed 2nd Division in Egypt as its assistant adjutant and quartermaster general (AA&QMG) – the senior administrative officer of the division. Its commander, Major General James Gordon Legge, preferred to have an Australian colonel in this post as he felt that a British officer might not take such good care of the troops. The 2nd Division Headquarters embarked for Gallipoli on 29 August 1915, but Blamey was forced to remain in Egypt as he had just had an operation for haemorrhoids. He finally returned to Anzac on 25 October 1915, remaining for the rest of the campaign. After the Australian forces moved to the Western Front in 1916, Blamey returned to the 1st Division as GSO1 on 10 July. At the Battle of Pozières, he developed the plan of attack which captured the town, for which he received another mention in despatches, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in the 1917 New Year Honours. He was considered as a possible brigade commander, but he had never commanded a battalion, which was usually regarded as a prerequisite for brigade command. He was therefore appointed to command the 2nd Infantry Battalion on 3 December 1916. On 28 December, Blamey, as senior ranking battalion commander, took over as acting commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade. On 9 January 1917, he went on leave, handing over command to Lieutenant Colonel Iven Mackay. However, when General Headquarters (GHQ) BEF found out about this use of a staff college graduate, it reminded I ANZAC Corps that "it is inadvisable to release such officers for command of battalions unless they have proved to be unequal to their duties on staff". Blamey therefore returned to 1st Division Headquarters. Lieutenant General Sir William Birdwood did, however, promote Blamey to full colonel, backdated to 1 December 1916, thereby making him technically senior to a number of recently promoted brigadier generals, that rank being only held temporarily. His division commander, Major General H. B. Walker, had Blamey mentioned in despatches for this period of battalion and brigade command, although the battalion had spent most of the time out of the line and there had been no significant engagements. Blamey was also acting commander of the 2nd Brigade during a rest period from 27 August to 4 September 1917. On 8 September he was hospitalised with vomiting and coughing. He was sent to England where he was admitted to the 3rd London General Hospital for treatment for debilitating psoriasis on 22 September, and did not return to duty until 8 November 1917, by which time he had been promoted to brevet lieutenant-colonel on 24 September. He was made a Companion of St Michael and St George in the 1918 New Year's list, and received another mention in despatches in May 1918. No reference to the staff work of the Australian Corps during the period of my command would be complete without a tribute to the work and personality [of] Brigadier General T. A. Blamey, my Chief of Staff. He possessed a mind cultured far above the average, widely informed, alert and prehensile. He had [an] infinite capacity for taking pains. A Staff College graduate, but not on that account a pedant, he was thoroughly versed in the technique of staff work, and in the minutiae of all procedure. He served me with an exemplary loyalty, for which I owe a debt of gratitude which cannot be repaid. Our temperaments adapted themselves to each other in a manner which was ideal. He had an extraordinary faculty for self-effacement, posing always and conscientiously as the instrument to give effect [to] my policies and decisions. Really helpful whenever his advice was invited, he never obtruded his own opinions, although I knew that he did not always agree with me. Blamey's loyalty to Monash would continue after the latter's death in 1931. For his services as Corps Chief of Staff, Blamey was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1919, mentioned in despatches twice more, and was awarded the French Croix de guerre. Blamey arrived back in Australia on 20 October 1919 after an absence of seven years, and became director of Military Operations at Army Headquarters in Melbourne. His AIF appointment was terminated on 19 December 1919, and on 1 January 1920, he was simultaneously confirmed in the rank of lieutenant-colonel and promoted to substantive colonel, also receiving the honorary rank of brigadier-general with effect from 1 June 1918. In May 1920, he was appointed Deputy Chief of the General Staff. His first major task was the creation of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The government established a joint Army–Navy board to provide recommendations on the matter, with Blamey and Lieutenant Colonel Richard Williams as the Army representatives. Blamey supported the creation of a separate air force, albeit one still subordinate to the Army and Navy. He refused to yield, however, on his opposition to the Navy's demand that Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Goble become its first chief. In November 1922 Blamey embarked for London to be the Australian representative on the Imperial General Staff. He reported that the "conception of an Imperial General Staff ... was absolutely dead". The British Army saw little use in the concept of a combined staff which could coordinate the defence of the British Empire. He became involved with the development of the Singapore strategy, and he briefed Prime Minister Stanley Bruce on it for the 1923 Imperial Conference, at which it was formally adopted. Even in 1923, though, Blamey was sceptical about the strategy. When White retired as Chief of General Staff in 1923, Blamey was widely expected to succeed him, as he had as chief of staff of the Australian Corps in France, but there were objections from more senior officers, particularly Major General Victor Sellheim, at being passed over. Instead, the Inspector General, Lieutenant General Sir Harry Chauvel, was made Chief of General Staff as well, while Blamey was given the new post of Second CGS, in which he performed most of the duties of Chief of General Staff. Seeing no immediate prospects for advancement, Blamey transferred from the Permanent Military Forces to the Militia on 1 September 1925. For the next 14 years he would remain in the Army as a part-time soldier. On 1 May 1926 he assumed command of the 10th Infantry Brigade, part of the 3rd Division. Blamey stepped up to command the 3rd Division on 23 March 1931, and was promoted to major general, one of only four Militia officers promoted to this rank between 1929 and 1939. In 1937 he was transferred to the unattached list. In 1923, the Victoria Police went on strike, and Monash and McCay established a Special Constabulary Force to carry out police duties. After the Chief Commissioner, Alexander Nicholson, resigned for ill-health in 1925, Chauvel recommended Blamey for the post. He became Chief Commissioner on 1 September 1925 for a five-year term, with a salary of £1,500 per annum (A$100,227 in 2008 dollars). Blamey set about addressing the grievances that had caused the strike, which he felt "were just, even if they went the wrong way about them". Blamey improved pay and conditions, and implemented the recommendations of the Royal Commission into the strike. He attempted to introduce faster promotion based on merit, but this was unpopular with the Police Association, and was abandoned by his successors. As in the Army, he showed a willingness to adopt new ideas. He introduced police dogs, and increased the number of police cars equipped with two-way radios from one in 1925 to five in 1930. He also boosted the numbers of policewomen on the force. Blamey became involved in his first and greatest scandal soon after taking office. During a raid on a brothel in Fitzroy on 21 October 1925, the police encountered a man who produced Blamey's police badge, No. 80. Blamey later said that he had given his key ring, which included his badge, to a friend who had served with him in France, so that the man could help himself to some alcohol in Blamey's locker at the Naval and Military Club. His story was corroborated by his friend Stanley Savige, who was with him at the time. Blamey protected the man in question, who he said was married with children, and refused to identify him. The man has never been identified, but the description given by the detectives and the brothel owner did not match Blamey. During the 1920s, Victoria had repressive and restrictive drinking laws, including the notorious six o'clock closing. Blamey took the position that it was the job of the police to enforce the laws, even if they did not support them. Many members of the public did not agree with this attitude, maintaining that the police should not uphold such laws. Almost as controversially, Blamey drew a sharp distinction between his personal life and his job. His presence in a hotel after closing time was always welcome, as it meant that drinking could continue, for it was known that it would not be raided while he was there; but other citizens felt that it was unjust when they were arrested for breaking the same laws. As Police Commissioner Blamey defended the actions of the police during the 1928 Waterside Workers' Federation dispute, during which police opened fire, killing a striking worker who was also a Gallipoli veteran, and wounding several others. His treatment of the unionists was typical of his hard line anti-communist beliefs and as such his relations with left-wing governments were tense. Along with many senior army and ex-army officers, he was a leading member of the clandestine far-right-wing League of National Security. This was reportedly a response to the rise of communism in Australia. Its members stood ready to take up arms to stop a Catholic or communist revolution. Blamey was re-appointed as Chief Commissioner in 1930, but at a reduced salary of £1,250 per annum. A year later it was reduced still further, to £785, due to cutbacks as a result of the Great Depression. Minnie became an invalid, and by 1930 no longer accompanied him in public. His son Dolf, now an RAAF flying officer, was killed in an air crash at RAAF Base Richmond in October 1932, and Minnie died in October 1935. Blamey was knighted in the 1935 New Year Honours, and in 1936 he was appointed a Commander of the Venerable Order of Saint John. A second scandal occurred in 1936 when Blamey attempted to cover up details of the shooting of the superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Branch, John O'Connell Brophy, whom Blamey had appointed to the post. The story put about was that Brophy had taken two women friends and a chauffeur along with him to a meeting with a police informant. While they were waiting for the informant, they had been approached by armed bandits, and Brophy had opened fire and had himself been wounded. In order to cover up the identities of the two women involved, Blamey initially issued a press release to the effect that Brophy had accidentally shot himself (three times). The Premier, Albert Dunstan, gave Blamey the choice of resigning or being dismissed. The latter meant the loss of pension rights and any future prospects of employment in the Public Service or the Army. He reluctantly submitted his resignation on 9 July 1936. From March 1938 Blamey supplemented his income by making weekly broadcasts on international affairs on Melbourne radio station 3UZ under the pseudonym "the Sentinel". Like the station's general manager, Alfred Kemsley, Blamey felt that Australians were poorly informed about international affairs, and set about raising awareness of matters that he believed would soon impact them greatly. He was appalled at Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews, and saw a clear and growing menace to world peace from both Germany and the Japan. His 15-minute weekly talks continued until the end of September 1939, by which time the war that he had warned was coming had started. In November 1938, Blamey was appointed chairman of the Commonwealth Government's Manpower Committee and Controller General of Recruiting. As such, he laid the foundation for the expansion of the Army in the event of war with Germany or Japan, which he now regarded as inevitable. In 1938 and 1939, he headed a successful recruiting campaign which doubled the size of the part-time volunteer Militia from 35,000 in September 1938 to 70,000 in March 1939. On 5 April 1939 he married Olga Ora Farnsworth, a 35-year-old fashion artist, at St John's Anglican Church, Toorak. Henry Somer Gullett and Richard Casey, who had served with Blamey at Gallipoli and in France, put Blamey's name forward to Prime Minister Joseph Lyons as a possible commander in chief in the event of a major war. "We've got some brilliant staff officers," Casey told Lyons, "but Blamey is a commander. That's the difference." Lyons initially had concerns about Blamey's morals, but Casey and Lyons summoned Blamey to a meeting in Canberra, after which Lyons designated him for the job. Lyons died on 7 April 1939, and was replaced as prime minister by Robert Menzies, another prominent supporter of Blamey's. Two other officers, Major Generals Gordon Bennett and John Lavarack, were considered, and also had strong and well-connected supporters, but unlike Blamey they were public critics of the government's defence policies. Lady (Olga) Blamey presenting the prizes to the winning teams in the Gaza Beach Surf Lifesaving Carnival. Newspapers in Australia criticised her presence, although the wives of senior British officers, including General Sir Archibald Wavell and Lieutenant General Richard O'Connor, had joined their husbands in the Middle East. On 13 October 1939, a month after the outbreak of the Second World War, Blamey was promoted to lieutenant general, and appointed to command the 6th Division, the first formation of the new Second Australian Imperial Force, and received the AIF service number VX1. Menzies limited his choice of commanders by insisting that they be selected from the Militia rather than the Permanent Military Forces (PMF), the Army's full-time, regular component. For brigade commanders he chose Brigadiers Arthur Allen, Leslie Morshead and Stanley Savige. He selected Brigadier Edmund Herring to command the 6th Division artillery, Colonel Samuel Burston for its medical services, and Lieutenant Colonels Clive Steele and Jack Stevens for its engineers and signals. All except Allen had previously served with him during his time commanding the 3rd Division in Melbourne. For his two most senior staff officers, he chose two PMF officers, Colonel Sydney Rowell as GSO1 and Lieutenant Colonel George Alan Vasey as AA&QMG. In February 1940, the War Cabinet decided to form a second AIF division, the 7th Division, and group the 6th and 7th Divisions together as I Corps, with Blamey as its commander. On Blamey's recommendation, Major General Iven Mackay was appointed to succeed him in command of the 6th Division, while Lieutenant General John Lavarack, a PMF officer, assumed command of the 7th Division. Blamey took Rowell with him as his corps chief of staff, and picked Major General Henry Wynter as his administrative officer. Blamey flew to Palestine on a Qantas flying boat in June 1940. He refused to allow his troops to perform police duties in Palestine, and established warm relations with the Jewish community there, becoming a frequent guest in their homes. As commander of the AIF, Blamey was answerable directly to the Minister of Defence, rather than to the Military Board, with a charter based on that given to Bridges in 1914. Part of this required that his forces remain together as cohesive units, and that no Australian forces were to be deployed or engaged without the prior consent of the Australian government. Blamey was not inflexible, and permitted Australian units to be detached when there was a genuine military need. Because the situation in the Middle East lurched from crisis to crisis, this resulted in his troops becoming widely scattered at times. When the crises had passed, however, he wanted units returned to their parent formations. This resulted in conflicts with British commanders. The first occurred in August 1940 when the British Commander in Chief Middle East Command, General Sir Archibald Wavell, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill, ordered the 16th Infantry Brigade to move to Egypt. Blamey refused on the grounds that the brigade was not yet fully equipped, but eventually compromised, sending it on the understanding that it would soon be joined by the rest of the 6th Division. Memorial statue of Field Marshal Blamey in Kings Domain, Melbourne, by Raymond B. Ewers. Blamey is mounted on a jeep instead of the traditional horse. This conveys Blamey's role in the technological transformation of the Army that occurred during his years of service. I Corps assumed responsibility for the front in Cyrenaica on 15 February 1941, but within days Blamey was informed that his troops would be sent on the expedition to Greece. Blamey has been criticised for allowing this when he knew it was extremely hazardous, after he was told that Menzies had approved. He insisted, however, on sending the veteran 6th Division first instead of the 7th Division, resulting in a heated argument with Wavell, which Blamey won. He was under no illusions about the odds of success, and immediately prepared plans for an evacuation. His foresight and determination saved many of his men, but he lost credibility when he chose his son Tom to fill the one remaining seat on the aircraft carrying him out of Greece. The campaign exposed deficiencies in the Australian Army's training, leadership and staff work that had passed unnoticed or had not been addressed in the Libyan Campaign. The pressure of the campaign opened a rift between Blamey and Rowell, which was to have important consequences. While Rowell and Brigadier William Bridgeford were extremely critical of Blamey's performance in Greece, this opinion was not widely held. Wavell reported that "Blamey has shown himself a fine fighting commander in these operations and fitted for high command." The political fallout from the disastrous Battle of Greece led to Blamey's appointment as Deputy Commander in Chief Middle East Command in April 1941. However, to ensure that command would not pass to Blamey in the event of something happening to Wavell, the British government promoted Sir Henry Maitland Wilson to general in June. Soon afterwards, Wavell was replaced by General Sir Claude Auchinleck. Blamey was subsequently promoted to the same rank on 24 September 1941, becoming only the fourth Australian to reach this rank, after Monash, Chauvel and White. During the Syrian campaign against the Vichy French, Blamey took decisive action to resolve the command difficulties caused by Wilson's attempt to direct the fighting from the King David Hotel in Jerusalem by interposing Lavarack's I Corps headquarters. During Blamey's absence in Greece, AIF units had become widely scattered, with forces being deployed to Cyprus, and the 9th Division and the 18th Infantry Brigade coming under siege in Tobruk. Blamey would spend the rest of the year attempting to reassemble his forces. This led to a clash with Auchinleck over the relief of Tobruk, where Blamey accepted Burston's advice that the Australian troops there should be relieved on medical grounds. Menzies, and later his successor, John Curtin, backed Blamey, and Auchinleck and Churchill were forced to give way resulting in the relief of most of the Australian troops by the British 70th Division. For his campaigns in the Middle East, Blamey was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 1 January 1942. He was Mentioned in Despatches for the eighth time, and was awarded the Greek War Cross, First Class. Blamey with MacArthur in October 1942. MacArthur had flown to Port Moresby to consult with Blamey on logistical arrangements for the campaign in Papua. The defence of Australia took on a new urgency in December 1941 with the entry of Japan into the war. Within the Army there was a concern that Bennett or Lavarack would be appointed as commander-in-chief. In March 1942, Vasey, Herring and Steele approached the Minister for the Army, Frank Forde, with a proposal that all officers over the age of 50 be immediately retired and Major General Horace Robertson be appointed commander-in-chief. This "revolt of the generals" collapsed with the welcome news that Blamey was returning from the Middle East to become commander-in-chief of Australian Military Forces. General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia in March 1942 to become Supreme Commander South West Pacific Area (SWPA). In addition to his duties as commander-in-chief, Blamey became commander of Allied Land Forces, South West Pacific Area. In the reorganisation that followed his return to Australia on 23 March, Blamey appointed Lavarack to command the First Army, Mackay to command the Second Army, and Bennett to command the III Corps in Western Australia. Vasey became deputy chief of the general staff (DCGS), while Herring took over Northern Territory Force, and Robertson became commander of the 1st Armoured Division. Blamey's Allied Land Forces Headquarters (LHQ) was established in Melbourne, but after MacArthur's General Headquarters (GHQ) moved to Brisbane in July 1942, Blamey established an Advanced LHQ in nearby St Lucia, Queensland. The Allied command structure was soon put under strain by Australian reverses in the Kokoda Track campaign. MacArthur was highly critical of the Australian performance, and confided to the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George Marshall, that "the Australians have proven themselves unable to match the enemy in jungle fighting. Aggressive leadership is lacking." MacArthur told Curtin that Blamey should be sent up to New Guinea to take personal command of the situation. Curtin later confessed that "in my ignorance (of military matters) I thought that the Commander in Chief should be in New Guinea." Jack Beasley suggested that Blamey would make a convenient scapegoat: "Moresby is going to fall. Send Blamey up there and let him fall with it!" Blamey and Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger. Blamey felt he had no choice, but his assumption of command of New Guinea Force sat uneasily with Rowell, the commander of I Corps there, who saw it as displaying a lack of confidence in him. A petulant Rowell would not be mollified, and, after a series of disagreements, Blamey relieved Rowell of his command, replacing him with Herring. More reliefs followed. Herring relieved Brigadier Arnold Potts of the 21st Infantry Brigade, replacing him with Brigadier Ivan Dougherty on 22 October. Five days later, Blamey replaced Allen as the 7th Division's commander with Vasey. Nor were generals the only ones to be removed. Blamey cancelled Chester Wilmot's accreditation as a war correspondent in October 1942 for spreading a false rumour that Blamey was taking payments from the laundry contractor at Puckapunyal. Wilmot was reinstated, but on 1 November 1942, Blamey again terminated Wilmot's accreditation, this time for good. [Blamey] said that the Jap was like a gorilla; he would get into a hole and he would not surrender; while in his hole and protected by it he would kill; to be dealt with he had to be got out of his holes and put on the run. Blamey added that it was like shooting rabbits: while the rabbits were in their burrows they could not be shot; they had to be got on the run and then the man with the gun could get them. "It never entered my head as I stood there on parade that the general had any idea he was being offensive, or that he intended to be so", wrote Brigadier Dougherty (then a newcomer to the brigade) afterwards. "But the brigade gave to what he said the interpretation that 'they ran like rabbits'. This interpretation of what he said spread throughout New Guinea and indeed back home, and resulted in bitter feelings. Following his address to the whole brigade [General Blamey] addressed the officers separately. He was direct with them and said that a few officers in the brigade had failed. This caused bitterness. But after both addresses Blamey told me that he thought highly of the brigade, and repeated to me what he had told the whole brigade—that I, as their new brigade commander, would be very proud of them." The implication of cowardice was seen as contrasting with his own inability to stand up to MacArthur and the Prime Minister. Rowell felt that Blamey "had not shown the necessary 'moral courage' to fight the Cabinet on an issue of confidence in me." When American troops suffered serious reverses in the Battle of Buna–Gona, Blamey turned the tables on MacArthur. According to Lieutenant General George Kenney, the commander of Allied Air Forces, Blamey "frankly said he would rather send in more Australians, as he knew they would fight ... a bitter pill for MacArthur to swallow". In January 1943, he visited the Buna–Gona battlefield, surprising Vasey at how far forward he went, seemingly unconcerned about his safety. Blamey was impressed by the strength of the Japanese fortifications that had been captured, later telling correspondents that Australian and American troops had performed miracles. At the very peak of this leadership development was General Blamey himself. His greatness was demonstrated almost daily by a knowledge unparalleled in Australia of how an army should be formed and put to work; by his exercise of the vital field command at the same time as he kept within his grasp a vastly detailed control of the Australian Army as a whole; by his sagacity and strength in meeting the rapidly changing demands of a difficult political situation; by his ability speedily to encompass the requirements of the new war and plan far ahead of the events of the day as he controlled them; by his generally unappreciated humanity. For the Papuan Campaign, MacArthur awarded Blamey the American Distinguished Service Cross, and Blamey was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire on 28 May 1943. This was unusual as it was the Australian Labor Party's policy not to award knighthoods, but was done as a response to the British government's awards to British and American officers for the North African campaign. Blamey's and Herring's knighthoods would be the last that the Labor government would award to Australian soldiers. Nothing substantial would have been gained by this arrangement and much would have been lost: notably the existence of a single commander who could advise the Australian Government on all the problems of its army and be answerable to that Government for the manner in which it was employed both at home and in the field. Blamey briefs journalists on operations around Lae in September 1943. The scale model was specially constructed for the planning of this campaign. The next operation was MacArthur's Operation Cartwheel, an advance on the major Japanese base at Rabaul. The Australian Army was tasked with the capture of the Huon Peninsula. Blamey was ordered to again assume personal command of New Guinea Force. His concept, which he developed with Herring and Frank Berryman, who had replaced Vasey as DCGS, was to draw the Japanese forces away from Lae with a demonstration against Salamaua, and then capture Lae with a double envelopment. Blamey remained a devotee of new technology. His plan called for the use of the landing craft of the 2nd Engineer Special Brigade, and he intended to cross the Markham River with the aid of paratroops. Supplies would be brought across the river using DUKWs, a relatively new invention. He also attempted to acquire helicopters, but met resistance from the RAAF, and they were never delivered. MacArthur accepted a number of changes that Blamey made to his strategy, probably the most notable of which was putting the landing on New Britain before Blamey's attack on Madang. We had twelve divisions to fight the Jap. On arrival of other equipment, other considerations came in and we now have six divisions. Can you tell me what should have been done with the surplus generals? I do know that on every occasion I proposed to terminate a general's appointment, politicians have tried to stop it. Wewak Area, New Guinea, 1945. Blamey (right) visits the 6th Division, and talks with its commander, Major General Jack Stevens (left), and the Signal Officer in Chief Major General Colin Simpson (third from left). Frank Forde criticised Blamey for having too many generals. Blamey could only reply that the Australian Army had one general for 15,741 men and women compared to one per 9,090 in the British Army. Blamey was annoyed by the media campaign run against him by William Dunstan and Keith Murdoch of The Herald and Weekly Times newspaper group, but success in New Guinea led to a change of heart at the newspaper, and Blamey even accepted a dinner invitation from Murdoch in 1944. There was another victory, though, far more significant. The Army had taken heavy casualties from malaria in the fighting in 1942. Blamey took the advice of Edward Ford and Neil Hamilton Fairley, and strongly backed their ultimately successful efforts to control the disease. To acquaint himself with the issues, Blamey read through Manson's Tropical Diseases, the standard medical textbook on the subject. Blamey also promoted the work of Howard Florey on the development of penicillin, and wrote to Curtin urging that £200,000 be earmarked for Florey's vision of a national institute for medical research in Canberra, which ultimately became the John Curtin School of Medical Research. Blamey was involved in discussions with the government over the size of the Army to be maintained. Now that the danger of invasion of Australia had passed, the government reconsidered how the nation's resources, particularly of manpower, should be distributed. Blamey pressed for a commitment to maintain three AIF divisions, as only they could legally be sent north of the equator where the final campaigns would be fought. He urged that the Empire Air Training Scheme be curtailed, and opposed MacArthur's proposal to use the Australian Army primarily for logistic support and leave combat roles principally to American troops. Blamey (front row, third from left) stands behind MacArthur at the Japanese surrender. Blamey signed the document on behalf of Australia. On 5 April 1944, Blamey departed for San Francisco on board SS Lurline for the first leg of a voyage to attend the 1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in London as part of Curtin's party. The journey was made by sea and rail due to Curtin's fear of flying. Also on board the ship were American military personnel returning to the United States, and some 40 Australian war brides. Blamey "was always attractive to women and attracted by them. Advancing years had not reduced either his taste for amorous adventures or his capacity to enjoy them", and he brought with him several cases of spirits. The rowdy goings-on in Blamey's cabin did not endear him to the Prime Minister, who was a reformed alcoholic. The party travelled by train to Washington, DC, where Blamey was warmly greeted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and briefed the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the progress of the war in SWPA. In London Blamey had a series of meetings with the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, and was briefed on Operation Overlord by General Sir Bernard Montgomery and Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder. Blamey was disappointed to have to turn down an offer to accompany the invasion as a guest of General Dwight Eisenhower because Curtin feared that the invasion would lead to retaliatory German bombing, and wanted to be far away before it started. As a matter of policy, Curtin wanted Australian forces to be involved in liberating New Guinea. MacArthur therefore proposed that Australian troops relieve the American garrisons on New Britain, Bougainville and New Guinea. However, MacArthur balked at Blamey's proposal to replace the seven American divisions with just seven Australian brigades, resulting in the 6th Division being employed as well. The larger garrisons permitted offensive operations, and demanded them if the 6th Division was to be freed for employment elsewhere. These operations aroused considerable criticism on the grounds that they were unnecessary, that the troops should have been employed elsewhere, and that the Army's equipment and logistics were inadequate. Blamey vigorously defended his aggressive policy to reduce the bypassed Japanese garrisons and free the civilian population, but some felt that he went too far in putting his case publicly in a national radio broadcast. He was also criticised for not spending enough time in forward areas, although he spent more than half his time outside Australia in 1944, and between April 1944 and April 1945 travelled 65,000 miles (105,000 km) by air, 7,000 miles (11,000 km) by sea and 7,500 miles (12,100 km) by land. Blamey urged that the 7th Division not be sent to Balikpapan, an operation that he regarded as unnecessary. On this occasion, he was not supported by the government, and the operation went ahead as planned. Some of the reasons for Blamey's lack of popularity with several of the Ministers and part of the public can probably be discovered only by exploring traits in the Australian national character of those days; other reasons are easier to unearth. Throughout the war Blamey commanded an army whose senior appointments were shared between regular and citizen officers. In some places this created tensions and rivalry which adversely affected Blamey's reputation, through no fault of his own; also the ambiguous relationship between his headquarters and MacArthur's led to disagreements of which at least the Ministers were aware. A man of greater tact, however, could have managed these problems more smoothly. But Blamey was not a man of great tact. On 2 September 1945, Blamey was with MacArthur on USS Missouri and signed the Japanese surrender document on behalf of Australia. He then flew to Morotai and personally accepted the surrender of the remaining Japanese in the South West Pacific. He insisted that Australia should be represented in the Allied occupation of Japan. Governor-General the Rt Hon William McKell presents Blamey with his field marshal's baton in a bedside ceremony at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, 16 September 1950. MacArthur abolished SWPA on 2 September 1945, and on 15 September Blamey offered to resign. The war was over, and the post of commander-in-chief was now a purely administrative one. His offer was not accepted, but on 14 November, the government abruptly announced that it had accepted his resignation, effective 30 November. A farewell party was held in Melbourne, which was attended by 66 brigadiers and generals. Blamey was given time to write up his despatches, and was formally retired on 31 January 1946. Forde asked Blamey if he wanted anything in way of recognition for his services, and Blamey asked for knighthoods for his generals, but Forde could not arrange this. In the end, Forde decided to give Blamey the Buick staff car he had used during the war, which had clocked up 50,000 miles (80,000 km) in the Middle East and the South West Pacific. Blamey returned to Melbourne, where he devoted himself to business affairs, to writing, and to promoting the welfare of ex-service personnel. In September 1948, Blamey paid a visit to Japan, where he was warmly greeted on arrival at Iwakuni by Horace Robertson, the commander of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, who also provided an RAAF honour guard. MacArthur sent his own aircraft, the Bataan, to collect Blamey and bring him to Tokyo, where he met Blamey at the airport and gave him another warm greeting. In the late 1940s Blamey became involved with The Association, an organisation similar to the earlier League of National Security, which was established to counter a possible communist coup. He was the head of the organisation until ill health forced him to stand down in favour of Morshead in 1950. Menzies became prime minister again in December 1949, and he resolved that Blamey should be promoted to the rank of field marshal, something that had been mooted in 1945. The recommendation went via the Governor-General, William McKell, to the War Office in London, which replied that a dominion officer could not be promoted to the rank. Menzies pointed out that Jan Smuts already had. The War Office then claimed that Blamey could not be promoted to field marshal because he was a retired officer, which was not true. Menzies then restored Blamey to active duty. Blamey was duly promoted to field marshal in the King's Birthday Honours of 8 June 1950. A few days afterwards, Blamey became seriously ill and received his field marshal's baton from McKell in a bedside ceremony at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital. Blamey died there of hypertensive cerebral haemorrhage on 27 May 1951. His body lay in state at the Shrine of Remembrance, where 20,000 people filed past. Crowds estimated at 300,000 lined the streets of Melbourne at his state funeral. Ten of his lieutenant generals served as pallbearers: Frank Berryman, William Bridgeford, Edmund Herring, Iven Mackay, Leslie Morshead, John Northcott, Sydney Rowell, Stanley Savige, Vernon Sturdee and Henry Wells. His body was cremated at the Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park. Army Recruit Training Centre entrance sign. The legend "home of the soldier" refers to both Kapooka's role in recruit training, and Blamey's origins in the Wagga Wagga area. Blamey is honoured in Australia in various ways, including a square named after him which is situated outside the Russell Offices headquarters of the Australian Defence Force and Department of Defence in the national capital, Canberra. Blamey Crescent and Blamey Place in the Canberra suburb of Campbell are also named in his honour. A statue of Blamey stands in Kings Domain, Melbourne, on the corner of Government House Drive and Birdwood Avenue, opposite that of John Monash. It was sculptured from granite and bronze by Raymond B. Ewers and presented to the city in February 1960. Controversially, Blamey is mounted on a jeep instead of the traditional horse. Blamey Barracks at Kapooka, where the Army Recruit Training Centre is located, is also named in his honour, as are Blamey Street and Blamey Park in North Ryde, New South Wales. His papers are held in the Australian War Memorial, where his field marshal's baton is on display. ^ Hetherington 1973, pp. 1–3. ^ Hetherington 1973, pp. 6–8. ^ Hetherington 1973, pp. 11–15. ^ a b Hetherington 1973, pp. 18–20. ^ "Administrative and Instructional Staff (Cadets), Victoria – Confirmation of Probationary Appointment". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (35). 29 June 1907. p. 911. Retrieved 9 January 2019. ^ a b Hetherington 1973, pp. 24–26. ^ Horner 1998, pp. 15–16. ^ Hetherington 1973, pp. 28–30. ^ Horner 1998, pp. 22–25. ^ Hetherington 1973, pp. 32–33. ^ "Australian Imperial Force – Confirmation of Provisional Appointments". 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My son asked me “so when the room is not full of hundreds of people playing board games, what do they use it for?”. That day, at the Woburn Hilton Hotel, it didn’t really matter. The main ballroom (as well as a few surrounding hallways) was packed with tables full of people playing games. In the Eastern Massachusetts area there is a loose coalition of gamers and game-groups known as Unity Games. Occasionally they hold full-day gaming events and this past Saturday was one of those. As most people who know me know, when I say boardgames, I don’t mean one of the hundreds of licensed Monopoly re-treads. I am referring to the growing market of games that have a bit more depth and are a lot more fun. On Saturday we managed to play five different games. We started with a light game that could be played two-player, just to get into the swing of it. Dungeon Raiders was a fun light card game that captured the idea of a dungeon crawl pretty nicely. I think it needed to be played with 3-5 to get a bit more competition on the adventure cards. Next we played a 3-player game of Elder Sign, one of many recent H.P. Lovecraft-themed games from Fantasy Flight. This one is a cooperative game that uses a currently very popular mechanic of very Yahtzee-like sets of six-sided die rolls. Given the theme, multiple choices for characters to play and the random “big bad” that sets the tone for the game, I think it will have a lot of replay value – that is if you don’t mind lots of random die rolls. We did get one key rule wrong in this one that made our victory a little too easy. I look forward to playing this one again. Following this we played a four-player game of Discworld: Ankh-Morpork, an area control game that has lots of funny randomness which follows the theme of Terry’ Pratchett’s universe very nicely. I liked this one a lot but we ran into a player who seemed to suffer form analysis paralysis and took forever to take his turns. This of course was ironic in a game that had so much chaotic randomness. Next up, a familiar game of Race for the Galaxy. We taught a new player how to play the game so it was a little slow but fun as always….and my son won again, as always. Lastly we played a four-player game of Kingdom Builder, with my gaming friend Aaron (who of course won). I’ve played Donald X. Vaccarino‘s newest game twice now and I think I am starting to like it. It could suffer from the “multi-player solitaire” problem like his previous hit game Dominion does, but savvy players will start to add defensive moves where possible to try to block others from romping. All in Unity was a great day. I also managed to sell off a number of game stat had been collecting dust in my basement – and I only bought one new game. There is nothing like being in a ballroom packed full of people enjoying your favorite hobby.
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A Song For Her is a staggering shot at tremoloing retro-Orbison Twin Peaks pop, bolstered by guitar overdubs bristling in both channels. The brooding, echoing, swaying, Doorsy bolero rock ballad A Fool’s Moon is the album’s strongest track. Ode to Ralph Carney – the late, lamented ex-Tom Waits saxophonist who was Hacha de Zolla’s “secret weapon” in earlier versions of the band – takes shape as a fond, slow New Orleans funeral march. The band take a stab at oldschool soul wiht Super Squeaky (titles don’t seem to be anything more than random here) and close with Hacha’s Lament, a return to vintage latin soull If real oldschool surrealism – we’re talking the early 20th century kind – is your thing, along with umpteen retro styles, J Hacha de Zola is your man. When Los Mochuelos hit the stage at their most recent Barbes show earlier this month, there were maybe two people in the room. Then little by little, a crowd started to trickle in, and by half past eleven the place was packed. This was on a Monday. Even though Barbes is a working-class bar – at least as much as a bar in Park Slope in 2019 can be – the venue has a tradition of big Monday night shows. The house band, Chicha Libre used to pack ‘em in on Mondays for years. Lately there’s been a Colombian music scene developing, with monthly residencies by feral singer Carolina Oliveros’ Bulla en el Barrio – who play coastal trance-dance bulleregue – and also by a spinoff of that band, the flute-driven NYC Gaita Club. Los Mochuelos are the latest Colombian Monday night addition. This particular Monday, the five-piece group played a lot of vallenato, but they also did a bunch of cumbias, a bouncy 1-4-5 tune that sounded like Veracruz folk and a big ballad that also could have been Mexican, but from further north. As Ariana Hellerman, founder of the Bryant Park Accordion Festival has pointed out, music played on that instrument tends to be as portable as the instrument itself. It’s hard to think of a more entertaining cultural cross-pollinator. Harold Rodriguez (of tropical pop band Alma Mia) played that cross-pollinator, a button model, which tends to get a trebly, reedy sound. Counterbalancing that on bass, Sebastian Rodriguez (of wild psychedelic cumbia band Yotoco) started out with a booming presence, almost as if he had a standup bass. Over the crackle of the three-man percussion section, considering the material – a lot of hits from the 1960s and before – the experience conjured up a beachside gangster cabana of the mind. Frontman/percussionist Christian Rodriguez sang a lot of party anthems and you-done-me-wrong songs, most of them in minor keys. As the show went on, the bass got treblier and punchier, and more serpentine. Because the accordion needed to be miked, the whole Barbes crew got into the act and made sure the sound mix was as pristine as possible. So much for a dead Monday night. Los Mochuelos are back at Barbes at around 9:30 on April 1, no joke. You might not expect Miguel Zenon to open his latest album with a cantabile pastorale, but that’s exactly what he’s done. The alto saxophonist has made some amazing records over the years – his smoldering Oye! Live in Puerto Rico from 2013 is a favorite – but his most recent one is his most ambitious yet. You could say that Yo Soy la Tradicion is his Sketches of Spain, a collaboration with the magical, microtonally-inclined Spektral Quartet streaming at their music page. Jazz sax and strings have a history that dates back to Charlie Parker; this is a lot closer to Astor Piazzolla at his most adventurous, or Bartok, than orchestrated swing. Zenon has yet another weeklong stand at the Vanguard starting tomorrow, March 12 with his quartet and continuing through the 17th, with sets at 8 and 10:30. The Spektral Quartet – violinists Clara Lyon and Maeve Feinberg, violist Doyle Armbrust and cellist Russell Rolen – open the album with the rather stark, almost severely precise intro to Rosario, inspired by the Catholic rosary tradition; then Zenon flips the script and builds a bubbly dance overhead that brings to mind the similarly paradigm-shifting work of Argentine bandoneonist JP Jofre. It’s catchy, almost to the point of sentimentality. Cadenas (Chains) draws on European 20th century minimalism as well as Puerto Rican line dances, the strings’ hypnotic, insistent acerbity balancing Zenon’s folksy, airy delivery. Then the sax and quartet switch roles, a neat touch. Yumac may have roots in rural Puerto Rican folk music – the ttile is the town of Camuy, home to popular 50s songwriter German Rosario, spelled backwards – but the music comes across as a more harmonically complex take on Ernesto Lecuona’s anthemic mashup of Afro-Cuban themes and western classical orchestration. Milagrosa is more balmy, an unexpectedly successful mashup of spaciously sequenced postbop sax and alternately rhythmic and lush string passages, with a crescendo midway through that’s as majestic as anything Zenon has ever written. The album’s most gorgeous track is Viejo, shifting from troubled, massed Julia Wolfe-like insistence, to an unabashedly lyrical ballad with an elegaic cello solo followed by Zenon’s broodingly wafting melody. Zenon’s tone is more biting than Paul Desmond’s, but the lyricism here is very similar. If Bartok had a thing for Spain instead of Tunisia, he might have written Cadenza: there are also echoes of wistul, uneasy Debussy. Again, Zenon brightens the ambience, this time with flamenco allusions. Imagine Ligeti trying to reduce a flamenco tune to simplest terms: that’s the outro. The album’s most epic track is Promesa, a diptych of sorts that refers to the Catholic festival of the Three Kings. A pensive cello solo takes centerstage over a lush backdrop that recedes to a steady, minimalist pulse, Zenon building the longest solo here from gentle pastoral colors to lively, blues-tinged spirals. Then the atmosphere shifts to artfully pulsing variations on a lively alguinaldo jibaro country dance theme. Piazzolla, or for that matter, Lecuona would have been proud to have written the anthemic final number, based on a variant of that style from the town of Villalba. Obviously, Zenon’s Vanguard stand this week isn’t likely to showcase a lot of this material; on the other hand, with a guy who’s been known to reinvent classic Sylvia Rexach boleros, you never know. The annual flamenco festival is happening around town next weekend, and as usual, fiery Spanish pianist Chano Dominguez is part of it. Perhaps better than any musician alive, he blends American jazz with flamenco for all the dark acerbity he can channel – which is a lot. He’s at Joe’s Pub this Friday, March 6 at 7 PM; cover is a little steep, $30, but he’s worth it. In fact, the show actually might sell out, so advance tix are a good idea. His 2017 solo album Over the Rainbow – streaming at Bandcamp – is a good introduction. It’s a mix of live and studio takes including both originals and classics from across the Americas. John Lewis’ Django proves to be a perfect opener, Dominguez building a lingering intro until he he adds subtle Spanish rhythm, a series of tasty, slithery cascades and finally some deviously muted syncopation. Likewise, he takes his time with Cuban composer Eliseo Grenet’s Drume Negrita, reinventing it as a balletesque strut rather than playing it as salsa, with a meticulous, downwardly ratcheting coda. There are a couple of Monk tunes here. Evidence is amusingly tricky, switching back and forth between “gotcha!” pauses and a sagely bluesy insistence that swings just enough to keep it from being a march. Interesingly, Dominguez plays the more phantasmagorical Monk’s Dream a lot more straightforwardly, at the exact same tempo, with spiraling exactitude. From its spring-loaded intro, to the clenched-teeth intensity of Dominguez’s drive through the first verse, to a bracing blend of cascade and pounce, the real showstopper here is an epic take of Violeta Parra’s Gracias A La Vida. He brings a similar, majestically circling intensity and then some trickily rhythmic fun to Cuban composer and frequent collaborator Marta Valdés’s Hacia Dónde. The gorgeous take of Los Ejes De Mi Carreta, by Argentinean songwriter Atahualpa Yupanqui, simmers over catchy lefthand riffage, then grows more austere until Dominguez takes it out with a stampede. His two originals here are dedicated to his kids. Mantreria shifts through intricate spirals, clever echo effects to saturnine, anthemic proportions and then back again. Marcel has a striking, steady, wistful yearning before Dominguez indulges in some boogie-woogie before shifting in a triumphantly gospel-flavored direction. There’s also a ditty from the Wizard of Oz – no, it’s not If I Only Had a Brain. The problem with Barbes – and if you run a music blog, this can be a problem – is that the hang is as good as the bands. If you’re trying to make your way into the music room and run into friends, always a hazard here, you might not make it past the bar. Which speaks to a couple of reasons why this well-loved Park Slope boite has won this blog’s Best Brooklyn Venue award three times in the past ten years or so. A Monday night before Thanksgiving week last year was classic. The scheduled act had cancelled, but there was still a good crowd in the house. What to do? Somebody called somebody, and by eleven there was a pickup band – guitar, keys, bass and drums – onstage, playing better-than-serviceable covers of Peruvian psychedelic cumbia hits form the 60s and 70s. The best was a slinky, offhandedly sinister take of Sonido Amazonico, the chromatic classic which has become the national anthem of chicha, as psychedelic cumbia is called in Peru. Where else in New York could you possibly hear something like this…on a Monday night? On Thanksgiving night, the two Guinean expat guitarists who lead the Mandingo Ambassadors played a rapturously intertwining set that drew a more-or-less straight line back to the spiky acoustic kora music that preceded the state-sponsored negritude movement of the 1960s. Without the horns that sometimes play with the band, the delicious starriness of the music resonated more than ever. The night after that, there was a solid klezmer pickup band in the house. The night after that – yeah, it was a Barbes weekend – started with pianist Anthony Coleman going as far out into free jazz as he ever does, followed by a psychedelic take on nostalgic 60s and 70s Soviet pop by the Eastern Blokhedz and then an even more psychedelic set by Bombay Rickey, who switched from spaghetti western to sick jamband versions of Yma Symac cumbias to surf rock, Bollywood and finally an ominous shout-out to a prehistoric leviathan that’s been dead for twenty thousand years. Sets in late November and January left no doubt that Slavic Soul Party are still this city’s #1 Balkan brass party band, whether they’re playing twisted Ellington covers, percolating Serbian Romany hits or their own hip-hop influenced tunes. A pit stop here early before opening night of Golden Fest to catch the Crooked Trio playing postbop jazz standards was a potent reminder that bandleader Oscar Noriega is just as brilliant a drummer as he is playing his many reed instruments. Who knew that trumpeter Ben Holmes’ plaintive, bittersweet, sometimes klezmer, sometimes Balkan tinged themes would blend so well with Kyle Sanna’s lingering guitar jangle, as they did in their debut duo performance in December? Who expected this era’s darkest jamband, Big Lazy, to take their sultry noir cinematic themes and crime jazz tableaux further into the dub they were exploring twenty years ago, like they did right before the new year? Who would have guessed that the best song of the show by trombonist Bryan Drye’s Love Call Trio would be exactly that, a mutedly lurid come-on? Where else can you hear a western swing band, with an allstar lineup to match Brain Cloud’s personnel, swaying their way through a knowingly ominous take of Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s Look Down that Lonesome Road? Notwithstanding this embarrassment of riches, the best show of all here over the past few months might have been by Turkish ensemble Alhambra, featuring most of haunting singer Jenny Luna’s band Dolunay. Back in mid-December, they spun moody, serpentine themes of lost love, abandonment and desolation over Adam Good’s incisive, brooding oud and Ramy El Asser’s hynoptic, pointillistic percussion. Whether singing ancient Andalucian laments in Ladino, or similar fare in Turkish, Luna’s wounded nuance transcended any linguistic limitations. There’s good music just about every night at Barbes, something no other venue in New York, or maybe the world, can boast. Tomorrrow’s show, Feb 18 at Barbes is Brain Cloud at 7 followed at 9:30ish by ex-Chicha Libre keyboard sorcerer Josh Camp’s wryly psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia/dub band Locobeach. Slavic Soul Party are here the day after, Feb 19 at 9; Noriega and the Crooked Trio play most Fridays starting at 5:30. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Remember when you couldn’t walk down the avenue anywhere in the five boroughs without hearing salsa blasting from every other car and delivery van? Back in the day, it was such a welcoming sound to come home to, especially after being outside the country. Reggaeton and cumbia may have eclipsed salsa as Latino New York’s default party music, but it isn’t just oldtimers who’re keeping it alive. The Spanish Harlem Orchestra don’t play as many gigs as they used to, so if classic 70s salsa dura is your thing, their three-night stand at the Jazz Standard this Feb 21-24 is for you. Sets are at 7:30 and 9:30 PM; cover is a hefty $35, but remember the club doesn’t have minimums. On the other hand, nobody’s going to blame you if you can’t resist the barbecue: keep in mind they share a kitchen with Blue Smoke upstairs. The band’s latest album, Anniversary is streaming at youtube. It’s a mix of originals and imaginatively reinvented standards. The opening track, Esa Nena sets the stage with a 70s Fania Records blueprint: blazing brass, playful polyrhythms, energetic call-and-response and a pulsingly catchy, vamping Afro-Cuban groove. Yo Te Prometo is a bristling bolero in bright salsa disguise. Underneath the brassy gusts and insistent drive of Dime Tu, there’s a hypnotic thicket of woodblock and bongos, the timbales coming further toward the front alongside a honking Mitch Frohman baritone sax solo. The song’s message of solidarity carries special resonance in these xenophobic times. Goza Al Ritmo has a shadowy solo from pianist Oscar Hernández. A tantalizingly brief, punchy trumpet solo and a go-for-broke outro cap off the mighty dance anthem Echa Pa’Lante. Guaracha y Bembe is a distinctly New York update on 50s Cuban big band majesty: singer Marco Bermudez calls this the soundtrack for a crazy night, and he isn’t kidding. Y Deja and La Media Vuelta are more romantic, looking back to the 80s and then a couple of decades further, respectively. Cancion Para Ti is the poppiest, most 80s-flavored track here, Jeremy Bosch’s flute fluttering in and out. Como Te Quise has some unexpected baroque moments from the brass – Reynado Jorge and Doug Beavers on trombones, Hector Colon and Maneco Ruiz on trumpets. Tres Palabras – another spiced-up bolero – has a deliciously lush, nocturnal atmosphere: it comes across as a more lavishly orchestrated counterpart to Bio Ritmo. Likewise, Somos Uno has a pouncing intensity along with a bubbling, triumphant trumpet cameo from Randy Brecker, The album’s final track is Soy El Tambor, a mighty, tumbling coda to over an hour’s worth of music. First and foremost, this is a party in a box. Lyrically, the songs celebrate pretty women, getting out on the floor and rhythmic sabrosura, with more serious references to the music’s cultural and historical value. At this point in history, salsa is a legacy genre like Chicago blues, roots reggae and bluegrass; there aren’t as many people taking it to new places anymore and this is one group who still are. “If you feel fed up with the current political situation, you can get out the streets…or you can sing along,” Ani Cordero teased the crowd at Lincoln Center last week. ““I’ve been to a lot of protests in the last three years,” the singer and multi-instrumentalist mused, her back to the Puerto Rican flag at the side of the stage. “How many of you have been to a Black Lives Matter protest?” she asked. There was a small show of hands. Playing acoustic guitar, she opened with Caminando, a song “About immigrants and how we should support them,” she said succinctly before launching into the catchy, bouncy anthem, backed by accordion, punchy bass and drums. They wound it up with a soaring accordion solo – then the accordionist switched to bass, and the bassist picked up a gorgeous, vintage Danelectro, and they kicked off an even more emphatic, catchy love song, Pienso en Mi. Cordero put down her acoustic gutar and picked up her maracas for a rocking take of Ay Choferito, a big Pueto Rican plena hit from the 30s. The drummer got the conga patch on his syndrum going as the guitar fired of a new wave funk line to jumpstart Sacalo, a fiery number from Cordero’s Querido Mundo album that works as a broadside against violence on many levels. Introducing a starkly pulsing, surf-tinged take of El Pueblo Esta Harto (which translates as “The People Have Had It Up to Here), Cordero explained that “I love pretty much everyone, but there’s some people…you’ve got to get them out of here quick. There’s a guy who has a building over here…” – she pointed in the direction of the Trump Tower and let the crowd figure out the rest. They went back to accordion rock for a gritty take of the ranchera-rock opening track from the album, Corrupcion: “The corruption in Puerto Rico is kind of legendary now, but the US is really rising in the ranks,” Cordero noted. She left the politics behind for a coy plena-rock number about meeting somebody who might have been a viable option, say, fifteen years ago but has since timed out. The rest of the set included loping border rock, an insistent new wave-flavored number with a coy bread-and-butter metaphor for politicians on the take. They closed the set with another metaphorically-charged new one, Mi Machete, the guitarist firing off some terse, jagged funk lines, Cordero energizing the crowd with her guiro over a repetitive dancefloor thump. As optimistic as Cordero’s performance was, it was sad to see Lincoln Center’s Meera Dugal making her exit official with this show. After many months of being one of the very few programmers in town creating genuinely visionary, cross-pollinated performances across cultures and artistic disciplines, she’s earned three weeks in Mozambique (that’s where she’s headed). Happily, the Lincoln Center atrium space remains in good hands as far as booking is concerned: it earned the annual award for Best Manhattan Venue when Dugal was working here and is just as strong a contender for that designation now. The concerts here – on Broadway just north of 62nd Street – run the gamut from sounds from all over the globe, to jazz, rock, and classical. This week’s free show is tonight, Feb 7 at 7:30 PM with the Navarra String Quartet playing Pēteris Vasks’ hauntingly dynamic String Quartet No. 4 and Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major. Admission is free; be aware that the mostly-monthly classical shows tend to be wildly popular with a neighborhood crowd, so show up early if you want a seat. There was a point last night during her first set of a four-night stand at Birdland where singer Claudia Acuña started pogoing across the stage. She got as far as guitarist Juancho Herrera’s pedalboard before she ran out of room and had to chill out a little. If you’d been on that stage with that band and that setlist, you would have been just as ecstatic – but you wouldn’t have sung as rivetingly as she did. Because the majority of this particular setlist was hers. She opened with a punchy take of Hey, a no-nonsense empowerment anthem for women everywhere and closed with a shamanic, enveloping take of her mentor Abbey Lincoln’s Holy Earth. In between, she mixed a couple of acerbic Lincoln tunes and a knowingly angst-fueled take of Jimmy Van Heusen’s But Beautiful in with a gorgeously lyrical mix of songs from her new album Turning Pages. Acuña gets all sorts of props for her often shatteringly direct alto voice, but here the crowd was just as blown away by her songwriting and the quality of the band. Pianist Pablo Vergara spun intricate, plaintive neoromantic filigrees, with a couple of starry solos as openers. Behind the kit, Yayo Serka played what seemed to be both sides of a conspiratorial talking drum interlude to start one number, underscored much of the material with a subtle clave and went way back to the banks of the Nile to foreshadow the end of the set. Starting on Fender and finishing on upright, bassist Carlos Henderson’s minutely nuanced touch matched the bandleader’s subtlety, notably with his allusions to the steady propulsion of Bob Marley’s Exodus throughout an understatedly dancing take of Futuro, one of the new record’s standout tracks. Acuña explained that she’d written it to her yet-unborn son and then sang with hushed joy about how much she was looking forward to seeing him “Dancing through the constellations, and through the onion and garlic patch. That translation from the Spanish is less poetic than the actual lyric. The high point of the new album, and arguably the show as well, was the poignant, brooding anthem Aguita de Corazon. Lowlit by Herrera’s spare accents and Vergara’s rippling angst, the wounded payoff packed a wallop whenever the chorus came around. “I’m from Chile,” Acuña explained. “We have a tea for everything. You have a broken heart? We have a tea for that too.” It was strong and potent medicine in this group’s hands, guest Gregoire Maret’s harmonica reaching an unexpectedly wrenching coda after he’d taken his time, going deeper into the blues as the narrative unfolded. His animated exchanges with Acuña’s scatting on the next number were more lighthearted, and a lot of fun. But ultimately, depth and emotional impact is what she’s all about, and she delivered all of that, whether the wistful hope of Tres Deseos – a wish song times three, basically – and Lincoln’s The World Is Falling Down, which she and the group built matter-of-factly and aptly, with a bittersweet knowingness that was closer to Rachelle Garniez than the woman who wrote it, a deeply personal political artifact from the Civil Rights era whose relevance hasn’t dimmed. The album release stand continues tonight, Feb 7 through 9 with sets at 7 and 10 PM; you can get in for $20. Claudia Acuña is revered in the New York jazz scene as one of the most unselfconsciously soulful and mutable singers around. She bridges the gap between North American jazz and South American balladry better than just about anyone, equally skilled in both English and Spanish. But she’s also a hell of a songwriter. Her new album Turning Pages – which hasn’t hit her music page yet – features seven originals along with a standard and another by her mentor, Abbey Lincoln. It’s Acuña’s first album as a bandleader in ten years, and it was worth the wait. She’s playing a four-night stand at Birdland to celebrate this Feb 6-9, with sets at 7 and 10; you can get in for as little as $20. Lowlit by Pablo Vergara’s broodingly gleaming piano, Yayo Serka’s elegant drumming and Carlos Henderson’s terse bass, the album’s opening track, Aguita de Corazon is a masterpiece. Acuña’s voice is cool and nuanced yet plaintive, working the increasingly haunting twists of the lyrics with a subtle wallop. On harmonica, guest Gregoire Maret plays the solo of his life, a comet trail of angst to mirror the vocals. Then Acuña flips the script with Hey, an insistent empowerment ballad that mashes up 70s clave soul with trippy, stainless-countertopped 90s acid jazz, guitarist Juancho Herrera adding an incisive, funky edge. Her luxuriantly bittersweet remake of Jimmy Van Heusen’s But Beautiful is spacious yet propulsive, driven by Serka’s syncopated, clickety-clack snare work. Henderson’s sinuous soloing and Herrera’s resonant jangle. Acuña brings back the darkly pensive atmosphere in Tres Deseos (Three Wishes), awash in Serka’s waves of cymbals and malletwork and Vergara’s translucent, neoromantic phrasing. The moon imagery – a persistent trope here – in the next track, Futuro is more carefree, lit up by Herrera’s incisive flares over a pulsing quasi-reggae groove. His Arabic-tinged solo is just short of savage, and the album’s instrumental high point. Lincoln’s Bird Alone has all kinds of neat, unexpected touches: Vergara’s coy chirps, Herrera’s spare, plaintive but powerfully present chords and a world-weary vocal that echoes both the writer and Sarah Vaughan. Silencio is anything but quiet, Herrera’s gritty flamenco-inflected lines driving the song to a harrowing peak with Acuña’s vocalese paired against Vergara’s ominously glittering rivulets. Home, a duet with Herrera, is a gospel tune with some unexpected, sunny slide guitar. Those gospel echoes remain in thee album’s closing cut, Tu Sonrisa (Your Smile), its Mexican ranchera-inflected sway the closest thing to carefree here. It’s early in the year, but this is the best album of 2019 so far. The premise of Globalfest in its early days was to connect talent buyers with booking agents representing acts from around the world. Youtube may have rendered that innovation obsolete, but every January, both crowds get together in New York to party on the company dime….and see some great music. The public comes out too. “I didn’t expect to see you here!” draws a response of “I didn’t expect to see you either!” Friends from the swing jazz or country blues scene discover a possibly secret, shared love for middle eastern music, and so forth. In 2019, more than ever, esoterica rules. Sets are staggered in different areas of the venue throughout the night so that everybody can get a little taste of everything. As usual, last night’s show had more flavors than Dosa Hut (in case you haven’t already been seduced by the New York area’s most ambitious purveyors of sublimely delicious, crunchy Indian wraps, you are in for a treat). Over the last couple of years, the artists on the bill have often represented a forceful backlash against anti-immigrant stridency, and last night was no exception. Both the whirlwind Palestinian rap-rock-reggae crew 47SOUL and magical Mexican chanteuse Magos Herrera – backed by string quartet Brooklyn Rider and drummer Mathias Kunzli – articulated fierce responses against wall-building. But that issue was just a small part of each act’s many-faceted performance. 47SOUL spoke not only for the rights of Palestinians and Syrian refugees but for full-scale global unity against encroaching tyranny, through a blend of Arabic hip-hop, surreal dub reggae and keening, synthy habibi dancefloor pop. Likewise, Herrera drew on practically a century of pan-latin balladry, protest songs, classical and indie classical music, over a backdrop that was as propulsive as it was lustrous. It’s rare to see a string quartet play with as much sheer vigor as violinists Johnny Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen, violist Nicholas Cords and cellist Michael Nicholas. It would have been fun to have been able to catch more of the spectacularly dynamic Debashish Bhattacharya, who alternated between rapidfire raga intensity on veena, and some unexpectedly balmy, twinkling slide guitar work in a Hawaiian slack-key interlude, joined by his similarly masterful daughter Anandi on vocals along with a first-rate tabla player. Likewise, it was tantalizing to watch from behind the drums, relying on the monitor mix, throughout most of the night’s best-attended set, by theatrical Ukrainian band Dakh Daughters. The theatrical all-female group came across as a Slavic gothic mashup of the Dresden Dolls and Rasputina. In matching white facepaint and forest-spirit dresses, they paired ominous cellos against creepy piano chromatics and spritely flute over slow, ominous beats, switching off instruments frequently. As with so many artists whose cultures have been under attack, there’s no doubt plenty of grim subtext in their phantasmagorical narratives. Since headliner the Mighty Sparrow had cancelled, the night’s largest ensemble were oldschool Cuban salsa band Orquesta Akokán, shifting through sparsely pummeling charanga-style passages, slinky mambos at various tempos, a lickety-split tonguetwister number and a machinegunning timbale solo that might have been the most adrenalizing moment of the entire night. Playing solo a floor above, guitarist/banjo player Amythyst Kiah held the crowd rapt with her powerful, looming contralto vocals, her tersely slashing chops on both instruments and unselfconsciously deep insights into the melting pot of Appalachian folk music. Blending brooding, judiciously fingerpicked originals with a similarly moody choice of covers, she went as far back as 18th century Scotland – via 19th century African America – and as far forward as Dolly Parton, with equally intense results. The evening ended with an apt choice of headliner, Combo Chimbita, who kept the remaining crowd of dancers on their feet throughout a swirling tornado of psychedelic, dub-inspired tropicalia, merengue and cumbia. Frontwoman Carolina Oliveros, a force of nature with her shamanic, hurricane-force roar and wail, circled the stage as if in a trance. Behind her, guitarist Niño Lento, bassist/keyboardist Prince of Queens and drummer Dilemastronauta built smoky ambience that rose to frenetic electric torrents and then subsided, a mighty series of waves to ride out into an increasingly chilly night.
2019-04-19T02:57:54Z
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The Affordable Gift Fair 2013 – Nov 24th- Royal Marine Hotel. We have over 60 stands of high Quality affordable gifts on sale this Sunday in the Royal Marine Hotel. We open our doors to the public at 10 am and don’t finish until 5pm. It is free admission so we hope that you can make it and bring the whole family. We will have a raffle on the day for the same charity and will also have spot prizes raffle also which will have fantastic prizes donated from some of our very generous stand holders and also a few “booby” prizes….lets just say Cliff Richard may be attending the fair!!! Do check out the list of exhibitors on our site and check out our Facebook to take part in the last competitions and try to win Vouchers to spend at the fair. Good luck and hope to see you all on Sunday. If you only go to one fair this silly season go to the Affordable Gift Fair this sunday in the Royal Marine Hotel Dunlaoghaire. Unfortunately Santa Cant make the Fair this year but we hope to see you there! This entry was posted in news and updates and tagged affordable gift fair, christmas fair, Christmas Presents, Cliff Richard, Dublin Simon Community, kris Kindle, prizes, Raffle. Bookmark the permalink.
2019-04-23T08:46:04Z
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This entry was posted on February 7, 2007 at 5:44 pm and is filed under Hobby & Leisure Podcast, Male Podcast, Podcast, Radio Podcast, Recreation Podcast, Sports Podcasts, Wholesome Podcast. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Endurance Radio Podcast appears to have shut down. Web site is parked at GoDaddy.com…. It was purchased and re-launched in March.
2019-04-24T21:52:32Z
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One More Reason Why Drugs Should Be legalized! “Just think about what happens (with alcohol) at every football game,” said Wim van den Brink, a professor of psychiatry and addiction at the University of Amsterdam. He was not linked to the study and co-authored a commentary in the Lancet. When drunk in excess, alcohol damages nearly all organ systems. It is also connected to higher death rates and is involved in a greater percentage of crime than most other drugs, including heroin. But experts said it would be impractical and incorrect to outlaw alcohol. King said countries should target problem drinkers, not the vast majority of people who indulge in a drink or two. He said governments should consider more education programs and raising the price of alcohol so it isn’t as widely available. Experts said the study should prompt countries to reconsider how they classify drugs. For example, last year in Britain, the government increased its penalties for the possession of marijuana. One of its senior advisers, David Nutt – the lead author on the Lancet study – was fired after he criticized the British decision. “What governments decide is illegal is not always based on science,” said van den Brink. He said considerations about revenue and taxation, like those garnered from the alcohol and tobacco industries, may influence decisions about which substances to regulate or outlaw. “Drugs that are legal cause at least as much damage, if not more, than drugs that are illicit,” he said.
2019-04-23T12:00:37Z
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Qwest announced its deployment of upgrades to its nationwide fiber optic network that quadruple broadband capacity for customers, and triple geographic availability of ultra-high-speed services. When combined with Qwest’s Metro Ethernet or Private Line services, the upgrade provides an end-to-end, cost-efficient, high-bandwidth connection delivering speeds scalable from 1 to 40 Gigabits per second. You are currently browsing the archives for the Qwest category.
2019-04-26T06:42:04Z
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The City of Vancouver is governed by 10 councilors and the mayor, all of whom serve 3 year terms. The councilors also represent the city on various local boards and commissions (i.e. The Vancouver Economic Development Commission and the City of Vancouver Public Housing Corporation).
2019-04-23T16:11:58Z
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I’m opening up commissions! They won’t be treated like requests, so that means I’ll be charging a certain fee for the commissioned piece. If you’re not willing to pay anything, I just suggest you ask a translator that does it for free. If you’d like to commission something, you have to send me an e-mail containing the file of the piece in question and if you’d like just a plain translation or also explanations and annotations for special parts etc. In case I accept the translation, you’ll have to pay half the price before I begin and the other half once I delivered the finished translation. You can see the prices in the list below. Please bear in mind that you should not upload or share any of the commissioned work (except for song translations) on some kind of sharing platform because I don’t want to get in trouble. -> You must provide scans or lyrics with your request. -> You must provide scans with your request. -> Book Chapters and Articles should not be longer than 20 pages. -> You must provide a movie file with your request. -> Tracks/Scenes should not be longer than 10 minutes. I won’t be doing full episodes. The prices are not negotiable. I set them according to how difficult I deem the task to be and how long it should take me to finish the translation. I will tell you how long the translation will take me and I’ll update you on the process if you have any questions.
2019-04-26T01:59:15Z
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Given comic strips deadlines, this is as timely as we get with the news, people. (Unless you’re “Doonesbury.”) Tune in September when we discuss the Eurovision winner. And yes, I know which book I referenced. What happens when you write Sunday comics months before you come up with storylines for the dailies? You have Hilary looking like she hasn’t paid attention to a damn thing all May. Happy Mother’s Day from Sally Forth!
2019-04-23T18:55:05Z
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A while ago tipping points were all the rage. Malcolm Gladwell’s book had captured the public imagination and points were to be seen tipping all over the place. I was reminded of this when I saw in our recent survey that 24% of MEPs write a blog. My first reaction was, is that all? Here is an ideal way of reaching out to the European citizen, particularly the young, the majority of whom are not going to bother voting in the forthcoming election. Here is a way of personalizing the seemingly impersonal European Parliament and of bridging the democratic deficit. Why would an MEP not do a blog? I suspect the answer to this is more apathy than antipathy, but I also expect the elections to be a digital tipping point. The world of politics was galvanized by Obama’s use of social media in his winning campaign and many of the new MEPs will have used similar techniques as they sought election. They will understand the technology, appreciate its ease of use, and be comfortably in the posting rhythm. Politicians are herd animals at heart and it won’t take long for an MEP not blogging (or tweeting) to be considered a digi-dinosaur. And nobody would want that. Entry filed under: blogging, EP Digital Trends Study, European elections, European Parliament. Tags: digital, EP Digital Trends, Malcom Gladwell, MEP, Social media.
2019-04-22T12:21:46Z
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The King & EYE (sorta) This Saturday Night on The DARK VAULT OF PUBLIC DOMAIN! An encore presentation of Italian action with maximum satisfaction! Join Uncle Pete and Azul de Vaca this Saturday night @ 10pm, on Time-Warner Cable channel 4 in Broome County! ~ by darkvault on July 17, 2008.
2019-04-26T02:24:31Z
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Recently I bought a new car from the dealership. One of my criteria was that the new model had at least all of the same features that my previous car did. And the vehicle I selected did – with one exception: fog lights were not standard on this model. After talking to a representative at the dealership, we were assured that I could get the fog lights installed by the dealership with little hassle. So I purchased the vehicle. When I took it back for its first oil change, I requested the fog lights be installed; however, company policy had changed and the cost was way more than we anticipated. It was suggested that we could get after-market fog lights installed for a quarter of the cost that the dealership would charge. Being on a budget, we opted for the after-market option since our chance at factory installed fog lights had passed. When praying the Lord’s Prayer – and I hope you are still making that your noon time habit J – , we begin by calling out to God to where he is from where we are. Because He is in the place of perfection, where all life originates and where life in Him will continue. That’s why when something is wonderful, we say it is “like heaven.” When our loved ones leave us, we want them to be in that perfect place where there is no pain and no sorrow, like heaven. And if we are honest, many of us gravitate toward stories about those who claim to have gone to heaven and returned because our inquiring minds want to know more about this place from which God reigns and watches over us. Stretch your mind and think of heaven as the place where my vehicle originated. Everything factory installed came with a promise that, no matter what happens, things will be made good. Unlike the after-market installation, the lights will probably work fine but they do not come with the promise like the originator of the lights offered. Yes, a vehicle factory is where man made creations come to be and those factories can fall short and can even close down. However, a heaven where God rules and reigns will never fall short, never close down, and will always be right where we need it – above us and around us. We are created by the Creator who knew us before we came forth on this earth, who knit us together before we hit the showroom of the labor and delivery suite. And as someone once said, “God don’t make junk”… He makes good on ALL of His promises. So when you talk to him in prayer, whether through this noonday challenge or at any time, remember – no matter where you are in your walk of faith – God is in heaven to watch over and care for you as He keeps his promises to love you with an everlasting love, to never leave or forsake you, to offer you a hope and a future. And when things are working right in your life, bring it to the One who gave you life.
2019-04-20T18:19:25Z
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Sorry for the mass email, but I am having a hard time filling an ARRA (stimulus package) postdoc position in my laboratory. I guess I’m not the only one looking! At any rate, if you know of any US Citizen (or permanent residents) that is about to get a PhD, or has gotten one in the last 7 years, who might be interested in a position in my lab, please put me in touch. It’s a great NLM postdoctoral fellowship that would allow the person to pursue pretty much any topic, and comes with travel and research materials support in addition to NRSA salary and benefits. Not a Lisp job per se. My client is looking for a Senior Lisp developer to work on their team. The candidate should have current or recent Lisp or Common Lisp development skills. This position will require the candidate to perform software requirements gathering, design new and innovative applications or systems, test, support, and deploy applications into the production environment. Knowledge of and experience building object-oriented and knowledge-based systems is highly desirable. Candidate should be well versed in software testing. The recruiting firm Robert Half is looking for an engineer with 5+ years of software development experience, specifically using Common Lisp and CLOS. They mention expert systems and AI. Hey, this looks cool: Programmer for developing NetLogo at my alma mater, Northwestern University. Northwestern University is looking for a coder to help with some educational software. They want someone with experience with Java and or Scala programming; experience with GUI design; and experience with Haskell and Lisp or Lisp-like languages. Looks like mostly C++, but Lisp ‘highly desired.’ See the posting.
2019-04-24T04:30:49Z
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The most recent report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that the job market rebounded throughout the month of April, contributing to a lower unemployment rate. Overall, the nation added 223,000 jobs during April. Although this was slightly lower than the 224,000 jobs projected by economists, it demonstrated a return to the positive growth trend seen over the last 12 months, compared to the 85,000 positions added in March. About 62,000 of these jobs were in the professional and business service sectors, which had been averaging just 35,000 new positions each month. Within this larger field, services to buildings and dwellings added 16,000 positions, computer systems design and related services added 9,000 jobs, business support services grew its workforce by 7,000 and technical consulting services expanded by 6,000 positions. The healthcare industry created 45,000 jobs in April, with ambulatory care services gaining 25,000 positions, hospitals adding 12,000 jobs and residential care facilities expanding by 8,000 positions. The construction industry also experienced growth after having a stagnant March. The field gained 45,000 positions, with 41,000 of these jobs being specialty trade contractors. Transportation and warehousing gained 15,000 jobs. Sectors that saw little change in April included manufacturing, wholesale trade, information, retail trade, leisure and hospitality, government and financial activities. As a result of this significant job growth, the U.S. unemployment rate dropped slightly to an average of 5.4 percent. Bloomberg Business reported that this is the lowest jobless rate the country has seen since May 2008. The BLS report revealed that wages grew as well. Average hourly earnings went up by 3 cents to $24.87, while average hourly earnings for private sector production and non-supervisory employees grew by 2 cents to $20.90. Bloomberg explained that while any compensation increases are a positive sign of growth, these minuscule expansions are unexpectedly low compared to rates of overall job growth. “The pace of employment is quite encouraging. Wage growth is accelerating, but it’s quite gradual, more gradual than we would expect in a market where the unemployment rate is 5.4 percent,” Gregory Daco, head of U.S. macroeconomics at Oxford Economics USA Inc., told Bloomberg. The New York Times reported that the April employment data suggests the Federal Reserve will not be in any rush to take it’s long-awaited first step in raising short-term interest rates, which have been near zero since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. According to the source, most experts now expect the Feds to move in September or beyond as the probable beginning of any gradual tightening effort by the central bank. View the full Bureau of Labor Statistics report here.
2019-04-26T07:41:54Z
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Of all the conductors I have ever played for, and I must have played for hundreds, Reiner sticks out as the most disagreeable. Mind you I can think of two more who may have deserved that unenviable title, Leopold Stokowsky and Fausto Cleva ran very close, but in my final analysis I must award the dubious honor to Reiner. I met Reiner in the mid fifties. I was playing with the Legge Philharmonia Orchestra in the Kunsthaus, Lucerne, Switzerland during the Lucerne International Festival. He was of medium height, thick-set, with greying hair brushed back. There was a wen,(sebaceous cyst) on the back of his neck which the musicians used to call his “evil eye”. Upon commencing a rehearsal he never bade the orchestra “good morning”, as is usual for a conductor to do but curtly announced the piece to be rehearsed with a glowering look on his face. I don’t think he was really amongst the great conductors, for his miserable mien had cost him a few jobs; he had a big chip on his shoulder which also, I think, affected his conducting. That having been said, though, he was a good conductor, especially in Richard Strauss and in some of the German epics he obtained good results, but which could have been better if he had given a proper beat to the orchestra – his baton moved only an inch or so. I don’t think it had anything to do with conducting technique, I think it was just cussedness. Maybe he thought it would keep the orchestra on its toes, but it had the opposite effect; I noticed an occasional raggedness for which he should be blamed. He really was his own worst enemy because with the attitude he possessed he rarely obtained scintillating performances. There is an oft told tale of a bass player. He was retiring from the Chicago Orchestra and on his last night with them he brought out a telescope and directed it at Reiner’s baton, conveying to him what he thought of his miniscule beat. At Lucerne we started to rehearse “Also Sprach Zarathustra”. My stand partner Gerald Brooks then told me he had taken the part home and had forgotten to bring it. There is a little solo passage for two five-stringed basses which we then had to play from memory. Fortunately it went well and we managed to obtain a new part for the concert. Looking back, I often wonder what would have been Reiner’s reaction if we had not played it well.
2019-04-25T18:13:25Z
https://robertmeyer.wordpress.com/tag/leopold-stokowski/
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View Galleries : SAL Photography has 34 galleries and 1723 images online. These pages have been viewed a total of 619337 times. View Guestbook : 9 messages. Most recent on 20-Nov-2011.
2019-04-19T00:20:46Z
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